【推荐1】Sarah grew up on a fishing boat. Her father, _____ to make enough money to buy a house, had _____ her within their only small boat since his wife died.

One morning, Sarah saw a _____ above the sea, which was close to them, and the boat began to rock as waves grew. ____   the mountain of clouds approaching from the south, she rushed below deck (甲板) ,“Dad, _____!”

“What?” her drunken father asked _____.

“Dad, a big storm is coming. We need to get out of here.” She grabbed his shoulders and _____ him.

He got angry, shouting, “What are you doing?”

“Dad, we have to _____ the boat. There’s a big storm coming.”

Her father _____ her at last. He walked to the deck, saw the ______ and fired up the engine.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

“Sarah, ______ we stay here, we will die. We need to go out to the sea. We must ride the waves; that’s our only ______.”

Their boat headed into the storm ______. Above them were black clouds and in front of them were dark waves. It was so ______.

Hours passed. The dark day turned into darkness totally. They held each other for ______, but the experienced fisherman needed no ______ because he had fought many such battles.

Eventually, the waves ______ and the sky brightened. Sarah was ______ and hugged her father, “You did it, Dad.”

They sailed back into the port. Other boats had been destroyed. Their boat was the only one to ______ the storm. Sarah hugged her father again. “Dad, you made it. You ______ us.”

“No, Sarah,” he held her by his arms, “we did it together.”

【推荐2】My dad came to America from Greece at the very young age of fourteen. He _________ an average of fourteen hours per day, six to seven days a week，for over thirty­five years.

Because of his _________ work, he owned many restaurants in New Jersey. He was proud of his achievements and what he could_________to his family.

When I was graduating from college, Dad told me he decided to _________ the restaurants and retire(退休) . “If you are graduating, my _________ is over. I have educated my children and provided for all of you. I am going to _________.”

“Great, but what will you do? I _________ know you cooking in the kitchen and serving customers. I can't imagine you doing anything else, ” I said.

“I am going to play golf!” he _________.

“Golf? You have never played golf. I never heard you mention golf, ” I was _________.

And then Dad began to play golf. He taught my brother and me the __________ and shared his interest with us. Dad would look at us and say, “If you live your life as you play the game of golf, you will be __________.”

He repeated often, “When you get to the green, stay focused(集中精力的)and hit straight down the fairway (平坦球道) . Don't think about anything else, and just know where you want to put the ball. Do this and you will __________ your goals.”

Dad wanted us to have __________ and to stay focused on them to achieve success. He also wanted us to __________ ourselves and take time to have fun with friends and family.

Dad retired at the age of fifty­six and played golf every day until his death at the age of eighty­six. What a __________role model!

【推荐3】I come from a broken family.My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months apart.____,by age 19, I left our home in Wisconsin to live on my father's horse farm in Virginia and Jeanne moved to Chicago at 18.We lived separate lives in separate states, and our connection somehow ____

Fast-forward about five years.I was 24 and on a trip with my fiance to New York City.We hadgone to visit my fiance's cousin and see the ____.During a day of sightseeing,we were crossing a very ____street loaded with people.Everyone was in a hurry.I had laughed at something my fiance said, and I suddenly heard my name yelled from somewhere____me:“Cheryl!”I froze in my steps in the middle of the road.Tears____ my eyes.I knew without a doubt that it was my sister Jeanne.I yelled back____ even turning around to look.“Jeanne?”It was her.“Oh my God!”I screamed,and began ____ people out of my way to get to her.The crowd started to part-even by New York standards, we must have seemed____

I later asked how she'd known it was me-she never saw me! She said it was my laugh.I wouldn't say my laugh is all that____, but I guess to a family member it's infectious(有感染力的）．It hits your____.She said she had come for an opera show and was there for only a week.Both our visits were planned just a week earlier, and____ of us has ever returned to New York.

We both moved back to Wisconsin later and since then, we have never been____.I truly believe God played a huge part in bringing us____.But our meeting by chance wasn't just a sign.I see it as a(n) ____not to lose touch with loved ones.It is too easy to remain lost.After our sister-to-sister miracle, I don't plan to let that happen again.

【推荐2】28-year-old Jermaine Scott set up in business as a barber in Madison. He gradually noted the kids were _______ to tablets and cell phones when they came to the barbershop. It was _______ to cut their hair when they were focused on those. That led to the _______ of Scott’s “Barbershop Books Day” when kids could come and get a _______ haircut. What was required? They had to _______ a book while they got it.

He created “Barbershop Books Day” to help not only the kids, but also the parents. Madison has many low-income families and many are focused on just keeping their _______ on. For people in this community, $15 for a haircut per kid is not easy to _______ so in some way a reduction in the price can _______.

Scott began his initiative (倡议) by _______ five library books and putting them near his chair. Book ________ began pouring in when a local news station ________ what he was doing. Scott plans on taking his initiative a step further by __________ his “Barbershop Books Day” to an “Ice Breaker Book Tour” where he ________ to get kids excited to learn while also giving them ________ role models through motivational (激发性的) speakers. Scott said, “If I step outside my comfort zone and tell them school is cool, ________ it will guide them in the right direction.”

【推荐3】As the fifth child, I went to the same public school as my brothers and sisters. Every year, children _________ an old school tradition — the _________ plant sale held in early May, just in time for Mother’s Day.

Third grade was the first time that I was _________ to participate in the plant sale. I wanted to surprise my mother, but I didn’t have any _________. I went to my sister and shared the _________, and she gave me some cash. When I arrived at the plant sale, I _________ made my selection. I inspected each plant to _________ that I had indeed found the best geranium. I smuggled (偷运) it home, and with the help of my sister, I hid it on the upstairs neighbor’s _________.

When Mother’s Day _________, I was proud of myself when I gave her that geranium. I remember how __________ she was with my gift.

The year I was fifteen, my younger sister __________ third grade. In early May she came to __________ me there was going to be a plant sale at school, and she wanted to __________ our mother. Like my older sister did for me, I gave her some cash and off she went. Full of __________ excitement, she returned home, the geranium __________ in a paper bag under her sweater. “I looked at every plant,” she __________, “and I know I got the best one!”

With a sweet sense of déjà vu (似曾相识的感觉), I helped my little sister hide that geranium on the upstairs neighbor’s porch. I was there when she gave my mother the geranium, and I watched them both __________ pride and delight. I had been __________ how my mother could pretend to be surprised at this gift. But as I watched her eyes __________ as she was presented with that most __________ gift, I knew she was not pretending.