【推荐1】Have you ever lost something precious and thought you’d never get it back? A woman named Thomas from Oregon found a bag from a bargain shop. However, little did she know that bag would change someone’s life for the ______.

It looked brand-new so she bought it without ______. After making it home, she noticed something interesting and turned it over to ______, and something heavy moved. She started to think negative thoughts in fear of what was left there. Thomas also ______ why the last owner would throw away such a valuable item. Curiously, she ______ further down through a hole in the lining (衬布). Slowly she pulled a brand-new ______ out with astonishment! That left her ______ more questions. For example, who did it on earth ______? On seeing picture after picture, she assumed it was a mother and her child, ______ that such a loss must have got a mother upset all her life. Therefore, she shared the photos online, hoping someone would ______ them! Meanwhile, she doubted whether they remained here.

______, the owner Conner was nearby. Thomas ______ her that she had her camera with timeless photos. She nearly burst into tears the moment she saw the photos Thomas sent her. Thomas arranged a(n) ______ with Conner. “Thank you! It never occur to me that my camera should return to my ______; after all, seven years.” Conner blurted (脱口而出) as she walked up to Thomas with ______. Thanks to Thomas, all her past memories were back in her hands and heart.

【推荐3】Zhao Yuan, who was a dance teacher, lost one leg in an accident at the age of 24. ________ she had to use a wheelchair, and leave her ________ position and started to make a living in business. She opened a hotel in her hometown and used some of her earnings to help ________ for the college cost of 13 poor students.

In 2020, she set up an offline sales platform called Good and Fresh, which mainly sold goods produced by Zhao’s disabled friends. ________ the pandemic (疫情), however, Good and Fresh ________ making money, so Zhao ________ online sales instead.

She became a livestream host on social media platforms, ________ the sales of goods like brown sugar, sweet potato flour and honey that her friends made. Although Zhao Yuan, who only had one ________, had to deal with her own disability, she had made her business succeed in creating a ________ in e-commerce (电子商务)and had helped more than2,000 other ________ people sell agricultural products. Everything she sold came from 55 agricultural centers around the province ________ by the disabled. She had also trained 57 hosts, all of whom were disabled.

With the ________ of her business, Zhao has set up the Good and Fresh Agricultural Science and Technology Development Co., of which she is ________. She is planning to ________ another 1,000 hosts, and hopes that they will also be able to achieve their personal and social ________ through work, just as the way she is doing.

【推荐1】“This will never do.” I kept telling my husband as he set the table one Thanksgiving. I wanted everything to be _________, because my parents would come. Criticisms from my childhood _________ rang in my mind. So whenever my parents visited us, I _________ myself for more faultfinding. The unhealthy pursuit of perfection _________ the joy from our celebration. Gradually I _________ the reason for Thanksgiving, and I found myself, like my parents, _________ people around me.

Then luckily, I read from a book, “Too much criticism hurts; necessary praise helps. Put your praise of someone in _________ so that the person can save and read it.”

So the next Thanksgiving, I _________ to my husband and my son, “We’re each going to write a message saying what we _________ about one of us.” Despite their eye-rolling, we soon finished and exchanged our __________. My son sat up straighter after __________ what his father had written about him. And I felt so uplifted myself when I read “I am proud of your cooking.” That was a life-changing __________. Since then my family has the __________ and we do it year-round―not just the fourth Thursday of November.

I no longer just focus on finding fault with others. I’m more __________ how I can help the people around me feel loved and appreciated. Especially in writing, because behind every __________ is the power of love.

【推荐2】For the past few years, I have had a lot of time on my phone. This has made my brain ________. Sometimes, I couldn’t ________ the name of the guy I went to college with who would I come into my dorm ________, or even the boiling time for a soft-boiled egg. I grew ________.

Inspired by a desire to ________ myself and impress others in public, and to see if my brain was able to change structurally through life in ________ to experience, I decided to stop looking stuff up online and see what ________. For a few months I didn’t make any ________. I often failed to ________ answers to things simply ________ I didn’t look them up. But gradually, my brain was ________ in my defense. Within months, it was remarkably ________.

I started to remember a lot more stuff, a lot faster. The ________ would come to me, I’d say, seven out of 10 times. And honestly, ________ to remember a fact instead of instantly looking it up is a good ________ to while away the hours. After six months, my brain is as ________ as 40 horses when it was previously like an elderly worm ________ broken glasses.

If you’re like me and have always wanted to be the ________ person at a party that everyone is listening to and smiling at, I think Strong Brain is the party ________ for you. I put down my phone and got my ________ back.