【推荐1】I used to walk around the store with my parents, constantly begging for something. I still remember the _______ of all the bright bags of chips and candies that I asked my mom to _______ for me. At that time, I had no real _______ about the value of money.

When I was about twelve years old, my dad always _______ my begging and told me with an angry face “you can waste all the money you _______ when you have a job.” I listened to him, but I never _______ understood the message he was trying to _______ to me.

In high school, I _______ to find a part-time job. One day, a young man handed me a flyer (传单), which said at the top “Looking for a summer job? Be a _______ !” I started to think about the money I could make, so I ________. A few minutes after my application was ________ , I got an email from AMS pools, informing me to have a(n) ________ the next day.

After I ________ the training process, I finally started the job. Every afternoon, I worked in the pool, keeping a close watch on the ________ people. I was proud I rescued several drowning children. And I could earn my pocket money with my skill. However, the more money I made, the less I wanted to ________ . Instead of wasting my money on useless things, I started saving up. I now have 3,300 dollars in my bank account.

【推荐2】When I was growing up, I didn’t remember hearing the words “I love you” from my father. When your father _______ says these words to you when you are a (n)_______, it gets tougher and tougher for him to say these words as he gets _______. To tell the truth, I could not honestly remember _______ I had last said those words to him either. I decided to _______ my ego (自尊心) aside and make the first move. After _______, in our next phone conversation I blurted out (突然说出) the words, “Dad... I love you!”

There was a _______ at the other end and he awkwardly (笨拙地) replied, “Well, same back to you!”

I smiled and said, “Dad, I know you _______ me, and when you are ready, I know you _______ say what you want, to say.”

Fifteen minutes later my ________ called and nervously asked, “Paul,________ is okay?” I explained to her perfectly.

A weeks later, Dad ________ our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this ________ and the tears were rolling down my cheeks as I finally “________” the love. As I sat there in tears, I ________ that this special moment had taken our father-son ________ to a new level.

A short while after this ________ moment, my father narrowly ________ death following heart operation. I have often thought ________ I did not take the first step and Dad did not ________ the operation, I would have never “heard” the love.

【推荐2】This time last year I had a bit of a crisis. I left the company where I’d worked for 23 years. My child applied for university and the ________ of an empty nest unfolded before my eyes.

A friend asked how I was. I tried to say “fine”, ________ the word stuck in my throat. I felt like I’d been ________ a roof and was in free fall. The scaffolding (脚手架) of my life had gone：the status of my job, my role as a ________, my youth. I felt sad. “________ is difficult,” she said. That ________ me in the heart. It allowed me to ________ to myself I was in trouble.

I sat down at my computer, searching for a site that might give me ________: a story of someone who had walked this path and found a way ________. Some advice or a community that might help me work out what my next ________ might look like. There was nothing. I shouldn’t have been ________. During my years as an editor, I’d had trouble getting stories about women in midlife, or older, into the magazine.

Women are fed a fixed ________ of their lives: get educated, get a job, find a ________ and have some kids and that’s where the story stops. The ________ parts of women’s lives are unmapped, undiscussed.

So I’ve set up an online ________ for women in midlife. It’s called Noon and it helps women ________ their next act. We tell stories of transformation — a woman who became a comedian at 60 and a housewife who became a doctor at 50. We offer ________ advice to get women through tough times.

So why shouldn’t younger women look forward to their Noontime, a period of ________ and purpose?When having broken through the________ society sets up for us, we can finally ________ our own dreams. We are here and we have power as well as the knowledge that there is so much more to come.

【推荐3】That year I was eleven and in sixth grade. In Wethersfield, all sixth-graders are _________ to take part in the R.O.P.E. Program. Its main _________ is to believe your peers(同龄人), work together, and _________ new adventures. These programs including falling backward and _________ peers to catch you, working together to fit into a small circle and something of that kind.

I was ready to take part in these _________. Falling backward and fitting into a small circle were nothing to me. Crossing over a stream(小溪)with nothing holding me up but a rope was brave, but I could _________ it.

Finally the day came when my sixth grade class would travel to climb and rappel(绕绳下滑)a mountain in Southington. Those people who were too _________ were allowed to practice climbing and rappelling a smaller area of rocks, but that wasn’t for me. I could climb the big mountain.

Twenty minutes later, my _________ arrived. As I was well_________, I set off at once. I got a quarter of the way up but couldn’t seem to get any __________. I tried and tried. I began to put myself down and cry. There was nothing more __________ than my classmates were looking at me. All I kept __________ was “Lisa, you can do it.

“Try to fit your foot in there. __________, Lisa. You’re almost there.” It was then that I thought to myself, “Why am I crying? I can do this.” Almost __________ I went on going up the mountain. Within five minutes I successfully __________ it to the top.

【推荐2】Two weeks ago my grandfather passed away. It really put me into deep ________ because my grandfather held a ________ position in my life. For me, my grandpa was not only a ________ family member but a tutor (导师) who encouraged me to work hard and ________ well.

I’ll never forget the first time I read a long piece of his writing. It was when I ________ for Princeton and he offered to write to the university on my behalf. He wrote in beautiful ________ and used poetic language, unafraid of sounding too “flowery”. I read the ________ out loud so I could hear the rhyming sounds.

My grandfather ________ hard work. Every time he came to visit us in New York, he would ________ my brothers and me for our good performance, which made me feel ________. I knew he had worked hard to ________ the big family during the Great Depression. He was awarded many military ________ for winning many battles in the Navy in World War II.

At the funeral, a friend of my grandfather walked to me and said that my grandfather had told him about a small book I had written. After it came out, I sent it to my grandfather ________ received no reply. This man told me that my book hit my grandfather’s heart and brought tears to his eyes. My grandfather said he was so ________ of me.

Now I feel even more deserved to write well because I know my grandfather ________ it. I know he lives in my heart forever.

【推荐3】It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard found a little dog going around his camp trying to __ herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any, ”Leonard thought.   Like all __ , he had packed just enough for the whole race. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a __to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog __ him again. He waved her away, __ she might be stepped on by the runners.   However, the dog followed him all the way until the day s race __ .   That night the dog snuggled (紧贴) up to Leonard again and finally __   get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to name her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi __ a distance of 125km on her own, and that was enough for him to make a __ he would take her home to Edinburgh.   “Seeing Gobi on the race changed my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, __ just focusing on winning, ” said Leonard, who finished second.   “It also made my running more __, giving me a lot of pleasure. ”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was __ . With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his __ , he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his __. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she __ does at least 8km with Leonard up the hills.