【推荐1】I will never forget the lunchtime when I was in the second grade. I had been ______ to be the princess in the school play, and for weeks my mother had practiced my ______ with me word by word. But no matter how easily I ______ at home, as soon as I stepped onstage, every word ______ from my head.

Finally, my teacher took me aside. She explained that she had created a narrator’s (叙述者) ______ to the play, and asked me to ______ as another role. When I got home for lunch that day, I started to cry as I told my mother what had happened. She listened and smiled encouragingly. Instead of having lunch, she asked if I wanted to walk in the yard.

It was a lovely spring day and the rose vine (藤) was turning green. Under the trees, we could see yellow dandelions (蒲公英) ______ out of the grass in bunches, ______ a painter had touched our landscape with drops of gold. I watched my mother ______ bend down by one of the flowers. “I think I’m going to dig up all these weeds,” she said, ______ a dandelion hard by its roots. “From now on, we’ll have only roses in this garden.”

“But I like dandelions,” I ______. “All flowers are beautiful---even dandelions.” My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives ______ in its own way, doesn’t it?” She asked thoughtfully. I nodded, ______ that I had won her over. “And that is ______ of people too.” she ______. “Not everyone can be a princess, but there is no ______ in that.”

“But you will be a beautiful narrator,” she said, ______ me of how much I loved to read stories aloud to her as a child “The narrator’s part is ______ as important as the part of a princess.”

____ the next few weeks, with her constant ______, I learned to take pride in the role.

【推荐2】Each of us fails from time to time. If we are wise, we accept these_______as a necessary part of the learning process. As a parent or a teacher, we should help our children _______this fact. When I see a child having this kind of pressure. I think of Donnie and his teacher , Mary Anne. They give us a good example.

Donnie was a third-grader. His _______ of failure kept him from classroom games that other children enjoy. He _______answered questions when he might be wrong.

Mary was a young and pretty teacher, and she loved children. That’s the reason why her pupils, including Donnie, _______her. She tried to build Donnie’s self-confidence. But _______changed tor quite a long time.

One morning the students were_______math problems on the blackboard. Donnie’s has copied the problems with neatness. _______with his progress, Mary left the classroom and went_______some other materials. When she returned, Donnie was in tears. He’d ________the third problem.

Mary looked at her student carefully. Then from the desk, She got a ________filled with pencils. “Look, Donnie,” she said, kneeling(跪) beside him and gently________his face from his arms. “ I’ve got something to show you.” She________the pencils, one at a time, and placed them on his desk.

“See these pencils, Donnie?” she continued. “They belong to me. See how the erasers are________? I can tell you I make mistakes too, ________I erase the mistakes and try again. That’s what you must ________to do , too.”

She kissed Donnie and stood up. “ Here,” she said, “ I’ll________one of these pencils on your desk so you’ll remember that everybody makes mistakes, even teachers.” Donnie looked up at his teacher in ________and with a smile.

The pencil became Donnie’s prized________. That, together with Mary Anne’s frequent encouragement, gradually________him that it’s all right to make mistakes--as long as you erase them and try again.

【推荐3】When I was growing up, I had an old neighbour named Dr. Gibbs. He didn’t look like other doctors I had ever known. He never _________ at us for playing in his yard. I remember him as someone nice and _________. When Dr. Gibbs wasn’t saving_________, he was planting trees. His house sat on ten acres, and his life’s   _________   was to make it a forest.

But he _________ watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would _________ them, and that _________ you water them, each successive (后继的)_________ of trees will grow weaker and weaker. So you have to make things _________ for them.

He’d planted an oak, and instead of watering it every morning, he’d __________it with a rolled-up newspaper. I asked him why he did that, and he said it was to cause the tree’s __________. Dr. Gibbs passed away a couple of years ago.__________, I walk by his house and look at the trees that I watched him plant some 25 years ago. They are big and __________ now. Sufferings seemed to __________ them in ways ease (舒适) and __________ never could.

Every night before I go to bed, I checkon my two sons. I stand over them and watch their little bodies, the rising and falling of life within. I often pray for them. Mostly I pray that their lives will be __________ But lately I've been thinking that it's time to __________ my prayer, because life is __________, whether we want it to be or not. Too many times we pray for ease, but that's what we seldom __________. What we need to do is to pray for roots that reach deep into the earth, so when the rains fall and the winds blow, we won't be __________.