【推荐1】The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an _______, and one friend slapped the other one in the _______.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without _______ anything, he wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend slapped me in the face."

They _______walking until they found an oasis（绿洲）, where they decided to take a _______. The one who had been slapped got _______in the mire （沼泽）and started _______, but the friend saved him.

After he _______ from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my _______."  The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "________ I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on a stone. Why?"

The other friend ________,"When someone hurts us we should write it ________ in the sand where winds of ________ can erase it away. But when someone does something ________ for us, we must engrave it in the stone where no wind can ever erase it."

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your ________ in the stone.

They say it ________ a minute to find a special person, an hour to ________, a day to love them, but a(n) ________ life to forget them.

________ this phrase to the people you’ll never forget. It’s a short message to let them ________ that you’ll never forget them.

【推荐2】Once upon a time, a daughter________to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to________it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon________.

Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He________three pots with water and placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter complained and________waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes, he________the turners (开关). He took them out of the pot and put them in a bowl. Turning to his daughter, he asked, “Dear baby, what do you see now?”

“Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she quickly replied.

“Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were________. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she________ the hard-boiled eggs. Finally, he asked her to sip (抿) the coffee. “Dad, what does this really mean?” she asked.

He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and the coffee beans had each faced the same boiling water. However, they________differently. They went in strong, hard, but in the boiling water, they became soft and weak. The eggs were fragile (易碎) with the thin outer shell protecting their liquid inside until they were put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were ________ . After they were________to the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.

“Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When the________ knocks on your door, how do you________? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?”

“Dad, I want to be a coffee bean,” said the daughter.

All his________paid off and the daughter realized that in life, challenges happen to us all, but the only thing that truly ________is what happens within us.

【推荐1】A social worker played a huge role in my life when I was young. I want to share a letter I wrote________social workers for the work they do.

When you feel_______, take a moment to read this letter.

I was 12 when I first_______Dale. I had been left in an institution (收容所) for the last few years. At that time I thought I was________and could not be good again. I later_______it was my family that was broken. My father was an alcoholic(酒鬼) and my mum________the family when I was 3 and she_______came back. When some teachers noticed my behavioral problems, a________was made to put me into an institution where I met Dale. Dale promised to find a________for me. He kept his word. I________the institution I had been in. It meant well but it was no place to grow up.

Once in Dale’s car, I________a fire extinguisher(灭火器) to see what it would do. The entire inside of his car looked like it had been snowed in. I was_______loud voice telling me how________I was and a beating. But he just took a deep breath and________his head from side to side. When we finished cleaning, he_______thanked me for helping clean so hard.

This_______is just one of the many I could tell about Dale. He was the________man have ever met in my life. The next time you are questioning whether your work________, believe it does. The next time you _______everything, read this simple letter. You can also________this letter to every social worker you know.

Sincerely,

A once lost child

The Strand’s task has always been simple. It is to get good ________ in the hands of readers. For over 93 years, the   ________ my grandfather founded has become so much more than just a bookstore---The Strand has become a community center, welcoming all book ________ with open arm.

In order to ________ The Strand as a business, with no income and no clear idea as to when we can   ________ our door, we have had to temporarily fire(解雇) the most of our workers. Due to the rapid ________ of COVID-19, we make the ________ to close our doors a week before the government order, as we felt it was unsafe for our ________ and community.

This is the first time in our ________ that we have had to have a layoff (裁员). All of our workers have been ________ for the week and we are paying out any vacation. We are also working with our union and our providers to extend(延长) health insurance as long as possible. We know that it is our booksellers that make The Strand so ________, so our goal is to ________ this so we can rehire(重新雇佣) every employee as soon as possible.

We won’t ________ now. We have put forward a request to the Governor’s office in order to regain our ability to start online and phone orders as ________ as possible. We strongly believe that our books are a very important resource(资源) the world could ________ use right now.

I feel betrayed(背叛) by my friend Hannah. We have been best friends since primary school and spend almost every day with each other. Sometimes, other children say we are no ________ because we are both very academic and like to study, but we like it that way. We are both very ________ and always get good grades at school.

