【推荐2】Friends are very important in our everyday life. Everyone ________ friends. We all like to feel close (亲密的) to someone. ________ is nice to have a friend to talk, laugh, and do things with. ________, sometimes we need to be alone. We don’t always want people ________. But we would feel lonely if we ________ had a friend.

No two people are ________. Friends ________ don’t get on well. That doesn’t mean that they no longer like each other. Most of the time they will make up (言归于好) and become ________ again.

Sometimes friends move away. Then we feel very ________. We miss them very much, but we can ________ them and write to them. And we can ________ new friends. It is encouraging to find out how much we like new people when we get to know them.

There’s more good news for people who have friends. They live ________ than people who don’t. Why? Friends can make us feel happy. ________ happy helps you stay well. If someone cares about you, you will take ________ care of ________.

When I was 13,my family moved. Mary and I kept in___through letters, and we saw __on special occasions—like my wedding and ___.Soon we were busy___children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less___.One day a card that I ___came back stamped “Address Unknown”.I had no ____how to find Mary.

Over the years, I thought of Mary often. I wanted to 1__stories of my children and then grandchildren. I needed to share my sorrow when my brother and then my mother died. There was an ____place in my heart that only a friend like Mary ____fill.

One day I was reading a newspaper ____I noticed a picture of a young woman 1__looked a lot like Mary and whose last name was Wagman—Mary’s married name.“There must be thousands of Wagmans，” I thought,but I wrote to her ____.

She called as soon as she got my letter.“Mrs Tobin！” she said ____，“Mary Allen Wagman is my mother.” Minutes later I heard a voice that I ____at once, even after 50 years. We laughed and cried and asked about each other’s lives.

Now the empty place in my heart is ___，and there’s one thing that Mary and I know____： we won’t lose each other again!

【推荐1】If you’ve ridden any New York subway, chances are good that you’ve watched your cellphone clock tick while seated on an unmoving, delayed train. You wouldn’t wish to have such a _________ feeling of being stuck on public transportation anymore. No one knows the feeling as _________ as Jerich Marco Alcantara does particularly when he had _________ in his life to celebrate. He _________ his graduation ceremony at Hunter College’s Brookdale campus due to a delay.

There were two _________ ceremonies that day, but Alcantara specifically wanted to _________ the early ceremony, because students were only _________ two tickets for friends and family at the latter event. He wanted all of his family and friends in attendance.

Stuck on the train in full baccalaureate gown (学士服), Alcantara still got to experience a formal _________, sort of. Some friends and strangers improvised (即兴创作) a ceremony on the subway. _________ a cellphone, a friend presented Alcantara with a “diploma”; __________ somebody else on the train played Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) by Green Day. Another passenger __________ the ceremony and posted the video to Facebook.

________ he wasn’t able to attend the full ceremony, in a way this will end up being a more memorable __________ for Alcantara down the road. He will be able to point to his __________ and not just think of the hard work it took to earn it, but the __________ missing his real graduation ceremony created.

Moments like these help us get a little more __________ of our fellow man during a __________time. Although these aren’t all strangers, it’s still wonderful to see people __________ to make sure someone feels the proper __________, or at least their big achievement should be __________. Though Alcantara missed his official graduation ceremony, he said his subway experience meant a lot.

【推荐2】It is a blue, cotton shirt. The shirt belonged to my________David On his birthday before he left college, his mother bought him the shirt.________I gave him free use of my bike, he let me wear the shirt, occasionally.

We shared the shirt, and as days________, we shared more of our stories. David was in school by scholarships and grants (助学金). He________to keep his scholarships, because without even one of them, he would have to______and back on the farm. And in David's home. there was always only enough money to________the expense. His father died when he was twelve.

_____, David also talked about his father Usually it was late at night, in the dorm just before bed, and the     _____always ended with tears that flowed from a river of memories and________: memories of a father suffering from     _____when his son was just a teenager, longings for opportunities to cure his father's disease missed, because disease does not understand about the________between father and son. Nor do(es).________care.

Time passed and we had to say________to each other. After lots of hugging, and words of thanks, we eventually     _____. It was on my________trip upstairs to our dorm that I saw a package on my bed. I________the wrapping paper. It was the blue cotton shirt in a box with a card________to it, reading: Thomas, I can't thank you enough for your     _____. This has been tough years and you have been________a friend. Thank you for listening. Thanks for everything. -- David

I put aside the note, with________tears dropping on the shirt, I still have the shirt today, though it has faded and wrinkled with age.

【推荐3】As we all know, a friend in need is a friend in deed. I really didn’t know the meaning of this proverb (谚语) until one day something_________happened to me.

It was on that day that I learned and believed the proverb “a friend in need is a friend indeed” to be__________.

【推荐2】The Little Angel

Sally jumped up the moment she saw the surgeon come out of the operating room. She asked, “How is my little boy?”

The surgeon said, “I’m _______. We did all we could, but your boy didn’t _______ it.”

Sally _______ into the chair. The surgeon asked, “Would you like some time with your son before he was transported to the _______?” Sally nodded. While saying goodbye, she ran her fingers _______ through his thick curly hair. “Would you like a lock of his hair?” the surgeon asked. Sally nodded yes. The surgeon cut a few hairs, and handed them to Sally. The mother said, “It was Jimmy’s idea to _______ his body to the university for study. He said it might _______ somebody else. “I said no at first, _______ Jimmy said, ‘Mom, I won’t be using it after I die. Maybe it will help some other little boy spend one more day with his Mom.’”

“My Jimmy had a heart of _______, always thinking of someone else, always wanting to help others if he could.” she went on.

Sally walked out of the hospital. She put the bag with Jimmy’s ________ on the seat beside her in the car. The drive home was ________. It was even harder to enter the ________ house. She carried Jimmy’s belongings, and the lock of his hair to her son’s room. She started placing the model cars and other personal things back in his room ________ where he had always kept them. She lay down across his bed and, hugging his pillow, ________ herself to sleep.

It was around midnight when Sally ________. Lying beside her on the bed was a letter. The letter said,

I know you’re going to ________ me, and me too. I will always love you, Mom, even more ________ each passing day. Someday we will see each other again. Until then, if you want to ________ a little boy so you won’t be so lonely, that’s OK with me. He can have my room and old toys to play with.

Don’t be sad thinking about me. I don’t hurt any more. The cancer is all ________. I don’t have to stand that ________ any more. The angels in Heaven are so tender. They say I’m a Special Angel! I love you, Mom.”