【推荐2】When my father was celebrating a milestone birthday, I pulled together a surprise gift treat he would never forget.

As he was _________ 60, I had a fun idea: What if I could get the _________ people had of him, put each one into an envelope—60 in total—and have him open them, one by one, on his birthday? So I wrote an e-mail to family and friends, _________my idea.

I sent the e-mail and waited. And then the _________ started coming in and I was very, very_________. There were so many memories, and they were all so lovely. They came from the 50s, 60s, 70s, from every decade (十年) between now and the day my dad was _________. They came from my mother, my siblings, my grandma, my dad’s friends from high school, his sister, my dad’s first boss, a colleague at his first _________, from people who hadn’t seen my dad in 40 years, from people I myself hadn’t even informed. They _________ them and handwrote them. They mailed them and e-mailed them.

The night before Dad's birthday, my sister and I _________ up late, putting everything together with some __________ . The next morning, after breakfast and __________ and cake, we gave the pile of envelopes to him. "Just one more thing for you,” we said.

It took him a long time to open them and __________. Each one was a brief ticket to another time, a leap backward over years and decades. There was a lot of laughter and a few__________, too.

I was kind of __________ when the project was over because it was great fun to collect these memories. It gave me a different __________ of dad.

【推荐3】When I was young，my father and I used to climb the mountains near my house. South Korea has more _______ than plains（平原）, and for this reason，climbing the mountains has been a natural thing for me since I was a kid.

_______ together，my father and I used to have _______through which I learned a lot from him. He always stressed，“You should have goals in life just like in climbing the mountains. ” This has _______ my life deeply.

Without such mountaineering _______，we couldn’t have had enough time to spend together because my father was very _______. I believe mountaineering is really _______ . It gave me time to talk with my father and to develop my _______. I loved walking in the mountains，_______the routine of city life，the noise and the pollution，and being able to breathe fresh air.

One time we climbed one of the highest mountains in Korea. It was so________for me because I was only ten years old. ________the first few hours of climbing，I enjoyed the fresh air，the birds singing，and the beautiful dances of butterflies. As time passed，I got pains in both of my________. I wanted to quit climbing. But my father said to me，“ ________ is a season when everything comes to life again. The mountain where we are ________are decorated with flowers and trees. You can ________ see a beautiful sky at the top of the mountain，but you can’t ________ you are halfway up. Only at the ________ can you enjoy all the beautiful things，just like in ________. You should have patience with all things，but chiefly have patience with yourself. ”

At that time，I was too ________to understand his words，but after that, I got new hope and confidence. ________, I found myself standing at the top of the mountain. And there，I could see the beautiful sky.

【推荐1】Yesterday I went to the nursing home to visit my grandma. We hugged, kissed and _______ greetings. Then I heard a woman crying. It was my grandma’s _______. The curtain was drawn so I could not _______ her. She started calling out a _______ that wasn’t mine but she was _______ talking to me, begging me to go to her side of the room.

I took no _______ of her at first then she said, “Please, come to see me!” When I drew the _______ back, she looked so old and _______ but flashed me the biggest smile! She opened her arms wide so I bent low and gave her a _______. I talked with her for a few minutes. She kept calling me by the other name but I did not ________ her. She told me ________ as if I had been there when they happened. Then I went back to visit my grandma. But the woman started ________ again, saying, “Please, come back.”

I stopped by the nurse’s station and the nurse told me that the lady ________ Alzheimer’s (阿尔兹罕默氏症). I ________ the name she had called me. The nurse told me it was the lady’s daughter’s name. Then I understood ________ she wanted me to visit her.

We will all get ________ someday. Some of us will break ________, like my grandma’s roommate and some of us will break bodies like my grandma. But what is ________ is the fact that both ladies haven’t broken spirits.

As I was leaving, I ________ I would go back and visit the lady, ________ after my grandma moves back to her home.

【推荐3】I was coming back from home late at night in a “Sharing” mini van (厢式货车). In Hydera-bad, India, it is a cheap and quick form of _______. The van driver picked up as many as 13 people at times in a vehicle which is _______ for the transport of 8. So our van was very _______.

Making her way to the _______ of the van, a school girl with a bag _______   the driver to stop. While getting down, she slipped and fell. None of us _______ it, as it was dark outside. The driver was _______ for her to pay. It was then that we saw that the girl was on her   _______ by the side of the road. Another passenger and I got down_______ and held her up.

Even in __________, she held up a note and asked us to pay the driver. The other __________ passenger took the note and paid the driver. My __________ was a few hundred meters away. As a girl, I knew I’d get off and stay with her in the__________. So I paid up the driver for__________ and he drove away with the other passengers.

I neither__________ her nor did I know what to do. But I was there, giving some comforting words to the girl in pain. I looked for a place for her to sit. Then I phoned her friend and waited there. She was rushed to a nearby clinic later.