【推荐1】My baby son was in the hospital, connected to a NG tube(鼻饲管).

I just couldn’t stand the _______ sight of food being slowly pushed through his nose into his stomach. The lovely dreams I had of nursing my baby, and rocking him while he fed, were _______. On the fifth day, I _______, saying I wanted to feed him with a bottle. The doctors _______ and closely recorded my son’s feeding to see if he was able to get _______ milk intake without the tube. 18 hours later, the doctors commanded the tube to be reset immediately.

The next morning, when I saw the tube in his tiny nose, a _______ that he wasn’t improving, I _______. The situation felt so _______. Seated close to my son’s bed, I started crying desperately.

Then came a young nurse. I couldn’t help asking again if we could take the tube out, though fully aware that she could not overrule the doctor’s _______.

She ________, “Not today. But remember, tomorrow is a new day.”

She’s ________. Today, there may be heartache, but tomorrow has its own ________ that NG tubes cannot touch. The advice of this nurse completely changed my ________ away from focusing on the challenges to seeing the promises tomorrow might bring.

On day ten, the doctors approved ________ the NG tube completely. ________, “tomorrow” came.

【推荐2】I had spent an hour in the bank with my dad for transferring money(转账). I asked, “Why don’t you use online banking?” He already opened one. “Why would I do that?” he________. “Well, then you won’t have to _____an hour here to transfer your money. Everything will be so________!” I was so excited to tell him all kinds of advantages of online banking. He asked, “If I do that, I won’t have to________of the house?”

“Yes, yes!” I said. I told him how Amazon delivers（递送）everything.

His answer made me________. He said, “Since I entered this bank today, I have met four of my friends; I have chatted a while with them. You know I’m lonely…this is what I need________. I like coming to the bank. I have enough time and it is the ‘physical touch’ that I________. Two years ago when I got sick, the store owner from whom I often buy fruits came to see me and chatted with me. When your mum fell down while on her morning walk, the flower shopkeeper saw it and soon got his car to drive her home________he knows our address. Would I have that ‘human’________if everything became online? I like to know the person that I’m dealing with and not just the ‘seller’. It creates relationships; does Amazon deliver this kind of service as well? Technology isn’t________. Spend time with people. Not with devices.”

【推荐3】On a cold November morning. Wade MacKinnon hiked around Mermaid Lake. In the _______ on the shoreline, something moved slightly and caught his eye. _______, he approached to find a balloon stuck in the branches of a bayberry bush. When he untied the string, he found a piece of paper at the end of it which read,

I’ve been missing you so much since you passed away. November 29 is my 10th birthday, but I will never receive your greetings...

Daisy”

It finished with a mailing address, almost 3,000 miles away. With tears in his eyes, Wade thought, “Such a young girl having to deal with _______. It’s awful!”

When back home, Wade placed the note in a drawer and _______ the balloon to the window of his room. Every day, the _______ of the balloon reminded him of little Daisy.

As the end of November was drawing nearer, Wade found himself thinking more and more about the poor girl. So he wrote a letter, put it into a birthday card and _______ mailed it with a book.

The _______ arrived just two days before Daisy’s birthday. When she opened it and found the card, “For a Dear Daughter...”, her heart _______.

“Happy birthday! I _______ to read your note, and feel sorry for you. I’m sure your daddy would want you to be happy. He loves you very much and will always be ________ you.” Tears began to roll down Daisy’s cheeks.