【推荐1】A young man was walking by the lakeside when he suddenly saw a piece of gold glittering in the lake. He was so happy that he jumped into the _________ to look for it. But he couldn’t _________ it however hard he tried. Being wet, dirty and tired, he had to go ashore (上岸) for a _________.

Unexpectedly, after the water became _________, the gold appeared again.

He jumped into it again,_________ once again the gold disappeared. So he had to go ashore again to sit beside the _________. He thought, “Where on earth is the gold coin in the water? I have seen it _________, but how come it is that all the attempts were made without any success?” Driven by the _________ to get the gold, he searched the water again and again, but _________, which made him really unwilling to ______________.

At that moment, his father came to ______________ him. Seeing his son wet and dirty, he asked, “What ______________? Why do you look so ______________?”

His son answered, “I see a piece of gold coin in the water clearly, but I can't get it ______________!”

His father looked into the water and it seemed that a gold coin was on the peaceful water. Then he looked up at the tree nearby and said to his son, “You are ______________. Look! It's not a gold coin but the reflection of the metal ______________ on the tree.”

Ordinary people are always busy ______________ illusory (虚幻的) things and all these just result from hoping for ______________, which weakens our ability to ______________ right from wrong. So we should choose the right ______________ of life and learn to understand and thank everything, which will help us live a happy life.

【推荐2】Several years ago, a neighbor kid kicked a football and broke a basement window of my house. Due to financial problems, I ________ it up, thinking I’d get to it someday.

Over the years, I had planned to upgrade to energy-efficient windows. But with the frame rusted (锈) and firmly ________ in the foundation, whoever did it would need to chisel ( 凿 ) it out by hand. It would be a ________ process and there were six of those windows in the house. The cost was estimated at $15,000. It was simply ________.

Honestly, the thought of that window ________ me for years. I knew I needed to fix it, but I had built up the ________ so much in my mind that I put it off again and again.

Then I had a job change and needed to sell the house before moving away. But it was almost ________ to find a buyer if there was a broken window. So I pulled off the boards to face this thing head-on. I grabbed some rust remover, ________ it around the frame of the window, and gave it a pull. To my astonishment, it easily ________. I took the window downtown. It only cost me $12. I could have ________ the problem for only $12 when it occurred, but I let it bother me for five years!

________, this isn’t just about my window. Many of us live with broken windows of one type or another. They are things that seriously affect our ________ of life. If you recognize your broken window, don’t ________ to mend it. It may turn out to be ________ than expected. Usually we suffer more in________ than in reality.

【推荐3】Ten years ago when I was diagnosed with a serious illness, my first thought was, “Why me?” And this thought _______ me throughout my journey. It wasn’t until I was _______ enough to look back that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my illness not in a bad way.

Being _______ for our past experiences and _______ can be a hard thing to do. We sometimes wish events in our past could be _______ so we could start a new life. But without these events, we wouldn’t learn, change and grow.

The day I _______ this was volunteering with my boyfriend. A friend’s wife came up to me and asked me how school was, _______ I said I didn’t like it that much. She then _______ by saying, “Well, if you hadn’t gone, you wouldn’t have met him,” and pointed at my ________       .

This really opened my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life in this ________. If I hadn’t gone to that school, I would never have met my future husband. If I hadn’t battled ________ the illness, I wouldn’t have found my true ________. At first I didn’t see how my illness could have ever been a blessing. But when I looked at it as an experience for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be grateful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I gained knowledge about myself that I could ________ gain through struggle, and learned how to take care of my wants and needs in a way that made me happy.

【推荐1】Every morning, Terrill Haigler, 30, puts on his uniform and prepares for his day. He ties his work boots, throws on his green________vest (背心) and puts on his work gloves for the job he loves: being a garbage man.

The sanitation (公共卫生) worker knew that he had to________the gap between sanitation workers in the front line like himself and the community. So Haigler started________and posting videos on Instagram to________the everyday lives of what sanitation workers are________during the pandemic (流行病).

Haigler said, "I started an Instagram page just to give people a (n)________of what it is to be a sanitation worker." Haigler wants people to know how________a garbage man is.

People started watching the________And once his following rose, Haigler set out to________his fellow employees.

He________a T-shirt with a garbage man logo. In just a few weeks, Haigler has sold more than 1,000 T-shirts and has________more than $25,000. He uses the money to buy________ protective equipment and cleaning________for sanitation workers in the city.

Now, he has more than 18,000________With his social media followers increasing, Haigler started receiving________from fans. They sent things like drinking water, food and cold treats.

Since the start of the pandemic, the________of trash has increased by at least 30%. With this increase, not only is he working harder and longer, but he also constantly worries about his________, as he does not know whose trash he's________up or if that person is tested positive for COVID-19. "We're________fighting the pandemic like everybody else. So give us some support and give us a little________," he added.

【推荐1】Everyone back home told me that one of the nicest things about college was the people I met. They all assured me that I would ______ friendships that could last a lifetime. I would always smile and agree. Frankly, before I ______ college, I really didn’t care.

I lived in the ______ where six guys lived in two small connecting rooms. All my roommates seemed to be good guys, but I didn’t really try to get to know them.

I have always been rather quiet and never been able to make friends ______. I would always forget names after I met people. When we ______ again and they called out my name, I would reply with a(n) ______ wave and a weak hello. This was how things went on for the first month or so. After a while, things started to ______. A couple of my roommates would try and keep me talking. Soon, these two roommates and I started becoming fairly ______. We began going to the cafeteria together, ______ together, and meeting in the library to study.

One night my roommates invited me to listen to a fellow roommate’s practice with one of our college choirs. They drove me to the campus where my roommate was to ______.

It was accidental that that day was my birthday, but I had kept quiet about it. So you can imagine my ______ when we entered the recital hall. The 120⁃member choir began to sing Happy Birthday to me. ______ at the dorm, my friends held a small party for me, complete with a card and a cake.

I was completely shocked, and I felt ______ to be able to call them friends. It was then that I realized that college means ______ the piece of paper you receive in the end — it’s ______ on both life and people.