【推荐1】A Person Who Has Influenced My Life

There is always a time in one’s life when a hero comes along. Someone who has inspired you can really help you learn what life is about.

I remember it as if it was yesterday. I was fifteen years old that year. It was around eight o’clock one evening when my mother _______ a phone call from her brother-in-law, who told us my aunt was in hospital and that the doctor _______ them she would need an operation immediately. My family became very _______ about my aunt’s situation.

While my aunt was in the hospital with special _______, my cousin Mark, who is mentally disabled, spent time with my family. Mark was seventeen at the time, and had been born with _______ mental disorders, which created a wide range of social and physical problems for him throughout everyday life. He never had any true friend because no one could re late to him. I must _______ that at the beginning I was filled with uncertainty as to how much of a burden my cousin would bring on my family. Now looking back it saddens me to see the _______ I once showed.

Over the two weeks when Mark lived with my family, I probably _______ more about life and its meanings. Thinking back, I took _______ in daily life for granted, believing it would always be there. I never even thought about being able to do things like walking, brushing my teeth, or going to the bathroom on my own. Now I see how ________ I am to be able to do these things independently.

Mark was seventeen, but learned on a nine-year-old level. Although his learning ability was slower than most, he could ________ learn. He explored ________ to do most of the things everyone else did.________ he did pretty well and succeeded in almost everything he tried to do. He ________ his illness and showed an ambition to love life. To him, having a successful life means achieving goals on his own terms and at his own ________.

Mark is my hero, for his disability has forever formed my viewpoint on life.

【推荐2】I wasn’t prepared for the way I felt when my 18-ycar-old son, Dylan, left for Asia during his winter break. I was _________ the moment he first told my husband and me that he wanted to use some of his _________ to go around China. We were excited for him to explore the world. We told him that _________ was one of the best ways to spend his money and that the _________ will last a lifetime.

On the morning of Dylan’s departure, he _________ a few more things in his bag. Before he and Michael _________ for the airport, I yelled, “Be safe, and _________ when you arrive.” That night, _________ he was flying somewhere over the Pacific Ocean, it hit me that Dylan was really on his _________. I woke hourly, each time __________ the clock and counting the hours before he would land the following morning. __________ my decision to let him go alone, I prayed and thought about all the things that could go __________. And then I heard from him. The first text said he’d arrived. The second text said his luggage didn’t __________ it. Feeling anxious, I madly attempted to __________ his luggage. And I persuaded him to go back to the __________ and go to the airline’s office. My efforts __________. All the while Dylan was texting me he was all right.

After that, there was no more talk about lost luggage, __________ I knew that he’d figure it out, and that the life lessons would be __________.

Several days into the trip, Dylan sent a photo from the top of Victoria Peak in Hong Kong. “I thought I could __________ study abroad anywhere but Europe. However, I could definitely do it here,” his note read. And I was __________.

【推荐3】The day i became a mom was not the day my daughter was born, but seven years later. Up until that day, I had been too busy trying to ____ my abusive marriage. I had spent all my ____ trying to run a “perfect” home, and I didn’t see that my baby girl had become a ____ . I’d tried ____ to please someone who could never be pleased and suddenly realized that the years had ____ and could never be regained. Finally I did the ____ thing I could do for my daughter and myself: I ____ us from the home that wasn’t really a home at all.

That day we were sitting in our new home having a ____, quiet dinner. We were talking about what she had done in school and suddenly her little hand ____ the full glass of chocolate milk by her plate. As I watched the white tablecloth and freshly ___ white wall become dark brown, I looked at her small face. It was filled with ____ , knowing clearly what the outcome of the event would have ____ only a week before in her father’s ____. Seeing that look on her face, I simply started ____. I am sure she thought I was ____, but then she must have realized that I was thinking, “It’s a ____ your father isn’t here!” She started laughing with me, and we laughed until we ____. They were tears of joy and ____ and were the first of many tears that we cried together.

That was the day we knew that we were going to be okay. That was the day I really became a ____ . For me, it started when I could laugh over ____ milk.

【推荐3】As the temperature approached as high as 90°F last July 4th, three police officers went into a market to get something ____ to drink. Once inside, they were asked by a security guard to help with a(n) ____ woman. The woman in question was obviously ____, and her cheeks were wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were containers of____. 

“I’m hungry,” she explained ____. Caught red-handed, the woman no doubt was expected to be treated as a ____. But the police had other ____. “We’ll pay for her food,” one of them told the ____ security guard. “She would not be ____.” 

Drying her wet ____, the woman repeated, “Thank you, thank you.” She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of ____. Customers at the market were so impressed by what they’d ____ that some even posted a photo on Twitter. ____, attention was never what the officers sought. They were ____ by a far more common emotion. When we look at someone’s face and see that they need us, it’s pretty ____ for us human beings to walk away from something like this.