【推荐1】Throughout the junior-and senior-high mornings I watched my father go to work, I _______ told him how that affected me . I simply _______ about his ability to do what he did; keeping the _______ filled with food, paying my tuition fees and _______ Christmas gifts under the tree, taking me to Boston to buy new clothes, dragging me to church on Sundays… Perhaps it was because these scenes seemed so _______ that I never spoke of them.

And then at college, away from him---when his _______ became merely the voice over the phone---I thought other men were more _______ than Daddy. Those men who taught my classes and _______ complex theories.

Then, I entered society. I looked forward to _______ home, talking with Daddy, sharing a ball game, watching an old Western movie on television, drinking a beet, listening to the ________ about his childhood days. I ________        Daddy again-not as a boy in awe(敬畏), but with respect as a man. And I ________ that he was my father, a man who committed himself to a thankless job in a society.

And now, when I spend precious moments with my own son. I wonder what he thinks of me. At what point will I ________ in his world of important men, and will there be a point when he’ll return to me with a nod of ________? Will he treat me with love and ________? How will he measure my weaknesses and strengths?

Sometimes the ________ lessons are the most difficult to teach. Sometimes the most essential truths are the difficult to learn. I hope my son will one day value all the ________ and truths that have passed to him, through ________, from his grandfather. And as my son grows older. I believe that he, too, will measure his steps by the strides(大步) I have made for him, just as I have ________ my goals because of the strides my father has made for me. When my son does this, perhaps he will feel the same ________ and fulfillment that I do when I say, “I am father’s son.”

【推荐3】“I am leaving home.” When Timmy, my 10-year-old son eagerly announced that he couldn’t wait to ________, the feeling of guilt peaked as I tried to figure out the ________.

“So, I can get a dog,’’ he stressed.

But I stayed ________—we didn’t need a dog to complete our life— and he gave up. Until the day I ________ Timmy, with his brother, discussing his moving plan. Suddenly, the situation ________: gain a dog or ________ a child, I felt my determination ________. “We can look into it,” I replied doubtfully, but the kind of dog we wanted cost a ________ $ 1,000! Yes, love had a price. I ________ for thought, again.

I shared my present ________ with my friend whose love for dogs was quite sensible. He ________ me to his pet keeper friend who got a pregnant (怀孕的) dog and the baby dogs were due soon. A few days later, we took a surprise trip to the countryside when the little dogs were ________. I would admit that all my previous ________ reappeared after watching a group of blind things, but it was too late. Among screams of 5________, we chose one of the little dogs as ours.

We attempt to ________ our kids in a healthy way—I didn’t realize the added dimension (方面) of love and ________ that a dog would teach my kids. On a hot day, Timmy cut short his outing to ________ if Odie, the dog, had enough water. When Odie was sick, my elder son made fresh soup and ________ fed it to him.

My children no longer talk about leaving home ________ there is the troublesome issue of who will take the dog. They quietly learn how to give and receive love. If having a dog means linking my children even closer together, it will be a mother’s prayer ________.

【推荐1】A thief accidentally dropped a winning lottery ticket (彩票) at the scene of his crime, but he has been given a lesson in______. The man whom he robbed ______ the ticket and won the ￡25,000 prize. But the man managed to find the thief, and handed over the ______.

The robbery happened when Professor Sam was changing a tyre (轮胎) on a highway. A motorist, who stopped “to ______”, stole a suitcase from his car and drove off. The professor found the ______ and brought it home.

The next day, the professor saw the lottery ______ on TV and realized the ticket he had picked up won. He ______ the ￡25,000 prize, but he decided not to keep the money. He made an announcement on the radio, ______, “I’m trying to find the man who robbed me. I have ￡25,000 for him — a lottery ______. Please meet me.”

The professor received hundreds of ______ from people who were hoping to ______ him into handing them the money. But there was one voice he ______ and he arranged to meet the man in a park.

The robber gave back the ______ and burst into tears. He could not ______ what was happening. “Why didn’t you keep the money?” he asked. The professor replied, “Because it’s not mine.” Then he walked off, turning down the thief’s ______ to share the prize money.

【推荐2】I had an interesting childhood, filled with surprise and delight, all because of my mother — loving, sweet, yet absent-minded and forgetful. One _________family trip we took when I was eleven tells a lot about her. My two sets of grandparents lived in Colorado and North Dakota, and my parents decided to spend a few weeks _________ to those states and seeing all the sights along the way. As the first day of our trip _________, David, my eight-year-old brother, and I_________ said good-bye to all of our friends. Who knew if we’d ever see them again? Finally, the moment of our departure (启程) arrived, and we _________ our luggage into the car and bravely drove off. We bravely drove off again two hours later after we’d returned to get the purse and traveler’s checks Mom had_________at home.

