【推荐2】Whenever I recall my childhood, there is one thing I remember clearly. My father used his_____to let my mother_____her parents who lived far away. There was just my younger brother and myself in the_____. One evening, our father came home and there was no_____, not even a piece of bread. My father had no money and he was as_____as we were. My brother and I went to bed without having anything.

___I knew from the expressions on my father’s face that he could not_____us be hungry for long. He left the house, and about two hours later he_____and woke us up. He had two small potato pies in his hands. I didn’t know where he got the money for the food but somehow he_____to find a way. It was clear that he wanted to get his children_____.

My father did not eat and had_____all day but he sat there and felt_____at seeing us eat. This has always stuck in my_____. At that moment, I felt moved knowing that he tried his best not to let us_____, and he wanted us to know he was always there ____________ us.

In_____times, I think, it is important not to_____weakness but strength._____the mother is the cement(黏合剂)that_____a family together, then the father is the steel that strengthens(加固) that cement.

It is his values and_____that have carried me forward and helped me deal with my own problems in life.

【推荐1】I was walking home from school one day and it happened to be a particularly cold and windy day. It was freezing and I was _________ enough to forget my hats and scarf. You can imagine my cheeks were rosy _________ and my hands were as numb as they can be.

All of a sudden, an old lady _________ up beside me and asked if I would like a ride _________. At first, I said it was OK and her_________ smile melted(融化) away the thought that I should never talk to _________! We had an amazing chat and she was just _________ a good woman. She told me her_________ and she dropped me off.

I didn’t see her or talk to her for about a month and one night as I _________ her kind gesture, I decided to return the favor. So, I made a lot of __________ and walked down to her house with my friend. At first I was a bit __________ she wouldn’t remember me or think that I was a bad man who poisoned cookies but luckily, I was __________ wrong. She was so happy, and she hugged me and kissed me and seemed so __________ that someone would do something like that!

When I got home, my mom told me that she __________ and told my mom on the phone that she __________ because she was so touched. She said she would never__________ the kindness that was given to her! That filled me with such __________ ! There really is nothing else joyful like helping __________ and making someone’s day __________!

Let us never forget the joy we get __________ giving others a hand!

【推荐3】Ring! Ring! Ring! It was early in the morning. Though I knew who was calling, I unwillingly _______ the telephone. I was a new supply instructor (代课老师) struggling to support my young family. Each morning I waited for a call that would take me to a different _______ that day. The last three classes had all been intended to _______ me and see just how much bad _______ I could deal with. I had replied by being _______ with the students. I didn’t really want to go to work that morning then, _______ since it was my birthday.

Still, I answered the phone and took the job. My family needed the money and I couldn’t _______ to be picky (挑剔的). As I was driving to work, however, I _______ to try harder to be the best teacher I could be. As school started, the students _______ me as their former teachers and once again were ready to see how I reacted to bad behavior. This time, though, I was strict but ________ with them. I did my best to make the ________ fun. I shared smiles, praised their efforts, and ________ them to work hard. The effect was amazing. My uncontrollable classroom was soon ________ . Students were laughing and learning and I finally felt like I was doing my job ________ . I went home happily and enjoyed the rest of my birthday with my family.

Every day we are given another ________ to get things right, to live our lives with love and joy, and to make this world a better place. Every morning arises and begins once again to be the best of you.

【推荐1】James sat outside the office waiting for the interview. He felt so_______that he didn't know what to do with himself. The person who had gone in_______him had been in there for nearly an hour. And she looked so_______when she went in. Not like James, he felt he was_______. But the_______was that he wanted this job so much.It_______everything to him. He had thought about it such a lot before the day of the_______. He had_______himself performing brilliantly at the interview and being offered the job_______.

But now here he was feeling________. He couldn't________all those things he had planed to say. At that moment, he almost________to get up and leave. But no — he had to do this. He had spent so much time considering it that he couldn't ________like that. His hands were hot and sticky and his mouth felt________. At last the door of the office________. The woman who had gone in an hour earlier came out looking very pleased with herself. It seemed________she had got the job. She smiled sympathetically (同情地) at James. At the moment, James________her. The managing director then appeared at the office door. “Would you like to________now, Mr. Davis? I'm sorry to have kept you________.” James suddenly wished that he had gone home after all. He got up, legs shaking and forehead sweating and wondered whether he looked as________as he felt.

【推荐2】Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small ________ in the backyard. I started thinking about doing a solo (独自的) ________ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out the map and drew a 1, 500-mile route along which I would be ________ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I ________ my plan with my dad, he ________ as I thought he would. Because I get my adventurous ________ from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my home for three days, but there was an inner ________ going on. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I really could make it. The other part of me was ready to ________ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another ________ who was quite a bit older than I was. He started his journey alone by bike at the southern part of Norway and just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ________. It encouraged me not to ________.

As I listened to my ________ artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled (踩踏板) with my feet. There was nobody around me for miles. ________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were mosquitoes—millions of them. My arms were so dotted with ________ that they looked like a topographical (地形的) map. But, however ________ it would be, nothing could stop my advance on the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.

【推荐3】On Christmas of 2017, I was born again. We like to spend our Christmas holidays somewhere warm abroad, and that year we _______ Uganda. Nature, wildlife, and sunny days were a _______when it was so _______and dark in Europe. Life was beautiful, and we had a rental car and a busy schedule ahead to explore the country.

This is where this short travel story turns into one of my most _______travel experiences. At Murchinson Falls National Park, we had a car accident. I lost _______of the car, and it rolled over, destroying windows, chassis, and the engine. But we were alive! My right arm was _______injured, but we _______to walk to our lodge ( 小 屋 ), not far inside the _______. In the lodge, I was _______to learn that there was a pretty decent American hospital in Masindi that was just a one-hour drive away. Moreover, one of the lodge’s guests was a nurse who ________the wound while we were waiting for the taxi. The hospital took care of us and after a couple of injections and stitches, I was ________ to head to our new hotel in Masindi; however, my wound required daily ________and more injections, so we were ________to stay in town for a few days.

The town’s highlights were the market and our ________ visit to the hospital, so we ________ looking for the small things, ________with the medical staff and the people in the market, and learning more about their customs.

We learned to slow down. When we were allowed to ________ , we took a road trip through the country to see something else. We did not care about our travel ________ anymore – we were ________, and we wanted to enjoy Uganda’s unique nature and its people. In the end, our Uganda trip was not about the places that we saw, but the people that we met. It was travel for ________more than sightseeing.