【推荐1】At the age of 60, my father was hit by a car when he walked to a nearby supermarket to buy vegetables. After _______for two months in hospital, he finally woke up. His waking up _______ all our family. _______, he didn’t know any of us. Doctors said his brain was hurt so _______ that he had lost all his memory. And his mental age (心理年龄) was only five. We were sorry to hear about the bad news.

Since I was his only child, it was my _______ to look after him. He forgot _______ everything, but he did remember he liked sweets. I used the sweets as a way of _______ bad behaviors. I would gave him one sweet_______ he didn’t sit on the ground, a second for stopping painting on the wall, and another for not putting clothes on the dog·

Dad became the _______ child in town. He climbed up the tree to catch a bird and couldn’t get down after it ________ away. He broke my window with a ball and ________ our telephone in water like washing clothes. When I told him he was doing ________ things, he would answer smilingly, “I like that!” My son, then aged five, and two eight-year-old daughters, welcomed their ________ playmate. He would happily ________ his sweets with them, and carry them high in the apple tree to ________ apples.

It is eight years since the ________. Dad has accepted the fact that he is the ________of his three playmates but not a brother. He has also accepted that they grow taller but his ________ stays the same. Though it is still ________to take care of him, he brings us a lot of fun. In some way I think it is a(n) ________ thing to look after dad like looking after a child. How many people can have the chance to care for a child-like parent?

【推荐2】My mother is the sweetest person you would ever want to meet. She was always bright and selfless. She is also someone whose_________is being damaged and whose identity is being lost slowly because of Alzheimer’s disease (阿尔茨海默症/老年痴呆症). For me, it is a slow letting go and a_________process. Although she couldn’t_________herself，she at least still knew her immediate family. I knew the day would come when that would change and finally, about two﹣and﹣a﹣half years ago, that day came.

My parents would visit us almost daily and we would have a pleasant time, but one day there was a connection missing. My mother no longer_________me as her daughter. She would tell my father “Oh, they are such nice people.” Telling her I was her daughter made no_________at all. When I would hug her good﹣bye, I would close my eyes and_________that this was my mother from years ago. I would drink in (陶醉于) every familiar (熟悉的) feeling I have known for 36 years﹣her warm comforting body, and the soft, sweet smell that was hers alone. Every day, I prayed (祈祷) for her.

One late summer afternoon, my prayers were_________and I was taken by surprise. My parents were outside in the garden when my mother suddenly jumped up_________she had been hit by lightning. She ran into the kitchen, grabbed me gently from behind and_________me around. With a sparkle (闪光) in her eyes, she__________asked me if it was true, was I her baby? Tears welling up, I said, “yes, it was true”. We hugged and cried and neither of us wanted to let go of this magical moment. I knew it could disappear as quickly as it came. She said she always felt a__________to me and that I was nice, but that it had come to her suddenly that I was her child. We felt__________.I took this reward from God and savored (享受) it, even if it were to last just for that moment. We had a special connection again.

__________my mother’s condition has continued to worsen, she remembers who I am and it has been a year since that__________afternoon. A month ago when we had another visitor, she started stroking my hair and told them__________, “Did you know that she was my baby?”

【推荐3】This year I decided to do something to regain my good name as a kindly uncle. My_______Tony, had never forgiven me for the dictionary I had bought him as a birthday present last year. His _______ had no reason to be thankful to me either, because the year before, I had _______ their dear son with a pot of paste (浆糊) and some funny pictures. Instead of _______ them into a book, Tony had naturally covered every wall in the house with them. This year, _______, I decided to let him_______ for himself.

We went into a big shop, but Tony was very particular about _______ . Although I tried to show him toy after toy, he was not to be_______. Then I saw he suddenly became_______; he had discovered something he really liked: a large tin drum. I was quite happy too________ I thought what Tony’s mother would say when she saw it. Nobody would get any ________ for weeks! I led Tony away________, saying that the drum was too expensive.

