【推荐1】One day many years ago, a friend surprised me by using Spanish—“Como estas” — instead of the English “How are you?” She told me _______ that she was learning Spanish at University of Hawaii. It was the first time I had _______ the Senior Citizen Visitor Program(SCVP), which was free to those _______.

Immediately, I rushed back home and found out everything about the SCVP online. The next day, I _______ the SCVP office at UH. My _______ course was the Life-long Study for Hawaii Senior Residents. However, he _______ me: I had to be at least 60 years old to _______. At that moment, I really hated to be so _______! But no choice — so I started _______ to get older.

At the end of 2017, after my 60^th birthday, I called the SCVP office again. In the spring ________ of 2018, I became the ________ student appearing in these two classes: Ballroom Dance and Introduction to Interpretation.

No matter how old I was, once both my body and spirit ________ in the classroom, sitting among young people, listening to and writing down what the________ taught made me forget my age.

Of course, I used them to ________ that the moving of the brain may get ________ but it’s still enough to learn ________. Second, for aged people, returning to school helps them to seemingly ________ their real age, especially when they get the same ________ as younger classmates do. And third, we aged people are useful ones who have rich ________, including knowing why, what and how to keep ________

【推荐2】Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they are meant to be there.

They serve some sort of ____ in order to teach a lesson or help ____ who you are or who you want to become. You never know____ these people may be — your roommate, neighbor, professor, long-lost friend, lover or even a complete____, but when you keep an eye on them, you know at that very moment that they will___ your life in some great way.

And sometimes things happen to you and they may seem____, horrible and unfair at the time, but___ solving those problems, you would never have realized your potential, strength, willpower or heart. Everything happens for a(n) ____. Nothing happens by ____ or by means of good or bad luck. Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness and stupidity — all occur to ___ the limits of your soul. Without these small tests life would be like a smoothly paved, straight, flat road to nowhere, safe and comfortable but dull and____.

The people you meet who affect your life and the successes and ____ you experience — they are the ones that create who you are. Even the___ experiences can be learned from.

If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart,____ them, for they have helped you learn about ____ and the importance of being ____ about whom you open your heart to. If someone loves you, love them back____, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to love and open your heart and eyes to things you would without them.

___have seen or felt Make every day____. Appreciate every moment and take from it everything that you possibly can, for you may never be able to experience it again.

“People are like tea bags — you have to put them in hot water before you know how ___ they are.”

【推荐3】A beautiful September evening，my 11-year-old grandson，Josh，and his team were warming up for their first football game of the season.

At six，the ____ called the captains forward，said something and ____ his whistle.The two teams ____ separately.I was ____ .The other team was， ___ ，ten inches taller than our players.It didn’t take long for their   ___ advantage to show.They took a 7-0 lead very   __   .At the half，the score stood at 34 to 6.Josh ____ minimal play time.In the second half，they used Josh more often.The score climbed to 40 to 6.

Once again，the other team began their ____ down the field.Their quarterback threw the ball.The receiver caught it and ____ the goal.There was only one man in his ____ —Josh.Josh dove and ____ that boy’s legs with all his strength.The receiver dragged Josh a couple of yards and ____ fell down.

On the next play，their quarterback shot through an opening and rushed to the goal，but there was Josh again.Josh took him off his feet and   ___ another goal.They scored on the last play.but it wasn’t Josh’s ____ .The game ended with a score of 48 to 6.

On the way home.I wanted to ____ Josh，but he turned to me with a ____ smile.“Grandpa，that was a   ___ game.”

“But you lost，48 to 6 !”

“I know，but I did good.”

The boy understood the ____ better than I did.They didn’t win，but he did his best.I was proud of him.More   ___ ，he was proud of himself.

【推荐1】As the temperature approached as high as 90 °F last July 4th, three police officers went into a Foods Market to get something _______ to drink. Once inside, they were asked by a security guard to help with a _______ woman. The woman in question was obviously _______, and her cheeks were wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were containers of _______.

