【推荐3】When I was a boy, our big family would sometimes gather(聚集) together at my aunt's tiny house over the summer. _______ from all over the country would come in to _______. The adults would sit together in the living room to _______ and catch up on each other's lives. The kids would be sent out into the front yard to _______ while dinner was cooking for all of us.

We would play a good old-fashioned game of tag(捉人游戏). I remember one of those times_______ I was the youngest and smallest of all the kids there so I got _______ first and couldn't catch anyone else. Hard as I ran after my brothers and cousins, they were all too _______ for me. I grew more and more _______

As I sat thinking how I could _______ this difficult game, a good ________ came to me. I aimed at one of my brothers. Unluckily, I ________ I got up with tears in my eyes. Then things started to ________ I saw one of my cousins whom I met for the first time standing there. She ________ to run but was going much slower than before. I ________ caught up and tagged her. Then she ________ to me and smiled, ''You'd better run! '' I ran off laughing ________ she turned and started to run after others.

Now I see how her act of ________ that day saved me from ________ and returned me to joy. Although we hardly ever ________ each other, we were family and she loved me. I always remember what she did for me and would try my best to share ________with everyone.

【推荐2】During a recent long international journey, my youngest daughter’s airsickness struck again. We were doubting our life choices after _________ in San Francisco for an overnight layover (中途停留).

When we stood in the middle of the terminal (航站楼), not only _________ how to get to our hotel, but also debating whether or not we should just turn around and go home, a pilot _________ us.

He quietly asked me if my 4-year-old was the passenger who had gotten _________ on the flight. I nodded, half _________ someone was going to tell us we now weren't allowed to fly with her.

_________, he bent down to her level, handed her a pair of wings, and _________asked my young daughter how she was feeling. Like most young kids, sometimes she _________ talking to strangers, but not this time. They spoke for 60 seconds, but in those 60 seconds, she went from feeling _________ and refusing to walk through the airport to smiling __________ and virtually bouncing (蹦蹦跳跳) to the airport hotel.

As the captain walked away, she smiled and said, “He __________ me.” In that moment, the pilot was exactly the right one to make her feel better about flying. He __________ our day by taking two minutes out of his.

It’s often the horror stories that make the headlines, but small, __________ moments are still happening all around us. I’m __________ to all in the travel industry — and beyond — that take those few minutes to make a world of __________.

【推荐3】During my first seven semesters as a medical student, I _______ myself to studying and__________spoke with real patients in a hospital. Then I started visiting local hospitals to gather data for my essay. One cold evening, I was “hunting" for the final three patients I needed to complete my study. The records showed a 43-year-old patient, Ms. A, was in the ward still_______ from her recent stroke(中风). No relatives or friends with her. When I sat down on a chair next to her bed and told her my ______ , she agreed. The questionnaire ______ of three simple questions. Before I could   _________ after finishing it, Ms. A spoke up in her weak voice. “Doc, do you think I can get back my normal life?”   Deep in my heart, I thought, God, I wish I was your doctor so I could answer you properly. I replied that ____ I didn't know much about her case, I could tell her what I had learned about the recovery of stroke patients. Ms. A then talked about herself. She told me that her husband died and her pay as a cleaner was ______enough for her kids. I didn't know what to say. Looking into her eyes, I tried to remember the lessons from a communication skills class a few years earlier, but my mind was_____.   Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms. A's hand. Since I didn't have anything to say, I just sat quietly while she talked. That's when it ______ to me that she was not expecting any ______ from me. She just wanted me to listen. All I did was nodding my head as a way of showing my ________. Finally, Ms. A stopped talking. “I'm very sorry for keeping you here to listen to my problems, but I feel ______now.” A single tear fell from the corner of her eye. Finally, I knew what to say. “It's OK, Ma'am. It's part of my ________.”

Ms. A taught me one of the most important lessons a doctor can learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine or technology. They just need someone with the   ________and willingness to lend an ear and spare a little of their time.