【推荐3】Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. At the same time, teenagers have ______ feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common ______ between parents and teenagers is about untidiness and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents go mad over ______ rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the ______. On the other hand, teenagers lose their ______ continually when parents blame them for ______ the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or ______ to do the shopping at the supermarket.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different ______ to these problems. However, some approaches are more ______ than others. For example, those parents who yell at their children for their untidiness, but ______ clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s ______. On the contrary, those who let teenagers experience the bad ______ of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents ______ the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator, they are forced to ______ their actions.

Psychologists say that ______ is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should ______ to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to ______ their children have to say. Parents may ______ their children when they are untidy but they should also ______ that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by ______ to and understanding each other that problems between parents and children can be settled.

【推荐1】It was the day before my daughter's birthday. I'd just collected her from preschool when she cautioned me to________the elderly person walking across the car park. l was struck by her________and had no idea how much she really________it.

The following day--her birthday-we decided to buy cupcakes for her. After we________the cupcakes, Norah was busy standing up in the trolley(手推车),________waving and happily declaring, "Hi, old person! It's my birthday today!"________I could stop her calling him an old person, the stone-faced man________to hen His expression softened as he replied, "Well, hello, little lady! And how old are you today? "They________for a few minutes, he wished her a happy birthday, and we went our________ways. A few minutes later, Norah asked me if she could take a________with the old man. I agreed. We found the man a couple of shelves over, and I approached him. When I told him Norah's________, his expression changed from________to shocked finally to delighted. He took a step back, steadied himself on his shopping trolley, and________his free hand on his chest. "A photo? With me?" he asked. "Yes, Sir, for my birthday!" Norah begged. And so he did. I________my iPhone, and they posed together. Norah placed her soft hand on top of his hand. He wordlessly stared at her with________eyes as she kept his hand in hers. I asked his name, and he told us to call him Dan. We were________other shoppers, but they didn't care. There was________happening in the supermarket that day, and we could all sense it.

That afternoon I________the story and a photo of the two of them on the Facebook. Later that night, I received a private________from a local reader who recognized Mr. Dan. He told me Dan's wife had passed away six months earlier and he wanted to let me know that he was certain Dan's heart was touched by my little girl and Dan would never forget that________with my daughter.

【推荐2】”Mommy, I got something for you!” Cody ran through the door after school. His face wore the biggest smile ever. He waved something above his head. “It’s a pen. But not just any pen. It’s a lucky pen!” He handed me the pen _______, waiting for my reaction (反应).

I looked at the pen in my hand. There was nothing _______ about it. It looked just like any other ballpoint pen. I had a drawer full of them. At that moment, I didn’t realize how special it was or how much I would come to treasure (珍爱) it.

I had made the decision to be a(n) _______. I had dreamed about it for a long time but I was afraid of being refused by the publishing houses. The night before, I told my husband my _______when I thought Cody wasn’t listening. “What if _______ likes my writing and I fail?” But Cody did _______ what I said. Now he stood in front of me, watching me examine the pen. “You don’t have to be afraid now,” he said. “This pen will make your _______ great and everyone will love you.”

Tears filled my eyes. Refusal (拒绝) and failure didn’t seem like such a big problem any more. Even if I _________sold the first book, I had everything I could ever need. I knew that pen would bring me luck, though. And I felt _________ already, just by having Cody in my life, especially when I heard what he did to get it.

In the lunchroom, Cody heard an older boy talking about having a lucky ________. He decided to get it for me. The boy was a tough negotiator (强硬的谈判者) but Cody didn’t ________. In the end, he ________ his favorite Matchbox car, two army men his brother gave him, a crayon, and a piece of candy — his most important things, for that pen. Just to make __________ feel better.

I still have that pen, though it’s long out of ink, in a cup on my desk. When a refusal letter arrives and I start feeling __________, I look at it and remember just how lucky I am. For while I value that pen, it’s Cody who I really ________ in my life.

【推荐3】Two men, both seriously ill, were in the same hospital room. One man was allowed to_________up in his bed for an hour each afternoon. His bed was__________the room’s only window. The other man on the other side of the room had to_________all his time lying on his back in bed.

Every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up he_________pass the time by describing to his_________all the things he could see outside the window. “The window overlooked a_________with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the water_________children sailed their model boats. Young lovers walked________among flowers of every color. Grand old trees graced the landscape, and a fine__________of the city skyline could be seen in the distance.” As the man by the window__________all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room would close his eyes and________the scene.

Days and weeks passed. One morning, the day nurse came only to find the man by the window had died_________in his sleep. When the man’s body was__________, the other man asked if he could be moved next to the_________. The nurse agreed and after making sure he was_________, she left. Slowly and painfully, the man raised himself__________to take his first look at the_________world outside by himself. But to his_________, he found it faced nothing__________a blank wall.

In fact the man by the window was_________and could not even see the wall. He just wanted to encourage his roommate.

【推荐2】When I arrived in Sydney two years ago from Brazil to study, I struggled to find work to support myself. My savings soon became dangerously _________ and I was upset that I might have to _________ my overseas dream.

One day, I was at the park, worrying about the future and _________ with my own thoughts. A lady sitting next to me noticed the _________ expression on my face and gave me a sincere smile. She asked if something _________ had happened and if I needed any _________. I didn’t want to bother someone I had just _________ with my problems, so I _________ that everything was fine. But we _________ chatting nearly two hours later about life in Brazil and what I thought about Australia. This lady gave me lots of tips about places to visit in that country.

__________ we knew it, it was almost five o’clock. She said she had to go to work and ____________ invited me to accompany her. Why not? I ____________ although I felt a little surprised.

We arrived at a restaurant and the most ____________ thing happened. She said that she ____________ the place and needed some help in the ____________ as one of her chefs was leaving soon. She asked if I wanted to take a part-time job there. I ____________, of course, and started the next day.

I spent almost one year ____________ in her restaurant, improving my English, and ____________ my skills. And most importantly, I built a good ____________ with my boss. Even now living in different cities, we are ____________ close friends and enjoy sharing long chats about life.