【推荐1】Toby remembers

My name is Toby. I'm eighty-three years old this spring. My house is right in the middle of Stratford-upon-Avon, and I can watch the street market_______my window. But I live very quietly now. I'm just a(n)_______man, sitting in a chair.

I once knew the greatest man in England. For thirty years I was his friend. I worked with_______in the theatre, through the good times and the bad times. He was a good friend to me. He was also the best playwright （剧作家）and poet that ever lived in England. William Shakespeare was his_______.

I saw all his plays in the theatre. People_______them. They shouted, laughed and cried, ate oranges, and called for more. William Shakespeare could please all kinds of_______including Kings, Queens, Princes, great lords and ladies, poor people, the boys who held the horses...everyone.

He put me in a play once. Well, he used my name—Toby. Twelfth Night was the play. I remember, in the play, Sir Toby Belch was a big fat man, who liked drinking_______and having a good time. Queen Elizabeth the First watched that_______—Twelfth Night, on the 6th of January, 1601. She liked it, too.

William's dead now,of course. He's been dead for more than thirty years, and no one sees his plays now. The Puritans (清教徒)have_______ all the theatres. There's no singing, no dancing, no plays. It isn't like that in my young days. We had a good time in London, William and I...

I've no teeth now, and my hair has all fallen out, ________I can still think—and remember. I remember when William and I were young, just boys really.

The movie The Battle at Lake Changjin is about a ______ how the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (中国人民志愿军) fought ______ the US army at Lake Changjin in Korea. In the war, the weather was ______ cold and Chinese soldiers only had ______ clothes and little food. What’s more, the US army had much ______ weapons (武器) than us. So the US army thought it was not ______ to win the war. To their surprise, Chinese soldiers kept on fighting for one month under such bad situations. Finally, Chinese army ______ with a strong mind.

During the National Day holiday, people of all ______ wanted to watch it. Young people came to the cinema to enjoy this exciting and moving film. Many people over 70 and even 80 also came to watch this movie. It is not easy for these elderly people to sit in the cinema, ______ this movie lasts for 3 hours. Still, they said the movie ______ back the memory (记忆) of old days and the mind of Chinese soldiers to them.

Ferdinand is a Spanish bull (公牛). Bulls like to _________. But Ferdinand is different. He is kind and gentle and he is good _______ everyone. He likes to smell and protect flowers. He lives happily in the countryside.

However, _________ he is so big, people think he is a dangerous animal. He is sent to another village far away his family. One day, somebody takes him to fight for sport. Of course he doesn’t like to do this. So _______ bulls laugh at him. Anyway, he knows that he has to beat them to get a chance to go home. Then, an exciting _________ begins!

Does he win? How does he _______ his family? You can find out _________ happens next in the film Ferdinand (《公牛历险记》). The _______ is based on (基于) the classic children’s book The Story of Ferdinand by US authors Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson. It _______ came out more than 80 years ago.

The film is funny and has lots of drama. Above all, it has an important idea: “Never be ________ to be who you are. That’s what makes you so special and lets you achieve great things.”

【推荐1】What does it mean to “lose and gain (失与得)”? The book Bridge to Terabithia (《仙境之桥》) by US author Katherine Paterson may give you new ________.

It tells the story of two children, Jesse Aarons and Leslie Burke. Jesse is a lonely (孤独的) boy ________ Leslie is an outgoing girl. They ________ each other in the playground. Jesse wants to be a ________ runner in the fifth grade. He keeps running all summer. But on the first day of school, Leslie runs ________. Later, they become best ________.

Together, they make a magical kingdom (魔法王国) in the woods, called Terabithia. However, a bad thing ________ one day. Jesse hurts his heart. At that moment, Jesse learns how much courage (勇气) Leslie has given him.

The author Katherine has an unhappy childhood, so she often ________ her characters (人物) a lonely life. Then she would give them happiness. But at the end, the characters will ________ what they have. Her story is full of “ups and downs”. Katherine is good at showing characters’ feelings. You can feel the ________ when characters lose something beautiful.

【推荐2】Lu Xun was an excellent writer and thinker of modern China. You couldn’t ________ that he almost became a doctor! So how did Lu Xun give up the study of medicine and take up ________?

When he was young, his father was ________. And little Lu Xun ________ medicine for him. But the medicine he bought from a quack doctor (庸医) did his father no good at all, and his father died. With a ________ sadness and great anger, Lu Xun decided to study the most modern medical ________ and help people through medicine. He studied hard, and was accepted to study in Sendai Medical College in Japan.

However, one event ________ Lu Xun’s life. One day, the teacher played a film of news in class. In the film, Japanese soldiers were preparing to kill a Chinese while some Chinese were watching it with great ________, as if it had nothing to do with them. After that, Lu Xun thought he should treat the numb (麻木的) spirits of Chinese.

For this reason, he gave up the study of medicine and moved to Tokyo. He produced a magazine with some friends there. As a writer, Lu Xun hoped that he could ________ Chinese people with his pen. Many of his works were translated into the leading ________, including English, Russian, German, French and Japanese.

【推荐3】As we all know, Charles Dickens is considered to be a great English writer. He’s very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other _________ in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London. He wrote lots of books, and he also liked _________. He was an actor.

Maybe it’s interesting to hear that and that’s _________ his books were so good. He gave public readings of his stories that were very popular. His stories first appeared in a magazine, in parts. People always wanted _________ part. He wrote a lot, and most of them were popular. There are films and plays of them, _________. Oliver Twist became a famous musical play, and Great Expectations was made into a wonderful film.

Dickens’ early life was very _________. His family was poor, and his mother sent him out to work in a factory when he was 12. He _________ it, but he used his experiences in his writing. He married Catherine Hogarth and they had a big family. He continued to write _________ he died. When he died in 1870, he was _________ a story. But what a pity! We’ll never know __________ it ended.