【推荐1】Pennsylvania is full of mysterious places! One of those is an old turnpike (收费高速)_________ for decades. My dad loves history, and he learned it was open to the public. Therefore, when I was 14, we took a bike trip to_________ this road! My dad chose a 16-mile_________of the road for us to ride. Part of it included an old tunnel called Sideling Hill which is over a mile long! To prepare, we checked our tires and made sure our lights had batteries. In the morning, we loaded our bikes into the car and set off. As we approached the tunnel I felt_________as it was absolutely black inside! But Dad encouraged me. He said he would be beside me. He reminded me to stay cautious and keep my light on!

When we _________the tunnel, the sound of our bikes was heard through the darkness. I shined my flash light around and saw walls covered in graffiti (涂鸦). And I felt like I was being_________. I was pretty scared, but_________ on following Dad helped me relax. After riding half-way through, I could see light coming from the other end, motivating me to keep going. And I was so delighted to ride out into the bright afternoon!

Whenever going through hardships in life, I remember this trip. It reminds me that my father is always beside me. He turns on the light of hope in my_________as well as gives me _________ to keep riding through life’s__________tunnels.

【推荐2】Last month, I visited one of my old neighborhoods in New York. I had not been there for twenty years and as I walked along the street, my mind was ______ by memories of the past. I saw the old ______ building where I had lived and the playground where I had played. As I viewed these once ______ surroundings, images of myself as a child there ______. However, what I saw and what I remembered were not the same. I ______ realized that the best memories were those kept ______.

My old apartment building, as I remember, was bright and alive. It was more than just a place to live. It was a movie house, a space station, or whatever my young mind could ______. I would steal away with my friends and play in the ______. This was always exciting because it was so cool and dark, and there were so many things there to ______ among. There was a small river in the back of the building. We would go there to lie in the shade of trees and enjoy ourselves.

However, what I saw was ______ different. The apartment building was now in bad ______. What was once more than a place to live in looked hardly worth ______ in. The windows were all ______. The once clean walls were covered with dirty ______. The river was hardly recognizable. The water was polluted and the trees and flowers were all ______. The once sweet-smelling river now smelled ______. It was really heartbreaking to ______ all this.

I do not ______ having seen my old neighborhood. However, I do not think my ______ childhood memories can ever be the same. I suppose it is ______ when they say, “You can never go home again.”

【推荐3】When I was 13,my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant_______Miller King,who was the best player at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for_______.

Just before September，Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from_______. He looked very pale, but he didn’t cry.

That season，I_______all of Miller’s records while he watched the home games from the bench. We went 10﹣1 and I was named most valuable player,_______I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s_______.

One afternoon，1 was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller_______going over a fence-which wasn’t_______to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept_______from. But even that challenge he accepted. I helped him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally__________on the other side, he said to me， “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did__________. Thank you for filling in for me. ”

His words freed me from my bad__________. I thought to myself，how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was__________ahead of me. I was right to have__________him. From that day on, I grew__________and a little more real.

【推荐1】My 14-year-old son, John, and I spotted the coat which was hanging at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass. All the other coats drooped (低垂)_______ this one looked as if it were holding itself up (支撑起来). The coat had beautiful tailoring, a Fifth Avenue label and a (an) _______ price of $28, which was popular just then with _______, but could cost several hundred dollars new. This coat was even better with that _______ of classic elegance. John tried it on and fit was perfect.

John wore the coat to school the next day and came home _______ a broad smile. “Did the kids like your coat?” I asked. “They loved it,” he said, _______ folding it over the back of a chair and smoothing it flat. Over the next few weeks, a _______ came over John. Agreement replaced contrariness (作对) and reasoned discussion replaced fierce _________. He became more mannerly and _______, eager to please. He would generously lend his younger brother his bike, which he __________ wouldn’t.

When I mentioned this incident to his teacher and ____________ what caused the changes, she said laughing, “It __________ be his coat!” Another teacher told him she was giving him a good mark not only because he had earned __________ but because she liked his coat. At the library, we ____________ a friend. “Could this be John?” he asked surprisingly, ____________ John’s new height, assessing (评估) the cut of his coat and extending his hand, one gentleman to another.

