【推荐1】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.

I was in my office, when a young man came by. He was obviously very _______ and close to tears. He was an older student and always appeared like a tough guy, _______showing emotion.

He had told me _______ that he was dealing with some difficult_______problems. He was a caregiver for his sister who was ill. This day he came in, sat down and just sobbed(抽泣). I _______while he told me how he had been up all night in the hospital with his sister and that was why he couldn’t take my exam that morning. I told him not to_______it at all. He was clearly in no shape for an exam. I told him to go home and_______ I reassured(使放心) him that I would do everything I could to help him get through the class.

I just sat there while he sobbed. “I think she might die,” he gasped(喘着气说). “What am I going to do?” It was clear to me that he had never _______ this fear out loud to anyone. I just sat there, fully focused on him and his_______, and tried to offer some soft words of ________

After quite some time, he________himself. I reassured him again that it didn’t matter to me when he took his exam and that I would help him through. Then he left.

Afterwards, I felt like his ________was a blessing(为人带来幸福的事). Being able to help him while I was in pain myself was the most valuable gift.

Life never gives more than we can handle.

【推荐3】Itzhak Perlman, the world famous violinist, got polio (小儿麻痹症) as a child. _______, you know that getting on stage is not easy for him.

On November 18, 1995, he came on stage to give a _______ at Lincoln Centre in New York City. That night Perlman walked _______ to his chair. Then he sat down and began to play. But suddenly, one of the strings on his violin broke. You could hear it break with a loud _______.

People thought to themselves, “He would have to get up to either _______ another violin or another string for this one. But he didn’t. _______ he waited a moment, closed his eyes and then signaled the conductor to begin again. The orchestra (管弦乐队) began, and he played from where he had _______. He such passion and such power. Of course, everyone knew that it was _______ to play a symphonic work with just three strings. But that night Itzhak Perlman _______ to know that. You could see him changing and recomposing the piece in his head.

When he finished, there was a ________ in the room. Then people rose and cheered. We were ________, doing everything we could to show how much we ________ what he had done. He smiled and then he said in a quiet tone, “You know, sometimes it is the artist’s task to ________ how much music you can make with what you have left.”

His words have ________ in my mind ever since I heard them. That is also the way of life. Perhaps our ________ in this quickly changing world in which we live is to make music, at first with all that we have, and then, when that is no longer possible, to make music with what we have left.

【推荐3】Lisa is a world-class speaking coach now, but even she didn’t know she had a voice once. It was _______ when she first started out. At school, she was_______ every day. At one point, a classmate told her that she was “God’s _______”.

She auditioned (试演) to be in Charlie’s Angel and the Bionic Woman, but she was_______, though she won every event in the _______. Since then, for the next 15 years, Lisa_______ herself, “Why am I here? Why me this skin?” And she dealt with _______ self-respect problems. She sat inside self-blame and _______ and tried her best to prove that she was_______ enough.

Her day came when she received a__________applause from an audience of 15,000 people after her poem recital (朗诵会) at church-one of the__________ being TV’s Bionic Woman, Lindsay Wagner. Lindsay told her, “Sweetheart, I’m __________ in Hollywood. You with your journey, you are the __________Bionic Woman.”

It was then that Lisa realized, the__________was not in trying to find validation (验证) in others-it was in __________. Though it took her 15 years to learn this, it was a journey she had to__________. And because of that journey, her __________became so much more powerful.

Each of us has a voice. But how many times have you __________ your brilliant ideas? Your voice makes a __________ and you don’t have to wait to get on a stage to use your voice. What do you __________ wish you could share with the world? Be brave and speak your voice!