【推荐1】Have you ever imagined your future？ I try to do this all the time． Most of us will follow in our _______footsteps， by this I mean our adult lives will _______resemble the lives we live as children， set by our parents' examples． Have you ever _______and thought about this？ What an awful job it must be to _______a child properly! But， what happens to the children that live _______drugs， alcohol and violence in their childhood？ Where can they find good examples for themselves？

I know of one place that is trying to_______all children． It is the McDowell County D．A．R．E． program in McDowell County North Carolina． Our teachers carry on their shoulders the great_______of teaching kids to just say NO to drugs， alcohol and violence． I am personally acquainted with _______of these things， not because I have ever_______them myself， but because of my dad． He drank， _______drugs and smoked pot （抽大麻）． When I was 7 my mom took me and my sister and ______． I wonder if my dad ever thought about the _______and what this bad decision would lead to when he first started experimenting with drugs and pot at 13． He has been in jail， he can't get a decent job， and he lost his ______． These bad choices also caused him to hurt his children in horrible ways．

I am _______that I have at least one parent to help me make wise decisions， and to teach me right from wrong． I am also _______that the D．A．R．E． program is taught in our schools． One of the most _______things I learned from D．A．R．E． is that a person that has a parent with an addiction problem is more than twice as likely to become addicted themselves， as compared to a person that has no family history of drug ______． I have learned many things through this ______， especially about the consequences of our trying drugs． You could get arrested， hurt yourself or someone else，_______ your life by becoming an addict， or even die． All of these things are terrible， but I can't think of anything _______as a parent than hurting our children and the people that love us． DRUGS DESTROY LIVES! I give the D．A．R．E． program two thumbs up， for all the good things being accomplished．

【推荐2】I will never forget the darkness, the pain and strong desire to escape.

November _______ grey and busy, and going into an even more stressful December, I was filled with _______ thoughts.

On Saturday, I watched a TV program teaching _______ , and then I started to learn. By the end of the weekend, I had a dining room table covered with sweet treats. I packaged them up in tins, attached a label to each of them _______ "winter love" on it, and dropped them off on a few of my _______ porches(门廊)before work. It shocked me _______ it lightened my mood, seeing a small _______ lost on a porch.

The thanks I received later from the neighbors made me light up. It felt so good, and it distracted me from my dark _______ .

By January I had _______ a routine: On Sunday I'd bake cookies and package them up, and on Monday I'd deliver them. Every week I ________ a few different people to my delivery route, baked a few different kinds of cookies.

Then things started ________ on my doorstep—a homemade cup, a pair of socks with tiny cookies and ________ a gift certificate(礼券)from the local bookstore. Every single one warmed my heart. ________ what I really appreciated was how people began to share their own stories of mental health with me. There is no greater ________ than to be trusted with another's life. I was overwhelmed by the love and care of my community. It humbled(使感到卑微)me that something so ________ had created such incredible kindness. It ________ me that there was good in me, in my neighbors, in the world.

I was shifting into a new season of light, while letting go of a season of darkness. What had begun ________ an attempt to bring light into my own darkness had been transformed into a story more beautiful than I could have ________ dreamed. It reminded me that there is ________ being kind and that life is hard, but there is a quiet strength in knowing you are not ________.

【推荐3】I wanted to be a journalist. But my parents _________ that math makes money, so off to engineering school I went. In my post-university young-adult life, I’ve managed to become _________ successful. As a female _________ , I worked for a big oil company and owned a home. My life was _________ in front of me, and I didn’t like what I saw.

So, I did what any respectable 24-year-old would do and left my _________ behind. I said goodbye to my job and _________ my suitcase. I _________ myself solo into the world with the grace and beauty of a baby deer taking its first steps with skateboards under its feet.

I _________ my knees mountain biking through the red rocks of Utah. I partied at a spring bath party in Budapest. I spent four days _________ through Yellowstone with 50 pounds on my back. I took a __________ along the Danube river with someone from the hostel. They were just small everyday __________ that happened to happen abroad, leading me to realize that the true value of my flight tickets were not the __________ but rather becoming a(n) __________ participant in my own life.

I now spend less time online shopping and more time __________ alone on the floor listening to an album cover-to-cover. I ask my friends how they’re doing; sometimes, I __________ them with flowers to see them smile. I tell everyone to have a good day.

Maybe I’ll continue to be __________ for the next five years and touch down in dozens more countries. Maybe I’ll stay grounded in my home city, but the idea no longer __________ me. __________ with new wisdom earned in a year of travel, I know with complete __________ that there’s adventure hiding in any aspect of my life — as long as I’m __________ enough to look for it.

【推荐1】A few months ago, I got a terrible cold which ended in a cough that was hard to get rid of (摆脱). No matter how many different medicines I tried, I _________ couldn’t get rid of the cough. It made both my teaching and my life _________.

