【推荐1】Each new generation learns from its elders. I’ll never forget one moment in my childhood.

When I was eight years old, I _________ a diamond pin (胸针) from a girl in my dance class. My father, spotting the shiny one he had not _________ , found me out. He sat me down on the floor of our study and _________ why what I had done was wrong. He worried that if I became a thief, I would come to a bad end. How stealing cut the delicate bonds of _________ that connected me with those around me. More than three decades on, the lesson has _________: I don’t feel tempted (诱惑) to cut in line or steal hotel towels. _________leaving a store wearing the tagged sunglasses I’d tried on gave me the _________ for months.

Though my childhood memories are _________, such moments stand out, when my parents passed on values they hoped I’d _________. They supplied a standard of __________: to take someone else’s perspective, to __________my momentary greed for the greater good. Such important __________ are the raw material each generation uses to form the next. Yet the range of factors shaping each generation is much __________ than it once was. Elder generations still __________younger ones in deep ways, and that moulding (塑造) begins, within the __________, as it always has.

【推荐2】When she was 16, Joanne learned that she was adopted and that her birth mother was a woman named Lillian and that she had died days after giving birth to her. Feeling betrayed and confused, Joanne spent many nights crying,______what her birth mother had been like. And yet, some part of her believed her mother was still______.

The doubts______Joanne for years. After watching her______, in 2017, when Joanne was already 79 years old, her daughter-in-law, Shelley, suggested her taking a DNA______. Shelley thought learning something about her______family might give Joanne some______.

So Joanne took the test, and about a year later Shelley received a(n)______on ancestry.com from a man named Sam, whose genetic report had______him with Joanne.

Shelley immediately wrote back to Sam, asking______he knew a Lillian. Yes, Sam said, that was his mother's name. Almost_____, an even bigger shock came that Lillian was alive, at age 100-Joanne had been______all along.

The families quickly planned a(n)______where Lillian lived. A month later, Joanne found herself sitting across from the mother she had______in her whole life, looking at Lillian, who suffered from dementia(痴呆症)and used a wheelchair.

“I don't know if she_____me,” Joanne said.

She told Lillian that she had been______in 1940 and that she'd been told her birth mother had______. No response. Joanne started to cry. At that point, her mother______, as if she had started to understand. Joanne excitedly______telling Lillian all about her children and grandchildren. Lillian smiled. Then she said the words Joanne had waited more than 60 years to hear: “This is my______.”

【推荐3】Lots of children want to know what to give their mom for Mother’s Day. Of course, a handsome card is always great, but it can be ________ to come up with that extra something.

One day, my friend Ollie and I were discussing what gift is good enough for his ________ Abuela, who is pretty much like a mom to him. Right then, Abuela walked ________ with a tray (托盘) of food. “Sweetie, won’t you ________ us for lunch? We’re having sandwiches. It’s my speciality.” she said to me. “This is delicious!” I said after taking a ________ and then asked. “Speaking of delicious, what’s the most delicious food you’ve ever eaten?”

She thought for a minute. “Well, nothing could ________ the special strawberry ice cream my grandmother made when I was a girl on certain ________. ” We winked at each other, knowing that we had already ________ a Mother’s Day surprise his grandmother would love.

Over the next few days, Ollie and I asked everyone we knew if they ________ to have an old-fashioned ice-cream machine hanging around----but no ________. So my dad helped us search for some recipes online, and ________ we found a fun one that didn’t require any fancy __________, just a couple of empty coffee ________ in different sizes.

Mother’s Day finally arrived, we were pretty ________ to make the ice cream. Sitting outside, we all took turns rolling the can ________ we sang the Mother’s Day song for Abuela. We had to roll the can for half an hour, but it was so much ________! When the ice cream was finally ready, Abuela was the ________ to try it. “Mmm! The ice cream you made is even ________ better than I remember!” Abuela smiled from ear to ear.

For Mother’s Day, ________ time together while we made the ice cream was just as much fun as eating it. It is ________ with love that means more than gifts.

