【推荐1】It began in November 2016, when Hinton, then 17, got a text message from an ________ number inviting him to Thanksgiving. When he asked who it was, the person ________ : “Your grandma.”

“Grandma? Can I have your ________ ?” the teenager replied. He received a photo of a woman he had never seen before. It was Dench, now 64.

Hinton wrote back, “You’re not my grandma,” ________ a laughing face. Still playing along, he jokingly asked: “Can I still get a ________ though?”

Dench replied: “Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do... feed everyone.”

Hinton soon ________ her mistaken invitation had turned genuine, and he decided to have a Thanksgiving meal with her family, including her actual grandson, whom she ________ intended to text.

Hinton ________ the conversation on social media; it quickly went viral. And it’s become an annual ________ that’s beloved by the families.

Last week Hinton ________ that the two would be celebrating the day together again. “We are all set for year 7!” he wrote on Twitter.

“I would have ________ a wonderful relationship,” Dench said, when asked what would have happened if she hadn’t invited Hinton over years ago. “I’ve changed my ________ so much on the younger generation.”

Although Dench was ________ about the misdirected text in 2016 at first, both she and Hinton ________ it. “Family is more than ________ ” Dench said. “It’s the people you want to be with.”

【推荐2】An 11-year old boy from Nigeria impressed the world with an online video of his ballet(芭蕾) dancing in the rain. Then something ________ followed.

Madu is one of 12 students of a dance school. Daniel, the school founder, is teaching children for free and hopes to “change some commonly held ________ about ballet.”

Gracefully spinning(旋转) among a group of girl dancers, Madu ________.While his mom wanted him to become a priest (牧师), the boy pushes himself hard to be what he ________ to be.

“I love dancing and it gives me a great feeling. People think ballet is only for girls, but I want people to ________ that a boy could do the same,” Madu said.

The video of Madu ________ his ballet skills in the downpour got ________ from millions, including Mrs. Harvey, director from a top US dance school, who decided to ________.

She ________ Madu with a full scholarship to her school and offered Daniel an online course for free to ________ his teaching.

Both Madu and his teacher went ________ at the surprise! “Sorry for disappointing mom. I love the ________ but not the prayer and I’ll never give it up,” the boy ________.

________, when you nourish(滋养) your dream with love and ________, opportunities will find their own way .

【推荐3】One day when I was 12, my mother ordered me to walk to the public library and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to _________ my strange problem _________     to read.

In the library, I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the shelf _________ . The beagle (比格猎犬) on the book’s cover _________ my eye. The first and only animal companion I ever had as a child was a beagle. _________, one morning, he was gone, given   _________ to someone who had the space and money to care for him. I never_________ my beagle.

The beagle on the cover looked _________ to my dog. My eyes ran across the _________ , “Amos, the Beagle with a Plan.” __________ , I had read the title. Without opening the book, I __________it from the library for the summer.

I started to read about Amos very slowly and with __________. It was about a dog who, like mine, had been __________ from his family and found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of __________   until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

My mother’s call returned me to the __________   world. I suddenly__________ something: I had read a book and loved it. Everyone knew I couldn’t read, but I had read it! Books were __________ , and I was going to read them.

I __________ told my mother about my miraculous (奇迹般的) experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable __________ in my classroom performance during the next year. Years later, she was   __________   that her son had read thousands of books, was awarded a PhD in literature and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction.

【推荐2】My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summer we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at ________. As for me, I ________ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really ________. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and ________ Dad to go sailing. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ________well with the tiller(舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a ________ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit ________. Dad was always at his best in any ________, but at this moment he froze.

“John! ________!” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any ________. He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. Before I could respond, a________of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull(船身) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, I comforted him, “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now.”

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________ for my father.