【推荐1】The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

—Thomas Macaulay

Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O'Neill gave an arithmetic _______to our class. When the papers were marked she discovered that twelve boys had made exactly the _______ mistakes throughout the test.

There is nothing really new about_______in exams. Perhaps that was why Mrs. O'Neill_______even say a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to________after class. I was one of the twelve.

Mrs. O'Neill asked______ questions, and she didn't _______ us either. Instead, she wrote on the blackboard the ______words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to_______ these words into our exercise-books one hundred times.

I don't _______about the other eleven boys. Speaking for_______I can say :it was the most important single_______of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay's words, they_______seem to me the best yardstick(准绳), because they give us a _______to measure ourselves rather than others.

_____of us are asked to make_______decisions about nations going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us are called upon daily to make a great many personal decisions._______the wallet, found in the street, be put into a pocket_______turned over to the policeman? Should the_______change received at the store be forgotten or returned? Nobody will know except_______. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better to live with someone you respect.

【推荐2】Brandon and Derek's mother, Beth Lash, shared a Facebook video on Dec. 25, 2017. It captured the moment when Brandon_________his card out loud. On Brandon Lash's 24th birthday, his little brother, Derek,_________him with a rather large card filled with an even bigger_______.

“I have always_______ you," Brandon reads from the front of the card, _______ by his brother.

"I love spending time with you... I'm so _______ I have you for my brother. You have always been there for me, even though I get on your nerves sometimes. You will always have a piece of my heart," Brandon continues, opening up the _______ .

"And now you will have my_______, too. We are a _______ match," Brandon reads,__________the card to the floor and breaking down into ________

Brandon has kidney disease and is currently in chronic(慢性的) failure and has extremely low kidney function. He receives__________three times a week, and was told that he had been recommended for the transplant list. Unfortunately, his parents are not a match, but__________his brother is.

“I can’t believe Derek would__________so much all this for me,” Brandon tells the publication. “He's giving me a__________to have a healthy life again. I__________can't believe it's happening.”

“I__________seeing him sick and knew something needed to be done to make him healthy again,” Derek adds. "Not only was it the__________thing to do, but the only thing to do. He's my brother... We didn't know__________he could be on the transplant list, and I knew I just wanted my__________brother back."

【推荐3】I never really enjoyed running. But my ____ with running has changed. I’m a ____ living in London. When my mom became ill with cancer and there was no ____ of her living much longer, I decided to move back to Harrogate. My work as a musician didn't ____ and I just wanted to be with my mother.

I have been ____ psychotherapy （心理治疗）for more than three years, which has helped with my anxiety, but back in Harrogate, I ____ to do something else positive for myself, as looking after my mother ____ me. I wanted to do something physical and running __ that need.

Getting up before six was ____ for me. But I made myself go running three times a week. After starting last summer, I would run with ____ members and talk about my mom with those I’d known better. It helped me put my ____ in the right place to face another day. And it helped me process my feelings after my mom ____ in October.

Although therapy has been the ____ for all the positive things in my life, running has added to that. Together, they have changed my ____ to life and I'm now less anxious than I was. While running, I feel grounded and I live in the ____ .

【推荐1】We have, like in many more countries, refugees (难民) in our country. Through the years I have tried to _________ without pay by teaching women our country’s language as one of their _________. They have to learn the language, and also our culture, for example, what to say when they have to go to the doctor.

Only by learning the language will they be able to _________ our society. Once a year, just before Christmas break, all the women from different countries make delicious food which are _________ for us all together.

Problems with the kids _________ happen due to being in a _________ country with a different culture and another _________. The women often miss their homes very much and feel _________, because they have to get used to this life as _________ as possible. I have seen the __________ and pain in their eyes. It is so good to give some comfort (安慰) in one way or another, even just to be there for them. And it is really __________ when you make friends.

They and many more new people are trying to __________ up their new homes in this new country. Will we be able to get them out of __________, for every one? And nowadays, though at times their lives look almost broken, I __________ it won’t always. Because wherever we __________, we are together, as we are citizens of the world.

【推荐2】When you are a young active person with a clean bill of health, you never really expect to be hospitalized for two weeks. And you certainly never expect you will _________ it.

I was put in the _________ and then into surgery after I had been in a motorcycle accident a week earlier. At that point, a few thoughts had _________ my mind about possibly losing my leg, but the staff were all so _________ to cure me of my leg.

After almost a week at that hospital, I got _________ to a little hospital. The nurses there weren’t nearly so busy and they had more time to stay and _________.

One night when I couldn’t sleep, I got out of bed. Then a nurse saw me and she just gave me a hug and asked what was wrong.

“I’m _________,” I said quietly. She invited me to sit at the desk with the other nurses there. One of them talked to me about university that wasn’t something I really wanted to _________ right then, but I stopped crying _________ and ended up going to bed with a smile. Nobody had said anything in particular that __________ me down, but those nurses treated me with such __________ and love, which made me forget for a while why I was so upset.

It took lots of __________ for my leg to heal, but it did. I have quite a __________ on the skin of my leg and I love it. It __________ me of the goodness in people that made a huge __________ to this dumb kid who went looking for ways to scare herself.

【推荐3】Charlie Villanueva, once an NBA player, is known for his ability to shoot hoops (篮筐). He says his success is largely due to what he has ________ since childhood.

Today Villanueva’s career may look successful, but life wasn’t always ________ for him. At 10, Villanueva got a skin disease alopecia. It caused his ________ loss, which was not life threatening but difficult for a kid to go through. Other kids called him hurtful names. In middle school, he was suspended (停学) for ________ a no-hats rule. ________ a note from his doctor allowed him to wear hats, they only ________ more unfriendly attention.

Through it all, Villanueva’s mother was there for him in good times and bad times. With his mother’s help and _________, Villanueva turned his frustration (挫败) into ________ to play basketball well on the court. As he improved as an athlete; basketball helped him deal with his alopecia.

In fact, over six million Americans have alopecia like Villanueva. They have gifts, abilities and a need to feel _________, Villanueva established the Charlie Villanueva Foundation to help families of kids with alopecia. Villanueva ________ kids to feel good about who they are, work hard toward their goals and ________ to others. Here’s his ________ for them.

“We’re all ________ in our own different ways. Embrace it and enjoy life _________. Many didn’t think I’d make it. Thankfully they were ________ about me. Believe in yourself, and all dreams are possible.”

【推荐1】This year has been a busy year of travel for me，and the end of the year is no exception. I __ an early morning flight that had me up at 4：30am to get to the airport．The thought of such an early flight made me ____ , but then I started to think about the chain of people who would make that early journey ____ for me; my Lift driver, check-in agent, security staff, gate agents, flight crew,etc. They all do their jobs at an early hour ____ I can get to my destination safely.

When the trip ____ , I realized I had a(n) ____ ; I could be annoyed about having to take an early flight and hold this ____ with me.Or, I could choose to be ____ for this modern machine of safe air travel and the people who made it possible．Just thinking about the   ___ choice got my mind working about ____ I could show my gratitude：what if I got a little gift for every ____ I encountered on my journey?

Then I started to think about what kind of gift would be ____. Because it was a trip，they had to be ____ enough to fit in my luggage.____ , I decided a Starbucks gift card would be portable and a universally appreciated item that would ____ them to get a coffee, tea or snack．

For the first time in years I actually ____ getting up at 4：30am! I ended up giving gift cards to my Lift driver，airport security agent，two gate agents, and four flight attendants, ___   of whom said thank you and smiled while ____ their duties．And,   ___ arriving fired and upset, after only four hours of sleep and a long ____，I was energetic and happy to share my story.