A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _______ , and knowing her husband could __________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _________, her husband told her how ________he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He _________her a beautiful gift package (纸盒). She opened it and _____ a Bible. ______, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very__________ in business. She__________ large companies . She realized her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to ________ him. She wrote a letter but soon received a __________ telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions to her. She needed to come back and___________things .

When she arrived at his house, sadness____________ her heart. She saw the still new_________, just as she had left it years before. With ___________, she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring__________ from the Bible to the floor and a __________could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LOVE U ALWAYS”.

____________your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, for they must be felt with the ____________.

【推荐2】Julia Jarman’s family was upset when she was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. But soon, her grandson Vigil made a plan to fill Jarman’s last days with an unforgettable ________.

When Vigil’s high school prom (舞会) was ________ his sister said, “Why don’t you just take grandma to the prom?” Hearing his sister’s ________, the 17-year-old immediately remembered that Jarman had ________ been to a prom. But his school had a(n) ________ that students could only have partners under 20, so Vigil first ________ the principal (校长) of his school to ask him if he could bring his grandmother. Luckily, the principal gave him ________. Excited, the teenager asked his grandma if she would like to ________ the first prom of her life, and she ________ the invitation.

As other teenagers walked into the prom with girls of their ________, Vigil entered with his grandmother on his arm. At first, Vigil wasn’t sure how his schoolmates would ________ to watching him dance with Jarman. Later, he was ________ to see everyone welcomed her.

The DJ played Jarman’s favorite song. Vigil recalled the ________ moment. “She almost had me crying as she was singing it along with me while we were dancing.”

Vigil’s mother felt proud of him for making a(n) ________ to please his grandmother. The teenager said, “My grandmother is my best friend: I just wanted to do something ________ for her.”

“That night was wonderful.” Jarman revealed

【推荐3】How did you do it, Dad? How have you managed not to take a drink for almost 20 years? It took me almost 20 years to have the _______ to even ask my father this very personal question. When Dad first _______ drinking, the whole family was on pins and needles every time he got into a _______ that, in the past, would have started him _______ again. For a few years we were _______ to bring it up for fear that the drinking would begin again.

“I had this little poem that I would recite to myself at least four to five times a day,” was Dad’s _______ to my 18-year-old unasked question. “The words were a constant _______ to me that things were _______ so hard that I could not deal with them,” Dad said. Then he _______ the poem with me. The poem’s ________, yet profound words immediately became ________ of my daily routine as well.

About a month after this ________ with my father, I received a gift in the mail from a friend of mine. It was a book of daily sayings of wisdom with one ________ for each day of the year.

It has been my ________ that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally turn to the page that lists your own ________.

I ________ opened the book to November 10 to see ________ words of wisdom this book had in store for me. I was ________ when I looked at the page, and then tears of disbelief and appreciation ________ down my face. There, on my birthday, was the exact same poem that had ________ my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity (平静) Prayer.

God grant me

the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;

the courage to change the things I can;

and the wisdom to know the difference.

【推荐2】Suppose that 54.3 percent of your country’s population had cancer. That figure might set off a nationwide _______—a search for something wrong with people’s diet, the environment, acidity levels. In fact, that’s the percentage of Americans who show a positive skin response to one or more allergens.

The ______ of allergy—sneezing, itching, rashes—are signs of an immune system running amok, attacking foreign invaders—allergens—that mean no harm. Allergies _______ kill. They just make the sufferer miserable—sometimes for brief periods, and sometimes for life.

Allergies are essentially an epidemic of modernity. As countries become more industrialized, the percentage of population affected by them tends to grow higher. There are remote areas of South America or Africa where allergies are virtually _______.

Here’s how an allergy develops: One day, a body is exposed to a protein in something that seems perfectly ________—the wheat flour, say, in a home-baked muffin. But for some unclear reason, the body looks at the protein and sees trouble. There will be no _______ at first, but the body is remembering—and planning.

That first exposure causes the immune system to produce an antibody called IgE (immunoglobulin E). Then IgE antibodies attach to certain cells, called mast cells, in tissue throughout the body. There they stay like _______ soldiers waiting for war. With a second exposure, even months later, some of the allergen binds with the IgE on the mast cell. This time the mast cell releases a flood of _____ chemicals, which cause inflammation and itching.

There is, unquestionably, a _______ component to allergies. A child with one asthmatic parent has a good chance of developing the condition. If both parents have asthma, the chance of occurrence increases.

