【推荐1】For years, I thought a present and a gift as the same thing.

I grew up in a household where presents marked special ________ There was always a box for each of us under the tree at Christmas. _________, Dad always gave Mom something each Valentine’s Day and anniversary. He would carefully plan his shopping trips to find just the _______ thing. His joy in the hunt was proof of the _______of giving and of his love for her. I saw these presents as the _______ of a husband's devotion.

So when I married a man who did not give presents on a regular basis, it was an _______

I wrestled with my expectation. Gary did hot _______ avoid gift-giving. Gary would return from sea armed with a brown paper bag inside of which was something that _______ him of me. But mostly, he ignored holidays, _______ to shop for a thing to present to me as a sign of love.

I tried to change him ________. I prepared gifts for Christmas and for his birthdays ________. He appreciated the caring, but refused to do the same thing for me. I dropped hints, they ________ deaf ears.

I began to tell him what I wanted, giving ________ instructions. When Gary left for the market one Saturday, I asked him to find me diamond earrings as a birthday present. Yet he came home with a road scraper （刮路机）.

________when the snowstorm stopped later that year and he was at sea, I used the road scraper to plow （犁）out both our driveway and our neighbor's, thinking how ________ earrings would have been and it was then that I realized he had been giving me gifts all along. The gestures, large and small, born of his caring and concern were the ________that he gave daily.

We ________ to teach others how to love us. In that struggle, we often forget how to ________ the love they already give us as only they can give it.

I finally began to understand the ________ between a present and a gift. A present is a thing. But a gift is a small act of kindness, the willingness to ________ another's needs, the sacrifice of time and effort.

【推荐2】Happiness Is a Journey

We always believe life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we think the kids aren’t __________ enough and we’ll be more _________ when they are. After that we think we have teenagers to deal with. We will _________ be happy when they are out of that stage.

We always tell ourselves our life will be perfect when we get a nice car, and are ________ to go on a nice vacation when we retire. The _______ is that there’s no better time than right now. If not now, ________? Our life will ________ be filled with challenges. It’s best to________ this to ourselves and try to be happy from now on.

One of my favorite quotes(引语) comes from Alfred Souza. He said, “ For a long time it had seemed to me that real life was about to ________. But there were always some obstacles in the way, something to be got through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be ________. Then life would begin. At last it was _________ to me that these difficulties were my life.” This view has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way. So ________ every moment that you have.

And ________ time waits for no one. So ________ waiting until you finish school, until you get married, until you have kids, until you retire, until you ________ a new car, and until spring.

Happiness is a(n) _________, not a destination. So, work like you don’t need ________, love like you’ve never been ________, and dance like no one’s ________.

Try to do what you like and enjoy what you can enjoy at present or you will feel _________when you are too old to do anything.

【推荐3】To make a difference in a child’s life, I recently Joined the Make-A-Wish Arizona team, which was able to accept 355 wishes this year. While each wish was as __________ as the child who dreamt it, one that touched me most was Annie’s wish to meet the Pope(罗马教皇). In fact, there was not one __________ eye in the Wish House when Annie’s wish came true.

Given 3-6 months to live after being __________ to have stage IV stomach cancer, most people would be __________. Not Annie, who wrote the most __________ letter to us asking for her wish: to have last rites (临终祈祷)__________ to her by the Pope. Well, the Pope doesn’t do that, but he did __________ to meet with her, and with planning by the staff, she eventually met the Pope and got a __________ from him. The time with him was __________ short of extraordinary. She reported that he even posed for photos!

Nothing could have made this __________ more amazing when the Pope asked the crowd to wait a moment while he __________ a full mass(弥撒)for her. Working there, we were all __________ to meet Annie as she came to the Wish House to __________ her remarkable story. She is __________ a fortunate young lady!

Wishes like Annie’s give life new meanings. You can __________ what an incredible amount of support it takes to make these happen. That is __________ I encourage you to join me in making a __________ to this charity activity, whether it is $30, $50, $100 or even more. Remember it can __________ allowing more wishes like Annie’s to come true and it can help Make-A-Wish kids __________ their courage to face illnesses and find a(an)__________ point in their lives.

【推荐1】Diane Ray was completely self-centered and very spoilt. Her parents gave her______she wanted, knowing that she would throw a temper tantrum if they did not. She would scream and kick and____on the floor drumming her heels. Her parents always______

That was why she was alone on the____, wearing an expensive swimsuit. It has taken a massive tantrum to_____her parents to buy it. They were back at the beach-house,____from the tantrum she had thrown when they told her that it was too dangerous to go diving_____. “Dangerous?” she had said. “You just don’t want me to have_____ I’m going and if you try to stop me, I’ll scream.”

“What are you doing ?” a voice asked. Diane jumped. She did not know that the man was there___ he spoke .

“I’m going diving, ” she answered.

“You shouldn’t swim that day, ” the man_____. “There is a storm coming up.”

“You should mind your own_____!” Diane replied and walked into the gentle waves.

“If you go out there you’ll be_____,” the man called after her. She did not bother to reply.

Diane slipped into the water and dived_______until white caps began rolling in and it became harder to_____against the current. Saltwater hit against her face, making it_____to breathe. Oh, why had she not listened to advice.

Panicking, she began to_____. Then, just as it seemed as if she would slip beneath the surface, she heard a_____voice. “Hold on ! I’m coming.” With_____, she saw the old man rowing an ancient-looking boat towards her. “I hope you’ve learned a lesson. You put us both in____, ” he shouted angrily, as he dragged her over the side of the_____. Gratefully, Diane thanked him and ran towards the beach-house.

【推荐2】The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. It was so loud that he _________ it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most _________ from outside. Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree _________ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, its engine _________.

“I _________ buckets of water,” said Languell. Then he ran to the crash _________. The car looked worse up close. It was nearly _________ into two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have _________ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his __________ face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible __________. Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the __________ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he said.

Completely __________ his own safety, Languell opened the car’s back door and __________ in. He cut through Thompson’s seat belt using a __________ he’d had the foresight to bring with him. Now that Thompson was free of the __________, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then __________ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.

Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post __________ him as “looking great, smiling, and joking”. Languell thinks about that day often. Displaying the sort of sympathy that __________ him to help, he explained, “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so __________.”