【推荐1】Do What You Enjoy

Sometimes you may find that you are not happy in your life, although everything is going well. Most of the time you have to _________ this kind of unhappy life, since it is really hard to make changes and move on to a new business, which often involves(包含)taking _________.

My father, however, was a quite different example. When I was about 9 or 10, he told me that I should be whatever I wanted when I grew up, so long as I _________ it. He said that if I were not feeling _________, I should try to change my life to make it more delightful, and I would find real _________ as a result. From him I learned a great lesson on the _________ of doing one's favorite.

My father got into the insurance industry when he was very young, and he was very _________. He became one of the company's top salesmen, even though he was only 25 years old. Soon he became one of the first independent insurance salesmen in our state. _________, he decided to leave his successful _________ and move on to other fields. You might __________ why he did so. The answer was simple: he liked to do something challenging, something that __________ his strength and ability, especially in a way that is interesting. My father just wanted to have a try, and so he did. After leaving the insurance company, he worked in social media and then in digital technology, which really __________ him. Of course he wasn't successful in everything he tried , but he told me for__________ that he did something he liked, and that he had the __________ of doing what he enjoyed. __________ one's comfortable life is not easy.

I've learned this from my father, and I can say no matter __________ is good or bad, it is __________ to do one's favorite. When we do something we love, it gives us extra __________ to meet our goals, which are associated with psychological (心理上的)well-being and health. As long as we have no __________ and give it a try, we are forced to push against ourselves. After all we all want to be where we are __________ ourselves.

【推荐2】A mother in East China went to celebrate her son’s birthday at school—but her son’s _________ took her by surprise. The loving mother decided to surprise her son by _________ up in a cartoon bear clothes and bringing him a cake during class.

To her astonishment, the boy immediately _________ her mother by her hands and ran to give her a big _________. The heart-warming video filmed on Monday _________ the mother in a blue bear _________ walking towards her son’s classroom with a birthday cake in her hand.

After _________ the cake to the teacher, she goes into the classroom to celebrate his birthday with the other children. “Look who’s here!” the teacher _________ to the boy.

The boy _________ around and said, “Teacher, this is my mum!” The teacher asked, “How do you know?" “Her hands!” the boy replied with great __________.

The __________ mother then showed her __________ by removing the big head of the bear and the happy boy jumped into her arms. “I didn’t __________ him to spot me at all,” the mother, Liu, told video news site Pear. “I was so __________ that I cried!”

Many net users were moved by the video, which has been __________ more than 4.6 million times on social media. “You wouldn’t be able to spot your mother by her hands if you didn’t truly love her!” one user said. “This is so heart-warming. Your child actually loves you more than you think!”

【推荐3】Yesterday, after arriving in Madrid, I knocked on a stranger’s door. “I searched on the website. Will you give me ______?” I asked. This was the reason I’d come to Spain, because I once believed I ______ be a female flamenco (弗拉门戈) guitarist and I have a mission now.

Forty-five years ago, when I was two, my father also came to Madrid and knocked on strangers’ doors. As a well-known classical guitarist, he admired flamenco a lot, and in Spain he learned from anyone willing to teach him. He ______ performers in bars, made friends with street ______ and managed to study with Paco de Lucia, the greatest flamenco guitarist of our time.

I started playing classical guitar when I was five. My father s hands ______ across the strings like fireworks. I practiced while he ______ and criticized. I played till I had ______ pain in my fingertips. By age seven, I was called a child genius.

Then, at 11, I quit. Heartbroken, my father ______ himself. Guiltily, I followed suit. Soon we spoke only when necessary. Our relationship didn’t ______ until, in my early 20s, I found myself pulled back to guitar.

When I was in my early 30s, he died. I couldn’t bear to play his guitar. He’d spent so much time with his arms around that instrument, and it seemed a(n) ______ of his own body. Holding it gave my grief an unbearable tangibility (有形性)。So for 13 years it sat mostly untouched, coming out only when my son Ellis begged to see it. He was ______ his grandfather’s instrument in a way that made me want to pass it down to him- both the guitar and the music. Problem was, I couldn’t really play anymore.

Now, Antonia is sitting with me in her living room, teaching me ______. I have been here for only two days, and already my fingers ______. It’s a sharp pain, like when a fallen-asleep limb (肢体) returns to ______. The feeling ______ me. It means I’m doing something right.

【推荐1】When I was young, my father had a small business. Each of the seven children in our family worked in our father’s_________. As we worked and watched, we_________that work was about more than survival and making a sale.

One lesson stands out in my_________. It was shortly before_________. A little boy, five or six years old, came in. He was wearing a brown worn coat with_________sleeves. The little boy looked poor to me—too poor to_________anything. He_________the toy section, picked up this item and_________, and carefully put them_________in their place.

Dad walked over to the boy. His blue eyes__________and the dimple(酒窝)in his cheek stood out as he asked the boy__________he could do for him. The boy said he was looking for a Christmas__________for his brother. I was impressed that Dad treated him with the same respect as any adult. Dad told him to take his__________and look around. He did.

After about 20 minutes, the little boy carefully picked up a toy__________, walked up to my dad and said, “How much for this, Mister?”

“How much you got?” Dad asked.

The little boy held out his hand and__________it. In his hand lay 27 cents. The__________on the toy plane he’d picked out was $3.98…

“That plane__________exactly 27 cents!” Dad said as he__________the sale. Dad’s reply still __________in my ears. I thought about what I’d seen as I packed the present. When the little boy walked out of the store, I didn’t notice the dirty, worn coat. What I saw was a happy child with a treasure. My best gift that Christmas was seeing my Dad’s love in action. I will__________forget what happened that day.

【推荐1】Of all the things my mother ever baked, my favorite was the birthday cake she made me every year. The cake was a beautiful creation with buttercream frosting (糖霜). This ________ continued until recently.

My mother died from colon cancer last year. The hours spent with my mother during her months of illness were a ________ I couldn’t have expected just a year or two earlier. In caring for her alongside my siblings, I became, at 47, the daughter I had longed to be ________.

During one of my last ________ to the hospital, as I stood outside her room, I heard Mom exclaimed (大声说) to her nurse, “Oh, that’s Margot’s voice I hear in the hall!” She ________ just the same as she always had.

Mom asked me what was going on in the world. We ________ an old photo album, and she recounted (叙述) ________ of weddings guests and university roommates.

Mom’s supper tray (托盘) arrived and I ________ her bed to a seated position. I cut her food into tiny pieces and was ________ to see her eat a small portion.

________ from my visit and the effort to eat supper, Mom quickly fell asleep. I ________ waking her to say goodbye — I did, and don’t ________ it. “Okay dear, I’ll see you tomorrow,” she said. She lived a few days longer, but that evening was the last time she would ________ my voice, call my name or claim me as her own.

A few months after she died, I ________ Mom’s well-used recipe album down from its new home on my bookcase. Skimming through it would be ________, but somehow, I hoped.

As I ________ handled the folded and worn recipe, I noticed ________ for mocha (抹茶) buttercream at the bottom of one card, ________ in my mother’s neat handwriting. I had found my special birthday frosting! Now, I will be able to recreate the ________, to treat myself and ________ my mother’s legacy (遗产).