【推荐1】Taking care of yourself is not being selfish. By caring enough to ______ your body well, you will be in ______ shape to take care of those around you. No one can take care of your health ______ yourself.

Believe in yourself and your ______. Havea “can-do” attitude. Make a list of ______ changes that you have made in the past. It is easier to ______ a goal when you are ______. Use humor and laugh off occasional lapses (过失). Have confidence that you can get back on track with your healthy ______.

Seek out a friend or co-worker who will make you feel comfortable. You will find out ______ friends is a happy thing in the world. Regular phone calls, emails or visit over coffee could help you keep a good contact with them. ______ your cheerleader could become your exercise buddy (密友).

____ yourself as you make simple changes that in the end will ______ in achieving your overall goal. Celebration is part of successful change. Create a list of incentives (动机) that will ______ you motivated.

Adopt eating and physical activity habits that can become part of your ______. Have a backup plan ______ those days when your plans to eat well and be active are challenged. If you can’t walk ______ the weather, have an exercise video to use. If you have no time to pack a ______ lunch, choose a small fast food sandwich and side salad.

Go on a ______. Work and family are two most important things in people’s lives. People try to tackle the two things at once, ______ most of them fail. Just as an old saying goes: People who know how to rest ______ how to work. Go out with your family and have a good time.

【推荐2】Scientists in Norway have more good news for coffee drinkers. Researchers have already found evidence that the drink — or the beans can help with weight loss, ________ one’s risk of developing some diseases, ________ muscle growth, protect against certain types of cancers and can even reduce one’s risk of premature death. Now comes word that a cup of coffee reduces physical pain.

The surprising finding is based on a study ________ 48 volunteers who agreed to spend 90 minutes performing fake computer tasks meant to mimic (模拟) office work. The tasks were known to ________ pain in the shoulders, neck, forearms and wrists, and the researchers wanted to ________ how people with pain and those who were pain-free tolerated the pain of such tasks. As a matter of convenience, the scientists allowed people to drink coffee before taking the test “to avoid unpleasant effects of caffeine deprivation (缺乏), e.g. decreased energy and alertness, sleepiness, and ________,” they reported.

But when it came time to analyze the data, the researchers from Norway’s National Institute of Occupational Health and Oslo University Hospital noticed that the 19 people who drank coffee reported a lower ________ of pain than the 29 people who didn’t. In the shoulders and neck, ________, the average pain intensity was rated 41 (on a 100-point scale) among the coffee drinkers and 55 for non-coffee drinkers. Similar gaps were found for all pain sites measured, and coffee’s apparent pain-reduction effect ________.

However, the authors of the study, which was published this week in the journal BMC Research Notes, cautioned (提醒) that since the study wasn’t designed to test coffee’s influence on pain, the results came with many ________. For starters, the researchers don’t know how much coffee the coffee drinkers consumed before taking the computer tests. ________, they doubt whether the coffee drinkers and non-coffee drinkers were ________ in all respects except for their coffee consumption. Problems like these tend to ________ the importance of the findings. But those doubts are ________ to trouble the coffee drinkers looking for any reason not to cut back on their daily caffeine habit.

The position of children in American family and society is no longer what is used to be. The _______ family in colonial (殖民时期的) North America was mainly concerned with survival and _______that, its own economic prosperity. Thus, children were ________in terms of their productivity (生产能力), and they played the role of producer quite early. _______they fulfilled this role, their position in the family was one of subordination (附属).

With the _________ of the society, the position of children in the family and in the society became more important. In the complex and technological society _________the United States has become, each ________ must fulfill a number of personal and occupational________ and be in contact with many other member. ___________, viewing children as necessary members of society means that they are ___________ more as people in their own right than as those of subordination. This acceptance of children as_________ participants in the family is reflected in various laws ___________ the rights of children and in the social and public welfare programs.

This new __________of children and the frequent contact between the members of society has also ___________an increasing interest in child-raising techniques. People today spend much time__________ the proper way to __________ children.

Nowadays, the socialization of the child in the United States is a _________transaction (事务) between parent and child___________a one-way, parent-to-child training__________ . As a consequence, socializing children and__________with them over a long period of time is for parents a mixture of pleasure, satisfaction, and problems.

【推荐2】Volunteering at the swimming competition for Special Olympics had special _________ for me because experiencing it helped improve my leadership skills, my character, and support my community.

First, my leadership skills developed when I _________ directed each swimmer where to line up at the platform and _________ each player when they needed to swim. I had to make sure that the swimmers were _________ and ready to perform. I learned each swimmer's name, since many of them swam in more than one_________.

Secondly, my _________ was greatly improved when I saw the swimmers get their awards for winning each swimming event. It astonished me by their _________ attitudes, whether they won or lost. This also expanded my horizons, offering me the opportunity to _________ people. I went out of my _______ zone and did whatever was needed to be done.

Lastly, I was of ____________ to my community by lending a hand to this organization in need of ____________. To be a ____________ of it gave me a chance to become ____________ with the people living in this area.

Through the many opportunities my community has offered I was privileged to be ____________ in this exciting and important event in these players' lives. I hope to be a(n) ____________ at this event in years to come.

【推荐3】I was parked in front of the mall wiping off my car. Coming my way from across the parking lot was what society would consider a _______ . “I hope he doesn’t ask me for any money,” I thought. He didn’t. He came and sat on the curb (路缘) in front of the bus stop. He didn’t look like he could have enough _______ to even ride the bus.

After a few minutes he spoke, “That’s a very _______ car.” He was in rags but he had an air of _______ . I said “Thanks” and continued wiping off my car. He sat there quietly as I _______ . “Do you need any help?” I asked. He answered in three _______ but impressive words that I shall never _______ .

“Don’t we all?” he said.

I was _______ high and mighty, successful and _______ , above a homeless in the street, until those three words ________ me like a shotgun. Don’t we all?

I needed help. Maybe not for a bus fare or a place to sleep,   ________ I needed help. I ________ my wallet and gave him not only enough for bus fare, but enough to get a warm meal and shelter for the day.

Don’t we all? Those three little words still ________ true. No matter how much you have, no matter how much you have accomplished, you need help too. No matter how ________ you have, no matter how loaded you are with problems, even ________ money or a place to sleep, you can give help.