【推荐2】Once a boy really had everything he wanted, so he was ______ interested in the rarest (最稀有的) objects. One day he ______ a mysterious (神秘的) mirror and took it home. When he looked into the mirror, he found that his ______ looked very sad. He tried ______, but it remained the same.

Surprised, the boy went off to buy some sweets. He went home and looked into the mirror as happily as possible,______ he still looked sad. He bought all kinds of toys, but he looked forever ______ in that mirror. So the boy put the mirror away in a ______.

“What a(n)______ mirror! I’ve never seen a mirror that didn’t ______ properly!”

That same afternoon he went out to play, but on his ______ to the park he saw a little girl crying loudly. So he went over to see what was happening. The little girl told him that she had ______ her parents.

Together, they ______ in search of them. As the little girl continued crying, the boy ______ his money in buying sweets lo cheer her up.______, after walking for a long time, they found her parents, who looked very worried.

The boy said goodbye, and walked off towards the park. However,______ the time, he decided to turn around and head ______ home, as he had no time to ______. At home, he went to his room and noticed a shining ______ in the corner where he had left the mirror. Seeing this, he went over to the mirror and ______ that the light was coming from his own body, because he was so happy about having helped that little girl.

So he understood the mystery of that mirror, the only mirror reflecting (反映) faithfully (诚心诚意地) the ______ joy of its owner.

【推荐3】It was Australia Day. We had spent the afternoon _______ with friends. When we arrived home, the message bank on my mobile phone was flashing. It was our daughter, Annabel, who had just been left at a boarding school over 500 kilometres away. Annabel’s _______ voice greeted us “Hi, mum and dad, I’ve lost my phone!” After just four days at school her main means of _______ had gone missing at an Australia Day celebration. We realised the chance of finding the phone was _______ for we hadn’t installed (安装) the Find My Phone app.

The next morning, my mobile beeped (发出哔哔声) loudly. When I replayed the _______, a kind voice announced that she had something that _______ my daughter and hoped I could call her back.

Annabel had written my number on the inside of her phone’s case—good thinking! “I’ll take it to work _______ you see if anyone can pick it up,” she kindly offered after I _______ that my daughter was at a boarding school and I lived a six-hour drive away.

After contacting the people I _______ who lived nearby, I was out of luck—no one was able to ________ the phone.

Later I decided to ask our angel (天使) to post the ________ to my daughter. But to my ________ , this angel, who had already spent a busy day at work, was making a two-hour round trip on a Saturday night, especially to ________ a phone to a complete stranger.

I gave her ________ and she delivered the phone into the hands of my daughter. The only word of an explanation was: “I’ve got four ________ of my own. I know how a mother worries.”

【推荐1】Manny Remilus spent a lot of time in and out of the hospital as a child. Now he is a__. And using the healing powers of music, he is trying to make the hospital a__place for patients.

When he __ his childhood, the thing Remilus remembers most vividly is how the nurses really __ him when he was in the hospital, which made him feel like he was at home. It really helped him forget the troubles of being in a(n) __environment, where he was not always having his family with him. __, as he grew up, he__that he wanted to do the same thing in__.

Now，Remilus has fortunately__ his dream. Thanks to the nurses, he still recalls that time __. And he is determined to be a good___for the kids at New York's Cohen Children's Medical Center. So he__ music as he thought it is a very powerful tool. Even an impromptu (即兴的) mini “concert” can boost the patients’__. He sings all kinds of songs to the kids, from nursery rhymes to contemporary music. He hopes his hospital bedside__ inspires other nurses to bring joy to their patients.

“We are all going through tough times, so whatever it is that you find can help __you and bring you back to 100%, find that thing and do it, ” said Remilus.

【推荐3】Last year while I was in Madrid, Spain, my back hurt. So I went to the local hospital for an examination.

I was _______ to a small room, and soon a surgeon came to _______ me. He told me to remove my _______ and he gave me a gown (罩衣) which hardly _______ anything.

He then asked me in Spanish if I was embarrassed. “Si, unpoco (Yes, a little )”, I replied with my face turning red. He looked at me as though _______ me and then he quickly _______ down the passage.

Soon he reappeared with a group of _______ students, and again asked the same question in Spanish. Now I was feeling _______, and shouted in English, “Yes, I’m extremely _______.” Then a female doctor in the group held my arm gently and ________ in perfect English, “I think I see the ________. My tutor wants to take a ________ of your back — an X-ray — so he wants to know if you are ________ a baby. You see, embarazada means pregnant in Spanish.”

No sooner had she told me this than I realized the ________ of the misunderstanding We all had a ________, although I must admit that I felt rather stupid as well.

【推荐1】John and Mary had a nice home and two lovely children, a boy and a girl. John had a good ____and had just been asked to go on a business trip to another city and it was ____that Mary needed an outing and would go along too. They____a reliable woman to care for the children and made the ____, returning home a little earlier than they had planned.

____they drove into their home town, they found a home in flames (火焰). Mary said, “Oh well, it isn’t our____, let’s go home. ”

But John drove closer and exclaimed, “That home belongs to Fred Jones who works at the plant. He wouldn’t be ____work yet, maybe there is something we could do. ”

John drove up and they were both ____-stricken to see the whole house in flames. A woman on the lawn was in hysterics ____, “The children! Get the children! They are in the basement. ”

____Mary’s protests, John grabbed the water hose and soaked (浸湿) his clothes, put his____hand-kerchief on his head and dashed for the basement which was full of ____. He found two nearly suffocated (窒息的) children and after carrying them to ____, he asked how many more children were down there. They told him two more and Mary____his arm and screamed, “John! Don’t go back! It’s ____! That house will cave in (坍塌) any second!”

But he shook her off and went back by ____his way down the smoke filled hallway and into the room. It seemed a long time ____he found both children and started back and at last when they came out into the____and fresh air, he found that he had just ____his own children.

The baby-sitter had ____them at this home while she did some shopping.

【推荐2】Jane had lived her entire life in a small town. While she had spent decades dreaming about_________,she never took action to make it happen.

On her 65th birthday, Jane made a brave decision. She sold all her _______and with a back-pack, she set off. The first days on the road were _______—she felt like she finally lived the life she had always_________.

Yet, after a few weeks, she began feeling _________. With each new step, her legs hurt more and more. _________,she slammed (怒摔) her backpack on the ground and sat down with tears. Staring hopelessly into the road ahead, she shouted loudly. “I have nothing left in my life!”

It _______ that a life adviser heard her words. He decided to help her, so he caught hold of her backpack and _______quickly. Shocked and in complete sadness, Jane cried more loudly. “That backpack was all I had. Now everything is_________.”

About twenty minutes later, she collected her________,and slowly walked forward. Then ________, she saw her backpack on the road n short distance ahead of her. She was so__________that she couldn’t help exclaiming (喊叫),“Oh, thank heavens! Now I can continue onward.”

As we journey through our lives, we may________ incredible disappointments. During this time, it seems we’ve lost everything. __________, actually, we are holding a backpack of support.

So don’t lose ________. Keep going, and you’ll achieve your dream.

【推荐3】I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _________ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _________?” Just when I started to _________ that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women _________ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of _________ that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t _________. Somebody had thought _________ of me to bring me a gift.  

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _________ Christmas there special and memorable, I _________ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of __________ for as many children as I could possibly reach.  

So I __________ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans(孤儿)at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colourful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, __________ with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were __________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I __________ them that they couldn’t open their presents __________ every child had come forward. Finally the __________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles __________ up the room. The __________ in the room was obvious, and __________ wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew __________ that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.