【推荐1】Grandma Kong is from the western countryside of China. She has spent nearly _______years adopting(收养）and raising abandoned（被遗弃的）children. She gives them food to eat and sends them to school to get an _______.

Kong first adopted an abandoned child in the 1970s. She found she couldn't stop there. Though in poor health, the kind woman _______ adopting abandoned children and raising them as her own. Over the last 48 years, she has adopted over 40 children. _______ of them have grown up and become doctors or lawyers.

It costs Kong a lot to raise so many children. There were times she couldn't put enough _______on the table. She chose to leave home to look for leftovers（残羹剩饭）in the rubbish. To her great _______, things got much better with time. Now her grown-up children help her to bring up their _______brothers and sisters.

Kong always believes that education is the best way to get out of poverty（贫穷）, _______ she makes sure that all her children go to school. She said, "I told my children that it was quite _______ for them to study hard and that it was their only chance to change their lives."

Kong's story has ________ thousands of people's hearts. Many of them say she is a great mother and a good example to follow.

【推荐2】Franz Kafka(1883-1924), a famous writer, never married and had no children. Once, at the age of 40, when he was ________ through a park in Berlin, Germany, he came across a ________ girl crying. She lost her favorite doll.

He helped her ________ the doll, but they couldn’t find it. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day and they would look again.

The next day, when they ________ had not found the doll, Kafka gave the girl a letter “________” by the doll that said, “Please do not cry. I have gone on a ________ to see the world. I’m going to write to you ________ my adventures.”

Thus began a story that continued to the end of Kafka’s ________. When they would meet, Kafka read aloud the letters which he had written, ________, of adventures that the girl found exciting. ________ , Kafka read her a letter in which the doll said it had ________ to Berlin. Then, he gave her a doll that he had bought.

“This does not look like ________ doll at all,” she said, Kafka handed her another letter that said, “It is my trips that have changed me.” The girl hugged the ________ doll and took it home with her. A year later, Kafka died.

Many years later, the now grown-up girl found a ________ hidden inside the doll. The tiny letter, signed by Kafka, said, “Everything you love is very likely to be lost, but in the end, ________ will return in a different way.”

【推荐2】On the day of David’s seventh birthday, his father took him to a ________ store. His father told him he could pick out any instrument (乐器) he wanted, and he should promise to learn to ________ it.

David had little interest in music. He was far ________ interested in playing with his friends. It was ________ for him to pick one.

David walked around the music store. He saw some pianos first. Though his family wasn’t poor, David knew it was not rich. A piano was too ________ to be his gift.

Next, he found some brass (铜管) instruments. David was not interested in ________ of them, because he did not want to put his ________ on anything. He ________ on to the next room. There were many guitars. The seller took one of the guitars down and let David have a try. David didn’t know ________ to play it and his hands were too small to ________ it.

David moved into another room. There, he picked up a violin and he ________ it was the perfect size for his small hands!

David kept his ________ to his dad. He learned to play the violin and he now ________ to play it as an adult. ________ David has had nicer violins, he always remembers the first one. That gift has ________ his life. As his father put it, “The gift of music is better than any others you wanted when you were seven.”