【推荐2】I was five when you were born. Looking at pictures from that time，I look so happy with you. I am holding you, I am smiling, I look______. But I do not remember that feeling．

I was a daddy’s girl, but I was also the one to break in our parents. I used to call myself the family’s lovely pig,______you were the happy one, the joker, the one who______the rewards of all my battles won or lost. So I must have decided that we were enemies, competitors for the love and attention of our parents, and this feeling is in the______of all my early memories. All I remember is______you．

So, as long as I could, I made your life a______. I teased you, tricked you and______you. You tell me it is not as bad as I remember, but I______a couple of times when you were left in tears. Our little sister was born when I was 11, and very soon you two bonded______and pushed me aside. Did you bond with her because I was becoming a monster, or did I become a monster because of your bond?

Thankfully, you quickly grew tall and strong, and soon you were able to overcome me______. From then on it was down to verbal abuse and psychological conflict. By the time I was at university, you were a teenager and we competed for higher ______: money, the family car, parental pride．

It all came to a______stop when I moved abroad as an exchange student. Almost 20 years have passed, and the hate______me some long time ago, while I wasn’t watching. And at the same time,____     must have come in, entering somewhere quietly through the back of my mind．

Despite all the abuse during those years, you have turned into a happy, friendly, passionate, generous human being. You are the most handsome and charming person that I know. And, with your wife and best friend, you have just had your first child. Nobody______ this happiness more．

You have implied that you’ve forgiven me, or even that there is______ to forgive. But I______to remember the hurt---I will always hurt in______when I look back. All those wasted years in which I should have been your loving sister, standing by your side, defending instead of______you in your own home. I aim to be now what I always should have been．

I am so______ of you, my heart wells up with love for you and your sister. I will be forever glad that I have the chance to love you both．

Your sister

【推荐1】A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $ 100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _______ employees, they got the money back.

The employees were going through _______ last week when they came across a _______. Inside was $ 97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _______ it right there on the desk. And it was $ 97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _______ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _______ that morning. The employees _______ called the couple but there was no _______.

Not wanting to _______ that amount of cash in the store, they called the Zanesville Police Department. ________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was ________. They told the police they withdrew all their money to deposit it in another bank. On the way, they ________at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s ________ the money ended up there. “When we finally ________ them, they just asked if they could get it back tomorrow,” the officer said.

The couple has made contact with the original ________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

【推荐3】Experts say boredom is good for kids, which forces them to be creative, improves their imagination, and helps them discover new things. A (n) _________ in point is 12-year-old Luke Thrill from Dubuque, lowa.

Luke was _________ of playing video games and riding his bike, so he decided to build a tree house in his backyard instead. He made money from mowing the lawn and _________ exchanged some services, such as gaining the help of an electrician _________ sweeping his garage. Luke also used spare materials from his grandmother’s house and other _________ materials from his neighbors for some of the windows and the door.

The 46-square-foot tree house cost $2,000 to build and _________ 18 months. Inside there is a bed, a table and a mounted (安装好的) TV, and a lift can be easily _________ by stairway.

Although Luke did the _________ and learned how to do all the work, he had his father’s help throughout the project. Greg was very happy that his son learned to keep within a _________ and deal with grown-ups. __________, he had some simple rules when Luke started the project 18 months ago: “You __________ the money. You build it. And you own it.”

Luke is now in love with building. He has a You Tube channel and hopes to __________ other kids to start building. __________, he wants to build a bigger tiny house to live in, but for now, he __________ in his new home a few nights a week, does homework there, and uses it to take a __________ from his twin brother.