【推荐1】When Mike Mushaw joined the national bone marrow (骨髓) registry three years ago, he never really gave it a second thought.

About six months after the sign-up, Mushaw did get a call that his bone marrow _______ a patient in Virginia. Mushaw didn’t know it at the time his donation would go to a five-month-old girl named Eleanor. Neither did he know whether his donation would _______. Eleanor, sick with a rare immuno deficiency disease, had seldom left her house _______ to travel to the hospital or the doctor. Her immune system was far too weak to risk even the most _______ human contact. Her mother, Jessica, told NBC, “The _______ were to either get a transplant or face death.” Still, there was no _______ of success.

Instead, after a few weeks, the doctors came back with _______ news: Eleanor’s condition hadn’t just improved — Mushaw’s bone marrow had _______ her. Mushaw says: it was more of a _______ and happy feeling than anything.

About six months after the procedure, Eleanor’s parents sent him an e-mail to thank him for saving her life. “When I was told it was a little girl, I ________,” Mushaw says.

But their surprising ________ was only beginning. Mushaw and Eleanor FaceTime ________ to check on her progress. In August, about a year after Eleanor’s ________ transplant, Mushaw invited her family to one of his games. Tiny shouts of “Mike! Mike!” could be heard as the little girl cheered on her very own hero: a six-foot-two, 225-pound football player with a very ________ heart.

In January, Mushaw ________ with Eleanor to celebrate her birthday. Two complete strangers now have become such a big part of each other’s lives.”

【推荐3】Many years ago, Norman Cousins was diagnosed as "terminally ill". He was given six months to live. His ________ for recovery was 1 in 500.

He could see the worry, depression and ________ in his life contributed to his ________. He wondered, "If illness can be caused by being ________, can health be created by being positive?"

He was ________ to make an experiment of himself. Laughter was one of the most positive activities he knew. He rented all the ________ movies he could find-Keaton, Chaplin, Fields, the Marx Brothers. He ________ funny stories. He asked his friends to call him ________ they said, heard or did something funny.

His pain was so great that he could not fall ________. Laughing for 10 minutes, he found, ________ the pain for several hours so he could sleep.

He ________ recovered from his illness and lived ________ 20 happy, healthy and productive years. He ________ his recovery to the love of his family and friends, and laughter.

Some people think laughter is a ________ of time.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Laughter is very important to our ________ life, to our health and happiness, to our aliveness（活力）. If we're not well, ________ helps us get well; if we are well, laughter helps us ________ that way.

Since Cousins' ground-breaking subjective work, scientific studies have shown that laughter has a healing ________ on the body, the mind and the emotions.

So. if you like laughter, ________ it sound medical advice as often as you can. If you don't like a laughter, then take your ________— laugh anyway.

【推荐1】I had not hugged a friend or a family member for more than two years until recently when my sister-in-law flew in for a brief visit. For everyone’s safety, we met outside. Despite the wintry weather, her hug_________me from the inside out. It’s strange, but only now do I truly realize how much I’ve _________embracing loved ones — the warmth that remains long after our arms have untwined (松开).

Growing up through war in my hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia, every moment was full of_________. On one peaceful morning, I had begged my mom to let me go outside. She finally_________. I was outside for only 10 minutes when I was caught in an explosion. I ran to my neighbor’s house for _________ before my legs collapsed. She hugged me with both arms and_________me into her house. I was still in her arms when the ambulance arrived. Thankfully, I made a full physical_________, but the emotional scars never left me. Years later there was another _________ near my house. I was safe, but my father had left to buy a loaf of bread. He had only just _________ the blast. When he came back, I gave him the biggest hug __________. I was caked in tears as I held him __________. That same night my parents __________ to arrange my escape from our war-torn city. They __________ wanted at least some of my childhood to be normal. I was 16 and came to America on my own. A __________ host family took me in and I began learning English and going to school. They had a large dog called Oscar. Over the next several months, I secretly struggled with feeling __________and worried about my family back home. Despite getting on quite well at school, I couldn’t __________ my feelings. The only way I shared how I felt was by giving Oscar a big hug.

Perhaps we have undervalued the__________of a simple hug. As I look back on my past, I __________myself truly lucky to have been held,__________ and encouraged at some of the most key moments of my life by the almost otherworldly (超世俗的) power of a hug. I pray that in the not-so-distant future we can safely __________ one another again-a friend, relative, or even a stranger.

【推荐2】Today I went to my daughter’s school and spoke about kindness to 60 kids and teachers and teacher assistants. After a small talk about the meaning of _________, I gave a _________ to the children—I told them to _________ a small story about an act of kindness that they had done and how that made them feel, or if they had _________ an act of kindness and how that made them feel. In what way had that act _________ them? Then I and the headmaster will choose the _________ ones, which will stand out for their feelings of sympathy and love toward others.

