【推荐1】When you travel, it’s inevitable (不可避免的) that things will go wrong. It doesn’t matter how _________ you are for the trip—accidents happen on the road, at hotels or _________ in the middle of the ocean. Often, it’s what happens next that _________ the most. No matter what happens, it can be a _________ turn in the journey or a bad thing.

During a recent long international trip, my youngest daughter’s airsickness struck again. We were _________ our choices after landing in San Francisco for an overnight layover (中途停留).

When we stood in the middle of the terminal (航站楼), not only _________ how to get to our hotel, but also discussing whether or not we should just turn around and go home, a pilot _________ us.

He quietly asked me if my 4-year-old was the passenger who had gotten _________ on the flight. I nodded, half afraid someone was going to tell us we now weren’t _________ to fly with her.

Instead, he __________ down to her level, opened up his bag and took out a pair of wings. While the captain was ________ her the wings, he kindly asked my young daughter how she was feeling. Like most young kids, sometimes she’s ________ about talking to strangers, but not this time. They __________ for 60 seconds, but in those 60 seconds, she went from feeling bad and __________ to walk around the airport to jogging to the airport hotel with a smile on her face.

As the captain walked away, she __________ and said, “He cared about me.” My daughter is still young, but she is old enough to feel __________ when a pilot wants to check in on her. In that moment, the pilot was exactly the right one to make her feel better about flying. He __________ our day by taking two minutes out of his.

It’s often the __________ stories that make the headlines, but small, heart-warming moments are still happening all around us. I’m __________ to all in the travel industry—and beyond—that take those few minutes to make a world of ________.

【推荐1】The world is forever full of smart people who have made great achievements in many fields. But for one reason or another they are unwilling to take a chance on something _________ that turns out to be big.

Despite all his _________ success and great wisdom, in 1906 George Bernard Shaw made one of the biggest_________ an author can make in the play-writing business. After the highly successful _________of his 1894 comedy, “Arms and the Man,” a couple of Viennese writers approached Shaw for the purpose of _________ the rights to turn his play into an operetta (轻歌剧). Leopold Jacobson and Rudolf Bernauer would _________ its words based on Shaw’s work. Relatively _________Viennese composer Oscar Straus would write the music.

Shaw considered the _________ to be a shame of his masterpiece, which _________ him from seeing the possibilities the new business presented. He allowed them the adaptation rights but proudly ____________ a royalty (版权使用费) they offered. “The Chocolate Soldier”, as the operetta was named in English, quickly ____________Oscar Straus as one of the most distinguished composers of operetta’s so-called Silver Age. The operetta was produced ____________in London and on Broadway and its tickets were sold out quickly so that its ____________ made a fortune in royalties except Mr. Shaw.

The cost of opportunities missed out of ____________ can be immeasurable indeed. Be careful who you say ____________ to. You may miss the next Oscar Straus.

【推荐1】Teenagers are more likely to cause conflict with their parents than any other age child. Teens often think what they are saying is _______. They believe that if they keep arguing, they can _______ their parents’ minds.

Teenagers argue with their parents because two things are still _______ during the adolescent period: the limbic system (边缘系统) and the frontal lobe (额叶). The former _______ emotions, and the latter helps with people’s decision making.

With not everything fully developed in teenage bodies, it _______ how they react to discipline and the word “no”. Teenagers want to have freedom and the _______ to do what they want. Being teenagers is very _______. There are too many things happening in a teen’s _______ all at once and their bodies are not quite ready to _______ everything that’s happening. They are still in the ________ of growing and making all these life decisions.

With teens having little free time, it’s an unhappy thing to hear “no” coming from ________. Teens want to do something interesting with friends or just simply ________ without worrying about anything. They trust themselves to be ________. Some teens don’t understand why they’re told they can’t do something. Without reasoning behind the “no”, there is often a spark (火花) of ________ leading into an argument. If parents gave a ________ reason for their decision, it could ________ many arguments and keep a healthy ________. Even if they disagree, when knowing their parents’ reason ________, teenagers are less likely to respond in a negative way.

Parents should not ________ intervene with (干预) their kids’ choices. It is a part of growing up, and making ________ and suffering the consequences is an important lesson to learn.

【推荐2】Reaching your goals will always require a lot of hard work and focus, but random opportunity also plays a part in getting you where you want to be. However, you need to keep your life ________ with friends, family, and activities that you enjoy in order to be open to these strange, coincidental ________.

The last month my ________ has been on reconnecting with old ________ and colleague. So this past week when we ________ to Indian Springs, California, for the tennis tournament there, I planned a dinner with Hal Morris, a talented speaker who had ________ worked for my company, and his family. The ________ thing was, we ________ staying with some other wonderful people we hadn’t expected to see.

At the ________ itself, we ran into a(n) ________ friends from Utah, Dr. Lynn Rassmussen and his wife. ________ my wife got a ________ from her best friend, Susie, saying with her husband, they were driving down to California. What a big ________ it was to find out we’d all be in California ________. We got together and had the most ________ time.

As we left California, I was thinking how we were able to ________ time with so many great people, and more than half of it hadn’t even been ________. I had started focusing on ________ friends around us and here it was happening more and more on its own. If you focus on what you want and ________ yourself up to opportunities, unexpected things will happen to support and ________ your goals not to mention enriching your life with many pleasurable experiences.

【推荐3】“I seldom read posts on WeChat Moments because many of them are not true and don’t present what a person is really like,” a friend of mine told me. Then, I ______ a small gathering at a bar a few days ago, and a girl asked me why my posts are full of positive energy—as if there is nothing ______ in my life.

I reread my WeChat posts to ______ whether what she said was true, and surprisingly, it seems my daily life ______ smoothly with almost all my posts filled with high spirits. As we know, online and offline communication are the two ______ for interpersonal exchange. WeChat is among the popular online social platforms in China, and people share their ideas and ______ personal images by posting on WeChat Moments. One way to build a better personal image is to polish photos, ______ selfies or other portraits by using photo editing apps ______ posting them on WeChat.   It helps ______ a sense of goodness and happiness to other users. Another way to ______ our charming personality is by posting ideas or comments. We take account of a lot of things before we post on WeChat.

However, sometimes it is the posts that take a negative tone or those that we delete that carry our ______ self-expressions. I once had a stomachache and went to hospital by myself to ______ a physical examination. Then, I had to do all the tests to ______ the cause of my illness on my own. In the outpatient area, all the patients except me were ______ by family or friends. Loneliness suddenly overcame me and ______ me to post on WeChat Moments. I described how I felt and expressed my ______ to look for someone to take care of me. Many friends left messages to ______ me and wish me a speedy recovery. But some suggested that I become stronger to deal with such situations. The reactions to my self-expressions vary. So, why do I ask for ______ by posting the other side of me on WeChat Moments?

WeChat posts are ______ with reliability and untruthfulness. We post our thoughts with invisible masks to hide whatever we refuse to tell the world. But ______, WeChat still provides an effective way for us to learn more about someone.