【推荐1】Any form of speech can be challenging, particularly if you are not used to talking in front of an audience. I am very _______ that I have been doing presentations and _______training programs for many years, _______ I have got used to the nervousness that always appears inside before I speak. The nervousness is always a(n) _______ thing for me as it allows me to channel my energy into what I want to say.

Just recently I had the pleasure of _______ at a conference about the key success factors (因素) in business and as usual in the days before my presentation I spent a lot of time _______ what I wanted to cover, as well as _______ the content.

I have always _______the level of success of my presentations by the applause (掌声) and _______that I receive from the audience. After the applause ended I had the __________ to personally speak to nearly all of the delegates (代表). The last delegate I spoke with __________ me by taking my hand, shaking it and saying how much she __________ my presentation, and that she had got a lot of __________ tips to use in her business. Usually I feel __________ after any presentation, and I know it is directly related to how much energy I put into what I do. __________, this time her praise gave me a great lift and recharged my batteries.

This __________at the end of my presentation also made me realize that what we __________ in life can come back to us and __________, we all need to value the praise when and where it is deserved. As I drove away from the __________ I reflected on how fortunate I had been to receive all those words of praise and __________that morning.

【推荐2】During my childhood, my father’s favorite sayings was “Try it!” I couldn’t say I didn’t like _______, whatever it might be, _______ I tried it. Over the years I’ve come to realize how much of my success I _______ to my acceptance of those words as one of my _______. My first job was just one I decided to try for a couple of years until I _______ what I want to do as a career. _______ I believed I would work for a few years, get married, stay home and _______ a family, so I didn’t think the job I took _______ that much. I couldn’t have been more _______. I mastered the skills of that beginning level position and I was given the opportunity to ________ through the company into different ________. I accepted each new opportunity with the ________, “Well, I’ll try it; if I don’t like it I can always go back to my ________ position.” But I was with the same company for the past 28 years, and I’ve ________ every career change I’ve made. I’ve discovered I ________ a large number of different talents and skills that I never would have thought were within me had it not been for my being ________ trying new opportunities. I’ve also discovered that if I ________ what I’m doing and work hard at achieving my ________, I will succeed. That’s why I’m so ________ to be a part of CareerFables.com. I think ________ has come and I am determined to make it a success.

There’s a wide grassy land in front of their parking lot, where ___often put up signs announcing their yard sales or events, but the ___in front of me was worthy of a double-take. A man in a suit was____a sign into the ground and a homeless man was ___the sign while he hammered.

I was ___by how the two men looked so_____ .One with a soldier suit, snowy white shirt, but the other with_____clothing and uncombed hair waving ____ in the wind. And then the _____humanity of the moment hit me. So many times we____ homeless people and all we see is just homeless people. But on this day, I saw the kindness of a man who walked over to help someone. The moment really______me, and it was a fresh reminder to look______the outward appearance and see the person instead.

A friend and I had the______a few years ago to write a study guide to a book. It’s an amazing book. That was evident from the first page when I read the dedication (题词）and it____,“To Titus, who taught me to cheer for humanity.”

Wow, ____more of us did that? Can you imagine the _____it would make in our world? In one of the chapters, Sammy tells about sitting in large crowds at places, like shops and airports, and _____for humanity. It does_____ things. Just imagine a disobedient(不服从的）teen with the crazy clothes becomes a young man who’s crying out for someone to _____and a homeless person becomes a real person, someone who needs _____and a helping hand.

【推荐1】Dad was always full of advice. One of the biggest lessons he taught me one summer was about having a strong _____ ethic(道德规范). When my brother and I were growing up, we mowed (割草) yards during the summer to _____ pocket money.

Every time we went to work, Dad was there to watch. I used to wonder _____ he came with us. He stood watching us work in the _____ weather when he could have been inside relaxing with air conditioning.

One day we were _____ our neighbor's yard. She always waited until the grass was knee－high to call us over. That afternoon, I was finishing up and was _____. I was just about to _____ the mower when I saw Dad pointing to some grass. I thought about how little I was getting paid for cutting grass so _____ that it almost broke the mower. I _____ him and kept walking. Dad called me out, “You missed a piece. ”

I frowned, hoping he would go home. He kept ______. So worn out and discouraged, I went back to cut that piece of grass. I said to myself, “That one piece isn't ______ anyone. Why won't he just let it go?”

Other neighbors ______ the good work we did and we soon got more ______. We started out with one client, but by the end of the summer we had five.

