【推荐1】No one is born a winner. People make 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 tradition for the school’s old team to play against the _________ 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. Thinking hard about it, I came to _________ I had to change my attitude about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. 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.

After six months 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 didn’t __________ 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, but born.

【推荐2】As we all know, washing our hands helps stop the spread of illnesses. It seems so _________, but it took one doctor, many experiments and a lot of opposition before the _________ was accepted.

In 1846, Ignaz Semmelweis was working in a _________ in Vienna. He saw many women dying of a particular type of fever and he wanted to figure out the _________. So Dr. Semmelweis began experimenting by _________ two groups of women-one with male doctors and medical students _________ their babies and the other with women midwives (产婆) doing that.

It _________ that more women were dying in the ward with the male doctors and medical students. Semmelweis then conducted experiments with _________ conditions, none of which produced any changes in the _________. He tried getting the mothers in the doctors’ wards to deliver babies and __________ mental stress and worry, but there were no changes.

________, Semmelweis discovered one key difference: The doctors and medical students were performing other __________ while the midwives were just there to help deliver babies. Semmelweis then __________ his doctors to wash their hands after completing them and the number of __________ in their wards went down!

Nowadays, no one __________ that handwashing is one of the best things to do for staying healthy and stopping the spread of disease.

【推荐3】Anna was a 9-year-old girl from a small village. She ________ attending primary school till 4th grade at her village. For the 5th grade onwards, she would have to get an admission (入学) in a school at a city nearby. She got very ________ knowing that she was accepted in a famous school in the city. Today was the first day of her school and she was waiting for her school bus. Once the bus came, she got in it ________. She was very excited.

________ the bus reached her school, all students started going to their classes. Anna also made it to her classroom. Upon seeing her ________ clothing and knowing she was from a small village, other students started making fun of her. The teacher soon arrived. She ________ Anna to the class and told them that she would be ________ with them from today.

During the class the teacher told the students to be ready for the surprise ________ now! She told everyone to write down the Seven Wonders of the world. Everyone started writing the answer quickly. But Anna started to write the answer ________.

When everyone except Anna had presented their answer paper, the teacher asked Anna, “What happened, dear? Don’t ________. Just write what you know as other students have learned about it just a few days ________. ”

Anna replied, “There are many things. Which seven can I pick to write?” And then she handed her answer paper to the teacher. The teacher started reading everyone’s answers and the majority had answered them ________ such as The Great Wall of China, Colosseum, Stonehenge, Great Pyramid of Giza, Leaning Tower of Pisa, Taj Mahal, Hanging Gardens of Babylon etc.

The teacher was happy as students had ________ what she had taught them. At last the teacher picked up Anna’s answer paper and started reading. “The Seven Wonders are—To be able to See, To be able to Hear, To be able to Feel, To Laugh, To Think, To be Kind, To Love!”

The teacher stood ________ and the whole class was speechless. Today, a girl from a small village reminded us about the gifts we have, which are truly a _________. So value what we have and use what we have.

【推荐3】Sandy MacNeill was vacationing in Florida. One day, he was walking down a street in Indian Rocks Beach right when Tom Reddon _________ to the sidewalk.

Reddon had just had a quick warm-up walk with his friend when he _________ fell to the ground, unconscious. As Reddon’s _________ called 911, two passing pedestrians ran to _________ someone who could _________ CPR (心肺复苏术) — and luckily, they managed to _________ MacNeill.

Though MacNeill says that he has taken several CPR classes in the past, he had _________ actually performed the procedure on another person until Reddon.

MacNeill immediately performed nonstop chest compressions on Reddon _________ the ambulance arrived on the scene five minutes later.

After being _________ to the hospital nearby for emergency surgery, Reddon was __________ treated for heart attack — and he says that he is apparently very __________ to be alive.

“For my type of heart attack, the success rate is not very __________, so to have somebody there to __________ call 911, to do CPR and to have a __________ close by … and to have cardiac surgeons on hand to give me a(n) __________, I mean, it’s amazing that everything fell together so __________ for me,” Reddon told CBC.

It wasn’t until later when the two Canadian men were reunited that they __________ that they were both from Fredricton, New Brunswick.

“It’s __________ that we come from the same place.” Reddon said. “We got along famously well, and I think we’ll get together when we __________ in Fredericton over a glass of beer or two and __________ life and things like that.”