【推荐1】A few years ago, an elderly woman entered my video store, along with her daughter. The daughter was displaying a serious case of ______  ,  ____  her watch every few seconds. If she had possessed a leash(绳子), her mother would have been  ____  to it as a means of pulling her along to _____  the rush of other shoppers.

I  ____  and asked if I could help her find something. The woman smiled up at me and showed me a _____  on a piece of paper.  _____  rushing off to find the DVD for the woman, I asked her to  walk with me  ____  I could show her where she could find it and I want to enjoy her  ____ for a moment. As we walked along the back of the store, I ___  its floor plan: old television shows, action movies, cartoons, science fiction. The woman seemed glad of the unrushed  “trip” and _____  conversation.

I said to her daughter, “ ____  some advice?” “Of course not,” said the daughter. “_____   her ,” I said. “When she's gone, it's the little _____  that will come back to you. Times like this. I know.” It was  ____ . I still missed my mom and remembered the times when I'd used my impatience to make her  ____ .

Together they made their way toward the store's resting area. They sat there for a moment, side by side,  _____  the holiday crowds. Then the daughter _____   and immediately regarded her mother lovingly. And slowly she placed her arm with  ____  unaccustomed affection around her mother's shoulders and  _____  guided her back into the crowd.

【推荐2】My son Nile has left for university. Even Mother seldom _______ now that her grandchild is no longer around. My home has become so _______ in less than one month.

As a concerned mother who had little to do, I _______ Nile whenever I could. At first it was through emails. Occasionally I _______ the page of the university to learn about Nile’s campus life, and was filled with _______ to see his greetings: “Hi, Mum! So you’re on the net as well!” Since then I’ve been visiting the website regularly hoping to_______ my child.

Recently, our communicating way had another_______. Nile sent me all kinds of articles through instant messaging: novel, modern, funny... I read them _______, like a well-behaved pupil. Meanwhile, I had _______feelings about that. The kid was ________ to learn something from me not that long ago, but he now becomes my teacher! After ________, I responded with the following email:

“Thank you, my son, for all the interesting articles, though I feel confused about the change of our ________. Despite that, I’ll take it as a loving son’s ________of his mother. He must be thinking his mother is still young and ________ enough to accept new things. That makes me feel proud. ”Now in this way we share ideas, with the instant messages________ each other.

【推荐3】My first and favorite hero is my dad. I still _____ times when he would stay up with me to watch those funny shows at midnight after a long day of tiring work. I felt _____ and excitement every time he came home from work with a toy in his hand, _____ but still willing to give me the world. And I also remember how my dad would go to the store and buy me a cartoon-themed cake _____ it wasn’t my birthday because he knew how much I liked to _____ myself with cake.

Our life _____ when my sister was born. She was sick. I couldn’t _____ anything except the fact that my parents were _____. My sister went through a long period of being in hospital, during which my mom was by her side the entire time. My dad took over the _____ of my mom. I did everything with him, from sleeping in his bed because I was ______ at night, going to work with him every single day to complaining to him that I was hungry every day after school. This ______ went on for years.

I didn’t really care for ______ when I was younger. I just ______ they were people with super abilities. Now, I think my dad ______ into that category. He has the ______ to make me feel happy and joyful. He makes me feel safe, warm, and loved.

【推荐1】A hamburger delivery driver in New Jersey received something more special than any _________ this week. John Smith was delivering hamburger to the home of Rachel Green on Sunday night when Rachel’s little daughter ran up to him and give him a big _________.

Rachel, who caught the moment on the doorbell camera, said, “I _________ it on the Internet. In fact, I just did it because we thought it was _________.”What Rachel didn’t know at the time was what that moment would _________ to Smith.

Smith’s 16-year-old daughter, who lived in California with his ex-wife, recently _________ away. She had struggled with mental problems. “After _________ my daughter this past week, it just touched me because it was like she was there, and it just meant a _________ to me,” he said.

His ex-wife, Michele, said she was_________ of the fact that someone saw his pain and could be there for him. “It’s so __________ to ignore such people and their internal pain,” she said. “That even goes to our daughter. We didn’t know her __________ . ”

The __________of his hug with the 2-year-old made its way to Smith, and he __________to tell Rachel how much it meant.“It is really tough to accept that I’m not going to be able to hug her again,” Smith said to Rachel.

The hug may have lasted only a few __________ ,but it’s a moment Smith will hold onto always. “This __________means something, and makes me think,’ Wow, maybe she’s there,’” he said.

【推荐3】When I was a little girl, I remember that when my dad was repairing something, every time he asked me to _______the hammer, just so we would have a time for a _______with each other. I _____saw my dad drinking or taking a night out, all he did after work was taking care of his family.

I grew up and left home for college and since then, my dad had been calling me every Sunday morning, no matter what. And when several______later I bought a house, my dad was ______it by himself for three days in the 38°C summer heat. All he asked was to hold his paint brush and _______to him. But I was too ________in those days, I did not find any time for a conversation with my dad.

One Sunday morning we had a telephone talk as usual, I noticed that my dad had totally _______some things that we discussed ______. I was in a hurry, so our conversation was a bit ______. Few hours later that day came a call. My father was in a hospital with an aneurysm (动脉瘤).   ________I bought a ticket for a flight and on my way I was thinking about all _______occasions (场合) to have a talk with my dad.

By the time I _______at the hospital, my father had passed away. Now it was he who did not have______for a conversation with me. After his death I ______much more about him, and even more about myself. All he ever asked me was my time. And now he has all my attention every single day.