【推荐1】My father sold everything we owned, took all the money and disappeared from our life. My mother suddenly found herself _________ to care for five boys. I worried about the situation, but my mother stayed _________, and assured us that she would keep us together as a _________safe from harm. Although small in size, she could _________ heavy horse-drawn ploughs (犁). Besides, she found time to help us with homework.

As Christmas _________, my mother didn’t seem to smile as much. I _________she had no money to buy us presents. Considering myself practically grown, I hid my_________.

One day, my mother took a saw(锯) into the forest and _________ with some tree branches. She left them in the barn(畜棚) and did not tell her _________ children what they were for. She worked on her project__________ I was in school, but I looked __________ into the barn whenever I had a chance. Several days later, I still couldn’t __________ her purpose. When later I saw she used nails and paint, I __________ that she must be making presents.

By Christmas week, my mother was her __________ happy self again. Her project was apparently __________, and she obviously kept it secret because I’d looked everywhere without __________.

On Christmas Eve, I lay awake for a long time,__________ Christmas morning.

The next morning, my mother handed out the handmade presents happily in front of her delighted kids. Many difficult years would follow that particular Christmas, but I never again doubted my mother’s __________ to care for us. We were never hungry, and she made sure we got a(n)__________ in school. She taught us to have faith in our own abilities. That faith __________ me still.

【推荐3】The Fitting-in of Suzy Khan

The first time I saw Suzy Khan, I knew I had to help her. She was really small for her age of 12. The boys in my class often _______ about her and laughed their heads off. She would open a book, pretending to read, with tears dropping on the open page.

All I knew was that she was an orphan (孤儿) from Africa. She had just been adopted by a family in town who _______ that the best way for her to learn American ways of life was to be with American kids. I looked down at this _______ girl and promised myself that somehow I would help her.

But how could I help her _______ in with us? There had to be a _______．

One day, when I went into the classroom, I saw that Suzy had _______ her geography book to a picture of a train, and in her notebook, she had made a(n) _______ copy.

I was surprised and thought that she could do something in the coming _______ show. So, I took her to see the art teacher, Miss Parker, and showed her what Suzy had _______. “It’s wonderful，” said Miss Parker, who then showed us a poster she had painted ________ the talent show. “I need more of these, but I just don’t have enough ________. Could you help me, Suzy？”

On the day of the talent show, Suzy’s ________ were everywhere—all over the hall and all over the school, each one different.

“And finally，” said Mr Brown, the schoolmaster, at the end of the show, “we have a (n) ________ award. I’m sure you’ve all noticed the wonderful posters.” Everyone nodded. “One of our own students ________ them.”

I could hear everyone whispering, “Who in our school could draw ________ well？”

Mr Brown waited a while before saying, “Since this student worked so hard on the posters, she deserves a prize, too. Our mystery(神秘) artist is our new student—Suzy Khan！”

【推荐1】It was New Year’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were _____ , we realized that only minutes earlier an _____ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground._____ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _____, a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _____ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _____ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of _____.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _____ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _____ that he’d come up with this ______ idea. So we went over and told the flower seller what we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied.“I can’t take your money for such a wonderful ______.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were ______ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was from my son. At that moment, the old man started crying and said,“Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ______ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. Regardless of being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with ______ in her eyes and gave him a little ______.