【推荐1】Human brain cannot learns all by itself. We need to train ourselves to be better learners—to _______ take part in the learning process. These kinds of learning behaviors are called “active learning”.

There are two kinds of voices. Your inner voice expresses your _______ opinions, while the outer voice tells you about opinions from what you hear or read. Although your inner voice can be useful, it can also _______ in the way of learning. If you keep paying too much attention to it, you risk missing important information. Instead, active learners are open-minded and focus on what the speaker is saying, not on what their _______is saying in the background.

If you find your inner voice difficult to _______, you can argue with it as most active learners do. When your inner voice tells you a speaker is wrong, think about why the speaker may be right. Be flexible in your opinions and you might end up_______ the speaker after all.

Asking questions is the easiest way to _______ active learning. When you get information from someone, from books or the Internet, ask two, three, even five questions about the topic. The answers will lead you to further learning, and the very act of _______ questions will help you to achieve a higher level of understanding about the topic. In short: Do not stop being _______.

Active learners do not ________ everything they learn. They attempt to find the truth at the heart of each idea. Even when an idea sounds entirely ________, there may be an aspect of it that is based on truth. If you try to find out the source of an idea, no matter how crazy it seems, you will ________ your chance of learning something.

Many people refuse to learn what is said because of who the speaker is. It is true that we cannot help ________ some people. But do not forget you can still learn from them. Active learners do not ________ people based on first impressions or personal feelings. This ________ the other way as well — do not just assume that some people are always right just because they are your friends.

【推荐3】Have you ever noticed how the way you feel about yourself sometimes depends on whether or not you get confirmation of your value from others?

I have______a lot about nurturing a positive identity of love and appreciation from the man who taught me to train dogs.

First, he started out by ______his dogs with love and respect, and by showing them an infinite amount of______as they were learning.

Then, the______thing he did was a true stroke of genius. He would cut a small piece of______for each dog. He would place it in the dog's sleeping area, for him to______each night. He would also take this carpet during the______and set it down in various locations, and sit the dog on the carpet, as he______the dog for being good.

Next, Frank would teach the dog to______the carpet himself, and carry it to_____ they were going. The dog would then set the carpet down when they______, with Frank all of the time praising him. Now Frank said, "The dog begins to feel that he truly______in every place he travels to, and no matter where he goes, he______my love and appreciation. "

If this strategy______so brilliantly with dogs, would it not work just______with human beings?

【推荐2】“I couldn’t move. I’ll have to wait here until you return.” I said to my friends. Both my feet ached so much and my______gave out under me. But at the last moment I______ with great strength and walked on with my friends till we climbed over the peak. This was what I had experienced 12 years before ________ I was climbing the Kirraki Mountain，and this______cheered me up. Compared to the journey to the Kirraki Mountain, climbing up the Wongsung Mountain seemed much easier. The only_____ was the snow.

On the 27th of January 2008, I went out alone, with the purpose of_____ the Wong sung Mountain. On my way I saw children playing merrily on the road, making snowmen and driving toy wooden trucks on the snow. Soon I ________ myself at the foot of the mountain. Looking up at the snow­covered giant mountain and seeing the steep slippery (滑) road with thick ice and snow, I suddenly felt a little_____, but the_____ of the footprints in the snow made me feel_____ that the top of the mountain was accessible. “You are not alone!” I tried to encourage myself._____ by a stick, I began moving forward slowly. In several places the road was so steep and slippery that I was on all fours and I almost____halfway. It was about 50 minutes before I got to the edge of of the mountain. But for the icy road, it would have been _______easy reach.

Seeing the white­covered pine trees, I couldn’t help entering the_______ In spite of the heavy_____, many trees were still standing straight, but some were bent down with snow and ice, some even fell and broke. Walking on the path in the forest, I could see no more footprints. Suddenly I sensed that it was_____ to walk in the woods in such dirty weather. In my childhood, I had witnessed thousands of trees, big or small, falling down one after another in a flash. ____that the falling of dominoes(多米诺骨牌) might happen, I hurried ____.

Now I’m sitting beside a warm stove, writing about my trip while my memory is still ____. This experience, though tiring and scary, is recognized as one of the most exciting moments in my life,_____ that I’ll value forever. It has again told me that nothing is impossible for a willing heart.

【推荐3】I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something _______had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the _______at once. She explained that she’d _______my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had _______it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she _______something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the _______floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher _______a live wire fell and touched her.

Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no _______. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be _______with them. For a year I was in a suffering ________of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt ________.

Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking ________. She married me because I was a ________man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than ________.

We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer. The anxiety that had been gone came ________back—would my boys be left with no parents? ________, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.

________everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t __________. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the__________it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the ________.

【推荐1】A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complain about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _______ — porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain-looking and _______, some delicate (精致的) and expensive — telling them to _______ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you _______, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were _______, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _______for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _______ of your problems and stress.It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. _______ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the _______ cups. And then you began ____________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and ____________ in society are the cups.They are just tools to hold and ____________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the ____________ of life we live.Sometimes, by ____________ only on the cup, we fail to ____________ the coffee.

【推荐2】Gratitude: Gifts from the heart

According to legend (传说), a young man while travelling through the desert came across a spring of delicious water. The water was so sweet that he _______ his leather container so he could bring some back to a tribal elder who had been his teacher. After a four-day journey he _______ the water to the old man who took a (n) _______ drink, smiled warmly and thanked his student for the sweet water. The young man _______ to his village with a happy heart.

_______, the teacher let another student taste the water. He spat (吐) it out, _______ it was terrible. It_______ had become stale (不新鲜) _______ the old leather container. The student _______ his teacher, “Master, the water was stale. Why did you ________ to like it?”

The teacher replied, “You ________ tasted the water. I tasted the ________. The water was simply the container for a (n) ________ of loving-kindness and ________ could be sweeter. Heartfelt gifts deserve the ________ gift of gratitude.

I think we ________ this lesson best when we receive innocent gift of love from young children. Whatever they are, the natural and proper ________ is appreciation and expressed thankfulness because we love the idea ________ the gift.

Gratitude doesn’t always come ________. Unfortunately, most children and many adults value only the thing given ________ the feeling hidden in it. We should remind ourselves and teach our children about the beauty and purity of feelings and expressions of gratitude.

【推荐3】The Fortune magazine once posed a question to people all over the world: “If you were to choose again, what would you like to be?” “I’d like to _________ a grocery store and provide daily goods for the locals,” a judge _________. “My dream,” said a teacher, “is to _________ to the beach of Costa Rica and open a small inn there.” A police officer answered that his _________ is to start afresh as a photographer. However, the answers from several businessmen were _________. One wanted to become a woman; another indicated his wish was to _________ from the human world which is pretty dull for him and _________ change into a plant. People in other _________ answered the same question raised by the magazine in _________ ways. Some wanted to be diplomats (外交官), others longed to __________ President and experience the feeling of being a top leader, and still others __________ the idea of a cook. Whatever they set their minds on, none was willing to __________ what they are should a new choice exist.

People forever face a __________. They live a fairly good life, but from time to time they grow __________ of all this. One can hardly put this psychology, resulting from life’s boredom and __________ of enthusiasm, down to insatiability (不知足) on the part of humans. In fact, familiarity __________ that.

When one becomes too acquainted with something, he loses his __________ and feels bored. What he once regarded as __________ life has been a long day. Even things that offended him so much __________ to excite him! Such being the case, the person truly needs to go __________ to look for scenery!