Though she had been in a coma (昏迷) for nearly six months, it was still a_______ when my grandmother passed away. I was not yet thirteen when she_______. I’d understood that death awaited her, but in those first moments of knowing, I could not_______ that “eventually” had finally come to pass.

Friends came to the funeral home to pay their last respects to my grandmother and to show their support for my mother. Not_______ where to be or what to do, I stayed off to the side. The_______ finally ended with the arrival of my friend Kelly.

Kelly and I had been friends ever since she was three and four. We were “home” friends, the kind who rode bikes together after school, went_______ to a KFC a few blocks away, even though we weren't allowed to leave the block.

At the funeral home, Kelly came right to me. In her hands were two packages of M&M’s. Kelly knew that was one of my_______. We had often taken long trips to the store for_______. We sat in the back, eating M&M’s and talking quietly. A_______ experience had suddenly become easier to bear, with a childhood offering of chocolates and the________ of a devoted friend.

Trying to come up with something to offer a heartbroken person is________. Kelly had understood, even at twelve, that there wasn’t much she could do to reduce my pain________ be there with me and bring something that just might make me________.

Now, whenever Kelly and I find ourselves at funeral home for family member of ours, the other has always shown up________M&M’s, a small offering of________ to take the edge off the hovering sorrow. We’ve________ that when we’re old, the one who dies first will have a crazy old lady throwing M&M’s into her grave. M&M’s will________ be significant to me. They will________ me that even when something as painful and powerful as________ comes to claim what’s most important to me, there will always be Kelly… and her chocolate. M&M’s, melt (溶解) in your________ , not in your hand.

【推荐3】From the first week of high school, my best friend, Trisha, was always going out with the popular girls.______ I thought, “It’s okay; she’s just making new friends.” But soon I realized that Trisha wasn’t interested in me anymore.I’d ______ my best friend.It really hurt.

One day, I told Trisha that we should______ pretending to be friends when we really weren’t anymore.I wasn’t trying to make her mad, but she was. After that, Trisha started talking about me behind my back, telling people that I was ______.Some of our friends sided with her.I felt like she was taking them away from me.

The more I thought about it, the ______ I got.Finally, I took up a picture of Trisha and drew lines on her face.I wrote, “I ______ this person” across the bottom.And then I did something I’ll always ______: I put it on a website I thought was ______. I thought people would see it，and it felt good to vent(发泄)．

A week later, Trisha’s mom saw the ______. She called my mom, who made me take it off the website right away.However, it was already too ______.Lots of people had seen it, and I was in a lot of ______.

That whole day, I felt ______. I had to say sorry to Trisha face to face.She said she accepted my apology, but I felt she was still angry with me.

Posting that picture was one of the worst ______ I’ve ever made.I realize now I could have found a much better way to deal with my______. If I’d just told Trisha how much I ______ her, maybe things would have turned out differently. It’s too late for me to change things, but I hope you’ll learn from my mistake.

【推荐2】Exhausted, I returned home from work. I found the front door was _______ open and I felt a little scared. Did I carelessly forget to lock it after I left? I looked around tensely to see what could be _______. Nothing? Why would someone come into my home only to _______ with nothing? After searching every inch, I realized that everything was where I had left it. No overturned cushions, broken lamps, or drawers emptied out on the carpet. Feeling much _______, I looked out my oversized window of my dining room at Ms. Sullivan’s house. Jimmy, the little boy next door was visiting her. Jimmy cared a lot about Ms. Sullivan and was very concerned about her health after she became ill. She used to guard Jimmy when he was just a baby.

Forgetting about the _______ with my front door, I decided to walk over to Ms. Sullivan’s house to see how she was _______. With a warm hello, she invited me into her home. I noticed twelve beautiful roses delicately presented on the table next to her bed. They looked exactly like the _______ on my dining room table in front of my oversized window. With a pleasant smile, she told me Jimmy brought them to her as a “get-well gift”. Suddenly Jimmy _______ out of his seat in an instant and said that he had to go home for a while to do some homework but he promised to be back to _______ up on Ms. Sullivan.

Talking for a while, Ms. Sullivan began to get very tired so I gave her my phone number in case she ________ needed help, and left her home. I thought about how sweet it was for little Jimmy to be so concerned for Ms. Sullivan. I got home, laughing at how nervous I was that morning about what had happened over nothing. I walked past the dining room and noticed my roses sitting in the vase were missing. Without a second thought, I glanced out the window at Ms. Sullivan’s house. With a smile on my face, I turned off the light in the room and went to sleep.

The next morning my doorbell rang. I opened the door and Jimmy was there…

【推荐3】She died at the age of 15 in one of the history’s greatest sad stories,____her thoughts live on to this day through the diary in which she recorded her____.Though she was touched by despair（绝望）and terror,the message of____in her words has encouraged many.Anne Frank,the most famous____child of World WarⅡ,is indeed a symbol of the Holocaust（大屠杀）.Her secret writings,which later came out____“The Diary of Anne Frank”,____of two years in the life of a young Jewish girl hiding in Nazi-controlled Amsterdam.To mark the 75^th anniversary of her____,on June 12 this year(2004),www.annefrank.org is to____some rare photographs of the girl taken when she was 12.

Born in 1929,Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was____to go into hiding to____being arrested（逮捕）by the Nazis.She and her family,along with four____,spent 25 months in a few small rooms above her father's office in Amsterdam.The family was____founded by the Nazis,and forced to go to a concentration camps（集中营）.In March 1945,nine months after she was arrested and shortly____the camp was liberated（解放）,Anne Frank was killed.

Her diary,first coming out in 1947,has become one of the world's most____read books.It has been translated into 67 languages.The following is the most____part of Anne's diary.

“It’s____for me to build my enjoyable life on a foundation of chaos（混乱）,suffering and death.I see the world being slowly changed into a wilderness.I____the approaching thunder that,one day,will kill us too.I feel the____of millions.And yet,when I look up at the sky,I feel that everything will change for the____,that this cruelty shall end and that peace will____once more.”

【推荐2】I went to the beach nearby for some quality time with myself. After a ________ week, all I wanted was a book and a good snack. It was a lovely time watching kids ________ playing in the water, building sandcastles and sharing ________ with their families.

After a few hours, as I was leaving , I noticed a little girl playing by herself on the beach. She had built a little ________ with a moat（护城河）around it and was now trying to fill the canal with ________.

Unfortunately, there was no container around to carry water. She was playing________, unlike most of the other kids. She would go to the waves,________ her hands and then walk back to her little castle.________not much of the water was making it to the moat. But she kept trying and was still smiling and hopeful. I so wished I could help her out, but I didn’t have a container with me.

As I was standing there watching her, feeling ________, I had an aha moment. I realized that I had a bottle of water in my bag. I quickly ________ in, took it out, and handed it to her.

Confused at first, she smiled but shook her head ________. I reassured her that it would make getting the water much faster. She finally took it from my hands after I insisted. Not wanting her to feel ________, I walked off the beach right away, glancing back just once to see her running over to the sea merrily, equipped with a ________ in hand.

In the larger scheme of things, it was a ________ gesture. But in my heart, I also know that when she notices that someone needs help in her life, maybe, she would recall this little random act of kindness by a stranger. And maybe that would make her more likely to jump in and help create a little ________ world around her.