【推荐1】Like every other Sunday morning, my best friend, Patty, dropped my godchildren, Jeremiah, off at my apartment ______ she went on her way to work. Then we hurried and got ourselves out the door for ______. It wasn’t until I saw the girl standing there ______ flowers that I remembered it was ______.

Before I could ______ him, Jeremiah went up to the girl and was allowed to picked ______ a flower for Patty. Then, Jeremiah turned towards me, ______ holding a pink carnation (康乃馨). I smiled and asked him to come with me to take our seats in church. Instead, he turned back towards Linda. “Can I have a flower for Aunt Kimmie too?”

I felt my breath catch ______ in my chest. It was one of the sweetest things I had ever heard him say. But neither of us was ______ for what happened next.

“Oh, no, Jeremiah. She can’t have ______. She isn’t a mother.” I watched as all the ______ left his face. My heart broke in about a million pieces, but not for myself, for Jeremiah. But my heart was also ______ because I found out how much I _______ to him.

I ______ Linda a look as I took Jeremiah ______ the hand and hurried in. The rest of that morning Jeremiah was quiet and ______. After getting back home, I got out my prettiest _______ so he could keep that pink carnation in it and give it to Patty when she came for him. But his ________ had been crushed; the joy he had felt had been robbed from him.

That afternoon after nap time, Jeremiah went outside to play. When I heard the front door open, Jeremiah ______ came to the doorway, his hands behind his back.

“Aunt Kimmie,” he said softly, “You ______ something for Mother’s day.” He pulled out a handful of fresh picked dandelions (蒲公英) and gave them to me. I felt tears on my cheeks as I gathered him in my arms. “I love you, Aunt Kimmie.”

【推荐2】It was a bad time for me. I was in low spirits and very ________ physically. Probably because of this, I hadn't shaved for a few days. _______, because I had been doing some repairs at my daughter's house, I was dressed quite ________. After getting on the bus to go home, I saw it was almost _______, so I found a rail (扶手) to lean against.

Just then, a young woman, sitting with her child, stood up and offered me her________. “Wow!” I thought. And then I said in a loud voice, “Do I ________ that old and tired?” She replied, “You look like you've had a ________ day." I thanked her sincerely and ________ standing.

A moment later, a man ________ from his seat at the back of the bus and _______ his way towards me, squeezing past several people on the way. Then he told me about his addiction problems, asked for my _______, and just chatted about life for a few minutes. Then he went back to his seat.

_____ him go, I also looked at the ________ between me and his seat. He hadn't ________ to talk to those strangers. Instead, he came to talk to me, for whatever it meant to him and whatever ________ it brought him. Why?

Then it _______ to me that I must have looked like I had been ________ he was. I probably looked like a man who would understand a difficult ________. My spirits ________ when I realized that even when we were a bit low, we could still ________ others—if we look like we might be able to meet them where they live or walk a while in their world.

【推荐3】I used to walk around the store with my parents and beg them for something. I remember the_________of all the bright bags of chips and candies. I asked my mom to_________for me. I had no real knowledge about the value of _________.

When I was about twelve years old, my dad always_________my begging and told me, “You can waste all the money you want when you have a job.” I_________him when he said that and_________I was going to get a job as soon as I was_________enough. But before I could legally (合法地) get a_________, I babysat to make some money. I remember the feeling of getting new money in my pocket.

A few years later when I was in high school, I got a job information. I started to think about the money I could make, so I_________. Soon I got an email, inside which I was__________to a meeting the following night and learned all about the__________.

After being trained for several months, I__________started the job and made some money. The more money I made, the less I wanted to__________. Instead of wasting my money on useless things, I started saving up. I finally came to the__________that money meant so much more to me because I was the one working for it. Because I__________my money, I now have 3, 300 dollars in the bank.

【推荐1】My journey to isolation (隔离) in Antarctica was somewhat accidental. I saw a(n)_________ for a position as a leader for an expedition (探险) to Antarctica and was interested. _________, it was the picture of a penguin in the ad that caught my attention. It_________ that they were looking for someone in charge of an expedition team. I took part in a job_________ and then got a job that I knew if I didn’t go for it I would_________.

_________ 18 strangers around the clock for a full year, with no_________ from the cold and strong winds, I learned a lot. Being in isolation meant I had to do lots of self_________. Every day I would think carefully of how I had operated as a leader.That discipline of_________ myself taught me how to tell right from wrong.

After returning from the silent Antarctica, the noise in the outside world seemed__________. It took me about 180 days to __________ to the noisy life. I limited the time I spent outside and gradually__________ my tolerance to noise. Besides, the __________ of my life in Antarctica was very slow, just like everyone’s life in lockdown (禁闭期) due to the COVID-19. When I first got into my car for a ride alone, I felt like I was__________, even though I wasn’t.

