【推荐2】Howard walked across the vast desert planning to walk through it for one month. Twenty_________passed, the journey had been so_________and it seemed that he had enough food and water to finish it.

“I’ll be able to walk out of this_________, " he thought gladly. But the desert_________cared for travelers. _________this idea could disappear, the sandstorm had arrived suddenly. He hurriedly_________his head with the clothes, lying on the sand. After about ten minutes, the sandstorm stopped. When he shook the clothes and stood up, he found a horrible thing: the back bag_________with food and water was swept away by the_________.

Now, he only had a (n)________left. He held it in his hands tightly. “Oh, not too bad,_________I have a pear, " he thought__________himself, determined to walk out of the desert.

One day and one night passed quickly , but the desert still seemed to have no end, and hunger, thirst and__________of death followed Howard closely.__________, each time he wanted to__________, he forced himself to stare at the pear that he had been__________: “ Not too bad, at least I have a pear.”

A small pear became the__________for his survival and the source of his courage. Three days later, __________he saw a village not far away, he fell onto the ground, but after all, he walked out of the desert and__________as well.

To keep hope is one of the best ways to achieve__________, so never tell you“__________left”，because as long as you try to search, you can always find that “pear” to pull you through.

【推荐3】One Saturday morning, an old man went into the market to buy something. He was dressed _________, his coat worn and his hat old. On his arm he carried a small _________.

“I wish to get a _________ for tomorrow’s dinner,” he said. The market man showed him a fat one. “Ah! That is _________ what I want,” said the old man. “My wife will be _________ with it.” He asked the price and paid for it. The market man packed it and put it in his basket.

Just then a young gentleman _________ the market. He also bought a turkey. When he asked the market man to send it to his _________ at once, the market man _________, “My errand (跑腿) boy is sick today, and there’s no one else. _________, it is not our __________ to deliver goods. It is not __________, so you can carry it yourself.” The young gentleman began to grow __________.

“Carry it myself! Who do you think I am?” said the young gentleman.

Hearing all that was said, the old man said, “Well, that is lucky. I __________ to be going that way. I’ll carry your turkey, if you will __________ me.” The young gentleman agreed happily.

__________ reaching the gentleman’s home, the old man politely handed him the turkey and turned to go. The young gentleman __________ the old man.

“Oh, it’s nothing, sir,” replied the old man. “It was no __________ to me, and you are welcome.” He bowed and went on. The young gentleman stared after him and __________. Then he walked hurriedly back to the market.

“Who is that __________ old gentleman?” he asked the market man. “John Marshall, Chief Justice (首席大法官) of the USA,” the market man answered. The young gentleman was surprised and __________.

In fact, Mr Marshall taught us a lesson that no man should feel himself too fine to carry his own goods.

【推荐1】John Utsey went hiking with his two children one Saturday in August. While strolling along a trail (小路) in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest, they heard someone calling out. About 600 yards away, they found a man ______ on the ground. He had spent 14 days waiting for ______ to arrive.

Two weeks earlier, the man ______ his back in the forest. Unable to stand or walk, he had to wait and hope ______ hikers would find him. As more days passed, he ______ by filling a water bottle from a stream by his side. When John found him, it was ______ that he wouldn’t be able to ______ for much longer.

After giving him all their food and water, John and his kids ______ back to the trailhead. The moment they had reception, John called 911. When the rescuers arrived, he ______ them straight to the ______ .

Because the man was in such bad ______ they built a fire to raise his body temperature before they tried to ______ him. The rescue team carried the man back down the trail. After nine long hours, he was ______ out of the woods!

Now, he’s getting the best ______ possible at a local hospital, where he can rest ______ and hopefully make a full recovery.

【推荐2】My job is to help clients find jobs and return to school for training. One day, a lady came to my office with a dream to become a registered nurse. However, her family did not ________. With young children to care for and her husband unemployed, she simply didn’t have the ________   to return to school.

It was clear that this lady had a(n)________for the nursing profession, so I encouraged her to realize her dream. I________her with necessary information to apply for nursing school. She left my office, and I never ________whether she followed her dream or not.

Many years later, I was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer. I was________ to hospital. The surgery was successful. It was, ________，very painful. Though I ________ myself on not being a bell ringer, one night the pain was so ________ that I had to call for a nurse. I rang the bell and waited for________. A nurse came through the door and offered to help. I   ________thanked her for coming to my rescue. I said, “I am not usually like this.”

To my ________ , she said, “Oh, I know that, Mrs. Bryenton.” It________ that she was just the lady who I had encouraged to follow her dream years before. She subsequently (随后) returned to school for upgrading and later ________nursing.

You never know what ________________ your encouraging words will have on someone. It is amazing that many of my clients would return to say thanks to me.

【推荐3】I realized I had depression(抑郁症) about five years ago. Everything might _________ me for no reason. I felt so tired, but when I lay in bed, my mind just _________ working, preventing me from falling asleep. I _________ fighting against it, so I lay there and let it take me over.

I hated being depressed because I was no longer the person who told jokes at the lunch table and then laughed so loud at my own joke that almost everyone kept their eyes _________ on me. I hated it that I walked around with so much _________ in my heart. I knew if I told my family, they would tell me that it was all in my head and that I would be _________. But what they didn’t know was that depression took up all of my _________, and I was left with nothing.

It took me about two years before I decided I would _________ receive therapy(治疗). I did not like the idea at all. I hated talking about my _________ and letting people into my life. But I was __________ to give it my very best shot.

After one full year of therapy, my life changed __________. At the beginning, it was difficult, but as time went by, everything just seemed to fall into place. All of a sudden, speaking out loud about everything that went on in my __________ seemed perfectly fine. I didn’t feel like I was not __________ for the way I thought previously.

Depression is a real mental and common disease that anyone in this world can __________ and I shouldn’t be ashamed of it. Therapy has truly made me a better person. Now every time I __________, I know I can lift myself up.