【推荐1】I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success, because there is no such person as a born winner. People turn themselves into winners by their own       _______

I learned this lesson from a(n) _______ many years ago. I took the head _______ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a _______ for the school’s old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _______ me. I had to change my _______ towards their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ________. Most importantly, I began to treat them like ________. That summer, When the other teams enjoyed their       ________, we met every day and ________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our ________ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to win. ________, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a ________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the greatest ________     of my life!

From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ________       the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and ________ them. I helped them to see themselves ________, and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, not born.

【推荐2】It was a rainy and foggy day, and I had no desire to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn's house. But she insisted that I come to see something at the top of the mountain________.

So here I was,________ making the two-hour journey through the fog that hung like veils.

“How far is it?” I asked.

“About three minutes,” she said. “I'll________ — I'm used to it.”

After ten minutes on the mountain road, I looked at her________. “I thought you said three minutes.”

She________. “This is a detour.”

Turning down a narrow track, we parked the car and got out.

From the top of the mountain, sloping for several acres across folds and valleys, were________of colorful daffodils. It looked as though the sun had ________ gold down the mountainside.Here and there were coral-colored tulips. And as if these were not________, western bluebirds played over the heads of the daffodils joyfully.

Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we________ the home that stood in the center of the property, we saw a(n) ________ that read:“Answers to the Questions I Know You Are________About."

The first answer was: “One Woman-Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little ________.” The second was: “One at a Time.” The third: “Started in 1958.”

One at a time. She started almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of an idea, but she________at it. The wonder of it would not let me________. “Imagine,” I said,“if I'd had an idea and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have________?”

【推荐3】A few months ago, I left my job as a program director. Ever since I was a little girl, I have been ______ about the different ways life is experienced on our planet. I wanted to turn that curiosity into a ______ job. A journalist was eager to give me a ______, but there was nothing concrete at that moment and I still needed more income.

One night, I sat at my computer ______ at job postings. My heart ______ with every one I read. I was ______ with work that involved sitting in front of a computer. Frustrated, I ______ up and decided to clean the fridge.

As I ______ the fridge, I thought, “That’s it! People do this to make a ______. Why can’t I?”

Back at my desk, I opened Craigslist, found a listing for cleaners and ______. An hour later, I got a job from Pixel? who owned a ______ company.

On the first day of the work, I was ______ exhausted with the cleaning, but more ______ than I had been in years.

A month later, I ______ Pixel’s company. Working so hard and ______ a large part of what I earned to someone else just didn’t ______. Within a week of posting my ______ at stores around the city, I had seven clients.

That same week I got a call from the ______ saying she had work for me to produce community videos. Now I was moving more than ever!

It was one of the best years of my life. I was reminded that ______ and pride came not from the work you did,______ from the energy you brought to doing it.

【推荐1】My 88-year-old grandfather and I are both starting 2022 as new college graduates. He was   ________ to continue school because he got married and started a ________ in the 1950s. Over the next few decades, he managed to balance his ________ as a husband, a father of seven, working at a local bank and taking a college class here and there.

Our higher ________ journey together at Palo Alto College began in 2016. I had just graduated from high school then and my grandfather, 82, was ________ to take classes to make his lifelong dream of earning his bachelor’s degree become a ________. In 2017, we were both ________ into the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Over the past year, his health has has continued to decline and he now has difficulty speaking. As graduation day ________ in December, my family and I persuaded university officials to ________ my grandfather having a degree of recognition. We had the expectation that he could have that memory before his ________.

My grandfather was ________ he would steal the show from my graduation moment when I told him we were graduating ________together. I told him this is our moment and that I want to ________  it with him. I’m so grateful and ________ that I was able to have this moment with him.

I appreciate my grandfather’s lifelong passion of learning and his strong ________.

【推荐2】Family meals are an important part of living with a family. A recent survey shows that most American children and their family _____ a meal at least four times a week. This is a(n) _____ sign, in my view. It is _____ dining together is able to benefit family members.

Firstly, having a meal together can help a family stick together, which helps strengthen each family member’s sense of _____. Family meals can teach younger people about their _____ by eating traditional foods. Family members can also relax together during this time, temporarily leaving the worries behind, and enjoy each other’s _____. Routine socializing helps family members show each other’s _____ which cannot only be expressed on Thanksgiving Day.

Secondly, family meals also play an important part in a child’s growth. For example, parents are able to _____ their children’s psychology(心理) at this time based on their deeds and expressions. If parents _____ to lead kids to tell something about it, they can eventually figure out what their psychology looks like. If there is something wrong with it, parents and kids can discuss about it and find the ______. Studies show eating together means that kids were not likely to have ______ to smoke, get into fights, or commit suicide. Children who eat with their families are more likely to ______ high grades in the end than those who do not eat family meals. And such kids are probably to be more ______, and make more friends.

Through family meals, parents can also ensure that their children are eating ______ foods to have strong bodies. It’s because children who eat together with their families can be taught to be not particular about meals.

These families ______ to eat more fruit and vegetables, instead of often eating at fast food restaurants like the others.

【推荐3】When I was young, I never had a special Christmas gift that I dreamed of and was crazy about. I know I _______ a lot of great Christmas presents as I grew up. Chatty Cathy, Baby Thumbelina, Little Miss No Name…I just don't remember _______ them. Although my parents had their financial _______, they always made Christmas special for their four children. Dad worked a(n) _______ job as a referee in high school basketball games to _______ a little more cash, and Mum was the queen of bargain shopping. The gifts _______ have been inexpensive, but there was more than enough under the tree.

Stored in happy memories are the family _______: helping Mum and Dad drag the Christmas decorations out of the attic, going with Dad to _______ the tree from the Kiwanis, and decorating the tree _______ strings of blue lights and Christmas lasting days and days and days. The piles of ________ under our tree wrapped in newspaper are more memorable than ________ was wrapped. The act itself of unwrapping and ________ seeing what was beneath the newspaper was ________ and memorable. But the most clear are the images of smiles, the sounds of ________, not the images of toys or clothes.

It's the ________ of Christmas. The best moments, the happy moments were not the gifts,________ the togetherness, the love of family. Even in the occasional quarrels of brothers and sisters, even in the ________ of late nights, even in the sometime stress of it all.

Christmas should not ________ on what's on our gift lists. For it's not about what gifts we ________ or receive, but about what we do, what we experience.

Those are the happy moments that ________.