【推荐1】Mickey Wilson was on the mountain at the Basin Ski Area. He with his friends Simmons and Mueller had got ______ the cable car (索道缆车) when they heard a scream. Their friend Richard was on the cable car ahead of them, but when they reached the top, Richard disappeared. They walked toward the ______ and found skiers stood on the slope (坡), ______ to the cable car.

“Oh, Richard!” ______ Wilson.

When Richard tried to jump off the cable car, his backpack was ______ in the chair. The backpack belt twisted around his neck, making him ______. The cable car operator quickly stopped it. Now Richard’s body was swinging four feet above the snow. The friends ______ the skis on their feet and ran toward the scene. Their efforts to make a human pyramid to reach Richard were ______. With the clock ticking, Wilson ran to the ladder of a nearby lift tower. Scared skiers watched as he ______ up. After reaching the top, Wilson’s first ______ was to climb onto the steel cable that held the chairs. Then he sat over the cable and used his hands to pull himself to Richard quickly. Wilson’s greatest fear wasn’t that he’d fall, ______ that he wouldn’t reach Richard. “This was ______ or death,” he said. In the process, his jacket was stuck on the movable footrest. The footrest began to slide down with Wilson ______. Fortunately he managed to free himself and reached Richard ______ that could happen.

The patrol (巡查) had gathered below and performed emergency ______ on Richard who had been hanging for 5 minutes and then skied him down to an ambulance.

【推荐2】Many times my friend June would say, “If I ever get rich, I’m getting a completely new wardrobe（衣橱） and moving into a bigger apartment.” I thought her chances of being ________was about the same as mine. But, to everyone’s _______, a few years ago June did come into a large inheritance(遗产).

At first June said very little about the money. As the initial (最初的) shock _______, she became excited. June is a great believer in making _______, so I wasn’t surprised to find her writing down all the ways she would _______ her new wealth.

As time went on, what had been midway on the list was now at the _______. At last, I said to her, “You know, it isn’t _______ to spend all your inheritance at once. Take your _______;   think about it.” “I know, I know,” she answered with a bit of _______. Then one morning June called. “I’ve ________ how to use my new inheritance. I want to see what you think,” she said. This wasn’t something I ________, but we had been friends so long.

As we sat, June ________ a sheet of paper on the table. To my great surprise, she had written only two words: “Charities (慈善事业)”, and “children”. ________ I had sworn to keep quiet, I couldn’t keep from ________ how she came to this decision.

“Well,” she said, “I took your ________ and thought about it.” She added, “Helping others means a lot to me, so I’m hoping the ________ will help people in need.”

I ________, “But what about this big apartment you most hoped to have?”

“At first it was ________, but it doesn’t seem as important any more,” she answered with a smile.

Then June ________ her hand, and I could see a few words written in tiny letters at the bottom of the page. After having a look at the small print, I burst into ________. June had written: “AND one new wardrobe.”

【推荐1】It was a cool October evening. Excitement and family members_______the hall. I was only a 7-year-old girl, but I was the center of_______. Finally, after weeks of preparation, I would_______all my hard work in a dance of performance. Everything would be_______—so I thought. I waited backstage all_______ in my black tights with a golden belt. In a loud and clear voice, the master of ceremonies_______that my class was next.

My dance class was doing a routine on wooden boxes two feet by two feet, facing the_______. All I had to do in the next move was to put one foot on the box next to mine and keep my other foot on my box. It really was an _______move. I was concentrating so much _______the huge smile on my face and holding my head up that I did not look ________I was going. I missed my partner’s box altogether and ________.There I was standing on the stage floor when my classmates were on top of their boxes. I could hear giggles(咯咯笑) coming from the audience, and I felt the________rush to my face. I remembered my dance teacher had told us, “If you make a mistake, keep smiling so the audience will not________.I did my best to follow her________as I continued with the routine.

When the curtain dropped, so did my________for the evening. I________bitterly, tasting the salt from the tears that streamed down my face. I ran backstage, but no one could________me down.

Recently I realized I had been a________that night. I was ________but I fought the urge to run off the stage.________I finished the routine with a smile on my face. Now when friends and family laugh about the time I slipped during a dance performance, I can laugh too.

【推荐3】Once upon a time, there was a king who had twin sons. There was some _______ about which one had been born first. As they grew up, the king sought out a _______ way of choosing one of them as the crown prince.

One day he said, “My sons, the _______ will come when one of you must succeed (继任) me as king. The _______ of power are very heavy. To find out which of you is _______ able to bear them cheerfully, I'm sending you to one of my advisors, who will place equal burdens on your _______. My crown will go to the one who first _______ bearing his burden.”

