【推荐1】Anita is a mother who clearly adores her son. From the moment she found out that she was to give birth to a son with a cleft (兔唇) , she protected him, loved him, and dreamed of the day his lip would be ________.

When the doctor performed an ultrasound (超声波) in Anita’s seventh month of ________, he saw that her unborn child had a cleft. “He told me to ________ him.” Anita said, tears pouring down her cheeks. “I told him I want this child.”

When Anita showed her new baby to her neighbors, they were ________. “Your son looks like a monster.”, they told her. In many places around the world, there is ________ and severe social shame which is associated with cleft ________, and families are often forced to ________ newborns from their family members and communities.

Hearing her son being ________ was not the worst of it. “When I tried to feed him, the milk came out of his nose. I ________ that he could die.” ________, Aljay survived and loved school, but the suffering he ________ from the other children was hard to bear. They teased him, laughed at him, and called him a monster.

When the family heard that Operation Smile was coming to Cagayan de Oro, they began saving money to afford ________ to get to the city. At the medical mission Anita finally received the news she was waiting for: Aljay was healthy enough to receive ________. After just over 45 minutes his lip was repaired and his life was ________. Today Aljay is a ________ boy who loves going to school and playing with other children.

【推荐1】She was not the kind of girl who could draw attention. She looked ordinary and was not _________. One day I asked her to read aloud the text. When I heard her _________ English, I looked at her _________. And I remembered her name — Kelly. _________, one student in our school was allowed to _________ the National College Speech Competition. I thought it over and filled in her name. However, _________ Kelly practised hard for the competition, I was a little worried, because she was always _________ quiet.

In the night of the competition, I came to the hall very early and told her to _________. Her face turned red and she said nothing. It seemed that she was really _________. I just patted her on the shoulder and let her go to draw lots(抽签). She drew No. 9 while No. 8 was a boy who was very good at __________.

Sure enough, No. 8 was very successful .The __________ made a warm applause(掌声).

When the hall was __________ with excitement and noises, Kelly appeared on the stage. Because of the strong spotlight and the large hall, __________ seemed to notice she had been there. I felt hopeless.

But the moment   that surprised me __________. I clearly heard a voice, a very loud voice, “Now, please focus on me.” Three times in all, __________.The whole audience __________ silent. I could hardly __________ that loud voice to the girl, who was usually soft-voiced before. She gave a perfect __________.

I think I will never forget this touching __________ my student taught me — never underestimate(低估) the __________ of the silent people.

【推荐3】Success lies behind a locked door, but not everyone has the right key.

Many years ago, I met an old friend of mine, who had ________himself to acting, but had never been quite ________. In his middle age, he seemed to be defeated and sad. I thought of his perseverance (毅力). Certainly, our ________doesn't look kindly upon quitting. Failure is perfectly ________as long as it eventually results in success. We often chant, “Winners never ________. ” and “If you do not succeed at first, try again.” We jump at stories of perseverance, of the author who submitted stories for years before her ________were published, or of the athlete who has trained since childhood to win gold medals at the Olympics.

Perseverance ________when it's rewarded with success, but it doesn't reward every person. For every JK Rowling, there are thousands of ambitious writers who will ________get anything published. For every Olympic athlete, there are countless others who ________every day of their lives but never made the cut. We all agree that doing the same thing and ________a different result is unwise. So, why do we believe that persevering through failure after failure is a good ________?

We often consider quitting in the face of failure to be ________. We believe that perseverance is the key to success. Perseverance is only one part of success. You ________talent or skill, as well as enthusiasm and drive. Luck and timing are also key to any great success. Our society believes that anything is possible ________you believe, but not everyone can make it. Quitting when you're not ahead is sometimes a ________thing to do.

