【推荐1】On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Oggs heard what every parent feared: Their newborn wasn’t going to _______ . Their twins — a girl and a boy — were born two minutes apart. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no _______. His heartbeat was nearly gone and the baby had just _______ to live.

“I saw him breathing weakly, which, however, the doctor said was no use, but that was _______ a sign of life. I wanted him to _______ , and I wasn’t going to give up easily,” Kate said. She _______ the boy named Jamie from his hospital blanket first. Then she asked David to take his shirt off and _______ them in bed. The first-time parents hoped the skin-to-skin _______ would get his condition better. Kate said, “We explained he had loving parents and a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to _______ him.” Then it was not long before something ________ happened. Jamie moved and then he started breathing evenly. Finally, he ________ for his father’s finger. The couple’s almost ________ boy had made it.

“We’re the ________ people in the world,” David told today eight years later. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their ________ “ Emily bust into tears,” Kate said. “She kept ________ Jamie. This whole experience makes us value them more.”

【推荐2】One evening in July, I noticed my wedding ring-which I had worn for over half a century-was missing. I was very________. I looked everywhere. No________

My memory________to the day when I encountered my former seatmate, who I had________ contact with since our graduation from primary school. Then our love________began. He offered me the ring a few months later, small but perfect.

The daydream passed. My daughter called.

"Mom, you should shop for a new ring." She was________“Where do you want to go?" she asked. “The pawn shop (典当店) close by." I said.

At the shop, we found five jewelry cases to________. This would be an exercise in________We picked out three rings from the first case, but________of them really fascinated me. So we continued to the next case. I picked up the first. As I________it on my finger, I shouted, “Here's my lost ring! See how it just________”

I wanted to know how my ring had ended up there, so the police had to get________. It turned out a girl had found it in the mall parking lot.

Weeks have gone. I'm________in amazement that I found my ring. How did I decide to enter that shop? The work of angels? Just curiosity? I'm not sure I'll ever know. But I did learn that sometimes things are gone for a while________they reappear to be claimed. Just________my man, and my ring.

【推荐3】The French Punishment

One day, Jim played basketball in the living room after school. When he was playing in high spirits, his basketball _________ a vase off the shelf by accident and the mouth of it knocked off a large piece. What made him more _________ was that the vase was rare and valuable. To cover the great _________ he caused, he glued the pieces together and put the vase back to its place.

While cleaning the vase after work, his mother _________ the change on it. At dinnertime, she asked Jim if he _________ the vase. Being afraid of punishment, Jim said a wild cat jumped in from the window and knocked the vase off the shelf. His mother was quite clear that he was _________, for all the windows were closed before she went to work. However, before the frightened boy and the other family members, his mother just remained _________ and said it was her carelessness not to have the window closed.

Before going to bed, Jim’s mother asked him to go to the study. He felt he couldn’t _________ the punishment.

When he entered the study in fear, his mother’s face appeared no sense of _________ Instead, she took a chocolate box out of the drawer and ______________ one piece to him. “Jim, this chocolate is a reward for you, for you ______________ a cat that could open the window, with your imagination.” Then, she put another chocolate in his hand. “This chocolate is a reward for your topping ______________ to restore(修复). You restored with glue, the cracks were fitted almost perfectly. ______________ remember, to restore a vase needs more powerful glue and higher ______________ skill. Tomorrow, let’s bring the vase to the artists to see ______________ they’ll make it as it was.” With that, his mother took the third chocolate, “The ______________ chocolate stands for my deep apology(歉意) to you. ______________ your mother, I shouldn’t have put a vase in a place where it could so ______________ fall down, especially when there is a boy fond of sports.”

“But, Mum, I ...” His mother ______________ him and said. “My chocolate box has been empty, so our talk is over, too. Now, go to bed!” Then she left for her own bedroom.

The following days were the same as before. The only ______________ was that Jim never told a lie since then.

【推荐1】I suffered a serious head injury as a kid. It led to a constant _________ even in a special reading class. When I met my teacher Jill for the first time, I felt _________ because I’d never known anyone who was _________. She was young but was in a wheelchair. We were _________ to ask our new teacher why. Only Jon asked directly the reason.

The question didn’t seem to _________ her at all. She answered it with honesty and dignity. “While qualifying for the Olympics, I _________ during a race and injured my spinal cord (脊椎).” My first reaction was “Wow!” It _________ me she didn’t talk about how much her life had changed since the _________ Actually, she never acted like she felt _________ for herself. Instead, she __________ us with a big smile at the beginning of every class.