【推荐1】When my first book was published, I couldn’t wait to make it to readers. The book signing was _____ in a beautiful bookstore. I had imagined hundreds of customers would _____ waiting for me to sign copies for them. _____, it didn’t happen like that. Despite the nice sign outside, not a single _____ entered. As the minutes passed, I was _____ anxious.

For the past four years, I had lived on a strict _____. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. every day and had two hours of writing before work. I often prayed (祈望) my readers would finally be _____. At this moment, sitting here alone, I _____ if my entire life was just a big joke. Just before the store’s closing time, _____, I began to get myself ready to leave.

Just when I couldn’t feel any ______, a middle-aged couple walked in. I managed to ______ my bad emotions and introduced myself and my book. While listening, they nodded in ______ from time to time. Then the wife told me, “We’ll take the book.” My heart beat fast with ______. “We lost our son five months ago,” she said with watery eyes. “Maybe your book will help us ______ it.”

Two weeks later, I received a thank-you letter from the couple. My prayer of my words touching just one person was ______. Thanks to them, I kept moving ahead to writing.

【推荐1】One Friday, 12-year-old Janet was going to stay all night with her friend Amy. They had to ________ Mr. Dawson’s house on the way to Amy’s house. As they got close, Janet saw him sitting in his front yard and ________ they should cross over to the other side of the street. Janet was ________ of the strange old man because of the stories she’d heard about him.

Amy said not to ________. Still, Janet was growing more nervous with each step closer to the old man’s house. When they got close enough, Dawson looked up with his usual frown (皱眉). ________, when he saw it was Amy, a broad ________ changed his entire face as he said, “Hello, Miss Amy. I see you’ve got a little ________ with you today.”

Amy smiled back and told him Janet was staying overnight and they were going to listen to music and play games. Dawson said that sounded fun and gave them each a freshly picked ________ off his tree.

After they left Dawson’s house, Janet asked Amy, “How come he was so ________ to us?”

Amy ________ that when she first started walking past his house he wasn’t very ________ and she was afraid of him, but she ________ he was wearing an invisible (看不见的) smile and so she always smiled back at him. After some time, he started smiling real smiles and then started ________ to her. Now he always ________ her an apple, and was always very kind.

Smiles are contagious (感染他人的). If you pretend he is smiling an invisible smile at you and you smile back at him, ________ he will really smile.

【推荐2】My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “________ my job. Family to Feed.”

At this store, a ________ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed him and make a comment   on how bad it must be to have to stand outside in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to ________ something they thought our “friend” there would appreciate. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a ________. I thought about it. We were ________ on cash ourselves, but... well, sometimes ________ from our need instead of our abundance is ________ what we need to do! All the kids declared something they could do away with for the week.

When we handed him the bag of ________, he lit up and thanked us with ________ eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for whatever his family might need, he burst into tears.

This has been a wonderful ________ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can ________! Things would have played out so ________ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have ________ to give more.” Stepping out not only helped a brother in ________, it also gave my kids the ________ taste of helping others. It’ll go a long way with them.

【推荐3】One day, it was raining heavily and I didn't have an umbrella. I had just _______ a bus and had to walk back to my house. I _______ walking in that direction, when I heard somebody shouting, “Sister, sister.” I looked back and _______ the stationery shopkeeper. I went to him and asked what was the _______. He said that since it was raining heavily, I could take a _______ in his shop, have a look at his new _______ and go home when the rain stopped.

I hesitated (犹豫) for a moment, but the _______ of getting to have a look at the pens made me nod.

To my surprise, I found that the _______ was larger than I thought. The stationery shopkeeper offered me a chair and took out the pens for me. I _______ a beautiful Parker (派克) pen and had a try. It __________ so smoothly that I wanted to buy it with all my heart, __________ as expected it was very expensive. The shopkeeper said, “I can give you the pen for ninety-five dollars __________ one hundred.” I looked up and thanked him for the __________, but refused politely as it was __________ quite expensive for me. By that time, the rain had __________, and after appreciating his kindness, I quickly walked back to my house.

After that day, the shop became my favourite place to hang out. Although both of us knew nothing about each other, we had a deep friendship based on our common interests.