【推荐2】I was born with a heart disease. As I grew up, parts of my heart started to _______ and I was often out of breath. So when I was eight, the doctors opened my chest to _______ it. When they saw the state of my heart, they told my parents, “We don’t expect him to _______ the night.” I was in and out of a coma (昏迷) for three months. Every day the fact that I wasn’t _______ was a good thing.

Finally, the doctors _______ I’d be better off at home — saying that I wasn’t going to live long. But I _______ and had something close to a _______ childhood. As a teenager, I began to _______ heart failure again. But I was _______ to go to college, become a manager and get married to Jo.

I started my own __________ so I could work flexible (灵活的) hours, __________ Jo and I had two children: Josh and Liam. I __________ to keep a good standard of life for everyone, even when I was waking up feeling sick every morning. By January last year, my heart failure was so __________ I often couldn’t walk more than a few yards.

I was worried about not being around for my __________. I had to explain to Josh that the __________ telling me an organ (器官) had been found could come any time and I’d be rushed to hospital, perhaps __________ I could say goodbye. A few days later, the phone rang and Josh said, “Is that the doctor with your new __________?” However it was __________ a salesman.

May 4 was the day a transplant (移植) match was found. I was out of hospital within five weeks and, within a few __________, feeling much better. By October, I was taking part in a 30-mile bike ride.

These days I spend a lot of time talking to kids with heart __________. I want to support others who’ve had a hard time.

【推荐3】“I guess I’m never going to see Hawaii(夏威夷) before I die.”

My mother has said these _________ many, many, many times during the last years of her life. Her father was a soldier and was one of the survivors of the Pearl Harbor(珍珠港) attack, who had passed away shortly before I was born. It has always been one or her _________ to visit the place which held such _________ and emotional importance for her father.

My mother was _________ enough to live and travel all over the world during her marriage to my father, _________ she never got to Hawaii. This was really _________ for her to tolerate this, and it came to be such a painful point in our family that we had the common idea “Just don’t _________ Hawaii!”

As my parents’ 50th anniversary _________, my sister and I decided that nothing was going to be a better _________ than ensuring my parents were there for their celebration. So finally, after years and years of ____________, my father gave her the trip she had ____________ wanted.

My father took her to the Arizona Memorial, and completely ____________ everyone by planning and renewing their vows (誓言) on a beautiful beach. I think it was one of the ____________ experiences of her life. She ____________ so long to achieve this dream, and finally it ____________ better than expected, which is a wonderful thing.

It is one of the gladdest moments I carry with me that my sister and I ____________ our father to make sure that trip happened, because my mother ____________ less than a month before their 51th anniversary. I will forever be ____________ that she had that time with my father in Hawaii before she left us.

My mother said those words so often, which ensured that we as a ____________realized that dream for her. I’ll never hear the word Hawaii ____________ thinking of my mother.

【推荐1】Letting me move into my university dormitory wasn’t an easy decision for my parents. However, they knew if I wanted a good ________, I’d have to live away from home. I’d always dreamed of living alone: the life of no rules and regulations and being independent. So I was ________ about this new stage in my life.

________ during the first few months of living alone, I’d find myself crying every day. I’d call my mum every day. I ________ to fly back home as soon as I got any time off. That was the only thing I was concerned about. Coming from a big family, I was ________ to noises surrounding me. Therefore, the scary silence at night was the worst. I couldn’t even ________ without keeping the lights on.

As time went by, I started enjoying the ________ that came with living alone. I could do things in my own time: eat whenever I want, wake up whenever I want. The space of loneliness was also then ________ by friends who became like family, so I ________ missing my family less.

When it was time to say goodbye and go back home after my ________, I felt bittersweet. I’d enjoyed my time alone, learning things which wouldn’t have been ________ if I had never moved away from home. But I’d also missed my family too much.

I’d learned a lot from this ________. Living alone made me value ________ time even more. I realized that every second with them ________ though I might not get the freedom I had while living alone.

