【推荐1】That morning, I got the train as always. I was a publishing director and was looking forward to embracing a new day of work, as usual. I would always turn to the crossword, but that day it didn’t make sense. I’d been doing it for 30 years, but trying to read this one was like walking through syrup (糖浆): _________ slow and hard. I thought I must be tired.

I said to my assistant. The _________ colleague contacted my wife, Beth, and she drove me straight to hospital. There, confirmation came that I’d had a stroke in the part of my brain that _________ with communication. I was now in a condition that means it’s difficult or _________ to receive and produce language. It was the only time I cried.

I was back at home a week later, and my goal was to get better and returned to work in a couple of months. The way to _________ my language ability was rough. I’d look at simple pictures and try to describe them as my mind _________ round and round in the darkness, looking for words.

As the months passed, it became self-evident that I wasn’t going to be able to go back to my old job. For 25 years, I had _________ myself as a publisher. I was used to a busy day of meetings. I didn’t feel ready to say goodbye to my old self. There were times when I felt incredibly _________.

In the darkest months, I devoted myself to _________. I couldn’t manage novels or newspapers, __________ I tried reading poetry, and found the shorter lines less overwhelming. My speech came back, and I learned how to read again, though much more slowly. I also learned the __________ to keep up. I allowed myself to slow down, and started to enjoy it.

__________, I got rid of my old skin. I grieved the past, its passing and its absence, and started to __________ it. Now, 10 years later, I look after my grandson a day a week, and my relationship with my family is deeper than ever. If you’d asked me 15 years ago to __________ the importance of the things in my life I might have said work, but now I’m no longer a high-achieving publisher or someone who reads 10 books a week. I’m a __________ man, and if I read 10 books a year, that’s pretty good.

【推荐3】One day there was a lady and a boy in a plane. It was a very sunny day when the plane ________from the airport. When the plane was in the middle of its journey, thunder, lightning and heavy winds began. Great________ were felt inside the plane. Passengers were afraid and________ . The lady then quickly grabbed her seat. However, the boy was calm and still playing his ________. The lady was surprised why the boy was just________ and wasn’t afraid of what would happen next. The boy suddenly________up and went to the rest room and went back to his games happily jumping and smiling. She asked the boy, “Hey! Aren’t you afraid of what will happen next?” The boy just________ her, “No, I am not.”

The lady was________ . Then the lady asked him, “We are in________. Why aren’t you afraid?” The boy then answered the lady calmly with a________ on his face, “I should not be afraid and will not be afraid, because the one who is flying the plane is my father.”

Sometimes in life we are afraid of what will________ to us and we tend to forget that someone is in control of all the________ that we experience. Sometimes, we don’t believe in the one who can________ all that is happening. We need to be like the boy in the story. We should stop________ because everything is under control. We should not lose faith in the person who can make things________ for us.

【推荐1】In a restaurant, I met a young man. He was always complaining (抱怨) ever since he sat down, complaining his company for little pay, his unjust manager and the ________ workmates. Finally, I caught the moment he stopped and asked him________, “Since you are so unhappy________your work, why not________?” He looked at me as if I had come from the moon. “Quit the job? Where should I go? You know the situation is improving.” I got it. Actually, his job was not so________.

It________me of Arthur Ashe, a well-known tennis player in America. He happened to catch AIDS when he got a blood transfusion. A lot of his fans showed their________and blamed the God. Arthur Ashe announced: “I get a deadly cancer, but I would not________the God and myself because I know there is something we can not________. I have no choice but to________it when the day comes.”

In his words, there is a________, kindness, as well as the behaviors of a grown-up man. Unfortunately, we complain everything when we have to face the________and troubles in reality.

We always think that the God is unfair. But it is worth complaining if our dissatisfaction goes away, sadness________, and feelings become motivational after complaints. However, the problem is like a mass of cool fog. The complaint is so________that it confuses our minds and then drops us deeper and deeper in the mud.

Life is like a________, from ignorant(无知) to mature (成熟). And I believe that true maturity starts from no complaint.

As a youngster on a farm, I used to dream of what seemed impossible.

Few farmers' daughters continued their____after junior middle school at that time. My dear mother insisted I should； my father______agreed. We lived twelve miles from the nearest high school. There was no bus   ______. I had to stay with a family in that village during the first two years, helping with ______ after school. Transport was______ in the last two years but there was a two - mile _____ each way to the bus stop. Cold weather ______ this walk so I had to stay with a family near the bus stop. I tried _________to be and do the best I could. I ranked well above_______ grades, receiving one of the seven medals for _____ at graduation.

There was no _______ help available to attend college. So I decided to____employment as a typist. I typed and____more than sixty letters with my resume to business places in Buffalo, NY. Only one_____ was favorable. Following an interview, I was ___________ . Six months later, I was again successful in obtaining office employment in Washington, D. C. While _______ there, I took an evening course at a university. One year later I became the first woman weather observer in New York. I then______ my evening studies, receiving master's degrees. My next   _______was to become a CPA （注册会计师）.

I believe that dreams can come true._________ did! Of course, there were many difficulties along the way, but hard work and determination   _________.

【推荐3】Last March, 8-year-old Tony won the New York State chess championship for his age group is achievement is remarkable. What_________more is that he began learning the game less than a year ago. Tony has had a_________life. In 2018 his family moved to New York City due to terrorist attacks in search for a_________place. He started his chess journey in a homeless shelter.

Addicted to the game, Tony begged his mother to_________him to join the school's chess club. Tony_________himself in the game a few weeks after first learning it early last year. School chess coach Shawn Martinez_________his potential. He reached out to Tony's family about_________the school's chess program, and learned they couldn't_________the costs. Russell decided not to charge Tony's fees, which can_________reach thousands with travel and chess camp admissions.

Tony's success can largely lie in his__________. He bent over on the floor with his board (棋盘). __________the game for several hours a day. Every Saturday, Tony and his mother__________a free 3-hour class to help further __________his game skills. He wants to be the youngest grandmaster. We have no doubt the__________youngster will achieve his goal soon!

Not surprisingly, the family received a lot of__________from the American public. The family has raised $2,000,000 and__________a home where he can continue his__________. And the heartwarming story is getting even better! His family has donated the rest of funds to those who are__________the way the family was.

It's an inspiring example of how life__________do not necessarily define (定义) a person. Tony displays a（an）__________spirit-in chess and in life.

【推荐2】I woke up early the other day. When I was washing my face, I received a(n) ________ from a taxi driver who had my friend's mobile phone. It was easy to ________ that my friend had left it in the ________ the might before. The driver had called others, but I was the first one to ________. The driver asked me where he could drop the phone off. I told him the street where I ________, quickly jumped out of bed, and got dressed to ________ him on the corner of the street. The driver drove all the way from Queens to ________ this phone. I believed if he had taken on a passenger or two, he could have made some good money from driving that distance.

When I met up with the driver, I thanked him for making an effort to find the ________ ". I was so happy for my friend because of this man's kindness. My friend recently moved to New York from abroad and I could imagine how ________ the phone was. I further asked the driver if I could get his ________ so that my friend could ________ him as well.He said my thankfulness was all that he ________ and drove off.

I emailed my friend and told him I had his phone.Later that day, I met him and described how I had received it. My friend said he couldn't believe such kindness ________ in this big city. He told me he could not ________ to pay it forward.I was so touched after experiencing the kindness. It just ________ my day.