【推荐1】I grew up in a community called Estepona.I was 16 when one morning,Dad told me I could drive him into a _______ village called Mijas,on condition that I took the car in to be _______ at a nearby garage(修理站).I readily accepted.I drove Dad into Mijas,and _______ to pick him up at 4 pm, then dropped off the car at the _______．With several hours to spare,I went to a theater._______,when the last movie finished,it was six.I was two hours late!

I knew Dad would be angry if he _______ I’d been watching movies.So I decided not to tell him the truth.When I _______ there I apologized for being late,and told him I’d _______ as quickly as I could,but that the car had needed some major repairs.I’ll never forget the _______ he gave me.

“I’m disappointed you ________ you have to lie to me,Jason.”Dad looked at me again.“When you didn’t ________, I called the garage to ask if there were any ________,and they told me you hadn’t yet picked up the car.”I felt ________ as I weakly told him the real reason.A ________ passed through Dad as he listened attentively.“I’m angry with ________．I realize I’ve failed as a father.I’m going to walk home now and think seriously about ________ I’ve gone wrong all these years.”“But Dad，it’s 18 miles!”My protests and apologies were ________．Dad walked home that day.I drove behind him，________ him all the way,but he walked silently.

Seeing Dad in so much ________ and emotional pain was my most painful experience.However,it was ________ the most successful lesson.I have never lied since.

【推荐2】Last year, I lost my best friend in high school. It seemed that everyone else’s life could just continue on in its _____way, but mine couldn't. I wasn't sure how I was going to be able to face ____and their gossip at school. I was forced to ______my routine on Monday morning as usual. In the evening I returned home from school _____completely defeated. All I wanted to do was _____into bed and wallow（沉迷于）in my own self-pity. I pulled back the covers on my bed and ____a pile of cards left by my dad. Each card included a（n）______that it was to be opened on a______night that week.

I made it through that week ______my father. Each card_____to say just what I needed to hear. Tuesday’s card said, “The past is painful to think about and the _____is impossible to imagine. Don't try. Just take it one minute at a time.” On Wednesday my mood _____when I read, “What you are feeling now is ______and normal. It still feels very bad, but it is part of the healing _____.” Friday’s card contained a poem he wrote. The last lines made me smile through my tears. “Whatever special _____you face along life’s way, may you _____that you will find the best in every day.” I was instructed to open the last card ____the party I went to on Saturday night. In it he wisely reminded me to _____. “The world isn't so bad after a good laugh. The more you laugh, the more you heal.” Each card was signed, “Love, Dad.”

My world once collapsed but I _____the difficult breakup eventually. It owed to my dad, who made his _____known when he couldn't be present.

【推荐3】In 1980, Dad was diagnosed (诊断) with a serious disease. The disease _________ his memory and expression.

Dad couldn’t think or process information as fast as he _________ to. He grew to repeat the same words, which drove Mom _________. On one of my visits home, Dad was sitting in his deck chair. I reached down to _________ and kiss him. “What’s new? How are you?”

“Oh, you know, dear, the same. They treat me like a mushroom around here. They keep me in the dark.” He laughed, proud of his _________.

As I walked through the kitchen, I stopped to hug Mom. She _________ her head. “I heard your dad and those words! It’s not his will. He just can’t _________ himself.” She stopped for a while before _________. “He always says he’s just like a mushroom…” She took a _________ breath and laughed. “Goodness,” she said. “I’m going to __________ the adversity (困境) for a long time.”

__________, Dad never became difficult, or had personality changes. I often felt grateful for that. Dad loved and __________ everything Mom ever did for him as well, no matter how big or small.

Care-giving comes at a(n) __________. Mom was annoyed with Dad, but there was lots of love between them. Through the 21 years of care-giving for Dad, there was __________ and tears, as well as weddings and babies. Without __________, I’m not sure what would have happened to us.

【推荐2】Age is just a number, especially when it comes to someone as naturally talented as Miumiu. The little girl from Nanjing, China, is only 6 years old, but her musical________ goes far beyond(超越)her years . Not only is she a great_______ player, but she's also a beautiful singer! It's no ______ that she has attracted thousands with her_________ cover version(版本)of a classic song.

Miumiu has been playing the guitar since she was three years old. In a video, we see her fingers glide(滑动)_______over the strings(弦)as she starts playing Fly Me to the Moon. When her sweet______ comes in, it makes for one magical experience. ________ her, we can't help but _______ . She's that good and so ______!

If that isn't __ to make you fall in love, her personality(品格)is great too. Each video on her You Tube channel comes with the   __ ."Thank you for your   __   . I promise I will   __ to study hard. To realize my   __ to be an excellent guitarist!"

Musicians with many years' of experience are __ they had half her talent! One fan wrote “If this is where you're at when you're 6, you've got a bright __   ahead of you! __ music!”
“Beautifully sung and __ ! Music is a world language. It's all about the feeling, and she has more of that than some 40-year-old musicians I know.” Another __ .

This talented little girl is on her way to becoming a star. Her parents must be so __   . Never stop doing what you love, Miumiu.

【推荐3】I was 11 when I asked my mum for piano lessons. We were in an economic crisis and she’d recently been laid off. She said a polite “no”.

That didn’t _________ me. I drew a keyboard onto a piece of paper and stuck it on my desk. I would _________ notes on an online keyboard and “play” them back on my paper one — keeping the sound they made on the computer in my head. I spent six months playing without _________ a real piano. As my mum found I was _________ about it, she bought me 10 lessons with borrowed money.

