【推荐1】A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To his _______, she agreed. This would be the first time that his classmates and teacher _______ his mother and he felt _______ of her appearance. There was a severe scar that _______ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to _______ why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were _______ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother despite the _______, but the little boy _______ himself from everyone. He did, however, get within _______ of a talk between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked ________, “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “________ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was too afraid to go in because the fire was ________, so I went in. A piece of wood came down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him.” She ________ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be ________, but to this day, I have never regretted what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out with ________ in his eyes. He held her in his arms and thanked his mother for what she had done for him.

【推荐2】A school bus driver returned to college to become a high school history teacher, thanks to some _________ students.

Clayton Ward is a history lover, and as such,_________the time he’d spend chatting with students about their history classes as he _________ them to and from school.

“After several of these discussions, some of the students would tell me they wanted me to be their _________.” he said. “That small mention from those kids… it _________ me and gave me the motivation to complete a goal I had started years ago.”

_________, Ward went to college after his highschool graduation; but after a year, he had to leave and soon started driving buses. But he still valued _________, and talking with the students on the bus route renewed his sense of passion for expanding and teaching young minds.

Ward enrolled (注册) at a community college in May 2019, and _________ to take his classes full time while also still driving his bus.

“It wasn’t always _________. I would drive my route in the morning and afternoon, take classes in between shifts and take night classes,” he said. “I would think of those students and all the years I wanted to make this happen, and it helped me focus my energy.”

“You wouldn’t think that kids can do something like that, to give me the __________ and ambition to go back to school,” Ward said. “It’s kind of crazy that such a small thing can make such an impact on your life.”

【推荐3】I’ve always had strong opinions of how love should be expressed, but others had their own ways of showing care.

What I_______most about visiting my boyfriend’s parents is the loud tick of the clock in the dining room as we_______ate our meal. With so little conversation I was quick to_______his family as cold. When we got into the_______to go home, his father suddenly appeared._______, he began to wash his son’s windscreen. I could feel he was a caring man through the glass.

I learned another lesson about love a few years later. My father often_______me early in the morning. “Buy Xerox. It’s a good sharp price,” he might say when I answered the phone. No pleasant_______or inquiry about my life, just financial instructions. This manner of his_______me and we often quarreled. But one day, I thought about my father’s success in business and realized that his concern for my financial security lay behind his_______morning calls. The next time he called and told me to buy a stock, I__________him.

When my social style has conflicted with that of my friends, I’ve often felt__________. For example, I always return phone calls__________and regularly contact with my friends. I expect the same from them. I had one friend who rarely called, answering my messages with short e-mails. I rushed to the__________: She wasn’t a good friend! My anger__________as the holidays approached. But then she came to a gathering I__________and handed me a beautiful dress I had fallen in love with when we did some window-shopping the previous month. I was__________at her thoughtfulness, and regretful for how I’d considered her to be__________. Clearly I needed to change my expectations of friends.

Far too often, I ignored their__________expressions, eagerly expecting them to do things in my__________. Over the years, however, I’ve learned to__________other persons, love signs.

【推荐2】A few days ago , my husband observed a teenager doing yardwork that his dad had told him to do. Instead of doing the task_________, he wandered around there for hours, doing a _________ job.

The person he hurt the most was himself. His dad was trying to teach him _________ and how to do a good job. As a result of his _________ attitude, he spent the whole afternoon finishing a task that should have taken one or two hours. And the yard _________ wasn’t clean enough when he got through.

He_______his day because of his attitude. In addition, his dad was _________with him, and the boy’s bad mood ended up _________ the whole family that day.

Contrast that with a sweet lady working in a fast-food_______. The minute I walked in, she welcomed me ________. She smiled as she took my order, and then as we ________the food, she talked with me. As I walked off with my tray (托盘), she said with a big ________, “I hope you have a blessed day !” I thought the food tasted better because of her________. She wasn’t making a large________, and she didn’t have a powerful position either. In addition, she stood for a long shift (当班时间) each day, often dealing with ________customers. But she chose to be joyful. I want to learn from her .