【推荐1】When I just worked as a management advisor, I had a client (客户), Mary. I disagreed with the direction she was guiding our project and the pace at which she thought we should do our work. But because she was the________and I was just starting out in my career,l didn’t think it was my place to________disagree with her.________,I sent every email she sent me to one of my________and complained (抱怨)about how Mary was making ________decisions.

One day, I thought I was complaining to my co-worker, but I was________forwarding Mary a direct email, without realizing it at first, about how________I felt she was. About 15 seconds later, I realized what I had done and thought, “I’m going to be________.”Thinking I’d better deal with it quickly, I walked over to my boss’s desk. To my________, he simply said, “Go and apologize (道歉) . ”

Mary’s office was 30 blocks north of ours.My boss suggested I________at the flower shop on my way. And when I________in Mary’s office with flowers, she laughed. She told me that she________that the next time I disagree with her, I just tell her so that we could talk about it.

It feels good when someone nods at something we say. Most people don’t want to________.In fact,we’ve thought that saying “I don’t agree” is being________, so it makes most people terribly uncomfortable. But by thinking in that way, we________a chance to develop a friendly relationship.

【推荐2】When I was an adolescent girl, my whole family-mother, father, brother and I lived in a(n) ________ two-bedroom rowhouse. My parents often worked ________ for our well-beings, particularly at night when my brother and I fell ________. I thought it was the same thing as everybody's parents did, I found it interesting the moment I first realized that other families lived ________.

Based on American ________, what we had at the time was small. However, that never ________ me, not then, and not now.

One of my most ________ memories happened at nighttime. We piled into the car to look at the lights in the neighbourhood and then came home. At the top of our steps, there was a little table. The table was in the ________ of a triangle, which had lights ________ the sides. At night I would go and sit before it. I would ________ it on and the one little light bulb ________ it up. It looked magnificent to me.

Somehow I could feel a kind of warmth there. I could feel what it was like to be doing the best you can with what you've got. I could feel the ________ of my parents trying to do the best they could for each other and for their little ones. I could feel how ________ what they shared was-no matter how small our ________ or lack of material things, none of that mattered. What mattered is that we were all there. That created a priceless contentment of which I think even the Angels would ________ .

【推荐3】A calligrapher (书法家) said to a man who was practicing calligraphy (书法) with waste newspapers, “If you write with the best paper, you may do it better.”

The man asked why. The calligrapher smiled without_________, only writing one word “Compel (强迫)”. He suddenly realized that this was compelling him to cherish (珍惜) his own paper to write it better._________ a boy, when I practiced calligraphy, I would hear the teacher _________ it, but I felt it boring and couldn’t understand. Looking back suddenly, I came to know its _________ .

I remember there is_________a proverb, “If you want to climb over a wall, please throw your hat _________” Because your hat is on the other side of the wall, you have already had no choice but to find ways to climb over it. It is with such a pressure that you will make every effort to exert (发挥)_________. Many times, we always put our _________ in the future, feeling that our life has many drafts (草稿). In fact, the drafts of life that _________ us are extremely limited.

For life, the most important is ____________to write the best words on the limited paper rather than how much paper you used.

【推荐1】There was an old couple who had been married for 40 years. They loved each other deeply and went on dates together. Every time they went out for supper, the husband would order pie for dessert, which became their ________.   Although the wife always ________ to order any, she would ________ the first bite of his pie every time.

But then the husband began to develop a type of disease. He started to slowly ________ who his wife was. It ________ progressed to the point where he didn’t recognize his wife at all and became troubled by living with a ________.

He moved out of the house and into a nursing home. She was ________. However, she thought of good ________to help him recover. She would visit him with items (物品) that he loved before, but he never knew who she was. Even seeing pictures of them together from their past ________ him.

One of the doctors ________ the wife to start taking him on a few dates like before, so that the husband could gain a new kind of familiarity with her. The wife accepted his suggestion. So she took him to a ________ they had been going to their whole lives and had dinner. Afterwards he ordered pie, and without thinking she stole the first bite of it. The husband looked________, and was ready to leave. But ________ he stopped and seemed shocked, and then started ________ .

Everything had come back. His wife’s ________ made him get back to who he was. Tears came to his eyes once more. They moved back together and enjoyed their lives again.

【推荐2】Once there was a small boy named Bob. He came from a ____ family, struggling with life every day. One day, he was crossing the forest carrying some _____. He saw an old man who was very ______. Bob wanted to give the old man some food, but he did not have any. So he ____ walking. A few minutes later, he saw a deer who was very thirsty. He was eager to ____ him, but he did not have water. So he went on his way ahead.

Then he saw a man who wanted to make a ____ to keep warm, but he did not have wood. Bob ____ some wood to him. In return, he gave Bob some food and water. Then Bob went back to help the old man and the deer, who were very ____ .

One day Bob fell down from the ____ . He couldn’t move because he was ____, but no one was there to help him. ____ , the old man whom he had helped before saw him. He quickly came and pulled him up the hill. Bob had many ____ on his legs. The deer whom Bob had helped saw them and ____ to the forest and brought some herbs(草药). Soon Bob _____. All of them were very ____ that they could help each other.

【推荐3】Nisha Blackwell was putting herself through nursing school when she was laid off for the third time. To make matters worse, she couldn’t______ a gift after being invited to attend the birthday party of a close friend’s daughter just a few days later. “That’s______ I looked around and I said, ‘What do I have?’ I had a sewing machine still in a box,” she says.“ And 1 had this bag of clothes.’

Nisha had cloth and a sewing machine, but she didn’t______ know how to sew. So she turned to YouTube, and video by video, taught herself, “I was typing into YouTube: How to______a sewing machine...“ she remembers. I probably didn’t make the machine work______midnight and this was in the hot summer when my house didn’t have air conditioning. I remember just sting there, just sweating to death, but so______to make this thing for this party!”

She ______ making a box of hair bows(蝴蝶结发饰). She went to the party, restless, ______how people would receive the fact that they were handmade.“ It felt like it took forever to get to my gif,“ she says. “ I was so ______ because I kept imagining that these hair bows would just be like pieces of cloth that came out, and I felt like I must have done something wrong. But something ______happened. My friend _______the box out onto the high chair and I remember   all of the parents coming up to me saying, so ________! ‘Where did you get them? How did you do that? Can you make me some?’”

Nisha left the party with six customers and started getting _______ soon. She began training   other women from her______to produce the product.

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. I make sure that I am looking back and helping, and make sure that I’m not just doing something that is only ______me.” Nisha says.