【推荐1】I awoke suddenly from a deep sleep. My heart was beating heavily, and I was ________ I closed my eyes, hoping to fall back to sleep quickly. But there it was again.

I was _______ . I was going to die soon if I didn't do something! “Swim to the light, ” a little voice said. I started ________I broke through t he surface of the water. I was _______ , and everything was going to be fine.

I got out of bed, afraid that I would have the bad dream again if I went back to sleep. It _______ me all day, making it hard to _______ at work. Over the next few weeks, I had the same _______ several times. I couldn't shake the dream. I became _______ that the dream was mostly about me. The dream was showing me that I needed to fight back and swim to the light.

What was wrong? What did I need to _______ ? The only thing that I could ________ was to make an appointment for a _________ A few days after the appointment, I got a call saying they wanted to do more X-rays. When the ________ came into the room, he moved his chair close to mine and said, “I'm afraid I don't have very good news. ”

There were no tears, just a feeling of _________ “I know,” I said, ________ slowly.

“You do?” the doctor asked in ________, sitting back in his chair.

“Yes, I had a dream, ” I told him ________ . “That's why I came in for a check. ”

It was a long road with surgery, chemo (化疗)，and radiation therapy. However, I ________ the dream completely. It gave me ________ and a positive attitude. I fought back, prayed frequently, and finally I________it to swim to the light. Sometimes a dream which is not ________ is like a letter which is not read.

【推荐2】Last month, I slept through a flight from London to Beijing. Upon waking up, I was shocked to discover that I could no longer _______ my right arm and fingers. My arm just simply did not follow my brain’s _______ , as if it no longer _______ my body.

The doctor at the Sino Japanese Friendship Hospital _______ me to have suffered neural (神经的) injury. Aside from _______ that I see a physiotherapist (理疗师), he only told me, “Rest for two months first and come back for_______ check-up. ”

In that moment of _______ , a long-time family friend, who is an acupuncturist in Sichuan, _______to help. I started my acupuncture _______ the next day. I was sceptical at first, but my ________ was soon beaten by the results. After a few days, I could move my ________ Two weeks later, I could have meals using chopsticks. After a month, my arm and fingers were almost back to their ________ functions.

In that clinic, I heard many other patients’ ________ . One 11-year-old boy, who was born with ________ autism (自闭症), was treated at the age of three, and now he communicates quite ________ One lady, who suddenly became deaf two months ago, has just ________ her hearing.

I’m surprised at how these ________ needles can cure so many illnesses, many of which even big hospitals with expensive medical devices ________ with. Is it magic? No! But it is the right ________ of the Chinese tradition that brings ________ and happiness to friends here and farther.

【推荐1】Rainbow comes after a storm. For instance, here are things you've probably celebrated: an excellent grade, a team win, an _______ goal. Did you know that a past failure can _______ be a good thing too? The problem is that, according to a research, big embarrassing times can be _______ hard for girls. ''Many girls see _______ as something that can't be changed and something that will forever _______ them, '' says Rachel Simmons, a cofounder of the nonprofit Girls Leadership. Simmons _______ that by middle school, and continuing through _______ school and college, girls' confidence levels _______ while boys' stay the same or go _______. That confidence gap makes ________ an error much harder.

How can you change all this? You can ________ one fact: ''Failing is a huge part of ________, '' says Michael A. Freeman, M.D., a clinical ________ of psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine who has held workshops on failure. ''________ you're making mistakes, you're learning and getting ________. The people who know how to learn from failure are most ________ to succeed in the future. '' Plenty of research shows that failing actually helps you to grow as a person, ________ your boundaries, and build flexibility. (Some big companies even look for ________ employees who have experienced failures without allowing the failures to discourage them!) So it's time to get loud and ________ about your mistakes. They happen. Read on for all the tips, advice, and information you need to go forth and ________!

【推荐2】My cousin is nine years old, a little bit fat and doesn't do really well at school. She is heavily ____________, and thus has developed some resistance and ________ towards adults, who usually don't put high hopes in her.

Yesterday we went to an art ________ together. There were paintings from kids with disabilities. My little girl has a ________ eye, for the paintings she liked most were also the best of the show. She voluntarily helped to ________ the chairs and table for a sharing session, painted by herself alongside new friends while I attended the sharing, and also ________ helped me to get my bag from another room, something that doesn't happen often at ________ as she’s usually ___________ to her iPad.

In the afternoon, we went to buy books together. I bought a book written by a mom ________ her journey with her autistic (自闭的) son. On the bus back home, I briefly ________ the book to my cousin, and to my surprise she was ________ interested. She kept asking me to tell more stories about the boy in the book who ________ with small things in life. Even when the subject strayed (偏离) elsewhere, she ________ hearing more about this boy. This is the first time I've seen her so interested in a(n) ________. Usually when she talks to me she describes events at school and at home without a ________ focus. I'm ________ that the life of a ________ has found its way into this little girl’s heart.

