【推荐1】The fall leaves are really starting to change now. It looks like the trees and mountains have become a canvas _________ by a loving artist. The bright, beautiful reds are _________ in the sunlight and the yellows are glittering (闪耀) like _________. Some trees have only a few leaves changed, some are half-way and others have already completely _________. Some of the leaves are falling to the ground to turning it into a colorful _________. I am enjoying this so much because I am _________ aware when winter arrives all of the trees will be _________ with the leaves down. It is always a little _________ to see but I know it is the circle of life. Those dead leaves will become the soil that nourishes (滋养) the trees and _________ new life next spring.

Today I noticed a lovely little girl from our __________ picking up the fallen leaves from the ground. The prettiest reds, yellows, and oranges were picked up and __________ in her arms. Soon she had quite a pile and __________ carried them over to her Mom and then with a smile gave them to her as if they were delicate flowers. Her Mom accepted them with a smile and together they __________ them out on their porch and stared at them like the priceless __________.

I watched this __________ from my living room window with a smile on my face as well. The world __________ a circle of love as well as a circle of life. And I am __________ that the former like the latter will never end. It will __________ all through this life and into the next. Take your place in the circle. Give love, receive love and live every day of your life to the __________ with love. And your __________ will shine bright like the most beautiful tree in autumn.

【推荐2】It is a blue, cotton shirt. The shirt belonged to my________David On his birthday before he left college, his mother bought him the shirt.________I gave him free use of my bike, he let me wear the shirt, occasionally.

_____, David also talked about his father .Usually it was late at night, in the dorm just before bed, and the     _____always ended with tears that flowed from a river of memories and________: memories of a father suffering from     _____when his son was just a teenager, longings for opportunities to cure his father's disease missed, because disease does not understand about the________between father and son. Nor do(es).________care.

Time passed and we had to say________to each other. After lots of hugging, and words of thanks, we eventually     _____. It was on my________trip upstairs to our dorm that I saw a package on my bed. I________the wrapping paper. It was the blue cotton shirt in a box with a card________to it, reading: Thomas, I can't thank you enough for your     _____. This has been tough years and you have been________a friend. Thank you for listening. Thanks for everything. -- David

I put aside the note, with________tears dropping on the shirt, I still have the shirt today, though it has faded and wrinkled with age.

【推荐3】I was standing across the lady in the laundry (洗衣店). I got angry as I thought she had _______ my pants. The woman stated _______ that I hadn’t dropped my pants there.

“Can’t you just check to _______ if there are some blue pants lying around somewhere?” I asked. She said that I didn’t bring any pants _______ she always double checked people’s orders. She went to try one more time and I thought about the last time I had seen them. When she _______ empty-handed, I suddenly had a(n) _______. “Hold on a second,” I said nervously. “I need to _______ my wife.” I asked my wife to look in the drawer (抽屉) where I usually collect the dirty clothes. Then I _______ until my wife got back on the phone. “Yeah, you’ve got some blue pants in here,” she said.

It’s not the first time I’ve _______ made negative assumptions (假定). Once I got ________   with a waiter who ignored me when I spoke to him from behind. When he finally ________, I realized he was deaf.

I always give myself ________ to read people’s minds and make assumptions with very little ________. We apparently think we don’t need to check our assumptions. We’re always ________ to give the thing a little bit of ________, which people need regardless of whether our assumptions are right.

【推荐1】In a world where comparisons happen non-stop, it is difficult to look outside yourself and to ever be ________with who you are. There's always someone who's a bit ________. The only solution is to reach _______ and measure against what Warren Buffett calls your own inner yardstick. There is no more ______ measure for comparison than who you were yesterday, last week or last decade, when you were at your _________.

Nothing useful ever comes from comparison to others. ______ you see yourself as better than someone and you get ______, or you see someone else as better than you and you feel like all your hard work is for _______. It is a fool's game. Not one of us is ______ alike. The only direct and honest comparison is ______ yourself. Everything else is apples to oranges.

My opinion is that you are only ______ to compare yourself to someone else if their life ______ is the same as your own. Good luck finding that match. And one thing is for sure. No matter how hard you work and how ______ you are, there will always be someone who can run a little faster, jump a little higher, score a little better or look a little nicer in a swimsuit. And if there's not, you can ______ someone is coming up fast behind you. So how can you always win in life? Become your best ______.

