【推荐2】Almost everything was fantastic in the camp except for a girl, Elizabeth. When I saw her sitting alone in the hot sun at lunch, I asked her to eat with us under a_________tree. However, Elizabeth refused my kind _______. When we invited her to play volleyball with us, Elizabeth_______ our invitation, too. After a few more _______ refusals like that, I _______ to stay away from Elizabeth.

It _______ that we were going on a hike and our instructor paired everyone up with a partner. _______who my partner turned out to be. It was Elizabeth!

“What do you like to do for fun?”I asked, trying to make small _______ as we started out. “ I like to _______ in peace and quiet,” Elizabeth ________. So we had the quietest and most peaceful hike in the world ________ we saw a bird. “I think his wing is hurt. Poor little bird, ”Elizabeth said ________ “He might be taking a rest over there.” I said. Elizabeth nodded. Then she whispered, “But what if he’s in ________, like my granddad?” “Your granddad?” I said. “He ________ and broke his leg the day the camp started. He’s ________ in hospital and is in so much pain,”Elizabeth explained. I noticed she was crying “I’m sorry for what I have done. For some reason, whenever I get really sad, act rudely and want to be ________ ,”she added.

“I get it, ” I said. “I don’t always know how to ________ it when I’m feeling down, either.” “Thanks,” she said, wiping off her ________.

After that, Elizabeth seemed to get along well with us, and I think she actually ________the last few days of the camp.

Next time, if someone is unfriendly, give him a second ________. Maybe he’s going through a tough time and just doesn’t know how to deal with it.

【推荐3】Ann worked for a big company. One of the duties of her job was to go to the post office every day and pick up the company mail. One day in December, she noticed a beggar making himself up as a Santa Claus _______on the corner of the street. Each day she saved her coins and _______ them in his bowl. He would smile and _______ her a Merry Christmas.

At night the temperature dropped below 0℃, but the Santa Claus still stood in the cold wind. After she dropped her coins into his bowl. she handed him a pair of gloves.

A week later, a(n)_______Santa Claus was standing there. “What happened to the other Santa Claus?” she asked. He told her, “He’s very sick today.” She prayed for his health.

Later that day, a colleague came into her office in_______. “I don’t know what I’m going to do.” “What’s wrong?” she asked. “It’s my ex-husband,” her _______ continued. “I don’t have any money to buy my boys anything for _______, but my ex-husband refuses to send money to them. It_______ my heart that they won’t have anything this year.” The lady comforted her colleague. “I’m sure everything will _______. It’s Christmas. Believe in________.”

That evening, she told her husband about her colleague’s________. “I know we don’t have much money to help, but I’d like to give her fifty or a hundred dollars. We’ll just get ourselves________ this year. Last year we couldn’t afford to buy anything for ourselves but we________ had a wonderful Christmas.” Her husband smiled. “Give her one hundred dollars. She needs it more than we do.”

She reached up and held him.________ spread through her body. He held her and ________ that there really was a Santa Claus — and he had married her!

【推荐3】There was a park near my home. But I didn’t go there very often, many people said there was nothing ______ . One afternoon, I went into the ______ and found it was really small. I walked ______ because there wasn’t much to see. I walked for some time and found myself ______ in front of two paths. “Which way should I go?” asked myself, looked at one way, then the ______. I found that the two paths were different from each other.

The left one was wide and clean. There were lots of ______ on both sides of the path. Though the flowers weren’t beautiful, they made me feel good. I ______ to take this path. But wait! I looked at the right one, the path didn’t look nice, it looked like it had not been cleaned for months.

Grass grew ______. For a long time, I couldn’t make up my mind.

After a while a strange feeling made me follow the ______ path. It wasn’t nice, but I didn’t want to ______. At last, I came to the end of the path. Ah! There was a small garden there. It was beautiful, perhaps the most beautiful garden I had ever seen. There were trees, flowers and chairs. I thought it was the ______ part of the park.

Many people told me that there was nothing much to see in the park. Now I’d like to tell them that if they had ______ the right way, they would have felt differently. But when I told them about what I had seen in the park, they just smiled at me without saying a word. I knew they didn’t believe me. They couldn’t even remember that path ______ it was too small.

My trip to the park that day made me understand something about ______. Don’t be afraid to choose a ______ path. You may get a big surprise!

【推荐1】A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the _______ was that he found himself unable to ask for help—his mobile phone went out of _______ as a result of exhausted (用尽的) battery. Nothing could be done but _______ in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the _______ of the rescue.

It was almost _______ that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his _______ ,“First of all I checked up my _______ conditions and found myself not in deadly danger. As there was no _______ to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from _______. In this way I dozed (打盹) off.”

His story put an end to my regret for the ________ of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men ________ to explore a mountain cave and got lost.________ to find a way out in the dark cave, they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of ________. Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the ________people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the ________of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to__________themselves, they would probably sense a faint light flashing not far away.

Don’t you think that you can compare it with ________ itself? When you meet with difficulties in life, you are lost in darkness.________ you that it’s unclear yet and you needn’t put up struggle ________. It seems to be a negative (消极的) attitude,________ a person who can do so must have foresight as well as a great courage in the first place.

【推荐2】The fall leaves are really starting to change now. It looks like the trees and mountains have become a canvas painted by a loving artist. The bright, beautiful reds are_________in the sunlight and the yellows look like gold. 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 turn it into a colorful_________. I am enjoying this so much because I am completely aware when winter arrives all of the trees will be_________with the leaves down. It is always a little sad to see but I know it is the circle of life. Those dead leaves will become the soil that feeds the trees and_________new life next spring.

Today I noticed a lovely little girl from our community 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 carefully 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 put 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 creates a circle of love as well as a circle of life. And I am positive 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. Live every day of your life to the__________with love. And your soul will shine bright like the most beautiful tree in autumn.

【推荐3】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 ________.