【推荐2】Experts say boredom is good for kids. It forces them to be creative, _______ their imaginations, and helps them discover new things. A(n) _______ in point is 13-year-old Luke Thrill from Dubuque, Iowa.

Luke was _______of playing video games and riding his bike, so he decided to build a tiny house in his backyard instead. He made money from cutting lawns(草坪) and _______ exchanged some services, such as gaining the help of an electrical engineer _______ sweeping his garage. Luke also _______ spare materials from his grandmother’s house and other _______ materials from his neighbors for some of the windows and the door.

The 89-square-foot home cost $1, 500 to build and _______ 18 months. Inside there’s a kitchenette, a back sitting room, a table and a mounted(镶嵌的) TV, and an upstairs bedroom can be easily _______ by stairway.

Although Luke did the ________ and learned how to do all the work, he had his father’s ________ throughout the project. Greg Thrill was very happy that his son learned to stay on ________ and deal with grown-ups. ________, he had some simple rules when Luke ________ the house: “You ________ the money. You build it. And you own it.”

Luke is now in love with __________. He has a YouTube channel and hopes to ________ other kids to start building. ________, he wants to build a bigger tiny house to live in, but for now, he ________ in his new home a few nights a week, does homework there, and uses it to take a ________ from his twin brother.

【推荐3】George worked in a company in Washington. Once, when he bought flowers for his girlfriend, he knew the shop owner Ben.

Later, because of the crime of fraud (诈骗罪), he was going to prison for 10 years. _________ hearing this news, his girlfriend left him.

10 years were too long. George got used to a passionate life, _________ how to spend the days, long, loveless and lightless. He had no _________ in himself.

George had the first month in prison feeling _________. He almost went crazy, when someone came to see him. He had no relative in Washington, so he couldn’t _________ who would remember him. In the meeting room, he was _________: it was Ben who brought him a bunch of lowers!

Though it was _________ a bunch of flowers, this brought _________ to George’s prison life. He started reading and studying electronic science in prison.

Six years later, he was _________. He first became an employee in a computer company, and then __________ a software company of his own and __________ a career in the field. Two years later, he became a billionaire.

George went to see Ben, but learnt that Ben’s __________ had failed two years before, Ben’s family was __________ to extreme poverty, so they moved to the countryside.

George took Ben’s family back, bought him an apartment and left Ben a(n) __________ in the company. George said, “It is your bunch of flowers every year that made me __________ the love and warmth of the world, and that it gave me courage to defeat __________. No matter what I have done for you, I can’t __________ your favour for me at that time, so I want to __________ a sum of money in your name so that all the unlucky people in the world feel your great love.”

Sure enough, George then established a “Washington Ben Benevolence Foundation for Strangers”.

It is easy for everyone to love everyone with __________. A word, a smile or a bunch of flowers is enough; we won’t __________ much, but it may help others walk out of dilemma, and make our life more beautiful.

【推荐1】Considering Grandma Joy was 85, Brad knew it was impractical. In order to ask her for ______, Brad knew he felt it ______, but he ______ called his grandmother. To get to the park, they would have to drive 500 miles through the night and it would be the first time in her life she’d ______ and slept outdoors.

In the long silence that followed, Brad expected, for all the right reasons, that it just wasn’t ______. But the old lady ______ him by asking, “When do we leave?”

They arrived at the campground at around 1:30 am in the middle of a rainstorm. Brad tried to set up the ______. Finally they climbed inside ______. It reminded him that when he was young, his grandmother did everything hard with him together.

The skies ______ the next day, and they set off. When they crossed a ravine (溪谷), he would held her hand to avoid ______ on the wet path. She moved carefully with the ______ of an 85-year-old woman. They walked slowly. When some people passed her, Brad asked if she wanted to turn back.

“I won’t give up even if it is ______ for me,” she told Brad. When they finally ______ the top, the hikers gave her a big round of applause. That night Brad made a campfire. He and his grandmother sat next to each other, feeling the warmth and looking at stars. Brad and Grandma Joy opened the box of their ______. They talked about families, about loss, pain and regret and about what had happened.

“Here I had the ______ to communicate with my grandson,” she said. “I thanked him. I had tears in my eyes. But they were good tears.”

【推荐2】Once my dad and I had a very big ______ in a late evening when my mother was away. We were both very angry and said something ______, and in the end I said, “I'm leaving.”

And he said with ______ , “Good. The sooner, the better. ”

I____a few things in the suitcase and closed the ______ behind me, but I didn't know where to go. After walking aimlessly, I stopped at a local ______ . A few ______ later, my phone rang. It was my mom calling. She said, “Mary. Where are you? Dad said he ______ you.”

“How can he say that? I've been away for nearly half an hour, ______ he didn't call.” I said with annoyance. My anger returned and I remembered all the ______ words he'd shouted to me. “Listen, mom. You can tell Dad that I'm _____. Tomorrow I'll ______ you.” I said and hung up.

I walked around the supermarket, trying to get my thoughts together. By the time I paid for my things, it had been much later than I used to be out alone. When I ______ the supermarket, I________ a large piece of white paper. On the piece of white paper were these words, “Please come home! I ______ you and I'm worried about you!”

Then a car pulled up beside me. Hanging out of the window was my dad. Beside him, smiling gently, sat my ______ . And that's when I started laughing. I laughed so hard that I ______ . Despite my best efforts to run away from ______ , my father ______ managed to track me down. I couldn't leave now—with him ______ there with caring eyes.

【推荐3】On a cold winter afternoon, the first-graders were trained in football. It was the day of our first _____.

These children were asked to sit on a long bench on the grass. When I was training a _____ team, I spent a few minutes _____ them to know one another, each kid saying his name and the names of all the kids siting to the left.

A few minutes later, I _____ to put the kids to a test. Alex was chosen to _____ at the far left end of the bench, _____ to each kid, say that kid's name and then shake his right hand.

Alex did well and he went down the row—Dylan, Micah, David, and Beau—_____ he reached Ben. He said Ben's name and _____ out his right hand, but Ben just sat there, his right hand _____ in his jacket.

"Ben, why don't you let Alex shake your right hand？"I asked. Ben stood up, and said, "But I don't have the ______. "He pulled his jacket ______ from his right shoulder.

Ben's arm ran from his right shoulder but his arm ______ at the elbow（肘）. No forearm（前臂）, no hand and no fingers！

I got ______ and couldn't think of anything to say, but the little kids were unwilling to hide their ______.

"Look at that, "said Alex. " Hey, what ______ to your arm?" another kid asked. "Does it hurt?" Ben took off his jacket to ______ the kids what they all wanted to see. He explained to them that he had always been that ______ and that there was nothing ______. What he meant was that he wanted to be treated like ______ else.

From that day on, he was ______ Ben, one of the players on the team.