【推荐1】At the mid-May in 2018, the 69 year-old amputee(被截肢者) Xia Boyu finally stood proud on two artificial legs on the peak of Mount Qomolangma, a symbol showcasing to the world the power of ________.

More than 40 years ago, Xia ________ both of his feet to frostbite after lending his sleeping bag to a team member during the trip to climb Mount Qomolangma.

Even though artificial legs were not ________ in China at the time, Xia strongly believed that he would one day fulfill his ________ dream and so, before that day came, the best thing to do was to prepare himself by training constantly. Three years later he finally got his new legs, which enabled him to ________ his sports career.

However, fate once again took a ________ turn when he was in his 40s. In 1993, illness ________ on the stumps(残肢) on his legs, which required another third of his lower legs be amputated.Three years after that, he was diagnosed with lymph cancer.

Over the years, Xia never gave up his dream of climbing Mount Qomolangma. ________ to his final successful climb in 2018, he had tried four other times to climb to the summit, but each time Lady Luck gave him the ________.

The last time he got close to his dream was in 2015. The then 57-year-old was only 94 meters from the summit, but a snow storm ________ his way. Taking his team members’ ________ into consideration, Xia made the ________ decision to go back.

On May14, Xia felt ________ and a strong sense of fulfillment welled up in him, standing on the peak of the highest mountain in the world.

“The key is to focus on your dreams, instead of the hardship you encounter along the way. I didn’t regret anything that I had done and accepted everything that life had ________ me, but I never stopped fighting against ________.” Xia said, stressing that fulfilling one’s dream has nothing to do with age, disability or the thoughts or expectations of others, but a firm belief in yourself.

【推荐2】Picture that your life is like a treasure hunt. One day, a particular goal_________ your attention and you decide to_________ on a treasure hunt. You begin the long hike and encounter a challenge or two along the way. Already the_________ path is starting to look different from the buried treasure that you have been imagining. Things get worse when you finally arrive at the spot. You say to yourself, “This doesn’t look like the treasure I_________ imagined! I must be on the wrong path. I_________ all this time!”

You wonder, “Hmm ... maybe I should_________ goals?” after thinking for a few moments. It’s natural to feel a sense of disappointment or_________ when this occurs, but I think the deeper problem is _________ in how we approached the treasure in the first place.

The_________ is that most people spend all of their time thinking about the treasure. The fastest way to get to a particular spot, __________, is to set your compass and start walking. The idea here is to commit to your goal with the strongest belief. Develop a clear, single-minded__________ for where you are headed. And then devote all of your energy to the journey and be committed to the path you are walking.

In other words, your goal becomes your compass, not your buried treasure. The goal is your__________, not your destination. The goal is a mission that you are on, a path that you__________.That is just fine and worthwhile, __________ comes from that path. It is the commitment to walking the path that__________.

【推荐3】After I graduated from the university, I got so pressured in finding a job. I did a lot of _________ both online and handing in person to a particular company. It occurred, one day I went to _________ my CV (履历) to a certain company and I wanted to meet the human resource manager in person because I believed it was a better _________ than leaving my CV at the reception.

Unfortunately, in this company the _________ did not allow me to see the human resource manager and _________ asked me to just leave the CV with her and that she would _________ it. I was really _________ since I knew she wouldn't do that and my CV will just be thrown in the trash can, I thought so because it usually _________ a lot in some other companies. So I just left with my head _________ and never thought about it again since I knew I would never get any __________ from the company.

Weeks passed and one day I received a call from a(an) __________ number and guess what...it was the human resource manager of that same company. I was really shocked since I did not __________ it at all. So he said he received my CV and that he would __________ it.

I was so happy and felt bad at the same time for __________ the receptionist the other day. This humbled me and it was a __________ to believe in people and not assume things just because of the norm.

【推荐1】One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder(找茬人). However, life can be _______ when you are not busy finding fault with it.

Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always _______ by things. People were always doing things that annoyed her, and nothing was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends. She became a really _______ person.

Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her _______. Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash. What made it almost _______ to deal with was that the day before the accident, Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her _______ of boyfriends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various other things she felt she needed to _______. It wasn’t until her friend was badly hurt that Kerry became _______ her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to _______ everything so harshly(刻薄地). She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her ____________ as well.

Perhaps most of us aren’t as extreme at fault-finding, but when we’re honest, we can be sharply ____________ of the world. I’m not suggesting you ____________ problems, or that you pretend things are ____________ than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are — at least most of the time, and especially when it’s not a really big ____________.

Train yourself to “bite your tongue”, and with a little ____________, you’ll get really good at letting things go. And when you do, you’ll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.

【推荐2】We live in a world increasingly dominated by science. Since elementary school, I have always _________ subjects like science and math. To me, these subjects, full of discoveries and _________, seem to play more significant role in human progress than humanities. And I always _________ thought of these subjects as more solid and serious than classes like English. If there was no right _________ I thought, why bother? But recently I had an _________ that taught me my academic interests are more flexible than I had thought: I took my first philosophy class.

