【推荐1】On my 21st birthday, my mother gifted me a pair of beautiful bangles (手镯). They were the gift __ by my granny, and my mom got it at my age. Besides the feelings they are concerned with, these bangles spread their __ in another way: They are studded (点缀) with heart-shaped stones.

Till now, the memory of these bangles always makes me __. It is the best gift that I have ever got, although there is a pity. One day, I found one of the bangles had its studded stones missing. To __ it, I went out on a cold afternoon to the jewelry shop. All the way, I was lost in my __, wondering whether the jeweler could make it as the same as it was. __, when reaching the shop, I couldn’t find the bangle anywhere. Tears filled my eyes then and it took me weeks to __ this sadness.

Two years later I left the city but the accident __ troubled me from time to time. However, twenty years later I was again in the city. One day I went out to __ strawberries. The seller was a young lady. While talking with her, I __ saw her hand. She was wearing the ___bangle that I lost years ago. So I asked her how she __ it. She started sobbing (呜咽)，“This is a special gift from my late (已故的）father. Many years ago, my father picked it up on the roadside __ I said, “The bangle is mine,” and I told her the whole __. After hearing that, she __ me and tried to pull out that bangle to give it back to me, but I __ her. I said, I know the __ of losing the things from our loved ones. I don’t want to do the same to you. If you __ it，I will be happier.” We exchanged smiles in silence, and then I left the place. I wasn’t __ at all. I believe that sometimes “you can’t gain much without __ a bit.” This is what I have learned from the lost bangle.

【推荐2】I still remember an old lady, a customer on the paper route in my hometown when I was 12 years old. She taught me a lesson in__________that I shall never forget.

On a(n) ________afternoon, a friend and I were throwing stones onto the__________of the old lady's house. The stone that I found was too smooth, ________it slipped from my hand as I let it go and________straight not for the covering on top of the house but for a small window on the house's back porch. At the sound of broken glass, we knew we were________.We turned and ________.

I was too ________ about getting caught that first night to be concerned about the old lady with the broken window in the freezing weather. However, a few days later, when I was sure that I hadn't been________, I started to feel guilty about her______________.She still greeted me with a smile each day________I gave her the paper , but I was no longer able to act comfortably in her ________.

I________my mind that I would save my money delivering paper. And after three weeks I had seven dollars that I calculated would pay for her window . I put the money in an envelope with a note________that I was sorry for breaking her window and________that the seven dollars would cover the cost of repairing it.

I waited until it was dark , moved________to the old lady ' s house and put the letter I didn ' t sign through the letter slot in her door . I felt ________ and could have the freedom of , once again , looking straight into the old lady's kind eyes .

The next day, I handed the old lady her paper and was able to ________ the warm smile that I was receiving from her. She thanked me for the paper and gave me a bag of cookies she had made herself. I thanked her and started to eat the cookies as I continued my________.

After several cookies . I felt an envelope and pulled it out of the bag. When I opened the envelope , I was ________. Inside were the seven dollars and a short note that said , " I'm proud of you.”

【推荐3】Tim, my seven-year-old son, is learning to play the drums. It is an___ that has always caught his attentipn ___he hears them played. Before I____his first lessons, drums were all he wanted. At the age of 3 he___ his mini drum set during a show. Using that same drum set he perfected the timing and rhythm of a popular church song____ enough for his mom to sing along to. My son had found his passion at a young age and had a natural____to catch on quickly.

Wanting to act quickly to __ his talent, I immediately signed him up for drum lessons. No sooner had my first payment cleared than his passion __. He did not want to take instructions. He wanted to play the drums_______,       To       him the drums were a way of ___. Ian wanted to “play the beat of his own drum.”

The challenge was that music has more than one __ Rock doesn’t sound like smooth jazz and smooth jazz doesn’t sound like___ You can’t play every __ that exists to the same beat. If ___were a series of songs, the melodies __ could be calming and peacefiil, or violent and chaotic. Each event we face has its____own sound, so we have to learn __ to play the tune of the moment. You should understand that even with all the natural talent in the world there is always___ for improvement.

You can't do it all without ___.

You won’t know how to play every beat life throws at you without practice.

You can’t____talent forever.

