【推荐1】Janelle would be late for work. However, what she_______in the mirror made her stop. Being a busy college_______just one year removing from her teenage years, she wasn't exactly concerned about the_______of her clothes. But her boss at the restaurant didn't think so. He had recently_______the staff of the importance of appearance, and had specifically mentioned the need for_______to wear clean, unwrinkled (无褶皱的) blouses. But if she stopped to_______the blouse normally, she would be late. Her boss didn't_______anyone to be late for work.

So she carefully held her blouse away from her_______, and started to iron it while she was wearing it. It seemed like a logical solution to a(n)_______problem. But when Janelle tried to iron the collar, she accidentally ironed her neck by mistake. Then it suddenly turned into a really__________idea. It took her more time to treat her burn than it would have taken to iron her blouse__________. And she spent a shift__________the pain of the burn.

We have all been there. For me, it was cutting my hair. For a friend of mine, it was trying to change the oil in his car while the motor was still__________.

There is a right way and a wrong__________of doing things.“If a thing is worth doing, ”Dad said, “it is worth doing it right. ”There is a reason why something is done in__________ways. Those old, boring ways work.

【推荐2】Down syndrome is a medical condition that makers someone develop mentally and physically in a different way from most people. However, a small act of_________could have a big influence on a teen with Down syndrome.

Every morning for 10 years, driver Scott Reynolds_________Ty Coppola, who has Down syn-drome，with a smile and a fist bump(拳头碰拳头)when he_________Ty.

“It would start his day in a_________way," Michael Coppola, Ty's father said.

Ty can speak and communicate his basic needs,_________he doesn't have typical conversations like most do.

"Instead, he senses how people_________him whether it's a handshake or a fist bump." Michael said.

Michael admits that many people, _________their best intentions, do not know how to approach someone with_______---including him.

That's exactly_________Michael and his wife sent Ty to Holy Childhood, a__________that serves children and adults with disabilities. Michael says the school has taught his son to be__________and confident despite his disability.

Yet, although Ty has__________to do things on his own, it doesn't mean he doesn’t want affection from others.

"The__________mean a whole lot more than words to him," Michael said.

Reynolds' kindness didn't__________there. He also learned things about Ty's life and asked him questions about his family.

When the Coppolas were__________that Reynolds planned to retire, Michael and his wife decided to do something to ________Reynolds that he meant a lot to their son. With other people's help, the Coppolas held a surprise party in Reynolds'__________. Many people came and paid respect for his years of__________.

"I wanted to show my__________,"Michael said. "I didn't want everything he did to be taken for granted. He wasn't just a__________."

【推荐3】The day when I would go off to college was around the corner. Mom stood me in her usual spot behind the ironing board (烫衣板)and said, “Pay attention: I’m going to teach you to iron.”

Mom clearly explained her ______ for this lesson. I was going to be ______ and needed to learn this ______ skill. Also, I would be meeting new people, and properly ironed clothes would help me make a good ______.“Learn to iron a shirt,” Mom said, “and you can iron ______.”

But ironing shirts was not ______ work. It didn’t make use ______long muscles we used to throw a baseball, and it wasn’t a ______ operation like ice-skating. Ironing was like driving a car on a street that has a stop ______ every 10 feet. Moreover, an iron produced steam and it carried an element of ______.If you touched the wrong part of it, you’d get ______. If you forgot to turn it off when you ______, you might burn down the house.

As for technique, Mom ______ me to begin with the flat spaces outward, always pushing the iron forward into wrinkled (有褶皱的）parts.______ had to be done right. Mom said they were close to your face, where everyone would______   them.

Over the years, I’ve learned to iron shirts skillfully, which gives me a sense of ______. ______failures I suffer in my life, an ironed shirt tells me I am good at something. ______,through ironing I’ve learned the ______ of solving even the most troublesome problems. “______ wrinkles one at a time,” as Mom might have said, “and before long everything will get ironed out.”

【推荐1】It had been a month since anything had happened to brighten my day. I had just moved to a(n) _________ town. I missed my family and friends so much that I felt _________ almost everyday.

A week before Halloween, I opened my mailbox and _________ found a bright orange pumpkin inside. It was a jack-o-lantern (南瓜灯). On it wrote the _________: HAPPY HALLOWEEN! But it didn’t _________ where it came from. Who would have done such a(n) _________ thing?

I put the pumpkin on my coffee table, _________ if I would ever discover who had _________ it. Although I was curious, I couldn’t help _________一in my hand was proof (证据) that someone was __________ about me.

As the days passed, I __________ my new life little by little. That jack-o-lantern sat on the coffee table through Halloween and Thanksgiving. That happy little pumpkin made me feel __________ every time I looked at it. When its happy eyes were staring at me on New Year’s Day, I made a __________. Months ago, someone had done something kind that __________ he or she cared. I could do the same.

Can you guess what I did in October? After learning a neighbor was sad about her job __________, I mailed her a beautiful pumpkin anonymously (匿名). On it, I drew a jack-o-lantern face. And wrote these words: HAPPY HALLCOWEEN.

