【推荐3】Recently, a man showed up at Denny’s restaurant in Utah with a special request. And as it turns out, the reason behind his particular ________ is a proof that kindness makes all things work together forever! The man asked if he could be ________ by a waitress who was a single mother. Though it seemed a bit strange f the restaurant owner was ________ to meet his request and seated him in the service section belonging to a ________ named Crystal. He ate there, ________ those who came in to dine. He was ________ looking for family customers. He ________ over two hours at the restaurants and even ________ those families. The bills added up to $1,000 in food.

When asked why he would do that for those ________, his response was ________, but beautiful at the same time. With ________ shining through in his eyes, the man replied, “________ is everything, but I’ve lost all my family.”

You see, it was an angel who ________ at Denny’s restaurant that day. But that’s not all. Just as the man ________, the waitress who served him, Crystal, was a single mother. What he didn’t know was that Crystal was really ________. She and her son were living in a shelter until she was able to save enough money to get a ________ for them.

Finally, the man was nowhere to be seen. He must have ________ the restaurant before Crystal came back to pick up his ________. Besides the $21.34 to cover his own ________, the extra $1,500 tip was for Crystal. And because of it, she and her son will get their ________ living place next week.

【推荐3】I never really enjoyed running. But my _________ with running has changed. I’m a _________ living in London. When my mom became ill with cancer and there was no _________ of her living much longer, I decided to move back to Harrogate. My work as a musician didn’t _________ and I just wanted to be with my mother.

I have been _________ psychotherapy(心理治疗)for more than three years, which has helped with my anxiety, but back in Harrogate, I _________ to do something else positive for myself, as looking after my mother _________ me. I wanted to do something physical and running _________ that need.

Getting up before six was _________ for me. But I made myself go running three times a week. After starting last summer, I would run with __________ members and talk about my mom with those I’d known better. It helped me put my __________ in the right place to face another day. And it helped me process my feelings after my mom __________ in October.

Although therapy has been the __________ for all the positive things in my life, running has added to that. Together, they have changed my __________ to life and I’m now less anxious than I was. While running, I feel grounded and I live in the__________.

【推荐1】Ryan Hickman was born in an American family. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a ______ center in California and found what he wanted to do most. Amazingly, the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n) ______. “I’m going to ______ all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I’ll start a new ______ myself!”

It’s never too ______ to start a business, though there’re no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the world’s ______ garbage man, is the CEO, manager and ______ of Ryan’s recycling company. Though Ryan says he doesn’t remember what made it all start, he remains ______ about what he is doing. When questioned why he did so, he said, “it’s because bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die.” Ryan’s neighbours have been accustomed to the little boy’s knocking for their recycled goods. More and more ______ ones call to ask for a pickup or even ______ bags of bottles and cans at Hickmans’ door. At school, Ryan’s favorite activity is helping the dust men separate the trash and taking away the recyclable. “My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to ______, he can,” Damion said. “I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him ______. He has actually ______ five of his friends to join him.”

According to Damion, Ryan has ______ over $11, 000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be loaded with enough garbage and become a ______ garbage man.

Every day on the way to work I drive down a street lined with pine trees. One tree in particular _______ my attention. It must have suffered some severe _______. Part of its trunk grew nearly parallel(平行) to the ground, and then in an effort to _______ its own course of life, the trunk took a 90 degree turn _______ to stand tall and stretch(伸展) toward the sun.

This tree became a _______ for me. Each day as I drove by, I saw this bent but determined tree and I would be _______. It was a reminder to me that _______ I may not have had the best start in life, I could change _______ in the paths of my life at any time.

I was planning to stop one day to get a perfect _______ of my kindred-spirit(志趣相同的) tree. But that week I was ________. After that busy week, I still didn’t take any action. Every time I drove by the tree I ________ tell myself, “Tomorrow, I’ll stop tomorrow to take one.” Then one day, as I drove by, I glanced over and, much to my ________, I found a lonely sawed-off stump(树桩) ________ the symbolic tree had stood. It was gone! I had ________ my plan until “tomorrow” and tomorrow proved to be too ________.

A picture of a tree is not of great ________. But my lesson rang through clearly ________ I found out one of my colleagues had been diagnosed with stage-four cancer. He may no longer have many ________.

What have you been putting off? What would you do if you knew you would ________ have the opportunity to do it again? Why not do those things ________ that you have been putting off until tomorrow?

【推荐3】The stage lights dimmed, and I took a quick look from behind the heavy black curtains into the audience. Blinded by the lights, I quickly______. It seems that a great number of eyes were looking at me. I took a deep ______as the music of my dance began to play. I entered the stage and began my______, the graduation test of the classical Indian dance.

After a decade of learning this art form, I had______been considered ready to take on the most difficult act. The test is the most important event in a dancer's life, as it pays______to all the factors in one's life that______the dance form: one's culture and family.

The performance is undertaken only by the most______and determined students. It is a difficult process that requires much______. For more than six months, I spent two to three hours every day______these dances. Many times, I______myself to my physical and mental breaking point, but still I would not stop. I could not give up. There was always so much more to do and so much more to______.

I______a lot about myself in those tiring hours. I learned that I was far too______to give up, and I was too proud to prove myself______after I had set an unrealistic goal. Even with physical pain and mental______,   I forced myself to meet my______. Even when I was at the end of my______,     there was always something driving me on, forcing me not to give up.

Fortunately, I made it. What I had done______the success. It was in those hours that I learned what a dancer______is. Those time was evidence that I could______something I set out to do.