【推荐1】My two sons are both grown-ups now. They are 32 and 27 years old this year. Yet they both still have the mind of children. Autism(自闭症) has limited their _____ growth and they still need to be looked after all the time. When I was a boy, the term used for people like my sons was Mentally Retarded. By the time I was an adult the term had _____ to Mentally Handicapped. _____, this was switched again to Mentally Challenged. _____ of these terms truly defined(定义) them, however.

These days the _____ term is Special Needs. I like this one better than the older ones, because it is more _____. My sons do have special needs but they also have special gifts. My oldest boy may only be able to _____ certain things. But when he _____ people by name, there is a catching happiness in his mood and manner. He always _____ love and hugs far more freely than I do. My youngest boy is ______ in his own world most of the time. But he also has an ______ to laugh and enjoy life. Often after he finishes crying, his happiness will immediately return. My two Special Needs sons have ______ me more about how to live and how to love than I could have ever learnt on my own.

The fact is that all of us in life have special needs. All of us also have special gifts. It is up to us to ______ our gifts. It is up to us to meet the needs of each other. And it is up to us to ______ each other with kindness and love. Remember, we are all one ______ here. We are all children of the same world.

【推荐2】My tenth Christmas was one I was not looking forward to. Money was tight. Mom said we were old enough not to have __________. Just being together would be enough.

We weren’t the only family in our small community who would have a __________ Christmas. But knowing that others were going through the same thing didn’t __________ much.

One night we had a small pity party for each other.

“How can I even wear that same old dress one more time?” I __________.

“I know,” said my sister. “I think I might as well give up asking for a __________.”

The next day, Mom told us that she had been saving up and shopping around so that we could give the Walters family a Christmas basket.

“If anyone needs some __________, it’s the Walters.” Mom said.

The Walters! They were the strangest people we knew. How could Mom be so __________ with them when our own family didn’t have enough?

Mom was determined. She packed flour and sugar, a small turkey, some fruits in a basket and asked us to __________ it to the Walters.

I really didn’t like to have anything to do with them. Not wanting to be __________, we left the basket on the doorstep and hid behind a nearby bush.

Seeing the Waiters gather up the basket, I asked my sister in whisper, “Did they look happy?”

“Well, yeah, happy, but mostly they looked like they were thinking: Maybe we do belong.”

Christmas morning arrived. To my great __________, I received a beautiful dress. I couldn’t believe it’s for me, I was about to __________ when we noticed Dad ride up on a new horse. My sister screamed and ran out. She couldn’t __________ to meet her “gift”.

“Mom, how did you do all this?” I asked. “We were __________ for a no-present Christmas.”

“Oh, not necessarily trading but just helping each other. Mrs. Olsen at the dress shop let me bring your gift home. Dad offered to __________ up Mrs, Marshall’s tree lights. Mr. Jones had a horse and he was __________ to know we had someone to love it.”

“I thought since you were giving away food to the Walters, we would never have enough. They really don’t have anything to give in __________.”

“We are like a big family. Never __________ who can or who can’t give. The most important is that we should listen to our hearts. Perhaps the right gifts will end up with the right families.”

Mom always knew __________. Thinking about the expression on the Walters’s faces when they discovered the Christmas basket, I realized their “__________” feeling was more precious than any of the gifts.

That was the Christmas that I learned about the magic of __________.

【推荐3】As 17-year-old Norwood drove through St. Petersburg last February for a tour, the laughter from the four girls inside her car quickly _________ screams. As they approached a crossroads, another car T-boned them, sending their car sailing into the yard nearby, coming to a stop only when it crashed into a tree.

The impact had caved in Norwood's driver's side door, jamming it _________. Shaken, but _________ OK, she crawled out through the window. Along with two of her friends, who had also _________ to free themselves, she ran for her life.

But halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn't with them. She ran back to the car and found Simmons _________ in the back seat. Without hesitation, she threw open the back door and pulled her friend out, _________ the broken glass as best she could. She _________ Simmons a few feet to safety and laid her on the ground. “I _________ her pulse but there was no sign of life. That's when I started CPR,” she told CNN.

If the accident had happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, pursuing a career in medicine, had got the CPR _________ just the day before. Looking at her dying friend, Norwood knew she had __________ time to practice what she'd learned.

Immediately, she started __________ Simmons's chest with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend's mouth to __________ her lungs with the kiss of life. Five minutes later, Simmons began coughing and gasping（喘息）for air. The first aid she performed worked!

Soon, the ambulance arrived and __________ Simmons to the hospital, where she received medical treatment. When she heard how her best friend had saved her life, “I am extremely grateful to Norwood for her __________ of life,” Simmons told CNN. “But I am not __________, because she will always help any way she can.”