【推荐2】I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I _______ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a（n） _______writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our _______ selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and _______ to mail them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he _______ remember?

_________ the letter, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you're eighteen Years old, twenty-eight seems like a _______age, but I wasn't feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had _______me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it _______. It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you? ” It continued to greet me casually ________we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the________SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so stressed! She was ________ not quite happy and hoped I wouldn't worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn't forget to be present and________my life!

________to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have ________ meet. Instead, she wrote, “I'll ________whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I'm imagining now, I'll ________ you, because maybe who I'm imagining is someone else, but you're not someone else, you're me.

I was touched, and tears welled up in my eyes at this________ through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best ________ of myself that I could be. However, I came to realize what I would have ________ in ten years would pale in comparison to how I'd feel and who I'd be.

【推荐1】My grandmother stayed in the nursing home for five years. _______ all of the elders that I got to spend time with there, I couldn't _______ what it was been like for them without any visitors at all. I felt it was so _______ , of course.

That day, I saw an old _______ alone on a bench, in the front entrance hall of the nursing home. Earlier he had been trying to _______ Jean with one leg, from his wheelchair. Jean is a woman who had cerebral palsy (中风) and couldn't_______ alone in her wheelchair.

I asked if they would mind my pushing Jean the rest of the _______. Jean said, “Yes, please!" The old man smiled and said, “Thank you.” Then I praised him for his_______ and pushed Jean back to her _______ down the hall.

Now, this same man was ________ on the bench and as I got closer, he ________ me and smiled. I realized he had only one leg which was dry and a little dirty. Maybe because of the________ , he was scratching (挠) the leg ________ . I had a cream (药膏) in my bag that seemed to do good to his ________ skin. So I handed the cream to him.

He couldn't speak English but spoke to me in his ________ language and tears started to come down his face. I________ his tears with a towel, He kept ________ and looking at me ________ I understood. I didn't really understand, but I listened and nodded.

We didn't ________ each other and aren't blood-related but, at that moment, we shared a ________ that went beyond blood, heart to heart. When I see him again, he may not remember me but I will remember him.

【推荐2】Five days before Christmas, police officer Lima was sent to a local Stop and Shop for a reported theft. The accusation was that two females were scanning (扫描) some items at the self-checkout but________ other items and bagging those items. The two females and two children were already________ by Loss and Prevention over there.

Lima had two girls himself, similar in age to the two girls there, so it ________ him a little bit. Lima________ the receipt for the items they had paid for. There was nothing else like health and beauty items on it. The items were all ________ —things bought just to stuff themselves. Then he asked an employee where the other items were that they had planned to take and was informed they were put back on the ________.

Obviously, this family was in real need. While Lima firmly ________ following the law, he decided to cut them a break and not to ________.

The two-females, ________, were very grateful but kind of ________ because generally, in that same situation there would probably be a different ________ and they'd be arrested.

Lima took things a step further in an effort to ________ the family. He gave them $200 gift card, telling them not to get things in illegal ways any more.

“I purchased the gift card close to the value of what would have been ________,” said Lima. “I did what I felt was ________.I just tried to show a little ________ to the extent permitted by law.”

【推荐3】Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a pianist’s concert on a summer holiday evening. After they found their _______, the mother saw two friends in the hall and walked to _______ them.

It was the boy’s _______ time to come to the hall. He thought it was a good _______ for him to explore the wonders of the concert hall. He _______ and walked around. He walked _______ a door marked “NO ADMITTANCE” (禁止入内).

When the hall lights dimmed (变暗), the _______ would begin. The mother returned to her seat and discovered that her son was _______.   The mother was _______ worried at the moment that tears were in her ________.

The concert began and the ________ focused on (聚焦于) the wonderful piano on stage. The mother was ________ to see her little boy ________ at the keyboard, playing the song Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star ________ he did at home.

At that moment the great pianist came, quickly moved to the piano and ________ in the boy’s ear, “Don’t stop. Keep playing.” He leaned over (俯身) and began filling in a bass part (低音) with his left ________, then added a running obbligato (伴奏) with his right hand. They played the piano together ________. The old pianist and the young boy changed a frightening situation into a wonderful ________experience. The audience (观众) stood up and ________ them.

An artist’s achievements and charm depend on not only his perfect skills ________ his good qualities.