【推荐1】Earlier this year the phone companies stopped supporting the software for my old 3G phone. I was _______to buy a new Smart Phone. I didn’t use it much at first, only to get a call from my daughter._______, I soon found it far easier to surf the internet on the smartphone than my computer. Even with my limited _______I quickly found myself spending more and more of it on this_______without me noticing it.

Yesterday I was on it _______the sea of news. Then suddenly a long and furry _______pushed its way between me and my phone._______, I put the phone down, took my glasses off and petted my dog. Soon we were hugging and running around. And I_______something too. There was a feeling in my heart: a wonderful _______of love, laughter, and joy. It was a ________that I hadn’t gotten once during all that time I had spent on my phone.

Strangely, it took a dog to ________me of what is important for our souls. I made up my mind then to________less time on my addictive phone and more time doing important things in life like hugging my children and talking to my friends. It is these things that fill my________with love and fill my days with ________ . Technology is here to ________. But we shouldn’t let it control us. We should use it only when it helps us to do the important things.

【推荐2】My Papa Joe is 85 and has been faithfully married to my grandma for 60 years. But now his memory is _______ and he’s really starting to slow down. Yesterday, he asked me to take him to the _______ because he wanted to get out of the house. I was _______ he asked because he shouldn’t be driving by himself. It would also _______ grandma to have the _______ to herself for a while, not having to worry about grandpa for a few hours.

I watched him, cane (拐杖) in hand, taking the tiniest _______ all around , searching through the shelves. I had no idea what he was _______; but, as I observed each item he put in the cart, I noticed a _______. They were some of my grandma’s _______ things.

He got the type of soda she liked. He ________ picked out a bag of seedless grapes she had talked about several days before. He even ________ her a small lemon pie! And then, ________ filled my eyes as I watched him hobble (蹒跚) over to the fresh ________ and pick her the bouquet (花束) that had the most purple, her favorite color.

On our way home, he ________ we stop and grab a sandwich to take home for grandma’s lunch. May we all take a lesson from Papa Joe: Never stop ________ for our loved ones.

【推荐3】John Berry of Burlington, Kentucky, was just 15 years old when his mother died unexpectedly. He has lots of _________of her mother from his youth. _________,when she passed away, he didn't have many physical _________ to remember her by.

A few years after her death, John's father _________ her car to a collector in Michigan. As he grew up, John's_________was still on that green car and the freedom it represented. Over two _________,John reached out to the car's owner_________ to ask if he could buy it, but the man_________For about 20 to 22 years, John kept _________ with that gentleman. Finally, after years of __________the man wrote to John and said he was __________ to pass the car on. The gentleman said, “I am 81 years old, and get to thinking about your __________ for the car and the number of years that I'll be able to __________ it. I think it is time to let it __________.”

When receiving the car, John __________ the entire experience was like a trip down memory path. Not only was the car still in __________ condition with just 42,000 miles, but the glove box also contained a time capsule from his mother's __________: a pair of sunglasses and stamps that she had__________there.

Some things really are worth the wait! John finally realized his__________ and now his own children can take a ride in the very car their grandmother owned.__________really does pay off.