“I’m hungry,” she explained _______. Caught red-handed, the woman no doubt expected to be treated as a _______. But the police had other _______. “We’ll pay for her food.” One of them told the _______ security guard. She would not be _______.

Drying her wet __________, the woman repeated, “Thank you, thank you.” She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of __________. Customers at the store were so impressed by what they’d __________ that some even posted a photo on Twitter. __________, attention was never what the officers sought. They were __________ by a far more common emotion. When we look at someone’s face and see that they need you, it’s pretty __________ as a human being to walk away from something like this.

【推荐2】Kim and I decided to go to see a new movie. We ___a little early and were talking about our day. Then came a young girl, followed by a man who we thought was her_____ They sat one row ahead and about two seats to the right. As they began to talk, it was ___that the man was her father, and that their family had been experiencing hard times.

The young girl seemed mature beyond her years. She ____ her father, saying that everything would be okay and that she loved him. As they spoke, Kim’s____ were filled with tears. He was thinking how fortunate this father was to have the love and ___ of his daughter. The young girl ___her dad of the past times when they used to go to the movies together, enjoying, talking, laughing and even crying. These were times she ___. She knew her dad missed ___, but he had devoted himself ___ to making money and supporting the family.

It became clear to us that they had ____ the early show because the tickets were ___. They had bought a small box of popcorn and were sharing it happily. This young girl had saved her money to enjoy this daddy-daughter “___.” The father felt grateful to his daughter, ___ that things would return to normal ____.

【推荐1】It was quite a bad time for me. I was in low _______ and felt tired physically. Probably because of this I hadn’t shaved(剃须) for a few days. _______ because I had been doing some repairs at my daughter’s house, I was _______ quite untidily. Getting the bus to go home, I saw it was almost _______ so I found a rail(扶手) to rest against.

That was when a young woman, sitting with her child, stood up and _______ me her seat. “Wow!” I thought, surprised. Out loud I said, “Do I look that old and tired?” She responded with a smile on her face, “You look like you’ve had a _______ day.” I thanked her sincerely and stayed where I was standing.

A moment later a man _______ from his seat in the back of the bus and _______ his way towards me, walking past several people on the way. He told me that he had a serious alcohol addiction problem and wanted to ask for my _______. We chatted about life for a few minutes and then he went back to his seat.

Watching him go, I also looked at the people ________ me and his seat. He hadn’t ________ to talk to those strangers. He chose to talk to this stranger, for whatever it ________ to him and whatever comfort it might bring him. Why?

That’s when it ________ me. I must have looked like a man who would understand the difficult ________. I was a little sad at first, but then I was inspired by the realisation that even though we are at a low ebb(处于低潮) we can still ________ others if we look like we might be able to meet them where they live or walk awhile in their world.

【推荐2】Last week, Octavius who is deaf and his mother Shatika Dixon went to Texas Roadhouse to celebrate his fourth birthday. When Octavius and his mother were sitting there, a waitress named Kathryn Marasco watched from a distance and _________ that the mom was talking and signing to the little boy who had his _________ aids on.

When Kathryn Marasco _________ that it was Octavius’ birthday, she asked her fellow server, Brandie White, to log on to a website with her to search for a special phrase for the birthday boy.

They _________ how to say “happy birthday” in American Sign Language and quickly got all the _________ down. Then, the servers went up to Octavius’ table to _________ him what they had learned. “Happy birthday to you,” the waitresses signed. Octavius and his mom were very impressed.

Later, Octavius’ mother said this was the first time he had _________ with people other than her and his teacher. It was a simple phrase but an important _________ to Octavius. Thanks to the two _________ waitresses, his fourth birthday was one that he and his mom would ____________ for a lifetime.

Dixon said the ____________ from Marasco and White made her very emotional. “Everybody thinks we’re ____________ when we’re talking and signing over there. So it’s ____________ important to me that someone ____________ that we were celebrating his birthday and learned that phrase ____________ for him.”