We were silently waiting on the platform in the late afternoon. There he was, my _______ grandfather with his grey hair and there I was, a teenager girl in my jeans and T-shirt. His aged _______ still clear blue eyes were taking in the scene. I was wondering _______ I was going to get through the next two days. “Why did I agree to be with my strange grandpa on a train ride from our city to _______?” I asked myself.

No one else wanted to be the fellow traveler since my grandfather refused _______ a plane. Unlike him, I loved to fly because I wanted to get to the destination as _______ as possible.

No matter what anyone told my grandfather about the comfort and _______ of flying, he refused to book a flight, saying, “It’s not just the trip. It’s the adventure of _______ there.”

With my first step onto the train, the journey was already different _______ what I expected. The train was modern and it ________with friendly travelers. We all smiled and nodded to greet each other.

My grandpa and I seated ________ in the dining car. While watching the scenery pass, we ________ enjoy food and drinks. Instead of listening to my music, I became a willing audience and I learned family history that I had never had the time or patience to learn about. I felt I ________ him for the first time. I was thankful for our time together on ________ train.

In this rapidly changing world, we often miss important moments. It is necessary for us to slow down and listen to elders ________ offer a piece of their history or experience.

Life isn’t just about the destination; it’s about the journey.

【推荐2】There are four people in my family. Every day my parents are very busy making _____ for the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They _____ say "I love you." Or send flowers to each other. Besides, my father has a bad temper (脾气). It's necessary for him to lose his temper _____ he is tired from the hard work. I didn't know whether there was love _____ them. In one spring, my father suddenly got badly sick. My mother _____ stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked very _____ as if they both had a serious illness. After they were back, my mother helped my father _____ slowly on the country road every day in the morning and after supper. However, after two months my father still couldn't walk by himself. _____ of us were worried about him. "Dad, how are you feeling now?" I asked him one day. "Susan, don't _____ me." he said in a low voice . "I just like walking with your mom. I like this kind of love." Reading his eyes, I know he loves my mother very much. Once I thought love with flowers, presents and sweet kisses. But from this _____, I understand that love is inside, making life strong and warm.

【推荐3】I try to be a good father. Give my kids love. Work nights to pay for their schooling. But _______ with Michael Hoyt, I am nothing.

This love _______ began in Winchester, 43 years ago, when Rick was strangled（勒住）by the umbilical cord（脐带）during birth, leaving him brain-damaged and unable to _______ his limbs（四肢）."He'll be a vegetable the _______ of his life," Doctors told Michael and his wife, Judy, when Rick was nine months old.

But the Hoyts weren't _______ it. Because they noticed that Rick's _______ followed them around the room. When Rick was 11 they took him to the engineering department and asked if there was anything to help the boy communicate. But doctors told the parents that there was _______going on in their son's brain.

"Tell him a joke," Michael said to the doctors. They did and Rick _______. Actually a lot was going on in his brain.

Equipped(装备）with a computer that allowed him to control the cursor（光标）, _______the side of his head, Rick was ____________ able to communicate. What is his first word? "Run!" And after a high school classmate was paralyzed（瘫痪）in a(n) ____________ and the school organized a charity run（慈善跑）for him, Rick typed, "Dad, I want to do that."

Yeah, right. How was Michael, a man who never ran more than a mile ____________ going to push his son five miles?

____________, he tried. Surprisingly, that day changed Rick's life. "Dad," he typed, "when we were running, it felt like I wasn’t ____________ anymore!"

And that sentence also changed Michael's life. He wanted to give Rick that feeling as ____________as he could. Eighty-five times he's pushed his disabled son, Rick, 26.2 miles in marathons. Eight times in triathlon（铁人三项）.

No question about it," Rick types. "My dad is the Strongest Dad in the World."