【推荐1】When I was a child my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life—in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I _________ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, ''Stand porter to your _________.''

A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door _________ people in or out. Dad would get me to _________ myself stopping destructive things—such as fear—at the door, _________ saying ''Come in'' to faith, love and self-assurance.

As an actress, before I went on camera, I'd make sure anxiety _________ and confidence in my ability came in. As a mother, when I was _________ about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would _________ my mind with trust in them.

Of course, there were always times I'd _________ those words.

In 1972 my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own __________ in North Hollywood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more __________ and complicated than we had __________,

We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going __________. Electricity went on the blink, food wasn't delivered, employees called in sick. Once, a flu epidemic __________left us with no maids. Fillmore gave me a __________：scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded enough king-size sheets to __________ the whole state of California.

Then there was the __________ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California __________. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just __________. I stood porter.

I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.

These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to __________, I just smile and point to the sign that reads No Vacancy.

【推荐2】Many years ago, I was a little girl who lived in the magical land of California. I had everything I could want. I had a pair of ______ parents and two little sisters, who though could be______ at times, I still loved. I went to nice schools, and had very good friends. I was very ______.

However, my parents ______ one day and a dark cloud covered my ______. My life began to fall apart, from my grades dropping to having ______ with those who I had thought to be dear friends. Trying to escape from my ______ world, I slowly began to build a wall of _______around myself, pushing myself further and further into darkness and ______.

By the time I reached the eleventh grade, I was completely ______ by my misery(痛苦), only burying myself in the books that surrounded me. Then one day, a miracle(奇迹) happened.

Among my ______, I came across a book that I had ______ before but had usually skipped. But for some reason, this book now had a soft glow surrounding it. ______ to the book, I began to read its tales. As I read the book, I slowly moved out of the darkness and my misery was ______. When I finally finished, I was ______ to find that I was surrounded by the ______ that I had abandoned so long ago. ______ that my parents’ divorce was not my ______, I looked at the path in front of me, and with a new hope and determination, took my first step towards continuing my life. As I began my ______, I continued to carry the book in my hands, its ______ shining in the bright sunlight: Hope and Love.

【推荐3】When my little sister Indi turned six, she started__________my every move. She would repeat whatever I said or did, which got me annoyed.

One afternoon my friend Mareya and I were making bracelets(手链).“What are you doing?”Indi asked,__________down next to us at the table. “May I make one too?”I__________but Mareya said yes. Indi squeezed(挤)in so__________to me that I could hardly see(what I was doing. I asked her to give me more__________but she said she was trying to see my move clearly. “You don’t have to see what I’m doing. You can make your own design!” I told her in a(n)__________voice. “I can!” she said. But she was still using__________the same thing as I was using.

Later, Mareya suggested playing the guitar. I didn’t want Indi to__________me so we went to the backyard._______ten minutes later, Indi turned up “you are always following me, and I’m___ it!” As soon as those words came out of my mouth, I wished I had never said them. Indi was surprised and her eyes started filling up with__________She ran away__________I could say another word.

I disliked the shadow(影子)that didn’t belong to me，but I also felt__________about what I said.“It’s worth trying to_____       the why you see the situation. She acts like your shadow because she looks up to you.” Mareya said to me.

Now I still remember Mareya’s words and feel less upset about Indi’s behavior. Anyway, she should be treated with__________and kindness.

【推荐1】It took about three weeks for me to become mute(哑的). In 2007, I visited a client as a financial adviser and _________a virus. I had a sore throat. My doctor_________me it would soon return to normal.

_________ it got worse. I could no longer make phone calls and started carrying a little whiteboard to write everything down. I tried to work with people I already knew, who were likely to be more_________with me; but explaining financial details to_________investors with marker pen was a big challenge.

At home, my wife and teenage sons_________as best they could. Soon I was using a computer that read out phrases typed into it.

My situation_________when I was offered a tuition-assisted place at lows State University. I_________ myself by accepting a job in the student services office. Forced to_________with people face to face, I started to have fun with computer voices.

In 2010，I read a news story about a waitress who'd had her voice__________with the help of a doctor in Cleveland. It had to be worth a__________. Dr. Milstein__________me to do some vocal(发声的) exercises to stretch the muscles in my neck and to my astonishment I started to make__________.It was the first time I'd heard my voice in three and a half years.

Then I did more exercises, my voice becoming more__________; Milstein asked me to go over to the window and__________the friends across the street. I was afraid at first, __________I damaged my voice, but he kept__________me. Friends at university heard my voice for the first time and even when I was alone, I talked to myself,

I don't regret those years of__________.I spent more time with my boys and had time to__________where I'd gone wrong as a husband and parent. That time__________my rough edges. I prefer who I am now.

【推荐2】A few weeks ago, while I was going home from work, I saw an old dog _________ on the side of the road. I got _________ to see why he would be there and felt shocked when I saw he was not able to ___________ his hind legs(后腿), which seemed to have been broken. He _______ me with painful looks _________ he was asking me for help. I knew I couldn’t turn my back on him when he needed ___________.

