【推荐2】When I was a child, my grandma always told me that half the fun of doing anything is sharing it with others. It is so _______. Friends allow us to _______ our success and our joy as well as comfort us when we are faced with _______. Most importantly, they provide a _______ for us to learn more about ourselves. I’ve always _______ friends as my family. They _______ our lives. As an old saying goes, “A friend is a _______ which you give yourself.”

It’s _______ to be a good listener so as to be a good friend. Hear what your friends have to say first rather than _______ to conclusions or interrupting. Sometimes it is necessary to be their mirror as well—________ when they hear their words ________ back to them, it can help them realize what they said was not exactly what they ________ to say.

Besides, patience and ________ are also important qualities to be a good friend. You know the old golden ________, “Treat others the way you would like them to treat you.” The support of a friend during a tough time could ________ a difference between success and failure.

Last but not least, encouragement and confidence are ________ gifts that can help change a person’s life. Take care, ________, when you choose to have a close relationship with someone, for they can have a huge impact ________ your self-respect and life path. As someone once put it, “The ________ of your friends are like the buttons on an elevator. They will either ________ you up or down.”

【推荐2】This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the earthquake, the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house. They saw her dead body through the cracks. However, her _______ was strange as she knelt on her knees; her body was _______ forward, and her two hands were supported by an object. The collapsed house had _______ on her back and head.

With many difficulties, the leader of the rescue team put his hand _______ a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was _______ that this woman would be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away _______

He and the rest of the _______ left the house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reason, the team leader was _______ by a force to go back to the house for the dead woman. This time, he carefully passed his hand through the _______ cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with ________, “A child! There is a child!”

The whole team worked together. They carefully ________ the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a three-month-old boy ________ in his mother’s body ________, the woman had used her body to protect her son when the house collapsed. The little boy was still sleeping ________ when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to examine the little boy ________ he opened the blanket, he saw a cellphone inside the blanket. There was a text ________ on the screen. It said, “If you ________, you must remember that I love you.” This cellphone was passed around from one hand to another among the rescuers. Everybody that read the message ________. As is known, it is mother’s ________ love that protects us from cold and hunger, but at certain ________ points, it is mother’s love that shelters us from danger and death.

【推荐3】It was a cold evening and my daughter and I were walking up Broadway.I didn’t notice a man sitting inside a cardboard box.But Nora did.She wasn’t even four, but she _______ at my coat and said, “That man’s cold. Daddy, _______ we take him home?”

I don’t remember my reply.But I do remember a sudden _______ feeling inside me. I had always been delighted at how much my daughter noticed in her _______, whether it was _______ in flight or children playing.But now she was noticing _______ and beggary.

A few days later, I saw an article in the newspaper about volunteers who picked up a food package from a nearby school on a Sunday morning and _______ it to an elderly person.It was quick and easy. I _______ us up. Nora was _______ about it. She could understand the importance of food, so she could easily see how ________ our job was. When Sunday came, she was ready, but I had to ________ myself to leave the house.On the way to the school, I fought an urge (冲动) to turn ________.The Sunday paper and coffee were waiting at home.Why do this? ________, we phoned the elderly person we’d been appointed (约定).She ________ us right over.

Nora ran inside. I unwillingly followed.________ inside, I saw that the department belonged to someone poor.Our hostess showed us some photos.Nora played and when it came time to say goodbye, we three hugged.I walked home in ________.

Experts call such a visit “a volunteer opportunity”.They are opportunities.I’ve come to see.Where else but as volunteers do you have opportunity to do something ________ that’s good for others as well as for yourself? Nora and I regularly serve to needy people and ________ clothes for the homeless. Yet, as I’ve ________ her grow over these past four years, I still wonder — which of us has ________ more?

【推荐1】My father was a self-taught mandolin player. He was one of the best string instrument players in our town. He could not ______ music, but if he heard a tune a few times, he could play it.

Occasionally, Dad would get out his mandolin and play for the family. We three children: Trisha, Monte and I, George Jr, would often sing ______ the tunes. He seemed to ______ when he was playing. He was always there,   ______ his time and efforts to see that his family had enough in their life. I had to mature into a man and have children of my own ______ I realized how much he had sacrificed.

When Dad was younger, he once worked for Todd Steel in Point of Rocks, Maryland. One day, while working at Todd Steel, he was ______ in an accident. He got the third index finger of his left hand mashed between two pieces of steel and ______ having the tip of the finger amputated. He didn’t lose enough of the finger where it would stop him picking up anything, but it did ______ his ability to play the mandolin.

After the accident, Dad was ______ to play the mandolin. He felt that he could not play as well as he had before the accident. Whenever I asked him to play he would make ______ . Eventually, we would wear him ______ and he would say “Okay, but remember, I can’t hold down on the strings the way I used to.” When he played the old mandolin it would ______ us to a cheerful, happier time in our lives.

In August of 1993 my father was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. About a week before his death, we asked Dad if he would play the mandolin for us. He made excuses as usual but said “okay”. He tuned up the old mandolin and played a few notes. We listened quietly, tears blurring our ______ . We felt at the time that he wouldn’t have enough ______ to play, and that made the memory of that day even stronger. Dad was doing something he had done all his life— ______ . Sick though he was, he was still pleasing others. Dad sure could play that Mandolin!

【推荐2】I got out of the car that rainy Tuesday, already tired, and headed toward the rehab center where I work as an acupuncturist. It had been a_________morning with my son, Adrian, who has ADD (过动症). By the entrance, something caught my eye — a_________. Where did she come from?

_________of my colleagues knew anything about her. But a client told me she had been_________the last few nights. At the end of my_________, I saw her in the same spot, cold and_________. “Go find your family,” I said.

It rained the next day. When I_________out for a break, there she was, getting rained on again. Halfway home that evening, I made a turn back to the rehab. I_________the chicken and drove home, her beak (喙) on my shoulder the entire_________.

I asked online if anyone had lost a chicken. A week went by. No one__________her. My rescue made her__________— even laying eggs in my couch.

The biggest surprise was how Adrian took__________her. His illness makes him lose temper frequently. But not with the chicken. I’ve never seen Adrian so__________before. It’s a blessing to see the__________between them. That Tuesday, I told the chicken to find her__________. Little did I know it would turn out to be us!

【推荐3】Smith, an old man ,lived in the middle of town. One day he found his watch_______in his own store. It_______a lot to him because it was from his wife. After searching up and down in the_______for a long while,he _______to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He_______them that the person who found it would be rewarded_______ this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the_______store, but still couldn't find the watch.

Soon the man felt hopeless and wanted to_______. A little boy went up to him and asked for another_______. The man looked at him and though, “Why not? __________, this kid looks sincere enough. “__________, the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy__________with the watch in his hand ! The man was very__________, and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had__________. The boy replied, “I did nothing but sit on the ground and__________. Then I heard the ticking of the watch and just looked for it in that __________.”

We usually do something in a hurry and don't think about our own needs, which can’t bring peace into our mind, __________, we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a __________result. So allow a few minutes of__________to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make __________ as you expect to!