【推荐2】I have invented robots which improve the work of cars. My love of making things began _______ I was a kid. I really became excited about inventing after I learned about Thomas Edison.

One day in fourth grade, our _______ gave us a project in class. We had to write to a company and learn about the products. I thought and thought. _______ I chose the Thomas A. Edison Company. Soon after, the company _______ me a book about the life of Thomas Edison. How I enjoyed reading and re-reading about his _______! I like the recorded sound and the electric light most. The inventions were clearly printed on my brain.

My dad noticed my interest in inventing and _______ me. He showed me how to turn my ideas into_______and then into new things. Once, I surprised my dad _______ a model plane I made. Later, we found a _______ model plane in a store. I learned that ________ inventors often invent similar things. It is not unusual for this to happen. I also learned that not all great ideas ________. Failure is a common part of the inventing.

As my father and I worked together, I began to ________ that my dad was quite an inventor himself. He was always ________ a better way to do a simple job. His guiding hands, together with my ________ in inventing, led me to become an engineer and an inventor. Of course, I also thank Thomas Edison. He is my ________.

【推荐3】Mr. Smith is sixty-five years old. He retired and now stays at home. Two years ago his wife _________. He has four sons, but they all have their own families. He lives in an old house _________. Sometimes he feels lonely. One of his sons bought a parrot for him. He began to _________ it to speak. Every morning , as soon as he got up, he said “Good morning” to the bird. The bird had a look at him but said _________. He kept on teaching it , _________ the parrot didn’t learn anything. He felt sorry for it and lost his _________ .

Yesterday evening his son rung him up. On the telephone his son told him that his granddaughter was _________ in hospital. He went to see her at once. When he got there, she was being operated on and the doctors asked him _________home. And he didn’t fall asleep the whole night. This morning, when he was passing by the parrot, he _________ to say “Good morning” to the bird.

All of a sudden he heard someone say, “What happened to you this morning?” He looked around. There was nobody __________ himself in the room. Now he understood the parrot was protesting (抗议) against him!

【推荐1】I have always been hard-working in school. And I enjoyed gaining new understanding about study. One way was making ________.

Math has always been my ________ subject. During each math class, while ________, I waited for my golden ________ to show myself, which were questions. when they came, I would _________ my hand. Answering them _________ made me feel I was recognized by my classmates and teacher. The only problem was that I wanted to be ________ —to be right every time.

As it turned out, reaching this standard was _______. In one class, I stood up________but gave a wrong answer. Even though I knew this was certainly not my first mistake in life, something __________had come at that moment. I thought that my classmates might think I was ________. The beautiful castle that I had built up _________after my mistake.

In the following classes, I was in low spirits and became __________. Even if I may have known the answer, I was _________ to take the risk of damaging my self-confidence any more. Noticing my abnormality（异常）, my math teacher talked with me and learned my________. She told me that mistakes are an important part of learning _________ they can point out our weakness and help us __________ , I should set up the principle (原则) of ________ mistakes.

From that experience, I realized that even though I thought I was right about most things, I was wrong in my_________. School is not a place to _________but a place to learn. What I now know is that by holding fast to humility（谦虚）and learning to grow from my mistakes, I can truly learn in a way I could never in the past.

【推荐2】Years ago, we celebrated our oldest son’s first birthday by holding a super party. I spent months ______, cutting out handmade banners（横幅）and making all kinds of decorations. I kept

I didn’t know exactly why I stuck to ______ a party like that, but I felt this unspoken ______. It was a feeling that my ______ as a mom and my love for my son were tied to how ______ this party was. Actually my son was turning one year old, and he had no idea what was going on. ______, this clearly meant nothing to him.

I tried to ______ other people and maybe even prove something to myself, only to find it made me ______. On his birthday, I put on a ton of makeup（化妆品） to _____ my stress and smiled to our ______ even though I nearly broke down. It was the ______ party because of the memories attached to it! I ruined a ______ memory for me as a mother and decided to make a ____.

Last weekend, we celebrated my other son Hudson’s sixth birthday. He asked a Ninjago theme, so a week before the party, I searched Amazon (a shopping website) and ______ a banner and some basic party materials as he ______. On that day, we ordered a big meal and used disposable（一次性的）plates to avoid hours of cleaning up. The party was ______ but perfect. As Hudson went to bed that night, he told me it was his best birthday ever.

Parents’______ for kids does not lie in the complexity of celebrating kids’ birthday.

【推荐3】Growing up, I'd seen plenty of homeless people. Sometimes my family made extra ________to pass out. “Why do you _______ so much about them?” I asked my father once. “They’re ________ You don’t even know them.” “Son,” my dad said, “everyone wants to be _______ with respect, as a real person.” At the time l didn’t understand what Dad _______. Wasn’t everyone a real person? Why would a bowl of soup give someone _______?

The empty field came into view. The people there were doing what they could to stay _______ . Dad’s words had come back to me. Everyone wants to be treated with respect, like a real person. I _______ them a few dollars and wished them well. I thought that would be the _______ of it, but I kept thinking about them-a real person who got cold and hungry. I started keeping a little extra food with me to ________ to homeless people I saw on the street. Whenever I gave something I stopped to ________ to the person as well, and learn his or her story. I could ________ they appreciated my listening to them, maybe even more than they appreciated the ________ I gave them.

Even better were the ________ when we could have a laugh together. There was respect in ________ people to spread their joy. The more I got to know the people I met, the more ________ each one behaved. They were people just like me, like all of us. That's what my dad had ________.

My ________ raised the spirits of the folks I met. But the truth is, they ________ my spirits too. Treating others with respect brings us all ________ to happiness.

【推荐3】I could feel the excitement rising in me as I held the beautifully wrapped present in my hands. Unable to contain my _______ any longer, I tore it open. It was a brand new laptop as my reward for the A’s I got in final examinations.

I had always envied my friends who were exchanging news about various apps. Finally, it was my _______ to find them out. I was researching for some information for my paper when I came across a social networking site, which soon I became glued to.

As time passed, I came to _______ that I was hooked on the Internet. During weekends, I could easily spend hours on my laptop. It came to such a point where I chose to lock myself in my room, _______ to enjoy family time. Soon, my sleep was divided to only scattered naps, and my grades at school also began to _______ .

It was about this time that my parents started voicing their disapproval. It became obvious that I was spending too much time on the Internet. I was asked to _______ my usage of it. Yet, however hard I tried, I was unable to pull myself away, unable to _______ my chat sessions, and unable to concentrate on my lessons. I was _______ for just another click and another look at my message board. Then one day, my father took away my laptop. I complained but to no avail (无济于事).

Over time, I knew that dad and mom had always wanted the best for me. That was when I decided to _______ my Internet addiction. Quitting was harder than I expected. But with dogged ________, I knew that I would turn over a new leaf.