【推荐1】“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This old saying is useful when you are making ________ in high school.

Now look around you and carefully ________. See the quiet, “strange” girl who sits next to you? See the “________”boy with his head down who sits at the lunch table all by himself?

Did you ________ think they could be your new best friends? Why not? All you’ve   _______ about them is what others are telling you, but it might not even be the ________. This is where the whole “Don’t judge a book by its cover” thing _____ .

To judge is to ______ an opinion or evaluation. In school, the act of judging another person or being judged yourself is   ______.

Here’s some _____   before you get into judging another person: Get to know people ______ you totally ______ them or keep away from them. And, whatever you do, do not   ___ anything others say about people unless they are ______ to them.

Are you being judged? If you are being judged,   _____ to the person who is doing it. This will give the person no ______ but to get to know who you really are. After you have done that, their ______ about you will change as time goes by, for better or worse. ______ it’s for the better, great. You met someone new.

If it’s for the worse, don’t get ______. It’s only one person’s opinion. Be yourself, and try not to be   ______ by other people.

【推荐2】When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”.

At the entrance of Palo Duro Canyon (峡谷) State Park, I_________ a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a _________, permanent campsite in the park, and _________, the hosts served as a link between the park's guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect solution: a rent­free place to reorganize our lives. We entered the park and I made an appointment for the following day.

The park was _________, so it took us some time to find an available site. That evening, as we finished our dinner, my wife saw two large skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table. We _________ climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to _________ our camp.

Having survived that night, we were _________ that everything else would be all right. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our_________ and gave us a beautiful campsite.

That evening, _________, we learned about the canyon __________. They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck violently, and we lay __________ in the dark until the winds died away.

During the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck and __________ the little money my wife earned by substitute teaching. Building a successful business and then losing it had left very little time for building a successful __________. For a time after our business failed I thought I might lose my family as well.

Living in the tiny __________ with no television, we sat close together reading and talking. One evening, standing under a jeweled sky, I found myself __________ for all the hardships. We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. We had become a family!

【推荐3】In today's busy world, it's easy to get off the course of our life. Having a Life Map to _________helps us keep moving quickly and ________ towards our goals. It helps us quickly correct things when we are ________ a mess, and helps us find the right _________ to deal with unexpected problems.

But if we don't have the map, all the planning in the world won't _________. We’ll end up driving________ around, being distracted by many different paths. Even if you know _______ you want to go, you haven't tried and have no true method of getting there.

If you were going to drive to somewhere _________, firstly you would map it out. More likely, you often look at the _________ for directions to make sure that you were on the right track. You would be able to tell quickly if you needed to _________ adjustments, correct a mistake, or consider a(n) ________ of plans. Don't let your temporary, current desires take precedence(优先) over what you really want, because an important part of success is _________ what is and what isn't a distraction.

For example, as you are _________ for your party, you see a seller with some fresh flowers and you decide to stop and __________ some for your friends. In this __________, a stop along the way adds to your goal. _________, if you decide to stop and see a movie and arrive quite ________ at the party, then you have detracted from your goal.

It is exactly true for the Life Map. Each “opportunity” must be ________ according to how this will _______ your final goal---will this contribute to it ________ will this detract from it? Therefore, both the driving map and the Life Map serve the same high purpose: to keep you on the right track.

【推荐2】I was on a trip to visit a college in Iowa. We stopped in Chicago for a day. We were staying in a building in the city which was chaotic (混乱的) so we were _______ not to go out alone.

It wasn’t long, though, before I was feeling bored and _______ to walk around. I was going down a street when I saw some people making a wide _______ around a man sitting on the sidewalk. His clothes were _______ and torn. I stopped in my _______.

My mind _______ back and I realized I had seen a homeless person once before: Me. It was a summer night in my 11th year when my house _______ fire at night. The fire _______ everything we owned. Thankfully, our town community _______ us with love and care. They ________ us, brought us clothes, and helped us rent a ________ house. Months later, they helped us to ________ a new home. I could remember feeling ________ even after losing so much. The man, however, had no one to help him. I could see the sadness and ________ in his eyes. I only had a few dollars left, but I went to him ________, bent down and ________ them to this fellow, talking with him, ________ his hand and wishing him well.

