【推荐1】It was my first day at Grade 6. And the first lesson was ________English. When I was doing nothing, Mr. Gough, our new English teacher, ________ into the classroom.

To my surprise, he held up a book, The Collected Works of Edgar Allen Poe, and asked if ________ had read it. I put my hand up, because Poe was my favorite writer. Mr. Gough asked if I really understood ________ the author tried to say in his book. My reply made him smile, and he asked me ________ an essay on that subject.

After that, English classes became a new interest for me. Mr. Gough thought that students had to act out a play to understand it. “Don’t ________ read it,” he said.

As time passed, we developed a real friendship. He encouraged me to be a ________ in the future. When I left school, he said to me, “You have a gift for writing, Tony, and one day you’ll come to realize how ________ it is. Make use of it if you want your life to be complete.”

________ have passed. Now, every time I sit down to write ________, I think of Mr. Gough. He was more than just an English teacher, because he also taught me useful lessons in life.

【推荐2】Many years ago, when I was a student, the radio studio manager at WXBN interviewed me and it changed my life.

“How old are you?” he looked down at ________.

“Fifteen,” I said.

“And you want a job in radio?” Shouldn’t you be ________?” he asked.

How could I explain? I’ve always ________ the radio. When I was four or five years old, I remember sitting close to the radio in the living room, listening to my favourite programmes, and the voices of my favourite presenters. It seemed that they were speaking to me in person. ________ the age of nine, I asked for jobs in small radio stations.

As I grew older, my ________ in radio grew. One day I learned about Internet radio. Once a week, I played my favoutite music from my father’s computer to the listeners, talked about life at school, and then closed down and did my homework.

Soon my friends at junior high school started to listen, and then they wanted to ________. We prepared the weekly programmes, articles about music, sports news, jokes and the weather report.

“OK, ________ with me,” the WXBN manager said, I followed him into the studio. Then I sat down in front of a microphone. He was in another room, behind the glass wall.

“OK, let’s do a second check. Just tell me ________ you had for breakfast.”

All radio presenters begin work with the same ________.

“I had eggs, fruit and some milk.”

“OK, that’s great,” the man behind the glass said.

And this was how my first real _________ in radio began.

I forgot the name of the old lady, who was a customer (顾客) on my newspaper route when I was twelve. Yet she taught me a _________ that I shall never forget.

On a winter afternoon, a friend and I were throwing stones onto the roof of the old lady’s house near her garden. I found a perfectly smooth (光滑的) rock and threw it. The stone was too _________, however, so it slipped (滑) from my hand as I let it go and headed straight for a small window on the lady’s door. At the _________ of broken glass, we knew we were in trouble. We ran faster than any of our stones flew off her roof.

I was too _________ of getting caught that first night to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window in winter. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn’t been discovered I started to feel guilty (内疚的). She still greeted me with a smile each day when I gave her the newspaper, but I was no longer able to act comfortably when seeing her.

I decided that I would _________ my paper delivery (送) money, and in three weeks I had the seven dollars that I thought would cover the cost of her window. I put the money in an envelope with a _________ saying that I was sorry for breaking her window and hoped that the seven dollars would cover the cost of repairing it.

The next day, I _________ the old lady her paper. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of biscuits she had made herself. I thanked her and ate the biscuits as I continued my route.

After several biscuits, I _________ an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope, I was shocked. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said, “I’m proud of you.”