【推荐3】Every Saturday night Mama would sit down by the kitchen table and count out the money Papa had brought home.

“For the rent.” Mama would count out the big silver________. “For the grocery.” Another group of coins. “I’ll need a notebook.” that would be my sister Christine, my brother Nels or________.

Mama would put one or two coins to the side. We would watch with ________ interest. At last, Papa would ask, “Is that all?” And when Mama ________, we could relax a little. Mama would look up and smile, “Good. We do not have to go to ________.” We were all so proud of Mama’s Bank Account. It gave us such a warm, secure feeling.

When Nels graduated from grammar school, he wanted to go on to high school. “It will ________ a little money,” he said.

Eagerly we gathered around the table. I took down a box and laid it ________ in front of Mama. This was the “Little bank”. It was used for sudden emergencies, such as the time ________ Christine broke her arm and had to be taken to a doctor.

Nels listed the costs of the things he would need. Mama counted out the money in the Little Bank. There was not ________. “We do not want to go to the Bank,” she reminded. We all shook our heads.

“I will work in Dillon’s grocery after school,” Nels volunteered.Mama gave him a bright ________ and wrote down a figure (数字). “That’s not enough,” Papa said. Then he took his pipe out of his________ and looked at it for a long time. “I will give up smoking,” he said suddenly.

Mama reached across the table and touched Papa’s arm. Then she wrote down another ________.“I will ________ the Elvington children every Friday night,” I said. “Christine can help me.” Now there was enough money. We all felt very ________ because we did not have to go downtown and draw money out of Mama’s Bank Account.

So many things came out of the Little Bank that year: Christine’s dress for the school play, my little sister Dagmar’s operation...________ happened, we always knew we still had the Bank to depend upon.

【推荐2】It was a warm,sunny Saturday afternoon some fifteen or sixteen years ago.I took my two kids to the local playground.As soon as we got there my daughter headed for the swings(秋千)and asked for a _____.I noticed another little girl failed to get her own swing going high as I was _____ my daughter to go higher and higher.

I walked over to the little girl and asked _____ she needed help.She smiled and said YES and I soon had her feet flying towards the _____ while she laughed happily.For the next two hours I found myself pushing swings and playing games with my daughter and the little girl.By the time we headed home，I was _____ tired，but my spirits were flying _____ than those swings.

Three years later I was tired again after a day's work.Still，I needed to _____ my kids from their school before heading home.I stood in the _____ waiting area waiting for my children.Suddenly，I felt two _____ arms wrapped around my legs.I looked down and there was the little girl I met three years before on the ______ smiling up at me.She gave me a big hug before running away to ______ the school bus.As I watched her ______，I didn't feel tired any more and my spirits were once again flying with that swing.

The love we ______ with others will find its way back to us.It will travel from heart to heart.It may take seconds or it may take ______ .The law of love，though is never broken.We will get back what we give.We will harvest what we ______ .The kindness we give and the joy we create will always come back to excite us.

【推荐3】My father was raised in a fatherless home at a time when the family of five struggled to survive, which caused my father to be extremely tightfisted (吝啬)with money. When we children became __ that other children got pocket money from their parents, we made a(n) __ to ask our father for some. Immediately his face turned stone cold, and he said, "If you're old enough to ask, you're old enough to __ And we had to seek odd jobs about the neighbourhood.

He didn't __ his attitude as we grew into adulthood. There was a time when ___of us had a car, so we had to ride a __ whenever we came home. Though the bus stopped about two miles from home, Dad never met us, __ in bad weather. If someone ___(and my brothers did a lot), he'd say in his __ father-voice. “That's what your legs are __!"

One spring morning I was on the bus home from _____ . Tests and long hours in labs had ____ me exhausted. As other students were _____at their stops. I looked silently out of the window. Finally, the bus came to a ____ at my destination, and I ___, carrying my suitcase to begin the long journey home.

The row of privet hedge (树篱)came into _____, which lined the driveway that climbed the hill to our house. I stopped to put a book in the suitcase. When I stood up, I saw something gray ____ along the top of the hedge toward the house.

It was the top of my father's head. I ____ then, each time I came home, he would stand behind the hedge, watching, __ he knew I had arrived safely. I held back my tears. He did care, _____.

Upon reaching home, I found my father innocently in his chair “So! It's you!" he said, his face lengthening into surprise.