【推荐1】When Mike told me he was leaving I felt like a vase which had just broken. There were pieces of me all over the tidy floor. He kept talking, telling me why he was leaving,_______it was for the best, I could do better, it was his_______and not mine. I had heard it before many times and yet somehow was still hurt; perhaps one cannot_______such pain.

He left and I tried to_______my life. I filled the kettle (水壶), put it on to boil, took out my old red cup and_______the coffee powder falling into the bone china. Somehow when the kettle piped its finishing warning, I_______not to hear it. That’s what Mike’s leaving had been like, sudden and with a(n)_______end. I would rather just_______in uncertainty than have things finished. I laughed at myself. Just about a cup of coffee, I must be getting_______.

And yet it was a young woman who________back at me from the mirror, a young woman full of________and hope, a young woman with bright eyes just waiting to see the world.________, there are more important things. More important than________, I insist to myself firmly. The lid goes back on the coffee just like closing on the whole Mike experience.

He didn’t________my dreams as I feared that night.________, I am flying far across fields and woods,________on those below me. I fly free until I meet another bird who flies with me in perfect harmony. I realize with some________that there is a bird out there for me, there is another person, not necessarily a lover perhaps just a________, but there is someone out there who is my soul mate. I think about being a broken________again and realize that I have gathered myself back together, what Mike has is________a little part of my time in earth, a little understanding of my physical being. He has merely, a little piece of me.

【推荐3】I had not seen my parents for a long time. Last Saturday I drove a long way to visit them,       _____neither of them was at home. So I waited patiently at their home________their return. Not seeing them made me really________

As I was walking around their bedroom,I______ little reminders of them. Some Christmas gifts were still_______in boxes. There were_______on the wall, which I guess must have a ________meaning to them. What took my breath away was seeing my dad's emblems (徽章) from his military service of our country______he was young. My father never_______to us about the Korean Wars. As I looked at those emblems hanging______with all the photos that he treasures, I______that this was an important part of his life, but I never spent the______in talking with him about them. The photos of my mom with her close_______made me realize her life before she was my mom. I had been so______running my business to raise my own family that I______the chance to know about their past and experience.

We sometimes don't realize something is______for us until we have lost it, so it's not too late for us to talk to our parents about their past. I am writing my story to______everyone who is fortunate to still have their parents_______to invest some time to learn about them. I am grateful to have_______of my parents. So I still have time to talk with them. I hope that readers will______from my story and find the time to talk about those things in their life that mean so much to their parents.

【推荐1】At 6 am my guide takes me to the campsite's restaurant to begin our morning safari where we are surrounded by a group of monkeys who are distracted from biscuit-stealing to create a _______ of loud sounds. Our guide tells us they've _______ something dangerous hiding around the campsite. It is a huge leopard （豹），who moves quietly past, paying absolutely no _______ to us.

For the two nights we _______ to see various species of animals, starting with two groups of lions stopping for a family picnic, where a huge giraffe is the unfortunate creature on the _______ .

By day two, two male lions have driven the _______ away and now sit guarding the feast, _______ us threateningly as we drive _______ close by.

On the _______ afternoon we're sent back to the campsite as a couple of wild African dogs have caught an impala （黑羚羊）right in the campsite's ____________ At night, I am rudely awakened by the ____________ sound of an animal crunching （嘎吱嘎吱的嚼）on what could only be ____________ outside my tent. Not wanting to ____________ the dog and what's probably left of the impala, I lie in a (n) ____________   state in bed. An elephant makes a low sound from across the campsite. It's probably had its good night’s sleep ____________, too. Eventually morning ____________, and I peek （窥视）outside the tent to see what's going on,   ____________ seeing impala bones ____________ outside my door.

But there's only a huge pile of elephant waste, a few animal ____________ and the wild dogs, running, ____________ , away from me.

【推荐2】My phone rang and it was a number I didn’t recognize. When I _______ it, I heard my son’s _______ voice on the other end saying, "Mama, I got on the wrong _______ ." This was his first year in the middle school. I knew my little boy was very _______. After all, it was only his second time to _______ home. Since he normally had football classes, I would met him.

The phone wasn’t hung up, I could hear my _______ was speaking with the bus driver. I could feel his frustration (挫败). The tone of his _______ when he told the bus driver "I’m so sorry" was _______ . Then on the other end of the line, I _______ a calming response. The woman driver said, "Oh, honey, you don’t have to ________. It’s my job to get you home ________. And this is what I’m going to do. ” I’m grateful, ________ she was comforting (安慰) my son. I couldn’t help but think of the many other responses he could have ________. She told me not to worry. We appointed (约定) a place and then she went out of her way to comfort him.