On Monday, we had a surprise Maths quiz. I thought it was quite easy and was not worried about the results. I must have sounded very ________ of myself after the quiz, saying how easy it was and how I was sure to get a good grade. The next day after class, my math teacher told me that I had the lowest grade in the class! I felt so ________; I must be really stupid to ________ a simple math quiz!

Afterwards, I ________ to be cheerful, but Hannah sensed something was wrong. We went to wash our hands in the girls’ washroom before lunch and I admitted how badly I had done. I ________ her not to tell anyone else, and she said she would keep my ________.

However, the next day, I noticed that my classmates were staring at me as I came into math class and, when I went to sit down, I was ________ to find a piece of paper on my desk that said, ‘Stupid Sarah got a D!’ I was so upset that I felt like crying. I thought that Hannah ________ have told my classmates about my grade after ________ not to. Everyone must have been laughing behind my back!

I was so angry that I went straight to Hannah and told her we weren’t going to be friends any more because she couldn’t ________ her word. She was really upset and swore that she hadn’t told anyone. ________, the only people who see our grades are the teacher and the student that the grades belong to. She said that someone must have been spying on us in the washroom, but I didn’t ________ her explanation. I don’t think I can ever truly forgive her. Now I’ve ________ my best friend. What shall I do?

Yours sincerely

Sarah

【推荐1】Charles Plumb, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, was a jet fighter pilot in Vietnam. After 75 combat missions, his plane was________by a surface-to-air missile. Plumb ejected (弹出) and parachuted into enemy hands. He was________ and spent six years in prison in Vietnam. He survived and now________about lessons learned from that experience.

One day, Plumb and his wife were sitting in a restaurant when a man at another table came up and said, “You’re Plumb! You________jet fighters in Vietnam from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk. You were________!”

“How in the world did you know that?” asked Plumb.

“I________your parachute,” the man replied. Plumb gasped in surprise and________. The man pumped his hand and said, “I guess it worked!”

Plumb assured him, “It________did. If your parachute hadn’t worked, I wouldn’t be here today.”

Plumb couldn’t sleep that night, thinking about that man. He says, “I wondered how many times I might have________ him on the Kitty Hawk. I wondered how many times I might have seen him and not even said‘Good morning, how are you’, or anything________, you see, I was a fighter pilot and he was just a________.”

Plumb thought of the many days the sailor had spent on a long wooden table in the bowels (深处) of the ship________working on each parachute, holding in his hands each time the________of someone he didn’t know.

Plumb asks his________, “Who’s packing your________? Everyone has someone who provides them with what they need to________it through the day.” Plumb also says that he needed many kinds of parachutes when his plane was shot down. He needed his________parachute, his mental parachute, his emotional parachute, and his spiritual parachute. He called on all these________before reaching safety. His experience reminds us all to________and be kind to people who pack our daily parachutes, and strengthen us to go through________times.

【推荐3】Temperatures in the Norwegian capital regularly drop to -10℃ during winter. _________ in the harsh winter without wearing a coat, a boy wrapped his arms around himself on a bus stop bench.

It’s a(n) _________ scene, but the actions of the ordinary people who witnessed the _________ of 11-year-old, Johanne are both joyous and inspiring.

A young woman sitting next to the boy noticed him rubbing his arms. She immediately asked him: “Don’t you have a _________?” “No, someone stole it,” he replied. She _________ and learned he was on a school trip and was told to meet his teacher at the bus stop. She asked him the name of his school and where he was from as she _________ draped(披上) her own coat around his shoulders.

Later, another woman gave him her scarf and then _________ him in her large overcoat. Throughout the day, more and more people _________ to give him gloves and even the coats off their backs as they waited for their bus.

_________, Johanne’s experience was an experiment by Norwegian charity SOS Children’s Villages. Carried out by a __________ camera, it was part of their winter campaign to gather __________ of much-needed coats and blankets to help Syrian children through the winter. Many of the refugees have left their homes __________ winter clothing.

“People should care as much about children in Syria as they are __________ about this boy,” Synne Ronning, the information head of SOS Children’s Villages Norway, told The Local. She also __________ that the child was a volunteer who was never in any danger during the __________.