【推荐1】A lady was waiting at an airport one night before her flight. She hunted for a book in the airport shops, ______ a bag of cookies and found a place to drop. She was absorbed in her book but happened to ______ that a man sitting beside her grabbed a cookie or two from the bag ______. She tried to ______ the annoying scene. So she munched(用力嚼) the cookies and watched the clock, as the ______ ate her cookies.

She was getting more ______ as the minutes ticked by, thinking, “If I weren’t so nice, I would blacken his eyes.” With each cookie she took, he took one too. When only one was ______, she wondered what he would do. With a ______ on his face, he took the ______ cookie and broke it in half. He offered her half, as he ate the other.

She snatched(猛抓) it from him and thought this guy was too ______. Why he didn’t even show any ______! She had never been so angry and sighed with ______ when her flight was called. She gathered her ______ and headed for the gate, refusing to ____ back at the ingrate(忘恩负义的) thief.

She boarded the plane, and ______ in her seat. Then she sought her book, which was almost complete. As she ______ inside her baggage, ______, there was her bag of cookies, right in front of her eyes! “If mine are here,” she thought, “the others were his, and he tried to share. Too late to ______.” She realized with grief(难过) that she was the rude one, the thief.

How many times in our lives have we absolutely known that something was a certain way, only to discover ______ what we believed to be true … was not?

It is only when we ______ our life silently and quietly that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life shows to us.

【推荐2】It was already half past seven and I was running late again for the dinner appointment with my wife, Eleanor. We had _________ to meet at the restaurant at seven o’clock. I felt a little uneasy, but to my _________, I had a good excuse: A business meeting had _________ and I’d wasted no time getting to the dinner.

When I arrived at the _________, I apologized and told Eleanor I didn’t mean to be late. She screamed, “You never mean to.” Well, I could tell she was angry. “I’m sorry but it was not _________.” I said. Then I told her about the business meeting. _________, my explanation seemed to make things worse, which started to drive me mad as well.

Several weeks later, when I _________ the situation to my friend Ken Hardy, he smiled, “You _________ a classic mistake. You’re stuck in your own way of thinking. You didn’t _________ to be late. But that’s not the point. What is __________ in your communication is how your lateness affected Eleanor.” He pointed out that I focused on the intention __________ Eleanor focused on the result. Thus, both of us felt misunderstood and crazy.

Thinking more about Ken’s words, I __________ recognized the root cause of such disagreement. It’s the result of the action that really __________. I should have started the conversation by expressing how my actions affected Eleanor and __________ the discussions about my intention for later, much later and even never.

Later on, after talking to Eleanor and really __________ her experience of the results of my lateness, I’ve managed to be on time a lot more frequently.

【推荐3】Sometimes people come into your life. They teach you a lesson or help you_________who you are or who you want to become.

You never know who these people may be, but when you_________your eyes with them, you know at that very moment they will_________your life in some way.

Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible and_________at first, but in reflection you find that without_________those difficulties you’d never have realized your potential and_________. Illness, injury, lost moments of true greatness, and stupidity all occur to break the limits of your soul.

The people you meet who affect your life, and the success and_________you experience, help to shape what you are._________the worst experiences can be learned from. They are,_________, the most important ones.

If someone loves you, reward them with love, not only because they love you, but because they are teaching you to open your heart to__________around. If someone hurts you, or breaks your heart,__________them, for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being sensitive__________whom you open your heart to.

Make every day valuable.__________every moment and take from those moments everything that you possibly can. Set your__________high. Hold your head up. Tell yourself you are a great individual and__________yourself.

【推荐1】If you haven’t confidence in yourself, you may think the people around you will _______ you and become _______. However, the_______is that the person who thinks_______of you is yourself.

Several years ago, I met a girl in California. She is_________and ordinary-looking. But I always feel the_______— her heart is filled with self-confidence and optimism.

A friend couldn’t help asking curiously, “Why are you so confident ?” The girl laughed, “There is a _______ in my room.” At the corner of her room is a mirror. Shining out from the mirror, her body can appear to be thinner. _______, the angle（角度）of mirror and the light make her face look softer.

Before _______ home every day, she smiles to the mirror and tells herself, “This is my ________ in the eyes of others.” Every day she is in good ________ and smiles to others.Then she gains self-confidence from others’________ glances.

