【推荐1】Madagascar was not the paradise I expected. A reporter and I were ________ there to find out who was helping with drought relief and the prevention of famine (饥荒).

After a three-hour ride in a van, we ________ in the small town of Ambovombe. Peter immediately headed over to the hospital to speak with a local ________ on our topics of interest. Since I didn’t need to photograph the background ________ with the doctor, I wandered out to the road.

I raised my ________ to get some images before the sun went down. I had ________ been to Madagascar before, and until you’ve actually photographed in a place, you don’t know how people will ________ to the camera.

1 ________ a handsome man who was leaning against a wall in the golden light of dusk. No reaction. I took a breath. After a while, everyone within a 20-yard radius had ________ me. Some called out to each other, playfully teasing those I’d ________.

Soon after, a mother encouraged me to photograph her young children. I ________ a moment. They were dressed in ________ clothes. One of them may not have even had any pants on — not because her parents were neglectful, but because they couldn’t ________ them.

Their mother really ________ me to photograph them. This happens everywhere I go. Parents, ________ of their children, ask me to take a photo. I’d taken this photo of cute smiling children over and over. I don’t usually save ________, but I saved this one.

Why? The children’s ________. It’s something so powerful yet so ________. that we sometimes miss it. This mom, despite all the ________ obvious to an outsider’s eyes, found in her children something she wanted a photograph to remember. That’s because she saw a(n) ________ picture: She saw them with mother’s heart. As should we all.

【推荐2】When I was 14 years old, I was angry and rebellious, with ____ regard for anything my parents had to say, ___if it had nothing to do with me .Like so many______,I struggled to escape from anything that didn't ____ my picture of the world. A brilliant without need of guidance kid ,I refused to accept any obvious __ of love. In fact I got ___ at the proposal of the word ”love”。

One ______       , after an extremely difficult day, I _____ into my room, shut the door loudly and fell down onto my bed heavily. As I lay down in the privacy of my ___,my hands placed under my pillow. There was an envelope and I pulled what was inside out, which read, To ___ when you're alone."

____ I was alone, no one would know whether I read it or not. So I opened it. It said, "Mike ,1 know life is ____ right now, I know you are upset and I know we don't do everything right .I also know that I love you _____ and nothing you do or say will ever change that I am here for you if you ever need to talk. If you don't, that's also ____ . Just know that no matter where you go or whatever you do in your life, I will always love you and be ____ that you are my son.I'm here for you and love you that will never_____ love you ,Mom."

Every night as I went to bed, I would put my hands under my   __ and   remember the ___ I felt every time I got a letter. During my teen years, the letters were the calm assurance that I still could be loved __ my anger and rudeness. Just before I fell __ I became grateful that my mom knew what I, an angry teenager, needed.

【推荐1】In life, do you choose to take the road everyone has taken, or do you choose the path that is best for you? It might be _________ to choose what everyone has done, especially if it seemed to work for them. But is that what truly _________ for you?

On a recent hiking trip, my partner and I decided to take a popular trail in the _________ direction. This was an old, well-traveled trail that people had been hiking and biking from A to Z for years. For our own reasons, we chose to travel from Z to A. Going backwards made more sense with my _________. The trip would take several days and going backwards _________ that I would end the trip closer to the airport for my flight home.

As my partner and I walked, everyone crossing our path had something to say. “You’re going the wrong way. Are you lost? Are you returning _________ you forgot something? Are you crazy?” The path occasionally crossed a highway. When it did, even passing cars beeped (鸣笛) to _________ us in the “right” direction.

Why did people only see one way? Because that’s what _________ does? Because that’s how it’s always been done? We even _________ to talk to a Danish woman who said. “We have a saying in my country: when you go backwards to everyone else, it’s because you’re avoiding something.” I couldn’t __________ it. We were just enjoying connecting with nature, hiking in the way that best __________ us. Had we gone the “wrong” way? No. At least, not for us.

I decided to __________ the path I chose. Finally, we had a(n) __________ experience. Choosing the “wrong” path was right for me. When your inner __________ tells you something is right (or wrong), listen to it. It’s your instinct (直觉). It’s speaking to you for a reason and it knows, better than anyone, what’s __________ for you.

【推荐2】The situation of global pandemic（流行病）is still worrying．Malaysia will continue taking "Movement Control Order" measures to _____________ the spread of the disease．Times like this are definitely _____________ for frontline workers who have been working _____________ to ensure the safety of the public since the outbreak．

Due to the present situation, many eateries（饮食店）are deeply _____________．As only self-pickup and in-house deliveries are _____________, online platforms to promote options have found _____________ with restaurant owners．However, Creampuffsado, a local bakery based in Alor Setar, Malaysia, has just made the _____________ of hundreds of frontliners．The bakery's owner, Azrul Azali, _____________ a mass of bread to the town's frontliners．But what _____________ was Azrul's attempt in personally writing words of ______________ on all the packaging! He also contributed some to other organizations．"People have been very ______________ so far," said a police officer．"We are feeling ______________ for such a personal deed, ______________ it is a small act．"

Prior to this, Azrul had posted on a social platform, collecting netizens' ______________ words to hearten the frontliners．He then proceeded to ______________ them down one by one on the packaging．His ______________ was to make sure that all Malaysians were able to appreciate the ______________ the frontliners are making during this pandemic．

Every bit of ______________ in tough times right now is much appreciated, whatever ______________ it comes in．Either you're contributing meals or simply putting your knowledge and skills forward．Because every little action ______________ in helping anyone get through this period of time．

【推荐3】Are parents rational (理性的) about their children? No. Parents aren’t rational because ________ isn’t rational. Young people can understand this about romantic love, but they find it ________ to accept this part in parental love.

My eldest daughter’s ________ the other day brought this up. “Let me ask you something, Dad,” she began in patiently controlled ________ that every experienced parent knows.

“I sailed around the Mediterranean in a yacht (游艇) when I was seventeen,” she said. “I hiked through the Pyrenees from Spain to Paris. I’ve done rock climbing and deep-sea diving and slept in rainforests in the jungle of Indonesia. Right?”

“Right,” I said, “So what?”

“So this,” she went on. “When I go to the corner drugstore to pick up some shampoo, why do you always tell me to be ________ when I cross the street?”

There is no satisfactory ________ a parent can give to this.

All I could say in reply was that when I was 50, my mother would ________ me not to drive too fast. If I were 80 and she were still alive, I would be getting the ________ warning. No matter what the age, a child is a child.

There is something else, too, that children find it hard to understand. When they are far away, there is nothing we can do about their ________. They are in the hands of the gods. Parents try not to ________ about it.

But when the children are close, the old protective urge quickly ________, and it doesn’t ________ how far they have been or what experiences they have got through.

Most ________ happen around the corner, not in the rainforest. The most instinctive (本能的) act of almost every creature is to ________ its young, and with humans this reaction stays for a lifetime.

In the parents’ mind, a child ages but does not ________. Rational? No. But if we were rational, would we want children at all?