【推荐1】It’s fortunate for children to have siblings(兄弟姐妹) accompanying them. And the kids would be luckier to have a brother as___________as Christian Hamerter. The 1l-year-old boy, attended a father-daughter dance with his 7-year-old sister Skylar after finding Skylar was___________by their dad.

In the days leading up to the___________in March, it was all Skylar was___________for, talking about it all day. On the other hand, her mom Trelysia felt more and more___________. At this time of year, their father is always fully___________in official duties. He didn’t attend last year’s dance due to a conference, ___________having made a promise. Then, she was right to be worried. On the big day, ___________, his father was sent abroad on business. “It was___________that he failed to go there for a second year. Skylar____________because she had her heart set on going.” Trelysia wrote in a____________. “I felt so bad and also cried uncontrollably.”

That’s when Christian____________! The big brother wanted his sister to feel loved and special. And he picked out a suit and gold tie, a perfect____________for Skylar’s gold dress. “The action filled me with____________,” the mother wrote, “for 1 just know that I’m____________a kind man──and an amazing father one day. He has____________that he can be.” Skylar had a great time with Christian there without her dad’s____________. Even better, now she knows her brother would always come to her____________.

The post warmed hearts of the people it ____________and picked up more than 110,000 reactions____________the sweet gesture.

【推荐2】I lifted my wet woollen gloves to my face and wiped the snowflakes from my eyes. I could not feel my nose and my ________ formed a thick fog in the air. The biting wind was making me ________. I was fed up! I didn’t want to be here. I wanted to go home. But Mum and Dad had ________ me to go for a Sunday afternoon walk in the park. I could see my ________ in the snowy path, like a trail of breadcrumbs (一串面包屑) in the forest showing me the way ________.

I stopped and listened to my ________. I could ________ the wind crying like a homeless dog hungry for a delicious ________. The once-green tree ________, which used to wave gently in the breeze, had become bare, and the grass was covered with a ________ blanket of fresh snow. Then I saw a broken spider’s web shining golden beneath a pale sun. My breath was like silky soft ________ floating up into the freezing cold air.

Suddenly there was Mum, ________ handing me a big cup of hot chocolate. Her big smile immediately ________ my heart.

“Here you are, Jo. This will keep you ________,”she said as she placed a comforting arm around my shoulders and ________ her cheek against mine.

I slowly took a mouthful of the hot ________ and felt it slowly dripping down my throat like lava (熔岩) ________ down a mountainside. My wet woollen gloves were now warm, not ________. My breath warmed, and I was ________ fed up or cold. I was happy and ________.

After I read your letter, I know that you are worried about _________ your friends. You used to have lots of friends, but you stopped talking to them after you made friends with Li Hua, who _________ your class a few months ago. Now Li Hua has moved to another city, and you have no friends _________ your old friends think you were mean to them.

As we all know, it is not easy being new, and it was nice of you to be so _________ to Li Hua. You did the _________ thing when you made friends with him. However, it was not such a good idea for you to _________ talking to your old friends. What happened is in the past, and there is no need to _________ this now. I suggest that you talk to your old friends first instead of waiting for them to talk to you. At an appropriate time, tell them you are sorry and give them a(n) _________ for your actions. They will be happy to see that you _________ value them.

You have learnt a valuable __________ in life, make new friends but keep the old ones.

Yours aunt

【推荐3】Introduction to letters to Sam

Please allow me to tell you something before you read this book. When my____, Sam,was born, my heart was filled with joy. I had been sitting in a wheelchair for 20 years before then, and I have been____ill many times. So I wondered if I would have the ___to tell Sam what I had_____.

For years I have been hosting a program on the____and writing articles for a magazine. Being____to move freely, I have learned to sit still and keep my heart____, exchanging thoughts with thousands of listeners and____. So when Sam was born, I ___to tell him about school and fridship, romance and work, love and everything else. That’s how I started to write these____. I hope that Sam would____them sooner or later .

However, that expectation____when Sam showed signs of autism (自闭症) at the age of two. He had actually stopped talking before the discovery of the signs. He____to communicate with others, even the family members. That was____for me but didn’t stop me writing on. I realized that I had even____now to tell him. I wanted him to____what it means to be “diffenet” from others, and learn how to fight against the misfortune he’ll___ as I myself, his grandfather, did. I just____if I could write all that I wanted to say in the rest of my life .

Now____the book has been pubhshed, I have been given the chance. Every chapter in the book is a letter to Sam: some about my life. and all about what it means to be a____.

Daniel Gottlied