He isn’t the first one to get my help these years. Seeing their ________ look, I feel very happy. Even though what I can do is really ________, I believe that the world will be more ________ if every one gives a little.

【推荐3】It was our first Thanksgiving in the new house and I wanted everything to be perfect. But my plan for everyone to contribute some preparation work had been _________ by my husband's business trip. Even worse, a critical project for me that week had_________two days of planned vacation. By Wednesday, my vision of a table with fresh flowers, _________drinking glasses and various homemade desserts had already_________ away, I just hoped that I'd find a clean tablecloth and eight_________forks.

In my perfect Thanksgiving, there wouldn't be any orange in my salad because It hadn't made the grocery list. There would be no perfect family photos to record that day because I hadn't got the broken camera_________. Someone had brought home the wrong toilet paper, which was the last straw that made me_________.

I don’t remember what my son asked me as he was vacuuming（吸尘）, _______I do remember twisting into that mean-and-tight mom-face before barking out an _______. This combination of noise and anger is a universal signal to kids everywhere that they might as well __________ me. But he didn’t.

Instead of disappearing from view, my second-grader turned __________ the vacuum and walked across the room to__________me. He never said a word. He just__________ his arms around me, making me feel       __________of myself until today.

It turned out a(n)__________ Thanksgiving. The people I loved gathered around my table and dined just one choice of the pie. My dad used a mismatched fork without __________. My daughter drew a picture of us where everyone smiled.

My son took a(n)__________ to teach me that sometimes we need a hug most when we are __________huggable. This is the best gift you can give. One size__________ all and no one ever minds if you __________ .

【推荐1】I was on a plane that was about to take off when my phone rang. I felt something ________ had happened. It was my neighbor saying I needed to get to the ________ at once. She explained that she’d ________ my two boys, George, then five, and Mickey, then four, crying. At first, she had ________ it, but when the crying continued for a long time, she _________ something was wrong. So she came round and discovered my wife, Mary, lying on the ________ floor. She had been emptying the dishwasher ________ a live wire fell and touched her.

Mary was taken to hospital. When I arrived, doctors were trying to rescue her, but there was no ________. I explained to the boys that Mum had died; I felt it was important to be ________ with them. For a year I was in a suffering ________ of mind. I went through the activities of a father but inside I felt ________.

Later, I felt I had to honor my love for Mary by not breaking ________. She married me because I was a ________ man and I knew I had to carry on and actively chose to swim rather than ________.

We moved to another city but two years later, I was diagnosed with cancer (癌症). The anxiety that had been gone came ________ back – would my boys be left with no parents? ________, the disease was in its early stage and doctors could treat it in time.

________ everything happening to me, I realized merely thinking “why me” doesn’t ________. We have to learn to accept and adapt to the ________ it has brought about. It is no use thinking about the past or being worried about the future. Instead, just focus on the ________.

【推荐3】“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” This ________ has stuck with me since the first time I read it. And it just makes so much ________.

Just the other day I caught a cold, the flu made me feel so ________ and sleepy. How I wished it was a ________ already. But it was Monday. I had to go to work.

We have a care taker at work. Her name was Lucy, who usually ________ some nice lunch for us. She asked me with ________ if I was ill. After realizing that I was not okay, she was ________ me.

As this serious illness made me ________, Lucy hurriedly went to the hospital to fetch some medicine to _______ my headache. Her kind gesture and ________ melted my heart. I mean, she didn’t have to do that but she went out of her way to ________ it for me. I felt so good, I felt loved, I felt visible and it was a huge ________.

Life is made up of the ________ things. These little things go ________ most of the time so that we might ignore them. But they’re the biggest things and ________ the best things. If you can collect these little things, you’ll ________ feel alone. These little things give hope and ________ for doing more and doing better.

Therefore, if something ________ makes your soul smile, note it and let it ________ on your mind and be remembered during dull days that life may ________.