【推荐1】During our lives, we all meet a lot of different people. Among them, there is always _________ who influences us greatly.

The first time I saw Emily, she was sitting in my front yard, hugging my dog Harley. She and her husband Sean had just _________ a small house down the road from us. I think she was drawn（吸引）to Harley’s _________ personality, just as he was drawn to hers. I knew Emily would be a treasured friend from the moment I talked to her. Her smile and cheer made me feel _________ just being around her. Her voice was always _________ of happiness.

It didn’t take a _________ time before Emily was loved by all her new neighbors here. Children and adults visited her home often. _________ she already had four pet cats, she also adopted（收养）a homeless dog.

When we visited her, she would _________ listen to all of our troubles and then say something _________ wise that we would leave her home with our hearts singing. Sometimes I would read her my stories and she would always ______________ me to keep writing.

All of this time, though, Emily was slowly ______________ cancer（癌症）. She told me ______________ she was already in the late stage of her disease when we talked for the first time. But she lived each day with such cheer that I often forgot how ill she was. Still, she died ______________ a cold winter morning with heavy snow.

During the short time we had together I learned ______________ from Emily about how to truly live. She taught us so many lessons about kindness, happiness, hope and ______________ .

Do you think there is any difference between looking at a painting from a ________ distance (距离) and from a long distance? Can you ________ the difference?

There is a club that only ________ people can join. Many people join it, ________ they want to stay with other smart people.

One night, the club ________ were having a dinner party in a big room of a restaurant. They were talking ________ while they were enjoying their food. One of them thought that his salad didn’t ________ delicious, so he found a salt shaker(调料瓶) and added some salt. But in fact, it was ________. The members found that the salt on the table is in the sugar shaker, ________ the sugar is in the salt shaker. There were no ________ empty bottles.

________ could they do? They talked about the problem for a long time, but there was no way to make it right.

They ________ for the waiter and told him about it. The waiter just looked at the shakers and said, “It’s easy.” He then ________ the labels(标签) of both shakers and switched(互换) them with each other. The ________ quickly became quiet.

Sometimes we make problems more difficult than they should be. It is good to look back and see if there’s a(an) ________ way first.

【推荐3】My mother was a nurse. She left at 5:45 am, so I had to get up by myself, fix breakfast, and walk to the 7:30 am. bus. I hated being left home alone in the ________, and I especially hated having to take the bus. Mom worked the day shift（日班）, so she could ________ me up after school.

One day, as we walked to our car, I saw an old man walking towards us. He suddenly broke into a wide smile, ________ I didn’t know him. “Leigh! Leigh!” he said, ________ my mother’s name. “Hello,” she answered. “How are you feeling?”

“Couldn’t be ________! Thanks. Now who is this lovely young person?” he asked ________ “This is my daughter,” Mom replied, looking over to me. “Jenny, can you say hello?” I looked at him and smiled, unsure of my ________.

“Well, it is very nice to meet you. I hope you know how ________ you are!” he said. I looked at him in ________ as I had no idea what he was talking about and I didn’t feel lucky at all.

“You have the most wonderful, caring and lovely mother,” he said. “When I was in ________ last month she took the best care of me. She made every day better. Every day. In fact, young person, I shall never ________ her.”

I watched this stranger’s joy in my mom. He kept thanking her and thanking her. Right then I suddenly ________ what it meant for my mom to be a nurse. She was caring for, serving, and loving those strangers, often during some of the ________ times in their lives. It wasn’t the last time I witnessed（目睹） someone thanking Mom or ________ her for her patient care, but it was the first time I understood ________ I stood at the bus stop every morning.

Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square, New York, and looked up the sky. A dead leaf fell into his arm. _________ was coming, and Soapy knew that he must make his plans.

He waited three months in a nice, warm prison (监狱), with food and good friends. This is _________ he usually spent his winters. And now it was time, because at night on his seat in the square, three newspapers did not _________ the cold.

Soapy made up his mind to go to prison, and at once began to try his _________ plan. It was usually _________. He ate dinner at an expensive restaurant. Then he told them he had no _________ and they called a policeman, nice and easy, with no trouble.

_________ Soapy left his seat and came to a bright restaurant on Broadway. But when Soapy went _________ the restaurant, the waiter saw Soapy’s dirty old trousers and _________ shoes. Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street.

Now he had to __________ something different, Soapy walked and walked. He stopped in front of a shop window and looked at it. It was nice and bright, and everybody in the street could see him. Slowly and __________ he picked up a stone and threw it at the window. The __________ broke with a loud noise. People ran round the corner and Soapy was __________ because the man in front of him was a policeman, Soapy did not move. He __________ there with his hands in his pockets, and he smiled, “I’ll __________ be in prison now”, he thought.

【推荐3】The Little Prince is one of the most famous books around the world. It was written ______ a French pilot and it was published in 1943. This story has been ______ into 42 languages and was adapted（改编）into a film.

The little prince lives on a small planet alone. He lives a happy life. One day the wind brings ______ seed. The seed then turns into the loveliest flower he has ______ seen. He takes good care of the flower, but finally he ______ to leave it and his planet to search for a ______ — the most important thing in his life.

During his journey in space, the little prince meets a king, a businessman, a lamplighter and a geographer. They all live on their own on ______ planets. At last he ______ the secret from a fox of the Earth. ______ he returns to his planet, he tells his secret to the writer of a book ______ he meets in the desert. The secret is: the power of love.

When you read this moving and sincere story of the little prince, you can’t help smiling and you can feel the beauty of life and love in your heart.