【推荐1】Never do I realize it has been so long since my father left us. I have often thought what a ________ world it would be without children; and what a cruel world without the ________.

My father was a very warm and ________man, quick to lend a hand to anyone who needed it. I always ________ my father and deeply admired his way with people.

He was in a care center for years after suffering a series of diseases that impacted his ability to walk and caused his ________ to be slow and not clear. It ________ me very much to see him there, and we tried to visit him several times a month. My toddler daughter, Kelsey, read stories to him, and he lay listening as her ________ ran wild, pretending to read words from the books she held in her tiny hands. They loved each other dearly, and he was her “Papa.”

Kelsey was only four years old when Dad died. I was ________for weeks, and Kelsey tried to comfort me. Oftentimes she cried with me or tried in some way to make me feel better. Nothing helped. I needed my ________ on this Earth, and sometimes my heart ________ so badly that I thought it might be broken because of sadness.

While we were preparing for Thanksgiving, I heard Kelsey talking to her daddy. They were chatting about Papa and how he had gone to ________and was now watching over us. She said in the sweetest voice, “Daddy, since Mama doesn’t have a daddy anymore, do you think you could just ________ yours with her?”

I sighed in relief, bursting into tears.

From that day on, my sadness ________. I knew my father had given Kelsey gifts of care, kindness and ________ for others.

He would ________ forever, in her.

【推荐2】I was sure that I was to be killed. I became terribly nervous. I reached in my pockets to see if there were any cigarettes, which had _________ their search. I found _________and because of my shaking hands, I could _________ get it to my lips. But I had no matches, they had taken those. I looked _________ the bars at my jailer(看守). He did not make eye contact with me. I _________ out to him “Have you got a light?” He looked at me, shrugged and came over to light my cigarette. _________ he came close and lit the match, his eyes accidentally locked with mine. At that moment, I _________. I don’t know why I did that. Perhaps it was _________, perhaps it was because, when you get very close, one to another, it is very _________ not to smile. In that instant, it was ______________ a spark jumped across the gap between our two hearts, our two human souls. I know he didn’t want to, but my smile leaped through the bars and generated smile on his lips, too. He lit my cigarette but ______________, looking at me directly in the eyes and continuing to smile.

I ______________ smiling at him, now aware of him as a(n) ______________ and not just a jailer. And his looking at me seemed to have a new ______________ too. “Do you have kids?” he asked. “Yes, here, here.” I took out my wallet and nervously fumbled for the ______________ of my family. He, too, took out the pictures of his family and began to talk about his plans and hopes for them. My eyes were filled with tears. I said that I feared that I’d never see my family again, never have the chance to see them grow up. Tears came to his eyes, too. ______________ without another word, he ______________ my cell (牢房) and silently led me out. Out of the jail, quietly and by back routes, out of the town. There, at the edge of town, he released me. And without another word, he turned back toward the town.

“My life was ____________ by a smile.” Yes, the smile—the unaffected, unplanned, ______________ connection between people. I really believe that if that part of you and that part of me could ______________ each other, we wouldn't be enemies. We couldn't have hate or envy or fear.

【推荐3】My mom is a great cook. Thinking about things she cooked made my mouth_________. But when putting a beef steak in her pan, she_________ into the anti-cook. She could turn the best beef into something with the flavor of shoe leather.

Yesterday my brother Bud took me out for lunch and _______ steaks. I wasn’t _______, but since he was paying I figured I could choke down a few _______. When the waitress served our steaks, I was _________ at how good they smelled. Mom’s steak never _____ like that. The first bite was a wonderful flavor. Suddenly I________ why others spoke of steak fondly.

“You know,” I said to Bud, patting my _______ contentedly(满足地). “I used to think Mom was a great cook. But it’s hard to believe her steak come from the same _______ as these steaks.”

“Mom is a great cook,” Bud said. “But think about it. She _______ during the Great Depression.” That’s when she learned to cook. How often do you think they had steak? ______ never. It’s only been recently that they could _____ to buy steak. That’s why she hasn’t had a lot of _______cooking steak.

It suddenly ______ to me that nobody was perfect. Sandy Koufax was a great pitcher(投手), but he still ______ 87 games. Luciano Pavarotti was a great singer, but he occasionally _______ with his lower register(音域). Our strengths have elements of weakness. That is why great athletes still __________ and great actors still rehearse(排练). Because when it comes to it, _____ isn’t something we are; It is something we become. And that process of becoming includes learning and growing through both _________ and failure.

