【推荐2】Do you know what love is? Do you really think that love is unilateral (单方面的)? Here is one story.

A father sat at his desk looking at his monthly bills carefully_________his young son rushed in and _________，“Dad, because today is your birthday and you're 55 years old, I'm going to give you 55 _________, one for each year！”   When the boy started _________ his words, the father exclaimed, “Oh, Andrew, don't do it now; I'm too _________！” The youngster immediately fell _________ as tears welled up in his big blue eyes._________ the father said, “You can finish later.”

The boy said _________ but quietly walked away, with _________ written over his face. That evening the father said, “Come and finish the kisses now, Andrew！” But the boy didn't __________.

Unfortunately, a few days later after this incident, the boy had an __________ and was drowned. His heartbroken father wrote，“__________ I could tell him how much I regret my thoughtless__________, and could be assured that he knows how much my heart is__________.”

Love is a two－way street. Any loving act must be warmly accepted__________ it will be taken as rejection and can__________ a scar (疤痕)．If we are too busy to give and__________ love, we will regret it! Nothing is more important than__________ with love to the cry for love from those who are near and__________ to us, because there may be no__________ at all as in the case of the little boy.

【推荐3】As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

_______ and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to nag down a taxi. I knew the _______. Just after her first birthday, we were told our daughter Katie has a _______brain illness. Since that moment, Doung and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept _______. We knew Katie was running out of _______. It had taken months before we finally had a name for the _______，but we were told only a few specialists in the world knew how to_______ it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to _______ our girl, we were in a strange _______ in the cold rain.

Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a(n)________?”

Before we could say anything, she continued, “It's really no________for me. Just get in.”

It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent, which ________me up like hot soup. We simply said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.

“Are you going________the baby?” she asked us.

I nodded my head, holding back my ________.

At the hospital, we ________her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I________her face was wet with tears. She promised to ________for us before she left.

After three more visits to New York and two more ________surgeries (手术)，Katie is cured. But the ________ of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our________ days.

【推荐1】I walked into my daughter’s room as she was working on a science project. Normally, I would have been pleased about such a(n) _________. But this time, her project involved much sand. While she’d put sheets of plastic under her work area, the sand was _________ all over our new floor.

My daughter felt my displeasure and began to _________ herself. “I used sheets of plastic!” she responded irritably. I responded more _________. “But the sand is getting all over!”

“Where else am I supposed to do it?” she _________.

“Why didn’t she admit that she had done something _________?” I thought to myself. I felt my _________, thinking of what her life would be like in the future if she couldn’t _________ her mistakes?

My fear was translated into more anger, this time about how _________ it was to admit mistakes. We had a quarrel. She __________ her voice and said something disrespectful to me.

I wished this had __________ happened before. But my daughter and I were in embarrassment and felt terrible.

I thought that I needed a good __________ to respond to my daughter, so I went to my wife and asked how I should have __________ it.

“Sweetie,” she said, role-playing in the __________ with my daughter, “there’s a lot of sand here and we need to clean it up before it destroys the floor. How can I help you?”

That’s really a great way to deal with it: first identify the problem, next state what needs to be done and then offer to __________. It’s simple, right?

【推荐3】The town I live in is about to put cameras at all traffic lights to catch people who run red lights. It _____ me of how many people I've seen and who take the yellow light as a signal to go faster. I also can't _____ why people don't move when the traffic light has turned green. Above all, there are also _____ situations in which someone doesn't even _____ that the light turns red, and just keeps going. That is why so many _____ happen！All these situations make me _____ the purpose of traffic lights.

_____, it's even more frightening to imagine letting people make their own decisions at _____ crossroads. Do the biggest cars get to go first？Who decides who goes next？So I guess I do like the idea of a system to _____ traffic. And I'll do my best to ______ the traffic rules: to go, to be cautious, and to stop when I'm ______ to.

It occurs to me that my ______ have done much the same for me ______ teaching me how to live. They have given me many ______ lights: to get along well with others, to listen and talk to others, to help others, and to ______ with joy and purposes. They have also given me some red lights ______ my life goes astray（误入歧途）：not to be greedy, to keep my temper, and to control my ______. And there also have been some yellow caution lights: to watch how much I drink, to keep control of my behavior, and to ______ school regularly and work hard. If I obey these rules, my life will be as ______ as it can be. Just as I'm wise to pay attention to the traffic lights when I'm walking across the street, I'm wise to pay attention to the "life ______"given to me by my parents.

【推荐2】When I was young, my mother could not even _______ a 50-cent chocolate bar for me. However, instead of focusing on poorness, my mother selflessly _______ me to fight for success so that I could lead a _______ life. She worked long hours every night to support the family. _______, she would find time to _______ with my sister, Emily, and me. Although I did not have two parents, I was loved and _______ just as much.

Not all of life’s milestones were easy. Some even left a _______ taste when my mother married a man in Maryland. The first few months were _______: baseball games, dinners together and movies. It felt like we were the _______ All-American family. Then things ________. Screaming matches between my stepfather and my mother ruined dinners, and he ________ movie tickets for wine.

We spent five years living in a family setting that had turned into a ________ zone. To our great relief, they finally ________ and we settled in Texas, where Mom is still working hard for a better life. Now, as I write this article with some dark ________ at hand, I realize my family and I are at the ________ point of our lives. I have succeeded both in my ________ and personality. I have been ________ my hunger for knowledge and I am to ________ from high school, not making a bitter product of my ________, for I know that hard times in life are also learning experiences. ________, like candy, can be the sweetest treat of all.

【推荐3】A couple of weeks ago, my grandfather was explaining his favorite expression, “Nothing is ever easy.” The following day, as I tried to complete my clay’s work, I happened to _______a bumblebee (大黄蜂) on the skylight (天窗). The skylight was particularly high up, but I thought _______ the bee would take no more than five minutes. An hour later, the bee still remained. All that had _______was that the living room was a mess and that I was dizzy from _______ into the sunlight. I did not expect to waste an hour on an insect so _______but by doing so, I understood what my grandfather meant.

It is not only time that we tend to underestimate…we don’t account for unexpected costs. We often imagine what can work in our _______ but we seldom think of all the _______ things that could affect us. However, it is important to remember that your day or week or year might not go as _______ and that is completely normal. It is _______ acceptable to feel challenged — even at a ______________ that you thought was simple — because that is part of life.

If you can ______________ that nothing will ever be easy, then ______________ might seem slightly more manageable. In middle school, I thought high school might be easier because I could choose the classes I wanted to ______________. In high school, I thought ______________ might be easier because I could have a schedule best suited for myself. Yet each time, I was both wrong and disappointed. After accepting that school wouldn’t (and shouldn’t) be ______________, I found myself with a more positive attitude and ______________ results.

Of course, there should be ______________ made to account for expenses or time. Doing so can only help you ______________ your goals in a better way. However, there is no need to beat ourselves up (过分自责) when something stands in our ______________. Maybe we cannot see a ______________ coming our way, but we can always give ourselves the extra time to catch it.