【推荐1】It happened on a snowy January morning. Thomas was walking his dog, Mica, in the park.

“As I ________, I just saw Mica running onto the ice toward the ducks in the middle”, said Thomas. “And then he fell into the icy water and ________ get out.”

He realized he had no choice but to try and save his dog.

“I had to break ________ way through the ice,” Thomas said. “Finally, I got Mica by the neck and pulled him out. I don’t think I have ever felt so ________ in my life. And when we got back on the dry land, everyone was asking ________ Mica was OK—no one was even worried about me!”

His neighbor Julie saw ________ whole thing.

“The dog went onto an icy lake. All of a sudden, it started to go under,” Julie said. “Before I knew it, Thomas was already in the icy water. I can’t imagine ________ cold it was. Everyone was nervous, but he stayed very cool, he just made his way ________, put the dog on its leash（牵引绳）and went home.

Many think Thomas is a hero, but he didn’t want ________ a big deal out of it.

“Most dog ________ will do the same as I did without a second thought,” Thomas said.

Pets are members of our family. Would you do the same for them?

My mother is ________ very kind woman. She ________ an African girl for five years. Every month my mum sends her 50 dollars. She ________ the money for her food and clothes, so she has no more money to travel or have a birthday party.

This year, for my birthday party, I asked my friends not ________ me any gifts. I would like them to give me some money ________ they really wanted to give me something. At the end of the party, I got 200 dollars from my friends. After the party, I gave all the money to my mum and asked her to send 250 dollars ________ the girl next month. The girl’s birthday is one month later than mine. In this way, she ________ use the money to buy a nice birthday cake and have a great birthday party. I thought she would be very ________ .

My mum was so happy about my decision that she gave ________ many kisses. She said ________it was important to learn to give and to help more people in need in the future.

【推荐3】Yesterday I read a report about a charity show (慈善演出) in a local newspaper. The aim (目的) of _________ show was to raise money for the poor children. In the poor areas, some children were out of school because their parents couldn’t _________ for their education. 

Many pop stars _________ part in the charity show. They did it for free! There were a lot of performances _________ singing and dancing. The audience (观众) were so _________ that they clapped their hands from time to time. Of course, the show was _________. 

Many people followed the stars’ example. They showed their generosity (慷慨) by _________ their money to the show. Both the ticket money and the donated money were soon sent to the poor children in poor areas _________ them go back to school. 

Now many charity shows are held in our country, not only to support the education in poor areas, _________ also to help people in trouble. As a Chinese saying goes, “All the others will come to one’s rescue (援助) when one is in trouble.” 

I hope the whole world __________ better and better.

Born and raised in Taiwan, Junyi Lin knew very little about the Chinese mainland. But after studying at Sun Yat-sen University for two years, the _______ boy found his second hometown.

Lin feels much kindness _______ his mainland classmates. To help him fit in much _______, they taught him how to type in pinyin and write simplified(简化的) Chinese characters. They also taught _______ Chinese accents he was not familiar with. At the end of every summer and winter vacation, his classmates give him local delicacies(特产) which _______ in almost every Chinese mainland province.

Lin _______ on chasing(追求) his dreams and has developed his interests here for two years. As a boy who loves public speaking, Lin has taken part in English speaking contests. He is also glad to find a wonderful singing partner from Inner Mongolia, _______ he loves singing a lot.

Looking back on the past two years, Lin said he had made _______ right decision to study on the mainland. He wants _______ a bridge of communication across the Straits.

There is also a _______ reason for Lin to do so. His mother is from Fujian, and his father is from Jiayi, his hometown in Taiwan.

【推荐2】Ma Yun became one of ________ men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock (股票) market last year with a value of around 140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on ________ way to success.

Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After ________ “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided ________ a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown (播种).

Ma said he ________ many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and ________ companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

________ was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of   limited resources (有限的资源). ________, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

Ma’s hero is Forest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his ________ at Davos (达沃斯论坛) in 2015, Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you ________.”