【推荐1】Winners are not born but made with efforts. I learned this ______ when I took the head coach job at a school with a weak football program in Georgia.

I made a ______ team soon and was ready to play against the old one at the end of spring practice, which was a school tradition. The old team had no coach, and even didn’t practice regularly. To win would be a ______ thing, I thought. However, to my disappointment we were defeated. ______ it, I came to realize that I had to change my ______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ______, treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we ______ passing and kicking the football every day.

Six months after the ______ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to ______. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a（n） ______ for us even if we lost the game. But the truth was my boys beat the best team in Georgia. I was ______!

How the attitude of the leader can ______ the team! Instead of seeing my boys as ______, I ______ them and helped them to see themselves ______, and built themselves into winners.

【推荐2】I’m a professor teaching people how to think more creatively.________, this lifetime passion was awakened by a casual contest when I was a child.

At a family picnic, children used to have the handkerchief-throwing contest, which I realize now, was not meant to show any real ________, but simply for laugh. But it stirred my love of thinking outside the________.

The host gave each child a cloth handkerchief and told us the winner would be the one who threw it the farthest. The first little throwers took ________ strength, but the cloth opened and fell to the ground. Then, one kid after another tried ________ to throw much farther. Finally, it________ me that the secret was actually to keep the cloth from ________! Suppose I hid a rock in the cloth without tying it. The rock would ________ the cloth at least farther than the others, and when they separated, people might not notice a small rock ________ in the grass. I had a good chance of ________with it, but I didn’t want to win by cheating. I had to make the handkerchief fly like a rock.

I began tying the handkerchief around itself to make it ________ . When I approached the line as the final contestant, people were already laughing. I took a long ________ , and the balled handkerchief rocketed off maybe 60 feet away. The laughing ________ suddenly. The host stared at me and then ran to check if I’d cheated the crowd. “It’s just the handkerchief,” he declared. The adults applauded and I felt ________.

This is how I learned the secret to creative thinking. I wanted to continue looking________what things seemed to be.

【推荐3】I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success, because there is no such person as a born winner. People turn themselves into winners by their own       _______

I learned this lesson from a(n) _______ many years ago. I took the head _______ job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a _______ for the school’s old team to play against the new team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to _______ the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated. I couldn’t _______ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _______ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _______ me. I had to change my _______ towards their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ________. Most importantly, I began to treat them like ________. That summer, When the other teams enjoyed their       ________, we met every day and ________ passing and kicking the football.

Six months after suffering our ________ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to win. ________, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a ________ for us even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the greatest ________     of my life!

From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ________       the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and ________ them. I helped them to see themselves ________, and they built themselves into winners. Winners are made, not born.

【推荐1】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to El Capitan, a ________ rock of 3, 300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew ________ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since — ________ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my ________.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ________, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s ________ me why visitors started respecting the place ________ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried ________ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would ________ an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ________ it that I decided something had to change.

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________ about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ________. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others ________ you start with yourself.

【推荐2】By the end of last year, my husband and I had settled in a house with an ocean view in New Zealand. We love it here and fell like we have _______ our life goals—well, one of them. The other goal is to _______ what we have now.

Life isn’t always like this. I _______ when I was growing up I always felt as though I was going through life for the only purpose of _______ my parents. The only _______ with this was that I was the only person who knew about that _______.

Things didn’t really _______ when I went to boarding school. I was absolutely sorry I would let my parents down. I was 12 years old then and _______ 80 kg—not good for a 12-year-old girl. I hated myself. I did not _______ sports activities because I didn’t know what to do. My self-esteem (自尊) was below the horizon and I felt a total ________, as if I was not good enough for ________.

In my second year I thought I had turned things ________ when I came top of the class. It was only later that I learned ________ is not about people-pleasing and seeking ________ from others is not the way to long-term happiness—this is something that needs to come from within, from feeling complete, feeling ________, loved, successful and worthy. This is how I am today.

【推荐3】A group of graduates, successful in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaining about stress in work and life.

Before offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and a variety of _________ — porcelain (陶瓷), plastic, glass, crystal (水晶), some plain-looking and _________, some delicate (精致的) and expensive — telling them to _________ themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you _________, all the nice-looking and expensive cups were _________, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is _________for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the _________ of your problems and stress. It is definite that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. _______ all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you all went for the _________ cups. And then you began __________ each other’s cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and __________ in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and __________ life, and the type of cup we have does not change the __________ of life we live. Sometimes, by __________ only on the cup, we fail to __________ the coffee.

【推荐1】The family of Chuck Rees, his wife Laurie, and his mother-in-law Ann Effert had just finished lunch at a cafe. Then Rees, 51, spotted _______ rising. They immediately drove through unfamiliar streets and_______ came to a white two-story house. _______ nobody in, Rees called 911.

Rees ran around the house, hoping to find the _______ of the fire. When he climbed over a _______ and into the yard, Rees noticed a small steel door in the addition (扩建部分). He hit on it with his fist. Soon he _______ a woman’s faint voice from the deep inside. He spotted an old woman through the _______ in the doorway. He tried to take the woman to the _______.

Rees went back into the living room to _______ others. The smoke had spread to the floor, and the __________ was almost unbearable. He moved through the downstairs rooms, coughing and __________ to anyone who might be there. After one last look around, Rees __________.

A fire crew arrived, and Rees quickly __________ them. Moments later, flames destroyed the house.

That night, the local news reported that an anonymous (匿名的) man had __________ an elderly woman from her burning house. Effert proudly called media to __________ her son-in-law as the hero. “He didn’t do it for fame,” she said.