【推荐1】My son was born with breathing difficulties, so he had to stay in NICU, the hospital unit for newborns needing intensive care. There he could only be fed through a tube. I hated the tube. The lovely dreams I had of nursing my baby were entirely_______.

On the fifth day, I_______about the tube, saying that I wanted to feed him with a bottle. The doctors agreed to let me try. My son’s feedings would be closely recorded to see if he was able to get_______milk intake without the tube. After eighteen hours, it was determined he could not do that and the tube was back. This meant he wasn’t getting stronger. The_______felt so dark.

Seated outside the NICU, I started crying. Just then, a young nurse came and sat beside me. When I had_______ my sorrow a little, she handed me a tissue and asked if I wanted to talk. I asked again if we could remove the tube.

The nurse replied, “Not today. But remember, tomorrow is a new day.”

She seemed much younger than me, but her words were_______and hope-filled, and I held on to them. I remembered her advice and repeated it to myself multiple times a day. The nurse changed my perspective away from current_______to see the hope of tomorrow. Gradually, things started to _______. On day eight, my son drank half of his milk without the tube. On day ten, the doctors approved taking off the tube_______. “Tomorrow” came. It just came a few days later than expected. On day fifteen, we were released from the hospital, and my son “graduated” from the NICU.

What I learned from that nurse was to look beyond today and the suffering of it and to consider tomorrow with__________. After all, tomorrow is a new day.

【推荐2】I wasn’t the most popular kid in my freshman year—I mostly kept myself buried in a book alone. Ashley was very _________ from me. She was outspoken and fashionable. So you can _________ how surprising when we became friends! During that summer, we _________ and did everything together!

I looked up to Ashley, and wanted to be all of her. I even tailored my next-year _________ to her interests. Later, Ashley introduced me to her group of friends. I would _________ them around.

One day, arriving earlier at the classroom, I overheard what they were talking about. “She’s such a(n) _________ ,” one girl said. “She just follows you, but doesn’t have a _________ of her own.” This was the first time I had felt _________ . My eyes began to well with tears and my hands were _________ . I couldn’t stay there anymore.

I ran home and told my mother. The advice she gave was so __________ , “Just be yourself and people will __________ you for who you are.” It sounded so profound and I decided I was going to __________ myself. Over the next month, I went through a lot of __________ . I bought new clothes I wanted to wear. __________ I began making new friends. I never just followed the crowd.

When I look back, I think of it as the year I grew up. Despite the pain I felt, it was a __________ they had given me.

【推荐3】One day, hundreds of people were stuck in traffic on the highway in below-freezing temperatures due to a snowstorm. With the conditions making it _________ for rescue workers to help, many were trapped overnight with no access to _________.

But one stuck driver found a _________ spot in the despair. As she was sitting in her car fearing the _________, Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, _________ a bread truck just ahead of them in the jam. Willing to try just about anything, they called the customer service number listed on the back of the truck and left a _________ begging for the driver to open the back and _________ bread to the hungry passengers around them. It was a last-ditch effort, and the couple wasn’t very _________ about getting a response. But to their _________ they soon received a phone call from the company’s owner, Chuck Paterakis, with the news that he was __________ the truck’s driver to open up and pass out loaves of bread from his cargo. Overjoyed by the news, Holihan and Noe __________ the truck’s driver to bring much-needed things to the cars around them.

The simple loaves of bread were surely a ray of __________ in an impossibly disturbing situation. Holihan herself calls it “one of the __________ moments” she’s ever witnessed. This company could have made a(n) __________ from the bread but instead chose to help the people around them. That is just so incredible that someone chose __________ over profit, especially in a situation where people were so desperate.

【推荐2】When Aiden Vayo found out that he had a rare genetic(基因的) heart illness, it actually came as a bit of a(n) _________ . Even though the diagnosis meant that his heart could suddenly give out, Aiden was _________ glad to know what was behind all these problems he’d felt for years. He was also relieved to learn that there was _________ available(可获得的).

Aiden is an unusually bright, quick witted teenager who deals with his condition with a dark but cheerful sense of _________ “I once blacked out on my birthday and woke up in a bush,” he laughs. Aiden is positive and cheerful even when discussing his father’s passing away after his heart _________ to work. And this _________ led to his genetic diagnosis(诊断). Results showed that Aiden had _________ heart function, not performing properly. Considering his family’s _________ health history and the test results, Dr Ceresnak who also treated his late father for years, put Aiden on medication and worked with the Packard Children’s Hospital genetic team to investigate(研究) _________.

“__________ having a fun, great medical team here, we change our dynamic(交互方式) to __________ the needs of an individual, says Dr. Ceresnak. Later in an interview, he also __________, “Doctors here all try to __________ the way we educate and support a family in ways that best suit them. The best part is people like Aiden, whose __________ for life is so encouraging. Kids like him are what makes our jobs so meaningful and __________.