【推荐1】The journey my daughter Cathy has had with her swimming is as long as it is beautiful.

Cathy suffered some terrible ______ in her early childhood. After years of regular treatment, she ________ became healthy.

Two years ago, while Cathy was watching the Olympics, a dream came into her sweet little head—to be a swimmer. Last summer, she wanted to join our local swim team. She practiced hard and finally _______ it. The team practice, _______, was a rough start. She coughed and choked and could hardly _______ her first few weeks. Hearing her coughing bitterly one night, I decided to pull her from it all. But Cathy woke me up early next morning, wearing her swimsuit _______ to go! I told her she shouldn’t swim after a whole night’s coughing, but she refused to give up and insisted she go.

From that day on, Cathy kept swimming and didn’t _______ a single practice. She had a ______ intention within herself to be the best she could be. My ten-year-old was growing and changing right before my eyes, into this ______ human being with a passion and a mission. There were moments of _______ of course: often she would be the last swimmer in the race. It was difficult for Cathy to accept that she wasn’t a _______ ---ever. But that didn’t stop her from trying.

Then came the final awards ceremony at the end of the year. Cathy didn’t expect any award but was still there to _______ her friends and praise their accomplishments. As the ceremony was nearing the end, I suddenly heard the head coach ________, “The highest honor goes to Cathy!” Looking around, he continued, “Cathy has inspired us with her will and enthusiasm. _______ skills and talents bring great success, the most valuable asset(财富)one can hold is the heart.”

It was the greatest _______ of my daughter’s life. With all she had been through in her ten years, this was the hour of true triumph(成功).

【推荐2】When studying at the University of Pittsburgh, I went home to Virginia to see my family one weekend. “Look, I got a best sportsman’s jacket!” I said. Dad ______ took his eyes off the TV. I had wanted Dad to ______ me all my life, but nothing ever seemed ______ enough. I got rid of my ______ and went back to Pittsburgh. A month later, Mom called and said that Dad’s diabetes (糖尿病) had gotten worse. “I’m coming home,” I said. “You’re going to need help.”

I moved to a/an ______ near home. Every Sunday, with all schoolwork finished, I went home and helped Dad. To my sadness, he ______ everything I did. “It’s not you,” Mom explained to me. “What ______ him makes him feel bad about himself. His anger was masking his frustration (挫败).” I was so ______ to hear that. Now I saw his pain went beyond the ______ pain, and that made me try harder to ______ him.

One day we were watching a football game. “I’ll bet you $2 million that Dallas wins,” I said: Dad looked at me. “You don’t have $2 million,” he ______. After that, every time we watched the game, we made the same bets. Dad laughed more easily and accepted my help more ______. Our relationship was ______.

That spring, a week before the National Football League draft (选拔), we had a party at our house. After everyone had gone, Dad and I were sitting in the living room. He caught my eye. “Whether you make it or not doesn’t ______,” he said. “I’m proud of you.” Maybe our relationship would never be perfect, but I would never ______ that he wanted the best for me.

【推荐2】It was a normal school day for senior Solymar Solis until a(n)_________visitor arrived. Her_________, Sgt. Carlos Solis Melendez, surprised her by coming early from Kuwait and visiting her unannounced at Spring Valley High School in South Carolina.

After_________in Kuwait for nine months, Melendez returned home a week_________than his daughter expected. He held balloons and flowers in a_________as he sat at a student’s desk to blend in with the_________. “It_________my mind like, ‘_________is she going to react?’” He recalled the heartwarming moment. “Is she going to be happy and run to me and hug me, or cry? That was all going on through my mind.”

As_________Solymar entered the classroom, she was soon overcome with emotion,__________bursting into tears and covering her mouth. She didn’t talk. She was just crying. She was overwhelmed with everything. She thought it was a__________Melendez was a__________parent so while he was deployed(调度) ,he got his sister to live with his daughter. When he was coming back and talking to his sister,__________of them came to the conclusion that they should do something__________for his daughter. Melendez and his sister contacted the__________, and they planned this whole being-in-the-classroom thing, and it__________perfect.

The two are very much looking forward to some good daddy-daughter time__________he’s home. “It means everything,” Melendez said of__________able to surprise his daughter this way. “After all the sacrifices she’s made, she__________all the special arrangements and special occasions and celebrations. I’ll do anything for my daughter. I believe I’m doing good__________.”

【推荐3】Once my dad and I had a very big ______ in a late evening when my mother was away. We were both very angry and said something ______, and in the end I said, “I'm leaving.”

And he said with ______ , “Good. The sooner, the better. ”

I____a few things in the suitcase and closed the ______ behind me, but I didn't know where to go. After walking aimlessly, I stopped at a local ______ . A few ______ later, my phone rang. It was my mom calling. She said, “Mary. Where are you? Dad said he ______ you.”

“How can he say that? I've been away for nearly half an hour, ______ he didn't call.” I said with annoyance. My anger returned and I remembered all the ______ words he'd shouted to me. “Listen, mom. You can tell Dad that I'm _____. Tomorrow I'll ______ you.” I said and hung up.

I walked around the supermarket, trying to get my thoughts together. By the time I paid for my things, it had been much later than I used to be out alone. When I ______ the supermarket, I________ a large piece of white paper. On the piece of white paper were these words, “Please come home! I ______ you and I'm worried about you!”

Then a car pulled up beside me. Hanging out of the window was my dad. Beside him, smiling gently, sat my ______ . And that's when I started laughing. I laughed so hard that I ______ . Despite my best efforts to run away from ______ , my father ______ managed to track me down. I couldn't leave now—with him ______ there with caring eyes.

【推荐2】I work as the reception manager at my hotel. A ______came in a few weeks ago with a note saying that the guest would be travelling with her________ father. His daughter wanted to make his trip to Ireland as ______as possible.

Upon seeing this note, I ______I would be the one to check them in as I was scheduled for their arrival time. I ______to learn some very basic sign language. I ______ the guest in my usual fashion, asking for the surname on the booking. Once I heard the name I ______ immediately who was standing in front of me.

I had been learning for two weeks how to say "welcome to Ireland. My sign language is ______, but please if you need anything during your stay just let me know and we will help you".

I ______ at the father and daughter and greeted him in the sign language I had learned for him. His daughter broke down ______ and called me sweet when she learned about the truth. But the father just smiled and was so ______. Honestly, seeing his ______ was enough for me. It was so worth the last few weeks of learning basic sign language.

On check-out, I ______ wasn't working, but they had ______ a gift for me---a small box with some chocolates and a book on sign language. Inside was a ______ saying "Thank you very much for what you did on check-in. You have no idea how much this ______ to my father and me. We can't ______ you enough. You've made his trip home to his family after 50 years very ______ with one simple gesture".

They wrote a letter to the general manager, ______ to give me a raise, which I really ______. I cried for 5 minutes when I came into work today to find this gift in my locker.