【推荐1】Love is a hot topic, but what is love? Here is a story.

It took me a long time before I was able to fully understand my grandparents’ love. They wrote the word “Shmily” in a surprising place for the other to find.______one of them discovered it , it was his/her turn to _____it once more---in shoes, under pillows, even in toilet paper…Their way of life, rather than only a game, _____their love, which not everyone is _____enough to experience. They _____hands every chance they had, finished each other’s sentences and went to _____together.

But there was a dark _____in my grandparents’ life. My grandmother had breast cancer. It had first _____ten years earlier. As usual, Grandpa was with her every _____of the way. He comforted her in their _____room, painted that color so she could always be ____ , even when she was too sick to go outside.

Now, it was even worse, but they still went to church ____ .Grandma grew steadily _____until finally, she could not ____ the house any more. For a while, Grandpa would go to church alone, praying to God to _____his wife out. Then one day Grandma was ____.

_____ was written in yellow on the ribbon of my grandmother’s funeral bouquet(花束). As the crowd thinned and the last mourners _____to leave, Grandpa stepped up, taking a shaky _____, and began to sing to her. Through his tears, the song came, ____.

Thank you, Grandpa and Grandma, for letting me see.

S-h-m-i-l-y: see how much I love you.

【推荐2】The first week we moved into our apartment, it began flooding. It ______ us where the water was coming from. It had been ______ that it came from a hole in the water filter (过滤器).______, the water filter man told us that nothing was wrong with it. We were nearly out of our ______ while we were exploring the cause. We searched for the ______ leak for at least a month.______, my husband couldn’t bear it and urged, “Let’s move away from here.” Then a repairman, who fixed the oven,______ us. When he finished his work, I ______ to ask him, “Do you have any idea why our apartment floods?” I ______ him where we always had water on the floor. “There must be something ______,” he told me.

We were ______ at what he said. Could all this water on my floor be coming not from something broken,______ from a blocked pipe? We called a plumber (水管工人). He put his tube deep into the drain. And then ______ a big pencil sharpener flew out of the pipe. So did our ______, which bothered us all the time.

I learned a very important ______ from this pencil sharpener. Everyone should be ready to ______ depressions in life. You don’t have a job, or you are ______ something, or you can’t get what you want. You tell yourself that there is something wrong with you. However, in those moments of ______, you always have to remember: It’s not that there is something wrong with yourself; it’s not that you have ______ or defects. You just have to ______ the thing that is pulling yourself down.

【推荐1】It's hard to be honest with others about how you've really been feeling. The first person I told about feeling ______ was my best friend, who I've known since I was 14. We haven't lived in the ______ place since we were 17, but have ______ a deep friendship by the ______ for over ten years. Maybe it's her being removed from my everyday life that made it feel ______ to tell. I first experienced depression at ______ and my friend —who was a medical student in the same grade with me-brought it up after I ______ an exam due to spending a week in bed. When she first said “depression” to me I felt a bit ______, because I'd always thought of myself as such a positive person. ______ health seemed a bit of a grey area to me, as my mum ______ when I was 16 so the line between grief and depression became ______.

Last year, I'd been feeling disconnected from everyone. It came to a head after a（n） ______ disastrous work trip, and I felt more isolated than ever. Having searched “depression symptoms" online, I felt ______ and immediately shot the screen and ______ it over to the same friend. Only she and my boyfriend knew my state for months.

Shortly after, I decided to ______ a personal illustration（说明）I'd done about mental health online. I was so moved by the response. Aside from public ______, I was also getting private ______ from friends, friends-of-friends and even some ______. A lot of the messages were about people saying how much it resonated（引起共鸣） with them, which looked like ______ a therapist weekly, who offered me time and space to feel all I was feeling, ______ I go outside every day and sleep well at night.

【推荐3】When I was a teenager, my dad did everything he could to advise me against becoming a brewer (造酒人).

He′d_______his life brewing beer for local breweries only to make a living,_______had his father and grandfather before him. He didn′t want me_______near a vat (酿酒用的桶) of beer. So I did as he asked. I got good_______, went to Harvard and in 1971 was accepted into a graduate program there that_______me to study law and business at the same time.