Tony asked for permission to go off________ and I made the most of my chance to sit down and________ my aching feet. Fifteen minutes passed but there was still no sign of Tony. I began to get________ and got up to look for him. I asked a young lady if she had seen a little boy in a grey suit. She looked________ her helplessly and pointed out that there were so many________in grey suits. I was just going to call the police for help, when I saw a strange________ dressed in strange orange clothes. He was wearing a false beard and had a caveman’s axe (斧子) in one hand, and a space gun in the other. It was, of course, Tony, who informed me________ that he was the first________to fly into space.

【推荐1】My grandmother died when my mother Alice, was five years old. The year was 1925, and life was hard. My mother told me that her family was too _______ to even afford to give her a doll.

In December 1982, I had a job at a bank. One afternoon, we were ______ the tree in the hall, getting ready for the Christmas. One of my customers came in with beautiful handmade dolls. He was _______ Christmas dolls. I decided to get one for my daughter. I asked my customer if she could make me a _____doll for my mother-one with grey hair and glasses. The doll maker felt that this idea was certainly ______ and took it on as a creative _______. He said “Yes”. So I placed my Christmas _____: two dolls for Christmas morning! I asked if he could ______ Santa Claus to make a visit to Christmas morning to our home. He _____ happily.

Christmas Day arrived at the _____ time, so did Santa Claus. I had prepared the gifts for Santa to ______. My daughter was surprised and ______ that Santa had come to see her.

My mother was enjoying watching her granddaughter’s _____ to the visit of this special guest. As Santa asked who Alice was, my mother was taken back by her name being ____ , and said that she was. Santa handed her a doll with a _____ that reads:

For Alice ：

I was cleaning out my sleigh(雪橇) before my trip this year and ______ this gift that was supposed to be sent on December 25, 1925. The present inside had ______ , but I felt that you might still wish to have it. Many ______ for the lateness of the gift.

Love，

Santa Claus

My mother was deeply ______ by the words in the card. She couldn’t speak but hold the doll as tears of _____ ran down her cheeks. That gift made my mother the happiest “child ” in the world.

【推荐1】Mary was always dreaming of graduating from college successfully and finding a good job. Since Mary came from a poor family, her dream seemed_________ Her family didn’t have enough money to send her to college_________no member of her family had ever gone to college. But Mary never_________that thought. In secondary school, she studied hard and spoke_________of her dream to teachers and friends. When her_________day at school came, the headteacher called her into his office. “I have a (n)___________for you,”he said. It was a scholarship to a nearby college. The power of a thought had_________its reward.

Mary’s dream came true when she graduated from_________. She took a major in teaching and_________herself to a local school for a job, but she was __________. She applied again. The answer was no. She kept going back until the school leader__________her.

Many years later Mary and her colleagues__________at a special party to honour her as an outstanding teacher. At the party, She explained the secret of her __________.“With__________and faith you can become what you wish. Not that your life will be without problems, but along the way problems will be__________”.

【推荐3】My son Leon’s passion for surfing began at the age of 13, and he would go out to surf each day. One afternoon, the lifeguard called and said Leon’s eye was badly _______ by his board.

He _______ 26 stitches (缝针) from the corner of his eye to the bridge of his nose. I _______, telling him how _______ I felt about not being there when he was hurt.

“It’s okay, Mom,” he _______ me. “ You don’t know how to surf anyway.”

“What?” I asked, _______ by his logic.

“I’ll be fine. The doctor says I can surf again in eight days.”

I wanted to tell him he wasn’t _______ to surf again until he was 20, but instead I bit my

_______ and hoped he would _______ about surfing.

However, for the next seven days he kept ________ me to let him surf again. One day after I had ________ “No” to him for the 100th time, he ________ me at my own game.

“Mom, you taught us never to ________ what we love.” I gave in.

Back then Leon was just a boy with a ________ for surfing. Now he’s a man ________ among the top 25 professional surfers in the world.