【推荐1】My dear girl, this is a letter for you to read when I am getting old.

The day you see I’m getting old, I ask you to be patient please, but first, try to ________ what I’m going through. If when we talk, I ________ the same thing a thousand times, don’t interrupt (打断) to say: “You said the same thing a minute ago...” Just ________, please. Try to remember the times when you were ________ and I would read the same story night after night until you ________.

When I don’t want to take a bath, don’t be ________ and don’t embarrass me. Remember when I had to run after you, trying to get you to take a ________ when you were just a girl?

When you see how ignorant (无知的) I am when it comes to new technology, give me the time to learn and don’t look at me that way... Remember that I ________ taught you how to do many things like eating appropriately, getting dressed and ________ life’s problems every day.

________ I occasionally lose track of what we’re talking about, give me time to remember, and if I can’t, don’t be nervous or impatient. Just know in your heart that the most ________ thing for me is to be with you.

And when my old, tired legs don’t let me move as ________ as before, give me your hand, the same way that I offered mine to you when you first ________.

When those days come, don’t feel sad... Just be with me, and understand me while I get to the ________ of my life with love.

I’ll ________ and thank you for the time and joy we shared. With a big smile and the huge love I’ve always had for you, I just want to say, I love you, my darling daughter.

【推荐3】On a July afternoon in 1983, my mother and I were out when we got word that my father had collapsed (晕倒). We ________ to the hospital and found him ________ on a bed. He had had a ________ stroke (中风), and the doctors ________ us there was very little time, if any.

My mother placed her hand on his. “Tommy, can you ________ me?” she asked several times. But there was no ________. I looked at a nurse. Her eyes were ________. After several minutes, my mother said in a low voice, “I love you, Tommy” and turned away, ________ and crying.

I stood ________ beside my father. His half-closed eyes were fixed on the wall. He was gone. However, I had no ________－ no fear, no sadness, no anger － nothing, except one ________. Every day my father told me he loved me, but I had never once said it to him. “It’s too ________,”I said it over and over. ________, I bent down and for the first time said in his ear, “I love you, Dad.”

As I ________, my father moved a little! He tried his best to turn his head as he ________ me. Slowly, he raised his arm and gently laid his hand on my face. He ________ it there and looked into my eyes. Seconds later, his hand ________ as he fell into unconsciousness (不省人事). He ________ the next day.

Today, thirty years later, I am still________ the mystery of that moment. In those last minutes, when he knew he would die, my father cared nothing for himself and only wanted to ________ me. I realized I must live a good life in that moment.

【推荐2】Today, I went hiking with a friend of mine. The sky suddenly became covered with _________ clouds, so we started walking down the mountain with a(n) _________ step than usual. After a little while, we _________ a large group of children by chance. They were walking down the mountain as well. The path suddenly became _________ for a few moments before the group was well ahead and out of _________.

Left behind were a young boy and his _________. We slowed down for a bit to _________ with them about the weather before finally passing them. They _________ again when my friend stopped to tie her shoes. Suddenly, the boy fell. Fortunately, my friend _________ caught him as he was about to roll down the path. However, he got frightened and was __________ in his mother’s arms. He said that his __________ hurt and I could see the __________ on the mother’s face. I asked if I could help, with my friend__________ that I was a nurse and I could give the boy a quick __________ of his knee. Making sure that they needed nothing more __________ we continued on,I decided to leave the pair sitting on a rock.

I only took a few steps forward before feeling that there was more that could be done. I said __________ to my friend for slowing us down, then turned and asked the boy and his mother if they wanted us to __________ and walk down with us.I could see the relief (宽慰) wash over the mother’s face as she said “yes ” and immediately __________ up.

The __________ in New England had left the path covered with beautiful yellow leaves. Though we walked slowly, we talked __________ with the boy and his mother.

【推荐3】Paris Williams is six years old. This little girl is driven by a task to help others who are less _________. “I wanted to give something to the _________.” Paris explained.

Paris might not have had _________ like some figures in movies, but she didn’t let that _________ her. Turning instead to more practical magic and the _________ of her parents, Paris filled and _________ more than 500 care packages containing food and some _________ necessities to downtown St. Louis’s homeless people, as well as_________ approximately 250 meals to on-duty workers.

But Paris wasn’t _________ to simply donate goods. It was important for her to make a(n)__________ with the people she was trying to help. After __________ each package herself, Paris drew a picture and __________ a personal message on each one to create the kind of human connection that many of the homeless__________ lack.

“It makes me really __________ because this small child who is entering first grade has such a big heart,” her mother said. “She wants to __________. She wants to help others.”

Paris has already __________ a lot by anyone’s standards, but she thinks she’s only just getting started. She’s __________ holding a hot-food project for the homeless and also hopes to start a toy fund for kids __________.

“I want to __________ more people to do good things,” Paris said. Out of the mouth of the child, comes not only wisdom, but __________ as well.

【推荐1】When Garvison flew from Chicago to Atlanta earlier this week with a baby in her arms, she saw the unhappy looks of her seatmates.

Garvison asked if she could change________. And her new seatmate________all the difference in the day of this young mom, who was on a trip to surprise her military husband.

【推荐3】There is an old_________, “A bird with a broken_________ will never fly as high.” That’s the way some adults look at troubled kids. Norris, who was a most celebrated troublemaker, was once considered to _________ nothing.

By high school, Norris_________ got into lots of fights and conflicts every year. Teachers didn’t want to have him in their class. They shook their heads when talking about Norris, firmly_________ that he was doomed to be a failure.

_________ I met Norris, I was attending a weekend leadership training. Norris was one of 300 students who signed up the activity. When the activity began, he was merely standing outside the _________ of students, with a(an)_________ look on his face. _________, as time went by, the interactive games slowly__________ him in. Norris gave a lot of__________ suggestions, which__________ to be very useful. The other students on the team were__________ with his passionate concern and brilliant ideas. __________, it was not long__________ he was being treated like a leader.

The very first community-wide service project was to be a giant food drive, __________ by the Homeless Project team. Adults were__________ to find that Norris was the leader in this crucial first activity. Two weeks later, they collected a school record: 2854 cans of food in just two hours. The local newspaper__________ the event with a full-page article the next day. He was being__________ as leadership material.

When other people were on the__________ of losing confidence in Norris, he showed his talent to the world. It is a truth that once the bird’s broken wing is healed, it can fly higher than the rest.