Some people who live nearby told me that he was _________ by a motorcycle and the _________ pushed him there. I went daily to give him food and water, _________ I also got a wooden board to cover him from the bright sun.

I heard on the news about the __________ weather for that weekend and __________ to bring him home with some help from my father. He called some vets to help him with his legs, __________ he was not able to stand on four and dragged the hind legs.

After some __________ and a sheltered home with love and __________, he is now able to walk with a little __________ and he even runs around now. He is so __________ and even though I have three other dogs and two cats, I made some __________ in my home and my heart for him. I feel so happy and __________ when I see his eyes. I love __________ and these six hairy babies are the most special things I __________ have.

【推荐3】I watch her and her mother decorate her college dormitory room. Everything is in place, organized and arranged. Her dormitory room nicely accommodates not only her clothes and bric-a-brac, but her _________ as well. I begin to accept that her room at home is no longer hers. It is now ours, our room for her when she _________.

I _________ myself thinking of when I held her in the cradle of my arm, in the chair alongside my wife’s hospital bed. One day old. So _________, so beautiful, so perfect, so _________ dependent on her new, _________ parents. Time marches relentlessly (不停地).

She looks up now, catching me _________ at her, causing her to say to her mother, “Mom, Dad’s looking at me _________.”

The last few days, I touch her arm, her face — anything — _________ that when my wife and I return home, she will not be with us and there will be nothing to __________. I have so much to say, but no __________ with which to say it.

My __________ changed from the day I drove this child home from the hospital. I saw myself __________ that day, and it has led to a lot of places that I would never have found on my own.

She says, “It’ll be all right, Dad. I’ll be home from school __________.” I tell her she will have a great year but I say little else. I am afraid somehow to speak and I only __________ our good-bye hug a little longer, a little tightly.

I gaze into her eyes and __________ to go. My wife’s eyes __________ her as she leaves us. Mine do not. Maybe if I don’t look, I can imagine that she really hasn’t __________; I know that what she is embarking upon (开始) is exciting and wonderful. I remember what the world looked like to me __________ everything was new.

As I walk to the car with my wife at my side, my eyes are wet, my heart is sore, and I realize that my life is __________ forever.

【推荐1】We know children should grow up, knowing the right sense of values. Here is a good example to teach them a good lesson.

One day, a young man who was dressed poorly begged________door to door along the street. ________an old wallet in hand, he was asking for a few coins to buy something to eat. He kept complaining about his bad_________and kept wondering why those who had so much money were never ________ and were always desiring more.

“As_______as I’m concerned, if I had only enough to fill my stomach and to wear, I would not want anything more."

Just at that moment Goddess Fortune noticed the beggar among the crowd and got close to him, greeting, “Hi, young man, I have wished to ________ you for a long time. If you open your wallet, I will pour my gold into it. But keep in mind that I will do that only on this ________: All that falls into the wallet will be pure gold belonging to you; but every piece falling upon the ground________become dirt, worth nothing. Are you clear?”

“I see. Now I’m ready.” said the beggar with confidence.

“Then you should ________! It’s obvious that your wallet is a ________one, so don’t load it too heavily,” said the Goddess Fortune.

The excited beggar could hardly ________to have gold. He quickly opened his wallet, and a ________ of yellow coins was poured into it. The wallet became heavier and heavier.

“Is that enough? Isn’t it cracking? Will your wallet strong enough for more?” warned the Goddess.

“Never________. It’s still strong enough now” replied the beggar confidently.

The wallet was filled with________many coins that the beggar’s hands began to shake. “Ah, if only the golden stream would ________ forever! Just a little more,” said the beggar, “_______ just a handful or two.”

“There! It’s full. The wallet will ________.” reminded the Goddess again, but the beggar insisted _______, “I know it will hold a little more, just a little more!” One more piece was added and the wallet split. The ________ fell upon the ground and became dust. The greedy beggar had now ________ but his broken wallet.

【推荐3】There is a wonderful old story about the best-known artist, Leonardo da Vinci. When Leonardo was _______ The Last Supper, it took him several years to complete it. He had _______ to use live models for Christ and each of the twelve apostles (门徒). He chose the _______ for Christ first when he found a man who _______ both beauty and love on his face. As the years _______, Leonardo completed all of the apostles except Judas. Finally, he found a man whose face seemed full of greed and evil. After he _______ painting the man as Judas, the man asked _______ Leonardo knew who he was. When Leonardo said no, the man _______ loudly, “I am the same man you painted years ago as the model for Christ!”

Though this story is certainly not true, it does _______ a spiritual (精神的) truth. No matter how old or young we are, the ________ can often show the condition of our deep heart. I have seen wrinkled (有皱纹的) faces that still sparkled (闪耀) with the ________ of angels when they smiled. I have also seen young faces with eyes as cold as ice.

The good news, ________, is that it is never too ________ to change our face and our heart, and ________ our heart with love and let it shine through our eyes and actions.

I only hope that my own face, no matter how old or wrinkled it becomes, is always the face of love. I hope it is a face of ________, gentleness, hopefulness and joyfulness. May your eyes always shine with the light of joy. And may everyone who looks at you always see a face full of love.