【推荐1】One day, a kind woman happened to say something that hurt her best friend of many years. She _________ immediately and would do anything to take the words back. What she said hurt the friend so _________ that this good woman was herself hurt for the _________ she caused. In an effort to undo what she had done, she went to an older, wiser woman in the village, explained her ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ her. She also knew she could never _________ her pain, but she could teach. She knew the outcome would only _________ the character of the younger woman. She said, “Tonight, _________ your best feather pillows and put a single feather on the _________ of each house in town before the sun rises.”

The young woman hurried home to prepare for it, even though the feather pillows were very dear to her. All night long, she labored alone in the cold. Finally the sky was getting light. She placed the last feather on the step of the last house. Just as the sun rose, she ____________ to the older woman.

“Now,” said the wise woman, “Go back and ____________ your pillows with the feather you have put on the steps. Then everything will be as it was before.”

“You know that’s impossible! The wind ____________ away the feathers as fast as I placed them on the steps!” The young woman was surprised.

“That’s true, ” said the older woman. “Never forget. Each of your ____________ is like a feather in the wind. Once spoken, no amount of ____________, no matter how heartfelt or sincere, can return them to your ____________. Choose your words well and, most of all, guard them in the presence of those you love.”

【推荐2】Satya Nadella still remembers his interview question from many years ago. An interviewer asked, “If a baby falls and is crying, what will you do?” “I’ll call 911,” he said. Then, he was told to ___ some empathy (同感), because he needed to pick the baby up and ___ it first before he called.

Nadella says that although he did get the job, the ___ he learned from that interview question is core to business.

One of Nadella’s main tasks when he ___ as Microsoft’s CEO was to get his key people on the same page. Empathy would prove ___ to making that happen.

To illustrate the point, imagine that you walk into work one day to find your colleagues ___ about a problem. You may think to yourself, “Why are they always complaining?” or “I’ve had that problem before. What’s the big ___?”

Even if you don’t ___ those thoughts, just thinking of them will make you likely to get ___ or frustrated when you are dealing with your colleagues. This, of course, only makes the situation worse for them and completely ____ your relationship.   

____, what if you offer your colleagues a(n) ____ ear? When you do this, you’re learning to see the world through the eyes of others. Your colleagues will see you as someone who is quick to encourage others and build up ____ tear down something. Because they feel ____, they’ll put forth more effort and will be ____ to try and understand you next time you need the same treatment.

【推荐3】My name is Matthew. 1 don't have many _______ because I'm a terrible liar. But there is one huge secret that 1 have _______ for years——I failed my driving test. I had never failed a test before, and had never even come _______ Driving made me anxious, but my parents still _______ up for driving lessons for me. I had gotten a perfect _______ for my written exam, but getting behind the wheel was a different _______

But when October 30th _______ around, my pride set in. I wanted to be like everyone else at my school, _______ the brand new license they'd gotten. Looking back on that special day, I can't _______ if I was nervous. What I do remember is starting the test, pausing at a stop sign after a few ____________, and being asked by the instructor to pull over. I had received an auto-fail since my pause was indeed a pause and not a real stop. I wasn't __________ that I was leaving without a license, but I was __________ everyone would know my result. So when I got to class, I told everyone I didn't take the __________ on my birthday.

One Friday a month later, I went to the test spot again and __________ Later that night I __________ for the first time by myself, which brought to me an amazing feeling I've never experienced — but still, I couldn't __________ ever telling anyone the truth. So I didn't. It wasn't until midway through college that I came clean.

And I __________ enough courage to speak the __________ out.

Now I realize __________ and imperfection are two things everyone has to experience, without which one couldn't make a __________ man.

【推荐3】Dad loved children. And he always wanted a ____1______ family. Eventually, he got what he wanted with twelve children in the family. Without fail, he would show us off to visitors.

Once, Dad _____2_____ presented the first three children in the family, Ann, Mary and Ernestine, to some visitors. Then he picked up a fourth child, and said, “And this is our _____3_____ model, complete with all the improvements. And don’t think that this is all; we are _____4_____ the 1953 model some time next month.”

But what he _____5_____ most was taking us out for a drive. On one occasion a man in a village we were passing through shouted _____6_____ that he had seen eleven people in our car, not _____7_____ Mum and Dad. _____8_____, Dad called out over his shoulder, “You _____9_____ the second baby up from the front here, Mister.”

Another time, Dad told us this joke, though we were not sure then whether he was telling us the ____10_____. Mum, who was a psychologist (心理学家), once went to give a lecture and left Dad in charge of the _____11_____. When Mum returned, she asked him if everything had been OK. He said everything was fine _____12_____ one of the children had been taught a lesson because he had been _____13_____. When he pointed at the child that had been _____14_____, Mum looked at him calmly and said, “That’s not one of ours, dear. He _____15_____ next door.”

【推荐3】I woke up with a painful back this moming.This was not______,since my back has given me problems for years,but today no stretching or moving would loosen it up.Still,I had five dogs waiting patiently by the door to go out for their mormning walk as usual,so I slowly bent down and started to pull my______ on.When I did,though,I saw that my shoes,like my body,were showing______ of wear.

From the split in one shoe,I knew that it wouldn’t be too long ______ I had to replace this pair,I only wished I could replace my back along with them.

Later,after walking the dogs,watching the sunrise and eating breakfast,I was feeling a lot ______        inside.My backpain had faded too,and my smile had returned.It was then that I remembered a letter a friend had sent me recently.Inside,she had pasted a ______picture of an old,wom-out pair of work boots,sitting on the ground.Their leather was cracked and their laces were worn,but they still looked ______ ,because inside,someone had planted a beautiful bunch of flowers.The flowers had grown tall and strong, ______their curious container.This picture reminded me again that ______ my body might have felt like a worn-out pair of shoes at times,inside it was a ______that continued to grow every day in love,peace and happiness.

At some point in your life you need to ______ who you really are.Are you the body that ______older every day,or are you the soul within it that remains forever ______ ?One day the loving spirit within you will have to ______out of its worn-out pair of shoes and walk on______them. May it bless everyone it meets along the way,heading for its Heavenly Home.