【推荐2】When you walk through the doors of Morton Plant Hospital on an early Tuesday afternoon,you’ll be greeted by the comforting voice of Mary Ellen Owens.

Owens, who is now 98, started _____ at the hospital after her husband died nearly 20 years ago. “My husband was a (n) _____ here, off and on for about six weeks over four years,” she _____. “Everyone at the hospital had been so good to us when he was sick.” To show her _____, Owens wanted to repay the hospital in a special way. “I don’t have several million dollars, but I can give my _____,” she said.

Owens is approaching 7,000 hours in volunteer time. “I used to give three days a week,”she said. “Now I’m _____. I don’t get around as much as I _____, so I only give one day a week.”

To get to her weekly four-hour _____, Owens receives a ride from a volunteer who she now calls her friend. “Every _____, Richard picks me up from my home and brings me here,”she said. “I don’t believe people of my age should be ______.”

In her younger years, Owens used to walk up and down the fashion runways in New York City and Richmond, Virginia. She also had a(n) ______ to be in the 1939 classic film Gone with the Wind. Because she had other work at the time, however, Owens ______ to turn it down, ______ she thought it would be entertaining.

“What I didn’t do in my life is more interesting than what I’ve done,” she laughs. ______ she’s in good health now, Owens plans to continue to live her life with a ______—greeting each patient with a smile.

【推荐3】Over the last 15 years, as a doctor, I have had heart-to-heart conversations with countless patients near the end of their lives. The most common emotion they express is_______. And that’s_______I came up with a project to encourage people to write a_______to their loved ones. It’s a lesson I learned years ago from a memorable_______patient.

He was a retired_______with a cancer. Every day, his_______spent many hours watching him watch television. She explained to me he had never been much of a_______in their 50-plus years of marriage. But he seemed quite_______to share his ideas with me,_______when it became clear his days were________. He spoke of his deep regret for not having spent enough time with his wife, and of his great________in his son, who had joined the Navy in his father’s footsteps.

One afternoon, when I mentioned these________to his wife and son, they looked disbelievingly at each other. They thanked me for being so kind but________my patient was unlikely to express such feelings. To make sure his family could hear his________, I took my video camera with me the next morning and with the patients’________, recorded an open letter from him to his family. When I gave them the________letter, both his wife and son were moved to tears.

The experience________my letter project, which can help people complete their life review tasks: remembering to those we may have hurt;________those who have hurt us and saying “I love you”. It may take much courage to write a life review letter. For some people, it________deep and troubling emotions.________it may be the most important letter you will ever write.

【推荐2】We talk about the persistence (坚持不懈) needed to make our dream come true today. Just think of Wilbur and Orville Wright. Their ___certainly didn’t happen overnight!

Wilbur was 12 years old and Orville 8 when their father brought home a ___. It was a rubber ___made in France. They ___it so much that they played with it until it broke. Immediately, they began ___copies. They were hooked on aviation (飞行器制造)! In 1900, as young men, having built their first glider (滑翔机), they decided to ___it out at Kitty Hawk on Kill Devil Hills. It ___consistent strong winds, and the somewhat cushioning effects of sand. That first flight was unsuccessful, ___it didn’t stop them. After several more tries, on December 17, 1903, with a much ___plane, they risked their lives to drive it in the wind. They ____flying the world’s first powered airplane. Beginning at 10:35 a.m. that day, Orville ____it 120 feet in about 12 seconds! At 12:00, Wilbur flew it 852 feet in 59 seconds! Johnny Moore, one of the five men who ____them that morning (in charge of dragging the plane across the sand for positioning), ran to the village of Kitty Hawk ____, “They’ve made it!” This was the ____of aviation! At this time, Wilbur was 36 and Orville 32. Roughly 24 years had passed ____their father gave them that toy!

If you have a ____, work at it. If it doesn’t turn out as ____, don’t give up! Try again! Who wants to live and say somewhere, “If only” or “What if?” ____what you want and accomplish it. Don’t ever give up! ____in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more ____than unsuccessful men with talent. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts (流浪汉). Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent (无所不能的).

