【推荐2】A girl comes back from school. She doesn’t look _______. Her grandma asks, “What’s wrong, my girl?”

“Everything is wrong. The new _______ is far from home. I don’t have any friends at the new school. I can’t answer the _______ questions in class. I don’t like the school lunch,” the girl answers.

Grandma smiles and says, “Don’t be sad, my girl. Would you _______ something to eat?”

“Good. _______ can I have?” the girl becomes happy.

“Here, have some cooking _______.”

“No. I can’t eat that.”

“What about some raw eggs?”

“No. _______ eats raw eggs.”

“Would you like some flour then?”

“Grandma, I can’t eat these _______ .”

“Then what about a cake?”

“Good. I like that.”

“Cooking oil, raw eggs and flour are not nice to eat. _______ when you put them together in the right way and ________ them, they will make a wonderful cake! Life is just like baking a cake.”

【推荐3】I have lived in Lawndale for thirty years. My neighborhood has experienced several _______, some for the better and others for the worse. Months ago, I learned something from my son. Progress _______ with hope.

There was a vacant lot(空地) across from my son’s school. My son’s class had come up with a plan. They decided to turn the vacant lot into a community garden.

My son wanted to grow many different kinds of flowers in the vacant lot. He said “_______ we turn the vacant lot into a garden, it will show everyone how much we care. Then more people will plant flowers and trees and the community will become a really _______ place.”

His class started _______ cleaning out the rubbish from the lot. People came by and saw the difference the students had already made. I noticed after that people were not _______ so often. They seemed to understand that keeping things clean was not so difficult.

In one week, my son’s class planted almost 500 plants. This spring the garden will be full of _______.

I am really _______ my son.

【推荐1】On Tuesday afternoon, as awful rain fell, a woman was trapped (困住) by rising water in her car while taking two grandchildren home.

While trapped in the _______, the woman called her daughter, Liu, at once. The daughter got their location (位置) by the description of nearby shops and _______ to call those shops, but it didn’t work. She later posted a message on WeChat Moments, calling for _______.

Her message was noticed by Chen, the dance teacher of the children trapped in the car. On his way home, Chen rushed to the place at once _______ thinking twice.

At the same time, Wang, the owner of the nearby convenience store, noticed two missing calls from Liu. Wang _______ and learned the situation.

“I called the neighboring hotel _______ the manager came with me. We moved towards the car. There was _______ time for us to get prepared and what we had was a kitchen knife,” Wang said.

Liu kept calling her mother and two children every five minutes and learned the water had soon risen to her _______ neck. “My mother was sitting on the armrest(扶手) and holding the children. She told the two kids that they were playing a game called ‘the adventure in flood’ and _______ would come to save them soon,” she said.

It happened as the grandmother ________. Wang arrived and tried to break the car windows with the kitchen knife but failed. He called ________ to others in the hotel to bring tools.

Two guards who were moving around nearby ________ the cries for help and took a hammer (锤子) and big plastic rubbish cans to the place.

More people ________ them. Finally, before the car was covered by the water, the woman and ________ children were saved.

A ________ of 11 people offered help and some of their names are unknown. In this terrible situation, people’s selfless help is very moving.

【推荐2】“Well, we could use some hotdogs.” I heard this when I was at the local charity _______ bank. A second-hand shop was next to it. Sometimes I would stop and go into the shop to _______ a sweatshirt or a book for my sons. Sometimes I would _______ step back into the food bank and ask if they needed anything. I got help from there when I was a young father with a hungry family. Now, I like to _______ .

This time I could see that most of the shelves were _______ with boxes and cans given away by stores. They said _______ they needed was meat, though, hotdogs were cheap and I didn’t _______ getting some. I soon went to the local store and filled my cart with all the hotdogs I could afford.

As I was paying for _______, I thought of my own childhood. I could see my mom boiling two hotdogs in a pot. Next she put each one on a slice of white bread with a piece of cheese. To top it off, she would _______ a little ketchup (番茄酱). It didn’t cost much but to me it was a great dinner cooked with ________, eaten with joy.

That ________ warmed my heart as I dropped off the hotdogs at the food bank. It felt good knowing that some other little boy or girl out there would soon be having a ________ lunch. With a smile on my face, I left there ________. And I could feel my mom smiling down on me from heaven (天堂) ________ I was walking to my car.

The truth is that, when done with love, ________ and receiving are the same thing. It all comes back around again.

【推荐3】Mothers should be respected. My mother is a kind and gentle woman. She is very busy from morning till night. As a _________,   she works hard. As a mother, she takes good care of us and gives us every comfort.

She teaches math at a middle school. She goes to work early in the morning and does not return home _______ late in the afternoon. She loves her students and cares for them. She is respected by _______ her students and colleagues. She has been chosen or elected (选举) as a model teacher several times. As soon as she comes back from school, she sets about _________ housework and preparing nice dishes for us. Although she is busy and older for her age. she looks as cheerfut and happy as ever.

Often she _________ to us, “Work while you work. and play while you play. That is the way to happiness. If you do not work, you _________ lazy and are of no use to society.” What a good piece of advice it is! My mother is great indeed, and I always feel _________ of her.