【推荐1】Three months had passed since I lost my husband Willianm. I was extremely sad. My six-month-old daughter, Sienna, had lost her father before she’d even got to ______ him. I had no idea how I was going to raise her ______. I spent six months hanging out with great ______ before I knew I had to ______. I just had to work out how to start _______ my life.

Then my mind wandered back to a few years earlier, when I’d ______ boxing at my local gym. I’d really ______ the exercise and it had given me something to focus on. So I picked up ______ and called my old boxing coach, Ken. “I want to get back to the boxing ring(拳击赛场),” I told him.

I was ______ when I turned up for my first training. But my fears soon died down once I started hitting the pads (软垫). “You’ve still got it,” Ken said ______.

As I built my strength over the following months, I felt the weight of the world slowly lifting off my ______. I found myself enjoying my time with Sienna more and I really looked forward to seeing my friends at the gym. I’d been ______ for five months when Ken scheduled my first boxing match.

Jumping around the ring, I felt as though William and Sienna were ______   me on. I was really excited when I was announced as the ______. That encouraged me to study to become a fitness trainer myself.

When I ______ a job at a Maori health and well-being organization, I wanted to introduce boxing ______ so I could help others lift their spirits.

____, my classes have been a huge success and I now hold nine classes every week. More than three years have passed since we lost William and I ______ miss him every day. I often talk to Sienna about him. She’ll always know who her father was and how much he ______ her.

I have no doubt that boxing saved my life and made me a better mother. If teaching other people boxing can help them on their journey from darkness to light, it’s well worth the ______.

【推荐2】A heart-warming story tells of a woman who finally decided to ask her boss for a raise in salary. All day she felt ______. Late in the afternoon she gathered the ______to approach her employer. To her ______, the boss agreed to a raise.

The woman arrived home that ______ and saw a beautiful table set with their best dishes. Candles were softly glowing. Her husband had come home early and prepared a festive ______. She wondered if someone from the _______ had told it to him, or... did he just somehow know that she would not get ______?

She found him in the kitchen and told him the good ______. They hugged and kissed, then sat down to the wonderful meal. Next to her plate the woman ______ a beautifully lettered note. It read, “Congratulations, darling! I knew you’d get the ______! These things will tell you how much I love you.”

Following the supper, her husband went into the kitchen to ______ up. She noticed that a second card had ______ from his pocket. Picking it off the floor, she read, “Don’t ______ not getting the raise! You deserve it ______! These things will tell you how much I love you.”

Someone has said that the ______of love is when you love without measure. What this man feels for his wife is total ________ and love, whether she succeeds or ______. His love celebrates her victories and calms her ______. He stands with her, no matter what ______ throws in their direction.

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Mother Teresa said, “What can you do to _______world peace? Go home and love your family.” And love your friends. Love them without measure.

【推荐3】It was December 22. The bitter wind swept the countless snowflakes across my front yard. My dad was there sweeping the ______. His nose was red as a cherry. With every breath he took, a white puff ______ into the air.

Inside, my mother was ______ the last of the boxes. As I entered the front door, the ______ that after today I wouldn’t enter through that door ______ again burned a hole in my stomach. I picked up my dog and sat Indian style with him in my lap on the ______, wooden floor. I had no ______ but to sit on the floor, for there was no longer any furniture occupying my house. I sat there in a daze (恍惚), just ______. There was no reason for my parents to make me, a once ______12-year-old kid, ______. I had two best friends right across the street; I did well in school and I always kept my room clean. ______, this was “my house”. By no means did I want a couple of ______ living here. These recurring (重复) thoughts danced around in my mind and I couldn’t find a(n) ______.

Out of the front window I could see the orange top of a truck pulling in the cleaned driveway and I knew it was the other U-Haul. Instantly three men came ______ through the back door like World War III was starting.

I watched ______ as the men, my mother and my dad loaded the truck. My dog even winced（畏缩）as he stared out of the window. I wondered if he was ______, too, or if he just wished to play outside in the snow.

