【推荐2】Writing my daughter a letter every year on her birthday has become part of my life I fill it with unforgettable things that happened to her on_________days or happy days. I add to the letter photos and cards that would have_________as the year passes.

I have a small _________in which 1 keep the things that I want to send my daughter. Every week, I _________short notes of what I can think of from the week's events. When her birthday approaches, I_________that box and find it full of beautiful cards and_________memories.

_________the letter is written and all the treasures are put into the envelope, I seal (密封) it. It then becomes the _________ letter. On the envelope I always write: A letter to Ann from Daddy一to be opened when you're twenty-one years old. It is a gift of _________from Dad to her daughter. It is a lasting.__________of my daughter's real life.

Nowadays, I have taken it my duty to __________birthday letters to her. As Ann grows__________, I can see that it is a growing and __________ part of her life, too. One day, we were talking about the__________. I told Ann that on her 21st birthday, she will be__________from university.“And I'll be__________busy reading these letters." She said.“Yes, and you will be offered a good job soon; on your 31st birthday, you will be taking your own kids to school; on your 61st birthday, you will be__________ with your grandchildren and having fun with them.'

One of my greatest__________is to be alive and present to __________that wonderful time in the future when those letters are__________and the accumulated ( 积累) love walks into her life

【推荐3】I love the feeling of exchanging goods with my parents. When we visit them, we often end up _________ home more things than we brought with us. After packing up at the end of our most recent visit, and after the last _________ and sounding of the car horn(喇叭), I took a quick look at the back _________ of our car. At the top of the pile, folded _________ and smartly, were a 50-year-old baby blanket, several doilies(小型装饰桌巾) _________ from generations of women in my family, and two small quilts.

These creative quilts, looking _________ but quite worn, remind me of my great-grandmothers who were always _________ hard. I think of their _________ hands and the regular sound from their sewing machines. I think of their smiles and the wisdom found in the comers of their eyes.

I wish I could go back in time and watch them _________ these quilts. I cherish the quilts my great-grandmothers ______________. I love knowing that the women who ______________ the way for my own path through life have left behind touchable expressions of themselves. ______________ I touch the worn cloth of each creation, I will always remember the women who brought them into existence. I will be ever ______________ for the strong women in my family who have lived ______________ me and with me, who have left behind unbelievable examples to ______________ and lovely quilts to pass on.

【推荐1】I was envious of my friends who got to stay at school for lunch. They _______ the same things as the characters in our favourite TV shows. The meals we ate at home were different. One day, a classmate asked what I ate for lunch. I _______, feeling like I'd been caught. Like most days, we'd had fried rice. "Sandwiches," I lied. My face felt hot as I turned away, _______ she wouldn't ask anything more.

Still, there was one day of the year when Mom made an _______ and we were allowed to stay at school for lunch. Every year, there was Chinese Day at the cafeteria to _______ Chinese New Year. "The school is honoring our heritage," Mom would say. The first Chinese Day lunch I can _______ was when I was about six. I had_______ this day for weeks. When the bell rang for lunch, I rushed to the cafeteria. As I stood in line, I imagined the _______ they'd have waiting for us.   

There would be _______, surely—every Chinese New Year meal included fish. I could explain to my friends what Mom had told us: how the ________ for "fish" in Chinese sounded like another word meaning abundance. There would be chicken, too, probably with the head still on, because a whole chicken for Chinese New Year ________ wholeness.

The line was slowly moving forward until ________ it was my turn. The cafeteria worker passed me my plate and I looked down. I barely________ anything. All I did was sit there, confused. They called this "Chinese" lunch, so why had I never ________it before? Those first few bites, I realized later, were my ________ to Chinese-Canadian cuisine.

【推荐1】When you are a young active person with a clean bill of health, you never really expect to be hospitalized for two weeks. And you certainly never expect you will_______ it.

I was put in the _______ and then into surgery after I had been in a motorcycle accident a week earlier. At that point, a few thoughts had _________ my mind about possibly losing my leg, but the staff were all so_______ to cure me of my leg.

After almost a week at that hospital, I got_______ to a little hospital. The nurses there weren’t nearly so busy and they had more time to stay and_______.

One night when I couldn’t sleep, I got out of bed. Then a nurse saw me and she just gave me a hug and asked what was wrong.

“I’m_______,” I said quietly. She invited me to sit at the desk with the other nurses there.     One of them talked to me about university that wasn’t something I really wanted to _______right then, but I stopped crying _________, and ended up going to bed with a smile. Nobody had said anything in particular that __________ me down, but those nurses treated me with such ________ and love, which made me forget for a while why I was so upset.

It took lots of __________ for my leg to heal, but it did. I have quite a __________on the skin of my leg and I love it. It ________ me of the goodness in people that made a huge ________ to this dumb kid who went looking for ways to scare herself.

【推荐3】On June 23, 1970, I had just left the Army after completing my one­year duty in Vietnam. I was on ______returning home in Texas. I had been warned about the ______of our fellow countrymen. There was no ______ welcome for us when we came home from that unpopular war.

I sat, in uniform, in a window seat，______eye contact with my fellow passengers. No one was sitting next to me, which added to my ______. A little girl suddenly appeared in the passage. She ______ and, without saying a word，_____handed me a magazine. I accepted her ______， her quiet “welcome home.” All I could say was, “Thank you.” Her small gesture of ______was the first I had experienced in a long time.

I always believe in the connection between ______ when they reach out to one another.

That girl ______ has no memory of what happened years ago. She might have been told to do that by her mother. It doesn't ______ why she gave me the magazine. The ______ thing is what she did.

Since then, I have followed her example and tried in different ways for different people, to do the ______ for them. Like me on that plane ride long ago, they will ______ know why a stranger gave a hand. But I absolutely know that my ______   since then are all because of that little girl. Her kindness of offering a magazine to a ______， scared and lonely soldier has been ______ throughout my life. I have to believe that my small ______ have the same effect on others. And to that little girl, now a ______， I would like to say again: thank you.