【推荐1】That cold January night, I was growing sick of my life in San Francisco. There I was, walking home at one o’clock in the morning after a tiring practice at the _________. With opening night only a week away, I was still learning my _________. I was having trouble dealing with my part-time job at the bank and my acting at night at the same time. As I walked, I thought seriously about _________ both acting and San Francisco. City life had become too much for me.

As I walked down empty streets under tall buildings, I felt very small and cold. I began _________, both to keep warm and to keep away from any possible _________. Very few people were still out except a few sad-looking _________ people under blankets.

About a block from my apartment, I heard a sound behind me. I turned quickly, half _________ to see someone with a knife or a gun. The street was empty. All I saw was a shining streetlight. _________, the noise had made me nervous, so I started to run faster. Not until I reached my apartment building and unlocked the door did I realize what the noise had been. It had been my _________ falling to the sidewalk.

Suddenly I wasn’t cold or tired anymore. I ran out of the door and back to __________I’d heard the noise. Although I searched the sidewalk anxiously for fifteen minutes, my wallet was nowhere to be found.

Just as I was about to give up the search, I heard the garbage truck pull up to the sidewalk next to me. When a voice called from the inside, “Alisa Camacho?” I thought I was __________. How could this man know my name? The door opened, and out __________a small red-haired man with an amused look in his eyes. “Is this what you’re looking for?” he asked, __________ up a small square shape.

It was nearly 3 A.M. by the time I got into bed. I wouldn’t get much sleep that night, but I had gotten my wallet back. I also had gotten back some __________ of city life. I realized that the city couldn’t be a bad place as long as people were __________ to help each other.

【推荐2】It was a dark night. Thick, dark, gray clouds had made sure that there was no starlight or moonlight to ________ me as I walked out of my porch (门厅). Still, I kept the porch light off because I didn’t want to be ________ by bugs and moths (飞蛾) on this sticky ________ evening. I stood there for a while letting my eyes adjust to the lack of ________.

It was then, though, that I saw them. First one blink of light at the far end of the ________ followed by another and then another. I ________. I recognized them at once as my firefly (萤火虫) friends, my lightning bug buddies who always ________ this time of the year.

When I was little I used to sit in the grass and watch them ________ fly around blinking on and off. I never ________ and put one in a jar as some kids did because I never wanted to hurt these messengers of light. Their time on this earth was so ________ as it was. I tried to enjoy them each night they were here. It always ________ me when they disappeared in the fall and it always made my heart sing when they ________ the next summer.

We are like them in a lot of ways. Our ________ here on earth is brief. Often our light of love is more like on and off blinks rather than a ________ shine. Still, we do our best to share it and take ________ in knowing that others will be shining their light long after we are gone.

【推荐1】Growing up in Kenya was amazing because I learned so much, though the poverty and lack of resources were sometimes frustrating. I knew I didn’t have much, but I was ________.

There was only one thing I wasn’t happy with: ________. I wanted to go to high school and university. I had the drive, the will and the grades, ________ I didn’t have the resources. Even ________ things like food, water and shelter weren’t readily available. Young people in poverty have little or no   ________ to high schools and universities. Where I lived, it was challenging ________ someone helped. When I left primary school, I was in the same ________ as many other poor disadvantaged youth. ________, during that year, a charitable high school for girls, Starehe Girls Centre, was ________ and I received a scholarship. Today, I am ________ record as being the first student to be enrolled in this school.

In 2006, my school __________ The Global Give Back Circle, a not-for-profit organization for ________ disadvantaged girls to complete their education and gain ________ skills. After graduating from high school, I was given access to a nine-month IT course. ________, its give-back attitude had taught us to not only care about ourselves but other people. With this in mind, 10 of us created a website called “Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up”. Through this educational website, aimed at networking 10,000 African ________ worldwide, all Sisters commit to sending information to their villages. This can be to ________ financial freedom, advance information   ________   to health issues and provide knowledge about social networking behavior.

“Hey Sister, Get Clued-Up” is only ________   to those girls who can access the Internet, which highlights the huge challenge in ________ the divide between the haves and have-nots. But our plan is that these girls will   ________ what they learn to other girls through the “power of their voice”.

