【推荐3】There was a wall between my father and me. But I was ________ my father’s love. Nobody knew how jealous (忌妒的) I was when I saw other ________ and their girls walking hand in hand. ________, for me, it was only a dream.

With years going by, I couldn’t ________ it any more. So I decided to pull down this wall. But I needed to be brave.

Everything began to ________ after I wrote a letter to my father. I can imagine the ________ look on my father’s face when he read the letter, which was really a shock (令人震惊的事) to him.

“I’m sorry, my daughter. It’s my fault that I haven’t noticed your ________, but I promise, from now on, I’ll try my best to be a good father.” My father told me this ________. At the moment, tears ran down my face.

He paid ________ attention to my feelings before, but now he really ________ the importance of love and has changed a lot. Now, ________ I come home from school, my father will talk with me. He will ask me ________ I get along with my teachers and classmates or if everything is going well in school.

Finally, I have ________ my father’s world. I opened the door to his heart. My ________ has come true.

I have succeeded in gaining happiness ________ effort (努力) and I’ll value it forever. He is my father, the only one I have.

【推荐1】May is a beautiful month full of sunshine and flowers. It is also the month when we show _________ to our mothers on Mother’s Day.

In my family, every year’s Mother’s Day celebration is _______. Two years ago, I made breakfast for my mom and she still remembers all the _______ I cooked. Last year, I bought her shellfire stick(自拍杆) with the money that I made from _______ some of my old books. She uses it all the time.

I wanted to do something special on this “special” Mother’s Day this time. In April, I started to _______ for different ideas about gifts on the Internet. _______, I decided to make a paper box by hand with cards. It took me a long time to make the cover fit properly. I also put a small bag of colorful chocolates in the box. The _______ I wrote on the cards were some small favors(恩惠）I could do for my mom, such as washing dishes.

On the night before Mother’s Day, I asked my mom to go to sleep early _______ I could go into her room and put the present next to her bed. When she _______, she was very excited about my gift and spent a lot of time looking at every tiny detail of the box.

My mom is my ________ and she has given up her job to take care of me. I am glad that there is a special day in May for me to honor my mom and show her my thanks and love.

【推荐3】

You can do anything for your family members as long as you have a heart full of love.

Lisa Carpenter’s feeling is quite a mixture of feeling both overjoyed and quite ________ when one of her daughters announced (告知) she would have a baby. She was excited to become a grandmother, ________ she was worried as well. That was because her daughter’s family lived more than 800 miles away. Lisa knew that keeping the relationship with her grandkids from a long distance would be difficult, and maybe ________ impossible.

“They had our first grandson in 2008.” Lisa said. “________ they announced was amazing but horribly hard on my heart. I simply ________ not understand how I would survive as a long-distance grandma.”

But Lisa wasn’t prevented from the challenge (挑战). ________, she came up with an idea right away. She communicated with her grandkids through ________. Although it is hard for the family to get the kids to sit still for a long time, it became a simple way when they moved around the house.

“Screen time is much easier,” Lisa said. Now all three boys can take turns with the phone with Grandma and Grandpa. Screen time ________ Lisa a chance to help her daughter out, too. She can talk to the kids while their mother cooks dinner, or watch one child’s baseball game through the phone while her daughter takes care of the other little ones.

As time goes by, Lisa has taken in new tech skills. She learns to send videos to the kids and send their favourite songs. Lisa also calls her ________ as a long-distance grandmother’s happy time. She is grateful that her daughter takes the time to keep her connected with the children.

According to Lisa, “Being able to stay in touch from far away is the ________ way I survive as a long-distance grandmother for I have no choice.” It is love that pushes the old lady to keep learning.