I'm very thankful for the ________ of books, for the beauty that my cousin revealed to me, and for the time we had together. I ________ that I can keep seeing clearly the wonderful things in her, so that whenever unkindness ________, I can remind her how truly wonderful she has always been.

【推荐3】Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as "terminally ill". He was given six months to live. His ________ for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and ________ in his life contributed to his ________. He wondered, "If illness can be caused by being ________, can health be created by being positive?"

He was ________ to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the ________ movies he could find-Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. He ________ funny stories. He asked his friends to call him ________ they said, heard or did something funny.

His pain was so great that he could not fall ________. Laughing for 10 minutes, he found, ________ the pain for several hours so he could sleep.

He ________ recovered from his illness and lived ________ 20 happy, healthy and productive years. He ________ his recovery to the love of his family and friends, and laughter.

Some people think laughter is a ________ of time.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is very important to our ________ life, to our health and happiness, to our aliveness（活力）. If we're not well, ________ helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us ________ that way.

Since Cousins' ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a healing ________ on the body, the mind and the emotions.

So. if you like laughter, ________ it sound medical advice as often as you can. If you don't like a laughter, then take your ________— laugh anyway.

【推荐1】It was a sunny Friday afternoon. I, however, was _______ sitting in the mentor's (导师) office, staring at the spreadsheet (电子数据表) on which we had _______ our goals for the week. I shaded my cells red; I had not been able to _______ any of them. My mentor, Tristan, gave me a reassuring smile, reminding me not to _______ myself too much. “It’s OK to be_______, but make sure your three weekly goals are workable and measurable,” he _______.

Halfway through my grade school, I was_______with a sea of experimental failures and lost without the structure I was _______ to as an undergrade. When my mentor Tristan saw that I was struggling, he suggested an _______ from his experience in a sport, which is called Three to Thrive(T2T), referring to three goals set each week to help ________ progress.

We set up a shared spreadsheet where we would plan our goals, which can be ________ and academic. At the end of the week, we would meet and ________ our progress in the “Friday Finish.” Then we realized the ________ themselves were the problem. It was ________ for me to see where I wanted to be in one year, or five, but I had a hard time figuring out what weekly ________ would get me there. ________, I was setting goals too high to achieve in a week. Since then, Tristan has helped me learn to ________ my big-picture goals into smaller tasks that are challenging but ________.

With T2T, I have been able to regain some ________ of my life. T2T has also helped Tristan and me develop a much more honest and ________ mentor-mentee relationship, connecting on everything from professional techniques to tips for not eating too much ice cream.

【推荐2】A parent’s hopes for 2030

When 2010 arrived, my son was only a year old—tiny and _________, the master of a few basic words, but still mostly the baby we’d welcomed into the world. Now my baby has grown into an _________—tall, strong, and smart, a lover of Akira Kurosawa’s samurai movies.

A _________ from now, in 2030, he will be an adult. I expect the next 10 years to fly by, and be filled with _________. As 2020 begins, I am thinking about the kind of world my son will face and experience. I _________ about him, and about all the young people of his age. So I have several hopes for the world my son and his generation will live in.

I hope we finally get _________ about climate change. Polar ice is melting. The oceans are rising. The question is _________ whether we can stop climate change, but whether we’re willing and able to do anything to _________ it.

I’m not sure what a warming planet will _________ to my son’s life. I suspect it means he will live in a world where nations and groups __________ limited resources like clean water and food, which means that the danger of climate change won’t come just from rising oceans, but from humans’ competing for control over what’s __________.

The world is always going to be full of __________ about how to solve the challenges we face. I hope, too, that my son’s generation learns to __________ justice—but to do so with a big heart and humility, recognizing our common humanity even with people who __________ us.

The world of 2030 won’t __________ itself. We are creating it now, so my final wish is that we build the kind of world we actually want our children to live in.

【推荐3】It was one of the hardest days of my young life. I was a 13-year-old freshman trying out for the high school______team. It was the first day of full______and my 110 pounds body had been______to the ground more times than I could count. It had become______ as the practice went on that there was no way I was going to be able to______against the faster and stronger boys. My dream of being a high school football star had been crashed to the ground along with my______body.

I made it home sore and______and my Mom met me at the door. She could see I was______in a glance. She warmed me up a bowl of soup and_______me until dinner. While I sipped at the warm soup I______her hand gently rubbing my aching back. We______said a word, but by the time the soup was done I was feeling better again. I knew I was______and that was all that mattered.

I have carried that______in my heart all of these years. Even today, no matter what______life throws at me, a bowl of soup always raises my spirits. Sometimes I can even feel Mom’s gentle hand______my back from Heaven and see her beautiful face smiling______with love.

In this world all of us have had our dreams______at one time or another. It takes a lot of broken dreams until we find our true______in life. God is always there,______, to comfort us, and to help us back to our______again. May you always share your own love with a gentle touch, or even a bowl of soup.