【推荐1】There is something graceful about a well-made hurricane lamp, especially the antique ones. Mom had affection for them.

I can remember ________ through countless flea (跳蚤) markets for hurricane lamps, which are ________ to keep their light lit through the ________ of moments. Mom tried hard to buy the lamps in ________, as her favorite of all the lamps had no mate.

The spring after Mom’s first ________ with cancer, we went to a local craft fair to pass the time, to keep ________. We were still waiting to hear from the doctors on the ________ of her follow-up tests. ________ to search something for my mom, I bounded ahead of her and baby brother as they ________ along the tables. I didn’t ________ far before something caught my eye. Standing proud on the display table sat a lamp.

I was excited, as I ________ back through the crowd to my mom. “Mom! You have to see something!” I shouted. “________. I think I’m going to get these lamps. What do you think?” She ________ so I could see them but I didn’t even look at them. “You’ve got to see what I found first,” I ________ her through the fair. When she saw the lamp, she picked up the lamp ________, running her fingers over the bowl, over the hurricane glass, and ________ it closely. “See this?” She pointed at a very small mark in the glass. “The one at home has the same mark.” She smiled. It was the first time I had seen her ________ smile since the doctors first found the cancer.

When the lamp ________ in our house, next to its mate, my mom cried. She went to light the lamps and sit on their glow until she could sleep. Years later, I understood her need for those lamps, ________ the darkest moments of her life. Mom was my hurricane lamp. She was inextinguishable (永不熄灭的)—She lit my way without ________. She still does.

【推荐3】I still remember the day when I was driving to the supermarket I own. When I came out, I found a boy _________ my car with a brush. I went over and patted (轻拍) him_________ the shoulder, which surprised him very much. In no time he began to _________ at me. So I was sure he _________ some money. From the shoes he was wearing I could hardly imagine how _________ he was. So I offered him a $1,000 bill. To my great surprise, he _________ to take it. When I was wondering what he was doing, he said, “ I was waiting here for 4 hours, waiting for you. Your _________ is so beautiful and I like it, but I don’t need that.” I knew he was mentioning the _________.

As he had refused the money, I offered to drive him around the town. The boy became so _________ that he got into the car at once, “Would you please drive me__________? It is only about 3 miles.” I thought maybe the boy wanted to show off to his friends and his family. __________ I stopped, he jumped out and ran into an old building, telling me to wait there for some time. Very soon he came out, saying to a little girl on his back, “Look at this beautiful car. I will buy you __________ someday.”

I noticed his sister had a pale face. __________, her legs were too thin, and she was unable to __________.

After that day I went to his home several times. And I got to know more about him and his__________. Poor as they were, the boy__________ refused my money, and said, “I can__________money by myself, thank you.”

Soon I __________my manager of the supermarket that a boy would go to__________here the next day.

No matter how poor we are, we would__________give in to ourselves.

【推荐1】The 8-year-old boy across the street stormed in and out of his own house very often. A neighbor, William Dunn,_________ what was going on in his life. So Dunn asked him.

“He told me that he didn’t have a_________, ” says Dunn, now 58, “and I realized there was_________I could do for him. That something was_________, a passion Dunn’s father had shared with him.”

Dunn has taken groups of kids out almost every _________ to fish. Most didn’t have father figures in their lives and had never fished. “They’d been through a lot, and their lives were_________, ” Dunn says. “But when they were fishing, all of that_________Out on the boat, they’d be smiling, and even_________.”

Jayden, now 13, has become a devoted fisherman and _________Dunn with helping him mature. “I hope he knows I mean it when I say thank you,” he says.

Just as_________as the fishing are the _________Dunn forms with the kids. “When Jayden was going through a_________ period recently in study — I let Dunn know that his grades were suffering and he had a little talk with Jayden, ”Jayden’s mother says. To her delight, Jayden’s grades _________improved in the next exam.“There is nothing like seeing a kid _________ with a smile,”Dunn says. “I feel lucky to _________ that every weekend.”