David and I were always a little_________ when using gas station bathroom if Mom was driving while Dad slept: “You stand outside the door and play lookout (放哨) while I go, and while you go, I will do the _________. ” We reminded each other. I_________ terrible pictures in my mind: “Honey, where are the kids?” “What?! Oh, Gosh. . . I thought they were being awfully __________.” My brother and I were never actually left__________ in a strange city, but we weren’t about to take any chance.

We drove through several states and saw lots of great __________ along the way. But what made this trip never fade away (逐渐消失) from our memories were those __________ troubles. As my dad __________ it, adaptation and tolerance were what a trip was really about, which means, whatever you come across, don’t forget to laugh and then __________ it.

【推荐3】On December 20, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea Earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it _______ thousands of deaths. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to _______ the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape danger with her _______ of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, _______ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft _______ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something _______ . “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t _______. I mean it wasn’t going in and then out as usual. It just kept coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the _______ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a geography lesson.

Sabrina was _______, but she soon calmed herself down. She warned her parents of the ________, though at first they thought she was just ________. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was ________ and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer ________ realized the coming danger. Soon, all the people on the beach was rapidly ________ just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.

【推荐1】Christmas 2020 was a heartbreaker for Melanie Lee. A few weeks earlier, her 33-year-old son had_______ his battle with cancer. Then the engine of her car _______, and she couldn't afford to have it fixed.

“When it broke down, I broke down,” Lee told CNN. “Now I don't have my baby or transportation. How can I _______ active in my future life?”

Eliot Middleton is the owner of a _______ and former mechanic who, in his free time, repairs and gives away used cars. He'd learnt Lee's _______ from her nephew Frank McClary, the mayor of the town. On Christmas morning, Middleton showed up _______ at Lee's home with a gift: a 1993 Oldsmobile.

“I had no idea what was going on,” said Lee. “He handed me the _______ and asked for nothing.”

The idea for the used-car _______ came to Middleton a year earlier during a food drive he'd organized when many lining up for a meal _______ up to four miles to get there.

“Cars are ________ in this town, ” Middleton told CBS. “There's no public transportation to take people to schools, hospitals, even food shopping.” So he posted on Facebook an offer to ________ barbecued ribs of his restaurant for broken-down vehicles. Since then, friends and strangers have ________ over 100 cars in disrepair. Many sit in Middleton's yard waiting to be ________ and donated, usually to those he's heard about through word of ________.

“People think Eliot is a(n)________,” McClary told NBC. “And I do too.”

【推荐3】I remember the night, some years ago, my wife and I were going to dinner at a fiend’s house in New York city. As we hurried toward the house, with its welcoming ______ , I noticed a car pulling out from the sidewalk. Just ahead, another car was waiting to ______ into the parking space. But before he could do so another car came up from behind, and sneaked into the ______ .

“That’s a(n) ______ trick.” I thought. While my wife went ahead into our friend’s house, I stepped into the street to give the ______ driver a piece of my mind. A man in work clothes ______ the window.

“Hey,” I said, “this parking space belongs to that guy.” I ______ toward the man ahead, feeling pretty manly in my new coat.

“Must you get ______?” the driver yelled, “None of your business!”

“No,” I said. “You don’t understand. That fellow was waiting for this space.” Things quickly became ______ , until finally he leaped out of the car. The huge man ______ me and bent me back over the hood (引擎盖) of his car. I was ______ . I scrambled (跌跌撞撞) to my friend’s front door. Seeing that I was   ______ , my wife and friends asked me what had happened. All I could say was that I had had a(n) ______ about a parking space. They had the thoughtfulness to let it go at that.

Perhaps half an hour later, the ______ rang. I was sure the guy had returned for me. My hostess got up to answer it, but I stopped her. I was morally, ______ to answer it myself.

I walked down the halfway with ______ . Yet I knew I had to face up to my fear. I opened the door. There he stood, ______ yet murmuring. “I came back to apologize,” he said in a low voice. “The Brooklyn Navy Yard is closing. I’ve worked there for years. And today I got. ______ . I hope you’ll accept my apology.”

I often remember that big man. I think of the efforts and_______ it took for him to come back. He was man at his ______.