【推荐1】I was going on a vacation trip. It had taken several years for my dad to accumulate the ________ needed for such a big trip, but now we are going! My mother hated travelling ________ she had decided not to come. At first, I ________ about going off without her, but soon I became an eager traveler and felt very ________.

The first day out I noticed Dad was wearing his new ________. It was a birthday present from his mother, so he regarded it as a special gift. “Can I ________ your watch?” I remember asking, feeling ________ at the time and wanting to find something interesting. Dad passed it to me.

I ________ it, loving the smooth, rich feel of it. I put it on, and of course, it ________ loosely from my wrist. I moved it back and forth, from hand to hand. I held it out the window as we ________ along.

“Don’t drop it,” Dad said.

“I won’t,” I replied. “I’m holding it tight.” I would never be so ________, I thought. After all, I wasn’t a ________ anymore.

And just that second, it was out of my ________. I shouted, “I dropped it!”

Dad immediately ________ on the shoulder of the road and stopped the car. “We must look for it,” he said simply.

Tears flooded my eyes. We will never find it. I thought, my mind crushed by my ________ action. We kept searching. What if we never find it? Then, “Here it is!” Dad called. He held it to his car and ________. He studied it and smiled again. The watch was still working. Never had I felt such ________!

After all this time, I still ________ that thing and how miserable I felt. My dad never held it against me. As wise fathers do, he knew how ________ I felt and figured it was a good ________ for me.

【推荐1】I am a psychologist. Kate, a former client who I had helped, got a promotion recently. She came into my_________. I expected our conversation would be about her success._________, Kate mentioned she had a simple but serious problem—-she wasn’t getting along well with another manager called Mary. The two didn’t _________each other from the beginning, and as time passed things weren’t getting any better. Kate told me that it was becoming painfully clear that her inability to get on with Mary was going to block her success, and _________ ruin her career at the company.

As Kate and I _________ the situation, she told me Mary was seen as a highly talented and well-liked manager. But Kate believed that they had different _________, and Mary made her _________. I suggested Kate revisit their shared work. It was then that Kate realized Mary’s teamwork was important for getting the business _________ they all wanted. In measuring the relationship more honestly, Kate realized she’d been failing to _________ with Mary in positive ways. She hadn’t made Mary feel her efforts were valuable, and had more or less been trying to __________ her.

So Kate decided to __________ herself. She thought about the cause of the situation and how she responded to it. She reminded herself, “I won’t get along with everyone but there is possible__________ in every interaction with others. I can and should learn from almost everyone I meet.” Later Kate and Mary’s relationship greatly __________. Now they communicate frequently in person and join in each other’s team meetings. Take an honest look at what’s __________ the tension. Maybe your __________ to the situation is at the center of the problem.

【推荐2】Around six months after our son Todd’s_______, our younger son Brandon (then almost three)_______stuttering(结巴). Brandon and I went for a walk each night, and about this time we saw a dead, decaying (腐烂的)bird _______on the side of the road. Brandon referred to the bird_______being ”dead, just like Todd." He_______Todd often, and many people suggested that he needed _______help to deal with the experience of losing his brother.

As I prayed about Brandon’s problem, it seemed that the Lord(上帝) was telling me to _______the bird. But I argued against this. I did not even want to _______it!

Finally, I_______. We scooped(用铲子取) up the bird in a bucket and brought it________. I told Brandon to shake the bird and call it; I did the________. I then told him that only Jesus(耶稣) ________wake the little bird. I quoted the Bible and told him that________Jesus would come back and call in a loud voice, and all who loved Him would come________again. I said we would see Todd________Jesus woke him.

The next morning ________Brandon woke up, he did not stutter, and he has not stuttered________that day. A miracle(奇迹)? Yes, I believe it was, and ________the idea to bury the bird seemed ridiculous(荒谬的) to me, it had been the answer to my________.

Never stop believing because________happen every day!

【推荐3】I was out shopping with my kids. I would do my best to_______money, trying to make ends meet at the end of the month. When we stopped at our favorite_______, I saw a lady sitting by the roadside with a sign, saying she was homeless and needed_______. I figured on the _______ that I thought was enough to pay for our food. And I handed the rest to the lady. _______ , the next day was my pay day.

We stepped into the bakery for a_______for myself and my kid’s favorite cow cookies the bakery had _______to customers for more than 30 years._______, I was told prices had _______. The cookies which I used to get for $1.99 each were $2.50 now. I decided to give up my coffee. When the baker said the cookies were $ 12.50 in total,I told her, “I have to keep it under $12.00. This is the total I have in my________.”

Surprisingly, she rounded it down to $10. After I________her and was walking out, she told me to ________. She handed me two________cow cookies. It was a small________but made me feel so happy to receive. When we do one act of kindness, it gets________in return.