【推荐3】Sometimes there are days when you just can’t bring yourself to smile. You try to find a way to bring yourself to move on with life and enjoy life but for some reason it just doesn’t ________ .

A teacher whom I ________ was sitting at his table as I came into his room during ________ time. Judging from his face, I saw things could be ________ . Instantly I remembered I had a couple Smile Cards in my pocket for ________ like these. Then I thought what I could do to make him smile.

Then it ________ me that I could share a Biscote (意大利脆饼) with him. I just ________ to have had one in my bag that day. So as he was occupied with teaching ________ , I silently left the cookie on his table with the card, in which I ________ my appreciation. And then I left the room to take the rest of my lunch.

I was ________ whether my plan would work when he came into classroom. I ________ know that I had made his day from the smile on his face.

In a ________ one can look at the Biscote and see what life is made up of. A Biscote is nothing more than the ________ made up of cookies, nuts and chocolates, but if you put all these small things together they will become a particularly ________ treat in the end. In short, small things do ________ .

【推荐1】When Deidra Mayberry was a child, she struggled with reading. Feeling embarrassed, she did her best to _______ it. As her family moved around a lot, she adapted and kept hiding it — making it all the way through school without anyone really _______.

After graduating from _______ school, she started looking for support to improve her reading skills. Then she got into college. She was able to graduate by taking extra _______, asking useful information from professors, spending long nights _______, even changing her major when it got too hard.

“I was so _______ that I actually made it through college and _______,” Deidra says. “And I found ways to work out my problems in order to spare myself the _______ that I felt daily. I also wanted to create and provide a _______ for people just like me.”

That’s ________ what she did. On March 12, 2020, she ________ Reading to New Heights, an organization that teaches adults the basic ________ of reading with one-on-one, professional ________.

“The lessons that our educators teach ________ our adult learners to revisit the fundamentals of reading and comprehension as if they are ________ them for the first time,” Deidra says. “Basic reading ________ are exactly what adults struggling with illiteracy (文盲) ________ in order to fill the ________ gaps that illiteracy causes in education.”

And ________, these services are provided at no cost, so that it is ________ for anyone who needs it.

【推荐3】Learning to share, even when it’s hard, is a basic skill to teach children, right? One mom thinks _______.

When Alanya Kolberg took her son Carson to the park, at least six other boys rushed at him, asking him to _______ his toys. As the boys _______ the Transformer, truck, and Minecraft figure, Kolberg told her frightened son that he could say _______. The boys looked to Kolberg, feeling _______ that her son wouldn’t share. But she told them that _______ he wanted to share, he would.

Kolberg asks anyone who doesn’t understand her _______ to take a different perspective. “Whose manners are _______ here? ” she writes. “The person _______ to give his 3 toys away to 6 strangers, or the 6 strangers demanding to be given something that doesn’t ________ to them, even when the owner is ________ uncomfortable? ”

But the mom wasn’t ________ other kids for being demanding. Instead, she wanted to teach Carson how to ________ himself when he’s being bullied(欺负). “The ________ is to teach our children how to function as adults,” she writes. “While I do know some adults who never learned how to share as children, I know far more who are ________ to say no to people. They don’t know how to set boundaries(边界) or how to practice ________. Myself included.”

After all, Carson does share—just not with ________ all the time. Actually he’d brought the toys so he could ________ another friend with them, Kolberg writes.

Most comments ________ the mom for her behavior. They said it could prevent children from becoming pushovers(易于控制的人).

If you ask my ________, I’d say kids should be taught to share, but meanwhile they should be taught to say “no”.

【推荐1】At my daughter’s presentation ceremony, the principal reminded the kids of that now-familiar truth: they could have multiple careers in their lifetimes. As I lay in bed that evening, another truth ________ me that it is not just different careers that________each child.

I________my own life and how much it has ________. Five years age, I was in an unhappy marriage, living in a house that I felt wasn’t mine. I felt________most of the time and not________my own future. Now, I live in my own beautiful apartment. My family life is peaceful, filled with ________. My life is barely________. I created a whole new reality.

I have always________ that great change is possible. I am the great-grandchild of the immigrants who left their countries with few________. From the shtetls(犹太人小村庄) of Russia and Poland, they created their own communities.

My parents moved to a ________city with two small children and started a life different from that in their hometown. And my late grandmother lived two completely different lives. ________she was a widow at 43 after my grandfather died suddenly, she ________her daughters alone, cared for her elderly mother and ________travelled out of her hometown. At 68, after being single for 26 years, she ________us all by falling in love and remarrying. She and her husband, Harry, socialized   ________ , and travelled around the country.

Life is full of ________. We assume that our lives are linear(直线的), leading us from birth to death into a straight ________. But they can change and have sharp ________. They can double back and leap forward and begin another ________altogether.

【推荐3】Ever since I was young, my parents and older brother have always cheered me on―whether it was at a dance competition, piano recital(独奏会), or an academic _________. They were there even when I _________ 1 of 10 sports, only to later realize I just wasn’t that _________. Point is―they never _________ to tell me I couldn’t do something or to quit. They _________ me every step of the way. They went the extra mile to be the parent that was the _________ soccer coach. They sometimes would _________ their busy schedules for my passions and growth.

My family became a(n) _________ value through these childhood moments, and are also _________ to every other value I hold important―whether it’s learning persistence(坚持) or __________ for others. They have instilled(灌输) in me this sense of __________ from a young age, and continue to help me __________ it. At every major __________ point in my life whether it’s choosing a college or a full-time job, I __________ them for their advice, and consider how to __________ this value while being away. In 5 years, I know family will be of equal importance to me and will always struggle to make it known to them that they are my greatest value.