【推荐1】It happens every day, everywhere l go. At the supermarket and the post office, people keep telling me to enjoy my kids while they are ______. I spend my days taking care of them and answering ______ questions about everything from why we have two eyes but one nose to _____there are toilets in the heaven. They ______ me from eating a full meal or getting a full night's___________

Yet, the other day, when I took my kids to a children's museum, I began to ______ what people were trying to tell me. It was the_______time we had gone there without diaper（纸尿片）bag, baby bottle or stroller. As l watched-my sons paint there,1 was suddenly_______by a wave of ____ .My babies weren't babies any more.

Now I'm paying more attention to the ______ that won't happen when my kids are ___I'm enjoying the minute when Christ looked up the sky and _______excitedly: "Wow! The moon!" In a few _______，it will take rare Shrek card or something else to get him that excited. I'm treasuring the moment when Nicholas put down his fork at dinner and asked，‘‘Mommy, how are you doing?" About ten years from now, he might not _______ me. When they're in primary school, they won't want to hold my ______ any more. In junior high school, they won't hug me and say，‘‘I love you, too." In high school, they won't even want to be______.together with me.

Pretty ______ they'll both be gone. And I'll ______ through the supermarket and the post office alone, ______ young mothers to enjoy their kids while they are little. Hope they'll______．

【推荐2】One snowy night, a pair of beagles (比格犬) was struggling on a rural highway. The father-to-be looked around anxiously, trying to seek _______ for his dear companion. Frequently he would look at her_______ , feeling guilty she labored along, her way made heavier by the new life growing inside her. They_______ for a warm, dry place. When her_______ came, it must not be out here along the roadway.

As _______ would have it, Gus Kiebel, a county wildlife officer, who was driving home from work, spotted the pair. He _______ to the shoulder of the road immediately.

The beagles made no effort to_______ when Gus bent down and stretched out his hands to them. Gus_______ their tags (狗牌) by his truck’s headlights and tried to ring, but the falling snow _______the screen. He placed the dogs in his truck,________ his phone and called again. A man answered and instantly grew ________when Gus told him why he was calling.

“I already gave them away,” the man responded coldly.

Obviously, these beagles were________ . Meeting their large begging eyes, Gus felt his heart________“Putting them back in the snow is out of the ________ ,” Gus thought to himself, “I must bring them home.”

It’s a simple story, but it speaks to the best of our ________ : Kindness and love can keep cruelty and cold at bay .

【推荐3】About 15 years ago, Andrew Mclindon, a businessman and cyclist was riding his bike in Austin, Texas, when he thought about a friend’s 12-year-old son. The boy had never known the ______ of biking because he was born with the brain disease that often causes balance ______ .

When he got home, Mclindon, now 60, went online and found a three-wheel bike with a seat belt ______ for a child with balance issues. Soon the boy was ______ around the street with his fellows having fun and getting ______ . Additionally, seeing the boy interacting with other kids happily, McLindon was ______ by the smile on his face, which ______ the McLindon Family Foundation. Funded by donations, the group works with clinics to find children who can benefit from owning an ______ bike and to help change each bike to ______ the particular needs of the child. Therefore, the bikes are ______ , but with the producer’s huge discount, some kids are lucky enough to get one. “We worked with a 14-year-old who ______ spina bifida (脊柱裂伤),” says McLindon. She spent most days on the couch watching TV. Soon after she ______ her bike, she was training for special-needs sports. In a magazine interview, she said, “I always knew there was a(n) ______ in me.”

So far, the foundation has ______ 450 bikes, and that’s just a start. “I do a lot of things. I run a lot of corporations,” McLindon says. “But getting these kids their ______ is the most important thing that I do.”

【推荐3】Reverend Karen Onesti and Rabbi Andrew Bossov, both in Mt. Laurel, New Jersey, knew each other from a monthly meeting. On this evening ten years ago, however, Onesti could_______something was up with Bossov. So she_______him in the parking lot and asked him how he was doing.

“Not so well,_______,” Bossov replied. “I need a new kidney(肾).”

Bossov’s kidneys were failing, the_______of an experimental drug he’d taken more than a decade earlier for his colitis (结肠炎). Facing dialysis(透析), Bossov had already_______the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) registry, but 70,000 people were in front of him. He’s also been_______close friends and relations to find a live donor, but so far, he hadn’t found a(n)_______.The statistics are_______for people in Bossov’s situation: in the U.S.,20 people die every day waiting for a(n)_______donation.

Onesti didn’t________: “I’ll give you one of mine,” she told Bossov.

Writing in a journal, Bossov________that “ that year that________had many twists and turns as we navigated the hard path toward donating and________an organ. Being accepted for transplant was one thing, but being________for surgery was another, and there were no guarantees.” Bossov began dialysis. However, Onesti________discovered she needed major surgery of her own, an hysterectomy (子宫切除术), before she could be able to________an organ.

But________, both Bossov and Onesti were cleared, and their surgeries were a(n) ________. More than a decade later, the kidney is functioning perfectly, and Bossov is ________“beyond words” every single day. Today, both Bossov and Onesti lead happy and healthy lives, and their ________has deepened over the years.