【推荐1】Life is to be lived. No excuses. No reservations (保留). No holding back.

A story about the violinist Fritz Kreisler tells how he once _________ a beautiful instrument he wanted to acquire. When he _________ raised the money for the violin, he returned to buy it and learned that it had already been sold to a(n) _________.

He went to the new owner’s home in order to try to ask him to sell the violin. _________, the collector said it was one of his prized possessions and he could not let it go. Kreisler felt _________ and turned to leave, but then asked a favor, “May I play the instrument once more _________ it is put away?”

Permission was given and the great musician began to play. The _________ sang out a quality of music which was so beautiful that the collector himself could only listen in _________. “I have no _________ to keep that to myself,” he said after the musician finished. “The violin is yours, Mr. Kreisler. Take it into world, and let people __________ it.”

You and I are excellent violins — our music is meant to be heard.

I want to live my __________ that way — to take it into the world and live it fully. I’d rather burn out than rust out (锈坏). I’d rather be __________ than die not having done whatever I could.

I’m not talking about exhausting ourselves by doing too much. Happiness is never found in overmuch busyness. But it is found in investing our lives in others. Say yes when asked for a hand.   __________ to work for a worthwhile organization. Spend an hour with a ________ relative.

In the end, I know that my happiness is not about by my ability or my inability. It is about how much I __________ to others.

【推荐2】I was always complaining about wind or rain. _____it was nothing unusual for the arrival of wind or rain,it caused inconvenience for me to go out,and sometimes it even created an awful atmosphere,so I _____ it strongly.

On a rainy day a meteorologist（气象学家）I met was very _____ at my great anger caused by rain that made a little inconvenience for me.

He asked,"Have you ever seen typhoon？Do you know what would happen to the world if there were no typhoon？"I shook my head.I had no _____ of how overwhelming it was when it _____everything away in its way.

"Well,let me tell you,"the meteorologist said."Without it the _____ of fresh water will be more serious,for it is a great _____ of water supply on earth.Without it,there would be a greater imbalance in the distribution of _____.The equatorial area that receives the most sunshine on earth   _____ entirely on typhoon to disperse（驱散）heat.Without typhoon the tropics would be even _____ while the frigid zones much colder.As a result the temperate zones would _____from the world…"

Ignorance made me _____.I disliked wind only because it ruffled（吹乱）my hair.I hated rain merely because I had to carry an umbrella.But I had no idea at all that typhoon---something much more violent,something a thousand times more _____than wind or rain---was a _____to the existence of mankind.

______ no road on earth goes all the way on level ground,there's no person in the world who can do whatever he pleases. ______ as it is for people to guard against typhoon,it is advisable for a man to stop ______ for a moment before he complains." ______ typhoon disappeared all together？What would the world become then？"The ______ will keep him calm and lead him closer to truth---he will be better ______ of the world he lives in.

【推荐3】I’m not a climate scientist. I don’t know much about _______. I just really like them. Whenever I’m outside or near a window, my eyes are drawn to their ever-changing shapes. I love the different _______ they take. There were times I sat on a beach and found myself unable to _______ if I was looking at the water, sand or clouds.

I’ve been _______ to clouds since I was a child. I loved to _______ them as animals in the sky. I loved getting lost in _______, staring at them out the windows during a(n) _______ class at school or on a long road trip.

There were moments when I realized how much clouds _______ my experience of the world. A sky of bright white clouds would make me feel _______ and energetic, while a sky covered with ________ clouds can make the same things appear ________.

Watching clouds is a solitary (独处的) activity for me, even when I’m ________ by people. If you have a drink or a meal with me in an outdoor café, my eyes will ________ turn to the sky. I might frequently point out an interesting shape. Mostly, I just ________ enjoy them. Like a piece of art, a vase of flowers, or a passerby in an amazing dress, clouds are one of those ________ things to be noticed and ________ when I’m alone.

Clouds can also ________ me away from the dull parts of life, and away from day-to-day stresses and ________. They get me out of my head and into a(n) ________ land where I can imagine the constraints (束缚) of everyday life don’t ________.