【推荐1】For my daughter’s 19th birthday, we bought her tickets to go and see Linkin Park, as they were playing in our city. We didn’t really have the ___________ but we knew how much this band meant to her.

The night before she was like a ___________ at Christmas. Every so often she got up and came to sit with us, because she couldn’t speak. On the night of the concert it was good to see her so ___________ and excited, as she and her boyfriend set off.

Needless (不必要) to say when they ___________ after midnight, with T-shirts and lots of pictures of the band, caring for her telling about how fantastic they had been, we knew the money had been well ___________. This will be a memory she would never forget, and nor would we.

_________ full of excitement from the night before, the following day they continued to go shopping on the other side of the city. My husband and I laughed, loving the fact that she had not ___________ that quality as she grew up.

Later that day they returned, with faces full of happiness and warmth. They presented my husband and me with a ___________ each. On each present were the words “Because you are the ___________ mum/dad in the world.” When we expressed our thanks and told her she didn’t have to, we asked her why she had bought us gifts. Her answer was simply “Just because I love you.”

This wasn’t something ordinary from our daughter; she had always given us gifts when she wanted to express her ____________, and each gift was always a welcome surprise. It could have been anything, it wouldn’t have mattered, and it was the act itself and the feelings behind it.

【推荐2】I was the fourth generation to live on a land of woods and fields that had once been a working farm.Through the___,my family watched a city spread all around us. Gradually, neighboring families sold their houses,which were____with housing developments and____centers.

When I was a student in college,a shopping center was built directly behind us.While it was now ___to do our shopping,we also had to get used to the ___noises at night from delivery trucks.

One morning,having finished my exams for the last term,my mother and I walked on the land while talking about my future plans.Megan,our three-year-old dog,had____into the woods.Before long Megan reappeared,carrying some____in his mouth.My mother had always been proud of teaching her children good___ .It was clear by the look on her face that she had the same___ of the dog.

She looked____at the possibility that the dog could be a criminal.Maybe somebody had   thrown it into the trash and Megan had simply____it up.Mum kept a watchful eye on him to ____that it did not happen again.For a while things seemed____However,one Saturday   afternoon my mother sent me to the store to get some last-minute things.

While at the checkout counter I heard the___ worker say,"Oh here comes that dog   again. I watched,__,as everyone laughed.He __ to the bread shelf,took some bread and walked out.All I could think of to do was to offer to___ for the bread.When I got outside,the dog was___ in sight.I found him at home with the bread and told Mum what I   had just seen.My mother took the bread from the dog and shook her head in___.She could   not believe she had____a shoplifter.

Megan was locked inside the house after that.

【推荐3】A disabled teen is to walk the runway at New York Fashion Week. When New York Fashion Week______, a 15-year-old from Bel Air, Maryland will be one of the models, who has cerebral palsy.

Faith Guilbault is set to______Kohl's latest adaptive clothing,______designed for people with disabilities.

The teen isn't new to the runway. When Faith was just 12, she walked in Tommy Hilfiger's show, ______the brand's adaptive fashion line. The line was created to help the one in five Americans living with a disability have more______lives.

"Adaptive clothing has special snaps,"Faith said, " There' re things to help your pants on and off."

For teens like Faith, adaptive clothing doesn't just______more independence, it also builds up______. With a growing number of popular______designing adaptive clothing, people living with disabilities are now able to dress just like their peers.

They have such a hard time with the______they have to overcome daily; they shouldn't have to struggle with their own independence with getting______Karen, Faith's mother, said.

When Karen learned that Runway of Dreams, an______that works with the fashion industry to make clothing for the   ____, was looking for models, she sent in Faith's photo. Through the organization, Faith was______to represent Kohl's adaptive clothing line at New York Fashion Week.

Faith knows the opportunity is unbelievable. She also realizes that her presence on the runway______goes beyond her own potential modeling career. "I think it will make a considerable______for people out here in the world," Faith said.

【推荐1】At the age of nine, I was taking swimming lessons in a pool. The day had arrived when I was to be tested to see if I could _______ to a higher level class.

Fifteen of us were to _______ swimming from one side of the pool to the other and back. I watched as my _______ , one by one, tried and failed. Then it was my turn to _______ , I mean, my turn to _______ to pass the test. I was about halfway when I got choked (呛住) . I immediately stopped and _______ the side of the pool, ending my test. Our instructor, a college student, was standing _______ me. “Why did you stop?” He yelled, in a less than _______ voice. “I got water in my nose,” I _______ .

That’s when this college student ________ me one of life’s great lessons, ________ he probably never realized that. Bending down, he shouted, “So?”

“So?” The ________ shocked me. It had just seemed ________ to me that the answer to pain was to remove the thing causing the ________ . My nine-year-old brain had not understood the fact that a valuable ________ is worth achieving, however difficult to get there. Recognizing that, I was ________ nothing would keep me from completing the test. In fact, I did it rather ________ at my next attempt. Seeing me ________ the test, almost all the others did so as well.

Life is a journey, and the road won’t ________ be easy. We have to focus on the final destination, not the ________ along the road.

【推荐3】A mysterious creature was living under a man’s shed (简易房). Everything in his garden was almost ________, so he decided to set up a ________.

“I’ve been a gardener for over 20 years and I’ve never seen this kind of damage. Everything I ________ was getting eaten to pieces,” said Jeff.

He ________ a squirrel and a mouse grabbing snacks, but something didn’t ________. Then one day, he saw the culprit (肇事者), a groundhog (土拨鼠). The groundhog looked straight into the camera as if he was ________, “Yeah, I’m here. I’m eating your garden. What are you going to do about it?”

At first Jeff was a little upset and built some high ________. He put woods under the fences. But nothing ________. He kept seeing videos of the groundhog eating his vegetables.

Things only got ________. The groundhog, whom Jeff named “Chunk”, got a girlfriend and invited her to enjoy Jeff’s delicious treats, right in front of the camera. No matter what Jeff did, they were ________ a step ahead. “All they do is wake up and eat,” he said.

Well, as the saying goes, “If you can’t beat them, join them.” So, Jeff ________ to give them their own garden.

After they went into hibernation (冬眠) last November, Jeff had the ________ ready for them when they woke up. And to his ________, there was now a baby groundhog.

Jeff ________ the groundhogs a small picnic table, a water fountain, and put out some nice decorations. “If I can do a job to ________ them and keep them safe, I’m all for it,” Jeff said.