【推荐1】Today, I felt unhappy with my head full of problems, ______ I decided to take a walk even though(虽然) I didn’t know where I would go. The most amazing thing happened ______ I was walking along the street.

I saw an old man, over seventy years old, ______ on a chair. He was a seller of second-hand shoes. He seemed so helpless(无助的) and ______ was buying his shoes. Then, a little girl came toward him. I heard the girl say in a(an) ______ voice(嗓音), “Grandfather, may I clean your shoes?” That old man ______ and passed her a shoe. The girl said, “I do this because I want to get some money to buy my brother a new school ______.”

I heard this and tears came to my eyes. To my ______, the old man said, “Oh, little girl, just stop doing this. Come with me and I will buy one ______ you.” To see what would happen, I followed them. They walked to a ______ and there the old man really got her a uniform, which must have cost(花费) him a lot. The girl was ______ and said, “Thank you so much for doing this, grandpa.” Then she ______, leaving the old man smiling.

As the old man decided to leave, I stopped him and whispered(低语) in his ______, “You are really a great hero! Thank you for your ______!” My own sadness had gone. It had been taken away by the light of this moving act. I began to realize that a little act can ______ someone’s day.

I’m an English self-learner. English isn’t my first language. So it wasn’t easy for me to learn it. I was a slow ________ when I was little. Before five, I couldn’t even speak in full sentences. My learning problems were the result ________ my illness when I was a baby. After I was born, the doctors found that I had a serious disease and I might not live for over a month. Amazingly, I was alive. But the medicine influenced my ________ a little.

My mother encouraged me not to give up when I faced difficulties. At the age of 13, I ________ myself to be interested in English. I ________ a habit of reading English magazines, listening to English programs, and taking notes in English. In order to improve my speaking ________, I often told my friends many stories in English. I kept learning, and realized that no matter how hard my situation was, I must be patient and choose to move on. After studying English for ten years, I ________ passed the TOEFL, and decided to work in an international company. And now I’m a CEO of a big company.

Give ________ one more chance（机会）to succeed when you are in trouble. Success has ________ to do with IQ but more to do with hard work, faith and persistence（信心和坚持）. No matter what you’re interested in, you just need to set a goal and ________ working towards it. Have faith and never give up, and your hard work will finally pay off.

【推荐3】I had met Amy, seven, two weeks before. Since then, she'd _________ every time she passed my house.

One day, there was a _________ on my door. I opened it, and two girls _________.

“Hello, Grandma Bonnie! This is my little sister, Lisa. She's five.” Amy pointed at a ___________ girl who just hid behind her.

Then she whispered to Lisa, “It's OK, honey. You'll like her.”

The five-year-old girl held a “bouquet （花束）” tightly in one hand, and a tiny notebook and a pen in _________, silently.

“Just tell her.” her big sister _________ her.

“I want to help _________ some money for stray dogs（流浪狗）.” Now Lisa spoke out seriously, holding the bouquet, “So I'm selling these for one dollar.”

Hearing this, I couldn't help laughing. The bouquet was made up of seven oxalis flowers—oxalis is a very _________ weed（野草）in this area. Undoubtedly, the girls had _________ these flowers out from their own yard or any neighbor's.

“Aren't they lovely, Grandma Bonnie? And they only __________ you a dollar. It's all for stray dogs.” Amy added. The girls' __________ did amused me. “You're right! They are beautiful.” I agreed, “And here's the money.”

Amy put the note in her sister's pocket. Then Lisa handed me the bouquet. “Uh! Why don't you just keep the flowers and the money? Then you can sell the flowers to someone else.” Both girls stared at me, surprised. “Oh, no! That's not a fair __________ then!” Amy cried, “They're yours now.” Then they ran away.

A week later, the flowers were twice as many as those my little friends had brought to me. “It's __________ the money!” I laughed again.

I used to call these tiny plants “weeds”. But in the girls' pure hearts, the “weeds” were __________ as beautiful flowers. Yet it was the “weeds” that __________ the world of an old Grandma and some stray dogs.

【推荐1】There were many warm and sweet memories（记忆） in my college life. I still remember when I was in college, one of my _______ was called Billy. At that time, we usually used the pay phone to call up our parents. However, Billy _______ did that. It made us very puzzled （困惑的）.

When summer holidays ended, he came back to school from home. He always listened to a tape in bed. Sometimes he _______ quietly when he listened to it. It seemed that the tape was wonderful, _______ he never allowed us to listen to it. Then one day, when he was out, we took out the tape and listened to it. To our _______ , we heard nothing.

Time went by, and we would leave college soon. One afternoon he told us, “In fact, my parents can’t hear or say anything. They worked very hard to _______ my education. Later, I left them to come to college far away. I _______ them so much that I recorded a tape with their sound of _______ in it. When I listened to it, I felt my parents were _______ me. I think it is the most beautiful sound in the world. I will work in a big city after I leave college. I will work hard so that I can buy a big house for them with the money I make. I hope they will live a ________ life in the following years.” After hearing what he said, we were deeply moved.

The silent love is the most beautiful thing in the world.

【推荐3】Nobody in the street knew Miss Hilton. While she lived, her front gate was always locked and no one saw her ________ or saw ________ go in. So even if you ________, you couldn’t feel sorry and ________ that you ________ Miss Hilton.

When I think of ________, I see just two colours, grey and green. The green of mango (芒果) tree, the grey of the house and the grey of the high iron fence (铁栅栏) that kept you off the mangoes.

If your football ________ Miss Hilton’s garden, you never ________. It wasn’t the mango season ________ Miss Hilton died. But we got back about ten ________ twelve of our footballs.

________ the end of the week a sign was shone on the mango tree: For sale.

We were ready to dislike ________ even before they came. I think we ________. Already we had one man who kept on complaining (抱怨) about us ________ the police. He complained that we played football near his house and if we weren’t playing football he complained that we were making ________ noise anyway.