【推荐1】Whenever I am in a group of people, I feel like everyone knows what to say and I have no idea. When I do try to join in, I get anxious. I struggle _________ words. This happens at parties or meetings. I feel judged- _________ I were being interviewed for a job. People think I am a loner. Maybe I am.

Individuals experiencing this type of social _________ often avoid eye contact, because it makes them feel _________ and judged. The feelings of awkwardness and not fitting in with others are often disarming, preventing these individuals from _________ themselves and sticking up for themselves in social environments, though they may be _________ at asserting themselves in environments that are focused on a task rather than _________

To _________ into a group, you need to be interested in the topics that others in the group are interested in and talk about them the way they do. Becoming a part of these groups requires that you _________some of your individuality in order to accept others’ __________ and values.

Some individuals are chameleon (变色龙)-like in that they __________ pick up the patterns of relating to different groups and __________ themselves accordingly. For them, this is automatic and they don’t even come to the __________ that they are changing themselves to fit into groups. If you are one of those people who feel __________ in most social group settings, it may be because you __________ changing the way you think in order to feel part of a group. Maybe you are better off.

【推荐2】One day, I stood at the roadside waiting for a bus. Everything was going as _________when suddenly I heard a _________ beside me ； it was a boy in _________ clothes, with a face that seemed like it had never been washed at all. I felt so disgusted at that moment that I tried to _________ myself away from that little boy.

The boy kept _________ me, shouting, “Bhaiya! Bhaiya!” （Big brother! Big brother!） , but I didn't answer him at all. My _________ self was cursing the country for its poor _________ Always begging for money-it all kept annoying me, making me feel more _________ to answer that dirty little boy who kept calling to me. "Bhaiya! Bhaiya! I heard him call out again. This made me very angry and I shouted at him that I had no money to give him. And the boy, without even bothering to hear my words of _________ , said to me, “Bhaiya, could you please help me __________ the road?”

The next moment, I felt __________ I couldn^’t feel my legs. The sudden feeling of __________ had engulfed （吞没）me from within. Was this what I had become? Had prejudice engulfed me so to such a level that I decided that they begged for money and food every time somebody passed by?

I held the boy's hand __________ and for the first time, without a feeling of disgust that he might not have __________ for days or weeks，I helped him cross the road, and that successful act of assistance __________ a new hope inside me. I realized that our being judgemental will surely have a very bad effect unless we overcome it.

【推荐1】After an overnight trip to Sydney, I was heading home tired but happy. Stopping at a fruit market, I_________ a parking space and reversed (倒车)in. But then I was being_______by one of these pedestrians (行人) for almost running her_________ over. The girl was actually a teenager, who was_________ enough to possess her own common sense. It is not the same as seeing a little kid running wild in a car park, where you would stop.

After I_________,I walked up to the lady and asked her what else I could have done._________ she pointed out that I was heading into one car space but changed my_______,I told her honestly that I had never_______the park in front and mentioned I had my reverse lights on.

“So let’s just put it down to a misunderstanding, shall we?” I_______,rather than fight her anger with__________or more anger. She said “Yes, let’s” ,but showed me her angry face.

An elderly couple nearby had seen it all and told me I had handled it__________and that the angry woman was in the wrong. This offered some________.While in the market, I thought about the________.Had I responded to the lady in anger, then I would have ended up taking her poison on too. But by managing to stay________,there was a totally different outcome.

Car parks in summer are never the most________ places to be anyway. Fuses (导火线) run short due to the________     and busyness. People lose________in crowds. But if we are able to consider other people________only thinking of ourselves, it saves adding any more fuel to the fire.

The car park incident left me with________and self-love. It left the other people with anger.

【推荐3】When is that magical day going to come when everything is perfect and we can finally be happy? Well, we may sometimes _________ a day like that. But for the most time there is always something that upsets us. And that is _________. Life is a mixture of happy, neutral, and not-so-happy _________.

The _________ is in what you concentrate on, which _________ your mood. I love the saying "Seize the day". To me it means that we should not just look forward, _________ the happiness to come from the future. _________ is here and now. It is in the little moments, and you'll _________ have to understand that good things are _________ around you. The other day I did have a try. That day I paid attention to everything I ____________ in my day. I liked the sunshine, birdsong, and morning coffee. I liked the purr of a cat, and my ____________ jeans. I liked the roads that were in good ____________. I liked the leaves of spring. I liked the chat with co-workers ... You could do this with your phone too. Take a picture of everything that you like during the ____________. At the end of it, ____________ your pictures, and maybe write a page about these good things into a ____________. If you use a computer, paste the ____________ to your electronic diary.

Another thing I do is see the good even in the ____________. Here's how it works: You suffer a terrible thing, but you tell yourself the good aspects of it. You really ____________ the day when you are able to concentrate on it. One day it was raining. People were not ____________ about it — it was dark, gloomy and wet. Our climate here is not ____________, which explains the attitude.

【推荐1】Christmas 2020 was shaping up to be a heartbreaker for Melanie Lee. A few weeks earlier, her 33-year-old son had lost his_________with cancer. Then her car, in its disrepair,_________. And much to her sadness, she had no means of_________for it to be fixed.

Lee told Frank McClary, “Now I don’t have my baby, now I don’t have_________. How am I supposed to stay active in my grandchildren’s_________?”

Eliot Middleton, the owner of a restaurant and former auto mechanic who in his free time_________and gives away used cars. He’d heard about Lee’s _________from her nephew Frank. On Christmas morning, Middleton arrived at Lee’s home with a_________: a white car.

“I was so surprised. He handed me the_________and didn’t ask for anything. Now I can__________my grandchildren.”

Middleton__________on Facebook an offer to trade his restaurant food for broken vehicles.__________, friends and strangers have dropped off more than 100 cars in__________states of disrepair. Many sat in Middleton’s yard waiting to be fixed and__________. Yet, the list of people who needed the cars still__________.

“I think Eliot Middleton is an angel.” Lee told the Washington Post.