【推荐1】When she was 16, Joanne learned that she was adopted (收养的) and that her birth mother was a woman named Lillian and that she had died days after giving birth to her. Feeling hurt and confused, Joanne spent many nights crying, ________what her birth mother had been like. And yet, some part of her believed her mother was still ________.

The doubts ________ Joanne for years. In 2017, when Joanne was already 79 years old, her daughter-in-law, Shelley, suggested her taking a DNA ________. Shelley thought learning something about her ________ family might give Joanne some ________ .

So Joanne took the test, and about a year later Shelley received a(n) message on ancestry.com from a man named Sam, whose genetic report had ________ him with Joanne.

Shelley immediately wrote back to Sam, asking ________ he knew a Lillian. Yes, Sam said, that was his mother’s name. Almost ________, an even bigger shock came that Lillian was alive, at age 100.

The families quickly planned a(n) ________ where Lillian lived. A month later, Joanne found herself sitting across from the mother she had ________ in her whole life, looking at Lillian, who suffered from dementia (痴呆症) and used a wheelchair.

“I don’t know if she recognizes me,” Joanne said.

She   told Lillian   that she   had been ________ in 1940 and that she’d been told   her birth   mother   had ________. No response. Joanne started to cry. At that point, her mother ________, as if she had started to understand. Joanne excitedly continued telling Lillian all about her children and grandchildren. Lillian smiled. Then she said the words Joanne had waited more than 60 years to hear: “This is my ________ .”

【推荐3】One day, Jim played basketball in the living room after school. When he was playing in high spirits, his basketball _______ a vase off the shelf by accident and the mouth of it knocked off a large piece. What made him more _______ was that the vase was rare and valuable. To cover the great _______ he caused, he glued the pieces together and put the vase back to its place.

While cleaning the vase after work, his mother _______ the change on it. At dinnertime, she asked Jim if he _______ the vase. Being afraid of punishment, Jim said a wild cat jumped in from the window and knocked the vase off the shelf. His mother was quite clear that he was _______, for all the windows were closed before she went to work. However, his mother just remained _______ and said it was her carelessness not to have the window closed.

Before going to bed, Jim’s mother asked him to go to the study. He felt he couldn’t _4_______ the punishment.

When he entered the study in fear, his mother’s face appeared no sense of _______. Instead, she took a chocolate box out of the drawer and ________ one piece to him. “Jim, this chocolate is a reward for you, for you ________ a cat that could open the window, with your imagination.” Then, she put another chocolate in his hand. “This chocolate is a reward for your topping________ to restore (修复). You restored with glue, the cracks were filled almost perfectly. ________ remember, to restore a vase needs more powerful glue and higher ________ skill. Tomorrow, let’s bring the vase to the ________ to see how they’ll make it as it was.” With that, his mother took the third chocolate, “The ________ chocolate stands for my deep apology (歉意) to you. As your mother, I shouldn’t have put a vase in a place where it could so ________ fall down, especially when there is a boy fond of sports.”

“But, Mum, I ...” His mother ________ him and said. “My chocolate box has been ________, so our talk is over, too. Now, go to bed!” Then she left for her own bedroom. The following days were the same as before. The only ________ was that Jim never told a lie since then.

【推荐2】Rob made ends meet for his family as a handyman, doing odd jobs around the area. But due to a financial crisis, he was _________.

“I’m running _________ on money,” Rob said. So, the _________ handyman went to the streets with a sign that read “Handyman, 25 years’ _________, Need work.” Rob wasn’t asking for money but rather for an opportunity to earn his _________.

Rob stood on the side of the highway holding his _________ for a week. The temperatures were scorehing (灼热的) but he _________ the hot sun each day in the hopes of _________ work. Someone took a photo of him and _________ it on social media! Kyle, the owner of Greenstar Home Remodeling, saw Rob’s __________ online. And he decided to offer the handyman a chance to help him get back on his feet.

Kyle brought Rob on to help with some demolition (拆除的) work. Rob didn’t even ask how much the job __________. He just got down to it.

Rob __________ intends to put his all into working for Kyle as long as Kyle has __________ for him. After seeing Rob’s dedication and __________, Kyle is willing to do all he can to help the man build a brighter future.

Sometimes all someone needs is to be given a __________.

【推荐3】I woke up with only one thing on my mind: what to wear. A billion thoughts ________ through my brain as wooden hangers moved back and forth. It was my first day of high school in a new State; first ________ are everything, and it was necessary to impress the people who I’d spend the next four years with.

It wasn’t insecurity that ________ me to madness but the fact that this was my third time being the new kid. ________ moving does something to a child’s development. I ________ finding reliable friends. But this time dad’s company ________ my starting and finishing high school in the same place. This time mattered, which made me nervous.

I emerged proudly in a patterned dress after riding (扫荡) my closet. I felt just as ________ as I stepped off the bus. But my jaw dropped to the floor when I found Mrs. Hutfilz, my English teacher, wearing the exact same ________ as I did. I kept my head down and tiptoed to my seat, but the first day meant ________ in front of the class, and ________ it was my turn. I made it through my one-minute introduction speech, until Hutfilz stood up, ________ adding she liked my style. All the ________ that had accumulated throughout the morning surprisingly ________. The students raised heads as I shared my story. My smile ________ as I giggled with my peers. After class, I stayed behind, sharing with Mrs. Hutfilz my previous understanding about coming into a new school and state. I was relieved to make a humorous and genuine ________ with my first teacher in the coming days.

【推荐3】Every Friday evening when the sun looks like a giant orange and is starting to dip into the blue ocean, Old Eddie comes to his favorite pier with shrimp. Before long, dozens of seagulls fly to diet and _________ him. Ed stands there tossing shrimp to the hungry birds. As he does, you can hear him say with a smile, “Thank you. Thank you.”

_________ in World War II he was a famous hero. On one of his flying _________ across the Pacific, he and his seven-member crew went down. _________, all of the men _________, crawled out of their plane, and _________ into a life raft. Captain Rickenbacker and his crew floated for days on the rough waters of the Pacific. By the eighth day their foods _________. They were hundreds of miles from _________ and no one knew where they were.

Suddenly, Eddie felt something land on the top of his cap. It was a _________! Old Ed would later describe how he sat perfectly __________, planning his next move. With a __________ of his hand, he managed to __________ it and he, and his starving crew made a meal, a very __________ meal for eight men of it. Then they used the intestines for bait(诱饵). With it, they caught fish, which gave them food and more bait and the __________ continued until they were found and rescued.

Eddie Rickenbacker never forgot the sacrifice of that first lifesaving seagull. That’s why almost every Friday night he would walk to the pier with a bucket full of shrimp and a feeling of __________.