【推荐2】Travelers to new cities are often told to start their trip with a bus tour. The thinking is that they can then _________ to the places that interested them. Nonsense! What you see from the _________ of a moving bus is unreal and completely removed from the authentic sights, sounds and _________ outside.

Be adventurous! The best way to experience any place is _________ and with absolutely no travel _________. Simply go wherever your feet and your _________ lead you. You eventually will get to the same sites that are on the bus tour-the museums, the monuments city hall-but will have _________ much more. You will have felt the contemporary life of the city.

“But what if I get lost?” People might ask. No one gets _________ lost in a major city. Eventually, you can find your way back to a well-known location. If it frightens you to be “lost”, just find a taxi and go back to where you _________. However, the nicest things can happen if you get lost. You stop at a sidewalk cafe to sit and __________. You ask instructions of the local people at the __________ table. And even if they don’t speak your language, your trip becomes more __________ because of the experience.

So next time you see a poster advertising an introductory bus tour, __________ your money. __________, wander on your own. I promise (承诺) you a time you’ll __________ with great pleasure.

【推荐3】Back in 1981 I was working at the University of Bonn in Germany. I______some time off in early May to visit a friend in Viterbo. in central________

The train stopped in Rome. I was ____ , as my hotel was close to the railway station. The next morning. I______to visit as many of the famous Roman landmarks as possible.

The following day I headed back to the______, planning to take a short ride to Viterbo. When I arrived at the station and tried to______the correct platform, I quick realized that the station was _____for an upgrade (升级). For a moment my mind went______.My biggest______my luggage一my suitcase and hand luggage were heavy, so I couldn't______about easily. I dragged my suitcase about 100 meters to a nearby worker. A tall man of about 50 years of age was working there and I______myself and asked where the nearest station was. I am sure that he did not understand me______. but he could easily guess that I was looking for a station. He ____, but I did not understand.

He smiled and said something，____ I guessed to mean "Come along!" He opened the door of his car, motioned to me to get______and then drove for a few minutes to the next station. I got out, unloaded my luggage, then shook his hand with______. He smiled back and drove away.

There was no time to we_____ names. I understood that he was in the_______of his work. I was______ so much by his generosity(慷慨)that I have never forgotten him. He was working and could have easily_____ me but, instead, he chose to help.

【推荐2】I was a self-employed writer. But I had been in a bad ________ since my new neighbor moved in. Whenever I became ________ to write, I could hear a girl singing next door. She didn’t sing well at all, even ________ it was absolutely a headache for me. ________, it became a daily routine for me to ________. How could I keep up my ________ and go on writing?

One day, it was too noisy and my thoughts were entirely disturbed. I had my husband go to ________ her about the matter. Minutes later, he returned. “That girl is only 17,” he ________ with a sad look, “but she has bone cancer.” My mind suddenly went ________. “Her mother said that the more hurtful it is, the louder her daughter sings. It helps her ________ the pain. The poor mother begs our pardon for interrupting us.” In a flash, I felt guilty about my thoughtless ________.

From that day on, I no longer felt anything wrong, and even got used to her singing—I felt as if ________ by the smell of flowers. Afterwards I was on business and happened to know the girl had been admitted into a hospital. When I returned home in late summer, I somehow felt that something was ________. I couldn’t hear the girl next door sing anymore.

“However hard the winds blow, you will stray ( 走失) no more from my ________ … You shall believe that I am brave only with you…” Her singing always ________ in my mind. I hope the voice is everlasting for you, me, and everyone.

【推荐3】The tourist bus winded its way into a mountainous area. When it was ________ to make a turn, two passengers, a ________ of young lovers, were so attracted by the beautiful scenery that they ________ a stop to get down. They were left behind and the bus went ________. Suddenly they heard a loud boom ________ of the road. It was a huge rock rolling down in the landslide that hit the bus and fell with it into a deep valley. The lovers were greatly ________ by the news that no passengers on board ________. When they calmed down they ________ and expressed their feelings in a few words.

The above story was told by a guide when we were riding a tourist ________ to a scenic mountain. He asked us to guess what the lovers said ________ after the disaster that they had narrowly escaped.

Often we read reports about traffic accidents, among which there were ________ ones who missed the bus and ________ the disaster. Those people usually said with a sigh of ________. “Fortunately I was not on board.” On our bus the passengers' ________ to the guide were various.

But the answer was quite out of our expectation. “If we hadn't got down and ________ the bus, it would have ________ the dangerous spot and all the passengers would have survived.”

The story passed from person to person as a sort of IQ test, but I think ________. It actually serves as a(n) ________ of a person's mind. I pay my heartfelt respect to the couple who, instead of feeling lucky, ________ themselves for causing the loss of lives. People all have heart for ________, but it is often a flashing thought across one's mind that decides whether it is good or evil.

【推荐2】There is no way they just drove into that water, thought Corion Evans. The 16-year- old was _________ with friends in a parking area underneath a highway when a car with three teenage girls inside drove off a boat slope and into the Pascagoula River. It came to _________some 20 feet from land, then sank.

The driver, Evans would learn, had _________ followed wrong directions from her GPS.

It was around 2： 30 a. m. by the time Evans and brothers Karon and Caleb Bradley got to the river’s edge. In the darkness, they could barely _________ the girls holding on tightly to the roof, the only part of the car still, barely, _________ water. But they could hear the drowning girls _________ . Without hesitation, Evans took off his shirt and shoes, tossed his phone down, then dived into the water, a river he knew crocodiles called _________ .

He helped the first girl he saw and, keeping her head above water, _________ her ashore. Just at the same time, Karon dived into the river to help another of the girls. But halfway back to shore, she _________ and went underwater, pulling Karon down with her. Evans jumped back into the water and helped them until they could ____________ .

There was still one girl in the water. Cora Watson, 19, could not swim. She was gulping water, struggling to stay ____________ . Scared, she began to go under. The next thing she knew was Corion had ____________ her. The three girls and Karon were taken to the hospital and ____________ “They’re alive”, says his mother, Marquita Evans, “Corion Evans ____________ his curfew, a time when children must be home in the evening”. But she’s not mad. “He had a good ____________ this time,” she said.

【推荐3】Saying thank you can have positive _________ on your health and the well-being of others.

I once witnessed kindness from complete _________ last year and it really impressed me. It was a sunny afternoon. It panicked me at first that my partner _________ unconscious on the ground suddenly on our way to the office. Soon I realized that I had to calm down and call emergency services. Within minutes, a police car and ambulance arrived, _________ with police and nursing staff. My partner was rushed to the _________, where he received the care that he _________.

Few days later, my partner got better, and I wrote thank-you notes to those _________ police and nursing staff and baked for them. When I _________ the cakes to them the next day, they thanked me for the gifts. Thanked me? All I'd done was baking, but they'd _________ a life. I drove away feeling relaxed and __________ partly because I'd done a good deed, but __________ because I was __________ that there are so many selfless people. They do a lot of great things; __________, they expect nothing in return.

Research has shown that sharing thoughts of gratitude and performing __________ of kindness can improve your __________ and health condition. I think it is probably when I felt happier than usual then.

“We know from studies in the literature that gratitude does have a good influence on how you feel, and that it __________ life satisfaction.” says Willibald Ruth, a psychology professor at the University of Zurich who researches the effects of character strengths __________ gratitude and humour. “It’s __________ the top five causes of happiness.” he __________.

You can __________ positive changes in your own life by choosing to embrace gratitude.