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cleaner;   gave;   could;   encouraged;   trying;   his;   happy;   borrow;   students;   easily

Last week I went to an art show. A painting caught my eyes. To my surprise, it was painted by Larry, one of my     1    . Then many things about him came into my mind.

Larry was from a poor family. His parents     2     not afford to buy him some basic things that he needed. Once our school provided gloves for poor children. I put Larry’s name on the list. He was so     3     when he received a pair. He loved to wear them and they were always     4     than anybody else’s.

Larry had a talent for painting and he could     5     understand what I described in class. But he didn’t have money to buy the paper for painting. So I sometimes     6     him some. He practiced hard and I often showed his paintings to the class. He was greatly     7    .

One day just before the summer vacation, he came to     8     some art books. When the new term began, he showed some of     9     paintings to me. I felt shocked. They were good. Then we talked a lot. He said he would keep on.

Later he was admitted to a famous art university. After graduation, he had many difficulties, but he never gave up. He was always     10     his best to improve himself.

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either,   want,   four,   but,   each,     that,   big,   children,   although,   until,

My children are growing up fast. My daughter is 16 and my boy is already in junior high school. As they get     1    , our house seems to get smaller. So we want to sell some of our things in a yard sale and give the money to a     2    home.

We have already cleared out a lot of things from our bedrooms. We have decided to     3     sell five things     4     we no longer use. My son was quite sad at first. Although he has not played with his old toys for a long time, he still     5     to keep them. For example, he has owned a train and railway set since his     6    birthday, and he played with it almost every week     7     he was about seven. And he didn’t want to lose his toy monkey,     8    . He slept next to the monkey every night when he was a child. My daughter was more understanding,     9     she also felt sad to part with certain toys.

As for me, I did not want to give up my football shirts,     10    , to be honest, I have not played for a while now. I am getting older, too!

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they, walk, receive, gift, into, although, tell, know, hit, never

On Christmas, 2019, Jennifer     1     a beautiful bracelet(手链) from her mum. “You can get it engraved(刻上字), Jenny,” her mum     2     her. Unluckily, three weeks later, her mum died in an accident. For a long time after that, Jennifer thought the bracelet was the last gift her mum gave her. Every time she saw it, a sad feeling     3     her. She had a hard time     4     out of sadness.

“    5     I wore the bracelet many times, I didn’t get it engraved, because I knew I couldn’t show it to mum,” Jennifer said. “But one day in early 2016. I walked into a store and got the bracelet engraved with ‘Jenny’ on the front, and ‘Love, mum’ on the back.” At that time Jennifer realized that the bracelet was truly a gift of mum’s love, but she had more such     6    . They were the same—They all showed the beauty of mum’s love. “The gifts all carry my mum’s memories. They are there to let me     7     that mum is with me all the time. She     8     leaves me,” Jennifer said. “By learning to watch for     9    , my sad tears(眼泪) turn     10     happy tears and even some laughs. I know my mum would love it.”

【推荐3】considered; made; longer; memories; honest
while; hometown; with; upset
I’m Eric. I love my    1    --California. That place has many sweet childhood     2     for me.
When I was a small boy, I had to get up before sunrise to work on the farm. At sunrise I could see a house     3     golden windows far away form the farm. Every day I     4     it with interest and wondered what the house looked like inside. To be    5    , I really wanted to live there! I often said to myself, “Some day I will own a house like that.”
One day I walked to the house with golden windows. I walked for a while and then I stopped in front of the house. To my surprise, there were no     6     golden windows. I was very upset. Later I learned that the windows were not golden at all. It was the sunrise that     7     them look golden.