【推荐1】I still remember the day I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy cleaning my car with a brush. I went over and patted (拍) him _________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to smile at me, so I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $100 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your car is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me home? It is only about 3 miles.” What the boy wanted to do was to show off to his friends and his family.

As soon as I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you _________ some day.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. What’s worse, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to _________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his family. Poor as they were, the boy once again refused my money, and said, “I can _________ money by myself, thank you.” Soon I told my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to work here the next day. No matter how poor we are, we would __________ give in (屈服) to ourselves.

【推荐2】The job of raising children is a tough one. Children don’t come with an instruction manual(说明书). And each child is   _______. So parents sometimes pull their hair out in frustration(挫折),not   _______ what to do. But in raising children-as in all of life-what we do is   _______ by our culture. Naturally then, American parents teach their children basic American   _______. To Americans, the goal of parents is to help children _______ on their own two feet. From _______, each child may get his or her own room. As children grow, they get more   _______to make their own choices. _______ choose their own forms of entertainment, as well as the friends to _______ them with. When they ________ young adulthood, they choose their own jobs and marriage ________. Of course, many young adults still __________ their parents’ advice and approval for the choices they make. But once they “leave the ________ ” at around 18 to 21 years old, they want to be on their own, not “   ________ to their mother’s apron strings (围裙带). The relationship between parents and children in America is very informal. American parents try to ________ their children as individuals-not as extensions of themselves. They allow them to achieve their own   ________ . Americans praise and encourage their children to give them the   ________ to succeed. When children become adults, their relationship with their parents becomes more like a(an) __________ among equals. But __________ to popular belief, most adult Americans don’t make their parents pay for room and board when they come to________. Even as adult, they respect and honor their parents.

【推荐3】This morning after an evening fight with my three-year-old daughter, I couldn’t wait to get her to school. I was tired from the anger and her _________ to communicate because of her slow language development.

As I led her into the car, I felt _________. Nothing was right with our world. She was born when my family had been going through a lot of _________. Then my child’s language problem was _________, but doctors struggled to help her. I felt like we both needed to be _________.

I returned that afternoon as _________ with the little girl I loved as when I left. Walking toward the school’s playground gate, I spotted her preschool teacher racing to _________ me.

“You should have seen her today!” _________, his breathy words were supported by _________. “See that climber.” He __________ a wooden piece of playground equipment that looked like a rock wall. I nodded. “Well, every day since she started school, she’s tried but __________ to reach the top.” He took a breath. “But today she __________ it!”

He expressed his joy like he’d seen her conquering（征服）Mount Everest! “She cheered and celebrated! I wish I’d recorded it!” His words gave me some __________. My daughter had conquered her mountain. As she ran toward me, I __________ something I hadn’t before. I saw her determination. I saw her strength. I saw a __________.

【推荐1】A tradition for my wife and me is to make holiday snacks and drive around town to deliver them to about 15 friends. We do this over two days and gain a lot of _______, seeing people and wishing them well. Last night kindness had a strange _______with opportunity.

First, we _______to deliver treats to our 95-year-old _______right before she was ready to go to sleep. Next, we delivered treats to friends who had just _______dinner and were expecting something _______to eat. Shortly after, with plate in hand, we _______a neighbor and her daughter the snacks. They were coming home from a walk. _______, we then were about to leave a friend's house when she came back after _______someone else. An eighty-five-year-old neighbor was talking with friends online about what Christmas _______and said that our surprise was the _______example.

One friend was not at home when we called. She was cool on the phone when we _______to let her know we were leaving some _______for her. She told us she was on her way and asked if we would _______. She said that she really needed a _______. She told us that she had just _______from the ER (急诊室). Her husband, who had been _______continuous medical obstacles, had just fallen, broken his hip and needed a (n)_______. We gave her hugs. From a perfect _______after a good meal to _______a friend who was worried about her husband, our sweets meant a lot to many.

【推荐2】I am a nurse working in a hospital. It was a ___morning when an elderly gentleman____to have his heart condition checked by the doctor. He said he was in a hurry ___he had an appointment at 9:00 am.

I had him take a seat. Since there were a lot of people ___to see the doctor, I knew it would be over an hour ___the doctor would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch ___while waiting. To make him not feel so ___with nothing to do for long hours, I decided to go over and __ with him for a while. The gentleman told me that he ___to go to the nursing home to have breakfast with his mom. His mother had been suffering from a disease and had ___there for several years.

As we talked, I asked if she would be upset if he was a bit ___. He replied, “She can’t ___me now.” I was ___, and asked him, “And you still go every morning, ___she doesn’t know who you are?” He smiled and said, “She doesn’t know me, but I ___make out who she is — the woman who gave me not only ___but a mother’s whole love.” I was moved to tears and felt very ___on such a winter day. The ___between parents and children is everlasting (永恒的).

Just then, a young man came up and said to the man, “Grandpa, now it’s my____to see the doctor. I am not in a hurry, so you can do it first.” The elderly man was very ___and went in the doctor’s to have his heart examined.