【推荐2】When I was asked a question who touched my life most, I would always say it was my mother. I believe in my mother. My________began when I was just a kid.

My mother was a waitress. Through her work, she learned that successful people spent a lot more time reading than they________watching television. She commanded that my brother and I________only watch two to three pre-selected TV programs during the week. With our free time, we had to read two books________from the Detroit Public Library and________book reports to her. She would mark them up with check marks and highlights. Years later, we realized her marks were a________, as she received no education at all.

When I entered high school, I was an A-student,________not for long. I wanted the________clothes. I wanted to go out with the guys. I went from being an A-student to a B-student to a C-student. One night my mother came home from finishing her________jobs and I talked about not having enough expensive Italian knit shirts. She said, "Okay, I'll give you all the money________I make this week scrubbing floors and cleaning bathrooms, and you can buy the family food and pay the bills.________everything left over you can have all the Italian knit shirt you want. I was very________with that plan since it was the first time that I________the chance to manage my own money. But once I went through spending the money, there was________left. I________my mother was a financial genius to be able to keep a roof________our heads and any kind of food on the table, let alone buy clothes. I also realized that immediate satisfaction wasn't going to get me________. Success required intellectual preparation. I went back to my studies and became an A—student again, and________I realized my dream of being a doctor.

My story is really my mother's story—a woman with no formal education or property________ used her position as a parent to change the lives of many people around the globe.There is________such job more important than parenting. This is what I believe.

【推荐3】Ring! Ring! Ring! It was early in the morning and I knew who was____as I reached for the telephone. I was a new substitute teacher trying to earn enough money to____my family. Each morning，I____for a call that would take me to a different classroom. The last three classes had all been determined to____me and see just how much bad behavior they could get away with. I had responded by being____with those naughty students. I didn't really____to go to work that morning，especially since it was my birthday.

Still，I answered the____and took the job. My family needed the money and I couldn't____to be picky（挑剔的）. As I was driving to work，I____to try harder to be the best teacher that I could be.

As the class started，the students____tried to see what they could get away with. This time？though，I was____but fair with them. I did my best to make my lessons____. I shared smiles，praised their efforts，and encouraged them to work hard.

The results were____. My noisy and unruly classroom soon____. Students were learning and laughing，and I____felt like I was doing my job right. I went home feeling____in my heart and enjoyed the rest of my birthday with my family.

I remembered something that I once read："Every day is a new opportunity to____again. Every day is your birthday. Every day is a____for us to get things right，to live our lives with love and joy，and to make this world a better place. Don't____a single day. Just try to be the best you can be. Never stop____."

【推荐1】One day a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. All students waited anxiously(焦急地)at their desks for the test to begin. The professor________the test papers with the papers facing down as usual. After giving them all out, he asked his students to________the test pages and begin.

The students were________to see that there was no question but just a black dot(点)in the center of the page. The professor noticed the________on everyone’s face and told them, “I want you to write about what you________there.”

The students then started the test. At the end of the class, the professor________all answer sheets(答卷)and________reading each answer. All of them gave a(n)________of the black dot and tried to explain its position(位置). After the professor finished reading, all the students were________.

Now, the professor began to explain, “Don’t worry. I’m not going to give you________for this but I just want you to________something. Here everyone ignored(忽视)the________paper and focused on (关注)the black dot-the________is with our lives. The white paper represents(代表) our whole life and the black dot represents________in our life. Our life is a gift given to us with love and care and we always have reasons to________ —our friends around us, the job that provides us with our livelihood(生计), etc.________, we just focus on health problems, shortage of money, and the________relationship with workmates, etc. We never see that these problems are very________compared with everything we have.”

Be happy and live________. We should try to take________off our problems and enjoy each moment that life gives us.

【推荐3】Throughout the junior-and senior-high mornings I watched my father go to work, I _______ told him how that affected me . I simply _______ about his ability to do what he did; keeping the _______ filled with food, paying my tuition fees and _______ Christmas gifts under the tree, taking me to Boston to buy new clothes, dragging me to church on Sundays… Perhaps it was because these scenes seemed so _______ that I never spoke of them.

And then at college, away from him---when his _______ became merely the voice over the phone---I thought other men were more _______ than Daddy. Those men who taught my classes and _______ complex theories.

Then, I entered society. I looked forward to _______ home, talking with Daddy, sharing a ball game, watching an old Western movie on television, drinking a beet, listening to the ________ about his childhood days. I ________        Daddy again-not as a boy in awe(敬畏), but with respect as a man. And I ________ that he was my father, a man who committed himself to a thankless job in a society.

And now, when I spend precious moments with my own son. I wonder what he thinks of me. At what point will I ________ in his world of important men, and will there be a point when he’ll return to me with a nod of ________? Will he treat me with love and ________? How will he measure my weaknesses and strengths?

Sometimes the ________ lessons are the most difficult to teach. Sometimes the most essential truths are the difficult to learn. I hope my son will one day value all the ________ and truths that have passed to him, through ________, from his grandfather. And as my son grows older. I believe that he, too, will measure his steps by the strides(大步) I have made for him, just as I have ________ my goals because of the strides my father has made for me. When my son does this, perhaps he will feel the same ________ and fulfillment that I do when I say, “I am father’s son.”

【推荐3】Several weeks ago I got a call from a good friend whose husband had just been diagnosed with cancer. “Do we tell the kids?” she asked. “_________.” I answered. “The boys deserve to know the truth, however _________ it is,” I continued.

Adults always insist that children be honest, _________ how many of us are honest with our kids, particularly about the _________ stuff: death, disease, corruption or our own failings?

I believe in telling children the truth. I believe this is vital for their understanding of the world, their confidence, and the development of their morals and values. This doesn’t mean kids need to be unnecessarily frightened or told more than they can _________. Kids also have an unusual _________ when there’s something wrong. They know a fake smile when they see one. They realize when we’re uneasy, and they can _________ when we’re lying.

One night I was in the car with our two oldest daughters. It was dark and cozy — the _________ time for a heart-to-heart conversation. One of our girls asked, “Mom, have you ever smoked cigarettes?” I stalled (故意拖延) a little, but the girls _________. They had me and they knew it. __________, I told them the truth. What happened next was an honest and direct __________ about the lure and danger of cigarettes, worthwhile and impressive. I believe my honesty was much more __________ than warnings or platitudes (老生常谈).

Time marches on, and so do __________. __________ I’ve made mistakes as a parent, I do have clear and open relationships with each of our children. I believe my being truthful with our children has __________, because I’m pretty sure that now they are honest with me.