【推荐1】Carol’s husband was killed in a car accident last year.

Jim, only 52, was _______ home from work. The other driver was a teenager who had _______ a lot. Jim died at once. The teenager was in the _______ for less than three hours.

It was Carol’s fiftieth birthday, and Jim had two plane tickets to Hawaii in his pocket. He was going to _______ her. However, he was killed by a drunken driver.

“How have you _______ this?” I asked Carol, a year later.

_______   welled up(涌出) in her eyes. I thought I had said the _______     thing, but she said, “It’s all right. I want to _______     you. The day I married Jim, I promised I would never let him leave the house in the morning _______     telling him I loved him. He made the same________ _ . It got to be a joke between us, and as we grew older it got to be a(n) ________ promise to keep.

“I remember running down the driveway, saying ‘I love you’ just before he drove out of my     ________, or driving all the way to his office just to put a(n) ________   saying ‘I love you’ on his car. It was a funny     ________.

“We made a lot of________     trying to say ‘I love you’ before noon every day of our married life.

“The morning Jim ________,he left a birthday card in the kitchen and then left ________. I heard the engine starting. Oh, no, I thought. I________ out quickly and knocked on the car window ________ he rolled it down.

“Here on my fiftieth birthday I, Carol Garret, want you, Mr James E. Garret, to ________ that ‘I love you!’

“That’s how I’ve survived, knowing that the last words I said to Jim were, ‘I love you!’”

【推荐2】Our 13-year-old son won a local “Hoop （篮球）Shooting" competition and entered the regional competition. So on Saturday morning we _______ our bags and headed down to Green Bay, Wisconsin to _______ many other basketball shooters for an _______ to move forward to the state championships.

In the competition, my son _______ waited his turn. Nearly an hour later, he went to the hoops. His first basket was a _______ .   We could see the frustration（沮丧）in his eyes. He tried _______ to shoot another hoop. Then another failure -- he shook his head in _______ . But he continued. Finally, he _______ to shoot a few balls and scored 20 points. My son _______ from his hoop, frustrated and disappointed, being ________ that he didn't make it because there were several guys getting over 40 points, already ________ his.

If it had been up to our ________ son to decide, he would have left before watching the game and ________ himself in our hotel. Instead, we took this chance to help him ________ this life disappointment: giving him time for frustration and then sharing our opinion on this ________. We told him: It's because of his earlier ________ that we were able to watch this game; it's ________ to fail. We all fail at some point in our lives. We were proud of him though he didn't ________ the prize.

In the end, we ________, watched the game, and had a great time! When you are ________ by life, don’t let it keep you down. As the old saying goes, “When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!”

【推荐3】It happened the day before Thanksgiving holiday when I just moved to my new school. Our teacher asked each student to bring cards, candies and other _______ to school. She wanted us to _______ Thanksgiving as a class. I looked forward to the activity and thought it would be a good chance to know my _______ one by one, so I asked my mum to help me make some nice cookies and Thanksgiving cards. I couldn’t _______ to present them with my gifts.

When the day finally _______, things went very well at first. All of us were busy giving out gifts and seemed very _______. However, when our teacher asked each of us to _______ what we received and say whom it came from, I realized that I received _______. I couldn’t hold back my _______ as the teacher called my ________, because I didn’t get anything from anyone. I was ________ by the young people who were my new classmates.

It was surely a ________ Thanksgiving Day for me. But I didn’t want to ________ my classmates. I knew they did not ignore me ________. They just didn’t remember me because I just arrived a few days ago.

Since then, I tried to be kind to them and ________ hard. And what I did eventually paid off. I became one of the ________ students in my class. My teachers and classmates were ________ of me and I always had many good friends by my side.

I’m glad that I made the right decision and ________ my classmates’ friendship in the end. It also helped me realize that only kindness and ________ can lead to lasting friendship. That is one of the best ________ I have learned in my lifetime.

【推荐2】Recently I met a guy named Leonard Gilbert on a trip. Leonard is the kind of people you could pass on the street and never _________ , but he is, in my view, a very special person who will _________ others' respect. Leo lives in a _________ rural area so when his wife had-cancer several years ago, Leo was faced with a four-and-a-half-hour drive to where she could be treated. That _________ lots of expense for meals, fuel, hotels and so on. But in the end the dancer took his wife _________ .

Evidently Leo was very _________ by his wife's passing but he was also very angry, for he realized other people were facing the same sorts of _________ . Rather than giving money to charities, what he did was starting to throw _________ .

Every other Saturday evening, there is a party in Leo's garage. Neighbors, friends and relatives come and bring snacks and drinks; many even bring _________ , for there is music and dancing, and at some point during the evening Leo __________ a family who are having difficulties __________ the cost of supporting a cancer patient undergoing __________ far from home. Then a honey-jar is passed around and the money __________ , every cent of it, goes __________ to that family. The people at the party have a good time. The family __________ that someone, probably someone they have never met knows what they are going through and __________ enough to help.

Leo's __________ to help the families of other cancer patients was born out of his own sadness, but, from the perspective of those who have received the money, it is an act of love. His personal __________ has resulted in act of kindness that honors the __________ of his beloved wife. Wouldn't it be nice if we had more people in the world like Leonard Gilbert? I'm glad I met Leo. He makes the world a __________ place.

【推荐3】Once I failed my comprehensive exam at university. Suddenly, I felt I was a _________. For the first time, I felt completely out of control. I started to go on a( n) _________ to deal with my stress and anxiety that _________ my desire for perfection.

What began as a seemingly _________ “lifestyle change” turned into an eating disorder. I spent more time _________ rice, cakes and other foods than studying. To eat “_________“ meals at home, I often turned down social gatherings. Over 9 months, as my stress and anxiety _________, I ate smaller and smaller dishes and denied (拒绝给予）my _________ the food it needed. Sometimes I would almost _________ upon standing and I became a walking skeleton (瘦骨如柴的人). My family and adviser asked whether I was OK and __________ time away from my lab, but my brain made excuses for how I was feeling and behaving. I __________ believed I was making myself better.

I didn't put a name to the __________ until I came across an article about disordered eating. I finally sought the help of a(n) __________. He told me that my eating disorder had __________ to do with food, exercise, or weight. ________, it was about my desire to be exceptional. Through weekly sessions, I unpacked 25 years of needing to be __________ . I learned tools to acknowledge and process my feelings, not by means of __________ calories.

Now, having been on the road to __________ for one year and a half, I enter my final year of graduate school with a completely __________ mindset about the person I want — rather than need — to be. Yes, I still want to __________ . But I don't want to seek perfection.