【推荐2】Two families shared their fourth turkey day this year after an accidental (意外的) text message brought them together in 2016.

The_________began when Wanda Dench now 62, thought she was_________a short text message to her grandson to invite him to Thanksgiving while she_________reached Jamal Hinton, now 20. Hinton, a high school student at the time, responded by_________photo to confirm if it was his own grandmother_________the text. The picture came in of a woman with blonde hair and glasses — not Jamal's grandma. "You're not my grandma," Jamal_________with a laughing emoji (表情符号). Hinton of Phoenix, Arizona, sent back_________of his to let her know he was not her grandson and asked if he could stop by for_________anyway. Dench answered, "Of course you are_________to join us. That's what grandmas do...__________everyone."

Each year, Hinton__________a photo of himself with Dench enjoying Thanksgiving together on the Internet. "Wanda and I both think that Thanksgiving is all about being__________" he told "GMA". "Now we can't spend Thanksgiving without__________together."

This is the__________fourth Thanksgiving together and Hinton, who now has a full-lime__________in a company, said he felt great that the tradition had__________. "Wanda is indeed a__________person," said Hinton "I really enjoy the time I spend with her."

Dench said that she grew up in the__________. Her father was in the Navy and her husband used to be a pilot in the air force. "We moved around__________so I was always going to new places. And so strangers were not strangers to me," she said. Family is more than__________, Dench added. "It's the people that you want to be with."

【推荐1】For most people, graduation day is exciting. My graduation day, _______ was not.

I remember that weekend two years ago. My family and my friends had come to watch our class walk across that _______ . But like everyone in my graduating class, I had watched the economy _______ from bad to worse during my senior years. We graduates had _______ but very limited prospects (前景). Numerous applications were _______ and I knew that the next day, when my lease (租约) ended, I would no longer have a place to _______ “home”.

The weeks _______ were not easy. I drove to California to find work. But what I thought would _______ me a week dragged into two, and then four, and 100 job applications later, I found myself _______ I was before.

Days ________ like weeks, weeks like months, and those many months seemed ________ . The most ________ part was no matter how much I tried, I just couldn't seem to make any ________ .

Then I began to write. Something about putting words on a page made everything seem a little clearer—a little brighter. Something about writing gave me ________ .

I put my frustration into a children's ________ , one story of which was about a (n) ________ , a little fish, who, fighting in a “river”, ________ to give up his dream. I kept on writing. And then one day, ________ any sort of writing degree or contacts in the writing world—just a lot of hard work and perseverance—I was offered a publishing contract for my first book! After that, things began to be in place soon. I was offered a second book deal. Then a few months later, I got a (n) ________ with the Walt Disney Company and was hired shortly after.

The lesson of the story: Work hard, give it time and don't give up. Often our dreams lie in wait just a little further upstream. All we need is the ________ to push beyond the “river”.

【推荐2】When Pete Eckert started going blind, he decided to channel his feelings of loss into art. In his 20s at the time, Eckert would spend whole days preparing drawings and woodcuts before asking his wife to _________ the results to him. But the process was driving his wife _________. So, in search of a more instant medium, he _________ his hand to photography.

“When I started out digital cameras hadn’t wiped out (摧毁) traditional photography shops yet,” Eckert said on the phone from his home in Sacramento, California. “I would go to those photography shops and buy two rolls of film and ask ten _________ questions. I went every day. And by asking questions and getting _________, I learned.”

More than two decades after entirely losing his sight from an eye disease, Eckert has _________ a successful career as a self-taught photographer now. When he first _________ the world of photography, Eckert would go on short trips at _________ with his dog for protection. He began by photographing statues, though he soon _________ more interesting subject matter. “To take photos of sculptures isn’t really __________ because the art is already there,” he said. “What I was looking for was a way of showing what __________ is like.”

This new focus resulted in a __________ kind of photographic beauty—images __________ of ghostly figures and artfully vague (模糊的) lines that no one had ever tried before.

Eckert’s images aren’t __________ metaphors (暗喻) for blindness. Many of them have been shot to literally represent what his mind sees, offering sighted people a clear __________ into his world.

【推荐3】Kevin Durant is one of the best players to play the game of basketball. He has won championships in the National Basketball Association (NBA) all through his life. He has won the NBA’s Most Valuable Player _________. But it is not just his feats on the court that make him _________. It is where he came from and what he had to _________ that make the man unique.  

Durant grew up in Washington D.C.. His father left his _________ when he was very young. So, his mum raised him as a _________ parent when he was very young. Times were hard.  

Despite the challenges, there was always a lot of love and support in his family. His mum wrote a note that _________ over Kevin’s bed: “Always _________ that anything is possible.” 

Kevin was very tall at an early age. And he liked basketball. So when he was about 10 years old and told his mum that he _________ of being an NBA player, she did _________ she could to help him.  

He worked very hard at improving himself. He failed many times but kept getting up. For 6 years __________, he practised basketball 8 hours a day except from doing his homework and __________ for his school teams.  

But it was not just practising hard that __________ him the man he is today. From his mum and family, he __________ to always be kind and humble.  

Now that Kevin has achieved so much success on the __________, he has focused a lot of his time on __________. His foundation helps to fight homelessness, build basketball courts in low-income areas and help at-risk children go to college.