【推荐1】Jane has been married for many years. She is always hoping for romantic moments, just like a little girl wishing for candies. However, her husband is just the _______. He hardly brings romantic moments into their life, _______ has made Jane tired of their marriage. Finally, one day, Jane told her husband that she wanted to divorce （和…离婚）him.

“Why?" he asked, in _______ .

"I am tired; there is no _______ for everything in the world!" Jane answered.

Lost in deep thought, her husband sat there, _______, with a lighted cigarette in his hands.

Looking deep into his eyes, Jane answered slowly, "Let's say, if I want a flower on a mountain cliff （悬崖）,but picking the flower will cost you your _______ , will you do it for me?"

He answered, "you will have my answer tomorrow?"

Waking up the next morning, Jane found a piece of paper lying on the dining table, which _______: “My dear, I would not pick that flower for you, but please listen to my _______

Though it only ________ the feeling of her disappointment, Jane continued reading: "The moment you leave the house keys ________, I will have to save my legs, rushing home to open the ________ for you. You always like to stay indoors and I ________ that you will feel too lonely, so I have to save my mouth to tell you jokes and stories. You always ________ long at the computer, which will do ________ to your eyes, so I have to save my eyes so that when we grow ________,1 can help to clip your nails. Thus, my dear, unless I am sure that there is someone who loves you ________ I do, I could not pick that flower yet, and die."

Jane's tears fell on the ________ and she continued reading: “Now that you have finished reading my answer, if you are ________ , please open the front door, for I am standing outside bringing you your favorite bread and fresh milk."

________ , not words, wins arguments.

【推荐2】People from every corner _______into the streets that Christmas Eve. "Frosty the Snowman," and "Jingle Bells"_______in stores; on the pavements, the street singers performed happily. Everyone was_________by someone else, delighted and cheerful. I was alone.

As one of 8 kids of a Brazilian family, brought up in America's crowded apartment, I'd spent several years searching for aloneness. Now, _______ at 27, a college student after the _________ with my girlfriend, every cell inside me wanted to be alone, _______not at Christmas. My family had returned to Brazil and my friends were _________with their own lives. Dusk was approaching, and the fact that I had to return to my_______home made me sad. Lights from windows blinked , and I hoped someone would _______ from one of those homes to invite me inside with a Christmas tree decorated with shiny fake snow and beautiful ________.

At a market, I felt more__________when people were buying lots of goods, which__________the gifts we received as children in my mind. I missed my family and wanted to cry for wanting to be alone and for having achieved it.

Outside the church, a manger(小耶稣) had been set up. I stood silently watching the ________: some of people were crossing themselves, __________. As I walked home, I realized that leaving Brazil was still a painful experience as I struggled with ________ I had become in 15 years in America. I __________ the losses, but for the first time, I recognized what I’d gained. I was independent, ________ and healthy. My life was still ahead, full of __________.

Sometimes the best gift is the one that you give yourself. That Christmas, I gave myself ________ for what I'd obtained up to now and promise to go forward. It is the best gift I've ever got, the one that I most ________.

【推荐3】After my doctor’s appointment, I took a seat in the lobby (大厅), waiting for my mom to pick me up. Sitting beside me was a _________ gray haired woman. I thought she might be a _________ English teacher because she impressed me as a person with knowledge and confidence. And as I _________ my library book to read, I could feel her eyes carefully looking in my direction. My thoughts kept moving from the beautiful woman to thoughts of _________. My classmates had been _________ presents to buy for each other upon graduation. It had never _________ me that kids bought presents for graduation. I had no money. And I couldn’t ask my parents: they had no money either.

I was still in thought when _________ I heard some noise at the entrance. There was an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another older woman trying to _________ her along. People coming into the lobby were too busy to help them, _________ them struggle alone. I jumped to help them. I helped them by opening both sets of doors and rode with them in the __________. Then I made sure they found the right office. They thanked me. I told them it was my __________. I was on my way down in the elevator when I realized that I had left my __________ on the lobby chair. My backpack had nothing of value in it. But then I __________ that my library book was also on the chair.

Luckily they were both safely on the chair, just as I had __________ them. As I sat down, I could feel the beautiful gray-haired woman’s __________ eyes on me. She seemed proud for some __________. Then her taxi arrived, and, without a word, she was __________. I opened my backpack. To my surprise, __________ inside my backpack was a fifty-dollar bill!

The beautiful with the __________ look in her eyes suddenly came into my __________. I had been kind to a stranger, and in turn, a stranger had been kind to me.

