【推荐1】Ever since I was very young, afraid of making mistakes, I’ve asked countless times “What should I do?”

However, during my high school years, I _______. Maybe it was when I decided to try for the lead in Beauty and the Beast. I would have to memorize lines and movements, but I took the chance that I might fail. On the day of practice, my heart was pounding; my hands were _______ badly when I got up to sing. But when I opened my mouth, the sound was loud and _______. I reached for the high notes that sometimes were beyond my reach, which made me very _______. I was trying to do my best even though I might fail. I realised that if I wanted to live life to the fullest, I had to take _______.

Now, I do take these chances, with baby steps every day, voicing my opinions in class discussions or debates and riding my bike for exercise.

Three years ago, I broke my back when I fell from my bike. The _______ stopped me from trying out for basketball. But I didn’t give up. The first day my doctor _______ me to do any physical activity, I started running with my mom. No stop-watches. No cheering crowds. I didn’t make the basketball team, but I didn’t fail, either.

I have finally learned to _______ myself, like taking a tough science course. And I have come to realise that even though my parents, friends and teachers don’t always have the _______ to “What should I do?”, they will be there to ________ me when I try.

【推荐2】There was a little, but always strange girl. Everything was bad for her. She wished to meet an enchantress (女巫) that would turn her life a _______ tale.

One day an enchantress came and said that one of her wishes would _______. The girl became very happy at first, but then she started to think that she had a lot of wishes and all of them were _______ for her. She could not _______ just one. Then the _______ enchantress said that she would help her realize one wish every day. The girl became _______—now all her dreams will become realities.

From that day on, she was waiting every morning with joy and _______. Then as days passed, the dreams became real ones... But soon the little girl realized that _______ of the wishes didn’t give her joy and happiness which she _______ for. Many wishes brought her disappointment, and some __________ a pain. Almost every dream was an empty little girl’s caprice (任性). Though being __________, she suddenly found that she did not __________ this. Soon she started to __________ dreams. She was afraid to __________ every day, waiting for the realization of another wish. Crying, she asked the enchantress to __________ only one her dream-to live as she lived __________ and enjoy life.

The good enchantress had __________ upon the little girl. She waved her magic wand and disappeared. The girl was happy __________ she knew that now she would carefully seek for her one big __________ dream, not wasting time with short-term, __________, quite unnecessary wishes.

【推荐3】This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana, who also _________ to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know, went blind in one eye about nine years ago. Diana sometimes feels _________ about the way her eye looks now. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “glows” in photos. Diana recently bought a special contact lens (隐形眼镜片) that makes her eye look like it did _________ it changed color, but she doesn’t wear this lens often because it becomes quite _________ after about an hour.

One night during our holiday, a hotel _________ was taking pictures of the guests as they entered the area set up for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to _________ this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so shiny in the picture.

The next day, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted. While we were talking, the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, _________ her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, “I _________ the color of your eyes in the picture.” As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, “Look! He fixed my _________!” The photographer stopped. He __________ around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana’s shoulder, leaned in again and gently said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t fix your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I __________ matched the color.”

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her __________ to hear these beautiful words. It didn’t take much time and made so much __________. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.

I have always loved the saying: “The world is full of good people. If you can’t __________ one, be one!” Your acts of __________ can impact on the world in profound ways!