【推荐1】I’m Mara. If you talk to my mother, she will tell you she ________ me and my brother to help her in the house. She wants us to ________ that we are needed in our family. “A mom can do all the chores, but what does that teach the children? ________!” she often says.

I don’t mind taking out the rubbish, and I ________ like watering the flowers in the garden. However, I ________ doing the dishes every evening and cleaning my bedroom every morning. They are so ________.

My bother is five years old. He ________ needs to clean the table and sweep the floor at home. They’re easy for him and he doesn’t ________ them.

My mother is ________ every day, because she does the most chores at home. Sometimes she asks me to ________ her. She cleans the house twice a week. She washes clothes every day, because my brother gets ________ easily. Every Saturday she ________ in the supermarket for necessities of life.

The one who does the ________ chores is my father. He thinks doing chores is a waste of ________! He only washes the car every Sunday. But he ________ most time with us playing games and helping us with our homework.

Mrs. Green has lots of money but she doesn’t have any kids. Annie is a nice girl and her parents don’t have much ________. So Annie’s parents give ________ daughter to Mrs. Green. Mrs. Green likes Annie very much and Annie is ________ in Mrs. Green’s family.

One day, Mrs. Green wants to buy new clothes ________ Annie. She gives Annie some money and asks her to go to the ________, but Annie doesn’t want to go. “No, Mum. I have enough（足够的） clothes, but my sister Frances doesn’t have ________ clothes. Our parents don’t have ________ money to buy her clothes. ________ I buy new clothes for her with the money?” “Sure. Annie, you are great! You always ________ others. Call your sister and ask her to come here. I’ll buy her some new ________ and nice food. I think she’ll be happy and I will be happy too,” says Mrs. Green. “Giving can bring happiness （幸福）. ”

【推荐3】Hi, Zhang Hua. Look at this photo. It’s a photo _________ Leo’s family. This man _________ Mr. Brown._________ is Leo’s father. _________ woman is Mrs. Brown. _________ is Leo’s mother. Who _________ this boy and _________ girl? The _________ is Leo, Mr. Brown’s son. The _________ is Kate, Mr. Brown’s daughter, Kate is ____________ sister. Leo and Kate are brother and sister.

I remember the year when I was seven years old. I ______ a pretty hair clip from a girl in my dance class. My ______ found the shiny clip was not bought by them. So they sat me down on the floor of our study and ______ why what I had done was wrong. What a bad end I would come to if I became a thief—people would not trust me any more.

More than thirty years on, the lesson has reminded me a lot. I’ve never taken anything that was not mine away. Once, I left a ______ wearing a pair of sunglasses I’d tried on and then I ______ gave it back. But that gave me the feeling of shame for months.

Though my childhood memories are not ______ , such moments when my parents told me good values are says in my mind. They provided a standard of good ______: to put myself in others’ shoes and to control my greed (贪欲).

The social environment in the coming age ______ each generation’s value, but families have the deeper effect on children. The right values from our parents can finally lead us to ______.

I believe in truth because my parents raise me to do so, even though sometimes my opinions are different from theirs. I believe in ______ because my parents set me good examples. They cure the sick and visit the lonely. I believe in working hard because my parents devote themselves to the society. Good values from my family have shaped me. And I will pass them on to my kids.

An old woman was taking a basket of apples to the market. As she walked along the street, three or four of the apples dropped out and fell on the ________.

The woman did not _______ what had happened, so she went without stopping. A poor girl saw them. She picked them up _______.

“Here! Here!” she called out to the woman. When the woman _______ her, she stopped and turned around. The girl ________ the apples to her, and put them in her hands.

“Thank you,” said the woman _______ a big smile on her face. “And now,” continued the woman, “take the best one for yourself, for you are a（n）_______ girl.” The girl took one from the woman`s basket and thanked her from the bottom of her heart.

After the woman went far away, a boy came up and said to the girl, “Why didn’t you keep some of the apples you had picked up? Then you could get more apples than the one you took from the woman just now, and you could also share some with _______.”

“No,” replied the girl, “Though I am poor, I can’t lose my ________. You can have this apple _______ you like, because it is mine now; but if I give you what is not mine, I will be dishonest.”

【推荐3】One day, a college student was taking a walk with a professor (教授). ______ they went along, they saw a pair of old shoes lying on the way. They supposed the shoes belonged to a ______ man who worked in a field nearby. The student turned to the professor, saying, “Let us ______ a trick. Hide his shoes, and hide ourselves behind those trees, then we’ll wait to see his confusion (疑惑) when he cannot find ______.”

“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should ______ have fun by making fun of the poor. You may give ______ a much greater pleasure by doing something good. Put a coin into each shoe, and then we will hide ourselves and watch ______ the discovery influences him.”

The student did so. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had ______ his coat and shoes.

When he put his feet into one of the shoes, he felt something ______. He bent (弯腰) down to feel what it was, and found the coin. ______ and wonder were seen on his face.

He fixed his ______ on the coin, turned it round and looked at it again and again. He then looked around and found nobody was watching. He now put the money into his pocket, and continued to put on ______ shoe; but his surprise was ______ on finding one more coin. He kneeled (跪) down, looked up to heaven and cried. He spoke of (说到) his wife, and his children ______ bread. He thanked the unknown god.

The student stood there, deeply ______, and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “Is it better than your planned trick?” The young man replied, “You have taught me a lesson which I will never forget.”