【推荐2】I was fifteen years when Dad called my two younger brothers and me into the entertainment room of our house. I was _______! I thought we would play games or even see movies together! “Bring a notebook and something to write with,” said my dad _______we reached the entertainment room. My brothers and I stopped dead in our tracks and   _______ each other in horror! His request was unusual, and our excitement turned to_______. We_______that games or movies were not the reason we were called out.

As we went back for a notebook and pencil, we _______to think about the reason for this gathering. We thought family meeting was not _______because Mom was out shopping. In the entertainment room, we found three chairs _________a huge blackboard. Dad asked us to sit down. “I want your full_______. We are going to have a weekly meeting every Saturday morning. That is ________ I’ve called you here,” he said, sounding businesslike. “I’m going to teach you what I’ve learned about life. So take it________.”

For the next five years, rain or sunshine, in sickness or in health. Dad ________us once a week. He taught us on a variety of ________— manners, the importance of education, respect for others, home repairs, and the list went ________. We filled one notebook after another, which we all ________well.

As I came to my eighteenth birthday, the lessons became__________lessons and then every other month, until they slowly drifted away. My brothers and I were older, and we had school activities, sports activities and job responsibilities that became very ________to manage.

It’s been years now since we had those classes with Dad. We are__________with careers (事业) and wives of our own. Very often, ________, one of us has a situation where we need help from Dad. At this time, we__________take out our notebooks; we needn’t call home.

【推荐3】I would like to send a huge shout out Valerie,a manager at Home Depot.I together with my son-a boy with special needs,came in to _______up a refrigerator box that she _______for me. I was _______to use it to build a police car for Halloween around my son’s wheelchair.When I explained the _______to Valerie,she did not _______to offer help.After getting the box,Valerie started to _______down to cut the box for me. My son was happy to _______her and they got along well with each other in doing the work.

After we got the box loaded,Valerie helped us brainstorm and find the other _______ we would need.Then as we neared the checkout,she had the entire order _______. I tried to refuse but she just said that it would bless her ________.My disabled son may not have understood anything ________that Valerie was kind and patient with him,but I really appreciated this huge act of ________.The biggest blessing for me was the way she ________my son and the way he responded to her.

Thanks to Valerie,Home Depot was also ________their Saturday craft work-shops(手工艺作坊)into my son’s school.This way,our special kids could have ________ to a wonderful environment,where they could make their own crafts! Almost all kids in the class were ________ at the activities,which made them feel the value of themselves.It turned out to be ________with all of them at last.

I think one of the most ________things that special-needs parents need to understand is that it's OK to let other people in.Sometimes it's hard to accept others’________,but when you refuse it,you ________stand in the way of letting other people bless you and in turn that blesses them.

【推荐1】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _______ a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _______ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _______ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _______ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _______ that he’d come up with this wise idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff (医疗团队) had arrived, and were ________ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ________ my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ________ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little ________.

【推荐2】Haynes,who still lives in Ladbroke Grove,now runs breakfast clubs and free lunches in Paddington. Every Wednesday, Haynes _______ a full English breakfast for the 50-strong group. On Saturdays, it’s a three-course lunch.

“I do home-made soup,a cooked dinner with meat and two vegs and pudding.” she says. On Thursdays, she offers a food bag with _______ that people can take home and _______ themselves. But if people are _______ or can’t cook,she’ll make them ready-meals and sandwiches. She adds: “My whole life is _______ by food. In north Paddington, people _______ me in their phone book as ‘Jacqui dinner lady’.”

“Demand has only _______. When universsal credit was introduced I had to buy two extra fridges to _______ the demand,” Haynes says. When the pandemic began,she had to purchase an extra freezer because “we needed more _______. Some people were ________to come out of the house,so we had to make extra ________.” She is concerned about the rising ________ of living.

“Food is getting so expensive,” says Haynes. “People are paying ￡7 a day ________ for gas on their meters. And that’s going to go up when it gets ________ .” On average,Haynes ________ about 50 people a day,but she ________ to see that rise come in winter.

Whatever Haynes does. she does it ________. “I believe it is not without any reward. You’ll get back ten times what you ________,” she says. In addition to her work at the food bank,she ________ a support service in North Kensington,offering people help with legal issues,advocacy and school appeals,and she is ________ involved in the post-Grenfell Tower recovery effort.