【推荐2】“When I grow up, I want to be a mountain climber,” Jack, my four-year-old son, announce. My husband, Jack and I are now _______ Cradle Mountain. Here the sky is clear and the plants are green. We don’t know how our kid will progress, but we’re _______ to give it a go.

Usually some parents, me included, would ______ that bushwalking would present a great opportunity for disaster. However, we couldn’t be more _______. We are swallowed up(吞没) by the _______ of the nature.

My husband and I _______ glances(眼色) as Jack runs ahead of us. He keeps a confident and steady(稳的) _______ , staying three or four meters ahead of us. Who is this kid _______ us through the bush? This can’t be the same boy who won’t play outside _______ someone keeps him company(陪伴).

“Hey, look at this!” Jack cries, pointing at a _______ in a tree. “Who lives here? It may be a snake’s _______.” His dad and I _______ and look on, nodding and predicting(预测) who might call the tree home. Before reaching a _______, Jack is off again, keeping a distance between himself and us.

I think about how I have often felt _______ as a parent. Frequently I find myself _______ to cross the tricky(棘手的) pass of boyhood: “Why won’t this child _______? Why won’t he do as he is told? Why is he so _______?” Yet, here we find ourselves in the wilderness, and the boy is showing us the _______. The world is unfolding before him, and he is crossing it with _______ and natural curiosity, and as his parents, we are only _______ on his journey, following in his size 12 footsteps.

【推荐3】It is a touching story which won’t be forgotten. An old gentleman reached the hospital at 9:00 am. I heard him saying to the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 10：00.

The nurse had him take a _______in the waiting area，______him it would be at least 35 minutes ______someone would be able to see him. I saw him _____his watch and decided，since I was_______busy — my patient didn't _______at the appointed hour，I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound，I asked him if he had another doctor's appointment.

The gentleman said no and told me that he _______ to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his_______. He told me that she had been ______ for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be ______if he was a bit late. He replied that she _______knew who he was，that she had not been able to _____him for five years now. I was ______，and asked him，"And you ______go every morning，even though she doesn't know who you are?"

He smiled and said，"She doesn't know me，but I know who she is. " I had to hold back______as he left.

Now I_______that in marriages，true love is _______ of all that is. The happiest people don't _______have the best of everything；they just ________the best of everything they have. _____ isn't about how to live through the storm，but how to dance in the rain. I love the story and recommend it to you. Thank you for your time. Please spread the story to people around you if you are fond of it.

【推荐1】I like growing kinds of plants. Once, I ______ two seeds (种子) side by side in the soil in my backyard. The first says, “I want to ______! I want to send my roots deep into the soil, and ______ to come up. I want to feel the ______ of the sun on my face!” and it grew. The second seed says, “I am ______. If I send my roots into the ______ below, I don’t know what I will meet in the dark. If I ______ my way through the hard soil, I may damage my small sprouts (芽). What if a small child may ______ me up from the ground? No, it is much better for me to ______ until safe. ” A hen walking around for ______ found the waiting seed and ______ ate it.

I sometimes ______ myself — what if I stop focusing on the ______ and go for the best? Most people can do unusual things ______ they have the confidence to take the risk. ______, most people don’t. There are lots of people sitting on the ______ saying: I’m going ... They will do it when they are rich and when they get married.

The ______ is that your life can never be perfect. Step away from the sofa sitters who are waiting for a single perfect day to begin ______ their dreams.

Believe in yourself and know you can do ______! However, those who refuse to take the ______ get controlled by life finally.

【推荐2】A boy walked into a candy store with his father and since he was just 6 years old, he was surprised by so many candies on offer. “It’s amazing. What should I _________?” he asked himself. “Come on, son, we don’t have much _________. I have to attend an important meeting,” his dad said.

“These are all my _________ and I don’t know what to choose.” He picked up some bags and then put them _________. He couldn’t make up his mind. “_________, son, we have no time. I’m very _________,” his dad said. So the boy ran around the store _________ again. His eyes moved from one bag to another, _________ all of the sweets looked so good and he couldn’t make up his mind. _________, the dad had enough. He caught his son by the hand and they __________ the store empty-handed. The boy __________. He wanted them all, but ended up with __________ because he couldn’t choose just one.

Some of us are that boy. The __________ is that candy store. We have a great number of choices available (可得到的) to us, but if we don’t make a(n) __________ about our jobs, education, relationships, marriage or other __________ things, we will end up empty-handed. Sometimes we worry about making the __________ choice. What if we __________ the direction that we take and it’s too late to go back? We don’t have to __________ this. How do we __________ whether it is good or not if we don’t make a choice? The bigger __________ is that we make no decision at all and end up going nowhere and doing nothing.

【推荐3】Several years ago, a neighbor kid kicked a football and broke a basement window of my house. Due to lack of money, I_________ it up, thinking I’d get to it someday.

Over the years, I had planned to upgrade to energy-efficient windows. But with the frame (窗框) rusted (锈) and firmly _________ in the foundation, whoever did it would need to cut it out by hand.It would be a _________process and there were six of those windows in the house. The cost was estimated at $1,500. It was simply_________.

Honestly, the_________ of that window ate at me for years. I knew I needed to fix it, but I had _________the difficulty so much in my mind that I put it off again and again.

Then I had a job change and needed to sell the house before moving away. But it was almost _________to find a buyer if there was a broken window. So I pulled off the boards to face this thing head-on. I grabbed some rust remover, _________it around the frame of the window, and gave it a pull. To my astonishment, it easily _________I took the window downtown. It only cost me $12. I could have __________ the problem for only $12 when it occurred, but I let it bother me for five years!

__________, this isn’t just about my window. Many of us live with broken windows of one type or another. They are things that seriously affect our __________ of life. If you recognize your broken window, don’t __________to mend it. It may turn out to be__________than expected. Usually we suffer more in__________than in reality.