【推荐1】Weeks ago, I was traveling by train. After several stations, the delivery man from the cafeteria came along to   _______ the pre-booked hot meals and drinks. Just behind him rushed in a 9-year-old girl, who put out her hand, _______   some food. The food supplier was _______ and pushed her out of the coach（旅客车厢）. Something in me made me     _______ . I stepped outside and saw the child still standing there and crying. I asked her if she was hungry and she _______ . So I grabbed her hand and said I’d buy her food.

When I took her to the coach with the cafeteria, the people standing there had a(an) _______ expression on their face, seeing the little girl with me.   _______ their reaction, I asked her to _________whatever she wanted. As I pointed to each item, she _______   nodding.

________ , we collected so much food. When I turned to the cashier to pay the bill, the little girl ________ down the train. The cashier shook his head in disbelief and said the girl must be laughing for having fooled me into ________ her unhappiness.

As I returned to my coach, the cashier’s ________ made me doubt whether she’d really fooled me. So I ________ and went down the train, following the ________ the little girl had taken. After several coaches, I walked to a relatively-deserted coach. Here I saw a ________which left me surprised. This little girl was sitting in a________ with two other miserable-looking young boys. She had put all the food in the center and was ________     putting food into the hand of a young blind boy. Seeing all this, I couldn’t help ________ . The little girl taught us that one can be ________ even when poor.

【推荐3】It was a February morning 13 years ago. We ______ into the driveway, excited and proud, and ______ up our kids for photos. It was a big day, but back then we had no idea how it would ______ our lives.

We tried to fight it. We knew it marked us as uncool. But we had ______ minivan people.

I don’t care. That van is linked to so many great ______ — soccer games, camping trips, and a gang of 10-year-old boys ______ in for a big day at Canada’s Wonderland theme park.

That 24-hour journey to Florida to visit grandparents and a three-week holiday to the east coast, full of long conversations and classic rock ______ on cassette tapes.

In that van, I ______ my head off while going out with friends, and cried my heart out at the death of a ______ one.

I’ve dreamed and planned and moved homes while traveling on those four ______       wheels.

I know it’s just a ______. But the first time I watched my teenagers drive off in it ______, I realized they were growing up.

There were days when it drove me ______, too. On cold winter mornings, the sliding doors would freeze ______. Anyone who wanted to sit in the back seats had to climb in through the front. Still, we’ve ______ to our van for as long as possible. It never ever let us down, even as the repair bills got a little bigger each year and we faithfully ______ whatever was needed to keep it on the road safely.

Yesterday we finally made the _____. It was time to find a newer, smaller, more energy-efficient ______. The van was telling us it was time.

Saying goodbye is never ______. As we close the minivan chapter of our lives, my heart is a little sad — the days, months and years that passed by so quickly.

The story of our minivan is the story of our ______.

【推荐1】One day a man was asked to paint a boat by the owner of the boat. He brought with him paint and brushes and began to paint the boat bright red, as the owner asked him. While painting, he _________ there was a hole in the boat and decided to _________ it. When he finished painting, he received his _________and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and offered him a nice check (支票), much _________than the payment for painting. The painter was _________. “You’ve already paid me for painting the boat!” he said.

“But this is not for the paint _________. It’s for having repaired the hole in the boat.”

“But it was such a(n) _________ service. Certainly it’s not worth _________ me such a high amount for something so unimportant!”

“ My dear friend, you do not _________. Now let me tell you what happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I __________ to mention about the hole, When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and __________ a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a __________ in the boat. I was not at home at that time. When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was desperate (绝望的) because I remembered that the boat had a hole. Imagine my relief (宽慰) and joy when I saw them returning from fishing.

“Then, I __________ the boat and found that you had repaired the hole! You see, now, what you did? You __________my children! I do not have enough money to pay your ‘small’ good deed.”

So, no matter who, when or how, just __________   repair all the “leak” you find.