【推荐2】My mom is the greatest mom ever. She seems to have the _________ to solve any challenge. Also, whatever the situation is, she _________ any challenge with a positive attitude.

One day I saw my father, who was out of work, looking at my mom with a worried face. We hadn’t paid rent because of _________ problems, so we had to move out of the house. My sister and I were _________ and my mom comforted us with smiles as if any problem could be _________ easily.

That whole week she tried her best to _________ a place for rent. Worse still, we also had nothing to eat since the food my dad had bought the week before had _________. Even though she didn’t show pain and _________ then, I felt how much it hurt her not to provide a shelter and food for us.

After that whole week of seeing her struggle, _________ fortune smiled at my family. There was a place near my school, which __________ my family even though it was pretty small. Afterwards, my father got a job and could afford the rent and the food. Relief and happiness __________ anxiety and worry on our faces.

Things like these __________ to make me ad mire my mom’s power. When bad situations __________, there are some people complaining about their misfortune, but my mom has the __________ that horrible moments in life should be a chance to become stronger. When things seem to be the worst, we believe she can __________ carry us through the test.

【推荐1】Awe is the feeling we get when something is so vast that it stops us in our tracks. Most of us _________ it with something rare and beautiful:nature or music. But people can trigger awe too, and not just public heroes or _________ people.

During the _________ of 2021, Beverly Wax had an experience that _________ her with awe. It wasn’t a sunset, a sweeping mountain vista or the sound of waves gently lapping on a beach that got to her. It was the _________ of her colleague, Justin, dragging an 80-pound portable air conditioner up three _________ of stairs to her Boston-area residence. Wax’s central air conditioning had _________ the day before—in the middle of a 90-plus-degree heat wave. She had mentioned to her colleague that she was having _________ finding someone to repair it quickly. He _________ with the new air conditioner as a surprise. As she watched him __________ and struggle while hauling it up the stairs and __________ it in her bedroom,Wax says she felt a wave of __________ for her colleague.

We’re living through trying times. Almost every day, we’re presented with new evidence of how annoying and __________ others can be—the people who let the door slam in your face, or the ones who put their speakerphones __________ in public. So it’s __________ to forget that ordinary people can be awesome. However, just like Wax, we can be awestruck by the people around us.

【推荐2】When we feel failure, we learn to figure it out. In the process, we learn; we _______ ; we become more understanding. But without that _______ failure, this beautiful chain reaction doesn't even have a chance to begin.

The other day, I was _______ six kids at my house, and while my oldest son was playing with the other kids he started acting _______ and aggressive. _______ , I tried to stop it. I corrected him, sent him to timeout and separated him from the _______ . I even punished him. _______ was working. Until, _______, one of the other kids said. “We don't want to _______ you anymore.” And the rest agreed.

My son kept trying to ________ the group. He walked to the other side of the circle to see if another ________ would let him in. He said please. He went to his room to find some toys to ________ everyone. But it was too ________ . He was refused. My first instinct (直觉) was to ask the other kids to ________ him. But then, I realized that if I did that, I'd be ________ my son of the greatest lesson that the painful exclusion (排斥) resulted from his bad behavior.

And so, the next time you want to ________ your child from skinned knees or a bruised ego (自尊受伤害) or ________ the bus, you might be cheating them out of the greatest ________ they could ever have: the power of knowing that there are natural ________ for their actions, and that they are finally ________ for the choices they make.

【推荐3】A few weeks ago my family and I went on a trip by car. This has become our ___________ on Sundays over the past several months of the pandemic (疫情). Over the past nine months, we had to stay indoors except on weekends. On a recent morning, we ___________ about 30 minutes to Los Dinamos, a mountainous thickly forested national park.

I listened to the _________ of rushing water from the river below and the singing of birds ___________ in the trees. I ___________ the tiny hand of our ___________ 2- year- old daughter, who was glad to go out playing. And then I surprisingly ___________ we were alone. In a city of millions, we had ___________ ourselves to another world.

I often tell people what I ___________ most about prepandemic life is the liveliness and excitement of the city. But I’ve come to realize that I also need these ____________ on pine- needle- covered (铺满松针的) ways with my young daughters, ____________ things they had never seen or calling out the ____________ of the flowers we pass along the way. I ____________ truly fresh air. I need to attract my kids and my husband ahead with promises of delicious food and a perfect ____________ place where we could sit on the blanket and enjoy the food.

It’s a ____________ that there’s life all around me, even if I can’t spend time mixing with others.

【推荐1】One day, Marga asked if I would join her in hiking to Base Camp at the foot of Mount Qomolangma to celebrate her 60th birthday. I _________ the opportunity.

We met our guide Achut Pandey in Kathmandu. He was a man of joy and _________, who had been to Base Camp over 100 times.

When we left Namche Bazaar, we took the Three High Passes route, which is less-traveled, longer and more _________. The temperatures ranged from the teens to below 0°F. We were nearly _________. When we were done with dinner, we _________ ourselves to our sleeping bags. While we _________ were able to down a couple of eggs and a piece of toast, the higher we went, the less we _________. Eventually, it was a lot of _________ to just eat a bowl of rice. The altitude _________ us in other ways too. As our appetites slowed, so did our ____________. Renjo La Pass, the first pass, was supposed to take eight hours. It took 12.

Achut’s faith in us was never ____________. He greeted us each day with a ____________ “good morning.” Before we ____________ Base Camp, he carried our packs and skillfully negotiated our moods and capabilities. We trusted him as he ____________ us, confident and strong, up and down icy, ____________ and sometimes narrow paths.

Thanks to Achut, I made it, at 65.