【推荐1】Sometimes, life as a big sister just doesn’t seem fair. I was five years old, and my sister Lisa was _________. Every time we do something that we are not _________ to do, I get into more trouble. I can’t   _________ it anymore! So, I pack my things and decide to leave forever. My mother asks _________ I am running away and I tell her yes. She’s not nearly as _________ by this as I feel she should be. She looks at me and says, “Are you going to Grandma Sylvia’s?” I can’t _________ she can figure this out. Without   _________ her, I go out. I’m so _________ that I don’t realize that my mother is about 20 metres behind me, following and _________concerned citizens away.

____________, I get to Grandma’s apartment. Before I even knock, the door opens. My Grandma welcomes me but says I’m certainly not ____________ there forever. And I realize my mother has called   ____________ and I have been betrayed. When my Grandma goes to get me some juice, my mother ____________ and kindly asks why I have run away. After listening to my ____________ , my mother says to me,“Sweetheart, if it’s ____________ for you to live with Lisa, tomorrow morning I will call the orphanage (孤儿院) and we will send her away.” I ____________ what an orphanage is. I start to cry, and I ____________ her, “Don’t send my sister away to an orphanage!” My mother reluctantly(勉强地) ____________ that we will go home and give it another try.

And in those years to come, Lisa and I will share laughter and tears. Sometimes, we will   ____________. And to this day, when I turn to my mother, she always answers in the same way, “You had your ____________, sweetheart.”

【推荐2】It was our first Thanksgiving in the new house and I wanted everything to be perfect. But my plan for everyone to contribute some preparation work had been _________ by my husband's business trip. Even worse, a critical project for me that week had_________two days of planned vacation. By Wednesday, my vision of a table with fresh flowers, _________drinking glasses and various homemade desserts had already_________ away, I just hoped that I'd find a clean tablecloth and eight_________forks.

In my perfect Thanksgiving, there wouldn't be any orange in my salad because It hadn't made the grocery list. There would be no perfect family photos to record that day because I hadn't got the broken camera_________. Someone had brought home the wrong toilet paper, which was the last straw that made me_________.

I don’t remember what my son asked me as he was vacuuming（吸尘）, _______I do remember twisting into that mean-and-tight mom-face before barking out an _______. This combination of noise and anger is a universal signal to kids everywhere that they might as well __________ me. But he didn’t.

Instead of disappearing from view, my second-grader turned __________ the vacuum and walked across the room to__________me. He never said a word. He just__________ his arms around me, making me feel       __________of myself until today.

It turned out a(n)__________ Thanksgiving. The people I loved gathered around my table and dined just one choice of the pie. My dad used a mismatched fork without __________. My daughter drew a picture of us where everyone smiled.

My son took a(n)__________ to teach me that sometimes we need a hug most when we are __________huggable. This is the best gift you can give. One size__________ all and no one ever minds if you __________ .

【推荐3】The school held a teacher-parent meeting. A mother was asked to attend his son’s school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s ____, she said she would go. This was the first time that his classmates and teacher ____ his mother and he felt ____ of her appearance. Although she was a ____ woman, there was a severe scar (疤痕) that ____ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to ____ why or how she got the scar.

The people at the meeting were ____ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, ____ the little boy was still embarrassed (尴尬) and ____ himself from everyone. However, he could ____ a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked ____, “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “____ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was ____ afraid to go in because the fire was ____, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked ____ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She ____ the burned side of her face.” This scar will be ____, but to this day, I have never ____ what I did.”

Hearing this，the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great ____ of the sacrifice (牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand ____ for the rest of the day.

【推荐1】Last week I went to my son's school and spoke about kindness to 60 kids and teachers and teacher assistants. After a small talk about the meaning of _______, I gave a _______ to the children-I told them to _______ a small story about an act of kindness that they had done and how that made them _______, or if they had _______ an act of kindness and how that made them feel. In what way had that act _______ them? Then I and the headmaster will choose the _______ ones, which will stand out for their feelings of _______ and love toward others.

When I was waiting for my _______ I saw some teachers that were at the assembly(集会)passing by and I was ________ that they would tell me if they liked the ________ or not, but they didn't say ________.

Then one little boy came to me and said: "You know, I enjoyed the ________ today. ""Okay then are you going to write a lovely ________?" I asked. "I'm not good at writing," the boy ________. So I explained that I would be ________ if he could just write a phrase or two about an act of kindness.

I didn't have ________ to talk to him because he was in a hurry to ________ his friends who were waiting for him, but in my heart that was a beautiful act of kindness. The fact that he was able to stop to ________ me for two minutes, to let me know that he had enjoyed the assembly was worth all the ________ I had put into preparing the talk for them.