The lesson my dad taught me stayed with me: Be professional. If you say you are going to perform a job at a certain time, keep your ______. Give your customers the kind of service you would like to ______. It shows how sincere you are and how much pride you take in your work.

【推荐2】I read mostly fiction before I was introduced to Malcolm Gladwell’s works.

In his TED talk called “Choice, Happiness, and Spaghetti Sauce”, the economist and journalist used the _______ of Pepsi and spaghetti sauce to argue that giving people choices makes them happy. If I had only heard his conclusion statement and _______ the artfully-manipulated statistical evidence that he _______, I would have been itching (渴望) to know how he could argue such an interesting point. But he _______ his argument like a detective story, with each puzzle piece _______ to the conclusion.

Greatly _______, I borrowed his book Outliers: The Story of Success from the library. Each _______ had its own story and argument, and all of the arguments were, according to Gladwell, about _______ that led to an individual’s success in the world.

The _______ of his research was amazing. In the first chapter, he ________ the reasons behind the crash of Korean Air Flight 801 in 1997, which ________ more than 220 lives. The disaster took place partly because the co-pilot didn’t ________ the mistakes that the pilot was making. In Korea, it’s ________ to contradict (反驳) higher-ups even if they are doing something wrong.

Gladwell explained why a(n) ________ number of Canadian hockey players are born in the first part of the year. The ________ date for youth hockey leagues is December 31, and since hockey players born in the beginning of the year seem older, larger and more ________ than younger players, they are likely to be given more attention in training and become ________ hockey players as adults, he wrote. Perhaps most interesting of all is that Gladwell explained why Asians are so good at ________. He said Asians get a head start when we learn how to count because our language has fewer syllables and makes numbers easier to remember.

Gladwell is mostly interested in answering my favorite question, “Why?” And that’s exactly why I love his work. After reading Outliers: The Story of Success and other books like it, I find myself ________ the commonly accepted beliefs much more often. After all, why should we take anything ________?

Thank God I came across Gladwell!

【推荐1】With a combined total of 211 years between them, Charlotte and John Henderson, from Austin, Texas, are celebrating their 80th wedding anniversary. The two are _______ the oldest living couple on earth, according to Guinness World Records. John Henderson is 106 _______ Charlotte Henderson is 105.

The pair met in 1934 as _______ at the University of Texas, where Charlotte was studying to be a teacher and John played football. John was very _______ of football. Since 2010, he has had the _______ of being the oldest living former UT football player, and he _______ a game every year. The Hendersons, who have no children, have _______ at a retirement community in Austin, for the past decade. It is _______ that the retirement home helped to _______ an anniversary party for the couple. “In our ages, we’ve slowed down somewhat,” John Henderson ______________. “We used to go on cruises, but now we have to take it ______________. We like watching sports and talking about what we’re going to do.”

Henderson’s nephew Jason Free said the two were his ______________ role models. They love and really care for each other. “They don’t always ______________ the past,” Free said. “You won’t hear them say, ‘Oh, if only it were 1952 again, ______________ would be great.’ Instead, they are making plans for their ______________ together.”

Free noted that when his uncle is at a UT game or out ______________ friends, Charlotte usually will call to ______________ him. “She likes to know when John is going to be coming back to eat with her,” Free said.

As for the ______________ to their longevity, John Henderson puts it down to exercise and having a positive ______________. Then with a ______________ he added, “But some people think it’s because we’ve never had kids!”

【推荐2】“This year,” my dad said, “we’re going camping!” His excitement was met with a disappointing sigh. _______, he wasn’t upset.

The views during the trip were amazing, but none of those mattered to me. My mind was on my phone. I remembered the first time I looked up was for something _______—my phone had no _______. My dad said that it would be _______ until we returned home. I would be _______ in the forest for four days with no way to contact the outside world. I went to bed angry that night. But something _______ when I awoke in the morning. _______ immediately burying my head in my phone, I _______ something else: my surroundings. As my dad and I walked the trails, I felt the weight of a thousand stressors disappear from my shoulders. I realized being _______ to nature made me focus more on myself.

That was fifteen years ago, and I carry that ________ to this day. When I received my first work e-mail, I ________ the reason why my dad ________ a campsite with no access to technology. In a world that asks for more connectivity, the need to ________ your cellphone becomes stronger. Having my own time is nearly ________ when I can be ________ at any time of day or night. So, I need to work harder at it.