【推荐1】When my wife and I decided to open our bookstore in 2012, we were a little ____.

The challenges facing small bookstores were—and remain— ____. Aside from the obvious ____ in online selling, the increase in the popularity of e-books has had a（n）____ effect on independent providers.

The question is why a new, small-scale（小规模的）provider would ____ enter such a（n）____ market?

From a personal view, our reasoning was sound: we wanted to ____ our love of great books and reading for pleasure with as many ____ people as possible.

Having done our homework, one thing became ____. In order for us to succeed, we would have to offer something that none of our larger competitors already provided.

And so we ____ the Willoughby Book Club. We set up our website in the summer of 2012—and we haven’t looked back.

The idea of ____ is simple. We offer a range of book subscription gift packages, ____ in three-, six- and 12-month options. Our customers ____ a package, tell us a little about the person they’re buying it for, and we use this information to ____ the（接收者）a hand-picked, gift-wrapped（包装的）book once a month.

We also recently decided to ____ one new book to Book Aid International for every gift subscription sold. These books are sent out to sub-Saharan Africa, ____ the educational work there.

Within four months of starting out, we won the Young Bookseller of the Year award at the 2013 Bookseller awards.

Our brief ____ from new booksellers to award receivers has been challenging and ____. The biggest thing we’ve learned is that, despite the ____ facing independent providers, there is a ____ for then in the UK market. It’s just a question of finding it.

【推荐2】My family has moved a lot. So I've _______ walking into a new school and making new friends. It doesn’t even trouble me that much--I _______ know I’ll feel at home in the new place after a few months. But about a year ago we _______ again, and that time it was _______. The reason why we were moving was a _______ to us: My father had a terrible illness and lost his job. My mom gave up her job to be with my dad_______he got the medical treatment (治疗). I couldn’t imagine how we would _______ --what if neither of my parents would find _______ again?

I knew my parents _______ me to be strong and I didn't want to let them down. ________, I gave in to all the feelings of sadness and fear. I cried a lot, and for the first time in my life, I started to ________school. I kept to myself so much that most people decided I was________and selfish. ________ , there were two girls at my school who reached out to me. When I finally started to talk, it comforted me to share all the ________ I’d been holding inside. And Melissa and Nicole really listened and ________ what I was experiencing, ________ I believed no one would. Their caring ________ me up so much that soon I had a whole group of friends. I stopped hating school, and my problems became much________ to stand.

It just goes to show you that you don’t have to ________the bad times alone. ________is the best way to help yourself.