【推荐1】Several beggars (乞丐) were walking in the street of a city, and then they found a gold coin. One of them said, “Let us go to a _____ and order something to eat.” So they entered the nearest one and said, “Waitress, we want some food _____ this gold coin, please serve some to us.

Knowing this, the owner of the restaurant was very _____ and prepared a lot of food for them. The beggars didn't _____ the food at the restaurant, and they took the food outside the city and found a small house where no people lived _____. They went into the house, sat down and began to eat the food. _____, one of them said, “The door is open. One of you go to shut the door, _____ other beggars will come and trouble us.”

Another beggar _____, “You go and shut the door.” And then they began to _____ who was supposed to do that. But it came to nothing.

At last one said, “Come, let us ______ that from now on whoever moves or speaks the ______ word shall go and shut the door.”

They all agreed to it, and then sat quite still there, ______ the rest of the food by the side. Soon some dogs came in. None of the beggars ______ or spoke. So the dogs ate all the food up and went away. Just then another dog rushed in, but no ______ there. But on the hands and the lips of one beggar, who had ______ some bread, remained many bread crumbs (屑). The dog found and licked (舔) ______ up on the beggar's hands and then on his lips. ______ at that time, the beggar did not move at all and he said to himself, “They will ______ me to shut the door.” Seeing the beggar was not moving, the dog bit (咬) him for food. The beggar ______ stand it at all, crying in a low voice, “Ouch!”

______ it was not loud, the other beggars heard him and they said with one voice, “Get up and shut the door!”

【推荐2】Once, Mr. Kafka was walking through a park. He saw a young girl crying. She lost her favorite doll (玩偶) . It was the ________ she won in a game. He helped her look for the doll almost everywhere in the park, but they couldn’t find ________.

Seeing the girl’s ________ eyes, Kafka thought of a good idea, so he advised her to ________ him there the next day and they would look again.

And so began a story that never stopped ________ the end of Kafka’s life.

The next day, when they found that the doll couldn’t ________, Kafka gave the girl a letter from the “doll” that said, “I went on a trip to see the world. I’ll write to you about my ________ around the world. It must be wonderful. Please do not cry or ________ me.”

Later, Kafka read the letters of the doll’s adventures (历险) and it made the girl ________. One day, Kafka read her a letter that the “doll” said it would return to their ________! And Kafka was very happy to hear that. Then, he gave her a ________ doll that he bought.

“Your doll is back.” said Kafka.

“But this one does not look like mine at all,” she ________.

Kafka handed her another letter and it said, “I changed a lot because of my trips .” The girl accepted the new doll and took it home ________.

A year later, Kafka died.

After many years, the grown-up girl found a letter hidden (隐藏) ________ the doll. The tiny letter, written by Kafka, said, “ Everything you love is very ________ to be lost, but in the end, love will return in a different way.”

【推荐3】The unused tissue (纸巾) in the bathroom always reminds me of my childhood.

Christmas was drawing near. Feeling grown up, I decided that I was supposed to get a gift for my ______.

However, being only 8 years old, I had never bought a gift before. I wasn't sure what to buy or where to get it. I emptied the change from my piggy bank, and ______ the local store.

I entered the store, carefully ______ each thing on every shelf. While walking in the store, I ______ my mother's expressions when she opened it on Christmas morning.

There were so many nice things here, but I ______ that the change in my pocket wasn't enough to buy one. Soon I began to feel ______, without hope of finding anything. At that time, I saw exactly what I was ______. I think it was the ______ gift—a great big box of tissues.

Now, a box of tissues may not sound like a ______ to you, but it was one thing we never had in our home when I was a child. With seven children and very little ______, tissues were something really luxury (奢侈) for us. My mother ______ bought them.

I smiled as I took the box from the shelf and ______ walked to the cash desk. My mom was going to ______ this.

Christmas morning came, and my mother loved the tissues. That _____ feeling I had in the store returned again when I saw her happiness. The joy we felt couldn't have been any greater, even if it had been a necklace made of gold. ______, it was her only gift.

That year, I learned how to give a gift to someone special by choosing it carefully, and packing it with love.