【推荐1】I was invited to attend a presentation at the Kentucky School. That evening I found gratitude had amazing______to change our attitude and our life.

The young musician Mr. Patrick was ______ onto the stage in his wheelchair and began to play the piano. His fingers danced _____the keys as he made beautiful music. He then began to sing as he played, and it was wonderful. But what shocked me most was his _____ smile.

Mr. Patrick was born with no eyes and an illness in the legs, which _____ him lame for life. However, as a child, he was _____ artificial eyes and placed in a wheelchair. Before his first birthday, he discovered the piano. ____ his mom hit any note on the piano, and within one or two ____, he’d get it. By his second birthday, he was playing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.” His father was _______. “We might not play baseball, but we can play music together.”

When Patrick was at the University of Louisville, his father ______ classes with him. He was also a part of the 214-member marching band! He was a blind, wheelchair-bound trumpet player; and he and his father did it together. His father ______the night shift (夜班) in order to accompany his daytime band practice. Patrick says,“My dad’s my _____.”

But even more than his _____ musical talent, it was Patrick’s“attitude of gratitude” that ____ my soul. On stage, between songs, he talked to the audience about his life and about how ______ he was with a great father. When his performance was over, Patrick and his father were on the stage together. The crowd rose to their feet and _____ for over five minutes.

We all face misfortune in our lives. ____, it’s not the hardship but how we _____   to it that will determine the joy and happiness in our lives. During ______ times, do we spend too much time feeling ______ for ourselves, or can we, with gratitude, learn how to dance in the rain?

【推荐2】I was once in a workshop out of town with colleagues. One of them was much _______ and had recovered from an illness. He didn't want Asian food which we youths like, so he stayed in the _______while the rest of us ventured out(外出). This might have affected his sense of_______

One night I told him I wanted to take him out wherever he wanted to eat. As I had vegetarian food _______and he did not, he did not want to burden(使负担）me by going to places where I would have very _______options. I insisted it wasn't a (n)_______, and we went to a place he would prefer. My other colleagues went out _______, so I was able to hang out with this colleague and practice deep listening. We had a great _______ together.

As we ended our meal and conversation, I decided to _______ him right to the door of the hotel and not the parking lot, as it was quite ________ outside and I didn't want him catching a cold. This felt good, and over the next few ________ it felt more________ to tell my colleagues to wait inside the restaurant while I________ the car to create more comfort for them.

Simple acts like this gave me a lot of ________ .We all felt a ________sense of community, invested in each other's well-being.

【推荐3】Dr Max is a thoughtful and devoted expert. I couldn’t agree more with Dr Max’s _______ that the empathy (移情) shown by a doctor is key in a patient’s evaluation of the _______ received.

While having a colonoscopy (结肠镜检查) without sedation (镇静剂) I was working hard to keep myself _______ by using techniques learned to _______ panic attacks. As the camera _______ the twists and turns of my bowel, the specialist _______ I was quietly humming a tune to myself. He asked what the _______ was and I replied, “Puff the Magic Dragon”, however, I _______ that I only knew two _______ of the song.

The specialist then started ________ along with my humming and agreed that he also only knew two lines. He asked the student observing to google the lyrics. When the student ________ he explained that anything they can do to help a patient through a difficult ________ was worth doing. ________with the words we then sang along for the rest of the procedure!

Not only do I remember this years later, but when ________ by the student afterwards my advice was to learn from the specialist’s bedside manner as it was so ________.

【推荐2】In the live-streaming channel of Yang Weiyun, no singing or dancing is performed nor are products sold. Instead, Yang teaches pinyin, reading and writing, something that has been most ______ to her for the past 50 years. The difference is that her students are mostly adults.

The 73 year old, a (an) ______ educator, had been a Chinese teacher in an elementary school for 30 years and a kindergarten head for another 20 years. When she ______, Yang also wanted to do something meaningful. The rise of short video platforms gave her the idea of ______ her education endeavors through live streaming online so she opened her live streaming account in May, 2021 and offered free pinyin courses ______ for kindergarten pupils about to attend primary schools. However, she ______ learned her viewers include a lot of illiterate adults. As they can’t read or write, most of them develop a sense of ______, being afraid to go to new places, ______ that they couldn’t teach their children or read their boss’s instructions.

“Many illiterate adults didn’t have the chance to go to school when they were ______. They are the ones in ______ need of becoming literate. I wanted to give them a new starting point,” Yang said. Considering that each student has their own demands, she added ______ content to meet their needs and every time she ends her ______ she will do carefully concluding and preparing, trying to ______ what ways the students can learn and remember better.

Up till now she has nearly 300,000 followers on the short video platform Douyin. Zhang Mei is among the students who benefited from Yang’s live-stream lessons. She was born and ______ in the countryside and had never been to school. “Thanks to Granny Yang, I found a job. I’ve learned how to write my name and I can ______ Chinese characters if they are marked with pinyin.”