【推荐1】I come from a broken family.My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months apart.____,by age 19, I left our home in Wisconsin to live on my father's horse farm in Virginia and Jeanne moved to Chicago at 18.We lived separate lives in separate states, and our connection somehow ____

Fast-forward about five years.I was 24 and on a trip with my fiance to New York City.We hadgone to visit my fiance's cousin and see the ____.During a day of sightseeing,we were crossing a very ____street loaded with people.Everyone was in a hurry.I had laughed at something my fiance said, and I suddenly heard my name yelled from somewhere____me:“Cheryl!”I froze in my steps in the middle of the road.Tears____ my eyes.I knew without a doubt that it was my sister Jeanne.I yelled back____ even turning around to look.“Jeanne?”It was her.“Oh my God!”I screamed,and began ____ people out of my way to get to her.The crowd started to part-even by New York standards, we must have seemed____

I later asked how she'd known it was me-she never saw me! She said it was my laugh.I wouldn't say my laugh is all that____, but I guess to a family member it's infectious(有感染力的）．It hits your____.She said she had come for an opera show and was there for only a week.Both our visits were planned just a week earlier, and____ of us has ever returned to New York.

We both moved back to Wisconsin later and since then, we have never been____.I truly believe God played a huge part in bringing us____.But our meeting by chance wasn't just a sign.I see it as a(n) ____not to lose touch with loved ones.It is too easy to remain lost.After our sister-to-sister miracle, I don't plan to let that happen again.

【推荐2】One month ago, Sarah bought a lipstick(口红) she had desired.It's not _______， but it made her happy, because it was the one that she had been _______ since she saw it.

Every morning, when she puts on her makeup, everything seems brand new due to this lipstick. It feels like that the whole day is full of _______.Sarah has long been accustomed to rewarding herself through shopping. And this desire for material possession _______ her to work hard. She feels _______ about this. Her life keeps getting better all because of this kind of desire. But her mother thinks quite _______.

Several days ago, when her mother came to know the _______ of the lipstick, they kept quarreling for almost a whole day. Her mother thought that it was _______ wrong to spend so much on such meaningless items, while Sarah thought her mother was totally_______ about it.

What Sarah didn't know was that her mother had once been a little girl who had ________ in poverty and starvation. That little girl could not find enough clothes to ________ in winter.That girl needed to learn how to spend every penny as if it were two in order to survive.

It's just ________ that two people can't understand each other, even for mother and daughter, because everybody's ________ is different.

Try to be patient with the people around you. Try to get to ________ them.Try to stand in their shoes. If you can not listen to people, how can you ________ them to listen to you?

【推荐1】Our family’s first hosting experience began in January of 2015 with our Italian daughter Victoria. We had so much fun with her that we could not ______ to experience a new, different country, so we   _____ to host another World Heritage Exchange Student.

As soon as we saw Merna’s information, we knew she was   ______, a YES Scholarship student, and Egyptian. We began to fall in love with our Egyptian   _____ right away. We Skyped, and emailed for five months ______ she arrived in the US. When she _______ got off the plane, it was as if we were finally ______ again.

My husband and I grew up believing that other cultures _____ us, and hosting a foreign Exchange Student just seems so ______ for us. We felt it would be a ______ experience for our children to grow up seeing other cultures and learning to love others as a(n)______ . Our small children are enjoying the experience vastly, learning a new language ______, and realizing that the other side of the world is not all that _______our country.

Merna is small, loving, helpful, charming, caring and a real ______ to our lives. She has       ____ us all so much. We cannot ________ our lives without our Italian and Egyptian daughters. We do plan to travel to ______ countries because of them, and we will be sending our children as exchange students to live with our new _______ families.

I want to thank World Heritage for _______ a chance for our family to grow from four children to six children all in one year. We are all excited at this experience of a lifetime and will forever _______it.

【推荐2】When he was a child, Lou Zhonghua wanted to be a firefighter. “I always felt that driving a fire truck to put out a fire was amazingly a thing to be _________ of,” said the 50-year-old from Yiwu, Zhejiang province.

When he was old enough, Lou _________ to join the fire department, but his application was _________ after he failed the physical examination. He went on to work as a driver for a transportation company, until 2003 when he was _________ as a forest firefighter in his village.

Lou patrolled the woods, _________ anything that might cause a fire. His devotion and hard work led to him

being appointed a leader of the forest firefighting team when it was established in 2005. He moved his family into the _________ in order to patrol more effectively and built a farm with rooms which were used to _________ fire equipment. He cleared roads through the forest to give better vehicular _________ and even bought a fire truck with his own money.

His wife, Huang Wuzhen, learned how to fight fires as well and became the only _________ forest firefighter in Yiwu. “It’s a(n) __________ job, but I choose to fight fires with him rather than stay at home __________,” she said. Their 19-year-old son, Lou Jiajun, has also followed in his father’s footsteps and will become a professional firefighter after being accepted into the fire department earlier this year.

In Yiwu, wildfires are common, __________ in winter when the weather is dry. Over the Spring Festival holiday of 2014, Lou and his family exhausted themselves putting out fires with a fire hose after traditional fire extinguishers (灭火器) had no effect at all. “It was very __________ for us to carry fire extinguishers up the mountains,” the father said.

This experience convinced Lou Zhonghua that he needed his own fire truck, so he used his own money to buy a 400,000 yuan fire truck. “As long as we can __________ our beautiful home-land well, it’s worth the __________.” Lou said.

【推荐3】I had offered to watch my 3-year-old daughter, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done in my study while she appeared to be having a good time in the other room. No problem, I figured. But then it got a little too _______ and I shouted, “What are you doing?” No answer. I _______ my question and heard her say, “Oh, … nothing.” Nothing?

I got up from my desk and ran out into the living room, where I saw her running across the hall. I followed and watched her as her little behind (屁股) made a quick _______ into the bathroom. I had her _______! I told her to turn around. She refused. I pulled out my big Daddy voice, “Young lady,” I said, “turn around!”

_______, she turned toward me. In her hand was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick, and every square inch of her face was _______ with bright red! As she looked up at me with fearful eyes, I heard every voice that had been shouted to me as a child: How could you…You should know…How many times have you been _______ …What a bad thing to do …It was just a matter of my picking out which old words I was going to use on her so that she would know what a bad girl she had been. But before I could let loose (发火), I looked down at the sweater on her. In big letters it said, “I’m A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL!” I looked back up into her eyes and, instead of seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a little angel full of _______ that I had come dangerously close to destroying. “My dear, let’s take a picture so that Mummy can see how _______ you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t _______ the chance to prove what a perfect little angel he had given me.