【推荐2】On the day I was leaving for my holiday when I heard a familiar sound of the ferry men urging people to hurry and be on board. As it always was, I was among the late ones(I am still struggling to be on time). In the end, I_________to get on board the boat and the journey began. After a few days, I was from_________heading back to work on a small beautiful island. While I was on my holidays, things weren't going as well as I had_________. I didn't feel excited and was in_________spirits. I sat in a corner of the boat and cuddled up(依偎)with my_________close to me. In my mind I just wanted to be_________and I didn't want anyone to talk to me because I never wanted to take it out on anyone.

_______in thought, I stared up at the sky and the scene I saw caught my attention. I looked with great care and noticed how a certain part of clouds_________a thumb (拇指)up pattern. It was laid so_________that I couldn't help but smile. Seeing that thumb up pattern was like a breath of fresh air. It reminded me that everything was going to be ________, and that I had to breathe it in and take one day at a time.

So, life isn't always perfect. Things happen__________. At times it gets all messy__________at times it feels like you have it all. We should learn to take it all in, stop for a while and__________what we have regardless of how small or big it may seem. Remember to smile and__________at the sky, or you will never know what cloud pattern may__________your day!

【推荐3】Last summer, my 14-year-old daughter, Hannah, joined a volleyball league. Due to her excellent performance, her coach _________ that we should transfer her to a more advanced team.

My wife and I _________ a little. We weren’t sure whether Hannah would adapt well to the new team._________, Hannah seemed quite determined. She thought that it would _________ her if she was on a stronger team. So a month ago, she joined the team she desired for.

Yesterday, Hannah invited me to watch a volleyball tournament. Hannah’s team played against four other teams. But Hannah just stood on the sidelines,_________ for her team. She didn’t even _________ to play on court.

I was really _________. But Hannah smiled throughout and came to give high fives to her teammates once they _________. She was incredibly excited _________ she got a victory pin (徽章) and took a group picture at last.

On the way back home, I asked her __________ if she wanted me to talk to the coach about going back to the original __________.

“Dad, absolutely not,” she replied. “Being part of the team is participating in the __________. I learned so much while I was __________ the games from the sidelines. I could see the __________ of the other girls so I could avoid doing them in the future. I would know where I needed to __________. I am also the winner. And if I hadn’t __________, then who would have given them emotional support? I’m part of the team. ”

I was speechless. I had thought the __________ I saw on Hannah’s face during the tournament was pasted (粘贴) on top of a giant pile of pain. I couldn’t have been more __________.

My 14-year-old daughter showed me what it __________ to be part of a team. She felt like she was part of something __________ than herself. I know she’s prepared for her life ahead.

【推荐1】Sammie Vance, 14, knows there’s nothing worse than feeling left out. For years, she’s been helping those kids make friends. What she has been doing is _________ the Buddy Bench program. Originally, the idea was that anyone at school who was feeling _________ could sit on the “buddy bench”. That let other kids know someone needed a friend. The idea quickly _________ .

Sammie got the idea for the _________ at summer camp in 2017. She thought it would be _________ to have a buddy bench in her school, so when she got back, she _________ the idea to her headmaster, teachers and her parents.

Getting _________ for the project was just the first step. “There have been a lot of small _________ like money,” Sammie says. To reduce costs and be _________, Sammie decided to make the bench out of recycled material. So she rallied (号召) her __________ to gather bottle caps.

Word of the project got out, and soon Sammie was getting __________ from people in broader regions —all 50 states, and in the end she __________ more than 1, 200 pounds. A company called Green Tree Plastics was able to __________ these into three benches.

__________ Sammie helped other schools acquire benches. She has helped __________ more than 20 benches to schools and parks by now. Her __________ of kindness continues to spread far and wide. __________ all the kids her project has helped, Sammie benefits from it, feeling grateful for how it gave her __________ in so many different aspects of life.

“ __________ as some acts of kindness can be, they can make a significant difference and lead to a chain reaction,” she says. “You never __________. Just be kind, in general. ”

【推荐3】December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without my mother, and the day's usual ______ had disappeared.

The telephone rang. I ______ it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous ______ , knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be ______ ? I wanted to be left ______ .

My heart felt as ______ as the falling snow. ______ can I stop missing my mother? I ______ the window. Seeing Rebecca's car parked out front, I went back to my bed and drew the covers over my head.

“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you're in there. Answer the door!”

“Leave me alone!” I ______ back. I heard paper rustling (沙沙作响)as she slid ______ under the door.

“Merry Christmas,” she called out.

Not answering the ______ made me feel even ______ . It wasn't fair to my best friend. Her father and sister ______ in a car accident when she was eight years old. ______ , her mother had to return to ______ , and Rebecca was left to look after herself.

When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and ______ it. Inside was a golden pen and a journal. When I opened the journal's front cover, out fell a bookmark with a（n） ______ written on it.

“My words won't heal the ______ . But your own words can.”

As I started at the journal's blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly ______ it.

That night, I ______ the phone and dialed her number.

【推荐1】My father never kept anything for emotional purpose—except once. I was the only one in my family who cared about baseball and I always ________ watching my heroes at Yankee Stadium (洋基体育场). One winter, I wrote down a________ of the summer dates and dreamed every night. To my surprise, one evening I saw my father ________ it before going out to work.

The following Sunday, he told me, “Let’s put away some money into a ________ each week, and maybe we can go to Yankee Stadium this summer.”I ________ washed out ajar (玻璃罐) and________ a label: YANKEE STADIUM FUND, 1960. Each of us________to the jar weekly. ________, we still hadn’t gone to a game because my father had had to work every Saturday. So one day, I ________ him of the remaining time, and then he ________ me, “Don’t worry and we’ll have a ________ Saturday.”On the morning of the last game, I sat waiting hopelessly with no ________ of my father who suddenly appeared and yelled, “I got two________!”I could hardly ________ when we finally sat together, father and son, ________ my New York Yankees. I sat cheering, but for my father, all I could see was a face lined with tiredness from working all week.