When I was waiting for my _________ I saw some teachers that were at the assembly (集会) passing by and I was _________ that they would tell me if they liked the _________ or not, but they didn’t say anything.

Then one little boy came to me and said: “You know, I enjoyed the __________ today.” “Okay then are you going to write a lovely __________?” I asked. “I'm not good at writing,” the boy responded. So I explained that I would be __________ if he could just write a phrase or two about an act of kindness.

I didn’t have __________ to talk to him because he was in a hurry to __________his friends who were waiting for him, but in my heart that was a beautiful act of kindness. The fact that he was able to stop to __________ me for two minutes, to let me know that he had enjoyed the assembly was worth all the effort I had put into preparing the talk for them.

【推荐1】Yesterday afternoon, I bought a few things from the supermarket. I decided to buy a chocolate bar for the _______, and gift it with a smile card.

The woman at the check-out _______ was an old lady, and at first, she seemed very _______. After paying, I was _______ to give my gift to her, _______ for the whole time we interacted, she didn’t smile at all. Nevertheless, I _______ the courage and gave it to her, explaining that it was for her.

She seemed _______ at first but then a huge smile spread across her face, and she was so happy and thankful! She told me that no _______ had ever done anything nice for her before. I felt so happy that I was able to _______ her day!

Then I went out to __________ for the bus at the bus stop. A lady came over to me. She was __________ about what bus she should take to get to her neighborhood __________ when her bus was coming. I __________ it to her, and she told me that she was 78 years old and she would not be able to remember the __________. So I wrote it on her hand. She was so __________ and we stood and chatted for a while.

I remembered I had __________ chocolate bar in my bag so I gave it to her along with a smile card. She was really __________ and then said that every time she __________ to this exact bus stop, someone comes and helps her. She said she thinks each of them is like an __________ each time.

As my bus drove up, I said goodbye to her, __________ her a hug, and we parted our own ways.

【推荐2】“What kind of stuff do you write? ” one student asked on my first day at the University of Massachusetts. After a decade away from the classroom, I was back to_______.

“I write creative nonfiction, ” I said, “as you’ll be doing.”

It was a_______. I couldn't remember when I'd last written a_______essay. But it must have been before my mother fell ill, leaving me feeling my family story wouldn't end_______. It seemed that nothing I wrote could change that._______I couldn’t write my own stories, I could_______my students to tell theirs. “You’re going to keep a_______in this class, and I want you to tell your stories like they_______.”

“Why do they matter? ” a boy named Michael asked. Looking out at the roomful of students, I_______. No one said a word. Many of them, I learned, worked while in school. Most didn’t know their stories did matter. They didn’t even realize their stories were as________as their own lives.

Finally, I looked at Michael. “They matter because they’re what you have. Stories allow us to make meaning of what we’ve________.” I said. Michael didn’t look________, but he didn’t challenge me, either.

In his first essay, Michael wrote about how his high school English teacher saw his________and helped him fill out a college________. I had Michael read his essay out loud. After he finished, the class went so ________that we could hear the sound of each other’s________. I looked at him and saw a small________in his dark eyes. Then, I said, “That’s why you tell your stories.”

I went home that night and________my journal from where it lay, dusty and________. For the first time in months, I had to________.

【推荐3】My brother and I were in Orlando, Florida to witness our first space shuttle launch. The Discovery was scheduled to soar at 10:14 am on a blue sky September day. I’d seen it go up so many times on television, ________now I was only minutes away from seeing it launch. And it’s the final demonstration of the nature of success: success takes ________like a rocket.

Standing close to the space shuttle drives home one ________point—the shuttle is the height of a 15-story building—it weighs 4.5 million pounds—and NASA is trying to lift it 200 miles off the ground. On TV the accomplishments look so much smaller, so much easier.

Crowds of people are standing around with you to watch the shuttle go. The countdown begins through the small________of hundreds of portable radios all tuned to the NASA station. It’s enough to get your heart ________out of your chest.

When time is up, the ________ booster rockets are lit up and the eight explosive bolts followed. The first things you see are large white steam clouds exploding away. Through the steam, you see the fire power. Then the space shuttle begins to inch off the pad and climb its way________. Thousands upon millions of pounds of push can ________lift the shuttle at all. But with ever increasing ease, the shuttle ________up and roars into the sky, headed into space attaining a speed of over 17,000 mph.

It is within the first two minutes to launch the space shuttle that the great success lesson is ________. Fact: 85% of the shuttle’s fuel is consumed ________the first 2 minutes just to get the 15-story super structure to its orbital altitude.

And that’s exactly how success takes off: the first steps you take towards launching a successful career are the hardest and will require enormous ________of energy—a great big________. However, if you persist through the_________period, which can seem almost________for quite some time, everything gets easier and easier and your achievements get bigger and bigger.