【推荐2】Tom lived alone in a small house far away from the city center because his parents died of some strange illness two years ago. However, he was a l    1     boy, people in this village were all very kind to him and they often helped Tom with his life.

One night, it was very dry and windy. When everybody was s    2    , Tom suddenly heard some noise. It came out from the kitchen. So he got up and walked to the kitchen q    3    . There he found that the wood beside the stove（火炉）was burning. There was no w    4     in the house, so he could not put out the fire. However, he didn’t feel afraid. He u    5     a piece of cloth to cover his nose, ran out of his house and knocked on the doors of many houses to wake all the people up. The people all got up and left their houses at once and helped to fetch water from a river running through the village.

F    6    , the fire was put out by the villagers. No more houses were burnt and nobody was hurt in the fire. All the villagers were thankful to Tom and gave him a big hug.

【推荐3】Henry Band was about 10 years old when his father died. His mother found it difficult to s    1     a large family. Still, she decided to send her oldest child Henry to school and buy him the books he n    2    .

At one time, Henry wanted a grammar book in order to attend a c    3    . But the book was so expensive that his mother couldn’t a    4     it. He was very unhappy about this and went to bed with a heavy heart, t    5     about what could be done to get the book.

As soon as he w    6     in the morning, he found that a heavy snow had fallen and the cold wind was blowing hard.

“Ah,” he said, ‘‘every problem brings a solution for some people.”

He rose, ran to a neighbour’s house and offered to clean his garden. His offer was a    7    . After he completed this work and received his pay, he went to a    8     neighbour and offered the same service.

Then he went to several other houses u    9     he had enough money to buy the grammar book.

When the school began, Henry sat in his seat, ready to begin studying with his new book happily.

From that time on, Henry always did w    10     in all of his classes. Because he had the will, he always found a way.