I still remember the first one. I was _________ by how organic the sound of the piano was, as I had become familiar with the _________ electronic sound. The teacher was trying to explain where middle C was, but I could _________ play all the major and minor scales.

I sat my grade one after eight lessons and got distinction. By the time I started secondary school, we couldn’t _________ lessons again, so I returned to my paper keyboard. I passed grade three, then grade five, practising only on my piece of paper.

For the grades above that, there was an expectation that you add a certain sensitivity into your playing. The music teacher at my school said I could practise on the school’s grand piano. I would wake up at 5:30 am to get there in time and play until lessons started. I’d _________ lunch and then practise after school until the caretaker kicked me out. At home, I’d have dinner, do three hours of revision, and then __________ practice until 1:00 am.

My school didn’t offer music A-level. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. The audition (试镜)was extremely challenging and I felt overwhelmed. To my amazement, I was offered a __________.

I had been told I had started playing too __________ to reach conservatoire (音乐学院)level but when I left Purcell, I was awarded the senior piano prize. That was the point when I realized I wasn’t behind everyone else. I am now at the Guildhall School in London, where I was offered a scholarship. I feel __________: it’s been 10 years since I drew my paper piano and I'm at one of the world’s __________ conservatoires.

The irony is that I continue to do a lot of my practice away from the piano: what we call mental practice. It unlocks key areas of the mind that are less readily accessed by piano playing alone. The paper piano helped stimulate my __________ about how music works.

【推荐1】On February 4, 2009, I flew from eastern Russia across the Atlantic to America. One week after my _____, I stepped in Anne Frank Elementary for the first time. With shaky knees and sweaty hands, took my first _____towards assimilation (同化). I would almost give in to many _____in my way: my peers' tease of my quiet, broken English and my disability to be _____in English class. I spent every free minute learning grammar or vocabulary, desperately _____to learn English quickly I dreamed of the day when my _____would be heard and understood.

Two years after arriving in America, I _____in front of 300 students and teachers, and heard my clear voice _____sixth-grade vocabulary at traditional American spelling bee (拼字比赛). One Friday afternoon, my teacher pulled me aside, asking me to _____my class in the annual spelling bee. That day I couldn't _____to tell my mother the news. I made myself a promise to study 15 words every morning, so when the _____was finally at hand, no anxious thoughts would _____my performance. Every day for the next three weeks, I woke up an hour earlier to study before school. _____, didn't win the 2011 spelling bee championship, but this seemingly small step gave me _____. From then on, with every small hurdle _____, the negativity of those around me faded and my belief in myself _____greatly.

Last summer, as the student coordinator of Team Myanmar in the International Communications and Negotiations Simulation, I began each meeting with _____, conveying my opinions clearly and letting my voice sound _____. Eight years later, I can say that the shy little girl who first stepped off the plane into an unfamiliar world has _____In her place stands a young woman who _____difficulties with a calm smile and firm steps.

【推荐2】A rich man was camping alone on a hill. One day it began to rain and the rain made the tent wet. At last he ____   make his way home. As he passed a beautiful house he ___to look for rest. A lady in ___   walked past him with her __ holding up high. Following her were her two pretty daughters. They stopped and stared at him ___ .

“Who are you? We don’t like tramps (流浪汉) going ___our home.” one of them shouted.

“Go away at once.” cried the other.

“But I’m not a ___.”said the man, “All I want is food and stay for the night.”

“How ___you come here? Go away at once!” they __, “We don’t like your feet around our house. Go, go!”

The man moved on and reached a ___house. On entering it he saw a __ preparing their supper. Though the light was ___ and the furniture was poor, it made him feel __ and comfortable.

“Can I have some ___   and rest for the night?” he asked. “Of course, friend,” said the woman, bringing forward a little chair for him. “We are going to ___ our supper. Come and ___ us.”

The food was not ____   but they shared it with the stranger. That night they let him sleep on their bed ___ they themselves used the stable (厩). Early the next morning, the man said good-bye to them. Their _____ left him a memory full of thanks.

When he reached home he ____ ordered a lovely house to be built for the couple in the woods.

【推荐3】A cool evening in spring, I was just finishing the dinner dishes when the phone rang. I struggled to place the familiar voice and_________who was on the other end of the line. She stated that she needed to_________to me. I_________realized she was Janet.

Twenty years earlier, it was only my second year of_________. Janet’s daughter, Stephanie, had_________other girls in the classroom, and I had made her stay in at_________. I was kind and_________when I carried out her punishment, but she clearly didn’t like being_________. She told her mother, and Janet felt the need to_________her child. She flew into my classroom and__________me of everything from being unfair to playing favorites to not caring about my students. Her words devastated (使悲痛欲绝) me because none of the things she blamed me for were__________. I__________and cried. Moreover, her attitude had__________influences on some of the other parents. I had once felt such__________teaching my kids, but now I felt like I was under a microscope in my classroom. I began to__________my ability and even my own heart. I was__________. Despite how her mother had treated me, I knew I would discipline Stephanie again if she didn’t__________herself.

I’ve now learned to process__________much more quickly, accepting what’s true, dismissing what’s not, and moving on with my mission in life. It________me that how much courage this lady had to make this call. Her apology truly was a(n)__________blessing.