【推荐1】On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Ogg were heartbroken to hear that their newborn wasn't going to make it. Their twins,a girl named Emily and a boy named Jamie, were born 14 weeks premature. Doctors had ________ to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no ________ .

"I saw him gasp(喘息), but the doctor said it was no _______ ," Kate told the Daily Mail. "I know it sounds _______ ,but if he was still gasping, that was a sign of _______ . I wasn't going to give up easily."   _______ , the couple knew this was likely goodbye. In an effort to _______ her last minute with the _______ boy, Kate asked to hold him.

Kate _______ the boy from his hospital blanket and ordered David to ___________ his shirt and join them in bed. The first-time parents wanted their son to be as ___________ as possible and hoped the skin-to-skin contact would     ____________ his condition. "We were trying to make him ____________ ." Kate said. "We explained his name and that he had a ____________ that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to help him."

A ____________ showed itself eventually, Jamie gasped again-and then he started ____________ . "We were the ____________ people in the world," David told Today.

Now, the twins are happy and healthy. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their ____________ . "Emily burst into ____________ ." Kate said. "She was really upset, and she kept ____________ Jamie. This whole experience makes you cherish them more."

【推荐2】Jacquelina used to weigh over 500 pounds. And for years, she _______ to wear a bathing suit.

She realized her life needed a complete _______ after an unpleasant experience at Dollywood where she got _______ in a turnstile (旋转式栅门).Then Jacquelina decided to make a change. She was going to get control of her _______ !

Of course, it was no easy task. She devoted years to _______ with doctors, eating right, and exercising. And _______ her hard work, Jacquelina lost 350 pounds.

Years later, Jacquelina _______ to Mexico for a vacation. Having lost 350 pounds, she decided she was ready to wear a bathing suit without a _______

"I was _______ to take my cover-up off and walk into the pool. I still felt like that same 500 pound girl." Jacquelina explained.

But Jacquelina was ready to face her fears. ________ people around her cruelly pointed and ________ at Jacquelina.

"In the past I would ________ their comments to affect my vacation, and I probably would never go to that pool again." she said to herself.

________ now she's a changed woman!

Instead of letting their response bring her ________ . she took a deep breath, then chose to ________ and walk into the pool.

“That was a huge ________ for me," she said. "I had changed. I was not the ________girl any more."

While she'd lost 350 pounds, it wasn't just Jacquelina’s body that had changed. Her ________ changed, too. Cruel comments still ________ . but she realized her worth had ________ to do with what other people thought.

【推荐3】When I saw Pamela tonight, she smiled and I smiled back to her. She was looking more _____ than before.

Pamela _____ at the express checkouts (快速结账台) in a busy supermarket. She helps when the selfserve checkout comes across a (n) _____ like no price on products. Usually she has hardly _____ one before another is created.

When I shopped there, _____ there weren’t any problems with the checkout, I called Pamela to the checkout I was _____. My concern was about Pamela. She looked _____ and was under great stress as she _____ moved from one checkout to the next.

I told Pamela that she needed to _____ I told her that it was ______ for her to put herself under such pressure and that we could wait. I ______ her that our expectations as ______ weren’t as severe as the ones she had set for herself. Pamela said she felt ______ because I not only ______ her stress but also talked to her about it. I gently told her things had to ______ I told her I’d be looking out for her in future to see if she’d take my ______.

Well, Pamela has taken it. Tonight, she was still doing her job but there was a ______ . She looked cool and calm. She told me that she shared what I said with her ______ As I walked away from Pamela, I was ______ of myself. Not only have I caused Pamela to think about her stress but also she has ______ her coworkers to do so.

【推荐1】One day, during the long summer holiday, Mrs. Martins took Brendon and his younger brother to the beach. As soon as they got there, the two children raced down to the _______to try out their new surfboards. They were soon swimming out to the _______and riding back on their boards.

After a while, Brendon noticed that Kim was _______away from him.

“Come back, Kim,” he shouted. “Mum said we have to stick together.” Kim put his arms over the side of his _______and began paddling, but instead of getting closer he began moving further away.

“Brendon, help!” called the young boy. “I’m _______in a rip current (离岸流).” Brendon quickly paddled over to his _______.

“_______the back of my board and I’ll pull you to the beach,” he told the _______boy. But the rip was too _______and soon both Brendon and Kim were moving further from the beach.

“I can’t ________see our beach any more,” cried Kim.

“Yes, but we’re not moving out of the sea any more. We’re just floating along the coast. See, there’s the next beach,” said Brendon ________. “We’re moving closer to it.” Sure enough, the current was now taking them closer to the beach and becoming ________.

“Right, it’s time to paddle,” said Brendon, suddenly full of ________.

Before long the children paddled to the beach ________they sat for a few moments to ________their breath. After a while, they ________up their boards and started the long walk back to their mother. When they got there, they were surprised to find the beach full of people and boats.

“Thank goodness!” cried their mother running to ________them. “We were just about to start a search. One minute you were in the waves ________me and the next you were gone. I was so ________.”

“It’s OK,” said Brendon, hugging his mother. “We did just as you told us and ________together.”

【推荐2】When Mom pulled in the driveway, Grandpa Joe was weeding his garden. He stood up and _______ us with wide-open arms. In his muddy gloves and jeans, he looked_______ like the well-dressed grandfather I remembered. The super professional bank president who loved numbers had retired(退休) and let his hair run _______. I wasn’t_______ him to look so different.

