【推荐1】I’ll always remember the first time I tried ballet. My mother was a_____and I wanted nothing more than to be like her, but after_____during my first class, I felt like I wanted to quit right away. As it was only my first day, however, I told my mom I couldn’t wait to dance again.  

Weeks passed and my dancing didn’t_____any better. So when my dance teacher announced that we were to perform in a show, I feared falling on my face in front of hundreds of people, and_____my mom.  

Even though I practiced for the show as much as I could, I_____quite got the hang of it. Finally,   feeling nervous and____, I went to my mom to tell her how I felt. As I cried, I told her how___　 dancing was for me. My mother simply laughed and told me that from that day, she would_____me all she knew about ballet. She wiped the_____from my face, and I smiled.  

My mom quickly discovered how bad at ballet I was, but she still taught me with the greatest_____,   love, and understanding. When I leapt and fell, she was there to catch me. When I lost my_____, she held me up. By the time the show arrived, I was as prepared as I could be.  

The music began and my heart started to race. Breathing steadily, I began moving to the music without______a step. When the music stopped, I ran off the stage and laughed in_____.  

After the show, my mom found me and gave me a huge hug, telling me how______she was. I looked my mom in the eye and told her that there was no way this could have happened______her.   Through this all, I realized one important fact : Never be afraid to reach for the stars, because even if you fall, you’ll always be wearing a “parent-chute”.

【推荐2】On March 25, 2010, Kate and David Oggs heard what every parent feared: Their newborn wasn’t going to _______ . Their twins — a girl and a boy — were born two minutes apart. Doctors had tried to save the boy for 20 minutes but saw no _______. His heartbeat was nearly gone and the baby had just _______ to live.

“I saw him breathing weakly, which, however, the doctor said was no use, but that was _______ a sign of life. I wanted him to _______ , and I wasn’t going to give up easily,” Kate said. She _______ the boy named Jamie from his hospital blanket first. Then she asked David to take his shirt off and _______ them in bed. The first-time parents hoped the skin-to-skin _______ would get his condition better. Kate said, “We explained he had loving parents and a twin that he had to look out for and how hard we had tried to _______ him.” Then it was not long before something ________ happened. Jamie moved and then he started breathing evenly. Finally, he ________ for his father’s finger. The couple’s almost ________ boy had made it.

“We’re the ________ people in the world,” David told today eight years later. The Oggs only recently told the kids the story of their ________ “ Emily bust into tears,” Kate said. “She kept ________ Jamie. This whole experience makes us value them more.”

【推荐3】A pair of silk stockings

Little Missus Sommers one day found that she had already saved fifty dollars. It seemed to her a very large amount of money.

The question of investment was one she _______ carefully. A dollar or two could be _______ to the price she usually paid for her daughter Janie’s shoes. This would guarantee they would _______ a great deal longer than usual. She would buy cloth for new shirts for the boys. And still there would be enough left for new stockings — two pairs per child. What time that would save her in always _______ old stockings!

But that day she was tired and a little bit weak. Between getting the children fed and the house cleaned, and preparing herself to go shopping, she had _______ to eat at all!

When she arrived at the large department store, she sat in front of an empty counter. She was trying to gather _______ and courage to push through a mass of busy _______. She rested her hand upon the counter.

She wore no gloves. She slowly grew aware that her hand had felt something very _______ to touch. She looked down to see that her hand lay upon a pile of silk _______. A young salesgirl who stood behind the __________ asked her if she wished to __________ the silky leg coverings.

She smiled as if she had been asked to inspect diamond jewelry with the aim of __________ it. But she went on feeling the soft, __________ items. Now she used both hands, holding the stockings up to see the light shine __________ them.

Two red marks suddenly showed on her pale face.

She thought to herself, “Why not live for myself once?”

She looked up at the salesgirl. “Well, I will __________ this pair.” she said.

Missus Sommers then walked into the ladies’ rest area. In an empty corner, she __________ her cotton stockings with the new silk ones.

For the first time she seemed to be taking a __________ from the tiring act of considering her family. She had let herself be __________ by some machine — like force directing her actions. But this time she decided to free herself of __________.

Then she put her shoes back on and put her old stockings into her bag. Next, she went to the shoe department, sat down and waited to be __________.

【推荐2】I’ve learned a lesson that accepting kindness is important too. I’m a social worker and have been ________ more time recently with those unlucky people that some might say are less ________. I had a wonderful interaction this past week, when I had the ________ of being the receiver of kindness. I was speaking to a gentleman who had bad luck and was in ________. We were just talking for a while and getting to ________ each other.

Towards the end of our evening, he said he wanted to ________ me a hamburger at the nearby fast-food restaurant. In time before, I would have ________ that he let me buy him a meal, since he had a greater ________ than I. But my kindness ________ has taught me the importance of being a good receiver, too. So I told him if he ________ wanted to do that I would be ________ to share a meal with him.

It was great! He was so happy to be able to ________ something like that and he was ________ the entire time. I felt glad to ________ the wonderful feeling of someone’s giving. We ________ some great conversation and I could see it ________ so much to him.

As we parted ways, instead of me feeling bad that he probably spent his last few ________ on our meal, I smiled and felt with a wonderful sense of ________ and gratitude. It’s not only fun to be a receiver of kindness,________ this also gives someone else the chance to be the ________. That is important, too.

【推荐3】Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and sweet kisses. So, I really _______whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy _______ to earn money to pay the high schooling for me. They don’t act in the _______ways that I read in books or I see in on TV, and sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day(情人节) is even _______.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt(被子). I asked her if there was_______between them. She stopped her work and raised her head with _______. Then she bowered her head and _______sewing the quilt. I was very _______because I thought I had hurt her. But after a few minutes, she said, “look at this thread（线）. Sometimes it_______, but most of the time it disappears in the quilt. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can ________seen anywhere or anytime, but it’s really there, and makes the quilt ________.” I listened carefully but I couldn’t understand her ________ the next spring.

My mother suddenly got sick seriously and had to stay in the hospital for a one-month treatment. Every morning and dusk after she ________ from the hospital, my father ________ my mother walking slowly on the country road. There were beautiful flowers, green grass and tress, and the sun gently shine them ________ the leaves. All of these ________the most beautiful picture in the world. ________their eyes, I know they love each other deeply. From this experience, I ________that love was just a ________in the quilt of our life. Love is________making life strong and warm.