【推荐1】A gentle breeze blew through Jennifer’s hair. The golden red sun was_______. She was on the beach, looking up at the fiery (火似的)ball. She was_______by its color, deep red in the middle, softly fading into yellow. She could hear nothing but the_______and the seagulls flying up above in the sky.

The atmosphere_______her. After all she had been through, this was what she needed. “It’s getting_______,”she thought, “I must go home. My_______will be wondering where I am.” She wondered how they would_______, when she got home after the three days she was_______. She kept on walking, _______herself to the bungalow where she spent every summer holiday. The road was deserted. She walked slowly and________. Just in a few hundred meters she would be safe in her house.

It was really getting dark now. The sun had set a few minutes before and it was getting cold, too. She________she had her favorite sweater on—it kept her really warm. She imagined having it________her. This thought disappeared when she finally saw her front door. It seemed________. The outside garden seemed________. She was shocked: her father was usually so strict about keeping everything clean and tidy.

She entered the house. First, she went into the kitchen where she saw a________written by her father. It said, “Ellen, there is some coffee________.

I went looking. Ellen was her mother but—where was she? She entered her parent’s home. Then she saw her. Her mother, lying on the bed,________. Jennifer would have wanted to wake her up but she looked too tired. So Jennifer just fell asleep beside her. When Jennifer woke up, something was different. She was in her cozy________in her pajamas(睡衣).

It felt so good being back home.________she heard a voice, “Are you feeling better now?You know you got us very, very________.”

【推荐2】We had our son Wesley checked out because of his indifference to communicate with people. To our ______, he was diagnosed with autism(自闭症).

Out of everything the doctor had said, the only word I could ______ was socialization — key for Wesley to develop ______ skills. The instant we got on the car, we ______ brainstormed ways to make his world more social. It suddenly ______ me that we were in need of a dog. Soon, we brought the dog Josie home. Wesley didn’t seem that ______ her, no matter how adorable she was. But then I began to ______ Wesley petting her when he thought no one was looking.

Four months after we’d gotten Josie, I ______ the two of them out for a long play. By the end, they were both ______. As soon as I put Wesley in his car seat, he fell asleep, with Josie ______ her head on his shoulder. That’s when I knew they had ______ bonded. One of our biggest ______ was that Wesley had no sense of danger and didn’t ______ what a moving car meant. He would dart out in the street. I was ______ he would get hit by a car. Luckily, Josie was able to ______ keep him on the sidewalk with us.

The best thing about having a ______ is that kids come to you. ______ the daily walk to the bus stop provides an opportunity for Wesley to socialize with other children. Kids surround him with ______ about Josie and we practice his answers at home so he is more comfortable talking ______. I finally learned how to make peace with autism while so ______ it.

【推荐3】The Best Love

I guess we've got what it________to make our love last.

【推荐1】“My greatest strength is that I am what some people call ‘disabled,’” I said, answering the _________ job interview question, “What is your greatest strength?”

My last interview was five years ago when a search committee was _________ the next president and CEO of MAP International, an organization that provides _________ and health supplies to those in need around the world. In some ways, the job was a/an _________ made in heaven.

You see, I walk with crutches because I had polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child. My life would be _________ if the polio vaccine—costing about 20 cents—had been _________ to me and my family in Korea where I was born. My _________ in life is to help other children receive the medicine they need to _________ life-long illness or even death.

So when I told the committee interviewing me about my strengths and weaknesses I could _________ say that I had a lifetime to prepare for the job of helping bring medicine to those in need. I knew firsthand what it meant to __________ because an inexpensive dose of vaccine was not available.

But I also know that __________ my challenges each and every day makes me a better leader. It’s true that my daily life is more __________ than most people’s. A simple flight of stairs, a rocky path, a door with a difficult handle—these are common occurrences that are major __________ for me. Yet I have to prepare myself each day to face the unexpected.

Your __________ can become your strength. Whatever your weakness is, __________ it today.

【推荐3】My wife Pat and I were having drinks outside our home, the weather was unusually_______for March in Mississippi, There was barely any breeze, after we finished the second cup, flashes of_______danced across the sky. When the first drops of rain drove us_______, the phone rang. Pat’s face_______on that gray and hot day. It was our son, David, a helicopter pilot who_______in the US Air Force in South Korea. David intended to sound_______, but we recognized the sign of homesickness from his voice._______, the power of conversation made us feel_______,until a crash shook the windows.

David wondered what it was, “Just thunder, “Pat said.

There were several seconds of silence,“David”,I asked, “are you_______there?”

“Yes…apart from the two of you, do you know what else I________most? Thunder, We have rain, wind, and________here, but it never thunders, Remember? Dad, when I was a kid, you laughed me out of fear of thunder? I wish I were there to________with you now.”

“Yes…”I said, trying to________my tears, On hanging up the phone, I told Pat, “I’m going to record our son some ________.”“Bob, the neighbors will think you’re crazy.”

“David won’t,” I said and went outside with a recorder, Later I ________the tape to David with a single line: A ________gift.

David called again, “Dad, “he said, “You won’t believe that some friends and I had a thunder party where we realized we were listening to the sounds of ________, Thanks, Dad! It was really a special present,” While David was in Korea, we found ourselves ________thunderstorms. ________feeling blue, we regarded the thunder as special which let us know that wherever we might be, we were ________together as a family.