【推荐1】Years ago, my house was broken into. I ________ with the police and when they ________ my doubt about my neighbour, Jared, they rolled their eyes. “He’s got a(n) ________ already. If you accuse Jared, he will ________ in juvenile detention (少管所) until he’s 21.”

I asked the police to ________ until I could speak with Jared. When Jared saw me, his eyes were filled with fear, ________ a note of regret. I seized the moment. “We meet for one hour every Saturday for ten months. We’ll spend a half-hour on homework and a half-hour ________ anything you like with each other. But you must commit, and you must ________ the money you stole.”

He took the offer.

To my ________, he showed up in the quiet, appointed place every Saturday. Saturday after

Saturday we sat, we ________, and I listened. I learned about his broken family, the ambitions that seemed far beyond his ________ to work toward them, and his lack of meaningful connections with others. He repaid the money to me. When the ten months ended, I ________ my hand to Jared, “That’s it. Thank you.”

He laid his hand in mine, ________ , and looked at me. “That’s it?” he repeated.

“Yeah,” I said.

Later, we became good friends. Whatever problems our neighbors had, he was ready to help them.

Young people sometimes make us ________ with their behavior, but as an adult, our positive guidance may make a great ________ to their whole life.

【推荐3】This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana, who also _________ to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know, went blind in one eye about nine years ago. Diana sometimes feels _________ about the way her eye looks now. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “glows” in photos. Diana recently bought a special contact lens (隐形眼镜片) that makes her eye look like it did _________ it changed color, but she doesn’t wear this lens often because it becomes quite _________ after about an hour.

One night during our holiday, a hotel _________ was taking pictures of the guests as they entered the area set up for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to _________ this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so shiny in the picture.

The next day, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted. While we were talking, the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, _________ her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, “I _________ the color of your eyes in the picture.” As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, “Look! He fixed my _________!” The photographer stopped. He __________ around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana’s shoulder, leaned in again and gently said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t fix your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I __________ matched the color.”

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her __________ to hear these beautiful words. It didn’t take much time and made so much __________. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.

I have always loved the saying: “The world is full of good people. If you can’t __________ one, be one!” Your acts of __________ can impact on the world in profound ways!

【推荐1】Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success________fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the________ in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no________ of knowing that his life was to change________. The class experiment that day was to ________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface. ________, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat_________held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container________, leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents________to find a way to deal with the catastrophe(灾难) that had________their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as a________. He learned braille (盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became a________ public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from________for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to________his own fate of being blind and another to do something in his power to help those________. He acted on the thought and tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the________Wilson made to helping________their sight.

Wilson received several international________for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a________. He proved that it’s not what happens to us that________our lives-it’s what we make of what happens.

【推荐2】Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition—to play the drums in a band. But a(n)_________ lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a band, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to lots of _________ people in a care home. The sound of beating drums would really annoy them. Brenda was _________. She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without bothering other people, but without success. However, _________to practice as much as she could, Brenda tried all kinds of ways.

One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that _________ cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda bongos decided to become a _________astronaut. So Brenda built a space bubble connected with a machine, which drew out all air. Inside was a _________ of drums. Once inside, Brenda _________ the machine and played like mad!

It wasn’t long before she had become _________. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble. ____________ afterwards she started giving concerts out of the bubble. ____________ Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first ____________ of playing drums in a band.

When asked how she had ____________ all this, she said, “If those old people next-door hadn’t ____________ so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such ____________ to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.”