【推荐1】This wasn’t the way I wanted to see Rome. Sure, it felt _________ to spend Christmas there and stand in awe of the city’s attractions. But life wasn’t meant to turn out like this.

I was supposed to go to Rome with my mom back in 2012. However, life had different _________. A week before our trip, I got a stomach infection, a condition that required a week of _________ . What’s worse, my mom _________ a cough, which later proved a stage-four cancer.

My mom spent the final months of her life _________ the terrible disease though it was a losing _________. After she passed away, I _________ a trip to Rome. And _________, you never get used to a world that mom isn’t a part of. You just deal with it because you don’t really have a _________.

I spent two weeks doing all the things we had wanted to do. Maybe she wasn’t physically there, but I __________ her presence every minute. Her presence also __________ me that life isn’t about the things we buy or the money that we have. It’s about making __________ with the people we love. They never really __________ us since they are constantly influencing our lives in __________ ways.

After my trip to Rome, I __________ knew that my mom would always be there because she had forever changed my life in the best possible way.

【推荐2】My mom died on her 50th birthday.She had been diagnosed with breast cancer a few years before. The day she took her last_________, we each took turns saying goodbye.

When we were done, we all walked outside and sat looking at the river that_________through my parents’ backyard. A hummingbird buzzed by,and my sister said.“I bet that’s mom.”It was as if that_________energy and charm she’d had when she was healthy had eventually been given back to her after so many months’ being_________to her bed,and had taken the form of this_________little bird. My mom was the sort of person who wanted everyone to have a great time. So, on her request, everyone wore a_________hat to her funeral. There was also a DJ who played songs like Consider me gone by Sting. My mom never took herself too _________. She just wanted everyone to be happy.

Even when I was_________with her for not letting me get a hotel room with my friends on prom(毕业舞会)night，or when she expressed_________that I couldn’t ____________ my grades,I still love her so much. She listened to me without judgement. She respected my____________,yet left her door wide open if I ever needed to talk. She encouraged my strengths and____________my weaknesses with humor, “Who cares if you don’t have a great singing voice?Sing your heart out!”

She left us too soon, but she left her children with the memory of being loved ____________. I realized the best way to____________her memory was to find a way to love myself that much, even in her   ____________. What an incredibly gift that has been.

【推荐3】My brother Joe liked driving cars. He was especially _________speed. It was enough to make mother _________.

As a little boy, Joe would often say to me. “Sister, when I am old enough to drive my own car, I will fly so fast that angels will run scared.” With a big grin (咧嘴笑), he would _________ the scene. I could have told him it would _________ happen. But I didn’t tell him that.

Joe was born blind. But he could _________ like anyone. I didn’t want to be the one to _________ Joe’s dreams._________ would do that for him, soon enough. Up to then, didn’t he _________ his happiness？

Growing up is a _________ between disappointment and surprise, between dreams and reality. When Joe was 12, I think he knew he would never get a license (驾照). As with the other hard facts of life, he seemed to accept it without question or sadness, as if it were __________ more than a card drawn at random (随机地).

One hot summer day when he was 16, Joe, with the help of stick, found his way to my stepfather’s car.

He felt the heat of the __________, opened the door and climbed in. Under the seat, he discovered 6 cans of beer. And he drank all. He found the keys, shouted, “Hooweeee!” and __________ it up.

I have heard various versions (版本) of this story. They all __________ this: the car’s engine __________. My mother fainted. My stepfather rushed outside.

__________, for everyone, the Ford didn’t move an inch. But to this day, Joe still swears (发誓) that when he found those keys and fired that old engine up, he heard the angels.

【推荐3】It was on my 30th birthday. When I came back, my mother was________herself proudly in her usual chair, with two shirt boxes ________blue paper and a pink card in front of her. “Happy birthday!” she said,________at the boxes. “Open them.”

My mom had got me________what I wanted, as she always knows me. I hugged and thanked her and________to eat the chocolate cake. “High calories, I shouldn’t have done that,” I said, not really caring. Mom waved off my put-on ________and laughed. Two weeks later, I came upon the same________:   my mom sitting in the chair; a chocolate cake next to blue shirt boxes,________, a yellow card this time. I was aware she had ________Alzheimer’s (阿尔茨海默氏病) .

Four long years passed. I now have a 15-month-old son, Ben. Lately my mother has been reading to him, the ________ character and plot every time. It doesn’t________to Ben that he’s heard the story, and he doesn’t mind her poor ________, because every minute is new for him too.

I begin to enjoy the situation and realize we are ________. My mother is in bad, but stable condition.________is better than a decline. Change will come; her remembrance may ________further, but I’ll be in the frontline.

【推荐1】Zhang Shangbao, 62, has worked as a “village doctor” in Hehe Town of Shilou County, North China’s Shanxi Province, since the age of 16. He has _________ more than 1,000 farmers in five villages deep in the mountains, and _________ to work even after losing his right hand in an accident in 1995. The five villages are located in a valley along the Hehe River, where it was difficult to _________ healthcare in the past. Many elderly farmers didn’t even _________ the urban part of Shilou County.

One of Zhang’s biggest _________ is that despite the government building roads _________ the villages with the outside world, he cannot ride a motorcycle to reach the villages because he _________ a hand in the accident. So he has no _________ but to walk to the homes of his patients in order not to _________ the illness.

After graduating from Lyuliang Health School in 1978, Zhang __________ a post in the city, but he chose to __________ to the village to serve the farmers. Whether in the summer heat or winter cold, Zhang has always been on __________.

Zhang Fengjun, Party secretary of Tietou Village, said: “For so many years, whenever the farmers from the five villages have fallen ill, their first thought has been Doctor Zhang, because he is quite __________ every time asking about illness in detail.” He __________ the hearts of the villagers.

Zhang has continued to work and provided treatments whenever a need is __________.

【推荐3】Shayden, 11 years old, approached his neighbor’s house and asked for using the family’s front door security camera to shoot a video. Shayden’s going to the Rays’ house was ________ by his strong need for new friends. He expressed his ________ for companionship in the video, ________ seeking out native children around 11 or 12.

However, when his neighbor Brennan Ray ________ some kids nearby, Shayden explained that he felt he was ________ by them as they always stopped him entering their activities. After their brief ________, Brennan was moved by Shayden’s desire and decided to ________ the video online to reach out to Shayden.

Shayden had difficulties establishing connections with others due to many kinds of mental illness. In the comments, Brennan highlighted the importance of having conversations with others in ________ the challenges they may be facing. He described Shayden as a well-mannered, ________, and brave young man and ________ the online community to help Shayden find new friends. “I figured I could post it, and some ________ people would see it and help me contact them,” he said. However, the video was beyond his expectations, receiving nearly 70 million ________ and gaining widespread attention.

After Shayden’s recent ________ to the Rays’ house and getting the ________ support from countless compassionate (富有同情心的) individuals, Shayden now feels a sense of ________.