【推荐1】Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have ________ feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common ________ between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over ________ rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the ________. On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for ________ the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different ________ to these problems. However, some approaches are more ________ than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but ________ clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s ________. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the ________ of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to ________ their actions.

Psychologists say that ________ is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should ________ to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may ________ their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and ________ each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.

【推荐3】One day, a vendor (小贩) came to our doorstep, selling bundles of vegetables priced at one dollar per bundle. My mom’s _________ was 50 cents, no more than that, but she _________ to buy four bundles at that price. Politely declaring that she wouldn’t even _________ the cost at that price, the vendor walked away.

After taking four steps ahead, however, she _________ and shouted, “Make it 75 center bundle, and I will sell it to you.” Mom shook her head and _________ to her original offer of 50 cents. _________ for a while, the vendor came back to our doorstep. The deal was _________ at my mom’s bid. My mom paid the money. The vendor took it without even counting. As she _________, she swayed (摇晃) due to apparent dizziness. My mom held her hands and asked whether she had had any _________ in the morning. The vendor said, “No, I will need to buy some with today’s earnings.”

My mom asked her to sit down, __________ inside, came back swiftly with some food and drink and offered them to the vendor. The vendor was so __________ that she finished them all. Thanking my mom for all the food, she went on her way.

I was __________. I asked my mom why she was so mean in bargaining for 50 cents but was __________ in offering food of a much higher price to that vendor. Mom smiled and said, “There is no kindness in business, but my treating the vendor __________ is from my morality, which is different from business. Remember, there shall __________ be any business in kindness.”

【推荐1】When Kristen Stewart turned seventy-four last year, she started having problems with her eyes, feeling especially dry and _________.

“I was simply _________ a terrible experience,” Ms. Stewart said at her home in Toronto. “I felt so helpless and _________ because the quality of my life was affected.”

Ms. Stewart talked to some friends who had similar _________ and discovered that they were largely suffering _________. “Nobody chooses to talk about it because it seems so insignificant,” she said. “But more and more are suffering and lives are being compromised.”

_________, Ms. Stewart learned about plans for an _________ research program at Tel Aviv University in Israel. The research team included Canadian doctor Allan Slomovic, who has done _________ work on eye care using stem cells. Seeing _________ hope, Ms. Stewart began raising money for the project with a friend, Toronto businessman Meyer Zeifman. So far she has __________ $110,000 with another $40,000 expected.

“I’m trying to get more and more people to understand that there are __________,” said Ms. Stewart, an experienced nurse who is still working as a personal trainer after __________. “I say there is no old age, there is only neglect. Don’t stand __________, do something about it.”

Ms. Stewart __________ that she was hoping to raise more money for the research project. “I just want to bring __________ into people’s eyes and this is just the beginning. There is still a long way to go.”

【推荐1】After 21 years of marriage, my wife wanted me to take another woman out to dinner and a movie. The other woman that my wife wanted me to dine and go to the cinema together was my mother,who had been a _______ for 19 years, but the_________of my work and my three children made it possible to visit her only _______．

That Friday afternoon, I drove over to_______ my mother. She waited with her dress _______ the dress she had worn to celebrate her last wedding anniversary. She smiled from a face that was as _______ as an angel’s.

After we sat down, I had to read the menu. Her eyes could only read large print. Half way through the entrees(主菜), I _______ my eyes and saw Mom sitting there staring at me. A warm smile was on her lips. “It was I who used to have to read the menu when you were _______”she said. During the dinner, we had a(n) _______conversation—nothing ________ but catching up on recent events of each other’s life. We talked so much that we missed the movie.

A few days later, my mother ________ a heart attack. It happened so suddenly that I didn’t have a chance to do anything for her.

Some time later, I received an envelope with a copy of a ________ from the same restaurant mother and I had dined. A(n) ________ note was also in the envelope, ________：“I paid this bill ________. I wasn’t sure that I could be there; but nevertheless, I paid for two plates—one for you and the other for your wife. You will never know what that night meant for me. I love you, son.”

【推荐3】Douglas was my cousin. I first met him when he came to stay with my family for a ________ , because his parents were going to teach in Africa. He and his family lived all the way on the other side of the country, so we had never had a chance to visit. ________, when we arrived at the airport,it was not hard to find which person was my ________. He was the one standing all alone, looking around for someone to ________ him. He looked a little scared to meet us,   but   started to smile shyly after my mom hugged (拥抱) him.

When we got back home and Douglas ________ putting his things away, I could not believe it. All of his clothes were the same, all white shirts and dark blue shorts. He ________ had a dark blue jacket with a tie!

“How can you________ only one kind of clothes？” I asked him.

“That's the way my school has ________ been,” he said “We have to wear uniforms.”

“I would hate having to wear the same thing every day,” I said.

“I don't ________,” Douglas said. “It ________ time.   I don't have to think about what I am going to wear.”

“Well, we don't wear uniforms at our ________. You're going to look pretty ________ if you come to school in a jacket and tie.”

Douglas looked worried. Suddenly, I felt bad I had not meant to ________ his feelings. After all, it was not easy to come all this way to live with some ________ family for a year. Then and there I decided that I was going to ________ my cousin and try to make this as good a year as possible for him.