Before I entered the classroom, I was _________. I waited outside with the other students and wondered what exactly philosophy would involve. I imagined getting into pretty long and boring conversations _________ intended to reflect on the meaning of life. But what I got was something quite _________.

A young man in jeans, Mr. Jones — “but you can call me Rob” — was far from the white-haired, buttoned-up old man I had _________. Rather than pulling us into dull arguments about difficult-to-understand philosophical points, Rob__________ us on our level. To talk free will, we looked at our own __________. To talk morals, we looked at dilemmas we had faced ourselves. By the end of class, I’d discovered that questions with no right answer can turn out to be the most __________ ones.

It __________ me that if I let go of my __________, I can actually get a lot out of the subjects I once thought little of. The class taught me — in more ways than one — to look at things with a(n) __________ mind.

【推荐1】Gerry Keene was about 20 minutes into his caving tour in the Tom Moore cave system near Perryville, Missouri, when one of the kids with him spotted a dog ahead of them.

The dog, curled (蜷) up on the mud floor, looked rather _______, because when they approached with lights and greeted her, she just _______ lifted her head but wouldn’t move at all. It was _______ that the dog was not in the right place, but they had no idea how to rescue it. They _______ a light for her and went out to get help.

Keene called Rick Haley, another experienced _______, who soon arrived and joined them. But figuring out how best to get the dog out took a bit of _______, since the rescue equipment on hand was really _______ for humans. Haley had an idea of using a bag and a blanket to move the dog like a package.

The channel in the cave was tight and upright in places, so it was a little _______ to move down. It was about 500 feet from the entrance, Haley _______, when they got back to where the dog was. He did a __________ assessment to her, gently moved her into the bag and covered her with the blanket. Then they started moving her __________ towards the entrance until finally getting out of the cave. In total, the rescue __________ took about an hour and a half. The dog was soon __________ by the local people and finally reunited with her owner after __________ for two months. Keene said their cave project didn’t go exactly as planned, but was an unforgettable experience for the __________. “If it weren’t for the project, we’d have never found the dog,” he said.

【推荐2】I was having a great morning until I sat down in front of my office computer. “Your password has expired(失效),”   a server message flashed on my _______, with instructions for changing it.

_______ a new code doesn’t seem like a big deal, _______ you work at my company, where we have to change it monthly with no less than eight characters.

Suddenly I was angry. What made it _______ was that I was deeply depressed after my recent _______. Of course, that didn't mean _______ to the empty input field waiting for me to _______ a password. I remembered a(n) _______ from my former boss. He'd said, “I’m going to use a password to change my life.” It _______ me，reminding me that I shouldn’t let myself be a(n) __________ of my recent breakup and that I was strong enough to do something about it.

I made my password Forgive® h3r, and I had to type this __________ several times a day for the next 30 days. The simple action changed the way I looked at my ex-wife. That __________ reminder led me to accept the way things had happened and adopt a new way of dealing with my depression. __________ the month wore on, I felt a slow recovery begin to __________. By the time my server reminded me of my password the following month, I felt __________. One month later, when I was asked again to __________ my password，it became Quit smoking4ever. I quit smoking and __________ it brings great results.

Seeing how these __________ helped to materialize my goals kept me excited and __________ to follow my mothly goal. While it's sometimes difficult to come up with your next goal, __________ at it brings great results.

【推荐3】I was born in the Netherlands and lived there until I was 30 years old. In the Dutch context, I was emotionally intelligent, and I _______ expected that this could be any different.

When at the University of Michigan, I joined a discussion on _______. I introduced myself in an understated (Dutch) way as “interested in culture and emotion”. The professor, to fit American _______, added that I was one of the world’s experts on culture and emotion. In response, I looked down in _______ and said in a low voice that “expert” was a big word.

I lived in North Carolina and had new friends coming over to dinner. Conversations were lively that evening. When my guests left, they _______ me for dinner. My heart sank, because in the Netherlands, “thanking for dinner” means the relationship is _______.

The Netherlands and the US do not have massively different _______. But emotional interactions between individuals from these different cultures are not _______. The professor meant to make me feel good, but instead made me _______. My friends meant to show gratitude, but they made me think they were distancing themselves from us instead. Where did it go wrong in these interactions?

I now think the answer is that we were interacting with different ________ in mind. In the US, it is important that people feel good about themselves: other people help you ________ and have self-esteem (自尊). You are an expert, and you made the special effort to cook us this delicious dinner. ________, in the Netherlands, it is important to make true ________with other people, and not to pretend you are better than anybody else. The daily dances of emotions are ________: Americans dance to the music of making each other special, while Dutch dance to the music of true connection. And when you ________ them up, people start stepping on each other’s toes.