【推荐2】One day, a businessman was getting ready to go to his office in the morning. When he opened the door of his car, a dog ________ under his car suddenly came out and bit his leg! He was angry and ________ a rock at the dog, but he was not able to hit it.

Upon ________ his office, the businessman called a meeting of his managers. During the meeting, he took out his ________ on his managers. His managers were upset about this and said in the same way to the staffs. ________ the businessman’s anger spread through the whole company.

The businessman was still angry after returning home. His wife opened the door. She asked him, “Why are you so late today?” The man ________ his wife, “I didn’t go to the office to play soccer. I went to work. So don’t ask me such ________ questions!” His wife was upset about being shouted at for no ________. She turned her anger on their son who was watching TV. “This is all you do. You don’t have ________ in studying! Turn off the TV now!” She complained. The son became upset as well. He walked out of his house and saw a dog in the street. He picked up a rock angrily and hit it. The dog ran away barking ________.

Sometimes, when we are angry about something, we might be angry at others who are not to blame for our mood. We should learn to control our anger.

A teacher decided to let her class play a game. She told each child in the class to bring a bag with _______ tomatoes. Each tomato was the name of a person that the child hated. So the number of tomatoes in the bag would depend on(取决于) the number of persons the child _______.

When the day came, every child brought some tomatoes with the names of the people he or she hated. Some had two tomatoes. Some had three tomatoes. Some even had five tomatoes. The teacher then told the children to _______ the tomatoes with them for a week. Days passed, and the children started to complain(抱怨) _______ the bad tomatoes let out terrible smell(味道). Some kids had to carry _______ bags with five tomatoes. After one week, the children were very happy because the game had ended _______.

The teacher asked, “How did you feel?” The children started complaining about the trouble of carrying the heavy and smelly tomatoes. Then the teacher told them the _______ behind the game. The teacher said, “This is the same situation when you hate somebody _______ your heart. The terrible smell of hatred(厌恶) will _______ your heart. If you cannot stand the smell of the bad tomatoes for just ________ week, what will it be like to have it in life?”

【推荐1】Once there was a young camel who asked his mother many questions, _______ all children naturally do.

“Mother, why do we have a hump (驼峰) on our backs?” he asked. His mother _______, “My child, these humps prevent hunger and thirst as we go on long _______ through the dry desert. We _______ water inside our humps to cool our thirst.”

“But mother, why do we have _______ eyelashes (睫毛)?” he continued.

“Oh, son, those are to keep the sand in the _______ from hurting our eyes during sandstorms. This protection _______ us to continue traveling,” his mother answered patiently.

“And what about our strange feet?” he asked.

“They stop our _______ from sinking (沉) into the soft sand. This lets us walk more _______ and quickly,” his mother replied.

The child ________ some more. Then he said: “I see. So the hump is to store water when we are in the desert, the legs are for walking through the desert and these eyelashes protect our eyes from the desert. So then why are we in this zoo?”

A long time ago, trees in forests kept their leaves all year round. That’s just the way it was. But one winter, things ______ , and would never be the same again.

The cold winter winds were blowing, and all the birds were flying south where it was warm except one small bird with a broken wing.

As the injured bird watched its friends going south, it stood thinking, “I will not ______ this coming winter.”

The little bird hopped(跳行) along ______ one wing hanging(垂下) uselessly at its side. It came to a huge oak tree. “Please, Mr. Oak,” said the bird. “May I take ______ on your branches?”

The oak tree huffed and puffed. “I am the king of the forest. I will never ______ you on my branches.”

And so, the bird came next to a white birch tree. The birch tree thought it was the ______ tree in all the land. When the little bird asked for help, the birch tree said, “Go away from me! You will get ______ and eat my leaves. I must take care of my beautiful leaves. Move along.”

The winter was fast approaching(接近). The injured little bird ______ came to a big spruce tree. “May I take shelter on your branches?” pleaded the bird. To its surprise, the spruce tree ______ . “Come, little bird. I will do my best to keep you ______ .”

A pine tree noticed this and said, “I will stand here all ______ , little bird. Do not worry. My branches will keep the ______ from you. You will be safe with us.”

Later, the cold north wind came to blow in the forest. It blew so ______ that it knocked all the leaves from the oak and the birch. It was going to blow the leaves ______ the spruce and pine too. But its father said no, for he had seen the good work of these trees in helping the bird.

And dear friend, that is why some trees ______ their leaves in winter, and some do not.

【推荐3】A girl looked unhappy all day because she thought everything was going wrong with her. And she_______ failed her math exams, so she wouldn't like to study at all. After knowing the daughter's thoughts, the mother thought of a good _______ to make her daughter happy. "I will _______ a delicious cake for you," said the mom. She walked _______ the kitchen, and the daughter followed.

When the mom was preparing the cookers and ingredients(配料), the daughter sat against the kitchen door. The woman asked_______ daughter, "My dear, would you like a piece of cake?"

The daughter replied, "Sure, Mom! You know how I love the_______!" "All right," the mom said, "drink some of this cooking oil."

The daughter was very   _______ and said, "What? No way!"

"How about a couple of raw(生的) eggs?" asked the mom and the daughter answered, "No way!"

"And_______ some flour(面粉)?" "No, Mom! I will be sick!"

The mother explained, "All of these taste bad, but_______ you put them together, they will make a delicious cake. Life________ the same way. When we ask ourselves why there are so many difficult times, we don't realize what a success these terrible events will lead us to."