【推荐1】If our kids don’t fall, they don’t learn to get up.

One day in my high school, my mom _____ to pick me up from school. She had a(n) _____day with my three naughty sisters and no doubt it had slipped her mind. After _____ at school for an hour, I walked the three miles home. I stormed into the kitchen _____ and screamed at my mom that she’d forgotten me.

Later that night, my dad told me I no longer had a _____ to school the next day. I _____my mom would still take me. _____, when the morning came, she _____. It was the day for midterm tests, and being _____ wasn’t an option. In my mind, ______ these tests would’ve been the ______of my academic career. I told her she was ruining my future and everything I’d worked ______. But she stuck to her ______, and that day, I walked to school. And I missed my tests.

My mom didn’t rescue me from ______. She let me suffer through it. She let me figure it out. She let me learn.

And now, I’ve ______ that I want my kids to experience failure because experiencing failure is ______ we grow, learn and think outside of ourselves. So, next time you want to ______ your child from skinned knees, remember that you might be cheating them out of the greatest ______ they could ever have: the power of knowing that there are natural ______ for their actions, and that they are finally ______ for the choices they make.

【推荐2】A couple in Ohio accidentally dropped off a bag containing almost $100,000 at an Ohio charity shop. Thanks to _________ employees, they got money back. 

The employees were going through _________ last week when they came across a _________.Inside was $97,004. “It was so much cash,” employee Kelsey Croy said. “I looked in the bag and we _________ it right there on the desk. And it was $97,004.” Thankfully, the owners _________ a receipt for tax purposes when they dropped off _________ that morning. The employees _________ called the couple but there was no _________. 

Not wanting to_________ that amount of cash in the store, they called in the Zanesville Police Department. __________ repeated calls, officers finally got a hold of the couple. The couple hadn’t realized the money was __________.They told police they withdrew all their money to another bank. On the way, they __________ at the charity shop to donate a bag of clothes. That’s __________ the money ended up there.“When we finally __________ them,they just asked if they could get it tomorrow,” the officer said. 

The couple has since made contact with the original __________ who found the money to thank them. “I’m just glad that I meet with a bunch of honest and loyal people,” Croy said.

【推荐1】A year back, my friend and I had gone to a nearby town to attend a wedding. After the wedding, we were ________ for a public transport bus to go back home. It was nine o’clock at night, and although many buses passed, none ________. We waited for an hour and were getting ________. We wouldn’t be able to stay overnight because it was a weekday, and we both needed to ________ the next day.

It was almost 10 pm when a family who had attended the same ________ passed by in their car. Probably ________ that we were waiting for some means of transport, they stopped and gave us a ________. I was so ________ by their kindness, and I expressed my thanks to them. When we reached my ________, the family dropped us at the nearest ________ from where we could catch a bus or a taxi to get back to the spot we had ________ our bike.

When we were waiting, a poor, cold and tired labourer (工人) ________ an auto (汽车). The driver saw his ________ and asked him whether he had ________. The labourer shook his head and said, “No”. On hearing this, the driver ________ to take him. I remembered my own ________ a few hours earlier, and I told the driver to allow him to ________ with us, as I would pay his fare. What an immediate chance to ________ the act of kindness! That night, I felt a lightness in my heart, and I went to sleep ________ and filled with joy about what I had gotten to do. May this chain of kindness ________.

【推荐2】Hani was a shy, 17-year-old girl of the Indonesian international school, where I taught English. She asked if I could help her improve her English. I could tell it took great _________ for the young girl to _________ me and ask for help.

“I want to go to a US university,” she said with _________. I was surprised.

I _________ to help her. For several months, Hani woke each morning at five and caught the bus to her school. At 4 o’clock in the afternoon, she _________ my classroom, tired but ready to work. When meeting Hani at her house, which was in bad _________, I realized it was impossible for her to afford the expenses of a US university. Hani’s interest was increasing with her language ability but I was becoming more and more _________.

One day I received the _________ of a scholarship opportunity for a major US university. After reading the _________, I knew Hani couldn’t meet the qualifications (资格). I told her the truth. But she remained __________. “Will you __________ my name?” she asked. I couldn’t turn her __________ and I completed the application for her.

In the following weeks, I arranged for her to take the Test of English Fluency, which would be a big challenge for whoever had never touched a computer before. For two weeks, we studied how a computer works. Then, she received a letter from the scholarship organization. She had been __________.

I leaped (跳跃) around the room, overjoyed and shocked. Hani stood by, __________ I realized it is not __________ alone that brings success, but also the drive to succeed, the commitment (投入) to work hard and the courage to have trust in yourself.

【推荐1】In the beautiful month of May, Mary and her two sisters, Edith and Elsie, often have happy times hanging May baskets.

In the evening, they go _________ to the house of some playmates, and hang the basket upon the door. After knocking, they run away and _________ behind some bush or in some dark corners. The one who gets the basket runs to _________ them. If they are caught, they will spend a _________ evening together,playing and laughing.

One day, Elsie said, “I think it would be fun to make a May basket for Mama.”

“Oh, yes!” _________ Mary, “Let us make the prettiest one we can!”

“We must keep it a _________,” said Edith, “How can we make it _________ her knowing?”

“That’s easy enough,” said Elsie, “We can make it up in the garret (阁楼).”

“The hardest thing will be to make it _________ enough.” said Mary, “Mama ought to have the prettiest May basket, _________ she’s the dearest mama in the world.”

What __________ it is to make it! __________ some candies and nuts,they picked some __________growing down by the river. The children could hardly wait until it was dark. They __________ together in the corners of the sitting room and __________ how beautiful the basket was.

Mama was sitting by the dining table and __________ she heard a very loud knock. “Somebody has __________ a May basket,” She said, “Kids, where are you?” But nobody __________, and she went to the door herself. How __________ she was to find her own name upon the basket! She went out __________ the children. She heard them laugh and finally found them. Mama said it was the most beautiful May basket she had ever seen. The flowers were the very ones she had been __________ for a week!