【推荐1】This is a true story. There was a(n) _________ named Jerry on the football team. He liked playing football, but he wasn’t good at it. So he had _________ chances (机会) to play for his team. He felt very sorry for it.

One day, his father _________ of a terrible illness (病). He had to return home to solve something. After that, an important _________ would begin. He found the teacher at once, asking for being _________ the competition. Because he couldn’t play well, the teacher wouldn’t let him attend it. _________, this time he agreed to let Jerry play for only three minutes. When the time was up, he would have to leave.

As a result, Jerry played very _________ and kept getting the ball in the goal. The teacher was _________ that he could play so well. Three minutes later, the teacher _________ him to stay there again. Jerry helped his team __________ the competition.

“My father couldn’t __________ anything,” Jerry replied. “So he didn’t watch me playing football. Now, he’s gone to heaven (天堂), __________ he can watch me playing football. As soon as I think of my father watching me, I’m full of energy, and I feel it’s __________ to do everything, too!”

The teacher understood that love can help you with everything.

There was a young man who was going through ________ times. His wife left him. He ran business by himself but it was losing money. ________ he worked hard all the time, it seemed that he had always been failing. Finally, he ________ everything behind and went into the forest. There, he met an old man who had lived there for a long time. He ________ his story with the old man. “Can you give me one good ________ not to give up?” he asked the old man.

“Look,” the old man said, ________ two plants. “Do you see that fern and bamboo there?”

“Yes,” the man answered.

“When I planted the fern and bamboo seeds(种子), I took very good care of them. The fern ________ grew from the earth,” the old man went on. “However, I watered and took care of the bamboo seed for years, it did not sprout(发芽). There was no ________ of growth. But I did not give up on the bamboo seed and went on looking after ________. In the fifth year, a small sprout came out of the ________. And within six months, the tree grew as ________ as a hundred feet.

“The little bamboo tree had been growing ________ for the past four years, developing a root system(根系) strong enough for its ground growth in the fifth year. ________ having done this, it wouldn’t become so strong. So you know, all the time you were struggling, you were actually growing strong roots.” the old man said.

This made a big difference to the young man. He thanked the old man and walked home a ________ man. He changed the ________ in which he saw the world.

One day John went to tell his father about his problems these days.

“I can’t _______ them,”he cried.

John’s father listened to him carefully and didn’t say _______. He then just put a potato, an egg and some coffee beans(豆子) in three different bowls. He _______ John to touch and feel them. John described _______ he felt about each of them after touching.

The father poured _______ in them and boiled(煮沸)them all. After a few minutes, the father _______ the stove (火炉)and placed all the bowls on the table to cool them down.

“OK, my son! Touch and feel the egg, potato, and coffee beans _______.”

This time John had a different _______.“The potato is _______ to peel as it has turned very soft, the egg turns very strong, ________ there is a fresh coffee smell coming from the beans now.”

Listening to John, his father smiled and said, “The potato, egg and coffee beans have changed themselves ________ the time in the boiling water. They changed in their ________ ways. It is impossible to live without ________. Life ________ problems to us all, but be ready to meet any of them. Don’t give up before ________ them in your own ways. ”

【推荐1】Julie is my aunt. She is a teacher. Let me tell you about _________ life. She gets up at 6:30 in the morning. Then she _________ for twenty minutes. She thinks it’s good exercise. It can make her _________. She eats breakfast at about 7:20. She usually eats it quickly, _________ she doesn’t have much time. After breakfast, she goes to work _________ subway. At 12:00, she eats _________ at school. Her favorite food is chicken. She thinks it _________ nice. She has no classes in the afternoon. So she works in the teachers’ office (办公室). She goes home at about 5:30 p.m. She doesn’t go to work on Saturday or Sunday. She usually goes to the _________ with her family. Look! Her son Sam is _________ a small lion in the zoo. And she is drinking water. _________ is Sam’s father doing? Oh, he is boating.

【推荐3】Lillian Hanson, a college student, will graduate(毕业) in about two years. Mrs. Hanson is not _________ her classmates because of her age. She is 73 years old!

After graduating from high school, Mrs. Hanson went to a _________ to borrow some money for further education. Unluckily, the banker didn’t agree. He didn’t think that a country girl like her should go to college. He thought she should be at home doing _________ or should work on the farm. Lillian could do nothing but go home and later _________ a family of nine children, one after another, for many years.

_________, Mrs. Hanson didn’t forget the dream of getting higher education. When all of her children _________, she tried again and succeeded. On her first day in class, when Mrs. Hanson _________ herself and told her classmates about her dream, all the other students stood up and gave a warm _________ to her.

Mrs. Hanson found that it was _________ to sit in class for a long time at her age. But she said “I will keep trying and __________ give up.”

Mrs. Hanson set a good example of “never too old to learn” to us.