【推荐1】A woman professor was giving a lesson to her students on stress management. As she raised a glass of water, everyone in the class_______they would be asked the “half-empty or half-full” question.

_______, with a smile on her face, she asked the students, “How_______ do you think this glass of water weighs?”

Answers called out _______from 100g to 300g. She quieted the students down and then replied, “It does not matter on the_______. It _______on how long you hold it. If I hold it for a minute, it is OK. If I hold it for an hour, I will have an ache in my right_______. If I hold it for a day, my arm will feel numb. In each case, the weight of the glass of water doesn’t change, but the_______I hold it, the heavier it becomes. Why?“

Lost in_______, all the students kept silent and listened to the professor carefully.

“Our________ and worries in life are like that glass of water. If we________our burdens (负担) all the time, sooner or later, we will feel exhausted.”

What you have to do is put all your burdens down, as________ in the evening as possible. Don’t carry them through the evening into the night; by doing this, we can get ________next morning and are able to move forward.”

“More often than not, life gets terrible when we think too much. And the moment you________your burdens, you’ll find yourself feeling so much more relaxed.”

“So rather than feeling________ and sorry for yourself, start doing something about it. After all, life is too short to waste on anything that is not making you happy.”

【推荐2】It was just a month after my grandmother had passed away. I spent my days running useless errands(差事), ________ to free me from the pain. As I was shopping in a store, a little girl was begging her grandmother for ice cream. It ________ me to see the scene as it reminded me of my grandmother. I had to ________ myself to ignore the little girl, paid for my things quickly and left. Feeling terribly sad, I began walking to my car. ________, I couldn't help crying beside my car. Suddenly, a lady driving right by my side ________ and rolled down her window. "Excuse me," she said. Thinking she was going to ________ my parking spot, I simply pointed to my car. Yet she ________ waved to me to come over to her car. I felt I had no choice but to see what this annoying lady wanted. I found she was searching for something in her ________ as I reluctantly(不情愿地) got closer. She finally reached to the very bottom of her bag, took out a _________ and handed it to me, ________ that it would help me. A few big letters on the front cover ________: "What Hope for Dead Loved Ones?" I was ________ for her kindness and was about to express my thanks. ________, by the time I looked up, she was gone. I felt a sense of relaxation after I read it and felt happy from the surprising ________.

I don't remember the ________ of that day, such as the time or the weather, but it doesn't matter. I know that a small deed can make a big difference to someone's life and I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

【推荐3】It was a beautiful, sunny summer day. I was on vacation in Sanya with my family.

Holidaymakers _______ the beach. Shouts and cheers filled my ears. My mother was sitting under a big _______, reading a book and drinking lemonade. My father was playing volleyball on the _______ sands. Walking along the beach, I could feel a cool summer breeze _______ my cheeks. So eager was I to explore the world in the _______ of sea that I took off my ring I got as a gift from my parents for graduation (beautiful, gold, inscribed(刻字的), full of emotional value) and _______ it in the cup holder of a foldable chair. Beach day continued, and we packed up and _______ back to the hotel. Upon arrival, I suddenly _______ what I’d done—my ring wasn’t on my finger. Panic _______.

We raced back to the beach with only 20 minutes to ________ before sunset. Get to the beach and locate the ________ area I laid out earlier. We searched it thoroughly, but without luck. My heart ________ and tears rolled down my cheeks. Learning what happened, about 25 strangers in the area got down on their hands and knees to help my ________ self search for my ring. And they helped me to the ________. Suddenly someone ________ and shouted to me “I found it”. They all ________ around me so happy and congratulatory ________ they had won the lottery. My tears of ________ turned into tears of joy and thankfulness for the amazing effort put forth by this ________faces.

Just as Marianne Williamson ________ it, we experience love as kindness, giving, forgiveness, peace, joy and acceptance. Love can show up in a million different forms.

【推荐1】George worked in a company in Washington. Once, when he bought flowers for his girlfriend, he knew the shop owner Ben.