【推荐3】Lori was suspended (暂停)from school for having cigarettes in her locker. She told her dad, “ I don't know how they got there! I was just putting them in my pocket to take them to the principal when a teacher _______ and sent me to the office." Dad had a hard time _______ that Lori didn't know how the cigarettes got into her locker, _______ only she had the key. He also found it hard to believe that she was putting them in her pocket to take them to the principal. He felt disappointed that Lori would _______ to him because they had always been such a close and loving _______ . He was also worried that she was beginning to _______ her life by getting involved in smoking, drinking, and drugs.

Dad felt like _______ and punishing and letting her know how disappointed he was.

_______ , he decided to look for the positive. It is never difficult to find, if you are willing to look for it. As he got into Lori's _______ he could understand that she was probably having a tough time deciding how to ________ with family values and still be part of the crowd. He also realized that the only reason Lori would lie to him would be because she loved him so much that she wouldn't want to disappoint him.

With this ________ , Dad approached Lori. Instead of scolding and punishing, he kindly said, "Lori, I’ll bet it is really difficult trying to ________ how to stick up for what you believe and yet not be called a ' ________ ' by your friends.^

Lori felt such ________ as she said, “Yes, it is."

Dad went on, “And I'll bet that if you would ever lie to us. it would be because you love us so much that you wouldn't want to disappoint us." Lori got tears in her eyes and could only nod in ________ . Dad added, "Lori, we would be disappointed if you did something that would ________ you. But if you don't know that you can always tell us anything, then we aren't doing a good enough job in letting you know how much we love you — ________ Lori gave her dad a big ________ , and they just held each other for a while.

They never did directly discuss the problem of smoking and lying. Over a year has gone by, and Lori seems to delight in letting her mom and dad know every time she ________ the temptation(诱惑)to do something contrary to her________ . She also feels proud that she is influencing her friends to stick up for their belief.

【推荐1】This year, the headmaster of the school recommended a book to us. The book is The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Robinson. The Element（元素） _________ the point at which the things we are _________ about and the things we are good at come together. The author says it is _________ to find our Element, not just for our own _________, but for the improvement of our world.

Mick Fleetwood is one of the most famous rock drummers in the world. _________, the tests showed his intelligence was low when he was in school. His mind would go _________ when his teacher asked him to recite the alphabet backwards. ___________, Mick's learning disability doesn't _________ his way to success. He comes from a home where his parents could see what is _________ his limits and understand the poor __________________ performance hardly dooms（注定） one to failure.

Mick's low score didn't __________________ his parents. They knew __________________ him from school and the tests that __________________ only a narrow range of intelligence may be the path to a successful career. Instead of __________________ Mick as a loser, they understand that he has a great talent for something that a score on a test can never __________________.

In school, there is an effort to help student __________________ what talents they have. But this is only one piece of the Puzzle, __________________ is stressed by Robinson. The other piece is finding __________________ a person's talent and the love of __________________ that talent intersect（交叉）.

I have enjoyed this book, and really __________________ the guidance of this book.

【推荐2】Intentions matter

When my daughter was very young, she broke my favorite cup. She was moving it aside, and it slipped from her hand and broke on the floor. I loved that cup and was really disappointed, but____I didn’t punish her. It was an accident. She didn’t____to drop it. Intentions matter. Or do they?

I can’t help but feel that our modern world does not____intentions. We are all so ready to find fault with another person and so concerned with our own responses that we don’t consider the____of others.

There are____opportunities to be upset these days in the celebrity news cycle, in politics and in our own interpersonal interactions. Every single day, someone is torn apart on social media for something they have said or done.

A friend of mine says, “It’s not how the message is intended; it’s how it’s received.” He means that we need to be____when choosing our words because they can easily be____by the person we are addressing.

We all at times express ourselves poorly, make errors of judgment or have a moment of____where we say the wrong thing. All of us have offended someone at some point in our lives.

The internet is full of people seeking to make things worse.____there are also many decent people who____get things wrong or simply do not know better.

I get that there is much to be angry about. The world is full of injustice. The actions and words of other people can cause harm;____, the actions and words of other people matter.

But intention has to matter too, for us to make sense of the world, and for us to effect change.____intentions can help us to feel better about our fellow humans. When we appreciate intent, it can help to lessen the impact of their message.

On a more practical level, understanding intention can help us respond to people with____instead of anger. People who wish to do the right thing are often willing to listen. When we scream at people in anger, we____communication and make them less open to change. Remember, humans are____as divided as social media suggests.

Did the person throw the cup, or did it slip from their hands? Now, more than ever, I think the answer matters.