【推荐1】Once upon a time, there was a bad man named Millisphore. Millisphore was so thoroughly evil that he made a plan to ______ every important thing in the world. ______ by his great machines and ______ , he managed to ruin everything important. After that, he created a potion(毒药)that robbed people of their desire to work. He also managed to give off a ______ gas, which made people prefer to stay at home rather than ______ .

When things had reached the point where the entire world had been spoilt, Millisphore saw that only one thing     ____ in his way. It was the ______ . Despite all his evil inventions, his potion and his ______ , it seemed that families were still sticking together. What ______ him most was that all the families were resisting him.

He tried making the houses ______. but the families just lived closer together in less space. He also destroyed food, but the families just ______ little food they had, So he continued with his ______ deeds against the only thing that still ______ him, but nothing was working.

____   he discovered the secret to the strength of every family——they ______ each other. Though he tried to invent something to destroy the love. Millisphore ______ managed it. Sad and angry at not having managed to rule the world, he gave up and let everything ______ to normal.

At last, Millisphore was so depressed that all he could think of was to go to his parents' ______, and tell them what he had done. ______ all the wicked deeds he had done, his parents ran out of their house to hug him. They ______ him, and encouraged him to be good.

And so it is that even the family of the most wicked will love him and forgive him for anything! And aren't we fortunate to have a family?

【推荐2】On the first day of school our professor challenged us to get to know a mysterious lady. I stood up to _______ when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned round to find a wrinkled, little _______ lady beaming up at me with a smile that _______up her entire being. She said, “Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I’m eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a big _______?” I laughed and _______ responded, “Of course you may!” and she gave me a giant squeeze. “Why are you in _______ at such a young age?” I asked. She jokingly replied, “I’m here to meet a rich _______, get married, and have a couple of kids.” “No seriously,” I laughed. We became _______ friends.

At the end of the semester we invited Rose to _______ at our football banquet. She _______ her throat and began, “We do not stop playing because we are old. We _______ old because we stop playing. There are only three _______to staying young, being happy, and _______ success. You have to laugh and find _______ every day. You’ve got to have a _______. When you _______ your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don’t even know it! Do not have _______. The _______ usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who _______death are those with regrets.”

At the year’s end, Rose _______ the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep.

【推荐3】Tired and sleepy, we got off the night train, stepping foot on new territory: Berlin. Night trains have never been my thing. We arrived at the hotel before it was _________, so we sat at the park across the street.

Shortly after 9 a.m. we walked into the office where a young man was working on his computer. We _________ we were too early to check in, but were hoping to _________ our bags and then find a coffee shop somewhere. However, he _________ us kindly and, perhaps taking pity on the _________ under our eyes, worked some magic and took us into a cute hotel room early. With many thanks, we slid into our beds and _________ until the afternoon.

When I woke up, I realized my most prized _________, my DSLR camera, was missing. _________, I searched the room, but it was nowhere to be found. Near tears, I _________, heading towards the park, thinking I may have __________ it there. But no luck. When I saw the hotel worker, who looked __________ to see me, a sense of annoyance flooded me.

He waved me to his __________ while saying, “You left something behind.” Then he handed me the camera. “I figured you might __________ this,” he added. I nearly burst into tears of __________. Thanking the youth over and over again for all of his __________ today.

【推荐1】It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and ______ to make a real difference. But all that changed when I ______ my good-deed-a-day project.

My daughter, Emily, was my primary ______. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be happy.

The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could ______it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I ______ a blind man in the subway station. He smiled as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a local nursing home... I could only hope I was arousing ______ in others.

Luckily, after just a few days I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a ______.

Every evening at the dinner table, I ______that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began copying what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she marched over to a neighbor’s pot of geraniums(天竺葵), which had toppled(摇晃) in the wind，and set it ______. “That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect ______from our neighbors for the food bank. We dropped off the food and，______we drove away, Emily announced ______that she wanted to work there one day.

By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely ______ that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second ______. I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need, ______ looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.

【推荐1】He was already asleep. His bag stood ready by the backdoor. His pencil box was filled with ________ sharpened (削尖的) pencils. A big day _______   ahead. My eyes filled with tears as I thought about his new ________ in the morning. My baby was off to high school.

I thought back to his first day of kindergarten (幼儿园). How he ran in ________ to the bus as my heart broke, how his smiling face in the window caused my tears to flow. I thought about how ________ it was to let go of his hand and let him fly ________ for the first time. But this time, I found it was even harder.

Kindergarten is Mother’s Day gifts made with handprints. High school is a funny ________ and a “Love you, Ma.” Kindergarten is excited talks about his day. High school is just “My day was ________, Ma.”

Kindergarten is the ________. High school is the beginning of the end. You know that your time with him at home will become less and less. The moments where your family will always feel ________ at the end of the day are coming to an end. I’ve raised him to ________ us. I’ve raised him to be independent (独立的).

As I watched him ________ the bus to high school, my eyes filled with tears again and my heart ached more deeply than it did on his first day of kindergarten. The bus ________, and my eyes met his. He gave a quick wave (挥手) and ________, “Love you.” And then he made a silly face, and he wanted his mom to go back into the house now and set her mind at _______. I waved back and laughed. High school, here we come.

【推荐2】When school started on that warm August day, I threw myself into everything I did, including playing volleyball. I decided to become _________, or at the very least, skinny. I stopped eating completely. Soon I began losing weight, which thrilled me, and I even grew to love the tiredness and lightheadedness that came with my _________ diet, for those feelings meant that I was_________.

_________ the season progressed, things had become_________between my head volleyball coach, Coach Smith, and me. She felt that something was wrong with my _________. She talked with me about my eating and was_________ that I turned a deaf ear to her when she tried to make me eat. She tried to persuade me in a determined way and so we fought _________. Then my _________ started to affect my performance. I was so tired that practice and games were becoming a (n)__________. One afternoon, with hurt in her eyes, Coach Smith asked me what I had eaten and I told her nothing yet. She looked at me,__________ in her eyes, knowing she couldn't make me stop, and walked away.

A couple of weeks later I attended a formal dinner for our volleyball team. I stood there as my coach managed to say something nice about me. I__________then that I had ruined my senior year by being__________, and I had probably ruined her expectations as well. So that evening I wrote her a letter __________ and thanking her.

Then one Saturday, as I was reading in the library, I felt someone __________ take my arm and say softly, “Lynn Jones, how are you doing?” I __________ and saw the familiar face. “Thanks for the letter,” she said. “It meant a lot.”

When I think of a coach, I think of someone superior to me, someone who gives __________ — not a friend. But Coach Smith is __________, and, like any other good friend, she dealt with my problem in a__________ way even when I hated her for it at that time. I didn't __________ her kindness, but she gave it anyway. I will forever be grateful for her help, and now for her friendship.

【推荐3】Compassion (同情) is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into ________. An experience last weekend showed me this is ________. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the ________. These old people are our main ________, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman taught me a valuable ________. The man walked up with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash and asked if we could let him have the food on ________. He promised to ________ me the next day.

I couldn’t ________ staring at him. I wondered what he would be like if ________ had gone his way. I had a   ________ in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and ________ saying this, but I ________ my job.

Just then, another old man, standing behind the first, spoke up: “________ it to me.”

What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not ________ either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because the second men had reached into my heart and ________ me compassion.