【推荐1】I used to walk around the store with my parents, constantly begging for something. I still remember the _______ of all the bright bags of chips and candies that I asked my mom to _______ for me. At that time, I had no real _______ about the value of money.

When I was about twelve years old, my dad always _______ my begging and told me with an angry face “you can waste all the money you _______ when you have a job.” I listened to him, but I never _______ understood the message he was trying to _______ to me.

In high school, I _______ to find a part-time job. One day, a young man handed me a flyer (传单), which said at the top “Looking for a summer job? Be a _______ !” I started to think about the money I could make, so I ________. A few minutes after my application was ________ , I got an email from AMS pools, informing me to have a(n) ________ the next day.

After I ________ the training process, I finally started the job. Every afternoon, I worked in the pool, keeping a close watch on the ________ people. I was proud I rescued several drowning children. And I could earn my pocket money with my skill. However, the more money I made, the less I wanted to ________ . Instead of wasting my money on useless things, I started saving up. I now have 3,300 dollars in my bank account.

【推荐2】I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized(侵袭)me. My wallet was gone. I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some ________ station.

The ________ moment was quickly followed by mental math. How much time and money would it cost to replace the ________ of that little wallet? The credit cards, the driver's license, the cash, all lost to the bus.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door. My husband ________ it while I was on the phone in the dining room. "Does Jennifer live here?" I heard a lady say. In my husband's hand was my wallet, with not a penny ________ . She left before I could ________ make it to the door to offer my thanks.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who recognized the lady as Erin Smith. Without a second ________ , I called to thank her. She said she found my wallet on a bus seat. She ________ that going to a stranger's house was a risky(有风险的)move, but she decided to take the chance. "If I were in that ________ , I would want someone to try to find me," she said.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my ________ , but she actually wasn't the only one. The moment Erin found my wallet on the bus, she ________ a picture of my driver's license to an online forum(论坛), trying to see ________ anyone knew me. Right after she left my doorstep, I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son's nursery(幼儿园)and who recognized my face. I've never ________ words with those moms except some small talks, but they wanted to help. I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I came across tend to act.

________ , I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger. Erin had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was rather ________ .

【推荐3】After a day’s work in the hospital Jane Hodgson was finally on her way home.   While _________, she noticed there was a car _________ at the side of the road and a crowd gathered around someone who was _________ on the ground. Jane pulled up to see what happened, which turned out to be _________ for the victim.

Describing the_________, Jane says, “A crowd of onlookers (旁观者) gathered there. Some young men were cream-faced and looking lost. They were _________ terrified. When I walked up, first-aid kit in hand, they said, ‘You’re a first aider. Oh thank God.’ They were so _________ that they hadn’t even called a _________ yet.”

A young girl was lying there. She had been hit by a car and fallen from her bike, _________ on her head and shoulder. “She had not been wearing a __________ when knocked down, and I thought she should not be __________ in case of a spinal injury, but after looking her over, in relief, I felt fairly __________ that she had escaped almost unharmed. Even so, __________ time passed, the pain she was suffering was __________. To avoid her losing consciousness, I kept __________ to her. We chatted about anything I could think of to keep her __________ off the pain. She squeezed my hand to relieve pain and this__________,” describes Jane.

Thinking back, Jane says, “Apart from her boyfriend I wasn’t __________ by anyone else, but that’s OK. For me, knowing that in a small way I helped the girl is all the __________ I need. I felt great that I’d made a __________.”

【推荐2】She died at the age of 15 in one of the history’s greatest sad stories,____her thoughts live on to this day through the diary in which she recorded her____.Though she was touched by despair（绝望）and terror,the message of____in her words has encouraged many.Anne Frank,the most famous____child of World WarⅡ,is indeed a symbol of the Holocaust（大屠杀）.Her secret writings,which later came out____“The Diary of Anne Frank”,____of two years in the life of a young Jewish girl hiding in Nazi-controlled Amsterdam.To mark the 75^th anniversary of her____,on June 12 this year(2004),www.annefrank.org is to____some rare photographs of the girl taken when she was 12.

Born in 1929,Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was____to go into hiding to____being arrested（逮捕）by the Nazis.She and her family,along with four____,spent 25 months in a few small rooms above her father's office in Amsterdam.The family was____founded by the Nazis,and forced to go to a concentration camps（集中营）.In March 1945,nine months after she was arrested and shortly____the camp was liberated（解放）,Anne Frank was killed.

Her diary,first coming out in 1947,has become one of the world's most____read books.It has been translated into 67 languages.The following is the most____part of Anne's diary.

“It’s____for me to build my enjoyable life on a foundation of chaos（混乱）,suffering and death.I see the world being slowly changed into a wilderness.I____the approaching thunder that,one day,will kill us too.I feel the____of millions.And yet,when I look up at the sky,I feel that everything will change for the____,that this cruelty shall end and that peace will____once more.”

【推荐3】When I was 14, I invited some friends for a party at my home out in the country.

I planned it well, but something ________ happened.

When it was time for us to ride the bus, Nora, one of my friends. didn’t ________. I felt ________. Why would she tell me she’d come to the party and then ________ without letting me know? So. I decided to call Nora and get some ________. I needed no apologies but I demanded to know why.

Nora explained she had to stay away from school because she was sick. Anger still ________ me and I ________ to listen, “What kind of friend are you?” Nora began crying on the phone, hurt and surprised. For the rest of the school year, we ________ hung around (溜达, 闲逛) again, and I forgot about my ________ call with Nora. ________ had happened between us at some point, but I shrugged it off (对……满不在乎).

Years later. I began to ________ that ugly phone conversation. Now. I regretted it. I recognized how selfish, and ________ I’d been, caring only about myself I wanted to make things ________. I wrote an apology letter to Nora and soon got her ________. So finally, we did bring a sad moment from the past to a ________ conclusion, healing both of us.