【推荐1】I believe I had the perfect life. Because I was about to________ my high school, and on my way to college; I had great friends and a loving family. There was nothing________. But I spoke too soon.

It was around 9:25 am that I heard the news that would________my life forever. My brother Zach had been in a car accident. He fought for five days before he passed away. That day, I became an only child. I felt extremely________.

After Zach’s death, I found________in food. I ate, then I slept, and then I ate again. I couldn’t cry. I could hardly feel anything, and I was________. I stopped building relationships for fear that they would end just as________as Zach’s life. Also, I became nervous about any potentially________situations—driving late at night—but I couldn’t express this fear of life because I wanted to be strong for my parents. I saw my parents’________worse than mine because of the losing of their son. I didn’t want them to care about me.I also experienced a lot of ________, because I was angry about why the sadness had happened to me, and I never________from this emotion.

Now, it has been nearly five years since Zach’s death. I don’t________life anymore: I face it bravely. I rebuilt my friendships and began socializing more. I even ________Zach’s story with people around me. Although my new friends never met him, they know about Zach.

One lesson I learned from losing my brother was never to be________to say, “I love you.” I loved my brother, but it was too late to________it loudly. The last time I remember telling my brother I loved him was when he was dying. Don’t make this mistake like me.

【推荐2】Even small acts of kindness can make a big difference in someone's day. That was the case for Amie Mickey when she _________ a bumper sticker（保险杠标贴）on her car, reading “You Matter.”

Amie started to do this several years ago. At first she wondered if people would _________ it. However, to her surprise, she began seeing a flood of _________ every time she hit the road. More often than not, people _________ slowly near her car would roll down their windows, raising their _________, waving, and smiling. Sometimes, she even found sticky notes left on her windshield（挡风玻璃）saying things like “You _________, too!” Once while she was driving down the highway, she became _________ when a man driving a sports car pulled his car alongside suddenly, waving and mouthing, “You matter!” Though it took her some time to recover from the _________, she still felt happy. Last year, someone _________ her car while she was waiting for her friend in the car by the roadside, saying to her, “It's a（n）__________ sticker. I've seen various stickers before, but none of them have touched me as your sticker has done.” The two small words on the sticker seemed simple enough, but they really reached the hearts of many complete strangers who __________ to catch sight of the sticker.

Stories like Amie really __________ the rest of us. Sometimes a kind word or gesture may lift our __________ and it doesn't cost a thing except for a little extra thought. Maybe it means offering a friend a hug, praising the parents when their children __________ well in the school, helping someone out or volunteering at animal shelters or shelters for the homeless. Acts of kindness are waiting everywhere. Small as they seem, they can make a __________ impact on the world, and help form general goodness.

【推荐1】I was surprised when I received a short message from my father wishing me a happy birthday.

I had ____ to hear from my mother, my grandmother and my other relatives ____ never from my father. Lying in bed, ____ of my father flooded back.

When I was a little boy, I regarded my father as a(n) ____ able to do anything. ____, things slowly began to ____. The more I learned, the more I doubted what he said. The gap between us grew and, at last, I didn't ____ like communicating with him.

My father, in my mind, had no ____ in talking with me. Dinner was the only time we were together. He had no time to watch TV with me. He would tell me to ask my mother ____ I needed something. He even refused to answer my ____ when I phoned from school. I ____ the changes. I thought that perhaps my father no longer ____ me any more.

Over time, however,I began to wonder whether my ____ was right. One day,my mother told me that each time I called,Father was ____ listening beside her. Suddenly, I hated myself for my ____ behavior toward him.

I planned thousands of times to ____ my father. In the end, however, I was always too embarrassed about what I had done.

But that Saturday, I was so ____ by his short message. I realized then that my father’s love for me had never disappeared. I decided to send a ____: “Thank you, my dear father."

Two days later, when I returned home, my mother told me that my father had been so ____ when he received my reply. She said he had ____ from morning till night. At that moment, I felt truly happy.

【推荐2】If life were a book and you were the author, how would you like the story to go? That is the question that _______ my life forever.

One day I went home from the training of snowboarding with what I thought was the flu, and less than 24 hours later, I was in a _______ on life support with less than two percent _______ of living. It wasn’t until days later that the doctors diagnosed (诊断) me with a _______ blood infection. Over the _______ of 2.5 months, I lost the hearing in my left ear and both my legs below the knee. When my parents _______ me out of the hospital, I _______ that I had been put together like a patchwork (拼缝物) doll and I had to live with _______ legs. I was absolutely physically and emotionally broken,_______ streaming down.

But I knew in order to move forward, I had to let go of the Old Amy and ________ the New Amy. It was at this moment that I asked myself that significant ________. And that is when it ________ me that I didn’t have to be five-foot-five anymore,________ I could be as tall as I wanted. And ________ of all, I can make my feet the size of all the shoes. So there were ________ here.

Four months later, I was back upon a ________. And this February, I won two Board World Cup gold medals,________ me the highest ranked snowboarder in the world.

So, instead of looking at our ________ and our limitations as something ________ or bad, we can beg in looking at them as a wonderful ________ that can be used to help us go further than we ever know we could go.