I guess it isn’t meaningful for everybody, but for me, there is no warmth in a house ________ it’s filled with loving members and people you love.

【推荐1】My teacher Peter Bullock proved that science wasn’t boring and made physics great fun. In every lesson he would ________ one of those worksheets in purple ink that smelled fresh from the machine. Every sheet contained a poem or a joke and we looked forward to them being handed out. I’ve kept them all to show to my own children. There was one poem ________ that’s stuck in my mind, which ________ :

In early days Man measured Time

By sunrise and sunset sublime.

As well as being able to turn physics into ________, Peter had energy and passion and conveyed the ________ that science was part of the world around us and not a dull boring academic discipline. I’m sure he was sticking pretty much to the standard ________ —waves and electricity and so on—but he managed to ________ everything into a joke or a story and did so in a clever and ________ way.

Peter Bullock was not only an exciting teacher, but also the man who founded the debate club in my school. He encouraged me to take part and express myself in a forceful way that I’ve been doing ever since—and getting ________ for it. That made me what I am today—a commercial ________.

Peter Bullock taught me throughout my secondary schooling and I ________ physics, chemistry and maths at A-level. Everyone in his class enjoyed learning. He was inspiring. He ________ all of us to the idea that the things we are interested in might seem ________ on the surface, but we can still inspire others. For example, when I tell people I’m interested in law and majored in it, they may think: “How boring.” I ________ being a physics teacher is much the same. Peter showed me that what matters is how you convey your own ________ so that you excite other people.

【推荐2】One morning in early fall, I found a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by ________because we’d never seen geese there before. I ________they would soon be on their way, so I enjoyed the ________to be close to them. I wondered where they came from and why they’d ________our pond.

The next morning, the geese were still our guests, so I watched them at a distance to show them I meant no________. Still, I couldn’t resist getting a closer look. I stopped by some trees near the water’s edge and quietly looked at them through the ________. I was surprised to see that they were ________me.

As the days passed, I continued to see them every day. They craned (伸长) their necks and raise their heads cautiously but seemed to realize I was a friend. Later, my ________about why they were staying at the pond so long changed to concern. It wouldn’t be long before the________winter came and the pond froze over.

One day, as they were feeding in the grass, I discovered the reason for their ________ — the male had a broken left wing. He was unable to fly, and his mate would not leave him behind. I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should do. He explained that sometimes a broken wing will ________by itself and suggested that I let nature take its course.

On the first day of November, I________ sight of the geese running toward the pond, beating their wings with great effort. Both gradually climbed higher and flew over the pond. Then they turned back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were ________.

The season’s first snow fell the next day. The birds must have ________ that winter was coming and that it was time to go. I miss them very much now and I’ll never forget their ________ to each other. We can all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

【推荐3】Eight years ago, Nancy Alguire gave birth to a little girl with Down syndrome (唐氏综合征) named Ruby. The love Alguire felt for her daughter ________her to create a scholarship of $2,000 to________another child with Down syndrome but wanting to go to college.

“I really just wanted the world to see what I saw in her, which was that she was extraordinary”, Alguire________with CBS News.

The initial ________ of sending one child to college didn’t quite go as planned. The family actually________to raise funds for l1 kids with Down syndrome in that year. From there, Ruby’s Rainbow was________. It is a non profit organization aimed at securing higher education for those with Down syndrome and giving them the________not only to learn, but also to become more independent and able to________society.

Eight years later this scholarship program has snowballed into something much ________. Through the charity, $1.2 million has been raised, allowing many people with Down syndrome to ________their dreams of a higher education and show the________just how amazing they are.

However, although the scholarship program is a wonderful educational opportunity, what matters most is the ________message this sends to parents of children with Down syndrome, or parents expecting a child with that extra chromosome.

Alguire wants parents to feel_________. She wants parents not to be afraid of a Down syndrome diagnosis. As she shares, “When the parents find our website, they will see all of these amazing, beautiful, capable faces, and people who are out there with Down syndrome________happy lives. And suddenly, they’re crying tears of________ for the future.”