【推荐1】When I was ten, my mother worked all day, so I had to take care of my younger brother. At that time, my little brother was about four years old and he _______ mum all the time.

One day, after I had given him his dinner, he started crying for mum. He was so young and really needed mum. So I dressed him, put on his _______, carried him on my back and walked out. Soon he fell asleep. About half an hour later, I found that one of his shoes was _______ while he was sleeping. I took him off my back and put him down. I knew we needed to find that shoe, for our mother couldn't _______ new shoes. I had to_______to find it, so I told my brother to wait right there. A man passing by heard what I said. He stopped me _______ I walked off. He asked me, “You are leaving your brother here to find the shoe, aren't you? What will you do if he is not here when you return?” I didn't know _______to answer that question. He continued, “It's OK if you can't find the shoe, but it is not OK to lose your _______” Then he sent us to mum’s workplace by taxi.

During my whole life, I have received the _______ from many strangers. I feel sorry that 1 can't find them and say “Thank you”. I do not even remember what their faces looked like, but they taught me a ________ - people are more important than things.

【推荐3】I ask my grandpa what it feels like to grow old. He _______ this question while we sit in his office overlooking the yard, where an empty bird feeder swings _______ from a tree branch. The yard has gone into a state of _______ in recent years. Grandpa no longer possesses the energy to maintain its _______ splendid glory.

After taking a sip of his black tea, he asks me a question. "Have you ever been in a hot _______ when the water ran cold?" I tell him I have. "That's what _______ feels like,” he says. " At first the water is too warm, but you _______ the heat and begin enjoying it When you're young, you think it's going to be this way _______ But one day you realize the _______ begins to drop. You gradually feel the warmth leaving your body. The water is still pleasant, but you know I’ll soon become cold and there's nothing you can do," he ________ “1 knew a few people who decided to ________ the shower. I was able to stay in because I ________ myself recalling the showers of my youth. It’s too late now, and no matter how hard I try, I’ll never get the hot water ________ again. ”

This is how my grandpa felt about growing old, but he has lived a good life to have ________ the birth of his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

After dinner, I fetch a bag of birdseed, take it out to the ________ and pour the seed into the feeder. I go inside, ________ to tell Grandpa about what I've done, only to find he is sleeping I think about________him up but decide not to disturb his sleep, a sleep which will soon ________ forever. I hope he is ________ the dreams of his youth, remembering the ________ of days gone by, the days before the water ran cold.

【推荐1】Hundreds of people have formed impressions of you through that little device on your desk. And they’ve never actually ______ you. Everything they know about you came through this device, sometimes from hundreds of miles away. Yet they feel they can know you just from the sound of your voice. That’s how powerful the ______ is.

Powerful, yes, but not always ______ . For years I dealt with my travel agent only by phone. Rani, my faceless agent whom I’d never met ______ , got me rock-bottom prices on airfares, cars, and hotels. But her cold voice really ______ me. I sometimes wished to find another agent.

One morning, I had to ______ an immediate flight home for a family emergency. I ran into Rani’s office ______ . The woman sitting at the desk, seeing my madness, sympathetically jumped up. She gave me a ______ smile, nodded while listening patiently, and then printed out the ______ immediately. ”What a wonderful lady!“ I thought.

Rushing out ______ I called out over my shoulder, “By the way, what’s your name?” “I’m Rani,” she said. I turned around and saw a ______ woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip. I was ______ ! Why had I thought she was cold? Rani was, well, so ______ .

Sitting back in the car on the way to the airport, I figured it all out. Rani’s ______ —her warm smile, her nods, her “I’m here for you” ______ —were all silent signals that didn’t travel through wires.

【推荐2】The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by hardship. The circular motion (循环运动) between happiness and _________ is the one I’ve been dealing with lately.

A year ago, I developed troubling symptoms(症状) in my left _________. My husband sent me _________ to a specialist who said I had already suffered some everlasting loss of vision and would, without _________, go blind in that eye within months. And I urgently _________ to begin painful eye injections. Almost blind? Painful eye injections? I was _________. What if the _________ medicine didn’t work? What if my right eye developed the same condition? I _________ thought that, amazingly, the medicine was only three years old; before that, patients just went blind.

Over that long week, I _________ myself to casually __________ sadness, to cry and acknowledge my fears about my very fragile body. I __________ to be near anybody but my husband. Fortunately, I __________ pretty quickly, within the week. During this __________ time, I posted my __________ in my blog and receives great care and support from friends online, which filled my heart with __________ and encourages me to receive the eye injections. Besides, the doctor __________ the efficacy(功效) of the medicine. In the end, I bravely received the eye injections and they were very successful. I was lucky enough to see the world again with my healthy eye.

Finally, I gained a __________ insight: being your happiest self isn’t equal to a lifetime of __________ skies, and we are bound to __________ storms of life. Knowing this can help us face difficulties optimistically and __________ the change of life.