【推荐1】My father always told me: "All work is noble." He wasn't ________ , but he earned a reasonable living. Thanks to his ________ , I was able to go to Art College. I, however, wanted to do something ________ , something more interesting-I was special！

After graduation, I moved to New York in search of a graphic designer job. It was winter and, ever the optimist, I'd only brought enough money to ________ myself for about a month. I wasn't ________ -I was sure I'd find a fantastic job immediately.

Within a few weeks, though, I found myself wandering around the streets having been ________ by every design office in town. My hostel ________ was almost gone and I hadn't eaten in days. “How had I reached this point？""I wondered as I ________ in my thin jacket.

I was just about to ________ when my dad called. He suggested that I get a job in a ________ until something else came along. At first, pride made me _________. But I was cold, hungry, and unwilling to go home feeling ________ and defeated.

I entered an expensive-looking cafe near one of the design offices that had turned me away and asked the manager if they were ________. She said they were ________, and offered me a job right away.

________ , I found that I really enjoyed serving people. I started making big ________ right away. Later, the manager learned that I had a design ________ and asked me to design the cafe menus. That led to a part-time job at an advertising company.

Previously, I'd have never considered being a _________, but there I was. I ________ got my dream design job, but that winter I learned not to make ________ about work.

【推荐2】The incident happened one day in November. A stranger asked Sammy where his mother and father were, and he knew something was off. While the woman was _______ to him, she insisted that she knew his family. The woman indicated he should come with her, but young Sammy didn’t follow.

He was understandably _______ the situation but out of it he came up with a plan. The youngster entered a store he regularly went to and _______ the cashier, Hannah Daniels. Thirty-year-old Hannah was behind the register and Sammy’s _______ were something she would never forget.

He whispered to her, “Act like you’re my mom. This lady is _______ me.” Hannah remained calm, but she didn’t take Sammy’s words lightly.

Hannah immediately placed herself between the boy and the woman. The woman was standing just outside the store, so Hannah could shut the door and lock it _______ something terrible happened.

Sammy recalled the _______ moment and noted that he was trembling in the store. His dad had taught him about the _______ of strangers and the risk of kidnappings (拐骗). As a result, the youngster knew how to _______ to the woman.

When the boy’s father, Sam Green later watched a video of the incident recorded from the store’s security camera, he said he was moved to tears. He hopes their experience would __________ other moms and dads to educate their kids because it can make a significant difference.

【推荐3】My family is still recovering from the hard time of the past few years. It began when my teenaged son became _______ .

As anyone who has ever _______ a seriously sick child knows, the stress doesn’t go away. Every day the air carried the heaviness of an approaching storm. My husband and I seemed to forget how to _______ —we couldn’t have a simple conversation without fighting and tears.

One night, my son and I were discussing Valentine’s Day gifts. I _______ that his dad had given me a kazoo(卡祖笛) for our first Valentine’s Day.

My first _______ to this gift was confusion, which quickly turned to _______ when I, a professional saxophone(萨克斯管) player, couldn’t get it to make a _______ . The kazoo eventually was packed away and I hadn’t thought of it until that evening. Interested, he asked to see it. After some trouble, I found it _______ in a dusty box.

“You couldn’t make a sound?” he asked, amazed, turning it around in his hands. “What’s so hard about it?“

“I don’t know. It just never _______ .”

My husband grabbed(抓住) the kazoo—“It’s ________ ! Look, you just do this..."—and blew. Nothing happened. Surprised, he tried again, only to produce a sound like an angry bee.

We burst into laughter as if the long-settled dark cloud had ________ and let in a ray of sunshine. Eyes met and souls ________ . My son took a turn on the kazoo. He did no better than us. More ________ . The mood stayed light for the rest of the evening.

Even though we have gone through a lot, ________ , we can still connect as a family. There is always light to lead the way out of the ________ .

【推荐1】Wildflowers in a mountain meadow are a gift of nature. But what about those wildflowers blooming along busy___________? Well, nature had a___________.

As a little girl growing up in “deep east Texas,” wildflowers helped her get through___________times. Her mother had died when she was five, and her father___________most of his time at the general store he owned. Her older brothers were away at school,_______ Lady Bird turned to nature for _______. “Nature was my friend and my teacher,” she says. “It was a joy to me, and it’s never___________ me.”

After high school, Lady Bird left home for the University of Texas in Austin.   _________   she found joy in nature — in the vast quantities of Texas bluebonnets (德克萨斯州羽扇豆). It was there that Lady Bird met and fell in love with Lyndon B. Johnson. He proposed to her on their first ______________.

“The whole country ________ the President,” Lady Bird said, “but only one man selects the First Lady — and it is highly____________ that he was thinking of her as First Lady when he proposed!”

When she got to know the ________ disappearance of “America the   Beautiful”   due   to   land development and pollution, Lady Bird ________ the President to propose a Highway Beautification Act that allocated money to   ____________roadsides. The act was passed in 1965.

Lady Bird ____________ that many wildflowers, like people, were immigrants. “They ____________ the nation on the wheels of covered wagons, perhaps ____________ in the pockets of children.”

Lady Bird is certainly our First Lady of____________. She has made us see that highways can be beautiful.

She is the reason why wildflowers now____________our travels through almost every state.