Nowadays I often think back to when I saw the__________ that inspired me to look at the ad for the job-a moment that changed my life altogether.

【推荐2】The pickle jar (腌菜罐子) as far back as I can remember sat on the floor in my parents’ bedroom. _________ he got ready for bed, Dad would empty his pockets and drop his _________ into the jar. When the jar was _________, he would take the coins to the bank and say _________ to the cashier, “These are for my son’s college fund. He’ll _________ work at the mill (磨坊) all his life like me.”

The years passed, and I _________ college and took a job in another town. Once, while visiting my parents, I noticed that the pickle jar was gone. It had served its purpose and had been removed. My dad was a man of _________ words, and never taught me the _________ of determination, perseverance and faith. The pickle jar had taught me more than _________ could have done.

When I got married, I told my wife Susan about the __________. In my mind, it showed how much my dad had __________ me. Dad continued to drop his coins into the jar, no matter how __________ things got at home.

The first Christmas after our daughter Jessica was born, we spent the holiday with my parents. After dinner, Susan __________ our baby into my parents’ bedroom to feed her. When Susan came back into the living room, there was strange tears in her __________. She handed Jessica to Dad before taking my hand and leading me into the room.

“Look,” she said __________, her eyes directing me to a spot on the floor. To my __________ there, as if it had never been __________, stood the old pickle jar, the bottom already __________ with coins. I walked over to the pickle jar, dug down into __________ and pulled out a handful of coins. With the strong emotions choking me, I dropped the coins into the jar. I looked up and saw that Dad, carrying Jessica, had slipped quietly into the room. Our eyes __________ and I knew he was feeling the same emotions I felt. Neither one of us could speak.

【推荐3】My Ph.D. adviser called me into his office and started by saying, “Anurag, this conversation isn’t going to be easy.” My mind was instantly ________ into a burst of thoughts about what was to follow. He looked me in the eye and announced, “You are fired from the lab.” I stared back in ________, “Is he joking?”

I ________ my Ph.D. adviser, and my experiments progressed as planned. Though I made a few mistakes in the lab, I wasn’t ________ that my adviser noticed them, and he never spoke to me about any concerns. That’s why I was caught ________ in his office that day. I suspect he fired me because of those mistakes. He wasn’t ________ that I could complete my research.

I tried to change his mind with ________ results, but he remained unchanged. I was soon thrown into a state of ________, and I could not break the news to my family.

________ I collected myself. I thought of a movie, one line from which ________ to me: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade (柠檬汁).” What kind of “lemonade” could I make out of my current ________?

My desire to complete a Ph.D. was never in doubt. After much ________, I reminded myself that one ________ attempt was not the end of the world, and that I needed to give it another try. I emailed potential advisers and ________ to other programs. Within 2 months, I received a(an) ________ from a Ph.D. program in Italy—my goal of completing a Ph.D. was ________ once again.

I’m ________ that I didn’t give up on my dream and that I found another ________ professor who accepted me. So, if you find yourself in ________ situations and life gives you lemons, ________ yourself: “How can I make lemonade?”

【推荐3】When a homeless man named Marcus wandered into Abigail’s Cafe asking for spare change, he didn’t get turned away. Looking at the man, the owner Abigail asked, “Why don’t you have a_______? You know nothing is given to me for free?” Marcus_______that he had “a lot of crimes”. Because of his_______, no one wanted to hire him, so he had made money the only way he knew how: “_______or asking for money.”

Although the young owner had hit some hard times for her café, Abigail was_______of hands that day and then decided to_______Marcus the task of washing dishes. “His_______opened wide and his smile made my_______!” She wrote on Facebook.

“He said he would do_______for some food.” For the past two weeks，Marcus has been on time every day for his__________of working for two hours when he washes dishes. He uses the money he__________to buy his own food at the restaurant, __________to take it for free.

“A lot of people are saying that I’ve been a blessing for him.__________, at that point I was the one who needed a blessing,” Abigail told CBS News. Her post has earned a lot of attention with plenty of__________on the Internet. Because many people have asked__________they can help people like Marcus, she__________a GoFundMe page with a modest goal of $1, 000. “The hope,” she said, “is to create more hours and opportunities for him__________others in the community.”

Abigail said she shared the story, hoping that people might be moved to help a__________, too. “Do something nice for whoever may not be familiar to us and don’t__________them just because they go out there asking for money, for we don’t know their real__________,”she said in her post. “They deserve another chance.”