【推荐1】A parent might place his daughter’s drawing on the fridge out of a love for his child,but for many people,that drawing is actually quite delicate._______，adult abstract artists were often inspired by children’s drawing.Observers have found similar_______in modern abstract art and kids’ drawing; one example is the “X-ray” drawing,_______a drawing in which the “inside” of a person is made_______.For the museum-goers who tend to_______a piece of modern art and say “My kid could have made that!” it’s worth remembering that often,that’s actually just what the artist had_______.

Whether it is lucky accident or artistic talent,_______that young kids don’t intend to produce a realistic expression helps demonstrate what the drawing experience means to them. For many kids, drawing is exciting not because of the final_______leads to,but because they can live_______in the world of their drawing.

Even simple scribbles(胡写乱画)are meaningful.When scribbling,children are representing through action,not through________. Alves, a prekindergarten teacher,recalled a student who________her with a drawing featuring a single straight line across the page. Alves assumed the child hadn’t given too much________to the drawing until he explained that the________was one of the mattresses(床垫)fromThe Princess and the Pea.

Ingram,a preschool teacher,said her students often tell different stories about a________piece of art depending on the day.”We as adults will often say,I’ m going to draw a horse,’and we set out...and get________when we can’t do it.They seem to take a much more rational approach,where they just draw,and then they________,’it is a horse.”“

Ultimately, what may be most________about kids’ art isn’t the art itself but what they say during the drawing process.They’re often________stories that offer a much clearer window into their world than does the final product.Studies suggest that kids will create a detailed narrative________drawing, but when telling adults about their work they’ll simply name the items or characters in the image.

What’s most important to remember is that “children’s art has its own logic.”Winner said.＂Children are not being________.”

【推荐2】My mother cooked for other people to support the family. She only had one eye. One day during elementary school she came to see me, some of my classmates just ______ her for her eye. I was extremely embarrassed.

Full of ______, I hated her because it was she who was only gonna make me a laughing stock.   I ignored her, threw her a ______ look and ran out hoping to bury myself and have nothing to do with her. Several years later I left my mother. I got a chance to ______ abroad. I studied really hard and also had my own job abroad. Then I got married and had kids of my own. I was ______ with my life, my kids and the comforts. Then one day, my mother came to visit me. She hadn't seen me for ______ and she didn't even meet her grandchildren. ______ my mother stood by the door, my two children, who were under six years of age, were scared of her, just asked her to get out, yelling and screaming at her for ______ uninvited. She just said sorry quietly, replied she may have gotten the wrong address and then disappeared from ______.

One day, a letter regarding a school reunion came to me. I lied to my wife I was going on a business trip. After the reunion, I went to the old house simply ______ curiosity. My neighbors said my mother died. They handed me a letter, which read, "My dearest son, I miss you and love you all the time. I'm sorry that I came to your house and ______ your children. Hearing you were coming for the reunion I was so happy, but I may not be able to even, get out of the bed to see you. I'm sorry that I was such a constant ______ to you when you grew up. When you were very little, you got into an accident and lost your eye. ______ a mother, I couldn't stand watching you having to grow up with one eye. ______, I gave you mine. I was so proud my son was seeing a whole new world for me, in my place, with that eyes. With all my love to you. Your mother.”

My whole world shattered. I didn't know of any way that will ______ my worst deeds.

【推荐3】Jane’s mother worked on the farm from dawn till dark and she just could make ends meet (收支相抵). To make Jane live a _________ life, Mother was very careful about spending money. However, Jane didn’t understand her. Every day Mother was busy with her _________ while Jane was studying at school, so they had little time to enjoy themselves.

One day, Mother realized Jane was unhappy and even _________ to her, so she decided to go _________ with Jane to make Jane happy.

On Sunday morning they went happily to the snowfield. Since they were _________ in white clothes, the manager advised them to buy ski clothes. He said in case there was an accident, they might be easily _________ in their ski clothes. Mother couldn’t _________ them, so she refused.

Then they went skiing in their white clothes. They were skiing happily on the _________ when suddenly the snowfield began to shake. It was the snow slide (雪崩). They ran a long way and _________ the snow slide finally, but they couldn’t find their way. Later, a helicopter (直升机) was flying above, but people on it couldn’t see or hear them. Jane was __________ because she had hurt her head seriously and __________ dropped on the snow. Just then Mother had an idea. She cut her wrist (手腕) __________ and then bright red blood dropped down on the snowfield. A red SOS was on the snow. At last Jane __________, but Mother died.