In my second year of graduate school, I began to be_______that I′d never done anything but go to school.

So, at 24 I decided to drop out._______,my parents didn′t think this was a great idea. But I felt strongly that you can′t_______till you′re 65 to do what you want in life.

I packed my stuff into a bus and headed for Colorado to become an instructor at Outward Bound. Three years later, I was ready to go back to_______. I finished Harvard and got a well-paid job at the Boston Consulting Group. Still, after working there five years, I________, “Is this what I want to be doing when I′m 50?” At that time, Americans spent good money on beer in________quality. “Why not make good beer for_______? ” I thought.

I decided to give up my job to become________. When I told Dad, he was________, but in the end he________me. I called my beer Samuel Adams________the brewer and patriot who helped to start the Boston Tea Party.________I sold the beer direct to beer drinkers to get the ________I out. Six weeks later, at the Great American Beer Festival, Sam Adams Boston Lager (淡啤酒) won the top prize for American beer. In the end, I was destined (注定) to be a brewer. My________to the young is simple. Life is very________, so don′t rush to make decisions. It′s OK when life doesn′t go as planned.

【推荐1】A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful ________, and knowing her husband could ________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the ________, her husband told her how ________ he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He ________ her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and ________ a Bible (圣经). ________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so ________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very ________ in business. She owned two large companies. She ________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to ________ him. But before she could, she ________ a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions (财产) to her. She needed to come back and ________ things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness ________ her heart. She saw the still new ________, just as she had left it years before. With ________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring ________ from the Bible to the floor and a ________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE YOU ALWAYS”.

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

【推荐2】My name is Maggie and I am a big red maple tree in the center of Central Park in New York. Every part of me is _________ shaped. I love seeing all the people _________, stare at me, and say “That tree is beautiful!” Those _________ make me feel special.

One day, I see a big storm _________ my way. I can hear all the frightening sounds nearing, but the most frightening one is the sound of almost half of my bark being torn off. I feel _________. What will people think when they walk up to a worn-down tree in the middle of Central Park? Will they cut me down? This _________ makes my branches ache.

Hours later, when the storm _________, a nice opossum family comes to me and asks _________ they can spend the night in one of my holes. The baby opossum is so cute that I can’t _________. Soon, round two of the storm comes. It __________ another part of my bark, but it doesn’t __________ me as much because I have a distraction: the opossum family. Other animals see my __________ act and come to me, too. Even though I feel great for __________ all the animals, I still haven’t completely forgotten about what people might think about my __________. Beyond all expectations, people love me even more for protecting all those animals from the terrible storm. This serves as a __________ to me that “beautiful” doesn’t always refer to looks.

【推荐3】Adam Gillian, a homeless man, usually stopped into Alexander Archbold's antique store to sell what he'd found. And the owner would often_______items off the man, even if they weren't worth anything,_______Cillian could grab a bite to eat.

When Gillian brought in a picture of Disney's Bambi, Archbold_______ it was a replica (复制品), so he gave Gillian $20 for the_______. It wasn't until he was cleaning up the piece that he_______, from the copyright date of 1937 on its back, that it was a(n)_______hand-drawn image.

Archbold posted the discovery on YouTube. In the video he_______the artwork to be worth $3,500 but admitted that he didn't feel right taking _______ much money after having just paid $20. "I'd like to _______ the profits, 50/50," he said.“I think it's just the__________thing to do.”

Archbold can __________ Gillian's hardship. For part of his childhood, despite his mother working three jobs, he and his family struggled with __________. In junior high, he called a motel (汽车旅馆) room home.

"The __________is," Archbold said,“I don't know where to find Gillian. ”So, when Gillian __________back into the store, Archbold, who had __________ for him for a long time without any result, was excited to __________have the chance to give him his__________.

However, what Archbold was able to give Gillian went__________money. A GoFundMe to help provide__________for Gillian quickly raised enough for him to settle down. On top of that, thanks to all the__________,   Gillian's family finally came to contact him.