【推荐1】My son Joey was born with disability. The doctors _______ us that with treatment he would be able to walk _______— but would never run very well. The first three years of his life were spent in _______ with the help of casts （石膏）and braces （支架）.By the time he was eight, you wouldn't know he had a _________when you saw him walk.

The children in our _______ ran around as most children do during game play, and Joey would _______ and run and play, too. We never told him the _______ that he probably wouldn't be able to run as well as other children.

In seventh grade he ___________ his mind to go out for the cross-country team. Every day he trained with the team. He made great_______ and ran more than any of the others — perhaps he ________that the abilities that seemed to come naturally to so many others did not come naturally to him. The entire team ran. ________, only the top seven runners had the ________ to score points for the school. We didn't tell him he probably would never make it.

He ________running four to five miles every day — even the day he had a high fever. After school, I found him     ________ by himself. I asked him how he felt. "Okay,"   he said. The sweat ________ down his face and his eyes were glassy from his fever. Yet he looked straight ahead and kept running. We never told him he couldn't run four miles with a high fever, ________ .

Two weeks later, the names of the team runners were ________. Joey was number six on the list. Joey had ________ . He was in seventh grade — the other six team members were all eighth graders. We never told him he shouldn't ________ to make it. We never told him he couldn't do it. With the strong __________ ,you can achieve your dream.

【推荐3】In the doorway of my home, I looked closely at my 23-year-old son. Daniel In a few hours he would be flying to France to experience a different life. It was a transitional (过渡的) time in Daniel’s life. I wanted to give him some words of significance. But came from my lips, and this was not the first time I had let such moments pass.

When Daniel was five, I took him to the bus stop on his first day of kindergarten. He asked, “What is it going to be like, Dad? Can I do it?” Then he walked up the steps of the bus and disappeared inside. The bus drove away and I said nothing. A decade later, a similar scene played itself out. I drove him to college. As I started to leave, I tried to think of something to say to give him _________ and confidence as he started this new stage of life. Again, words _________ me.

Now, as I stood before him, I thought of those _________ opportunities. How many times have I let such moments _________? I don’t find a quiet moment to tell him what he has _________ to me. Or what he might _________ to face in the years ahead. Maybe I thought it was not necessary to say anything.

What does it matter in the course of a lifetime if a father never tells a son what he really thinks of him? __________ as I stood before Daniel, I knew that it did matter. My father and I loved each other. Yet I always _________ never hearing him put his _________ into words. Now I could feel my palms sweat and my throat tighten. Why is it so __________ to tell a son something from the heart?

My mouth turned dry, and I knew I would be able to get out only a few words clearly. “Daniel,” I said, “if I could have picked, I would have picked you.” That’s all I could say. He hugged me. For a moment, the world __________, and there were just Daniel and me. He was saying something, but tears misted my eyes, and I couldn’t understand what he was saying. All I was __________ of was the stubble (短须) on his chin as his face pressed __________ mine. What I had said to Daniel was __________. It was nothing. And yet, it was __________.

【推荐3】We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough. Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home”, has a hard-luck tale that could top them all. Before her ________, she was living in a landfill, ________ through garbage for her next meal.

Shelby’s ________ came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was ________ in Cheatham County. Buhler saw and approached what she recalled as a ________ scared puppy. “I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’” said Buhler. “She was so ________, but she came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.” The pair headed to the county animal ________, where the staff began calling the new resident: Baby Girl.

3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was ________ a dog to play Bella in a film. The find-a-Bella job went to trainer Miller. Her ________ was to search shelters for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller ________ Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “________, it was a really good picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and assessed her on ________ and through tests further evaluate her multiple abilities to ________, to simple commands. After all these and overall ________ her, she adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, ________ her Shelby and took her for training. Miller and Shelby trained for just over three months before ________ began. Then they were together each day on the set.

Most ________ about the film have praised Shelby. They made the ________ “an amazing dog”! Shelby has come a long way from the garbage. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently she just needed only a second to ________ the movie star to the dog she found from piles of trash. “She’s ________ the same,” Buhler said.