________, if you enjoy a pursuit (追求) , regardless of its outcome, you should ________. If you knew your story would never be published, would you want to write? If you could never be a champion swimmer, would you still practice? Sometimes, it's wise to put your ________into something else. Failure is not always the ________to success. Sometimes, it is the door to something ________

【推荐1】I’ve had a string of bad luck lately. Last week my washing machine broke. I planned to fix it myself but soon ________ the repairs would cost more than a new one would. Then this week the ________ thing happened to my daughter’s washing machine! This time I ________ called a friend to help. Once again, however, it was broken beyond ________. I ended up having to ________ two. While both the new machines got delivered quickly, I still ________ about what I was going through in my heart.

The moment I did, my ________ traveled back to when I was a child, I saw my grandma ________ an old-fashioned washing machine with my jeans and shirts. It didn’t have a spin dryer (甩干机) inside so she had to put each item through a pair of rollers to _________the water. When the washing was done, she’d often pat the machine ________. She had grown up hand-washing clothes and was ________ for the machine that did so much of the work for her.

Remembering this helped me realize that I was looking at things in the ________ way. I was getting ________ in the inconveniences of modern life instead of being thankful for all I have. The good old days had their share of ________ and joys. And so do the good new days. What ________ is how we live them and what we can learn from them.

【推荐2】When my son, Justin, was four, he found a caterpillar (毛虫) and put it in a jar. Each day he fed it with fresh grass and leaves. In a few weeks we discovered it _________in a cocoon (茧).

Justin was excited. He knew a moth (蛾) or butterfly was about to be _________, but he didn’t know what kind. He was_________to know what gift nature was about to give him.

“Dad!” shouted the boy while running to me one day. “Something’s _________. Come see!”

He led me to his room. The cocoon had become half transparent and we could _________ the wings of the unborn. Soon, a moth broke free from the cocoon, and laid eggs completing the life _________of the little caterpillar.

The next day, I convinced Justin it was time to set the moth free. He took it _________ , opened the jar, and the little moth flew out. It _________the yard twice, came back, and landed on Justin’s arm. He picked it up, tossed it in the air, and the moth repeated its  _________ pattern. He tried over and over, but each time it would __________ to his arm.

Justin__________. He put his little pet back to the jar. The next day he attempted to set it free again, and after a few repetitions of the same behavior, the moth__________flew off into the grass.

Like a __________, I believe the moth was afraid to leave what it was comfortable with. It wanted to stay with something__________, scared to move on and experience something unknown.

I was once that little moth. My cocoon was my mother’s __________ , in which I was comfortable. Like the moth, I didn’t want to fly too far away from it. I was__________ when my first job required me to move to a new city. What would I find there? I liked__________I was.

Humans are creatures of __________. We resist change. However, if I hadn’t moved, I would not have experienced many__________and wonderful things or met many of my friends. So each move gave me the __________to learn and experience, but best of all, I met friends.

【推荐3】A boy, 3 years old, after visiting and playing in his neighbor’s with his grandma, ____ a bottle of yogurt (酸奶) when leaving. Soon later, his grandma found it, and asked him to ____the yogurt. ____, the boy cried and screamed. Then getting ____, the grandma seized him, and said, “This is the act of ____! Now come with me to the police station!” The boy was so ____, struggling to escape bitterly. While his grandma took off the gloves, dragging him on the ground.

The video was posted online and gave ____to a heated discussion. A rather large portion of ____left there were in ____of what the grandma had done, and argued that this lesson would help the boy develop the right ____character.

In the market, it is a common ____when you see a child, between 2 and 5 years old, getting hold of the toys he or she wants or ____the food he or she likes, ignoring whether it has been ____or not.

It never strikes to them that they are stealing something. Nor do they take into consideration the ____of their action or other people’s feelings on their ____. In their sense, all the things they like belong to them.

According to some psychologists, during the period from 2 to 5, the children have no sense of property rights, and are not able to distinguish the ____between what’s yours, what’s theirs, and what’s mine.

Besides, this is also a stage when self-consciousness (自主) starts to ____. Children begin trying to go out of the adults’ watching territory to ____with the outside world ____. In this sense, what is thought of as stealing, in the young children’s eyes, may be just an attempt on ____.