【推荐1】“Do not decide something too fast; otherwise you will regret it later.” This is what my _______ told me when I was young. In May 2, I went to window shop to buy a beautiful _______ in Siam Square with my friend for my first party. Having walked for 5 hours, we were so _______ that our shirts .stuck to our body. We were like robots only _______ to find beautiful dresses. Then we found one _______ with many dresses hanging on the wall. We ran in and found a pink dress which looked _______ than any other we saw. I immediately bought the dress with a smiling face, though not _______ to buy it on that very day.

When I went back home, I started to feel like something was _______. Did my dress look cheap or too ordinary or match me? The _______ was going around my brain for a whole day. ________ that party was the first one in my life. I really wanted to look beautiful.

Two weeks later, I went to Siam Square again with my same ________ to buy accessories for the party. We walked to the same place again and ________ a shop which we did not see on the dress choosing day. We went in and found the shop full of brilliant dresses. After trying on a dress ________ by my friend, I found it simply ________. The color was perfectly beautiful pink; the shape was exactly what I ________, and the price was lower than the one I had bought. Thinking of the dress bought last time, my excitement for the party ________.

On June 2, I went to party with no confidence on myself. Seeing many people with wonderful dresses, I could not stop ________ the pink dress. From this ________, I learned what my father said was correct. I should have been more ________. Each time I look at my dress in wardrobe, I remember the ________ decision that I made by being too hurried.

【推荐3】How do we make good things out of bad? How do we look at ourselves? Can there be a _______ side even in our pain?

There was an elderly woman who needed to walk down to the river every morning to _______ water for drinking, cooking and cleaning. She _______ two buckets, filled them up on the riverbank and walked back with them to her rural _______.

One of the buckets was newer, perfectly sealed (密封) and _______ its water completely. The second bucket was older and contained a few thin cracks that would _______ water as the elderly woman walked. By the time she arrived home, _______ about one third of the water in the second bucket was left.

One day, on the walk down to the river, the cracked bucket that had always felt like it wasn’t as good as the other bucket said to the elderly woman, ‘‘I want you to know that water has been _______ out every morning for the past several years. I’m so sorry for being cracked and making your life more _______. I understand if you need to ________ me with a better bucket.” The elderly woman ________, ‘‘do you really think I haven’t known about your cracks this whole time? Look at all the beautiful flowers that grow on the ________ from my cottage to the river. I ________ their seeds, but every morning it was you who ________ them.”

We all have a few cracks, but choose to see how it’s exactly those ________ that make us good enough.

【推荐1】Yesterday, I posted a photo of a pile of cross stitch kits (十字绣) on my blog. To my _______, many readers say I do well in them. I couldn’t use them all, _______ finally I decided to give away the rest to ladies in my neighbourhood who like to _______a project with their own hands.

I_______them all up into a box and decided to start with the lady who _______a pub. She’s perfectly kind and she served me with a cup of coffee. I took her out to my car and showed her the _______. I was holding it in my arms beside my car when another car _______up next to us with two other ladies in it. Within moments I was pushed against the _______behind the weight of three elderly ladies and I had to fight my way to pick up the empty box. The three ladies had taken every single item in that box with _______expressions on their faces and lots of thanks. One of the ladies has a son who is a firefighter. She decided to give some cross stitch kits to the ________station. Her decision did make me pleased. I had in my mind a wonderful picture of all these ________and strong firemen sitting around all working on their cute cross stitch Christmas stockings while they ________for fire alarms to be called in.

Finally, ________and laughter all went around, and then I e­mailed another ________, who often visits me and also likes cross stitch kits. She promised to send me her extra cross stitch kits, too. I just know kindness will finally ________on to others.

【推荐2】I grew up in a small town in Ohio, where everyone knew a man called Tom. Uneducated, he couldn’t talk plainly. And because he was _______ and not very smart, everyone teased him. I guess he was an easy mark.

One day, he came walking by. I was about 12 and thought it would make me feel grown-up to _______ him like the adults did.

He asked how I was doing. I told him my father was _______ , and that we lacked money. I could hear my friends _______ in the background so I went on with the lie. I had him _______ so completely that every time he inquired about the situation, I would make it seem increasingly worrying.

I knew he made a _______ by doing odd jobs (打零工), so it seemed _______ when he asked me if we needed anything. I told him that we didn’t know if we would starve (饿死) . He responded, “You poor thing. I will _______ for you. ”

That night I heard the _______ rattle (作响) softly. Thinking it was the wind beating against it, I ________ it. Later when I opened the door to go outside, I found a box of groceries. I knew who had given the food. I ________ the small box of canned food with tears in my eyes. I felt ________ , and wanted to return the groceries.

My father would not let me take the box ________ . He said it would hurt Tom. Each day when we were to have dinner, my father would ask, “What side dish are we having from the ________ box today?

It was ________ for me to eat the food. I knew Tom had given sacrificially. He gave the best he had, but I did not deserve the gift.

【推荐3】Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his stay, he ________out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to________ that his suitcase was________. He was extremely________as the suitcase had all his important papers, including his ________.

He ________ the case to the police and then sat there, lost and________in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a________country while trying to settle down in a new one.

________ in the evening, the phone rang. It was a stranger. He was trying to________my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said he had found________ in their trash can that had been ________out on the footpath.

My husband ________to their home to find a kind ________holding all his papers and documents. Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of________papers. Her parents had ________   sorted them out, although they had found mainly foreign________on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in which my husband had ________his new telephone number to a friend.

That family not only________the important documents to us that day but also restored our________and trust in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.