【推荐3】Jay Chou (周杰伦)was born in Taiwan on January 18, 1979. Now he is one of the most popular singers in China and famous as the king of Chinese popular music.

Jay was _________ by his mother who was a single mother and a teacher in a high school. Showing _________ in music, little Jay was taught to play the piano at the age of three. _________ he was a third-grade student in a primary school, his mother _________ to give him music lessons every day. She also took him to concert (音乐会)to _________ his taste for music. Those were beneficial to his careers later.

Jay first entered the music industry when he _________ a talent show as a pianist with his friends. Although his performance wasn’t _________, the organizer saw his music _________ and gave him a chance. He was _________ to write music for other singers. During the following years, he ____________ many songs and some of them became popular, but almost ____________ knew him.

Later, Jay got a ____________ to produce an album of his own. In 2000, he released (发行)his first ____________, to everyone’s ____________, which became an instant hit (成功). Soon he is popular throughout Asia, ____________ Taiwan.

Jay ____________ both Chinese and western music to produce his own music, which is quite different from mainstream Taiwanese music. His songs cover ____________ topics. For example, the song Dad I am Back is about family life, and the song Rice Fields ____________ environmental protection. Taipei Times once named his music Chou Style.

According to Baidu, the most popular Internet search engine in China, Jay is the number one searched singer in 2002, 2006 and 2007. And Jay was ____________ as one of the 50 most important ____________ in China in 2009.

【推荐1】Erik, an athletic child, lost his vision in his early teen. At first he _____to use a walking stick or learn Braille (盲文),_____ he could do as well as any teenage. He finally came to_____his disability, though. He couldn’t play the same _____as he used to. But then he discovered wrestling, a sport where ____ wasn’t as important as touch and ____. Then, at 16, he discovered rock climbing was like wrestling in some ways. A wrestler and a rock climber _____information through touch. From rock climbing _____mountain climbing, the greatest challenge of his life.

Erik’s teammates say he isn’t different from a______mountaineer. The major difference is that he isn’t as thin as most climbers. ____, his strong upper body, flexibility and mental toughness make him a(n)______climber. The only help for Erik’s blindness is to place ____ on his teammates’ jackets so that he can follow them _____

Climbing Mount Everest was_____ for every climber on every team. The _____to the mountain air for Erik was the same as it was for his teammates:______of oxygen causes the heart to beat slower, and the brain doesn’t _____as clearly as normal. In some ways, Erik had an advantage_____ his teammates：as they got near the top, the vision of all climbers was ____. So at a certain altitude, all his teammates were like Erik--nearly______

To climb Mount Everest is an achievement for any athlete. Erik showed his disability wasn’t as important as his ability.

【推荐3】Anthony was excited to hand out invitations to his graduation from the university to his family on Monday. To his surprise, he wasn’t the only one, as his mother, Gray, followed with a letter that had the ________ information for the same ceremony (典礼).

“Her picture was on an invitation saying that she’ll be graduating from the university the same day,” says Anthony, “I was curious.” Without any ________ that his mother was attending the same school at the same time.

Gray just ________ how she kept it that way. “I knew Anthony’s timetable. So I never met him at school.” She made sure to keep her secret just between herself and her husband.

She says of why she kept her return to school ________. “I was ________ because you’re talking about an older lady competing against younger students in one class. You can imagine how ________ it was.”

The mother explains it was always a dream to go back to school. “A friend of mine spoke a word to me, ‘If you are still alive, then it’s not too ________.’ And I thought of those words and I attended classes.”

Gray and Anthony will be graduating together in a virtual (虚拟的) ceremony held by the school. ________ it isn’t the graduation that either of them expected, it might be even better. “There are people who may have a dream, but don’t quite have the ________ to complete it. And I just want to ________ them to go forward and make sure it becomes a reality.”