John and I both know we should never __________ a person’s clothes for the real person within them. __________ there is something to be said for wearing a standard of excellence for the world to see and for __________ what is on the inside to what is on the outside.

For John it is a time when it is as easy to try on different approaches to life as it is to try on a __________. The whole world, the whole future is right ahead, a vast landscape where all the doors are open. And he could __________ himself walking through those doors wearing his wonderful, magical coat.

【推荐2】My son Joey was born with disability. The doctors _______ us that with treatment he would be able to walk _______— but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in _______ with the help of casts （石膏）and braces （支架）.By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a _________when you saw him walk.

The children in our _______ ran around as most children do during game play, and Joey would _______ and run and play, too. We never told him the _______ that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as other children.

In seventh grade he ___________ his mind to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He made great_______ and ran more than any of the others — perhaps he ________that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. The entire team ran. ________, only the top seven runners had the ________ to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make it.

He ________running four to five miles every day — even the day he had a high fever. After school, I found him     ________ by himself. I asked him how he felt. "Okay,"   he said. The sweat ________ down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a high fever, ________ .

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were ________. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ________ . He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn't ________ to make it. We never told him he couldn't do it. With the strong __________ ,you can achieve your dream.

【推荐3】We always celebrated my Dad’s November birthday on Thanksgiving Day, even after he entered a nursing home. As years went on, these events took on a(n) ______ meaning – a traditional birthday party for Dad, and personal ______ for all that he had done for me in my life.

When we knew that it might be Dad’s ______ birthday, the whole family decided to come together for a huge birthday celebration at the nursing home. It was a crowded party _____all of us sitting around him. Dad was a wonderful _______, and here was a biggest audience he’d ever had.

During a quiet moment, I announced that it was now Dad’s turn to ______ stories from us. I wanted everyone to tell Dad what we loved about him. ______, we told stories from our hearts, ______ Dad listened with wet, flashing blue eyes. We ______ all kinds of lost memories – stories about when we were little, stories about when Dad was young and stories that are shared as family ______. Even the littlest grandchildren couldn’t ______ to tell their grandfather why they loved him. For a man who had been kind to so many people in his life, here was our chance _____ respect for him.

A few months later, at Dad’s memorial service, we fully realized what we had given Dad that night. Those were the stories people normally tell at a ______. They are told, then, full of tears, with the hope that the departed will somehow hear the outpouring of love.____ we had given those loving ______ to Dad when he was ______, told through laughter, accompanied by hugs and joy. I’m sure the stories and memories ______ over in his mind during his last months and days.

Words do _____, and they are enough. We need to say them, to speak them _____ to the ones we love, for everyone else to hear. That’s the way to pay back love ______ a person in life.

My friend Jenny from Germany spent some time traveling in India. She ____ the country so much that she always got attracted by it. While there, she ____ with Leela, her friend who was Indian. Aside from the ____ that she got as a foreigner, Jenny always had ____ problems. It was so difficult for her to communicate and converse in this new environment and culture.

One day, a ____ thing happened. Along with Leela, she went to visit an orphanage(孤儿院)．All the children there were ____;each one fell somewhere between the ages of fifteen days to one-and-a-half years old.

She slowly held the child and started ____ a rhyme in German. The small child continued to ____ and started repeating after her. The words that escaped the little mouth were much ____ from those that Jenny hummed, but the rhythm was the same. Jenny sang a little more and the child ____ it again. On and on they went.

Wanting to join in all the ____, another kid went up to Jenny and started humming the rhyme. They ____ a million smiles together.

Noticing Leela’s eyes on her, she blurted(脱口而出)an explanation ____ from her heart：“See, I don’t have language problems here. We speak, we ____!”

That day, it was ____ for Leela and the others in the orphanage to see such a heartwarming, language－less connection. In that moment, she ____: we’re all simply human, and we have the ____ to connect with each other. It’s simple, and ____ deep inside.