My mum came in, looking solemn（凝重）for my sake, I imagined. She turned ______ the overhead light, put the ______ in my arm and followed me out of the back door. A totally ______ feeling filled my inside. For the first time in my life, I wondered what ______would be to me tomorrow.

【推荐1】Brenda Bongos was a girl with one big ambition to play the drums in a band. But a(n)________lay in her way. To be good enough to play in a______, Brenda had to practice a lot, but she lived next-door to lots of_______people in a care home. The sound of beating drums would really annoy them.

Brenda was________. She always tried to find a way of practicing her drums without ________other people. But without success. However,________to practice as much as she could. Brenda________all kinds of ways.

One day, while watching a science documentary, she heard that________cannot travel in space without air. At that moment, Brenda bongos decided to become a________astronaut.

So Brenda built a space________connected with a machine, which drew out all air.Inside was a________of drums. Once inside, Brenda________the machine and played like mad!

It wasn't long before she had become________. Many people came to see her play in her space bubble.________ -afterwards she started giving________out of the bubble.________ Brenda became a real musical astronaut as the government asked her to be part of a space journey, and had gone far beyond her first________of playing drums in a band.

When asked how she had________all this, she said, "If those old people next-door hadn't________so much to me, I wouldn’t have gone to such ________to find a solution, and none of this would have ever happened.

【推荐2】Eleven-year-old Angela was stricken with a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to walk and her movement was _______ in other ways as well. The doctors did not _______ much hope of her ever recovering from this illness. They _______ she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that few, if any, were able to come back to _______ after getting this disease. The little girl was strong-minded. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would swear to anyone who’d _______ that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

Later, she was moved to a specialized hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies(治疗) that could be _______ to her case were used. The therapists were impressed by her undefeatable _______. They taught her about imaging — about seeing herself walking. If it would do nothing else, it would _______ give her hope and something _______ to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in ________ therapy and in exercise sessions. Meanwhile, she worked just as hard ________ there faithfully doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was trying her best to ________ her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle happened: the ________ moved! It began to move around the room! She ________ out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I can do it! I moved, I moved!”

Of course, at this ________ moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming too and running for ________. People were screaming, equipment was falling and glass was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco ________. But don’t tell that to Angela. She’s ________ that she did it. And now, only a few years later, she’s back in school. On her ________ legs. No wheelchair. You see, anyone who can ________ the earth can conquer a little disease, can’t they?

【推荐3】Getting out of my car one evening, I met my neighbor Theresa. “Mrs. Taylor is in _______again,” she said. I had last ______ Mrs. Taylor before Christmas when I took her a loaf of bread. Taylor and I had been neighbors for 17years. And she had a dog which greeted everyone, making people ______. We all loved him.

Most of my ______ with Mrs. Taylor were by accident— casual visits by the mailbox; quiet talks at the funeral home where we went to ______ a common friend.

After I moved here with our four ______ kids, the quiet neighborhood was gone. We had little in common with the mostly elderly people, ______ they welcomed us warmly. Over the years they ______ us quite a lot. They ______ our kids when our car was out of order, and fed the cat when we were away. We have enjoyed the comfort of living with these friendly people.

Robert Frost had a neighbor who ______ that “good fences make good neighbors”. However, Frost thought ______ . He believed there' s something “that doesn’t love a wall”. I ______ with him. I believe “something” he talked about lives inside of me, too.

I want to ______ the walls of loneliness that go up when I slip ______ into my garage for fear of disturbing some people. And I ______ to take the fastest route to my back porch(门廊). It's quicker than meandering (蜿蜒) through the yard. ______, it leaves little room for ______. But as a child, I would sit on the porch with my mother and wave to neighbors out for an evening walk or drive.

Mrs. Taylor didn't ______ her latest cancer. So again I walked into the funeral home to say good-bye to a neighbor. I remembered the barking dog and the chats by the mailbox. I was in _____ for the loss of her. Now there is a new family moving into Mrs. Taylor’s place. I see children’s toys in the yard. It’s time to take a(n) _____   around. I want to find the past experience.