Still, the rise in allergies is too rapid to be explained ________ by genetics. “The genetic pool can’t change that much in such a short time,” says Donald Leung, director of an allergy-immunology program in the U.S. “There have to be environmental and _______ factors as well.” Dozens of theories have blamed everyone from urban landscapers for _______ male plants (the ones that produce pollen), to women who don’t breastfeed. Breastfeeding, the theory goes, confers greater protection against allergies.

Another probable factor: diet. “Reduced fresh fruit and vegetable intake, more processed food, fewer antioxidants, and low intake of some minerals—these are all shown to be a _______,” says professor of medicine Harold Nelson, considered one of the foremost experts on allergies in the U.S.

Another prime culprit: environmental pollutants. Exactly what pollutants and in what quantities are a _______ of heated debate. One of dozens of examples: Children who are raised near major highways and are exposed to diesel fumes from trucks register a(n) ______ sensitivity to allergens they already react to.

【推荐3】Thousands of people online are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken (患癌症的) boy from the United States to realize his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, has been receiving_________from around the world in recent days.，

Dorian has been_________cancer since he was 4._________the disease had been brought under control after a series of_________treatments, a medical checkup early this month found that cancer cells (细胞) had_________to the boy’s brain. The family decided to_________treatment.

Dorian then told his father that before going to heaven, he wanted to be_________in China because it had the Great Wall, which he called “a bridge for people to walk on”. The_________between the boy and his father was posted on Facebook, where it was_________and commented on by thousands of Internet users, including many from China.

Some responded with____________taken at the Great Wall in Beijing, in which they held signs with words of____________, reading “D-Strong” and “You are very famous in China.” Some left messages below the post, saying “I hope you will____________soon.” or “We are delighted to make your dream come true.”

Dorian’s mother wrote that she was____________and deeply moved by the responses to Dorian’s____________. “Dorian has brought so much inspiration to people around the world! I couldn’t be more____________my son,” she said.

【推荐2】My wife, Megan, and I went out to dinner with an old friend who we had not seen in a while. There had been some talk of COVID-19 in the news, but it was early in the outbreak and people were still_________their daily routines. Even though everyone in our group felt perfectly_________, we took precautions: We washed our hands with soap, did not_________food, and had no significantly close contact(接触).

A few days later, our friend called and_________us that she had tested positive for the coronavirus(冠状病毒)._________, the day after that, I started to feel a little_________and my head was also a bit cloudy. I woke up the next morning with a_________. That's when we realized that I might have_________the virus from our friend. Without any_________, Megan called our state's coronavirus hotline. We__________that we had been in touch with someone who had tested positive, and I was having__________. They quickly approved me to__________a test, through which my infection was eventually__________.

We immediately__________everyone we had been in touch with to let them know that I had tested positive. It was the__________thing to do. Although it is__________to tell people we might have given them a virus, not telling the truth would have been__________and irresponsible. It wasn't an option for us, and it shouldn't be an option for anyone in our__________.

While we have been isolated(隔离) in the hospital since the test, we have felt such love and__________from those around us and outside world. We don't have any particular reason to__________that everything will be OK.

【推荐3】I froze when my dad asked me to go to see Rhys and take him for ice cream. Actually, I love my 14-year-old younger brother dearly, but it has been over a year and a half since last time when we were in public with Rhys. My dad’s idea made me feel anxious.

Rhys was seriously cognitively impaired (认知能力受损的) and his uncommon disease was ______ at birth. When I was young, my parents and I would ______Rhys from his new long-term care home at the end of our busy weekends to spend some time with him, ______ at our home because of his illness.

After collecting Rhys and taking the short car trip, we arrived at the ice cream store. I supported Rhys in his chair while my dad placed our ______ and paid the bill.

Rhys loves to grab (抓) things. He grabbed a woman walking by. I said sorry to her immediately, full of __.

After getting our ice cream, we sat outside. At this point, I felt uncomfortable and just wanted to go home. Dad could tell that I was ______. He silently understood and let me be.

But then I saw a father and a daughter walking along the square toward the ice cream store. The girl’s movements seemed strangely familiar. I noticed she was walking strangely but she was obviously excited, behaving ______ to Rhys.

Watching those two, I was touched deeply. I realized I wasn’t the only one in this situation: out in public with a family member with ______ needs. I smiled as I watched the father and daughter just enjoying their day and did not ______ what others thought. They acted just like every other “typical” family.   It made me realize that I shouldn’t let what others think about Rhys ______ our time together.

There is so much ______ with Rhys’ uncommon disease. We aren’t certain what difficulties, troubles and ______ he will face in the future. With each visit, I notice how much we have both changed, whether it’s his little mustache(小胡子) ______ or my growing independence as I move onto university. Rhys will always be my brother. We are a family. There is no ____ in that.