【推荐1】A married lady was expecting a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had admired a beautiful diamond ring. Knowing her husband could ______ it, she told him that it was all she wanted as a birthday gift.

As her birthday approached, this lady awaited ______ that her husband had bought the diamond ring.

Finally, on the morning of her birthday, her husband told her how ______ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He ______ her a beautifully wrapped present. As she opened it, ______, she only found a Bible. She ______ her voice to her husband and said,“Only a Bible?” She was so ______ that she left him.

Many years later, the lady ______ in a more beautiful house. Realizing her husband was very old, she thought perhaps she should go to visit him. But before she ______, she received a letter telling her that he had passed away and given all of his ______ to her. She needed to come back and take care of things.

She arrived at his house, filled with great ______. She saw the ______ brand-new Bible, just as she had left it before. With ______, she opened it and began to turn the pages, finding a sentence carefully ______ by her husband,“To me you are cruel, but you know how to give ______ things to your children!”As she read those words, a bag ______ from the Bible. A diamond ring and the words “I LOVE YOU” could be seen.

If your ______ is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged! Please, always ______ little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even ______, for they must be felt with ______.

【推荐2】After 20 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to _______. She said, “I love you, but I know this other woman loves you too.”

The other woman that my wife wanted me to visit was my mother, who has been a widow (寡妇) for 19 years, but my busy life had made it impossible to visit her _______. That night I called to _______ her out for dinner.

“What’s wrong? are you well?” she asked. My mother is the type of woman who suspects that a late night _______ is a sign of bad news.

“I thought that it would be pleasant to spend some time with you,” I _______.

She thought about it for a moment, and _______. During the dinner, we had an agreeable conversation — _______ extraordinary but recent events of each other’s life.

Before we _______, she said, “I’ll go out with you again, _______ only if you let me invite you.”

A few days ________, my mother died of a heart attack. It ________ so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her. A few days after the funeral, I received an envelope with a receipt (收据) from the same place where mother and I had ________. An attached note ________:

“I paid this bill ________. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two ________ —one for you and the other for your ________. You will never know what that night meant for me. I ________ you, son.”

At that moment, I ________ the importance of saying in time: “I LOVE YOU”. Give your family the ________ they deserve, because sometimes things cannot be ________ till “some other time”.

【推荐1】I work in Silicon Valley. My bike ride to work is the most ____ part of my day. It is my time to think and get some fresh air before getting into my busy_____

Last winter, my dad ____ and that peacefulness was gone. His death took all of us by surprise. He was a Kansas farmer, vigorous and dedicated to the land. He farmed until his heart gave out.

I missed Dad much. I was in my forties. His death made me_____ how I should spend my remaining life. I wanted to make a difference, and many questions were wandering in my mind. Dad wasn't ___   by such uncertainty. He was ____ and loved us kids, which put us to work. His ____ were high. “Is that the best you can do?” he’d ask ____. It wasn’t criticism, but it always made us want to do better.

Life on the farm was ___   before I was ten years old. I rode my dirt bike wandering the fields happily. When I was 12, I started driving tractors. Other kids of my age ___   summer days by the pool while I plowed fields in the hot sun.

Dad never ____ me to do anything. He led by _____ He did what he said he was going to do. He didn’t look for a new ____ in life. He knew what was important, and ____ it.

I smiled. The more I ____ about it, the more clearly I knew the answer to my question. Dad had been showing me that ____ in my entire life. The externals—this job, that job— ____ less than living with integrity(正直). I didn’t have to change the world but be myself.

Businesspeople talk a lot about ____. The most influential leader in my life was my dad. He was leading me, even after his death. His ____ were part of everything I did—instructing employees, coaching my son’s Little League team, writing songs with my daughter. From now on, I would make those values more ____ to my life.

【推荐2】When I entered the sixth grade, I went from being someone to being no one. After being a popular kid for three years in_______, I had a tough time_________to this. The kids in middle school were _______ . I had been at the top of the world in primary school, and now, no one _______me.

On the first day of school, a kid threw a rock at me and hit me in the back of the head. I couldn’t do anything about it because he was much _________than I was, and he would definitely _______me up.

As the days passed, I got _______more and more. I got angry and I tried to_________, but all that happened was that I got in trouble. _______ , I got depressed.

Then one day, I decided that I had to __________myself. No one else was going to do it for me. I had always been the smart guy since second grade, right?

I began to__________myself. I started out by________an after-school class to help me get my grades up. I also__________for piano lessons, and then I joined the chess club and the math team. I went to a math competition and__________first in the district and went on to the competition for the counties! I couldn’t believe it! After my victories, everyone __________me. At the end of the year, in our yearbook, they________as “Mister Smarty”!

My mom always said, “If you don’t protect yourself, __________will.” This is just the ________thing. If you don’t push yourself, you’ll just be a ________! If I can do it, you can do it—so ________and put yourself in front of the class!

【推荐3】Lost & Found

That night, when I arrived at the door of my building, I noticed a man walking behind me. I thought he was a neighbor I hadn’t met. I did a _______ neighborly thing and held the door for him. But when I turned, he took away everything I had and ran away. I was _______. From then on, I looked over my _______, never fully at ease. It cost me my sense of trust in my _______.

A year passed, I got home one night and found an envelope under my door. Inside was a _______ weather-beaten driver’s license. I could _______ make it out because the address was nearly worn away. But the face on that _______ was mine. And the note in it said; Sarah Sweeney, if you still live here, call us at this _______.

Feeling _______, I walked up and down in my living room trying to think of ________ someone would contact (联系) me like this. If there’s a Mugger Playbook (抢劫犯剧本) this was the final long game! Now he’s checking my ________ to get more money?

But I called the number.

Then a(n) ________ voice of a little girl got on, “Hello! Are you Sarah Sweeney? My sister and I found your purse in the woods!”

I could ________ she was jumping up and down as she spoke. She and her younger sister carefully ________ bits of paper, pieced together the clues to find me and ________ my wallet and everything inside. I was completely ________. They were giving me a sense of relief.

I asked her, “How can I ________ you?”

“Hang on!” She pulled the phone away and ________ with her sister; then I heard “ICE CREAM!"

Twenty minutes later, I was at their door. I ________ a box of ice cream. And these two little girls gave my wallet and a renewed sense of ________.

【推荐1】The plane took off. A passenger needed a cup of water to take his medicine. An air hostess (空姐) told him that she would bring him the _________ soon. But the air hostess was _________ busy that she forgot to bring him the water. _________, the passenger couldn’t take his medicine on time. About half an hour later, she hurried over to him with a cup of water, but he _________ it.

In the following hours, each time she _________ the passenger, she would ask him with a smile whether he needed help or not. But the passenger _________ paid notice to her.

When it was time to get off the _________, the passenger asked her to hand him the passengers’ booklet (留言簿).   She was very _________, She thought that he would _________ bad words in it, but with a smile she handed it to him.

Off the plane, she opened the booklet and then __________. The passenger put it, “In the past few hours, you have asked me whether I needed help or not for twelve times in all. How can I refuse your twelve faithful (真诚的) smiles?”