【推荐1】Brandon and Derek's mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Brandon_________his card out loud. On Brandon Lash's 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek,_________him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger_______.

“I have always_______ you," Brandon reads from the front of the card, _______ by his brother.

"I love spending time with you... I'm so _______ I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart," Brandon continues, opening up the _______ .

"And now you will have my_______, too. We are a _______ match," Brandon reads,__________the card to the floor and breaking down into ________

Brandon has kidney disease and is currently in chronic(慢性的) failure and has extremely low kidney function. He receives__________three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but__________his brother is.

“I can’t believe Derek would__________so much all this for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “He's giving me a__________to have a healthy life again. I__________can't believe it's happening.”

“I__________seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again,” Derek adds. "Not only was it the__________thing to do, but the only thing to do. He's my brother... We didn't know__________he could be on the transplant list, and I knew I just wanted my__________brother back."

【推荐2】Growing up I've always been very independent. I've never asked my parents for money or help, and I've always lived a pretty _______ life from them. We are _______ , but not in a ''I'm going to tell you every detail of my life'' way.

A little _______     I moved out at 17, went to university, and _______ in my third year. But I go back to school a _______ time. And I find a new house to move into. My car craps out (坏了)   and I need to _______ a new one.

These last two years have been HARD. But I’m _________, I'm happier now than I was. Money is extremely tight, but I'm _______. I was speaking to my _________ a few weeks ago getting caught up and he asked about my ________ situation. I opened up and told him things are fine,________ tight. I'm doing okay.

He then tells me he wants to send me some money to ________ my debts. I tell him it's     ________. $6000 in student loans and $4000 in credit card debt.

He says he is proud of me and the way I've ________ life so far. He's proud of how independent I am. He wants me to ________ this new chapter of my life with a clean slate (石板) and this ________ me to put the money I was putting towards debt repayment into   ________.

I love my dad so much and I'm ________ to him for giving me the gift of no __________ It also feels good to be told that living independently is a good thing. I often feel guilty for not being very open with my parents.

Today I'm feeling all the ________ and I'm excited to start 2020 off on the right foot!

【推荐3】My mother has a unique way of embarrassing her children.Whenever she gets_______about something，she jumps up and down，screaming.We_______this as the “silly dances”. As her daughter，I find this completely embarrassing.Anytime she goes into the silly dance，I will _______slowly away，smile awkwardly，and _______to people，“No，she's not my mother.”

Even though my mother brought me much _______when I was little，and even though she still does the silly dance when something goes her way，I now _______it.Because the silly dance shows just who she is，and it shows that she is happy._______she didn't do her dance and just obeyed our wishes for “not in public，Mom”，she would compromise(妥协) who she is.I owe a lot of my _______for the theater to my mother.I now sing publicly like my mother does.And my friends are always doing that _______awkward smile and usually whispering under their breath，“Carolyn，public.”

So in many ways I'm becoming my mother.I'm not going to________singing just because people feel embarrassed at it.I have no ________that I will embarrass my own children with my performance of the “silly dance”. So what? That's who I am.

It's my________that everyone should dance to the beat of her own drum，even if the guy next to you gives you a(n)________look.I believe in the things that set us apart.I believe in being myself，no matter how many awkward smiles I ________. I believe in the idea that never ________who I am.

【推荐2】One night Robert was on his way home from the railway station. When he turned round a_______, he heard footsteps behind him and he thought_______was coming near. He began to walk faster. The footsteps became faster, too. He slowed down. The footsteps also_______down. Now he was_______that he was being followed. He tried to hide._______the steps followed him. He didn’t know_______to save himself, so he jumped over a fence and found himself in a cemetery (墓地), throwing himself down on one of the tombs.

The man_______followed. Robert could hear the man jump over_______. Thoughts of thieves or murderers filled his_________. Robert stood up and faced the man who was________him. “What do you want?” he asked. “________are you following me?”

“I say,” asked the stranger. “Do you________go home like this,________are you taking some special exercise tonight? I want to go to the Mr. Brown’s and don’t know the way.” The station master told me to follow you as you________next door.________me for asking, but is there much to go before we get there?