When I arrived at the location we ________ on, the woman driver came over with my son and explained how she noticed he felt terrible and ________. My son had even asked her if he messed everything up. She tried her best to make him ________

Every day, I pray that there are people in our ________ and in the right places to watch over my ________ when I’m not there. And today it did happen. This ________ truly showed the love in her behaviors and care for my son. I won’t let her behaviors go unnoticed, so this story will be ________ with everyone on the Internet.

【推荐3】My mother was a nurse and often took me along to visit the families she was caring for. Among them was a woman who had a _______ disease and was always lying on the bed.

One afternoon, my mom told me that we needed to visit the woman at her home, and that we needed to be there to _______ treatment, and we would stop at a store on the way. I thought we would stop at a _______ store, where we can buy some pills, but we pulled up to a _______. My mom headed to the make-up area and bought the most expensive bottle of perfume they _______. To my surprise, she also bought a _______ nightdress. When I asked my mom who these things were for, she said they were for her patient. My mom further explained that although this woman was older and unable to _______ her bed, she was still a lady, and she still _______ dignity (尊严) and beauty. She _______ to me that when we care for someone, we should look past the ________ or the illness and we look into the soul of the human so we can connect with them with sympathy.

I ________ realized that my mother’s great strengths and abilities were ________ the very young and the very old, those who can not ________ out their needs and hope for themselves, and need trustworthy and loving care providers. Under the influence of my mother, I knew in the 9^th grade I would become a ________. Today, my dream has come true. I work as a clinical psychologist, working hard and remembering what my mom taught me, and I’m not ________ that I find my work filled with patients who are very and very old.

【推荐1】We are changed, sometimes in unexpected ways, by the problems of life.

One day, William Osler, a beloved doctor, was ________ in one of Britain’s military hospitals during the World War I. He was called out of the wards during his daily ________ to be given an important message. His own son had been killed on the ________ of France.

Shocked by the news, he still came back to ________ his rounds. For a long time afterward he was ________ different. And those who knew him best said that he ________ as a doctor that day. The ________ note was gone from his voice and never again did friends hear the tune which he so often ________ as he went from ward to ward.

Though these things never ________, something eventually came to take their ________. Everyone noticed a new sympathy in his care of the soldiers who each day ________ in from the battlefield. Before, he had the professional ________ of the doctor, so important to the practice of medicine. Now there was an added obvious note of a ________ sympathy, like that of a father for his son.

Like most people who have experienced such losses, Osler must have spent a lot of time in great ________. But as he healed and mixed the loss into his life, it left him a ________ person.  

Pain will do that. It changes us, often in unexpected ways.

【推荐2】In January this year, a fire destroyed the building that housed Yossi Heiman’s Fish Market in Borough Park, Brooklyn: The _________ made Yossi Heiman have no place to operate his business and no ability to get _________.

The merchant Shea Langsam owns a(n) _________ store, just a few blocks away. One would have _________ that sympathetic as he maybe to his competitor’s bad luck, he would welcome this opportunity to _________ new customers and increase his business. _________, Shea did something truly excellent. When he learned of the fire, he _________ the phone and called Yossi Heiman. Not only did he _________ him but when he heard Yossi say he would need a facility and deliver _________ to his customers, he said, “don’t worry! Why not join me in my store before your store could be rebuilt? As fellow community members we all should try to help each other.” Shea did as he promised and Yossi __________ his losses.

The story is wonderful and it’s a(n) __________ of seeing fellow community members as part of one family, putting needs of others __________ their own needs. Businessmen usually want to make more money or grow their __________ but the story is __________: It’s a truly sincere display of true faith and great kindness. Real faith means __________ others and having a heart of compassion (同情) and mercy like Shea.

【推荐3】I had offered to watch my 3- year-old daughter, Mary, so that my wife could go out with a friend. I was getting some work done _____ Mary appeared to be having a good time in the other room. But suddenly it got a little too ____ and I shouted out, “ What are you doing, Mary?” No response. I _____my question and heard her say, “ Oh… nothing.”   Nothing?   I was eager to know what “nothing” ___?

I got up from my desk quickly and ____ out into the living room, then I told her to turn around. She _____. I pulled out my big, mean, authoritative Daddy ___ , “ Young lady, I told you to turn around!”

___ , she turned toward me. In her   ____   was what was left of my wife’s new lipstick（口红）. And every square inch of her face was ____ with the colour of bright red!

As she looked up at me with ___ eyes, lips trembling. It was just a matter of my picking out which old______I was going to use on her so that she would know what a ____ girl she had been. But before I could let loose, I ____ at the sweatshirt my wife had put on her only an hour before. In big ____ it said, “I AM A PERFECT LITTLE ANGEL!”   I looked back up into her tearful eyes and _____ seeing a bad girl who didn’t listen, I saw a child of God… a ____ little angel full of worth, value and a wonderful nature.

“Sweat-heart, you ____ beautiful! Let’s take a ____ so Mommy can see how special you look.” I took the picture and thanked God that I didn’t ____ the opportunity to make sure what a perfect little angel he had given me.