【推荐2】My father always told me：“All work is noble(高贵的)” He wasn’t _________，but he earned a reasonable living. Thanks to his _________, I was able to go to Art College. I, however, wanted to do something _________,something more interesting-I was special!

After graduation, I moved to New York in search of a graphic(绘画的)designer job. It was winter and, ever the optimist(乐观主义者)，I’d only brought enough money to_________myself for about a month. I wasn’t _________I was sure I’d find a fantastic job immediately.

Within a few weeks, though, I found myself wandering around the streets having been _________by every design office in town. My hostel rent was almost gone and I hadn’t eaten in days. “How had I reached this point? ”I wondered as I trembled in my thin jacket.

I was just about to_________when my dad called. He suggested that I get a job in a_________until something else came along. At first, pride made me_________.But I was cold, hungry, and unwilling to go home feeling __________and defeated.

I entered an expensive-looking cafe near one of the design offices that had turned me away and asked the manager if they were hiring. She said they were shorthanded, and offered me a __________right away.

__________,I found that I really enjoyed serving people. I started making big tips right away. Later, the manager learned that I had a design background and asked me to design the cafe menus. That led to a part-time job at an advertising company.

In the past, I’d have never considered being a __________,but there I was. I __________got my dream design job, but that winter I learned not to make final assumptions about __________too early.

【推荐3】Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. I believe even the smartest people have to work hard to achieve success. 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 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. I couldn’t_________ I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to _________ that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _________ on me. I had to change my _________ towards their ability and potential (潜力).

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

Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to improve. __________, my boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me the __________ joy of my life.

【推荐1】I don't know why I came to the decision to become a loser, but I know I made the_________at a young age. Sometime in the middle of the fourth grade, I stopped trying. By the time I was in the seventh grade, I was lazy, difficult, and_________.

It wasn't long before I dropped out of school. Hard physical labor was the _________for the choices I made as an adolescent. Until well into adulthood, I was still_________in a dead-end job carrying heavy construction materials up a ladder all day._________, now I believe in do-overs. And I believe that do-overs can be made at any_________in your life, if you have the right _________. Mine came from a surprising source.

It was September 21,2002,when my son Blake was born. It's the moment I grew into the_________of Dad that I began to learn something about myself._________, Blake and I were both learning to walk, talk, work and play for the first time. I began my do-over.

It took me almost three years to learn how to read. I started with my son's books. Over and over, I practised reading books to him until I remembered all those words. I began to wonder if it was possible for me to go back to school. I knew I wanted to be a good role __________, so after a year-and-a-half and a lot of hard work, I __________my GED test on my son's fourth birthday. This may not sound like much, and I'm surely not trying to get __________for doing something that should have been done in the first place, but it was really one of the best days in my life. Today, I'm a full-time college student,____________to become sociologist.

It’s funny. While growing up I always heard these great __________stories of triumph (胜利) over shortcomings, but I never thought they__________to me. Now I believe it's a choice anyone can make: to do it all over again.

【推荐3】The black dot

One day, a professor entered his classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. He________the exams with the text facing down, as usual. Once he handed them all out, he asked the students to turn over the________. To everyone’s________, there were no questions---just a black dot (圆点) in the center of the paper. The professor told them to write about________they saw there.” The students, ________, got started on the incomprehensible task.

At the end of the class, the professor________all the exams, and started reading each one of them out loud in front of all the students. All of them, with no exception, ________the black dot, trying to explain its________in the center of the sheet. After that, the professor started to explain: “I’m not going to________you on this, I just wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the white________of the paper. Everyone________the black dot –– and the same thing happens in our________. However, we insist on concentrating________on the black dot –– the health issues that bother us, the________of money, the complicated relationship with a family member, the ________with a friend. The dark spots are very________when compared to everything we have in our lives, but they are the ones that ________our minds. Take your ________away from the black dots in your lives.

Enjoy each one of your________, each moment that life gives you. Be________and live a life filled with love!”