Having an image of your most recent past limits is the perfect thing to ______ you to the next level. If you ran 7 flights of stairs yesterday, then do 8 today. Who ______ if the guy next to you did 15? It doesn't make a bit of ______. You are a more fit person today than you were yesterday. Your own ______ is all you need.

If you ______ to a slightly higher standard of yourself every day, you will always be at the top of your game.

【推荐2】My 20-year-old daughter, Allison, living in Philadelphia, sent me a text the other day："I need socks and shampoo.”She was actually asking me to______those items for her, but I ______she was playing a cell phone game. I decide not to be a helicopter(直升机)______,because experience as a mother and professor has taught me how______that can result.

__, I prefer a more hands-off approach. From the time Allison turned 18, I no longer had any____ to know her work and life schedule.

But that's not what I ___ at Drexel University where I teach. Most of my students talk to their __ three times a day or more. One student's mother called because she didn't ____ from him for a few days. He was in the library so he______"hello". She doubted that he was drinking, and insisted on asking him to______a picture of himself. Holding a newspaper with that day's ____，he took a picture and sent it to his mother in order to ___ that he wasn't telling a lie.

I've always treated my students as independent beings. I tell them on the first day that I will not follow up with them on missing____or assignments. I am getting them to become independent thinkers, and take responsibility for their ____.

But their parents don't______them like me. I know a mother. She supervises(监督)her son too much. She hopes he will walk by the______，so that she can know what he is doing. Another mother checks her son's credit card daily. However, I never do that. My daughters only come to me with____things that need my decision, and I think that's because I give them space.

Many parents try to find if their kids are______from them. But we have to learn to respect boundaries(界限)，even when technology is so ____. So I am going to do my best not to be a helicopter parent.

【推荐1】I recently overheard something that surprised me. I heard that people who win the lottery (彩票) are _______ for about 3 weeks. And then they go back to their _______ state of being before they won the money. I _______ that they would have been happy for a much longer time.

The reason for this is that _______ we try to change how we feel by using something outside of ourselves, like winning the lottery, or getting a new car or house, it never _______. The resulting feelings of happiness are often fleeting (飞逝的). We cannot _______ them for very long. In some way, it may be a good thing. It reminds us that happiness really does come from within and is _______ to us at any moment. True happiness has _______ to do with what is happening outside, it is an inside job. Happiness is a _______.

We can make the decision to be happy for one day, when we ________ in the morning, every morning. We can find something that brings us great ________, like sitting outside in the garden under an old tree and ________ the birds sing, or watching the dog or cat play, and just ________ the moment. It is our ________ state and we need only allow it in. At any moment, we can ________, take a deep breath, and remember who we really are, and why we came here, and that truly is to ________ joy and the aliveness of being.

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when run after, is always ________ our reach, but, if you will sit down ________, may fall upon you,” said Nathaniel Hawthorne, an American novelist. So, today, no matter what is going on in your own ________, stop and take a few moments to breathe deeply and just ________ to be happy, whatever that means to you.

【推荐2】I wanted to be a journalist. But my parents _________ that math makes money, so off to engineering school I went. In my post-university young-adult life, I’ve managed to become _________ successful. As a female _________ , I worked for a big oil company and owned a home. My life was _________ in front of me, and I didn’t like what I saw.

So, I did what any respectable 24-year-old would do and left my _________ behind. I said goodbye to my job and _________ my suitcase. I _________ myself solo into the world with the grace and beauty of a baby deer taking its first steps with skateboards under its feet.

I _________ my knees mountain biking through the red rocks of Utah. I partied at a spring bath party in Budapest. I spent four days _________ through Yellowstone with 50 pounds on my back. I took a __________ along the Danube river with someone from the hostel. They were just small everyday __________ that happened to happen abroad, leading me to realize that the true value of my flight tickets were not the __________ but rather becoming a(n) __________ participant in my own life.

I now spend less time online shopping and more time __________ alone on the floor listening to an album cover-to-cover. I ask my friends how they’re doing; sometimes, I __________ them with flowers to see them smile. I tell everyone to have a good day.

Maybe I’ll continue to be __________ for the next five years and touch down in dozens more countries. Maybe I’ll stay grounded in my home city, but the idea no longer __________ me. __________ with new wisdom earned in a year of travel, I know with complete __________ that there’s adventure hiding in any aspect of my life — as long as I’m __________ enough to look for it.