After the hugs and kisses, Grandpa couldn’t _______ to show off his garden, pointing out his   almost-ripe tomatoes and ___________ about the rabbits eating his lettuce. The man who had been _______ for ages with interest rates(利率) now cared only about gardening.

Once Mom was gone for business, Grandpa_______ me and said, “Now, Anthony, if I remember _______, you like pasta(意大利面) with pesto sauce.” I eagerly nodded. “That’s perfect!” Grandpa said. “We’ll make some.”

We__________ some vegetables from the garden, and then drove 15 miles to the nearest grocery, where Grandpa bought cheese and nuts. On the drive home Grandpa asked, “What’s the__________ of having a grandpa if he never makes you a big home-cooked meal?”

Then Grandpa showed me how to __________ eggs with flour to make pasta and then how to prepare the sauce. When everything was ready, he proudly ____________ me a large plate of pasta. I ____________ a forkful into my mouth and it was just__________.

“So,” Grandpa said, his eyes__________, “what do you think?”

Before answering, I thought about our ______________. The garden, the shopping, the ____________ “I . . . I . . . love it, Grandpa!” I said.

Then his face broke__________ a smile so warm that I was sure I hadn’t told him a__________.

【推荐3】I thought I would never have a child－then a miracle happened.

When I was only 29, doctors said I had too many______challenges to have a child. Meanwhile, my best friend Colleen was pregnant and she asked me to buy a changing table with her. Focusing on Colleen’s good fortune helped distract (使分心) me from my______. In the shop, a babysuit with a crab (螃蟹) caught my eyes. The crab ______ childhood memories of my pretending to be Ariel from the Little Mermaid. If things were ______, that crab would have made me laugh. Instead I said,“If I______had a son, I’d want him to have that.” “Sarah, you have to get it,” She said.

I shook my head no. I didn’t want a(n) ______of what I couldn’t have. My husband, John, and I had talked about ______. But I worried we would get______.

The next Sunday, we went to ______ There, I noticed a tiny baby in the arms of a woman. On his backside was the same ______ I had seen. My breath caught.

I______ to John and whispered, “That’s the babysuit I was telling you about.”He cocked his eyebrows. Throughout the service, I was totally ______ by the baby. I ______ to hold him. In the end, the priest     ( 牧 师 ) made an announcement. “The baby needs a ______. If anyone is thinking about adoption, please see us afterwards.”

We ______ our phone numbers.

That evening, the young mother, carrying the baby, came to our home. Before we sat down, I held her baby. He fit ______ in my arms.

Twelve families had volunteered to adopt him. If she picked us, all she asked was that we let her be ______ in his life in some way. We agreed wholeheartedly.

I never mentioned the crab babysuit. I wanted her to make her decision without being influenced by that ______ .

The next morning my phone rang. “We picked you”was all I heard.

Now our six-year-old son continues to be the best ______ thing that will ever happen to me. And that crab babysuit remains ______ folded in one of my dresser drawers, where I plan to hold on to it－forever.

【推荐1】Gould a hug a day keep the doctor away? The answer may be a resounding “yes!” _____ helping you feel close and _____ to people you care about, it turns out that hugs can bring a _____ of health benefits to your body and mind. Believe it or not, a warm embrace might even help you _____ getting sick this winter.

In a recent study _____ over 400 healthy adults, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University in Pennsylvania examined the effects of perceived social support and the receipt of hugs _____ the participants’ susceptibility to developing the common cold after being _____ to the virus. People who perceived greater social support were less likely to come _____ with a cold, and the researchers _____ that the stress-reducing effects of hugging ______ about 32 percent of that beneficial effect.______ among those who got a cold, the ones who felt greater social support and received more frequent hugs had less severe ______.

“Hugging protects people who are under stress from the ______ risk for colds that’s usually ______ with stress,” notes Sheldon Cohen, a professor of psychology at Carnegie. Hugging “is a marker of intimacy and helps ______ the feeling that others are there to help ______ difficulty.”

Some experts ______ the stress-reducing, health-related benefits of hugging to the release of oxytocin, often called “the bonding hormone”______ it promotes attachment in relationships, including that between mothers and their newborn babies. Oxytocin is made primarily in the central lower part of the brain, and some of it is released into the bloodstream. But some of it ______ in the brain, where it ______ mood, behavior and physiology. (283 words)

【推荐2】I was holding her hand when the man in the white coat came in. ______ both sets of X-rays, he said seriously: Her lungs were filling up with fluid(液体). This meant that ______ I would need to consult with specialists, and stop whatever was ______ into my mother’s lungs.

____, this doctor seemed to have another plan. He began speaking to me about “the quality of life.” He gave me a list of my mother’s ______ and then concluded that they added up to the ______ of her life. I had heard the phrase “We can make her ______” too many times. Now I was more ______ than hurt when doctors wanted to kill my mother.

My mother couldn’t walk, talk or swallow after her stroke, but nursing her was not ______. Whenever I asked her if her diseases were too hard on her, she just ______ her head. She was conveying to me her love and understanding beyond ______. And not just to me.

A young nurse stopped me just before the doctor appeared: “You know, I ______ my new job to your mother: She ______ me to learn to drive, so I would be not ______ buses and I could get to the hospital to work.”

So, I couldn’t help questioning the doctor’s ______ of quality of life. How did he arrive at the ______ that my mother should die? Was he making a(n) ______ calculation, that to keep a bedridden(卧床不起的) person alive was costly? He certainly did not “calculate” her endless love, the way it ______ everyone who came in contact with her. If human life is ______ to cost-benefit analyses, all forms of caring for any reason other than self-interest will be ______. Can we do better?