The brothers _______ together at once. Soon they met a weak and _______ woman struggling under a heavy weight. One of the boys suggested that they stop to help her. The other ________, “We have a burden of our own to worry about. Let’s be on our way.”

So the second son ________ on while the first stayed behind to help the woman. As he continued, the first son found others who needed ________: a blind man who needed assistance to go home and a lost child whom he carried back to her ________ parents.

Eventually he did reach his father’s advisor, ________ his own burden, and went back home with it ________ on his shoulders. When he arrived back at the palace, his brother met him at the gate and greeted him with ________. “I don’t understand, ” the brother said. “I ________ Father the burden was too heavy to carry. How did you ________ it alone?”

The future king replied ________, “I suppose by helping others carry their burdens. I ________ the strength to bear my own.”

【推荐1】I love football. I started playing when I was nine years old, and football got me through difficult periods. It helped make me who I am today. And even though I did not _________ the National Football League (NFL), I sometimes think I got more from _________ that dream, but not realizing it.

My romance with football started when my dad _________ me, kicking and screaming, to join a league. I had no _________ to be there. I was naturally _________ and the smallest kid by far. _________ turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a huge and strong guy. And he was really _________ and old-fashioned.

Coach Graham used to push me _________. I remember one practice _________. “You’re doing it all wrong, Pausch. Go back! Do it again!” I tried to do what he wanted. It wasn’t enough. “You __________ me, Pausch! Go to do push-ups after __________!”

When I was finally __________, one of the __________ coaches came up to me. “Coach Graham pushed you pretty hard, didn’t he?” he said.

“That’s a good thing,” the assistant told me. “When you’re doing badly and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they’ve __________ you.”

That __________ has influenced my whole life. When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody’s willing to tell you anymore, that’s a bad place to be. You may not want to hear it, but your __________ are often the ones telling you they still love you and care about you, and want to make you __________.

When Coach Graham first got hold of me, I was such a weak kid with no __________ and no physical strength. But he made me realize that if I work hard enough, there will be things I can do __________ that I can’t do today. Even now, having just turned forty-seven, I can give you a three-point stance that any NFL lineman would be __________ of. I really felt grateful to Coach Graham for what he had done to me, though it surely didn’t feel good at that time to do so many push-ups after practice.

【推荐2】I wrote my first novel when I was 22. It was a mess. I didn’t know how to properly organize dialogues and structure a plot (情节). Those were all _________. I planned to work out later. I gave the book to my father to read, and he left me a voice mail in a few days saying that it was _________ and that I was going to sell it for $300,000.

_________, and rather quickly, the book was _________ by every publisher in New York. If there were a literary prize for Most Rejections, I would have won it. I was _________: of course, but I knew better than to give up—writing wasn’t an easy job, and if this book wasn’t my _________ in, maybe the next one would be. I got back to work.

But this scenario (剧情) happened again: I wrote books...and then they wouldn’t _________. Still, my father’s faith in me never wavered (动摇), even if I worked a host of other jobs. Some of the jobs, like being a bookseller, were great and _________ to my writing life. Some, like selling overpriced jeans to 12-year-olds, were only insofar as they were material for future _________. And they were—because it finally __________. I sold a book! I was going to make it big!

I completely agree with the motivation speaker and author John Maxwell’s words: “Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities but in their __________ to reach their potential.” Life’s not __________. It never was, it isn’t now, and it won’t ever be. But do not fall into the entitlement trap of feeling you are a(n) __________. You are not. Get over it and __________ with it. And yes, most things are more __________ when you break a sweat to get them.

【推荐3】When I came to the USA I started to work as an electrician, with an Albanian man. We used to work a lot, and every day after work we had to do the _________. Sometimes the work was demolition (拆除), and the _________ to be cleaned was a lot. I remember how much I _________ to end up being covered with dust and with dust in my throat. He used to notice that even though I wouldn’t _________ nor say a word. He would always notice.

When I was cleaning, he would _________ sing a song: “Clean Up, Clean Up, Everybody Clean Up” with a _________ tone of voice to make me feel better. Plus that funny accent of his. That was just enough to _________ the whole afternoon and a _________ day at work. After hearing him singing that, I used to _________ start to sing with him. That would give me the __________ to keep working until I finished cleaning, and left the place __________.

Even now I remember the song and I use it for __________ times at work: When I have a lot to __________ but have to help someone else: “helping, helping, everybody helping”. It is a way to just __________ the present time and understand that __________ it’ll be over. As long as you are there __________ with people around you that somehow depend on your work, try to __________ it and do your best.

I hope this act of __________ can reach you and you’ll sing it to __________ on a difficult day. He came here in USA as well and he knows what it feels like to be in my __________, and that’s why he is so supportive.