【推荐3】Last Sunday,Mark invited me to help serve dinner at Tent City.A number of ________ had been set up for the homeless in the area.

My husband was not available to________ our two sons, so I took 9-year-old Tony and 5-year-old Toby with me.Many of the people we________ had missing teeth or wore dirty clothes. My sons had a lot of questions as what they saw challenged their________ ideas about how people lived in the world.

“Why don’t they buy food________ us?” “Why don’t they have homes?”....

We talked about the________ why people ended up in that type of situation. And I mentioned the importance of creating a safety net for them, “Sometimes the safety net is other people who can share some of their time and resources (资源),” I________.

I was________ that my boys would make too much noise. But to my________, the people we served were quite thankful that I had brought them. Many said how fun it was to have________ children around.

After diner, I saw Tony sit together with several elderly men. He was________ them talk about sports. To be honest, I had________ realized that he was such a good listener. ________ some people returned to their tents, I heard Tony say to them,” Thanks so much for having dinner with us.“I could see that his simple words had________ them greatly. I hugged him a little tighter (更紧的) because what he said had touched me, too. It was a great reminder that treating people with ________ can lift all of us up.

【推荐1】When I tell people my sister is 11 months older than me, some are quite surprised at how close we must be. But we couldn't be more ________ or distant. I am louder and taller while she is quieter and shorter. When young, I rode________ Michigan forests on my bike while she buried her head in books.

________ my sister and I have grown up, our relationship bears the tension of that childhood state. Especially after my mother developed a cancer, my relationship with my sister ________. She always threw suggestions that felt________ about my daily caretaking. It was hard to imagine that our relationship could ever improve after my mother ________.

________ COVID-19 spreading fast, I turned to Chinese dramas to ease my________， which were my mother's favorite. I started with the hit “Go Ahead”(以家人之名),a________ story about three children from broken families who come together and form a new harmonious one. I found myself missing my________ more than ever. Therefore, I texted my sister what I might have told my mother—that she had to watch the show.________ , she decided to watch with me. As we watched more dramas, our conversations became ________

Over the past year, my sister and I have watched so many Chinese dramas together that I've lost ________. I could never have imagined how Chinese dramas could help me build a new harmonious relationship with my sister—a(n)________ to make up for lost time. As I search for something new to watch with my sister, it________ me: Our mum would have loved watching these shows with us too.

【推荐2】How is the relationship between you and your parents? Are you getting on well with them? I had been _______ a hard time communicating with my mother. Every time I got angry, we would end up in_______ with each other, unwilling to share our real feelings.

Last week, without telling anybody, I left home to _______ the anger and pain bottled up_______me. At night, I finally decided to_______home. Walking into the sitting room, I saw all the anger and pain on Mum’s face. For days after that, we said the _______. Everything we did was filled with tension, so we _______ needed a talk and agreed to have breakfast together the next morning. It turned out to be a_______ point of our relationship.

On my way to the table, I _______ my mother holding two notebooks. I asked ________they were for. “Sometimes it is easier to ________down our feelings than to talk about them,” she explained. She then handed me a notebook and kept ________ for herself. The ________were that she would pick a topic, and we would write down our real ________about it, however long or short. Our first ________was---why am I so angry? I wrote a half page, and Mum ________ up nearly three pages. Tears streamed down her face when she wrote silently.

After finishing writing ,we ________ our notebooks and read what the other had written. ________reading her words, I began to cry and so did she. Amazingly, after we finished discussing them, all the anger inside me was ________.

I gained a special gift that day. Mum and I continue to use our notebooks to ________ our different ideas. No matter how we feel, our notebooks are a safe place to express it.

【推荐3】When the apple harvest is coming, all along the road ways the signs go up:“Pick your own!”I ________ have to be told twice.

During the recent apple season,I carried my bag, and ________ Sebastian, a little boy I taught, to pick apples together with me.________ at first whether something unrelated to the computer could be fun, he ________.me at last. On the ride to the orchard(果园)I talked about ________ a lot, By the time we arrived at the orchard, he was ________ to pick apples.

Achild,having empty pockets and a mind free of responsibilities, ________ fast. Within minutes of ou arrival Sebastian had ________the environment of the orchard, as if he were a resident species in his own right. I could ________ keep up as he ran down the long rows of trees.

Apple picking is ________.It's fun. It's also a(n) ________And,needless to say, it's work. As1 watched little Sebastian run guickly among the trees, hoping to reach the biggest apple, or the reddest, or ________what he judged to be the prettiest,it________me that the tables had been.________. : He was the teacher,and I the child being taught by example that apple picking is, at root, a ________ enterprise.

We filled our ________ to overflowing, but for Sebastian it wasn't enough. Turning back toward the trees,he expressed his ________ ,"But there are still so many apples left," as if it were our ________ to pick them all.I spoke quietly to him about the idea of ________.And I________that there would be future apple harvests.