【推荐1】Sandy Freel has a disease of the eyes. “The doctor says I will be_______ within five years,” said Sandy. Recently, she also_______ her husband. She started a little free library _______ her husband, as they both loved to read.

One day, while walking in her neighborhood, Sandy_______an old bench (长凳) that she thought would make a nice addition to her _______. When she asked the gentleman who_______the bench if it was for sale, the man_______and told her that his wife who had passed away used to sit on it, drinking coffee and reading books.

Sandy_______ understood why he was unwilling to give it up and told him her story, saying if he ever changed his _______, she would love to buy it so that people would sit on it while reading in her library.

__________by Sandy’s story, the gentleman told her that he would __________it that Sunday so that he could also stop at her library to sit when he walked his dog. They both had__________in their eyes. “Now we both have a place to sit and__________our loved ones,” said Sandy.

After her husband’s death, Sandy had lived a__________life and she kept to herself most of the time. However, after starting her library, she had a new __________again.

“I don’t worry about whether any of the books will be __________ or not,” said Sandy, “because they are gifts to people who may feel__________and need a lift that day.” Even the local trash man__________from the library, often leaving behind candies to show his __________.

“I would__________anyone to stop by and experience the joy of books,” Sandy said.

【推荐2】I worked with children infected(感染) with HIV. The relationships I had with them have been _________in my life. They taught me so many things and I have _________that great courage can be found in the smallest of packages.

Tyler was born with HIV. From the beginning of life, he _________ medicines to survive. When he was five, he had a tube(管子) put in a vein(静脉) in his chest. This _________ was connected to a pump, which he _________ in a small backpack on his back. Medicines were put into this pump and supplied to his blood.

Tyler was _________ to give up one single moment. He often _________ and raced around his backyard, wearing his _________ All of us were surprised at his pure _________ in being alive and the energy it gave him. Tyler's mom said he __________ so fast that she needed to dress him in : red. That way, she could __________ find him.

Eventually, he grew quite ill and so did his mother. When it became __________ that he wasn’t to survive， Tyler’s mom __________ him saying that she would be with him soon in heaven. Days before his death, Tyler asked me to his bed and whispered,“When I die, please dress me in red. Mom __________ to come to heaven. I __________ she can find me.”

【推荐3】Eleven-year-old Angela suffered from a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to _________ and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much _________ of her ever recovering from this illness. They _________ she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that _________, if any, were able to come back to normal after catching this disease. But the little girl was brave and confident. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would _________ to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was then sent to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies (治疗方法) could be _________ to her case were used. Things didn’t work as the therapists expected. Still they were charmed by her _________ spirit. They taught her about _________—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 physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. And she worked just as hard lying there __________ doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was twisting with all her __________ to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a __________ thing happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She __________ out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I __________ it! I moved!”

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for __________. People were screaming, equipment was __________ and glass was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. 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.

________ her own two legs. No crutches (拐杖), no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a little disease. You never know what’s around the corner until you take a __________ step.

【推荐1】Banging the keys in frustration, I turned away from the piano. I tried to _______ back the tears that were already welling up in my eyes. After an hour of _______, I still couldn’t get the rhythm quite _______ on a Mozart piece that I had to _______ to my piano teacher the _______ day. To me, the piece had at first seemed fairly _______. But, no matter how hard I tried, I just couldn’t seem to _______ it the way that it was supposed to be performed.

I decided to take a _______, and come back to the piece later when I had _______. For the most part, after a little bit of ____________, I could usually learn the music pretty quickly. However, it was always that one song, which might have appeared simple but was indeed difficult, ____________ always got to me. This type of songs always made me ____________ myself whether I had a talent for piano.

After having dinner, I ____________ to come back to the piano. Placing my fingers tentatively on the ____________, I chose to play the piece slowly and carefully instead of trying to play the piece quickly. ____________ this new method, I exercised a great deal of patience, ____________ that I often have trouble with. Instead of focusing on how hard the rhythm was, I focused on how I could ____________ myself, little by little. Finally I could slowly see myself getting better.

So I learned an important lesson---More haste, ____________ speed. Sometimes baby steps are the best way to reach a goal. I’m an impatient person who likes to think that I can get somewhere ____________ But, in the case of piano, I couldn’t move forward and improve until I slowed down, believed in myself, and took it one step ____________ .

【推荐2】At my daughter's recent graduation, a speaker kept repeating, ''You can do anything with a degree in philosophy. '' To that, I thought you can do anything with the right _______.

I didn't have a _______ job until I was 27. When I was hired, I was basically _______. My car had broken down. I was living with two other people and sleeping on a couch. My family and friends thought I was going _______．

I didn't feel that way though. I wasn't doing well _______. Sure, friends of mine got married and bought houses. But neither of those choices _______ me. Taking the road _______ traveled is part of being an entrepreneur (创业者). I wanted to _______ my dream, which was to work with my hands and be creative. I wanted to be my own boss.

At the time, I was _______ toy animals and selling them at street fairs. It wasn't easy, but I stayed true to myself. I was ________ and hardworking. I know those were the qualities that led me to get ________ at my first job. So don't give up hope.

One Sunday, I read an article about a toy company called Worlds of Wonder. I knew I could make a better teddy bear than the one they were ________, although I had designed just a few cuddly toys for another company. The next day, I visited the company's offices in person and told them they needed me. To my surprise, they ________ to interview me. Because they could tell I was enthusiastic.

Many of us don't ________ new things because we're sure we don't have the skills. But from my experience, it's far more ________ to have the right attitude. Almost everything can be taught. Are you a ready and willing student?

【推荐3】We waiters need to face all kinds of customers every day. When something goes wrong, we should have the ability to keep on going and___________the customers.

I remember my first job was at a fine restaurant. One day, the manager informed all the cooks and___________that a VIP group were coming for___________. The group were VIPs in the city’s restaurants industry___________10 people.

After they arrived, we let them get___________comfortably and drinks were ordered._________, the head waiter would be the person in_________of wine service. However, the manager asked me to serve that noon. I had never served a group of 10,_________had I done wine service.

When it’s turn to___________one of the wine glasses in front of a young woman, somehow I lost my trip (抓) and the other__________fell on top of her, and then to the floor and____________in pieces. I felt__________and apologized many times to the woman and to the rest of the group.

Quickly, the manager____________my aid, helped in the clean-up, and sent out their____________right away. The group forgave me and the young woman repeatedly informed me it’s OK.

__________on that day, my manager told me, “Mistakes and____________do happen. If you know why they happened, learn from it and move on,____________you still have a table to serve. Keep your head up and be confident. The glasses are____________.”

I understand why he was truly a well respectable restaurant manager within our____________. His close relationship with the group made the situation calm and the group____________me for that.

【推荐2】A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of ______ porcelain(陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶), some plain-looking and ______, some delicate(精致的) and expensive—telling them to ______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you have ______, all the nice-looking and expensive cups have been ______, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is ______ for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the ______ of your problems and stress. It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. ______, all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the ______ cups. And then you began ______ each other's cups.”

Now consider his: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and ______ in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and ______ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the ______ of life we live. Sometimes, by ______ only on the cup, we fail to ______ the coffee.