【推荐1】Marsha seemed like a nice enough lady, 96 years old. She had a(n) _______ heart and only months to live. That’s why I was _______ her at the nursing home. She was glad to hear me read from the Bible, but suddenly, she burst into _______. ''When I get to heaven,'' she said, ''I will tell God to kick(踢) my father out of there! I don't ever want to _______ him again! '' I didn't know how to respond, but I wanted to help her _______ her heart.

I went home, wondering if I would be like Marsha at her age. A loud voice inside me was forcing an uncomfortable _______: Isn't there somebody you need to _______? Frankly(坦白地) there was something I didn't want to _______.

I grew up in Chicago. My brother John was 12 years older than me and always shouted at me. Everything I did was _______. I couldn't get along well with him, so I ________ him off. I couldn't see how old wound could hurt us ________ in the last days of life ________ I met Marsha.

I read all about forgiveness, including everything I could find in the Bible. I told myself it was to help Marsha, but ________, I was desperate to help myself. Like they say, when you can't stop being mad at someone, the person you end up ________ the most is yourself. So I finally took the ________ to call him.

''I don't want to be ________ with you anymore, '' I said. ''I'm ready to start over. Whatever our ________ have been are in the past. There was a brief ________ on the other end of the phone. ''I agree,'' John said at last. ''I'll try to do better.''

The last time I saw Marsha, she was too weak to ________. I don't know if she forgave her father when she would get to heaven. Either way, I ________ they worked it out, like my brother and I.

【推荐2】The Best Holiday

I was unbelievably proud of my nine­year­old daughter, Emily._________ to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to _________ extra money.

By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49.I said, “You can pick one from my bicycle_________. ” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right.All my bikes for girls were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would _________ choose.

As Christmas_________ near, Emily and I went bike shopping.As we left one store, she noticed a Salvation Army volunteer standing next to a big pot.“Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked.“Sorry, Em, I’m out of _________ .”

Throughout December, Emily _________ to work hard.Then one day, she made a surprising_________. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said, a little hesitantly.“I’m going to give it all to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $69 to a volunteer who was really very thankful.

_________by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute one my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children.__________ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a __________ bike took on a glow(发光)．Should I contribute two? No! One would be enough! But I still couldn’t shake the feeling that I should give another bike.When I later__________the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very happy, sir.Here are your tickets.For each bicycle we receive from the kind people, we’re giving away one chance to __________ a girls’ mountain bike.”

Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the winner? I like to think it was a way of __________ a little girl for a sacrifice beyond her years—while giving her dad a lesson in the __________.

【推荐1】My kids and I were heading into the supermarket over the weekend. On the way, we spotted a man holding a piece of paper that said, “ ________ my job. Family to feed. ”

At this store, a ________ like this is not normal. My 10-year-old noticed the sight and made a ________ on how bad it was for the man to have to stand outside in the cold wind.

In the store, I asked each of my kids to ________ something they thought the man there would ________. They got apples, a sandwich and a bottle of juice. Then my 17-year-old suggested giving him a gift card. I thought about it. I had lost my job and we were ________ of money ourselves but…well, sometimes ________ from our need instead of what we own is just ________ we need to do! All the kids declared something they could do away with for the week.

When we handed him the bag of ________, he lit up and thanked us with ________   eyes. When I handed him the gift card, saying he could use it for whatever his family might need.

This has been a wonderful ________ for our family. For days the kids have been looking for others we can help! Things would have turned out so ________ if I had simply said, “No, we really don’t have ________ to give more. ” Stepping out not only helped a man in ________, it also gave my kids the ________ taste of helping others. The happy moment go a long way with them.

【推荐2】My name is Austin, a textile professional from Britain. I _________ the Teaching in Rural Thailand program as a volunteer. Everything _________ so smoothly.

My host family was amazing. I really found a second family in Thailand and we _________ so well even without speaking the same language.

Teaching was great fun but quite _________ because I was teaching many different classes and all different levels of English. So I always had to first check and then quickly _________ to the level of English they had.

But _________ I could check in _________ what kind of games or exercises they had been doing with the help of a teacher’s diary. Students love the competition and teaming up _________ each other. It sometimes takes a bit of time to _________ them to act because often they are very shy. But __________ they warmed up, it was so much fun.

On Sundays I went to temple schools to teach the little ones (5—8 years) together with other teachers from Prangku who teach __________ on Sundays. All the teachers are kind and __________ so much of their free time to the school and the students. And the students are so nice and polite and really __________ to learn English. I can only __________ this experience with everyone who enjoys being with children and with everyone who is interested in getting to know about a new __________. It’s really wonderful and unforgettable.

【推荐3】“Ladies and gentlemen, the time train has arrived at the terminal!” It felt like I had woken up from a dream, _________ soon discovered I had come to 2035. Suddenly, I heard a strange voice calling my name. I turned around, only to find a robot _________ to me enthusiastically. “I’ll show you around the city in 2035!” I nodded immediately, _________ what the city would be like.

Once I walked out of the train station, many crossed air lanes came into view. The robot, seeing how _________ I was, explained the new traffic system to me. The system was put into place by many famous engineers using highly _________ technology. In fact, it eliminated (消除) the issue of traffic jams entirely.

Next we made our way to a restaurant nearby. Just as I _________ that there was no menu, a waiter began to scan my body with a special _________, which gave me a big fright, so I _________ out of my seat immediately. The robot explained it was just a machine that was able to figure out what our body needed and chose the recipe that _________ us most. The waiter then introduced me to the electronic screen that allowed me to choose the environment according to my __________. I pressed the “beach” button on the screen and __________ I felt a sea breeze. I couldn’t help but __________ at how rapidly technology had advanced.

We __________ returned to the train station. Just as I __________ the train, I heard a familiar voice calling my name. I opened my eyes to see my mom standing over me. What a __________ dream!

【推荐2】As my son entered adolescence, we spent most of our time in separate rooms. I know it’s________for teenagers to shut themselves away, but sometimes I find myself trying to think up ways to________ him out of his bedroom.

________by this desire, I booked two tickets to Beijing for the September school holidays. With hurriedly packed luggage and a basic plan built around some last-minute Google searches, we________the airport. We landed________and excited at 4: 30 am. There is something very freeing about arriving in a place where you have no________. We just walked for hours every day, _______when we were hungry, wandering back streets, sharing more ________than we’d shared since he was very little. Within a day he’d become the _______, and I was the lost one. He taught me how to _______shared electric bikes when we arrived at Xiangshan. He showed me how to accelerate and led me speeding up and down hills.

I saw him________ in China, not the child running late for school or forgetting to eat carrots and peas, but as someone taller than me who understood when to________ on a train so someone older could take his seat, and how to________ buying things with his own money.

Travelling meant we were more like________. And instead of complaining about the _______ version of him, I saw the adult he was becoming.