【推荐1】What do you think of your father? Maybe we have ________ ideas. As for me, my father always ________ me and stands by my side. He is the “VIP (very important person)” in my life. Now I want to ________ some stories between us.

When I was a kid, my father was often ________. I spent a lot of time ________ my grandmother. At that time I could really be called a naughty (顽皮的) girl and often couldn’t control (控制) ________. I didn’t know ________ my father couldn’t stay at home and play with me like other children’s fathers.

As time went by, I studied in a boarding (寄宿) school. One day I told my father ________ the phone that I missed my mother’s ________ very much. To my surprise, when I was preparing to go to bed, one of my roommates told me that ________ was calling me. I ran out and saw that my father was there, outside of the gate of the dormitory, with a ________ box in his hand. I went ________ to him and he gave me that lunch box. He was tired by the long trip. Without ________ anything, he went away. Back to the dormitory I couldn’t help ________.

I just want to tell you that the ________ from your father may come in its own way and I really love my father.

A young man was getting ready to graduate from college. For many months he wanted a beautiful sports car in a car showroom, and knowing his father was able to buy it, he told him that was all he wanted.

As Graduation Day was coming, the young man waited the _______ that his father would buy the car for him. Finally, on the morning of his graduation, his father called him into his study. His father told him how _______ he was to have such a fine son, and told him how much he loved him. He handed his son a beautiful gift box. The young man opened the box and found a lovely Bible, with the young man's name written in gold. _______ , he shouted to his father, ''With all your money you give me a Bible?'' He then rushed out of the house, _______ the Bible.

Many years passed and the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful home and a wonderful family, but _______ his father was very old, he thought perhaps he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that graduation day. Before he could make the visit, he received a telegram telling him his father had passed away, and _______ all what he had to his son. He needed to come home immediately and take care of things.

When he arrived at his father's house, sudden sadness and regret filled his heart. He began to _______ his father's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened the Bible and began to turn the pages. As he was reading, a car key dropped (落下) from the back of the Bible. It had a small card with his name, and the date of his _______ , and the words... ''PAID IN FULL''.

How many times do we miss blessings because they are not packaged (包装) as we expected? Remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

【推荐3】You can reach almost any goal if you want to – but sometimes you have to work so hard to realize your dream.

That was quite true for me. When I was 17 years old, I broke my father’s ________. Father was a factory worker and he worked long hours every day. He had saved enough money to send me to college to become a lawyer. Three months later I was home telling him that I had left college—and for the first time I saw him ________. “Son, I’m always going to love you even though you’ll never achieve anything,” he said with tears in his eyes. When I walked out of that room, I was burning with something within my body. Not everyone has the chance to feel it. I didn’t just want to ________ —I had to.

But I couldn’t see how to do it and all the time my father’s words were in my mind. I became a salesperson. It was not ________ because I knew almost nothing about marketing. Then a man introduced me to the Edwards training course (培训课程). I went and learned a lot of useful ________. I tried my best to put them to work. Soon after that, I started tasting the sweet fruits of success for the first time.

Some time later, I told the manager of my company that I would like to meet with Mr. Edwards, and he made it for me. When the day came, I told Mr. Edwards, “Mr. Edwards, my goal is to be able to train people just as you trained me.” ________, he agreed to let me try.

All that came true because I set goals to make it happen. Keeping the goal was the most important.

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every night, he came back late, looking ____ I told myself that someday I would show my ____ to my father for what he did for us.

Over the next 20 years, my father suffered（遭受）a lot from a heart（心脏）problem. One morning, my father’s old car ____ and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. When I offered（提出）to buy him a ____ car, he said no. He said he did not want it if he was unable to buy it himself.

At that time, I was thinking of buying a new car. I asked my father to go with me to ____ one. ____ I was talking with the salesman, I found my father was looking at a brown car with interest. I finally chose a white car. My father took one final ____ at the brown car and seemed kind of sad before leaving.

Several days later, I ____ my father if he could go with me to pick up my new car. As we got there, the salesman gave him the ____ to his new car—the brown one—and said that it was for him, from me. My father looked at me in great ____. I told him that it was my childhood dream and smiled at him.

Do you often talk with your parents about your problems? When you talk to ________, will they believe what you say, listen to you and agree with you?

It has ________ to do with both you and your parents. Some parents are easy to talk to, and they are great listeners, ________ some are hard to walk close to. As communication is a two-way street, the ________ you talk can cause different results. So you should follow the ________ below.

Be clear. Tell your parents about what you think, feel and want as ________ as possible. They will be more helpful if they ________ what you mean and what’s really going on.

Make your parents believe you. If you’re ________ honest（诚实的）, your parents will believe what you say. However, if you hardly tell them the ________, it will be difficult for them to believe you.

Try not to argue with them. If you disagree with your parents, can you see things ________ your parents’ side? If both you and your parents think for each other, you will be able to talk in a friendly way.

【推荐3】Do your parents make you do lots of after-school activities? My parents did. I used to listen to them, but now, I decide to think for ________ . My parents made me take part in a lot of after-school activities: taking guitar lessons, taking ________ class, playing tennis and doing different kinds of other things. I didn’t like many of them. I often asked my parents to stop ________ me. This year, I will stop some activities. I decide to ________ the guitar because I don’t like to play it at all. I think I can learn English by myself at home, ________I won’t go to the English class any more.

My mother doesn’t think that I get enough ________. But I don’t think so. I walk two miles to school every day. I think that is ________ for me. So I don’t want to play tennis. One day, my mother ________ me to go to a swimming club, but I refused. She was ________and said, “The more you learn, the more skills you will have, and then the more independent you will be.” ________ she’s right, but I really don’t want to go. Dear friends, am I right? What will you do if you meet the situation?