【推荐1】“How did you do it, Dad? How have you _______ not to have a drink for almost twenty years?” It took me almost twenty years to have the _______ to ask my father these very personal questions. When Dad first stopped drinking, the whole family was _______ every time he got into a situation that _______ have started him off drinking again. For a few years we were _______ to bring it up _______ the drinking would begin again.

“I would recite this little _______ to myself at least four to five times a day,” Dad replied. “The words were a _______ and a reminder to me. They told me that things were never so difficult that I could not _______ them,” Dad said. Then he ________ the poem with me. It was ________, yet the meaningful words immediately became a part of my daily life.

About a month after this talk with my father, I received a ________ from a friend. It was a book of daily mottos with one listed for each day of the year.

It has been my ________ that when you get something with days of the year on it, you naturally ________ the page that lists your own birthday.

I hurriedly opened the book to the page of November 10 to see what words of ________ this book had in ________ for me. I was shocked to see the words on that ________. There was the exact same poem that had helped my father for all these years! It is called the Serenity(平静)Prayer:

God, grant me the Serenity to ________ the things I cannot ________, the Courage to change the things I can, and the Wisdom to know the ________.

【推荐3】Last year, I met a kind little boy to whom my heart went out. He would talk to me every single day cheerfully, and always seemed to have a _________ on his face. His _________ was that he stuttered（口吃）extremely _________ when he tried to talk. It was really _________ to understand what he was saying, although he loved to tell big _________！

One morning, I was talking to the teachers who ran the school _________. The boy _________ and said hello to all of us. _________ they told me that the boy would stop every day to ask if they would be there the next day. But of course, he never had money to _________ anything.

I decided that I would get him a little something just as a __________. So I __________ a pencil, a rubber, and a small notebook for just $1.00. I cannot __________ the look on his face when I gave him the three __________ things. Then, without a stutter, he __________ said, “Thank you so much!” and just kept __________, “Thank you! Thank you!” He gave me a big __________ before going off to class.

I was __________ to see someone appreciate something that much. As he walked off, he was __________ showing his new stuff to other __________ walking to class. I have to say that I have never spent a dollar that would __________ so much to me.

【推荐1】Pennsylvania is full of mysterious places! One of those is an old turnpike (收费高速)_________ for decades. My dad loves history, and he learned it was open to the public. Therefore, when I was 14, we took a bike trip to_________ this road! My dad chose a 16-mile_________of the road for us to ride. Part of it included an old tunnel called Sideling Hill which is over a mile long! To prepare, we checked our tires and made sure our lights had batteries. In the morning, we loaded our bikes into the car and set off. As we approached the tunnel I felt_________as it was absolutely black inside! But Dad encouraged me. He said he would be beside me. He reminded me to stay cautious and keep my light on!

When we _________the tunnel, the sound of our bikes was heard through the darkness. I shined my flash light around and saw walls covered in graffiti (涂鸦). And I felt like I was being_________. I was pretty scared, but_________ on following Dad helped me relax. After riding half-way through, I could see light coming from the other end, motivating me to keep going. And I was so delighted to ride out into the bright afternoon!

Whenever going through hardships in life, I remember this trip. It reminds me that my father is always beside me. He turns on the light of hope in my_________as well as gives me _________ to keep riding through life’s__________tunnels.

【推荐2】When I was two years old, I lost my father forever, who had a traffic accident and passed away. Three years later, my mother___________from serious health problems, leaving me to care for her. This situation reversed (翻转) our roles as child and caretaker. While I knew my mother was sick, I__________that everything would be okay.___________, in 1997 everything went terribly wrong, and my life changed forever.

Adoption (收养) is a(n)___________word to a five-year-old child, but when I realized that my mother had signed me over to ___________, I felt it was the ultimate betrayal (背叛). I suffered from shock,___________, and confusion as I attempted to adjust to my new family. I did learn to love my new parents though I couldn’t___________my mother for betraying me. Hearing people tell me, that she did it in my-best interest and that she actually loved me, I felt even bitter. I firmly believed that if she had truly loved me, she would have made it work for our little family.

However, the older I got, the more I began to understand how___________our situation had been. We had been ___________boxes of noodles. I have started to understand the___________she put me up for adoption, and that she really did save me.

Only recently have I begun to___________how am other could give her child to strangers, and I realize now what a sacrifice (牺牲) it must have been for her to let me go. She was___________, but even in her states he understood that she was pulling me down with her. She loved me more than anything, so she wanted me to have a chance in life, one she realized she could no longer___________me. When I look back now, I am ___________to her. Even though I hated her for a long time, I now know my life has been a special gift only because she was___________enough to give me up.