【推荐1】Every night, even long after my childhood years, she would come to me, push my long hair out of the way and then kiss my forehead to say goodnight.

I don’t________when it started to dislike her hands pushing my hair that way. Finally, one night, I shouted at her. “Don’t do that _______--- your hands are too rough(粗糙的)!” She didn’t say anything_______. But never again did my mother_______me with that familiar expression of her love. But because of my pride, I didn’t tell her I was_____

As years passed, I missed my mother’s hands and goodnight kisses upon my_______again and again. Sometimes the incident seemed very close, sometimes far away. But always________appeared in   my mind.

Now my mom is in her mid-seventies, still doing things for me and my family with those two hands. Mom no longer has Dad, and on special_______, I find myself drawn next door to ______the night with her. It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in the bedroom of my youth, a________hand hesitantly brushed the hair from my forehead. Then a kiss, every so _______, touched my brow.

In my_______, for the thousandth time, I thought of the night I said the rude words to my mom. _______Mom’s hand in my hand, I told her how sorry I was for that night. But she had forgotten---and forgiven---long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation for my gentle mother and her ________hands. And the guilt(愧疚感)I had had for so long was______to be found.

【推荐2】From the unbelievable burns survivor to an independent university student in London, Sophie has all grown up!

Sophie’s life is truly a series of nightmares (噩梦). In 2003, the two-year-old girl got _________ under a burning car that had _________ into her daycare center in Sydney, which caused terrible injuries, including burns to 85% of her body, the _________ of both feet, one hand and one ear. And even more _________, she was again hit by a car in 2006. This time she _________ quite a few broken bones and a brain injury.

The images of the young girl recovering from painful injuries made Australian people heartbroken. However, what _________ them more was the girl’s unbroken spirit._________ her unimaginable hardships (苦难) from her two awful accidents, Sophie’s bright smile has never changed a bit. She has never let the lifelong disabilities _________ her going after her dreams.

“Sophie is a _________ girl,” her proud father said. “After everything she has __________ in the past 17 years, her just being __________ proves how determined she really is. She has had a plan to live overseas for a couple of years and she’s been quietly working towards that __________ the entire time. I’m extremely glad to see her dream come true.”

“In my mind, I’m not a disabled girl with no feet. I feel I’m a completely normal person who loves life and I __________ each day as much as I can. Now I’m spreading my wings to experience everything that the world has to offer,” Sophie said before she set off for her adventure to London.

Sophie’s fighting spirit has been a(n) __________ for those who are having a hard time and will forever be __________ on the Australian minds.

【推荐3】I was ten years old, standing on the stage. My hands were ________ and my heart was beating fast, and through the sea of faces in the audience, I was searching for the only one who ________ most to me. She knew that our ________ were today. She’d promised me she would be there.

“The life of an elephant and the life of a human,” I said, ________ audible (听得见的), “are not so different.” My fingers ________ the watercolor painting I’d done of an African elephant; I knew that my face was red and that everyone was ________ me because of it, which only made me blush (脸红) even more. Speaking in public had never been ________ for me, but today, having to present my animal research project to a ________ gym, was terrifying.

I swallowed hard. “Over the ________ of a lifetime, elephants both ________ and are affected by their environment. Elephants live in female-led groups. The matriarch-the oldest in the family-makes all the ________.”

I glanced at my teacher, who gave me a smile of ________, and just then I saw a(n) ________ at the door of the gym. She came in.

“Elephants ________, not just with gestures but also with sounds too low for us to hear.”

Suddenly, my mind went ________. I could not remember a single word. My ________ became the heartbeat of the world. I had ________ this presentation in the shower, while brushing my teeth, and while riding on the bus. As it turned out, there was something ________: forgetting the speech. Then my mother cleared her throat, and our eyes ________. Gradually, I started to remember everything.

In all the years since then, I have never forgotten a single ________ about elephants.

【推荐1】Music is something I could never live without. As a little kid, singing my heart out and trying out for the school play really made me_______. There was nothing that could keep me away from my_______until high school.

Every eighth grader who wanted to be in the high school show choir _______the audition(试唱) for a program. When it was my_______to enter the room, I got very________----my throat was dry and my heart raced. The audition_______1L like this, the introduction, the song of choice and the range check—the choir director played a note on the piano which I had to_______. Before I knew it,   the audition was over.   I felt nothing but_______, for the vibrato(颤音) was amazing and I also hit every_______.

Weeks passed and the list of who had made it into the show choir was posted. When I was ________the show choir list, I found my name.________, this wasn’t what I had expected. “Angelica—alternate(候补者).”

An alternate? Was my audition that________? I thought to myself. After I saw this, my________disappeared.   My outside showed I wasn't________but on the inside my whole world had broken up.   I had no ________of taking the show choir at all.

A year later, one day I was at a restaurant that held karaoke to the customers. My parents begged me to go up and sing. I said no at first but finally I got enough________ to go up. It made me ________ at the beginning, but I started off my song and gained more confidence as I continued. When I hit the high notes in “I know I'm not the only one”, the people eating cheered for me. I________I hadn't got into one program but that did not mean I had to give up all hope, and that I________had that passion. The lesson I learned was if you are ________or do not get the outcome you want, and it is something you're in love with, don't give up.