【推荐1】I had to visit my sister in another town because her husband was very ill. My whole family couldn’t go because school was in session. My _________ stayed back in their father’s care, except for the youngest children, who was just one year old. I was _________ about taking a train journey _________ with my daughter. I knew I had to go, so I gathered all my courage and _________ the train. After waving goodbye to my husband, I _________.

There were only three other passengers in that carriage. Two of them were quite elderly, _________ one was a young man. My daughter was crying, _________ her dad. I tried to comfort her, giving her water and some biscuits, but her crying wouldn’t stop. By this time I was getting _________ the disturbance being caused to others. One of the elderly was dozing (打瞌睡), _________ the other seemed to get annoyed. Although I tried my best to comfort her, the sobbing (哭泣) continued.

Just then the young man __________ to take my baby into his arms. He stood with her near the window and started talking to her, in a __________ voice. My daughter stopped crying __________, listening to his baby talk. I was both surprised and __________ especially the dissatisfied elder was now happily reading his book. The stranger handed my daughter __________ once she was asleep. I __________ the young man and settled down to rest.

During the long __________ journey this young man continuously helped me. He fed my baby, __________ to her and told her lots of stories. I arrived at my __________ at last. I am __________ for this man who had come to my rescue. After so many years, I still remember this stranger on the train with a __________ heart.

【推荐2】I’ve always had strong opinions of how love should be expressed, but others had their own ways of showing care.

What I_______most about visiting my boyfriend’s parents is the loud tick of the clock in the dining room as we_______ate our meal. With so little conversation I was quick to_______his family as cold. When we got into the_______to go home, his father suddenly appeared._______, he began to wash his son’s windscreen. I could feel he was a caring man through the glass.

I learned another lesson about love a few years later. My father often_______me early in the morning. “Buy Xerox. It’s a good sharp price,” he might say when I answered the phone. No pleasant_______or inquiry about my life, just financial instructions. This manner of his_______me and we often quarreled. But one day, I thought about my father’s success in business and realized that his concern for my financial security lay behind his_______morning calls. The next time he called and told me to buy a stock, I__________him.

When my social style has conflicted with that of my friends, I’ve often felt__________. For example, I always return phone calls__________and regularly contact with my friends. I expect the same from them. I had one friend who rarely called, answering my messages with short e-mails. I rushed to the__________: She wasn’t a good friend! My anger__________as the holidays approached. But then she came to a gathering I__________and handed me a beautiful dress I had fallen in love with when we did some window-shopping the previous month. I was__________at her thoughtfulness, and regretful for how I’d considered her to be__________. Clearly I needed to change my expectations of friends.

Far too often, I ignored their__________expressions, eagerly expecting them to do things in my__________. Over the years, however, I’ve learned to__________other persons, love signs.

【推荐3】A businessman had two sons. While he gave the younger son a lot of love and gifts, he neglected(忽视) the elder son. It was completely puzzling (令人费解) and no one knew why.

When the boys ______, they were asked to manage the father's business. The elder son was ______ about the business. From morning till late in the evening, he was busy working. Within a few years, he ran the business very well and ______ expanded (扩大) it. What about the younger son? He didn't have much to do ______ having a good time every day. But the father______ that his favorite son would be a success. If the elder son could be a ______ businessman, surely the younger one, with a higher education, would do much better.

A few years later, the ______ of his decision became clear. Uninterested in business, the younger son continued spending his time enjoying ______. And he went out of business. But the elder son's far smaller share (份额) of business had expanded and he had shown everyone that he was a good decision maker. Being ashamed (羞愧的) at the end of the event, the father met the elder son and was angry with the younger one. The elder son, who was ______ to all this quietly, suddenly said he wanted to set up an independent business and live on his own. “Why?” asked the father. “I blame (责备) one person for my brother's failure, ______ it's not him. You can't blame children for the faults (过失) of their parent, can you? ” asked the elder son.

【推荐1】In almost every photo from our 1986 family vacation to Washington D.C.,I am showing off the souvenir I _________ from the gift shop at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo- a cotton sweatshirt with pandas dancing on the _________. I was nine years old, and pandas were cool. Not even midsummer heat could _________me keeping that sweatshirt on throughout the _________ .

Over 30 years later I found myself among a pool of photojournalists and video crews _________ into the panda enclosure(围场). A baby panda named Bei Bei was being _________ to the world, and I was covering it for National Geographic. I asked zoo administrators if I could _________ periodically to document the first year of the panda’s life. They said yes.

Soon I was making _________ stops at the zoo to record the baby’s daily _________. I watched Bei Bei grow from a baby to a __________,energetic youth. He played with the keepers, looking around the corner from one room to the next in his version of hide-and- seek, he’d lunge(猛冲) for my camera, reminding me that he was __________ a bear.

When Bei Bei was a few months old, the zoo held an official opening day for__________ to come and see him.That morning I arrived early, making my way past the line that was __________ forming at the entrance to the enclosure. I __________ with a woman there who’d been making frequent trips to the zoo to see pandas since 1982, panda earring enthusiastically from her ears.“I’ll come every month,”she said, “It’s great to watch the baby panda __________.”