【推荐1】Nearly everyone I meet comments on my bright pink hair. I love it too and feel more _______ than ever before.Although I have my own hair now, it was the pink wig(假发) I wore during breast cancer treatment that _______ the way I look. Losing my hair made me realize how _______ it is to have access to a decent(得体的)wig.

I was 31 when my life changed forever. With a high-pressure job in HR and a(n) _______social life,my days were busy. One day, I started to get great pain in my breasts. Deep down I knew I was probably facing cancer, ______ the diagnosis(诊断) four weeks later was still a big _______. I remember saying to the nurse, “Are you joking? Have you got my _______ mixed up with someone else’s?”

Following tests and scans,I was told I should be treated with chemotherapy(化疗). I couldn’t _______ the thought of being bald(秃顶的),so the first thing I asked was,”Am I going to lose my hair?”

When it was made _______ that I would,I immediately asked about wig options. __________,after a lot of research, I bought a £400 natural-hair wig.

1 __________ the thought that many patients had no access to something so important to their well-being,so I started collecting money from my sick bed. So far I’ve __________£20,000 for patients to buy wigs. I’m hoping to offer the __________ at other hospitals in poor areas too.

Even though I have a broken heart,it’s still full of __________ and I will always have a desire to help others. None of us knows what the future __________,but the most important thing to me is to stay positive and love life.

【推荐2】I've noticed that conversations with my children have started to turn into something that I don't like. It could be my   _______ . I don't always think before I open my_______

For example, my kids would call me to tell me about something that's been _______ them. Then, as soon as they finish, I go into _______ mode.“You should...”，“You need to consider.”， “If I were you, I'd ...”

＂Mom!"The _______ is full of frustration and annoyance. The meaning is obvious－_______!

I am the queen of _______ advice. When I get one of my adult kids on the phone, I become an expert on everything, which I'm _______ not. I only want to prevent them from making mistakes. But what they _______is a listening ear and an open heart.

Giving advice to children can be full of- ________· Though we may see ourselves ________ the wisdom of our years, they see something else. They see a ________parent who hasn't accepted the fact that they are ________ with their own thoughts and feelings.

They are not   ________ any tips. They may not even want a(n) ________solution to a difficult problem. What they are ________   for is a safe place to talk with a person who loves and ________ them no matter what.

Because of this, I've given myself the ________ of being a better________ It's not an easy task for parents like me who think they are just being ________ .But I am determined.

【推荐1】Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher In 2012, she found herself ________ to an IV (静脉注射) in a Boston hospital being ________ for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed with, including lupus (狼疮) The normally lively Stemple was ________ getting upset a lot. And then a friend gave her a ________.

Before she got too sick to ________, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a racing ________ who had just finished a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the present would ________ a kind of similar pick-me-up (提神剂). It worked like a(n) ________ —and then some.

After Stemple ________ the medal from her hospital IV pole, other patients said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple ________. “A medal is a simple way to give a(n) ________ message,” she told pilotonline. com. And so was born her ________, We Finish Together, which collects medals from ________ —runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners—and donates them to all sorts of people in ________.

Receivers have included hospital patients, people of homeless shelters, and old soldiers. Part of the process is ________ with the donators writing a personalized ________ on the ribbon (缎带). “This gives them a connection to someone,” says Stemple. “If they receive a medal, they will know someone ________.”

Can a simple medal really make a ________? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who develops pulmonary fibrosis (肺纤维). “I opened my package containing my new medal and the notes of positive, warm thoughts. I was ________,” she wrote to Stemple. “At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen tube because my lungs have become so worse. It means so much to me to feel that I am not ________.”

【推荐3】Working on holidays has always presented something of a class divide. From the 1870s through the 1920s, middle-and-upper-class Americans often lived with “the help”—mostly women of color whose job was to cook and clean and care for others, day and night. While shows like Dowton Abbey seek to give ________ to servants, they also sanitize (粉饰) what was a cruel, back-breaking existence. It was common for a housemaid’s day to begin well before the family rose and extend until after they ________ for the evening. They did so seven days a week: working more than 80 hours a week - more than the 65 hours most factory workers worked at the time. While we often imagine that these women were young and single, Evelyn Nakano Gleen’s research on such care providers has shown that over 30% of them were married many with children. As they worked very hard for families not ________, they left their children, parents, siblings and husbands behind. Thanksgiving or Christmas was no doubt one of the hardest times of the year, and their own families felt their ________.

The labor movement was ________ to changing this sorry state of affairs. Unions raised wages, lowered hours, instituted worker protections, guaranteed a minimum wage and ________ holidays off for workers. Those who did have to work on national holidays were guaranteed overtime pay. When unions were strong, such benefits even ________ to non-unionized workers.

But as unions have ________, part-time work has increased. And this has meant lower wages and greater ________. Working at $11 an hour for 25 hours a week means making 14,300 a year. For most retail workers, that’s one of the better jobs that are available. And ________, it’s a job without health insurance, or a retirement plan, with constant scheduling changes that make it hard to take additional ________. Most of these workers wish they could work more, but employers would rather hire other part-timers. So when the boss says, “Can you work Thanksgiving?” workers have no real choice but to be ________.

Today, working on holidays carries no guarantee of extra pay, and not working can mean losing one’s job. Some workers are ________; Walmart employees have planned over 1,000 Black Friday strikes because of unchanging wages and health care premiums (保险费) that will soon triple. Americans have a choice of helping these workers regain the ________, or walking past them in order to shop more. And that is the irony to the trend of stores opening on Thanksgiving. On the same day that we give thanks for all we have, why must we also rush out to buy more? Observers might say, “It’s just the logic of the market!” But the logic of the market is not some mystical process. It is the result of the ________ that we make.