【推荐1】I felt like a good mother on that summer morning. I’d______up early, made a picnic lunch,______my three-and five-year-old daughters into the car, drove to my friend’s house, packed her and her______into the car, and drove an hour and a half to the shore where we________ our picnic cloth on the sands by 10 a.m.

Soon the girls began running. About 50 yards from us, a man, maybe______ his late 50s, was fishing. The girls stood next to him and watched with their mouths open______he cast the lines. He smiled at them. They all ran back to us except my three-year-old Drew, who,______ , just seated herself next to the white bucket where the man was______ planning to put the fish he caught.

However, suddenly a______came to my mind. Is it dangerous for Drew to stay there with the stranger? Good moms should also teach daughters that the world is dangerous. Then, I watched them like there was a hidden______in the lifeguard chair filming the man as America’s Most Wanted. Every few minutes, I looked to my five-year-old to make sure she hadn’t been______ out to sea, then back to Drew to make sure there was no______between her and the stranger.

When I looked at Drew again, she had started______with the man. She was probably telling him where we lived and how her father was away on______. He nodded. She kept talking. He nodded again, then they laughed.

A few seconds later, she ran back to us, with a toy fish in her hand. It must have been something______he used for bait( 饵). The three other girls were______, so they didn’t try to______how eager they were to have one.

Just when I was at a loss, there he was: the man, standing right next to us. He was holding three more toy fish. He handed them to each of the girls. By their______ , I realized that he was______ a warm-hearted man, meaning no harm at all.

“Thank you”, I said, realizing that yes, there is evil in this world…but there is also good, and______in strangers, and lessons for mothers to learn that only three-year-olds could teach them.

【推荐2】Do you have a dream? Is it part of your life? Everybody has dreams. I have a dream, too. When I slept, I would dream of living it; when I _________, I would work for living it.

One day, somebody told me, “To _________ is better than to arrive. ”Hearing this, I just laughed it off, not quite understanding how that was even _________. And I didn’t realize how true it was _________ I had what I wanted. Then I suddenly realized that the person living the dream was different from the one who had _________ for it. Since then, I have made a great effort to work for the realization of my dream. _________, I achieved what I had wanted. I have now become a wiser, calmer, stronger and more passionate person.

The journey has _________ me a lot. I made mistakes and learned from them. I _________ and learned to get up again. I cried and I learned to wipe away my tears. I made friends and learned to value people. I made enemies and learned to value _________. The journey has transformed a caterpillar (毛虫) into a beautiful butterfly, eagerly waiting to __________ the world with her newly- found wings.

We all know that our __________ isn’t as perfect as it is in the fairy tales. It __________ great ambition and courage to fulfill our dreams. But we should remember that even if something gets in our way, nothing will __________ us.

So friends, always remember: “Experience is the best __________ and there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the __________ matters.” So let’s drink to a new journey.

Cheers!

【推荐1】Many years ago, I was working at my job at a community college when a homeless woman came in. She began_______as she lay on one of the sofas in the student rest room._______she wasn’t well. Without thinking too much, I went next door to the Student Affairs office where I knew I could find_______in the Lost and Found box. I_______up a set of clothing and went back to my office, when I _______ a colleague calling me. She told me that I should not_______this person, as it would only lead to her wanting more help. I refused her_______and went back to help the woman, _______my co-worker’s warning.

Two weeks later, while I was working, a very cute elderly man entered my_______and asked to speak with me in private. Curiously, I gave him my full________and he told me that he had happened to hear my________with the co-worker about helping the________woman. He wanted me to know that it was always okay to help people and that was why he wanted to give me a________for $1,000. I burst into tears, because I________needed the money at the time, but also because I had never been________in such a way for helping someone!

We soon became good________and 10 years later he called me up suddenly and told me he wanted to help me________my first home! He________giving me $120,000 as part payment for my dream house in my home town. I asked him why he wanted to give me such a large amount of money and he said it was because I was a “giver” and that I________it! To make a long story short, I was able to buy the perfect little home for myself, all because one day I did not________to help a homeless woman.

【推荐2】When Jasmine Benton was just 9 years old, she realized that her love for creating art was more than just a _______ . Each night in her diary she wrote about the _______ she dreamed of starting, bringing it to her mother Jennifer Gormer one Sunday morning to _______ the important news.

“I want to start my own company.” Jasmine told Jennifer. When Jennifer looked at Jasmine’s _______ she was astonished to see the outline of a real, practical business _______ . “She had the name of her business, the _______ she was going to sell, and who her customers were,” said Jennifer. “She had the vision (远见). It was all there.”

Jasmine comes from a long line of _______. Her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother all started their own businesses. And with her family’s _______ , Jasmine started Precious Designs, a company that changes trash into treasure. She spent her adolescence and teen years creating artwork and _______ it at trade shows and art shows. Unfortunately, her friends were not very ________ , and she went through a ________ period when her work wasn’t selling. ________, she just kept trying and never ________ . Jennifer comforted and encouraged Jasmine and told her that sticking to her vision was ________ and asked her to ________ the naysayers (否定者).

Now Jasmine is 18 years old and her company is truly ________. After working part-time at the “Steve Harvev Show ”, Jasmine was tasked with redesigning Steve’s nursery. She recently ________ the Youth Entrepreneurship Shark Tank Challenge and won. Besides, she has also ________ her first bit of investor seed money.

Jasmine continues to excel in her career thanks to her innate business sense and ________ to succeed. We could all take a(an) ________ from this young lady’s vision and hard work! She has proved that if you can dream it, you can do it.