The girl says, “I ________ that my image is not good enough, but if I bury myself in self-pity, will feel ________. I want to look my ________.” Wherever she is, all she wants to see is the image in the mirror. So she never ________ others’ looks, and also ________ looks others in the eye.

Actually, the mirror is not only in the girl’s room, but ________ in the girl’s heart. With a mirror in your heart, you can ________ yourself better—what you look like in the mirror is what you want others to see. How you ________yourself to others is the way others see you.

【推荐2】Winter drove Eastern Canada into a deep freeze. We sat at home, waiting for the COVID-19 _______ to decrease.

Each of us looked forward to something to keep us going through: seeing friends, eating out, going to a cinema ... My hope has _______ been gathering dust in the garage.

My bike got lost months after moving to Toronto. I _______ my old bike faithfully for almost 20 years before getting the _______, which then got stolen, forcing me back to Old Faithful. Some people might have abandoned biking _______ at that point, but not me. Biking means freedom. On my bike, I’m _______ and jammed roads mean nothing: there is a _______ to weave between cars in traffic. This memory means even more to me with the experience of lockdown.

Society gritted(咬紧) its teeth in the _______ that we just had to tough it out for a year to _______. Then Delta ________. Then Omicron. A year turned into two, and that’s when we really needed hope. So, I count the days until I can return to my bike. On my bike, I ________ another state of mind. In the old days when I ________ up a hill, in my mind I became the leader in the Tour de France and that inner-city hill became the Alps. I would push myself to the ________, knowing once again that I could go anywhere and nothing could hold me back.

I am starting to get old. I can’t cycle as fast as I used to. But every time I encounter a hill, I don’t give ________. I never want to lose this sense of freedom. I’m waiting for that day when I’ll escape the pandemic walls. I want to put on my ________ and for one brief, beautiful moment, be free again.

【推荐2】It was pouring rain. I was starving and decided to________to a McDonald’s near a hospital. When I went to order, I saw a young man, about 20, dirty, and_________He had a loosely wrapped dirty bandage around his right hand; I noticed this_______I am a nurse. He was talking to the glass door, as the wind and rain blew.

Before my order came up, he had ______outside, holding an empty plastic bag, and sat on the ground. I knew that it was freezing out there, even if it was California. I_______looking at him, then I noticed a wet $20 bill______ the double glass doors.

I walked outside. He was, again, speaking to things or_______that you and I could not see, that is, not part of our ______. I kept asking him, “Is this your $20?” He was confused, then he jumped up, ______holding his empty plastic bag. I led him to the______, telling him that I wanted him to ______.

The other patients shied away from him, making a wide________around him. I guided him to the counter to     ______. Several workers said, “We don’t want to give him anything.” “But he has_______now,” I told them. Somehow the young man ordered, then seemed extremely_______as to what to do.

I guided him to a seat, handed his food. ______his soda, and brought him lots of ketchup(番茄酱). Again, all other tables around him vacated(空出)their seats and looked at me_______. I opened his sandwiches, and set his meal up. I wish I had a______end to this true story,______, at that point, it was all I could ______, as I had to get back to work.

【推荐3】I have lived in the United States for 30 years or so. I couldn’t fully_________how the concept of   “the pursuit of happiness”_________ in with a super busy life. It was not until I started to grow plants on the balcony of my house on a quiet street in Boston that I had a(n)_________.

Gardening does not come_________ to me. I was not_________ to it as a child. I grew up in a city. My fellow people didn’t seem to_________the absence of green. They lived in apartments and grew flowers in concrete courtyards or on balconies to_________their gardening needs. No one grew herbs or vegetables. Why_________? Fresh produce was a plentiful_________in daily markets nearby. Garlic, ginger were____________as a sign of thanks with the____________of meat.

The first spring after I moved into my Boston____________, I grew my own food. I developed a deeper appreciation for the____________of plants. There were____________along the way: pests; sometimes too much heat, other times not adequate sun. For several seasons, I had tomato troubles. I’d find half-eaten fruit____________. I made a habit, night after night, of moving plants indoors, so I would be the one to____________, not some creature with four paws.

In the____________of home-grown food—seeding, growing, tending, harvesting, cooking—I came to understand a(n)____________version of happiness. It can be a matter of the heart’s____________small steps of satisfaction, resulting from “neither wealth nor greatness” in Thomas Jefferson’s words “but____________and occupation.”