Later, because of the crime of fraud (诈骗罪), he was going to prison for 10 years. _________ hearing this news, his girlfriend left him.

10 years were too long. George got used to a passionate life, _________ how to spend the days, long, loveless and lightless. He had no _________ in himself.

George had the first month in prison feeling _________. He almost went crazy, when someone came to see him. He had no relative in Washington, so he couldn’t _________ who would remember him. In the meeting room, he was _________: it was Ben who brought him a bunch of lowers!

Though it was _________ a bunch of flowers, this brought _________ to George’s prison life. He started reading and studying electronic science in prison.

Six years later, he was _________. He first became an employee in a computer company, and then __________ a software company of his own and __________ a career in the field. Two years later, he became a billionaire.

George went to see Ben, but learnt that Ben’s __________ had failed two years before, Ben’s family was __________ to extreme poverty, so they moved to the countryside.

George took Ben’s family back, bought him an apartment and left Ben a(n) __________ in the company. George said, “It is your bunch of flowers every year that made me __________ the love and warmth of the world, and that it gave me courage to defeat __________. No matter what I have done for you, I can’t __________ your favour for me at that time, so I want to __________ a sum of money in your name so that all the unlucky people in the world feel your great love.”

Sure enough, George then established a “Washington Ben Benevolence Foundation for Strangers”.

It is easy for everyone to love everyone with __________. A word, a smile or a bunch of flowers is enough; we won’t __________ much, but it may help others walk out of dilemma, and make our life more beautiful.

【推荐2】As Norwood drove through St. Petersburg, Florida, last February, the laughter and chatter from the four teenage girls inside her car quickly gave way to screams. When they were _________ an intersection (十字路), another car T-boned them, sending their car into a nearby yard, coming to a(n) _________ only when it crashed into a tree.

As smoke rose from the other car, a bystander shouted, “Get out! It’s about to _________ !” Norwood struggled out through the window, running for her _________ along with two of her friends, who also managed to free themselves.

_________, halfway down the street, she realized that her best friend, Simmons, wasn’t with them. Norwood _________ ran back to the car. She saw Simmons _________ in the back seat, unconscious. She threw open the back door with great effort and pulled Simmons out, _________ the broken glass as best she could. She dragged Simmons a few feet to _________ and laid her on the ground. She checked her pulse and her chest. No sign of life.

Had the accident happened a few weeks earlier, she might not have known what to do. But Norwood, who wants to pursue a career in __________, had earned her CPR certificate just the day before. She knew she had precious little time to practice what she’d learned.

She started pressing Simmons’s __________ with her interlocked fingers and breathing into her friend’s mouth in hopes of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. After the 30^th compression, Simmons began coughing and breathing for air. The CPR had __________!

Soon, __________ arrived and rushed Simmons to the hospital. And then she heard how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t __________,” Simmons told CNN. “She will always help any way she can.”

The four teens said the accident had promoted their __________.

【推荐3】Tom’s father is a lawyer. In his ________ time, he likes to go out in the country and take some ________ of animals.

For a long time, Tom had wanted to go with his father on one of his ________. But his father didn’t take Tom along with him ________ he was fifteen.

Tom and his father drove to the farm which ________ to his uncle in the afternoon. They ________ the night there, so that they could ________ out early the next morning. Uncle Smith and his son John, who was sixteen, were going to go out with them.

It was still dark when Tom heard the alarm ________ the next morning. He wondered why it was running so early. He couldn’t remember ________ he was. He turned over ________ and looked at the clock. It was 5 o'clock. Then he ________ that he was on the ________ and that he was going out to take pictures with his father. He jumped out of bed and got ________ quickly.

He ran downstairs. The others were already in the ________. Uncle Smith was cooking bacon and eggs. There was a pot of coffee on the stove. It ________ good.

They ate breakfast quickly. They didn’t talk ________, because they didn’t want to ________ up the other people in the house. They filled a thermos bottle ________ hot coffee and took some sandwiches ________ Aunt Jane, Uncle Smith’s wife, had made for them. They gathered their camera ________ and started out.