【推荐1】I've been farming sheep on a hillside for 54 years. I use a small tractor   (拖拉车) to get about. My dog Don always sits beside me in the passenger seat.

One morning I _________ a lost lamb when I was in the top field, near where a motorway (高速路) cuts through my land. The lamb had become separated from its _________ , so I jumped out of the tractor to _________ it while Don stayed in his seat.

Lamb and mother _________, I turned back to the tractor only to see it move suddenly away from me. This was so _________ because I had put the handbrake on when I jumped out. _________ Don had somehow made the _________ move.

My heart _________ in my chest as I saw the tractor heading towards the _________. I ran desperately but failed to __________. It crashed through a wooden fence and disappeared. The __________ thing I saw was Don's face, looking calmly back at me.

Heart in mouth, I __________ the fence and looked over. The tractor was __________ against the crash barrier in the central reservation, having miraculously (奇迹般地) crossed the __________ road with fast-flowing traffic. I couldn't see Don, but as I __________ the tractor he jumped out onto the road, apparently __________, and dashed back to me.

The police __________ and the motorway ran normally again. I couldn't quite believe my __________ -it turned out no one got badly hurt, but the outcome could have been __________. Don was given a special __________ that night--I didn't want him thinking I was angry with him.

【推荐1】There are things which I am thinking about, son: I had been hard on you. I called out_______ when you threw your things on the floor. At breakfast, I found fault, too. You _______ things. You put your elbows on the table. You_________butter too thick on your bread.

Do you remember that evening when I was_________in my bedroom, how you came in timidly (羞怯地) with a sort of_________look in your eyes? When I _______ up over my paper, impatient at the     _______, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I asked. You said nothing, but _______ and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms_______me with an affection. And then you went back to your________.

Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my________slipped from my hands and a terrible fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me? The habit of finding ________. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I ________ too much from you. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, ________.

Tomorrow I will be a__________daddy! I will suffer when you suffer and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when ________words come. I have always been looking at you as a man. ________ as I see you now, son, lying asleep on your bed, one little ________ under your cheek, you are still a   ________. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have ________ too much, too much.

【推荐2】What do you do with a withered orchid (兰花)?____ you’re an expert, you may find that they never ____ for you again.

Everything has a life cycle and orchids don’t ____ forever. I can’t ____ throwing out orchids. I have tried my best, but in ____. After so much ____ and error, I was almost ____ that they have died.____, my wife had other ideas.

Some of the plants were moved to a table in the living room, and others were ____ on the kitchen window.

Actually, everything has its own life cycle. Sure, you can ____ hope. It was easy to believe that those orchids would never flower again—that is, until my wife decided to come to their ____.

My wife kept moving the plants around the house looking for the right light.____, the orchids stayed alive. Tiny new stems (茎) grew from the old ones a year later. And now, nearly all of them are flowering.

Yes, you can ____everything you think is important—your beauty, your wealth, even your family — but as long as you are alive, you can find new life within something you thought was never going to bloom (开花) again. Never lose ____ on finding new life, even if the chance is ____.

【推荐3】It was a hot Spring day. The temperatures _______ more like July than May. I headed into the store to buy my son a shirt. The air conditioning there was a welcome _______ from the heat outside.

After I made my _______ I walked back out into the heat. I got in my car but had to wait to   _______ because of all the cars lined up at the red stop light. I looked out of my car window and saw something on the pavement. A single butterfly was _______ flapping its wings but not getting off the _______. It was right in front of a truck’s tire too. Without thinking I got out of my car, held my _______ up so the truck driver wouldn’t move forward, and _______ down to look at the butterfly. One of its legs was _______ in what looked like spilt soda. I reached down and ________ as I could cupped the butterfly in my hands. I lifted its leg up and suddenly it was     ________ . I opened my hands and up it flew towards the shining sun. My own heart felt ________ as I watched it.

Now a lot of people might wonder why I would step out into   ________ like that to rescue a single butterfly. All I can say is that my heart was ________ me at that moment. And ________ I was done I felt more like my true self than I had all day.

【推荐1】One afternoon, my son Adam asked me, “Are all people the same even if they are different in color?”

I thought for a minute, and then said, “I’ll explain, if you can just wait until we make a quick _____ at the grocery store. I have something interesting to show you.”

At the grocery store, we _____ some apples—red, green and yellow ones. Back home, I told Adam, “It’s time to _____ your question.” I put one apple of each _____ on the table. Then I looked at Adam, who had a _____ look on his face.

“People are like apples. They come in all _____ colors, shapes and sizes. On the _____, some of the apples may not even look as delicious as the others.” As I was talking, Adam was _____ each one carefully.

Then, I took each of the apples and peeled(削皮) them, _____ them back on the table, but ______ a different place.

“Okay, Adam, tell me which is which.”

He said, “I can’t tell. They all look the same now.” “Take a ______ of each one. See if that helps you ______ which one is which.”

He took big bites, and then a huge smile came across his face. “People are ______ like apples! They are all different, but once you ______ the outside, they’re pretty much the same on the inside.”

He totally ______ it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.

【推荐2】We have all heard how time is more valuable than money, but is it possible to have too much?

I ________ back in high school I spent most of my day at school since I also ________ a team sport. By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it ________.

When I got into college, things ________. I suddenly found myself out of class before noon time. There was no sense of ________ to do my school work immediately. I was performing this action of waiting until it later became ________. Once that happened, I just kept pushing my studying further and further back in my day. Then I got to the point where I was ________ really late at night to get my work alone.

One day I ________ a former classmate of mine who was ________ a lot of money running a sideline (副业). Since his regular job was ________, I asked him why he just didn’t do his sideline full-time. He said without the job, he would simply have too much time and would just do what I did back in ________. He said that if he ________ the job, he would lose his ________ to work and succeed.

So, try ________ your time with other work. This is why there is a saying that if you want something done, ask a ________ person to do it.

【推荐3】Tell mommy I love her

John had been on the road visiting customers for more than three weeks. It was coming up on Mother’s Day. He said to himself, “I’ll _________ Mom some roses.”

He went into the small shop and saw a boy_________ to the clerk."How many roses can I get for six dollars, ma’am?" the boy asked. The clerk was trying to _________ that roses were expensive._________ the young man would be happy with camations(康乃馨).

“No. I _________ have roses,” he said, “My Mom was sick so much last year and I didn’t get to spend much time with her. I want to get something _________.It has to red roses, because that’s her favorite.”

The clerk_________ John and was just shaking her head.Something inside John was _________ by the boy’s voice. He looked at the clerk and _________ mouthed that he would pay for the boy’s roses.

The clerk looked at the young man and said, “Okay, I will give you a dozen red roses __________ your six dollars.” The young man__________ jumped into the air.He took the flowers and ran from the store.

John __________ his own flowers and had the clerk be __________ that delivery would include a note telling his mother how much he loved her. __________ he drove away from the shop, he saw the young boy walking down the sidewalk. He __________ him cross the street and enter a cemetery(墓地). The young man stopped by a small monument and went on his knees.He __________ laid the roses on the grave and began to sob. John heard the young man speak. “Mommy oh Mommy __________ didn’t I tell you how much I love you? Jesus please, find my Mommy. __________ my Mommy I love her.”

John__________ tears in his eyes, and walked back to his car. He drove quickly to the florist and told her he would take the flowers__________.