【推荐2】Everyone needs friends. We all like to _______ close to someone. It is nice to have a fiend to all laugh and do things with. _______, sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people _______. But we would feel lonely if we never had a friend.

No two people are _______. Friends sometimes don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean _______ they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up, and become _______ again. Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very _______. We miss them very much, but we can _______ them and write to them. It could be possible that we could even see them again. And we can also _______ new friends.

There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live longer than people who don’t have.

Why? It could be that they are _______. Being happy helps you stay well and it could be good just knowing that someone cares about you.

【推荐2】Children always like to play together. A group of boys went out to play on a sunny day and they found a big ________. “How tall it is! It will be exciting to climb to the top!” a boy said.

Then they stood around the tree and decided to play a game to see who could climb to the top of it first. Their mothers sat not far away and they were ________ their children while enjoying the sunshine.

One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named Daniel. He wasn’t as ________ as other boys. Actually, he was the shortest kid in the group. ________ thought he would win. Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as quickly as they could. To everyone’s surprise, ________ Daniel climbed slower than others in the beginning, he reached the top first in the end.

Daniel’s mother was very ________ after the game. She came along and said to Daniel, “My boy, you really surprised me. You got to the top so fast! Tell me how you made it.”

“It was ________,” Daniel said. “The other children kept looking down as they were climbing. When they realized how high they were, they were ________ falling off the tree. I, however, looked only ________. I climbed fast because I wasn’t afraid. I ________ going higher and higher until I got to the top.”

It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we can achieve our goals.

【推荐3】Billy Eliot is an 11-year-old boy. His mother passed away because of a terrible illness. He had to _____ with his father and his brother, who were both coal miners (矿工).

One day, Billy saw a group of _____ having ballet (芭蕾) lessons and joined the class. When Billy’s father found out about the ballet, he got _____ and didn’t let his son take any lessons.

Billy’s ballet teacher, Georgia, found he danced better than any other girls. _____ she spent all her time helping Billy. Then he made much progress in dancing soon. Later Georgia encouraged him to take a _____ to go to the Royal Ballet School in London.

When Georgia told Billy’s father, he said that Billy wasn’t allowed to dance any more for his family was too _____ to afford his dancing. But one day, he saw Billy dancing and found that his son was talented _____ ballet. He knew Billy wasn’t going to _____ dancing.

After that, Billy’s father did everything he could to _____ his son. He took Billy to London for the test. _____, Billy was accepted by the school, and he trained harder than ever there. And after years of study, he ended up as a top professional ballet dance. Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.