She taught us __________ through reading cards, spelling lessons and writing practices. I was a slow reader, but she showed me it was okay to take my __________ .I remember the day when I was ready to __________. To other teachers, spelling the word “furniture” might be a __________ matter, but she treated it as a significant __________. “You did it, Sandy !” she smiled. “You spelled a difficult word and __________ the tests. Now you can return to a __________ classroom!”

She __________ me and changed my world forever. Looking back, I wish I’d thanked her for making such a big __________ in my life. I’ll always remember what she __________ me: With persistence (毅力) and love, no mountain is too high to climb.

【推荐3】It's often said that you can judge a person by looking at what's on their bookshelves. Well, when I asked myself this question a few years ago, I made a (n) _________ discovery. Pretty much all the books on my bookshelves were written by British authors, and there was _________ in translation from other languages. What a shame! So, I decided to launch my _________ reading project.

But how could I find books from much of the rest of the world? I had to ask for _________. So in February 202I, I posted a short _________ online. Within hours, people began to _________. At first, it was friends and colleagues. And soon, it was _________.

Four days later, I got a(n) _________ from a woman called Rafidah in Kuala Lumpur. She said she _________ my project and went to her local bookshop to __________ my Malaysian book. A few weeks later, a package which contained one book—Rafidah's choice from Malaysia reached me. At the time, I was __________ that a stranger more than 6,000miles away would help someone she would probably never __________.

Rafidah's kindness __________ to be the pattern for that year. A writer from Spain __________ emailed me an unpublished translation of his novel to me. Thanks to the kind strangers, I could read books from over 70 __________ .

【推荐2】A few years ago, I was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. I didn’t tell it to anybody. Like most people, I had the _________ that depression was a(n) _________ of weakness.

But I wasn’t weak. I’d _________ a Master’s degree in Media Studies and I’d even won two Emmy Awards for my hard work. Sure, I was totally _________. I lacked interest in things I used to enjoy. But depressed? No, not me.

It took weeks _________ I could admit it, but the doctor was right: I was depressed. Still, I didn’t tell anybody about my diagnosis. I was too _________. I had a loving family and a successful _________. When I thought about the unspeakable horrors that my ancestors had been through in this country, my shame grew even deeper.

On July 4, 2013, my world came _________. My 22-year-old nephew, Paul, had ended his life, after years of _________ with depression and anxiety. Words __________ me when I wanted to express my desperation. Paul and I were very close, but I had no idea he was in so much pain. Neither of us had ever talked to the other about our struggles. The shame kept us both __________.

I spent the next two years researching depression and anxiety, and what I found was __________. Depression is the leading cause of sickness and disability in the world. Research suggests that most mental disorders develop, at least __________, because of a chemical imbalance in the __________.

Black Americans had a 20 percent greater risk of developing a mental disorder, and 63 percent of black Americans __________ depression for a weakness.

Now, seventy percent of people struggling with depression will improve with therapy and medication (药物治疗). Armed with this information, I __________ not to be silent anymore. I would share our story in hopes of __________ a national conversation.

A friend, Kelly Pierre-Louis, said, “Pretending to be strong is __________ us.” Having feelings doesn’t __________ mean weakness.

Life is beautiful. Sometimes it’s messy. But it will all be OK. If your burden gets too heavy, stay __________, and you can ask for a hand.

【推荐3】Jayden Sutton, a high school senior, did a part-time job at a restaurant on weekends. After his_________, which usually lasted between six to eight hours, he walked home, sometimes not arriving back until midnight. Sutton was_________ to make enough money to eventually buy his own_________, as his mother was recently laid off.

That all _________ when Lavonda Wright Myers saw him walking down the road in the rain in December. "The young man was walking to work _________, saying ‘I can’t be late’,”   Myers said. Myers_________he was her son’s classmate. Sutton asked Myers if she could give him a _________. Myers told him she could take him as far as she was going. She began to create small talk along the way.

After dropping Sutton off, Myers said his determination _________her. As time went on, Myers felt that she needed to take matters into her own hands and _________the teenager. “He was in good spirits and he’s a child worth__________” she said. So, Myers__________Sutton’s story on a Go Fund Me page, which raised more than $9.000 from 186 donors.

Then, she managed to__________the general manager of a Honda dealership to drop the price of the vehicle to meet the__________. Myers’ act of kindness__________Sutton’s heart----he couldn’t believe it! Myers documented the moment she gave Sutton his new vehicle on Facebook. Sutton’s mother was very__________for this ----her eyes were wet with tears when seeing the new car.