【推荐1】It was the end of the term. It was the last _______ of school. The teacher gave the children their report cards and _______ goodbye. David and Sue went home together. They took their report cards _______ them. “You’re lucky, Sue. You _______ have a good report.” David said.

When they _______ home,Sue gave her report card to her father _______. He read it _______ “Mm,” he said, “Sue works well. ” _______ he looked at David, “What _______ you, David? ” David gave his report card to him. The father ________ to read. “He doesn’t work very ________ and he is lazy sometimes. ” He said, “That’s not very good.” David’s face turned ________. Then the father looked at the report card again. “Just a minute,” he said, “I haven’t read it all. It says,” “ But this year, his work is good. That’s nice David. Now you ________ can have a wonderful holiday. ________ will your holiday last（持续）?” “It will last eight weeks” the children said. “Eight weeks! Let’s go to Hawaii ________ vacation!” said the father.

【推荐2】Laura is my cousin. She works at a radio station. She thinks it’s an interesting job. Today I will ______ you about her life.

Laura says she is very busy from Monday to Friday. She usually ______ at 6: 30 and exercises for half an hour. She has a nice breakfast at 7: 15. After that, she goes to ______. She has lunch at the station. She usually gets home at about 7: 00 p. m. Then she ______ dinner at about 8: 15 p. m. After dinner she watches TV with her cat. At about ten, she goes to bed.

On weekends, she is ______. On Saturdays, she either plays ping-pong or goes swimming. They are relaxing for ______. What does she usually do on ______? She always goes to the music club. She is good at ______, I ask her, “You like singing. Why not be a（n）______?” She says, “I like to talk to people on the ______. I can help more （更多）people in this way.”

【推荐3】We wish that we could get better grades or make funnier friends. We wish we had nicer clothes or more money. Everyone likes to feel that he or she is special. ________, many of us grow up believing we are not special at all. We believe that we’re not ________.

Most parents want us to be the ________ we can be. Very often, they talk about the differences between ________ people and us. They ask us to learn from our wonderful neighbors. By doing these, they try to help us to do better. They mean well, but we often feel we’re not ________ a good job. We begin to believe that the only way to be special is by being better than someone else, but we are wrong. Someone is always better ________ something than we are. Lots of people around us may not be as smart as we are, but they may do better in sports. Or they may not be as good-looking, but they have more money. It is impossible for us to be better than everyone else all the time.

If some things can truly make us become better people, we already have them. Every one of us is the only one in the world. We don’t look the same and we do the same things in different ways. We just find out different fun parts of life. These things ________ us different from our friends, so the world is full of surprises. When we are growing up, parents ________ forget to tell us that we are special. Maybe no one told them when they were growing up. Anyway, it’s up to us ________ that each of us, in our own way, is special. What we are is enough. My dear friend, just learn to enjoy being ________.