【推荐2】Mary thought she had seen it all when it came to horse behavior, but Stardust made her ______. The horse was always sniffing (嗅) her behind. No matter what she did, Stardust just wouldn’t ______. Her husband Jason finally ______ her confusion when he figured out the reason behind Stardust’s sniffing her ______. He knew there must be something wrong. But what could it be? ______, Jason drove Mary to the doctor for a checkup.

After a brief ______ with Jason, the doctor decided to do some tests ______ Mary to see what was really going on inside her body.

As Jason sat there, ______ waiting for the result, Mary couldn’t help but wonder what was causing him to be so on edge. She had asked him several times ______ everything was alright, but Jason had been ______. He wished he could tell her what was going on, but the ______ was that he didn’t want to scare her-the news would come soon enough.

A doctor rushed back into the room out of breath. Jason shot Mary a ______ look. As it tuned out, his guess was ______ justified-the doctor had found something! Mary was diagnosed with skin cancer! The couple couldn’t ______ it-Stardust had done something ______. They knew that Stardust’s efforts would never be forgotten.

【推荐1】My wife called, “Will you come here and make your darling daughter eat her food?” I rushed to the scene. My only daughter, Sindu, _______ frightened. In front of her was a bowl filled with rice. She _______ disliked rice.

“Sindu, why don’t you take a few _______ of this? Just for Dad’s sake. If you don’t, your mom will shout at me. ” Sindu softened a bit and   _______ her tears with the back of her hands.   “OK. Dad. I will eat. But, you should…” Sindu hesitated. “Dad, if I eat the rice, will you give me _______I ask for?” “Oh, sure.” She_______ eating the whole quantity. After the ordeal was through, Sindu came to me, “Dad, I want to have my _______shaved off this Sunday!”

“Darling, we will be sad _______ you with a clean-shaven head.” “Dad, you saw how difficult it was for me to eat the rice. “ Sindu was in tears.”_______ you promised to give me whatever I ask for.” It was ________for me to call the shots. “Our promise must be________.”

With her head clean-shaven, Sindu had a round face. On Monday morning, I dropped her at her ________ Just then, a boy shouted, “Sindu, please wait for me!” ________ struck me was the hairless head of that boy.

“Sir, your daughter Sindu is great ________!” a lady said to me. “That boy who is walking along with your daughter is my son Harish. He is ________ from leukemia(白血病). He lost all his hair due to the side ________ of the chemotherapy ( 化疗). He refused to ________to school for fear of being laughed at. Sindu visited him last week. But, I________ imagined she would sacrifice her lovely hair for the sake of________“My little angel, you are teaching me ________selfless real love is!” I wept.

【推荐2】Our plane had left without us. There was no other ________ to the U. S. for at least three days. It was nearing 11 :00 p. m. and the Seoul Airport was ________ for the night. We'd just been asked to ________ the airport. Steve and I had no Korean ________ with which we can buy some food to eat. We didn't speak the language and we had ________ to go. I began to cry.

A Korean woman came up and said she could ________ us. Her kindness almost caused a fresh wave of ________ , but I pulled myself together and we let her lead us onto the dark________ outside the airport. She would take us to live in her ________ for free.

On the bus, she introduced herself as Myung Soon and shared her own ________ . When she'd first arrived in New York, she was on a public bus when she realized that her ________ had been either stolen or lost. She told us how ________ she had felt: in a new ________ on her own, without any resources（资源）, on a bus ride that she couldn't even ________ The woman sitting next to her had noticed her ________, and when she heard what had happened, without hesitation（犹豫） she ________ her forty dollars. Since that day, Myung-Soon had been hoping to repay that ________. “So, thank you,” she said to us, “for giving me the ________.”

Steve and I have been married for seventeen years now, and I'm always ________ when I find small opportunities to make somebody's day. It was a lesson I will never forget, taught to me in the late hours of a hot night in the home of a ________ friend in Seoul.