【推荐2】During my school days, I was one of those shy and distant kids who would just sit in a comer for an entire day. For me, my books were my ______ world. Even during breaks, I used to just sit in a corner of the ______ and see others play games. It was not as if I wasn’t interested in ______ others or making new friends, but I always felt lacking in energy when ______ my peers. I always had an opinion that my advances towards new ______ would be limited. And I just didn’t want to ______ a rejection.

Once during my English class, my teacher shared a(n)______ with us. It was about King Bruce and a spider. It revolved around a lost battle and talked about how King Bruce, despite losing the battle,______ in the end. He was ______ by a little spider. The little ______ of the spider and the way it was taking rejections impressed me a lot. I was so surprised that I myself started ______ the movements of spiders at home. Once, a spider took around an hour to reach the top of a wall and I ______ knocked it down. To my ______, within seconds it started making its ______ up again.

For me, this ______ was a game changer. I realized that rejections are ______ a failure. The world may mistreat me,______ I can stand up and start working again. There would be time when people would like and ______ me. At present, I ______ mixing with people, learning new things and making new friends. I think, there are just no such ______ as rejections or failures as everything can change at any moment.

【推荐3】This story began when I was a child. I was born in_______. Often we hadn’t enough to eat. When never we had some food, Mother often give me her portion. While she was putting her rice into my bowl, she would say, “Eat this rice, son! I’m not_______.”

As I grew, Mother her_______her spare time to_______ in a river near our house; she hoped that from the fish she caught, she could give me a little bit more _______ for my growth. Once she caught just two fish, she made fish soup. While I was eating the soup, Mother sat beside me and ate what was still kept on the_______of the fish I had eaten. My heart was_______when I saw it. So I gave the other fish to her but she immediately_______it and said, “I don’t_______like fish.”

Then, in order to pay for my_______Mother went to a match factory. This helped her get some money to cover my school fees. One wintry night I awoke to find Mother filling the matchboxes by candlelight________I said, “Mother, go to sleep; it’s late; you can________working tomorrow.” Mother smiled and said, “Go to sleep, son! I’m not________.”

When I had to sit my final examination, mother accompanied me. Mother________for me for hours in the heat of the sun. When the bell rang, I ran to________her. Mother give me a glass of tea that she had________. The tea was not as________as Mother’s love. Seeing Mother covered with sweat, I at once gave her my glass and asked her to________too. Mother said, “I’m not thirsty!”.

Now , I’m an employer and my________now is to work hard and to repay my mother for all the________that she gave me.

【推荐1】When I was a child my father taught me five words that I’ve used all my life — in my acting career, as a mother, in my business activities. If I ____ that I was afraid of the dark, or if I seemed worried about meeting new people, Dad would say, “Stand porter to your find.”

A porter is a gatekeeper, who stands at a door letting people in or out. Dad would get me to ____ myself stopping destructive things — such as fear — at the door, ____ saying. “Come in” to faith, love and self-assurance.

As an actress, before I went on camera, I’d make sure anxiety stayed out and confidence in my ability came in. As a mother, when I was ____ about my children, I would try not to let worry in but would ____ my mind with trust in them.

Of course, there were always times I’d ____ those words.

In 1972 my husband, Fillmore Crank, and I opened the doors to our own ____ in North Hollywood. This was a new business venture for us, and it was a lot more demanding and complicated than we had ____.

We were on call 24 hours a day. Something was always going ____. Electricity went on the blink, food wasn’t delivered, employees called in sick. Once a flu epidemic suddenly left us with no maids. Fillmore gave me a ____: scrub floors or do the laundry. For 10 days I folded enough king-size sheets to ____ the whole state of California.

Then — there was the ____ crisis. The price of gasoline doubled, and tourism in California ____. How could we fill our beds? What if we kept losing money? What if we failed? Fear and worry were sneaking in. But I caught them just ____. I stood porter.

I stood in the door of my mind and sent fear packing.

These days at the hotel, whenever fear tries to ____, I just smile and point to the sign that reads No Vacancy.

【推荐3】A video about a homeless man went viral. Johal, a video-maker known for his social _______, decided to give a homeless man some money and _______ his reaction.

In the video, approaching a _______ homeless man, Johal carefully places some money on his bag. Minutes later, when the man wakes up, he’s surprised to see the cash and looks excited and grateful. Then, the man walks to a store, steps out with a bag of _______, probably to face the cold nights, and returns to his bench(长凳).

Johal sits beside the man, talking on the phone with a friend, asking if he can borrow some money for his daughter. The homeless man _______ listens to Johal. After Johal hangs up, the man asks if he’s okay. Johal explains he’s getting his daughter some _______ while having a hard time financially.

In a (an) _______ turn of events, the man asks Johal to _______ his bag and leaves with the shopping bag. He returns _______ after giving the item back to the store and offers the money to Johal, who was a total ________, comforting that he can go by without a blanket but the girl needs the treatment. Touched with the homeless man’s kindness, Johal ________ the experiment, offering $500 to the man, who instantly starts crying in ________.

________ but true, the result proves sometimes, those with less are the ones ________ most. Not all heroes wear capes(斗篷). In Fact, heroes are the ones with a ________.