【推荐2】A long time ago, there was a seed(种子). Because he was only a seed, ______ noticed him. So the seed thought he was not important in the world.

One day,a wind ______and threw him on an open field in the sun. Later, he was given rain. Years later, another day he saw a traveller ______ by his side.

“Thank you God for this, I can have a rest under the tree.”the traveller said.

“what are you talking about?”the seed ______ asked. He thought the man was ______ him. No one ever spoke to him like that.

“Who just spoke?" the shocked man asked.

“It’s me. A seed.”

The man looked at the________. “Are you joking? You’re not a seed. You are a big tree!”

“Really?"

“Yes! People often sit here. ______ do you think people come here for? To fee1 your shade (树荫)! Don't tell me you didn't know you had grown over time.”

The traveler's words brought him pride. The seed thought and ______ for the first time in his life. The years of tortune (折磨) ______ the sun and the rain finally helped him ______. “Oh! That means I’m not a little seed any more! I was actually born to make people feel comfortable. Wow! That’s great.”

【推荐1】Lost & Found

That night, when I arrived at the door of my building, I noticed a man walking behind me. I thought he was a neighbor I hadn’t met. I did a _______ neighborly thing and held the door for him. But when I turned, he took away everything I had and ran away. I was _______. From then on, I looked over my _______, never fully at ease. It cost me my sense of trust in my _______.

A year passed, I got home one night and found an envelope under my door. Inside was a _______ weather-beaten driver’s license. I could _______ make it out because the address was nearly worn away. But the face on that _______ was mine. And the note in it said; Sarah Sweeney, if you still live here, call us at this _______.

Feeling _______, I walked up and down in my living room trying to think of ________ someone would contact (联系) me like this. If there’s a Mugger Playbook (抢劫犯剧本) this was the final long game! Now he’s checking my ________ to get more money?

But I called the number.

Then a(n) ________ voice of a little girl got on, “Hello! Are you Sarah Sweeney? My sister and I found your purse in the woods!”

I could ________ she was jumping up and down as she spoke. She and her younger sister carefully ________ bits of paper, pieced together the clues to find me and ________ my wallet and everything inside. I was completely ________. They were giving me a sense of relief.

I asked her, “How can I ________ you?”

“Hang on!” She pulled the phone away and ________ with her sister; then I heard “ICE CREAM!"

Twenty minutes later, I was at their door. I ________ a box of ice cream. And these two little girls gave my wallet and a renewed sense of ________.

【推荐2】A little girl created the perfect Mother’s Day gift. It was a drawing of a _______ on white paper with the words "For mom: love, love, love" decorated in hearts. She folded(折叠) her letter,_______then she lost it.

For most people, that would be the_______of this story, but this story has a different result: James Carrell _______the letter. He had just _______his mother, wishing her a happy Mother’s   Day. After he got off the phone, Carrell saw the _______ on the ground outside of a hardware(五金器具) store in Manvel in Texas, United States."I _______ it was a note" said Carrell. "I _______ it and saw the flower and hearts. It _______ moved me." Carrell thought the letter would ________someone’s day and maybe he could find the________, so he posted it in the Talk of Alvin Facebook group. The message ________a lot of people, especially one man.

"I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man ________, " said Carrell.

His Facebook comments(评论) included a message from Roberto Alvarado. He wrote, "I can’t ________ you found my baby’s letter. "Carrell reached out to Alvarado to ________the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally ________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s   daughter Natalie celebrated her seventh birthday.

"________ the letter made it home," said Alvarado. " We are ________ for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of ________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) ________impression(影响).

【推荐3】I work in Silicon Valley. My bike ride to work is the most ____ part of my day. It is my time to think and get some fresh air before getting into my busy_____

Last winter, my dad ____ and that peacefulness was gone. His death took all of us by surprise. He was a Kansas farmer, vigorous and dedicated to the land. He farmed until his heart gave out.

I missed Dad much. I was in my forties. His death made me_____ how I should spend my remaining life. I wanted to make a difference, and many questions were wandering in my mind. Dad wasn't ___   by such uncertainty. He was ____ and loved us kids, which put us to work. His ____ were high. “Is that the best you can do?” he’d ask ____. It wasn’t criticism, but it always made us want to do better.

Life on the farm was ___   before I was ten years old. I rode my dirt bike wandering the fields happily. When I was 12, I started driving tractors. Other kids of my age ___   summer days by the pool while I plowed fields in the hot sun.

Dad never ____ me to do anything. He led by _____ He did what he said he was going to do. He didn’t look for a new ____ in life. He knew what was important, and ____ it.

I smiled. The more I ____ about it, the more clearly I knew the answer to my question. Dad had been showing me that ____ in my entire life. The externals—this job, that job— ____ less than living with integrity(正直). I didn’t have to change the world but be myself.

Businesspeople talk a lot about ____. The most influential leader in my life was my dad. He was leading me, even after his death. His ____ were part of everything I did—instructing employees, coaching my son’s Little League team, writing songs with my daughter. From now on, I would make those values more ____ to my life.

【推荐1】In 1982, Steven Callahan was crossing the Atlantic alone in his sailboat when it crashed into something and sank. He was out of the shipping lanes and floating in a life boat ________ . His supplies were few. His ________ were small. Yet when three fishermen found him seventy-six days later, he was alive--- much thinner than he was when he ________ , but alive.

The thing that  ________ my eye was how he managed to keep himself going when all hope seemed lost, when there seemed no ________ in continuing the struggle, when he was suffering greatly, when his life boat was broken with a hole and after more than a week struggling with his weak body to  ________ it, it was still leaking air and wearing him out to keep pumping (给某物充气) it up. He was ________. He was completely ________. Giving up would have seemed the only wise choice.

When people survived these kinds of situations, they do something with their ________ that gives them the courage to keep going. Many people in ________ desperate situations give in or go mad. Something the survivors do with their thoughts helps them find the ________ to carry on.

“I tell myself I can ________ it,” wrote Callahan in his account. “Compared to what others have been ________ , I’m fortunate. I tell myself these things over and over,  ________ my determination to keep going.

I wrote that down after I read it. It ________ me as something important. And I’ve told myself the same thing when my own goals seemed ________ off. And every time I’ve said it, I have always come back to my ________.

So here, coming to us from the story of ________ , are words that can give us power. ________ you are going through , tell yourself you can handle it. Tell this to yourself over and over, and it will help get through the rough spots with a little more ________.

【推荐3】When I was a young boy, our whole family lived in my Nana’s old house right beside a set of railroad tracks. I can remember the whole house would _____ when the trains passed by. I often spent my summer afternoons walking down the _____. I can remember the first time I tried to ____ myself and walk on a (an) ____ rail. The steel rail was very narrow and quite ______ so I didn’t have much success. First I tried holding my arms out and _____ my feet as I walked. This only led to me falling off after a few steps. I ______ to walk backwards once but quickly slipped off. It was only when I started looking ____   that I was able to walk the rails.

Looking back on this time I now______ that it also gave me a wonderful lesson about _____. You can’t go through life watching every _____ you take or choice you make. This only leads to ______ yourself and you soon go off the rails. Looking behind you is even ______. Only when you look ahead can you really ______ forward and see the life you want to lead. Then you will walk on with a light ______.