【推荐1】One can see life differently by putting himself in other's shoes.

For the first time and the last, Paul Kalanithi stood in the position of both doctor and patient to________himself. What would he do to fill his life with________? After he was diagnosed with lung cancer, he________a book When Breath Becomes Air. He said, "The doctor's________is not to delay death or return patients to their old lives, but to work________they can stand up and face their own lives."

After Kalanithi is diagnosed, he________a lot. He sees his patients' differently. He remembers the time when he was still a(n)________student. During classes, he and his classmates would make________about patients. Now, he is sick and feels________both physically and mentally. Since he is now ill himself, he treats his________with a gentle heart.

Family also becomes more________. During the daytime, Kalanithi fills his schedule with________once he is strong enough in the hospital to make sure his wife and unborn daughter will be well________for in the future.________are spent with his wife Lucy, and writing his book. The________is exciting from the start, but it becomes even more so as Kalanithi tries to change himself in different ways.

Kalanithi________away in 2015, about three years after his diagnosis. He said in his book, when the time for our life comes to end, don't________the pleasure we've experienced.________, provide a list of what you have done and what these things________to the world. Only in his way can we be sure that our life truly meant________.

【推荐2】Cruz Genet，11，and Anthony Skopick，10，couldn't agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese(鹅)?There was only one way to_________. So on a cold January evening，the two friends went onto the frozen pond(结冰的池塘)near their homes in Frankfort，to get a better _________.First，they threw a rock onto the ice to_________ it. Then they stepped on it.Believing the ice would hold their weight，Anthony took a few _________ ,then… FOOMP.He crashed through the seemingly frozen surface.

Cruz rushed to help his_________.FOOMP —the pond swallowed him too.Cruz_________ to lift himself out of the cold water and onto thicker ice.He then carefully worked his way toward Anthony.But the ice didn't hold，and he_________ again. This time，he couldn't_________.

The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing_________ in their bodies. There wasn't any__________ of their freeing themselves. Cruz was__________ he was going to die.

Anthony' s older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and started shouting for__________.

John Lavin，a neighbor driving nearby on his way to the store，__________ her. He quickly__________ his car. Seeing the boys，he kicked off his shoes and__________ into the water，cutting his way through the ice with his fist.Lavin made his way to the boys and hauled(拖)them back to land.They were__________ to the hospital，where doctors discovered their five-minute__________ in the water had lowered their body temperature nearly ten degrees.

__________, the boys have become completely well again.They are still impressed by their__________ neighbor.“Just think，”says Cruz，“if he wasn't there，I could have__________.”

【推荐3】One day, when I was a first year in high school, I saw a kid from my class walking home from school, _______ nearly all his books. He was Kyle. “How strange it is!” I thought.

Suddenly, a bunch of kids ran toward him, _______ his books out of his arms and tripping him so he _______ in the dirt. Sadness filled his eyes. I _______over and helped him pick up his books. We talked all the way home, and I carried some of his books. He turned out to be pretty cool. We _______ all the weekend and became best friends over the next four years.

Then came the _______ day when Kyle as a representative would _______ a speech. He _______ his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to thank those who helped you make it through _______ years. I am to tell you a story.”

I just looked with ________ as he told the story of our first meeting. He had________ to kill himself over the weekend. He had cleaned out his locker so as not to________ his Mom later.

“________, I was saved by my friend from doing the unspeakable.”

I heard the gasp (喘息) among the crowd. I saw his parents smiling the same________ smile at me. Not until that moment did I realize its depth.

Never ________ the power of your actions. With one small gesture you can change a person’s life.

【推荐2】If you have strong arms and feet, you might make a good waiter. You must ______ , however, not in the restaurant, but in the ______, helping the head cook, to learn exactly ______each dish is prepared. Then you will be able to tell the customers what the ingredients (成份) are and how the food is______. From the first step, you may enter the restaurant as a(n) ______. But you won’t be allowed to serve the customers yet. They will ______let you do the simplest jobs,______the tables and carrying the plates. But all the time you must watch and learn. Later, you will be taught how to ______food, and if you are good at it, you may become a waiter in charge of a number of ______. You may even become a head waiter ______you are afraid of hard work.

When Carlo Bianchi first arrived in London, he ______only two words of English—“Please” and “Hello”. He______to get a job helping in the kitchen of an Indian restaurant, and he did ______he could to learn English. He was a good worker and soon he got a job in the restaurant as a waiter. Every night, Carlo used to go home tired, but ______too tired to study the language for half an hour before going to sleep. He always managed to ______a third of his wages, ______he put in the bank regularly every Friday. And no matter how tired or ill he felt, he always has a warm ______for his customers. They liked him, ______people used to come to the restaurant and ask to be served by Carlo. Now twenty⁃five years later, Carlo is the manager of six restaurants, and he hopes to open a seventh ______. But he still believes in the personal ______, and every night he goes to one or another of his restaurants to welcome the customers with a friendly greeting.

My son, Sam, struggled through elementary school. But his sixth-grade teacher took the time to __1__ Sam’s strengths and inspired him to be a better student.

On Valentine’s Day, my eleven-year-old son Sam __2__ me to allow him to buy his teacher a big red heart filled with delectable(美味的) chocolates. We __3__, and he bought her a small but respectably sized heart. On his small __4__, $4.99 was a huge investment, and I was touched by his__5__.

Sam has not always loved teachers. Once he publicly admitted that he __6__ school, and he was __7__ with some class projects.

Last year, Sam’s most __8__ achievement was having the longest “missing assignment” list in the entire fifth grade. He __9__ all year to keep his head above the academic sea. Many nights Sam sank into tears of __10__ while working his way through another pile of homework.

I must admit I was __11__ when I first met Mrs. Hogan. She was a __12__ teacher. She seemed so young and sweet and inexperienced. How was this new teacher going to __13__ a boy who had learned to hate school?

As I observed this teacher’s __14__ with my son at the end of each day, I realized that Sam’s inattentiveness and disorganization were not the __15__ things that Mrs. Hogan noticed about him. She recognized Sam as a knowledgeable, capable student who loved to read. He, in return, rose to her expectations __16__.

Sam began to do his homework without numerous __17__ or a major search through his crowded backpack. He brought home less and less classwork. He __18__ six A’s on his second-quarter report card.

I still don’t know how much of this __19__is due to the magic of Mrs. Hogan. I do know that my son loves his sixth–grade teacher, and I think there is a magic in relationships that can __20__ children when nothing else will.