【推荐1】The sound of the rain hitting the windows wakes me up and it sounds just exactly as it did l5 years ago，which reminded me of my girlhood.

It was my second day of_________and it was raining heavily.I could not_________the habit I had at home，so I fell asleep right at my_________.I woke up to find myself not in the classroom but carried on Dad’s back. We were_________home.It was the last time I felt_______to him.

After that，he never carried me or hugged me as other fathers did to their children.I was not bothered much by this_________.I was proud of it, for I felt_________and “grown up”.However，there were times when I felt depressed by not having searched for_______from him.

One day.I was writing Chinese characters as homework.I hated doing this more than anything.Dad came and stood behind me for a moment，_________me scratching(勾抹)the paper.Then he said，“This kind of writing needs__________.Your writing is not strong enough.Press harder.”

I followed his __________ for the next two weeks, but ________I could see little improvement, I followed my own method---- the__________way.His advice did not improve my writing but our__________.As I grew older，I found out that he had finished his__________in Grade 6，which was the highest grade in town then，so he was considered to be a ________. People used to ask him to write something to put on the walls, but he never felt very useful.

He often said to me，“As you can see，this family is going to count on(指望)you.We are________to improve you anything for your future. You have to get________to change the life for yourself.”

As a result of his________ , I have________it through high school and through college.

【推荐2】Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep _________ because my grandfather held a unique position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a _________ family member but a tutor (导师) who encouraged me to work hard and _________ well. I’ll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I _________ for Princeton and he offered to write to the university on my behalf. He wrote in beautiful _________and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the _________out loud so that I could hear the rhyming sounds. My grandfather _________ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would _________ my brothers and me for our good performance, which inspired me. I knew he had worked hard to _________ the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military __________ for winning many battles in the Navy in World War Ⅱ. At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather’s walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small __________ I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather __________received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather’s heart and brought __________ to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so__________of me. Now I feel it’s even more worthwhile to write well because I know my grandfather __________ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.

【推荐3】When I wanted to get into my little daughter's room one evening, stopped. Through the crack of the door, I saw her playing alone. In one hand was plastic __ and in the other, a toy broom. I __ calmly as she was speaking to her make-believe little friend and I'll never forget the words she said ___it was Just a pretence（假装）.

She said, "Rosa is in the corner because she hasn't been very __ and quiet lately. She didn't listen to me or do what she should. " In the corner I saw her baby doll. It was___ that she'd been put there to sit __ and think by herself. My daughter went on with her "____", as I sat down on the floor. She said "I'm __ of all this. I really don't know how to __ her any more. She cries whenever I have to work and wants to play games, too. She never ___me to do the things I just have to. She tries to help me with the dishes, but her arms can't reach. I don't have the energy to teach. I have much work to do and a big house to keep __ . I don't have time to sit and play -understand what I mean?"

Later, I thought about making changes in my life as I listened to her __ words that cut me like a knife. I didn't pay enough __ to what I care most about. I'd been caught up in responsibilities that __ throughout the year.

But now my___ has greatly changed because in my heart I realize that I've seen the world in a __ way through my daughter's eyes. So, just let the spider webs take up the corners and the dusty toy rabbit __ the floor. Anyway, I'm not going to ___them any more. I'm going to fill the house with __ of a child and her mother because we're given only one childhood, and we'll ____get another.

【推荐1】My parents operated a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job, when I was six years old, was ________ the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young, so he taught me ________ to do it efficiently, telling me to ________ to re-shine the shoes if the customer wasn't ________.

Working in the restaurant was a cause of great ________ because I was also working for the good of the family. But my father ________ that I had to meet certain ________ to be part of the team. I had to be punctual, hard-working, and polite to the ________.

I was ________ paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of ________ Dad that he should give me $10 a week. He said, “OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And ________ the times you bring in your friends for free soft drinks?” He ________ I owed him about $40 a week.

I remember returning to Seattle after being ________ in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted to Captain at that time. And full of pride, I walked into my parents’ restaurant, but the ________ thing Dad said was, “How about your ________ up tonight?” I couldn’t ________ my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But it didn’t ________ as far as Dad was concerned. I was just ________ member of the team. I reached for the mop. Working for Dad has taught me the devotion to a ________ is above all. It has nothing to do with ________ that team is involved in a family restaurant or the US Army.

【推荐2】Two of the saddest words in the English language are “if only”. I live my life with the _______ of never having to say those words. The two words _______ regret, lost opportunities, mistakes, and _______. And sometimes the words “if only” go with _______ disasters. Think about how many times you have heard about something awful happening, _______ by "if only he had called her back to make sure she was okay.” or“if only I had _______ that noise...”

My father-in-law is _______ in our family for saying, “_______ an extra minute to do it right. ” He must be doing something _______, since he is 91 years old and still doing things right.

I always ________ to live by the “extra minute” rule. Sometimes it only takes seconds to make sure I write the words down ________, or check some information on the Internet, or move an object ________ before it trips（绊倒） someone.

And of course when my children were young and ________ to cause all kinds of troubles, I lived and stuck to the “extra minute” ________. I always thought about what I could do to ________ an“if only” moment, whether it was something simple like moving a cup full of hot coffee away from the edge of a counter, or something that required a little more work such as taping padding(衬垫) onto the ________ corners of a glass table.

I know there will still be ________ when I have to say “if only” about something, but my life is surely more peaceful because of my principle of doing everything possible to avoid that ________. And even though it takes an extra minute to do something right, or it occasionally takes an hour or two in my busy schedule to________ a personal connection, I know that by doing the right thing, I'm buying myself peace of mind and that's the best kind of ________ for my emotional health.