【推荐1】Scientific studies show that laughter produces chemicals to make people feel better, which ________ clown doctors can be helpful.

I chose this ________ because of my experience of going to hospital when I was a kid. Although the doctors and nurses did a great job, hospitals weren’t really designed for ________. I stayed there feeling ________ and a little bored.

After years’ ________ training, I work as part of a program known as “hospital clowning”. Being a clown doctor means I can help people by ________ them.

One day, ________ my curly rainbow wig and big red nose, I walked into the waiting area, where there was a familiar atmosphere of ________ and tension. At that time I spotted a small girl ________ in pain, with her ankle was twice its ________ size. Her ________ parents were sitting ________ on plastic chairs, trying their best to comfort the nervous and crying girl.

While the doctor concentrated on ________ her ankle, I got her ________ by doing a magic trick. Although she was clearly still in some pain, her scared and anxious look had been ________ — first by a small smile and then by loud laughter as I ________ produced her sock from out of my pocket. Seeing their daughter so much happier ________ made her parents more relaxed. My magic medicine did indeed seem to ________.

Even today, I still ________ a big smile as I remember all the fun and laughter of the day. After all, it is true that ________ is the best medicine.

【推荐3】The earthquake was over and the city was in ruins.

I had no choice but to walk home as all the ______ had stopped as a result of the quake. On my way home I ______ an old lady at a bakery giving out free bread, which made my heart ______. A man was holding a sign saying, "Please use our ______." He was ______ his house for people to go to the restroom.

My friend, ______ wanted to be of help to others, stood in the cold with a sign "If you don't ______ a motorcycle, I'll be glad to drive you home." And then I saw him pick up an old man and drive him all the way to a faraway place!

Then the next day I drove to have my car ______. There was not enough ______ now and many gas stations were closed or had very ______ lines. I got worried, since I was ______ fifteen cars. Finally, when my ______ came, the man smiled and said," ______ this situation, we are only giving $ 30 worth of gas per person. Is that alright?" ______. It's nice that we are all able to ______, " I said. His smile gave me so much comfort.

At the escape center I saw a man ______ when people brought food to him. It was the first time in three days that food had been brought to their center. However, after he cleaned up the tears, his next ______ surprised me. "I am very ______ that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven't ______ any food at all. Please go to that center as well." Hearing that, I realized there was a bright future on the other side of this ______.

【推荐1】I believe that families are not only blood relatives, but sometimes people who show up and love you when no one else will.

In May 1977, I was living in a Howard Johnson’s motel off Interstate 10 in Houston. My dad and I ____ a room with two double beds and a bathroom was too ____ for a 15-year-old girl and her father. Dad’s second marriage was ____ and my stepmother had ____ us both out of the house the previous week. Dad had no ____ what to do with me. And that’s when my other family ____

Barbara and Roland Beach took me into their home ____ their only daughter, Su, my best friend, asked them to. I ____ with them for the next seven years.

Barbara washed my skirts the same as Su’s. She ____ I had lunch money, doctors’ appointments, help with homework and nightly hugs. Barbara and Roland attended every football game where Su and I were being cheerleaders ____ I could tell, for the Beaches there was no ____ between Su and me; I was their daughter, too.

When Su and I ____ college they kept my room the same for the entire four years I attended school. Recently, Barb presented me with an insurance policy they bought when I first moved in with them and had continued to pay on for 23 years.

The Beaches knew ____ about me when they took me in – they had heard the whole story from Su. When I was seven, my mother died and from then on my father relied on other people to ____ his kids. Before I went to live with the Beaches I had believed that life was entirely ____ and that love was shaky and untrustworthy. I had believed that the only person who would take care of me was me.

____ the Beaches, I would have become a bitter, cynical (愤世嫉俗的) woman. They gave me a(n) ____ that allowed me to grow and change. They kept me from being paralyzed (使麻痹，瘫痪) by my ____ and they gave me the confidence to open my heart.

I ____ family. For me, it wasn’t the family that was there on the day I was ____ , but the one that was there for me when I was living in a Howard Johnson’s on Interstate 10.

【推荐3】When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it were your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made a deep_______on me. And since then, for   the past 33 years, I have_______in the mirror every   morning and asked   myself, “If today were   the last day of my life,_______I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the   answer has been “No” for too many days in a _______, I know I need to change something.

Remembering   that I’ll be_______soon is the most important tool I’ve ever known to help me make the big_______in life because almost everything falls away in the face of death,_______only what is truly important.

About a year ago I was_______with cancer. My doctor even advised me to go home and get     my affairs   _______order, which is a doctor’s way of telling people to prepare to die. I________ with   that diagnosis   all day.________,   at last an   advanced test showed   that it   was a   very   rare cancer that is________with surgery. I had the surgery and I’m fine now.

________wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there.     And yet death is the destination we all________. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it       should be, because death is very likely the single best invention of________. It is life’s change       agent. It clears out the old to ________ for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too ________ from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is________, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be ________by dogma( 教条)---which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner________. And most importantly, have the courage to   follow your heart.

【推荐2】As Amy Hagadorn rounded the corner across the hall from her classroom, she knocked into a tall boy from the fifth grade running in the opposite direction.

“ ____ ” the boy shouted.Then, with a silly smile on his face, the boy ____his right leg and walked the way Amy limped(跛行) when she walked.

Amy closed her eyes. “ ____him!” She told herself as she headed for her classroom.

But at the end of the day, Amy was still thinking about the tall boy’s ____way. It wasn’t as if he were the only one. It seemed that ever since Amy started the third grade, someone laughed at her ____. Kids made fun of her about her ____or her limping. Amy was ____it. Sometimes, even in a classroom full of other students, the teasing(嘲笑) made her ____43 alone.

Back home at the dinner table that evening, Amy was ____. Her mother knew that things were not going well at ____. That’s why she was happy to have some exciting news to ____with her daughter.

“There is a Christmas ____contest on the radio station,” Amy’s Mom announced.“ ____a letter to Santa, and you might win a prize. I think ____at the table with blonde(白肤金发的) curly hair should enter.”

A ____took hold of Amy when the idea first came to her. Out came pencil and paper, and Amy went to work on her letter. “Dear Santa Claus,” she began.

While Amy worked at her letter, the rest of the family tried to ____what she might ask from Santa.Amy’s sister, Jamie, and Amy’s Mom both thought a three-foot Barbie doll would ____Amy’s wish list. Amy’s Dad guessed a picture book. But Amy wasn’t ____to tell her secret Christmas wish just then. Here is Amy’s letter to Santa, which she wrote that night:

Dear Santa Claus,

My name is Amy. I am nine years old.I have a problem at school. Can you help me, Santa? Kids laugh at me ____the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy(脑瘫). I just want one ____when no one laughs at me or makes fun of me.