【推荐1】 I was driving on the freeway when I saw the sign. It ______drivers that chains would be required to cross the mountain. It took me quite some time to get the chains on. When I got to a spot where it was no longer snowing, I took the chains off so I could drive at a(n) ______ speed.

Suddenly, I ______ another snowy, icy patch of road. My car spun out into a snowdrift. I thought of ______ some tree branches and placing them under my tires, but it was so cold outside that my hands weren’t working ______ I got inside the car and called American Automobile Association (AAA).

A Russian man came up to my window and said hello. Before I could say too much, he and his three sons were already ______ to push my car. I got out of my car and ______them.

It was past midnight and they easily could have decided that AAA would ______ the situation after our initial ______ failed. Yet, they stayed with me for nearly 45 minutes as we kept trying ______ things to get the car out of the snow, insistent that they wouldn’t leave until I was ______.

At first, I was a little ______about being stuck in the freezing weather at such a late hour, but their cheerful attitude changed the whole ______ of the situation and lifted my spirits.

After nearly one hour of hard work when my car was finally free, they didn’t even ______ around long enough for me to get their names. They just ran toward their truck, ______ a bit on the ice, and yelled back “Drive slowly”, like true smile heroes!

【推荐2】Dad was not only my best friend, but my compass. While he was alive, he_______me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important_______:“Believe in yourself.” If there was one phrase my dad_______liked to hear, it was “I can’t!” He never got to finish high school and_______two jobs to support his large family，_______he never complained. Through education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.

When I was in high school, I had a_______time with maths. He tried to help me, but I still struggled. So my maths teacher suggested I meet with him at 7：00 each morning before school for_______help. I told Dad, “That’s crazy! I’m tired! I can’t do that!” He replied, “You’re doing it. I’ll send you to school. Every morning at 6：45, we’d leave the_______ Despite working 12 hours every day, Dad never once_______driving me to school.

After months of learning I was facing the final exam. I was so________. On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke,________yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my________and in the hours of work I’d put in. When I got my________proudly, the first person I called was my father. He cried, “Yes! You deserved it!” Even now, whenever I________that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how________something is, if you’re willing to work, you can succeed. I’m forever grateful to Dad for that lesson.

【推荐3】After work one day, I grabbed a pizza for dinner at the mall. As I was heading home, I saw a girl sitting in a corner of the mall. Her hair covered her face and her body was________. I determined to walk past her________that’s what we often do. But something made me turn________. I learned her age, and why she begged (乞讨) for money and lived on the streets.

Her parents died years ago and she suffered from a serious skin disease. She was_________to work because of her disability and had to live in the safest place she could_________. She had stayed in shelters in the past, but was treated ________. She had to seek shelter from the mall to keep ________on cold days, but even the mall she said wasn’t safe because security always threw her out.

I’m one of those people who used to believe there was a system of ________to help her. Ideally, I would like to believe in that and I used to think maybe one day I would help “them”. Maybe one day I would win the lottery (彩票). But when I ________that girl, I thought to myself, what if no one ever helped her? What if this so called___________system that I believed in didn’t even know or ________her existence? What if I didn’t ________any money? What if she was not going to be around long enough to see that “one day”?

I didn’t really think about what happened next. I ________my dinner with her and gave her all the money I had. When security came, I talked them into helping her _______driving her away like they usually did.

Don’t wait for one day to come before you help someone. Now is that one day—not tomorrow, not next week. If you can do something to ease someone else’s _________, don’t wait for that distant one day. Be the one day. Be it now.

【推荐2】One morning in early fall, I spotted a pair of wild geese on our pond. The beautiful sight caught me by _______, because we’d never seen geese there before. I wondered where they came from and why they’d _______ our pond.

“As the days passed, I couldn’t _______ getting a closer look and started talking to the geese. They craned their necks and raised their heads _______ but seemed to realize I was a _______ and not an enemy. I felt _______ we were bonding.

One day as they were _______ in the grass near the driveway, I discovered the reason for their _______ —the male had a broken left wing. He was _______ to fly, and his lifelong mate would not leave him ________. I marveled (惊叹) at the ________ between them.

I asked a wildlife biologist friend what I should ________. He explained that sometime a broken wing will heal by itself and suggested letting ________ take its course.

On the first day of November, I was ________ in the vicinity (邻近) of the geese with my tractor. I caught some ________ from the comer of my eye.

Both geese were running toward the pond, wings beating ________. The geese gained enough altitude to clear a neighbor’s house, then ________ back toward me, flying no more than 50 feet over my head as if to say goodbye. Then they were out of ________.

I grew ________ them during their stay at our pond, and I miss them. I’ll never forget their ________ to each other. We could all learn a lesson or two from this pair.

【推荐3】Even armed with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, I remember the _____ first moments after bringing my newborn daughter home from the hospital. I wasn’t sure what to do and was not at all _____ that I was capable of being the parent that she _____ me to be.

Popular accounts of parenting and child development research were not particularly _____, either. I feared that my daughter’s formula milk powder would _____ a lower IQ. And, since she started elementary school, I have, many times, called her “_____” instead of more appropriately praising her effort, as so many articles advise.

My personal experiences as a parent are in part why I study the experiences of other parents. I have tried to _____ this “parenting perfectionism”.

So what does a “good” parent look like? Good parenting has a lot more to do _____ the “how” than the “what”. Good parents are those _____ are sensitive to their children’s needs, and able to adjust their parenting as children grow up and desire greater______. Children develop when their parents hold high ______for their behavior, explaining the reasons behind their rules and negotiate when necessary.

Greater stress about parenting further consumes parents’ psychological resources, which may______affect their ability to adapt to the changing needs of their children and regulate their own emotions and behavior when parenting their children. In other words, when you lack confidence and feel constantly stressed about parenting, it is hard to be ______, warm and consistent.

So don’t sweat the small stuff. Remember, the best______ you can give yourself and your children may be permission to be______.