【推荐1】Lukas Kusters grew up in Wilmington, Deleware, loving the sport of football! He was so good at it that he became ____ to his team as “The Dutch Destroyer”. His ____ was to play in the National Football League (NFL) one day for his favorite ____ —the Philadelphia Eagles.

When Lukas was just 9, he ____ that he had a rare form of cancer. His battle ____ several months and he ____ the disease as hard as ever.

During his fight with cancer, the quarterback of the Eagles, Carson Wentz heard about Lukas? illness. Wentz and his teammates decided to ____ a video to send it to Lukas in the hospital, ____ him well.

While receiving the video from the Eagles was ____, it was Lukas’____ that was even more surprising. In the face of his massive and ____ illness, all that Lukas wanted to do was to show ____ to Carson Wentz by giving him one of his w Dutch Destroyer” wrist bands.

Through the Make a Wish Foundation, Wentz and his Eagle teammates ____ to visit Lukas in the hospital. They spent a ____ day together and Lukas thanked Wentz by giving him a wrist band. Not long after, Wentz took the ____ wearing the bracelet (手环) in an NFL game! People around the world took ____ in Lukas, his story of ____ and gratitude (感激) and his “Dutch Destroyer” bracelets. People started to buy that kind of bracelets. Thousands of dollars from ____ the bracelets went to help other families battling childhood cancer.

____ cancer took Lukas from the world, he left a(n) ____ legacy (遗产) that live on around the world.

【推荐2】“What are you doing?” my fifth-grade teacher asked as I bent over the side of my desk. “I’m ______ my backpack. The bell rings in a few minutes.”

“Unpack your assignments (作业). You still have five minutes. We ______ until the clock runs out. The more you do here in class, the less you have to do at home,” she said. She was a very kind woman, but I knew she was ______ this time.

Having no choice, I ______ pulled my math assignment back out and ______ one problem at a time as the minutes on the clock ticked away. The bell finally ______, and I stuffed my homework in my backpack as ______ as possible and ran out.

I cannot remember how many times per day she would say, “Use your time wisely.” It worked. It became second ______ for me to work until the bell rang. In middle school, I continued the ______ she instilled (灌输) in me. I worked on my assignments until the bell rang. And she was ______. The more I did in class, the more time off I had at home for projects and hobbies. I instilled that mindset in nearly every aspect of my ______ life: my education, my career, and my family.

At age ten, I didn’t ______. I do now. Learning how to use your time wisely also means learning what’s ______ to you and being able to prioritize (划分优先顺序) your life. It’s not just a ______ in using the time you have, but in enjoying those moments and ______ the time spent with loved ones.

【推荐3】Each of us struggles for self-respect and self-worth to some degree. I spent much time trying to achieve perfection in every aspect of my life.

I was a happy kid with a lot of friends and a supportive family. But growing up was really______and even scary sometimes.

During my childhood, I was constantly involved in something that included people's views about my achievements or my____. I wanted everyone's praise and acceptance, but I was my own toughest critic (挑剔的人).

After I graduated from high school, my_____to be "thin" began to trouble me. I began trying to diet by_____ my food.

In the beginning, I felt great — attractive and successful, almost superhuman. I even thought that I was better than everyone else. What I didn't see was that I was slowly______myself.

People around me began to_____my weight loss. They said with concern. "You're losing too much weight." "Elisa, you're so thin." All their words only suggested that I was getting closer to "____".

Sadly, I took my physical_____as the first important thing in my life,______that it was the way to become successful and accepted.

Then I cut down on my____ more and more, until a______day consisted of half a teaspoon of nonfat yogurt in the morning and a cup of grape juice at night.

But my poor____ began to cause me to lose_____. Then one night, like many nights before, I couldn't sleep, and felt as though my heart might beat out of my chest. I tried to ____, but I couldn’t. The beating became so rapid and so strong that I could no longer_____. What I had done to diet nearly caused me to have a heart attack. I stood up, and immediately fell down. I was really_____, and I knew I needed help. My roommate rushed me to the ____, and then I began the long road to my_____. It took a lot — doctors, nurses, nutritionists, food supplements...

And more importantly, a sense of what was true about myself got my life back on track with reality. I realized that, with my____ of trying to be "perfect" on the ____, I had sacrificed who I was on the inside. What I know now is, we are — each and every one of us — already perfect.

【推荐1】My mother believed in magic. She believed things happened for a/an _______ . She was vocal about “happy accidents”.

“See this little box? It’s magic: inside _______ a bird that can sing.”

I carefully wound the tiny music box, and my sons were _______ attracted by the beautiful music, coming up and wondering what it was. Besides singing, the bird _______ flapped (拍打) its wings, and opened and closed its small beak (鸟喙).

“Please don’t touch it,” I _______. However, weeks later I noticed the bird no longer moved back fully. I was so angry that I _______ my sons.

“I pushed the lid down,” volunteered the 7-year-old cautiously. Obviously, he realized what a big mistake he had made. I was going to _______ him. However, another voice told me that I might find a skilled person to _______ the bird back to life first.

Unfortunately, I soon discovered that few people could _______ broken music boxes. It took me lots of ________ to find one. After lots of time and cost, I was delighted to witness the fragile bird sing once more. What I did not ________ was that the tiny bird would also spin (旋转).

“It spins!” I said, totally ________.

“It’s supposed to do that,” the man said with a heavy German accent. “I guess it is ________ that your son broke it, because now the bird does what it was ________ to do.”

A happy accident, ________.

【推荐3】A professor was giving an attractive lecture to the students. Everyone was listening_______and silently. "How much do you think this glass of water_______?" he asked with a glass of water in hand. Some said 200 grams,   some 300." Yes, it's only two hundred grams. How long can you hold it in your hands?" he asked again. A majority of_______laughed: "Only 200 grams, and anyone can take it however long he wants!"

The lecturer didn't_______but continued: "Take it for a minute and you will feel no problem; an hour, and your   _______may be painful; a day? A week? You have to call an ambulance." They laughed but with_______.

The lecturer said, "It's very light, but the_______you hold it, the heavier it will become. Whether it's heavy or not, it becomes more and more_______over time. What we have to do is lay it down and take a rest_______we pick it up again. We should________the pressure we're under in time, rest and gather strength to start again.________we can carry it longer." They________a burst of applause.

The________is that we are getting busier with society developing fast. As the________grew heavier, we might as well in the appropriate time pause, relax and then________to a better state to restart.