Every time I think of the blood dropping onto the snowfield, I feel __________. I believe anyone who hears the sad story will __________ Mother for her selfless love to her daughter.

【推荐1】It’s often the simple things in life that make the most significant impact on us. It was late one afternoon in mid-September. My three-month-old son was napping in his _________. As I wandered through our living room, I _________ to look out of my balcony window. Puddles(水坑)had _________ on the ground and the rain had slowed.

Down below _________ a boy of about four. Filled with a mixture of _________ and happiness, he stomped (踩) through the puddle, mud and water flying. He walked, stomped, splashed through that puddle _________, happily enjoying what mother nature had left for him.

Not more than ten feet away stood his mother. She didn’t scold him. _________, she watched with a pleasant smile on her face. She showed no_________ for a little mud and for the laundry she would later have to do. As for me, it was a (n)_________ moment that changed the way I will forever view my role as a mother.

The little boy probably will __________ each afternoon that his mother takes him outside, as he __________. He may not remember each little thing that happens each time his mother lets him __________ his world. But he will remember that his mother __________ him and he will know that she helps him to learn and grow in a pleasant and fun environment.

Maybe we can all learn from the innocence of __________ that views a rainstorm not as something to run through or to avoid, but something meant to explore, to __________ and to love.

【推荐2】My daughter and I were swimming in our pool one summer day. This day was like any of the other days, so I had no way of knowing that this one would go down in our family history as a ______ we cherish（珍惜）and still ______ from time to time.

The sun was setting and the night was ______   approaching. My daughter ______ it first     — a spider was spinning her web at the bottom of the freshly painted blue fence that ______ our pool. It surprised me that she saw this, and it surprised me even more that she wasn’t _____of the spider.

Instead, she ______ watched as the spider busied herself in the cycle of life. As we both watched this ______ of nature, a very simple thought ______ me. I had lost the track of ______. I honestly didn’t know how long we had been just staying there and ______ that spider making her web. But, regardless of（不管）whatever amount of time had passed, the truth was that we were ______ having fun. We were having fun without doing anything really _______or special, I thought. We hadn’t saved the world or ______ the newest most expensive toy. However, I believe that by ______ this experience of the spider building her web, we were both just quite happy.

What we had done was to spend time together and ______ the simple things in life. We laughed and talked about the ______ of life, and what it means to die and what it means to really live. We talked about how precious our ______ amount of time is on this planet and how we should ______ to enjoy the simple things in life like the flight of a bird. The simple things are the ______ things in life, even when they include spiders and webs.

【推荐3】From Disappointment to Purpose

I’m known for my determination. If I want something, I _________ for it; I refuse to give up until I succeed. Over the years this attitude has worked well for me and helped me achieve my goals. _________, when I wanted to be on the dance team at school, I learned all the dances and practiced until I could hardly _______. And when I wanted money for a new computer, I washed cars, babysat, and walked dogs for all my neighbors.

_______ this year everything changed. I had set my sights on a summer _______ that I was determined to get at the Water Zone, because the employees there could go on the water rides after their work and get free food at the snack bar. It was the _________ job to have on hot summer vacations. So just as I had achieved every goal in the past, I set out to _________ the job. I completed the application in my neatest handwriting, carefully prepared for my interview, and gathered a pack of recommendation letters. I was certain that nothing _________ keep me from my dream job.

But after my _________, the manager of the Water Zone told me that he could hire only those with experience in water safety. I was ________. I felt like a failure.

On the last weekend before school ended, my teacher, Mrs. Keller, asked me ________ I would be interested in the kids’ summer day camp. I decided that I had nothing to __________, so I called the manager and __________ an interview. She was __________ by my babysitting experience and employed me. In less than a week, I had completely __________ about wanting to work at the water park. Each time I comforted a little boy who missed his mother or a little girl who needed to help tying her shoes, I felt I was doing something __________. I realized that I had discovered my life’s ________: to work with children. I now have a new goal. I’m going to study to become an elementary school teacher.

Sometimes in life we don’t get __________ what we want. Our dream guy or girl may not be interested in us. The coach may not select us for the team. A certain employer may not choose to hire us. It’s natural to feel ________; I sure did. But I also learned an important lesson. Occasionally, when we don’t get what we want, something even __________ is waiting for us around the corner!