【推荐2】When I was a little boy, I would play outside for hours on sunny summer days, and then have a deep and peaceful sleep at night. Sometimes, I’d have some vivid dreams, making me _________ for a moment. I would stare out into the darkness to see if anything was there and then _________ over and go back to sleep. I can still remember a few times when I woke up, _________ out into the darkness, and actually saw someone there. It was Mom _________ over me as I slept. Each time she _________ told me to go back to sleep and I closed my eyes again, feeling _________ and loved.

I never asked Mom why she watched me sleep from time to time, but after seeing my own children _________ so fast, I think I know why. She wanted to catch a moment in time and _________ it in her heart forever. I just _________ that she carried a lot of those moments with her into Heaven when she __________ at only 55.

Last night I was sleeping lightly __________ I suddenly felt someone near me. I opened my eyes and saw Mom’s __________ standing in the room, smiling at me, and then she was gone.

Now some may say that this was just a dream, a wish or part of an old __________. To me, though, it was __________ that Mom’s loving spirit was still watching over me. To me, it was evidence enough to know that one day I would be __________ with her and everyone I have ever loved.

Trust in their love. Know that your own life can be full of love, too. Then joyfully go out and live it with a brave heart and a smiling soul.

【推荐3】Danielle Wride was brushing her daughter’ slong brown hair when she noticed something strange. With each touch, clumps (缕)of her daughter's hair would _______ . Within 20 days, seven-year-old Gianessa Wride's hair was _______ gone, and the doctor told her that it would never _______ Gianessa became one of the 6. 8 million Americans with a disease that causes permanent baldness.

The disease isn't _______ , but for kids who suffer from it, the _______ comes from standing out from the crowd. The _______ comment of “baldy” made Gianessa feel like an outcast（被排斥者）.

Then the school _______ its “Crazy Hair Day” competition, and Danielle and Gianessa decided that rather than _______ Gianessa's baldness under a cap, they would _______ it. Danielle decorated her daughter's head with flower designs and even an owl.

On the morning of the competition, Gianessa was ________ Would her friends think it was stupid or funny? Actually, she had nothing to ________ . Beautiful Gianessa was a hit and the ________ of the competition. Gianessa is now glad she ________ to go bare. “I was sad at first,” she said, “but now I love being bald. I can do things to my head that other kids can't.”

As long as you keep a ________ attitude, suffering can also make you ________

【推荐1】You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his dogs.

For many years, I _____ living with my dogs, Tilly and Chance. Their companionship was nearly enough to keep my _____ at bay. Nearly, last year, I started_____, but with reservations. When I first dated Steve, I learned he ____ a dog, Molly, and a cat, Flora. While I was thrilled that he was an animal ____, I worried that three dogs were perhaps too many, and my dogs might attack Flora, the ____.

The next week we walked our dogs together. It was a hot day. When we _____ to catch our breath, Steve got down on one ____ . Was he proposing (求婚)? I _____ him too, but so soon? He poured water from a bottle into his hand and _____ it to my dogs. In that moment, I began to ____ him.

We continued to date, though neither of us brought up the future. And then in late November, Tilly had an ____on her leg. I ____ the dogs out four times a day, and I worried that Tilly constantly ____ the stairs could reopen the wound. Then Steve suggested his house. All____  fine. The three dogs _____ a pack that, with coaching, respected Flora’s ____; Steve and I formed a good _____caring for Tilly. We made good housemates.

A year later, much to my delight, this man ____ a little box with a ring and proposed to me. He did not kneel (跪) down, nor did I need him to. That’s only for giving water to the dogs that ____ us together.

【推荐2】Soon it would be the holidays, but before that, there were year exams. All the ________ had been working hard for some time, reviewing their lessons for the exams. If they didn’t ________, they would have to retake them in September. There were usually a few who ________, but Jane didn’t want to be one of them. She had worked hard all year, ________ just before the exams she was working so hard that her sister Barbara was ________ about her. She went to bed too late. The night before the first exam, Barbara ________ that she should have an early night and take a ________ pill. She promised to wake her up in the morning.

As she was falling asleep, Jane was afraid that she might oversleep. Her ________ kept jumping from subject to subject. At last, with the help of the medicine, she went to sleep. In no time at all, she was sitting in the examination hall, looking at the examination ________, but she couldn’t answer any of the questions. Everyone around her was writing pages and pages. ________ she thought hard, she couldn’t find anything to write about. She kept looking at her ________. Time was running out. There was only an hour to go. She started one question, wrote two sentences, ________ and tried another one. With only half an hour left she wrote another two sentences. By this time she was so worried that she started ________. Her whole body shook. It shook so much that she ________ up. She was still in bed and it had all been a ________ dream. A minute later , Barbara called her name.

【推荐2】When I was a child, my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life — in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I _________ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, “Stand porter to your find.”

A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door _________ people in or out. Dad would get me to _________ myself stopping destructive things — such as fear — at the door, but saying “Come in” to faith, love and confidence.

As a(n) _________ before I went on camera, I’d make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in my ability came in. As a mother, when I was _________ about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would _________ my mind with trust in them.

Of course, there were always times I’d _________ those words.

In 1972 my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own _________ in North Holly wood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more _________ and complicated than we had __________.

We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going wrong. Electricity went on the blink, food wasn’t delivered, employees called in sick. Once, a pandemic suddenly left us with no servants. Fillmore gave me a __________: scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded enough king-size sheets to blanket the whole state of California.

Then there was the __________ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California __________. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just __________. I stood porter.

I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.

These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to register, I just smile and point to the sign that __________ No Vacancy.