【推荐2】“Who can ever have imagined someone like me would make it this far?” asked Chad Wood last week during his high school graduation speech as the best student. Chad offered _______ to his fellow classmates to never give up — and the words _______much more to himself. That’s because Chad is deaf, and he told the story of the serious troubles he_______to graduate first in his class at Harrison High school in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Chad didn’t start to_______until he was 5, according to his mother, Pam Wood. Although her son was at a(an) _______, she was determined not to treat him _______. “I’ve expected him to do everything every other kid does, and I saw no _______ why he couldn’t,” she told ABC News. “And if he_______ the first time, we just tried again.”

Chad, 17, worked hard throughout school, _______ no special treatment but sitting at the front of the class and using a special audio system so he could hear the teacher. All his hard work ________. He received full school fare to Vanderbilt University. “Deafness had taught me a lesson to never ________,” he said in the speech. “Not when the experts tell you it cannot be done. Not when you have ________ so far behind that escaping seems the only way ________. Not when achieving your dreams seems an entire   ________ .”

Chad spoke for about four minutes, after which he received a standing applause from the class and________ messages from family, friends and strangers. “They’ve been sending me messages on Facebook, email, they’ve been talking to me in person telling me how it had a ________on their lives and how they’re really ________ by it,” Chad told ABC News. “It feels ________. Seeing that my words ________have a power on someone and that they want to work harder because of my words makes me feel ________ .”

【推荐3】I was really nervous this year because I was in a new class. It _______ me that I didn't know anyone in the class. But _______I didn't know anyone,   I had the _______to do something I love- people watching.

The girl sitting behind me was always laughing and talking happily. She was one of the very few people who made any_______ to acknowledge me.

At the end of the year, we were_______ to do a big open-ended project where the_______were basically to read something, then watch something related to it, and then _______ a presentation based on what we learned.

On the presentation day, that girl_______ in front of the class, and told everyone how she had read about eating disorders, because she herself had_______with one. As it was too difficult for her to talk about it__________, she had made a movie, where she had__________some people about their eating disorders and how they had felt and __________them eventually. After the presentation, almost__________ was in tears. Several people commented on how __________she was to stand up and talk about it, and how strong she was to have got over the disorder.

I never__________she would have a problem like that because she always seemed __________. Her courage to talk about something so__________in public and her strength to get through her difficulties have__________me. I’ve also learned how difficult it is to__________people. You never know what type of person someone is just by__________for a term.

【推荐1】Some of the greatest problems we face today are concerned with the gradual destruction (破坏) of our environment through overuse of our _________. So my family do what we can. We take cloth bags to stores instead of using plastic bags. We walk where we don’t have to _________.

But when I’m the only one with a cloth bag in line at the grocery store, I ask myself: Does it do any good?

I recently found the answer from flamingos (火烈鸟). These beautiful birds gather in _________ groups of a thousand or more. Every year, when the time comes for migration (迁徙), a few flamingos start the process by _________ from the lake. But _________ of the others seem to notice, so the tiny group returns.

However, the next day they _________ again. This time a few more struggle along with them, but the vast majority _________ no attention, so these pioneers come back.

The trend continues for several more days. Every time a few more birds join in but, _________ the thousands of others still take no notice, the great migration plan is once again _________.

Then one day, things __________. The same small group of birds takes wing and a tiny number more join in, just as before. This time their total number is enough to tip the balance (扭转局势). As one, the whole group takes flight and the migration __________.

A few can make a __________. It’s true that all of the great problems of the world have been solved because of the __________ efforts of a few.

If you believe in a cause (事业), don’t __________. Others will someday notice and __________ we will solve even our greatest problems.

【推荐3】Attitude is everything. There is never a need to respond to anything that doesn’t make you feel _________. The Law of Garbage Truck totally _________ my attitude to things.

One day I got in a _________ to the airport. We were driving in the right lane when a black car _________ out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver _________ the other car by just inches!

The driver of the black car, who almost caused a big _________, started shouting at us. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. He was really _________. So I asked, “Why? That guy almost ruined your car and sent us to the_________!”

That was when my taxi driver taught me what I now _________ “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. “He ____________ that many people are like garbage Truck”. They run around full of ____________. As their garbage ____________, they need a place to dump it and sometimes they’ll dump it on you.

Don’t take it ____________. Don’t take their garbage and ____________ it to other people. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Love the people who treat us right and pray for the ones who don’t. ____________ is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

【推荐1】When we moved into our home in Maui, Hawaii.16 years ago, one good thing about this house was the huge avocado (鳄梨) tree growing in the backyard.

This tree gave the most delicious avocados I have ever   ________.I lived on these avocados when ________ my first child. ________ avocado was the very first food for my kids. This tree was so huge that it ________ a massive shadow over our backyard. It was ________ our magical tree.

Until one day, someone from the Health Department came to tell us that our avocado tree was too ________ and needed trimming (修整). In New York, you get in________if you don’t   ________   the snow off your sidewalk. Here, it’s when your trees are too high. So along came the trimmer.________just the trunk and a few________.I was sad. The kids were all   ________. Some friends who knew it would say,“ It’s going to     ________ back. Your next avocados will be crazy!” Yeah, whatever. The tree is gone, so ________doing that. It just didn’t work.

But a few days later, I noticed some unusual butterflies   ________   around the yard. And then, the sun came in the kitchen creating this pleasant   ________   once blocked by the huge tree. After about a month ,I started to notice some tiny green   ________ coming out of the cut branches, which eventually________ full-on bright green leaves.

I started to feel like all was going to be fine, kind of like life. Little do we know what seems really difficult is actually life’s way of making us ________. It’s life’s way of bringing in the butterflies, the ________, and the delightful flowers. We all know that famous ________, “It will be OK in the end. If it’s not, it’s not the end.”

【推荐3】When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant_________Miller King, who was the best _________at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _________.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from _________. He looked very_________, but he didn^’t cry.

That season, I_________all of Miller’s records while he _________ the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, _________I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s _________.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller __________ going over a fence—which wasn’t __________to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept __________from. But even that challenge he accepted. I__________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally __________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did__________.Thank you for filling in for__________ .”

His words freed me from my bad __________. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was__________ahead of me. I was right to have __________him. From that day on, I grew __________ and a little more real.