【推荐2】Ayaan and Mickey Naqvi love their family Christmas ___________, like making cookies and packing gifts. But most of all, they love ___________ the Christmas tree.

One day, as the brothers were hanging their decorations, one of the glass ornaments (装饰) fell off a branch and ___________. It was then that the light went off and the Ornament Anchor was ___________.

Ayaan tested the Anchor for a school project last year. And when parents and teachers gathered around his booth with ___________. he knew he and his brother were on to something. The pair didn’t waste any time turning their invention into a ___________.

“My brother and I worked together to design the ___________, patent (申请专利) it, work out profits and did our own market analysis.” Ayaan told CNN. After selling over $1,000 worth of product within the first six hours at a local Christmas fair last year, the boys were ___________ to share the product with the world.

In a matter of months, Good Morning America ___________ the product. So did QVC, where it sold out twice. In just one year, Ayaan and Mickey made over $250,000 in ______________ and have donated — and will continue to donate — 10% of all profits to local ______________ shelters. Ayaan said of his reason to support shelters. “My goal is to help as many animals ______________ as I can.”

Though the boys are enjoying their ______________ now, 2020 was not an easy year to start a new business.They even went through from highs to lows. They’ve been keeping it positive ______________. They are taking small steps every day and have been so amazed by all the ______________ responses for Ornament Anchor they’ve gotten so far.

【推荐3】There is a fine line between a parent who is active and open-minded and one that doesn’t know when to let go. As my daughter, Nicole, ______ to leave home for college, I’m discovering how hard it is to stay on the right side of this line. When I hold ______ the apron strings (围裙带) connecting us, Nicole, eager to ______ independence, tries to loosen my grasp. What ______ is an awkward mother-daughter, push-me, pull-you kind of tango.

For the past two years, it’s gone like this:

Mother’s question: “Have you thought of taking an advanced placement class (高阶课程) so that you can ______ college credit?”

Daughter’s response: “No, I’m not interested in that.”

……

I bit my lip a few times and Nicole shot me a few glares.

Two months ago, she was ______ to a great university. However, I was still the mother having a ______ time letting go. The night before the introductory meeting of the university, I had read the course catalog carefully and ______ courses which I thought looked good. We met on the campus the next afternoon, and Nicole’s face ______ with excitement, “I have had my entire schedule figured out,” she said. “Already?” I was astonished, _____ she should have discussed it with me. I examined the schedule. Nicole hadn’t taken a (an) ______ one of the courses I had suggested. Every course she had chosen ______ suited her interests. Just then I saw a mature, capable young woman with a ______ mind and the ability to shape her future. She no longer needed her mother to evaluate every ______ she made. I felt proud, though still a bit ______.

I ______ the lessons carefully. Nicole has ______ to learn over the past 18 years: responsibility, sympathy, and hard work. There have been a few holes along the way. ______, she is well-equipped and eager to ______ the future. The next step, I recognized, was mine to take: giving my daughter and myself the ______ we both needed.

【推荐3】In one of my college classes, we were required to do an act of kindness. My project included ________lunch for an elderly person. When I________the elderly person with the food I cooked, it never________to me that it would result in a new friendship and the discovery of a________.

The person I visited was Bill, who was unable to________much. A nurse came regularly to help him move to and from the wheelchair because he has no________. Bill said he was delighted to see me and it was a________for him to eat a meal with me because he usually eats________. He said the food was great, but he enjoyed having________even more than the food.

Bill had had a________life when working on the railroad and had many________stories to tell about his travels to many places. I was________a trip because of his stories. I had once________about traveling by train. However, I would________be going by train after meeting Bill.

Perhaps the biggest________of this project was that I suddenly realized that I am________of working with the elderly. Spending time with them was fun-they have so much life experience to_____. On the one hand, I am a good________. On the other hand, older people want someone to know their inner world, so it is a perfect________. I decided to focus my studies on the________. Hopefully in the future, I will work with them to help even more people like Bill.