【推荐2】I was tired and hungry after a long day of work. When I walked into the living room, my 12­year­old son looked up at me and said, “I _______ you.” I did not_______ what to say, and I just stood there, looking _______ at him. My first _______was that he_______ need help with his homework. Then I asked, “What was all that _______？”

“Nothing，” he said. “My teacher said we should tell our parents we love them and _______what they say.”

The next day I called his teacher to_______ more about what my son said and how the other parents had reacted(反应). “Most of the fathers had the_______ response as you did，” the teacher said. “When I first________that we try this, I asked the children ________ they thought their parents ________ say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble.”

Then the teacher________， “I want my students to know that feeling love is an important part of ________. I'm trying to tell them it's too bad that we don't express(表达) our feelings. A boy ________tell his father or mother he loves him or her.” The teacher understands that sometimes it is ________for some of us to say something that is good for us.

That evening when my son________to me, I took him in my arms and held on for a(n) ________ moment, saying, “Hey, I love you, ________ . ” I didn't know if saying that made ________   of us healthier, but it did feel pretty good.

【推荐3】On a Friday evening in December, two weeks before Christmas, I lost my job. When my daughter, Kristil, then 12, and I planned to get our Christmas tree, I listened to my voicemail: “We’re sorry but your work _______ has ended today. ”My heart sank. As a single parent, my anxiety _______.

The next day as we searched for the tree, I _______ to be cheerful as I eyed each price tag(标签).

“Is everything OK? ” Kristil asked. ”You seem worried. ”

“I got some bad news yesterday,” I told her. ”I lost my job.”

I eagerly _______ job as my bank account became smaller. I felt as if the world was closing in on me.

One afternoon, I dropped Kristil in a wealthy community for a birthday party. I watched as she went in, _______ with all the nice things we couldn’t afford. I drove home _______. Back at home, I glanced out the window. It had been snowing _______ all morning. I noticed a slim woman trying to open her car door _______ the wind. As she got out, I realized it was my old professor, Sister Esther Heffernan. I’d first met her 10 years earlier when I was her student at Edgewood College. Kristil was 3 at that time, and I sometimes took her to class. Such was Sister Esther, a(n) _______professor. When I was busy with lessons, she would ________ coloring books to occupy Kristil.

“Well, I called last week but couldn’t get through. ________, I thought I would come by.” Sister Esther said. “I have gifts for you and Kristil.”

I made her a cup of tea, and we talked. Being in Sister Esther’s ________ gave me hope that things would be all right. I opened her card as she ________. Hundred-dollar bills fell onto the table. I gasped ________, tears of gratitude streaming down my face. Sister Esther had given me $1, 000.

On Christmas Eve, I ________ watched as Kristil opened her gifts. In 2020, at age 91, Sister Esther died, but the love she gave during her life lives on in the hearts of many. I am lucky to be one of them.

【推荐2】Tim Cook is both blind and deaf. And try as they might, staff on a recent flight just couldn’t figure out how to ________ with the man, who was travelling all alone.

But then, a 15-year-old girl used sign language and genuine compassion(同情心) to ________ the day.

Teenager Clara Daly was ________ with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles when the flight attendants made a(an) ________ over the speaker. They were ________anyone onboard who knew sign language.

Clara ________ the call button, as she’d studied a year of American Sign Language in school. She was the only one on the plane ________ of truly communicating with Tim, and her heart went out to him.

“________ six hours of just not being able to talk to anyone!” she said.

Clara used fingerspelling to talk to Tim, which is where you ________ each letter in every word. This way, Tim could ________ Clara’s hands and they could communicate. First, Clara helped the flight attendants ________ all of Tim’s needs were met. Then, she spent the rest of the time just ________ with him.

Together, they shared stories about their families and Clara’s future plans, while Clara ________ about Tim’s past as a salesman.

A nearby passenger named Lynette Scribner took a photo and ________ it on social media. She mentioned how ________ she was to have witnessed such incredible ________.

After writing about Clara’s real-life act of ________ on social media, Lynette’s post________. In fact, it has been shared over 730,000 times on US social media platform Facebook since.

The ________ girl was quick to point out that she just did what any one of us should do when given the opportunity: help out.

“Everyone should just be ________ each other just because that’s the nature of people, ” Clara said.

【推荐3】Nowadays computers have become an important part in our daily life. We _____ in touch with our friends through QQ, we write many short pieces about the wonderful things we are ______ by clicking the keyboard, and sometimes we also _____ computers to do business.

Computers have changed our _____ in many aspects. However, here comes the problem: we are too ____   on computers.

It is _____ to find that lots of people always make many mistakes in writing with a pen, and some of them even have _____ their inspiration (灵感) because they have got used to _____ articles from computers. There is no _____ that computers have made a great contribution to improving our ______ of life, making it easier and more convenient, but we shouldn’t ignore the ______ of keeping our ability to do things with our own head.

One day, ______ would seem to be everywhere, but we would suffer (遭受) a lot if we become too dependent on them. Imagine that in a (n) ______ where you are required to write a paper with your pen. ______ , you find yourself unable to remember the ______ spellings of several words, or that you cannot get your own ideas without ______ for information from a computer, and that would put you into ______.

In short, we are all too dependent on computers nowadays, and ______ this is not a good thing. It may add to our laziness. Now that we have already ______ that, it is time for us to do something to ______ it.