【推荐1】My friend John always has something to tell me. He knows so much that _______ men have to have older and more worldly wise men to tell them, _______, who to trust, how to care for others and how to live life _______ the fullest.

Recently, John lost his _______ Janet. For eight years she fought against cancer, but in the end her sickness had the last _______. One day John took out a folded piece of _______ from his wallet. He had found it, so he told me, when he _______ up some drawers at home.

It was a _______ love letter Janet had written. The note could look like a school girl’s scrawls (潦草地写，乱涂) about her dream guy. _________ the letter was written by a woman who had had seven children, a woman who fought for her life and who ________ only had a few months left to live.

It was ________a beautiful recipe for how to keep a marriage together. Janet’s ________of her husband begins like this, “Loved me. Took care of me. Worried about me.”

“Helped me when I was ill.” The next ________ reads. After that she turned __________the paper and added “Warmth. Humor. Kindness. Thoughtfulness.” And then she writes about the husband she has ________with and loved most in her life. “________there when I needed you.” The last words she wrote ________ all the others. I can see her for me when she added thoughtfully “Good friend.”

I stand beside John now, and cannot pretend to know how it feels to lose someone who is as close to ________ as Janet was to him. I need to ________ what he has to say much more than he needs to talk.

“John,” I ask. “How do you stick together with someone through 38 years—not to mention the sickness? How do I know ________I can bear to stand by my wife’s side if she becomes sick one day?”

“You can.” he says quietly, “ If you love her enough, you can.”

【推荐2】You never know what nature has prepared for you as a gift. Years ago, when walking alone on a beach in remote southwest Florida, I was so _______ to hear splashes（水溅声）coming from the water. As I walked in the _______ of the sounds, I saw a manatee(海牛)show its head out of the water, _______ a great snuffling(带鼻音的) breath. It seemed that it was in _______ and trying to get out of it.

I’d never seen a _______ like this before. I wanted to ask for help, but there was no one _______. So I went into the shallow water and went toward the animal. I came_______ enough to make out the manatee. Then, a second manatee, much smaller, appeared beside it._______, the other manatees were also moving toward me. Soon I was _______ by several manatees. I could clearly see the larger manatee ________ the little one up with her flipper(鳍状肢) and pushed it to the surface beside me.

As the two slipped underwater, two other manatees moved up from behind, one on either side, ________ gently against my body as they swam past. They circled and ________ the action, this time ________ by the mother and her baby. I held my hand out touching their back as they passed me. Since they obviously enjoyed touching me, I began ________ each of them as they swam by.

I stood there enjoying the scene, ________ to move, until finally the rising tide ________ me back to the shore. Later I knew exactly what took place that morning. The manatees involved me in their celebration of a birth and I was welcome to meet the ________ member of their family.

During that unexpected scene, I felt more involved in the rhythms of ________ on our earth than ever. Each year, I head for that ________ for a quiet little birthday picnic on the shore. After all, you never know who might ________ up for your party.

【推荐3】When I was young, my grandmother used to tell me stories. I’d like to _______ with you one of my favorites.

Once, there was a young boy. He was very _______ because he couldn’t keep his friends. He asked his father why this was so. His father _______ replied, “Son, each time you say or do something that_______one of your friends, hammer (锤) a piece of wood into the _______ .” The curious boy did as he was told and soon he made fence (篱笆) out of the wood.

“Father!” he cried, “I can’t get out! I am blocked by this fence!”

“Well, Son, each time you say something _________to a friend, you can take one piece of wood out.”

The boy _______this, too. On the first day he took out one piece of wood and on the second day he took out another two. On the third day he took out some more. Finally he had _______all of the wood. “But Father!” he cried again, “Look at the _______in the ground! They are big and dark! Oh, how ugly!”

“Son,” his father said, “this is why you aren’t able to ________ your friends. Remember: when you hurt someone’s feeling, no matter what you do to ________ up for it, there will always be a scar (伤痕) in his________.”

From that day on, the boy was very________of his words and actions and he never hurt his friends’ feelings again.

I always keep this story close to my heart. It has________me lot. I am always careful not to hurt any of my friends because they are people that I wouldn’t want to________.

【推荐1】Nicholas Rilling is a bright-eyed, active 5-year-old boy, normal in every way. What is _________ is that he’s that way today after three days’ _________ that happened because of his being underwater without _________ for some 8 minutes.

It was Oct, 17. The Maryland family were enjoying a vacation at a beach resort (旅游胜地) in Puerto Rico. The shallow (浅的) water suggested no _________. But after a while when Kent Rilling _________, he couldn’t find his son Nick!

The sunlight dancing on the water made it difficult for Kent to see where his son was. After an anxious and hurried _________ up and down, he suddenly found his son _________ face-up on the bottom, his eyes open, his body _________.

“He just looked gray and his _________ black,” Kent said. “We picked him up, ran him up to the __________ and just started CPR (心肺复苏) at once.”

For three days in hospital, Nick __________ unconscious (无意识的), his breathing assisted by a breathing machine. The whole time, from the beginning when her husband brought Nick to the beach to give first aid (急救) as a crowd of other __________ gathered around, Cynthia Rilling kept taking pictures and videos of what was going on.

“__________ as I was, I knew in my heart he was going to __________. There was no way God was going to take our son from us. And I just said, ‘I am going to take pictures so he can see the __________ he went through when he grows older.’”

The family kept praying at his bedside, talking to him, hoping for a __________. Finally, on the fourth day, when his parents asked him what __________ he liked, “Sponge Bob Square Pants,” he answered.

After five days, Nick was well enough to __________ hospital, showing no ill effects from his __________ experience. The doctors and nurses organized a “__________ party” for him, and Nick was happy to watch his Sponge Bob Square Pants on TV.

【推荐2】My husband and I had been short of money lately. That, _______ with the fact that he was anxious about being in public, meant we hadn’t been able to _______ outside for a while. Things were finally beginning to _______. So we decided to go to a pizza house that I had been wanting to _______ for a long time.

Once we saw the _______ we knew we could only afford a small pizza so we would have enough money left to _______ the waiter. Before long our 4-slice pie arrived. My husband offered to serve me a slice, only to _______ it onto the floor. He felt embarrassed and got angry with himself. I tried hard to _______ him.

Noticing this, the manager came over and _______ cleared up the mess. Then he apologized that the oven (烤箱) was already being __________, or he would bring another __________ to us.

__________ our meal, the manager returned to thank us for being there. Then he gave us 2 coupons (优惠券) and invited us to dine in his pizza house __________. Wow! We were totally surprised. How kind he was! He could have been annoyed when he saw the __________ we made so close to closing time. He could have been __________ at my husband’s carelessness. __________, he chose to do all he could to make sure we left with a __________. To some people it may seem __________ because he was just doing his job. But to us it meant the world! Our __________ treat of enjoying a night out was made so much more pleasant by the __________ he offered us. Thank you, kind sir, for choosing to shine your light on us!