I want to ________ you for offering me such useful advice during my research. I have completed my article about ________ , and I'm quite ________ with it. It has just been ________ our school website. I never knew that advertisements were so interesting! The ________ I wrote will really help others. I hope that after they ________my article, my schoolmates will ________ understand that public service ads are ________ to educate us about public welfare issues, and that commercial ads are meant to ________ products or services. Before our talk, I did not think very much about how an advertiser might be trying to fool ________ into buying a product or a service. Now I think I will be much smarter about what things to buy. ________there are lots of exciting images and persuasive language. I will remember to think about the things I buy. I will ________ pay a lot more attention to the nationwide public service ad campaigns, because now I know ________ helpful they can be. I will ________ my friends to pay attention to them as well.

Thank you again for helping me find so much ________ information!

Yours faithfully,

Wu Shang

You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you are not able to understand this letter. But some day when you _______ , I hope you will find something _______ in what I am going to share with you.

Life can be _______. There will be people in your life who won’t be very nice. They’ll _______ you because you are different, _______ for no good reason. You will also face heartbreak and might be _______ by those you love. I hope you don’t have to face these too much, but such things _______ .

Be open to life anyway. You’ll find cruelty and _______ in your journey through life, but don’t let that _______ you from finding new things. Don’t retreat (退却) from life, and don’t ________ or wall yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, and new people. You’ll ________ many times, but if you allow that to stop you from trying, you will ________ many chances. Do remember failure is a stepping stone to ________

You will meet many people who will try to do ________ than you, in school, in college and at work. They’ll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, and so on. To ________ , life is a competition. However, I believe life is a ________ . If you always try your best to ________ others, you’re wasting your life. Learn to enjoy your life ________ and you will make it a journey of ________ , of learning, and of love.

Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are ________ a really wonderful journey, and I will always be there for you.

Yours,

Daddy

【推荐1】One day last summer, my 9-year-old son Ben and I were riding the waves at a popular ocean beach on outer Cape Cod. As we were playing happily with our surfboard, I suddenly noticed an astonishing ________—some whales were spouting (喷水) well within view of where we ________.

We stared and pointed in ________. “Ben, can you believe it?” I cried. “We’re swimming with the whales!” “Mom,” Ben said in reply, “we’re always swimming with the whales. This is their________, not ours!”

Ben’s words took my breath away, more than the dramatic waves and the amazing sight of the________.

He was absolutely________, of course. These whales live in the waters off Cape Cod. This is their home—one that we ________, love and protect. So when we set foot into a ________ space, it’s meaningful and important to ________ that we are visiting something that is beautiful and enjoyable to us, but is not ________ for us.

We each have a part to play in ________space. When we acknowledge our coexistence, as Ben________, we set ourselves up for success in how we interact with each other. This is as ________ in the vastness of the ocean as it is in our ________ where we live, work, play and serve.

How we ________ and support each other in this vast ocean of life—that’s up to us.

【推荐2】Hundreds of community members poured into the home to express their condolences (哀悼) to Eli’s family. I walked in and ________ myself, saying I was the headmaster of a school in a neighboring city. I then told the following ________ to the family.

When I was in middle school, I was the troublemaker and always behaved ________ in class. One day, when I was bored in class, I ________ a paper ball at the teacher. With a bright red ________ face, the teacher picked up the ball and said, “I will ask only once for the student who did this to stand up and get out of the room. I won’t ________ class until that student leaves. The room was ________. I was not going to give myself up. I didn’t know what would happen next. After 30 long seconds, a boy named Eli, who was always a ________ and well-behaved student, stood up and walked out with his ________ down.”

I wiped my ________ and said, “I want you to know that Eli saved my life. Through that selfless act, he told me how concerned he was about my dignity (尊严). From that ________ on, I took my life more ________. With a lot of work, I stopped being a ________.”

When I heard that Eli ________, I had to go to let all know that if I’ve ________ people’s lives through my work as an educator, it’s all due to Eli’s protection and selflessness.