【推荐1】About decade ago, my grandpa who was suffering from Alzheimer's(老年痴呆症)got into my car and drove off. Angel and I _____the police, but before they could find him, two _____kids pulled into our driveway with my grandpa.

They said they overheard him crying about being _____at an empty gas station 10 miles away. My grandpa couldn't remember our address, but gave the kids his name. They looked it up online, found our address, and _____him home.

Sitting near the edge of a beautiful ocean-side cliff, I was _____on that incident today. I am suddenly _____of footsteps behind me. _____around to see a young lady who was almost in _______ slowly walking to where I was sitting. I walked up to her and ______, "What's wrong?" She told me she was _____afraid of heights, but was worried about my _____and wanted to get over her fear.

"You were sitting so close to the ______," she said. "My heart told me I needed to _____on you to make sure you were in a healthy state of ______." Her braveness and ______truly warmed my heart.

I've spent the rest of the day thinking about what an extraordinary person she is, and about those amazing college kids who helped my ______, and about what it means to be a kind and _____person. Sometimes you have to go the extra mile, or face your biggest ______, or stand up against your own negative tendencies to make a(n) _____difference in someone else's life. It's time to ______ doing the hard things-the right things-for others.

【推荐2】Most teens I meet these days lack basic social courtesy (礼仪) when dealing with people.

My own son, who basically _______with his grandmother, the original manners guru (专家), has perfect table manners. This is partly because he was _______ to manners at a very young age. However, when we eat at home, he would not practise manners. So I asked him why. He said, “I behave the way I am supposed to _______ when I’m out, but when I am at home, I want to be _______”

That’s when I realized that most parents, myself included, do teach their children the proper way to behave outside the home, but they are also _______ to believe that at home, anything goes. My _______ to him was “good behavior has nothing to do with where you are or whom you are with.” Then he answered, “But I behave _______ when I’m with others so that they think better of me.” And that is when I realized that I was doing things all _______, I explained to him that it had nothing to do with what people think. This confused him even more. So I went on to explain that behavior, whether in your everyday _______ with people or at the dining table at home, is an __________ of who you are.

Well, at the age of 13, he got it. So what I am saying is that teaching your children __________ comes with the underlying (暗含的) lesson that it is not about what to do or not to do, but rather, who they are. This way it is not mechanical; it comes from within.

Teach your teens or children the __________ courtesy of greeting their friends’ parents and __________themselves when they go to someone’s home. Teach teenage boys to open the door of a car, or any door for anyone who __________, for any girl, whether they are their girlfriends or not. This includes holding elevator doors or letting women step out of the elevator first. Just __________ that teenage boys who practice good manners and courtesy grow up to become men who respect people in general.