Then one day after class, a student came up to me and _________ traditional Chinese medicine. From her description, it seemed that Chinese medicine had magic power and could work _________. I was _________ because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before. _________ my cough got so much worse that I couldn’t sleep at night, so I decided to give it a _________. The Chinese doctor took my pulse and asked to see my _________, both of which were new experience to me because they are both nonexistent in Western medicine, where diagnosis (诊断) relies heavily on _________. Then the doctor gave me a scraping treatment known as “Gua Sha”. I was a little __________ at first because he used a smooth edged tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

A few minutes later, the treatment started to produce a __________ effect and my body and mind began to sink deeper into __________. I didn’t feel much improvement in my __________ in the first couple of days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to __________. Then within a matter of weeks, it was completely __________!

【推荐3】My dad got a terminal (终身的) illness many years ago. He was unable to work at _______ job. He would be fine for quite a while, but would then fall suddenly _______and have to be admitted to the hospital.

He wanted to do something to keep himself _______, so he decided to volunteer at the local children _______. My dad loved kids. He would talk to them and play with them. Sometimes, he would _______ one of his kids. In certain instances, he would give _______ to the sad parents of these children.

One of his kids was a girl who had been admitted with a _______ disease that paralyzed (使……瘫痪) her from the neck down. I don’t know the _______ of the disease, but I do know that it was very sad for a little girl. My dad decided to try to help her. He started _______ her in her room, bringing paints, brushes and paper. He stood the paper up ________ a backing, put the paintbrush in his mouth and began to paint. He didn’t use his hands at all. Only his ________ would move. He would visit her ________ he could and paint for her. All the while he would tell her, “See, you can do ________ you set your mind to.”

________, she began to paint using her mouth, and she and my dad became friends. Soon after, the little girl was discharged (允许出院). My dad also ________ the children hospital for a little while because he became ill. Sometime later after my dad had recovered and ________ to work, he was at the volunteer counter one day and ________ the front door open. In came the little girl who had been paralyzed, but this time she was ________. She ran straight to my dad and hugged him really tight. She gave my dad a picture she had done using her ________. At the bottom it read, “Thank you for helping me walk.”

Sometimes love is more ________ than doctors, and my dad—who died just a few months after the little girl gave him the picture—loved every single child in that hospital.

【推荐1】I was fifteen years when Dad called my two younger brothers and me into the entertainment room of our house. I was _______! I thought we would play games or even see movies together! “Bring a notebook and something to write with,” said my dad _______we reached the entertainment room. My brothers and I stopped dead in our tracks and   _______ each other in horror! His request was unusual, and our excitement turned to_______. We_______that games or movies were not the reason we were called out.

As we went back for a notebook and pencil, we _______to think about the reason for this gathering. We thought family meeting was not _______because Mom was out shopping. In the entertainment room, we found three chairs _________a huge blackboard. Dad asked us to sit down. “I want your full_______. We are going to have a weekly meeting every Saturday morning. That is ________ I’ve called you here,” he said, sounding businesslike. “I’m going to teach you what I’ve learned about life. So take it________.”

For the next five years, rain or sunshine, in sickness or in health. Dad ________us once a week. He taught us on a variety of ________— manners, the importance of education, respect for others, home repairs, and the list went ________. We filled one notebook after another, which we all ________well.

As I came to my eighteenth birthday, the lessons became__________lessons and then every other month, until they slowly drifted away. My brothers and I were older, and we had school activities, sports activities and job responsibilities that became very ________to manage.

It’s been years now since we had those classes with Dad. We are__________with careers (事业) and wives of our own. Very often, ________, one of us has a situation where we need help from Dad. At this time, we__________take out our notebooks; we needn’t call home.

【推荐3】It was 4 o’clock in the morning when I received the phone call.

“This is the emergency room calling and your son was just _______ in with serious burns on his face, neck and arms.” The doctor described the _______ , which caused the burns. At 6 a. m. , our son and his friends decided to barbecue hamburgers in the courtyard of their apartment. Unfortunately, the charcoal（木炭）burst into flames because they had sprayed too much petrol. The flames _______ my son’s shirt tail and shot from his waist to well over his head.

Fortunately, one of the boys was quick-minded, grasped my son, and _______ him on the grass. While it saved his life, there was not enough _______ to save him from fearful burns and the terrible scars（伤疤）.

After he recovered from the treatments, the doctors told him they would not do plastic surgery（整形手术）for 6 months _______ it took that long for the skin to stop shrinking and wrinkling. So he had to return to college with typical scars of burns.

When I was a child, my mother told my sister who had a very _______ 10-inch scar on her arm, “Nancy, if you ignore the scar, other people will ignore it. It does not mean they will not _______ it, but it means it will not matter to them if it doesn’t matter to you.”

I _______ this wisdom on to my son. He took my advice to ________ and returned to school with his head held high—glad he was alive. By the end of the six-month waiting period, he decided that the scars did not ________ , so he made the ________ to give up any plastic surgery.

We all have “scars” that we believe will ________ people to keep away from us. And we spend a lot of time thinking that if we looked differently, or dressed differently, people would like us better. But you see, people will only judge you by your looks, or your clothes, if you are judging yourself by these same ________ standards. Put your imperfections out of your mind and concentrate on what you value ________ yourself, and your beauty will shine through.