【推荐2】It is three in the morning on a Tuesday, and I’m walking toward table eighteen, the one I call home. I pass the waiters, give a brief nod to the____and take my seat. I____the “usual,” water and peanut butter pie. Yes, I’m at an all-night diner.

I start to take out my books, ____ full well that I will be____on the same page of Socrates that I’ve been on for the better part of the semester. Of course, it’s____—for my group that is. I wait for the empty chairs around me to be____.

Just as the Muzak songs start to repeat themselves, Shana and Jenny walk in. I am____with the usual big hugs and smiles. ____, the diner stops being a twenty-for-hour restaurant with bad service and becomes my place—my home____the prisonlike dorm room. For the next couple of hours, we will joke about people we know, talk about books, reflect on the meaning of life, quote movies and____new private jokes. Table number eighteen is our____home.

During my senior year of college, I started going to the diner for a temporary escape from a dorm room that felt like it was closing in on me. Not to ____the phones, the stereo and the computer. How could anyone seriously____to have good study habits? Some friends of mine told me about the place; they went there to study, and they really liked it.

So I tried it. It felt remarkably freeing. I start going there every night (except weekends, of course), and, believe me it was not because the pies were____great either. Maybe it would force me to open my books and my____would improve. Right? Well….

But that’s not the____. I mean, anyone who has gone to college knows that it’s not only about forcing yourself to wake up at 7:45 A.M. (after you had gone to sleep two hours earlier) to listen to a professor spoon-feeding you information____the significance of the Battle of Hastings. It is____about finding a little haven where you can create what will be the most important thing in your life—yourself. At a school of thirty-five thousand people, I found a small place that was as____to me as my Social Security number.

Through laughter, tears, learning, growing and the____free ice cream, we found a sanctuary. A place where we could be ourselves.

【推荐1】“Don’t worry. Those are just age spots(老年斑),” the doctor said. “Are you _________ that these are age spots?” I questioned, pointing to the dark spots on my hands. Angie, the doctor, smiled warmly and _________, “I’m 100% sure.”

I let out a scream of _________. “You’ve no idea how long I’ve waited for these to _________,” I said. Angie looked slightly _________, and I realized there was no possible way I could explain my excitement. What Angie didn’t know was that I shouldn’t have _________ to see age spots! At age forty, there was not much hope that I would live long enough to see any signs of _________. I was in the battle of my life — fighting lung cancer.

After the five-year mark of being cancer free, I started to have hope. When I got my first white hair, I quickly pointed to my husband, “look, honey, a white hair.”

_________ I was taking a trip down the memory path, Angie _________ my thoughts. “Here’s the fade cream(增白霜) that you can __________ your hands twice a week before going to bed,” she reminded. And then she mentioned another __________, “of course, you can always have the spots removed with lasers(激光).”

“Remove them?” I questioned. “__________ would anyone want to do that?” Angie stared at me, not understanding the meaning of those words, while I explained, “I’d like to __________ them.” As I walked out of the hospital, I was __________ that I had such wonderful age spots!

Later that year, I celebrated two milestones(里程碑)— my sixtieth birthday and twenty years of being __________ from cancer. I’m excited to be growing older with white hairs, wrinkles(皱纹) and now age spots. And I can see the beauty in all of them!

【推荐3】In 2009 we were staying at our cousin's house in Triora, Italy. Settled just above a window was a bird's nest which my ______ said had been there for many years. Each year, different families of starlings (椋鸟) came back to make it their home .

We knew they were ______ because the chattering (鸣叫) of six newly hatched (孵化) chicks(小鸟) woke us early every morning. Standing on a chair, I ______ to look into their nest. The first time I looked, the chicks were ______ and almost featherless. Their parents flew backwards and forwards, bringing food to ______ their hungry and noisy chicks.

Being ______ parents, whenever they saw me they screamed and flew at the window. So I could only ______ the chicks when they weren't around.

______ the chicks were only a few days old, I realized the parents were teaching their young to fly. One brave chick beat its wings (翅膀) a few times and then ______ across the street landing on the roof of the house ______. Well done, I thought. The next day, my husband and I left for a tour and I was sad , thinking of how I would miss the rest taking their first ______.       Two weeks later, on our ______ , the first thing I did was look in the nest. It was ______ . Then, suddenly, I heard the beating of ______ and all eight of them were flying toward me. They formed a semicircle, singing to me. I felt as though they were saying, “Thank you for not harming us.” Then they flew off ______ into the blue sky.