【推荐1】My daughter and I were swimming in our pool one summer day. This day was like any of the other days, so I had no way of knowing that this one would go down in our family history as a________we cherish(珍惜)and still________from time to time.  

The sun was setting and the night was________approaching. My daughter________it first—a spider was spinning(纺织) her web at the bottom of the freshly painted blue fence(篱笆)that________our pool. It surprised me that she saw this, and it surprised me even more that she wasn’t________of the spider.  

Instead, she________watched as the spider busied herself in the cycle of life. As we both watched this wonder of nature, a very simple thought________me. I had lost the track of________. I honestly didn’t know how long we had been just staying there and________that spider making her web. But, regardless of whatever amount of time had passed, the truth was that we were________having fun.  

What we had done was to spend time together and________the simple things in life. We talked about how precious our________amount of time is on this planet and how we should________to enjoy the simple things in life like the flight of a bird. The simple things are the ________things in life, even when they include spiders and webs.

【推荐2】When my son Gene was about 12 years old, I started helping him learn to ______. I bought twenty chickens and asked him to ______ them. I told him that they would be his own chickens and we would ______ the eggs from him. However, he would have to buy chicken ______ with the money he made from the eggs. Whatever money was ______ would be his to keep. Gene was ______, thinking he would make his first ______.

After several weeks’ successful work, I began to ______ that egg production was going down. I ______nothing about it. Then one night, Gene told me he didn’t have ______ money to buy the feed. He said the chickens had never ______ a meal and he could not figure out why some of them had stopped ______ eggs.

Then I asked him if he had ______ the amount of feed he had given the chickens, he was ______. It was like he did not think anyone would ever ______ what he had done. After a long ______, he said yes. He thought he would make more money if he gave them ______ food. I asked him, “Did you fool the chickens?”

I was just astonished at the question in my own ______. I was dumbfounded (惊呆) at the ______of it. Yes, you can fool everyone else, but you cannot “fool the chickens,” because ______, you will find out, as the saying goes, “What goes around comes around.”

【推荐1】Having made several very important medical breakthroughs (突破), I was once asked why I was able to be so much more ________ than the average person. What ________ me so far apart from others?

Well, that all came from a(n) ________ with my mother when I was two. I had been trying to ________ a bottle of milk from the fridge when I lost my ________ on the slippery bottle and it ________, spilling (洒) all over the kitchen floor. When my mother came in, ________ shouting at me, giving me a lecture, or ________ me, she said, “Robert, what a great and ________ mess you have made! Well, the ________ has already been done. Would you like to play in the milk before we ________ it up?” I did.

Several minutes later, she said, “You know, Robert, whenever you make a ________ like this, in the end you have to clean it up and ________ everything to its proper order. How would you like to do that? A towel or a mop?”

After the cleaning up, she added, “What we have here is a(n) ________ experiment in how to ________ carry a big milk bottle. Let’s try again and see if you can ________ a way to carry it without ________ it.” Then I learned that if I grasped the bottle at the top near the lip with both hands, I could ________ it.

It was at that moment that I knew I didn’t need to be afraid to make ________. Even if the experiment “doesn’t work,” we usually learn something ________ from it.

【推荐3】Every day after school, Dorothea Lange walked through the streets of downtown Manhattan. She moved so _______ that no one really noticed her at all. Dorothea didn’t mind going unnoticed--it gave her a _______ to see the things she wanted to see.

Dorothea had a _______ childhood and she felt different from other people. She had a _______ disability. When she was seven, a disease _______ her with a limp (跛行). Also, when she was twelve, her father _______ the family, leaving her mother to care for the kids. Dorothea spent many hours alone, _______ people around her going about their lives. Over time, she gradually developed a special _______ ---she saw beauty in things that others didn’t even _______. Even before she held a camera in her hands, she could still capture these pictures in her __________.

In 1914, Dorothea, __________ Arnold Genthe, a famous photographer to make her his assistant. She watched __________ he did and soon became an accomplished photographer. In 1919, Dorothea __________ her own studio and became successful. The pictures Dorothea took during the Great Depression captured people’s __________ and their hopelessness. __________ the photos also captured their pride and honor. She saw in these people a determination that nothing could __________. Using her camera, Dorothea kept a __________ of people who would have otherwise been forgotten.

Throughout her life, Dorothea __________ her camera around her neck almost every day. The pictures she made __________ ago are still teaching us to see that __________ can always be found in the determination of human spirit.