【推荐1】My husband and I booked a fall leaf-sight tour up the Hudson River. We were really eager to see all the changing colors of the leaves in their full glory. We checked online when the peak colors were ______to occur and planned our boat trip accordingly.

We were a little ______that day, since none of the leaves in our backyard seemed to be changing color, but we assumed that as we went farther north, it would be a different story.

The Palisades Park on the Jersey side was beautiful but there was not a colorful leaf ______. We remained hopeful as the journey ______but other than the occasion glimpse of yellow and orange, it was not the tour we had ______. It was fall and there were leaves but none of the other expected conditions were fulfilled!

Although our ______unmet, we had really enjoyed a lot. Honestly, there was some ______ in the beginning, but I was able to ______ the positive. I love the time getting out and with my husband. I love the running waters beside the road.

If I just ______about money wasted and hopes ruined, I would have had a truly ______day. Maybe there would be some reason for that but there would be little pleasure.

But if I tell myself that I had a beautiful day out, enjoyed some quiet time with my husband and came back ______then it was money and time well ______.

We couldn’t change the circumstances of our ______. We couldn’t make the leaves suddenly change color, but we could still have a relaxing day out. Since there was nothing we can do to change the situation, all that was left was to change our ______. We could have so ______   spoiled it, but we ended up having a great day.

【推荐2】We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that often seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus, we are sometimes affected by _________ or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember, I had _________ with anxiety.

After graduating from university, I made friends with the Moroccan(摩洛哥的) woman at work. One day, she invited me to visit her and her family back home. I wanted to; _________, for a girl who had never been out of the UK alone in the past 23 years, it meant that I would have to travel in a very _________ area by myself for the first time in my life. Could I really _________ it?

Then one day it _________ to me that I had a life to live. Indeed, I could choose to give in to these awful concerns. There was always a sense of fear overwhelming from the bottom of my heart and still to that moment _________ I made up my mind to go to Morocco and feel something totally _________.

I remember how good it felt the minute I set foot in Morocco.

_________ arrival, my friend’s family arranged a generous welcome party and everyone was so loving toward me. Such a moment of love felt in distant rural village __________ me that I was “good enough” or I deserved to be treated like a star, which __________ helped to relieve my anxiety.

It was after I woke up the next day, in the morning light, that I was __________ by how underdeveloped the area was and the realization that these people had very few __________. Electronic items like smart phones, computer games are nearly __________ to be found.

In the days afterwards, under the guidance of my friend, I traveled around Morocco, __________ the rivers, mountains and the amazing food (most of them were new to me). It seemed that I had never felt so __________ be attached to nature as well as the people around me before.

At the end of my stay, something __________ me changed. From dawn to dusk, I was immersed in a sense of delight __________ depression for nearly two weeks.

That trip helped me to find out what really __________ in life. And with that, all my worries disappeared. When I returned home, I was much more active in challenging my anxiety. More importantly, helping others __________ their anxiety is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.

【推荐1】It was a grey winter day. Two inches of freshly fallen snow had _________ the ground. The night before had been so cold that I had to leave my water dripping(滴下) to _________ the pipes. Still, I had several packages to deliver. I opened the door, climbed into the _________ and started the heater. Then I drove out into the terrible day. I decided, though, not to let the _________ and darkness of it get to me.

I put a CD that I had recorded years before into the player. It was full of songs about _________, which made me smile and brought happiness to my heart. I _________ don’t sing in public. My voice is unpleasant and I don’t want others to suffer through it. But since I was in the car, I _________ the volume(音量) and let my voice join in. I may not have made a beautiful noise, but I did make a(n) _________ one. Song after song I sang along. It felt so good to sing again. I _________, I sang, and I let the love rise from my heart, through my __________, and out into the world.

After a while, I __________ something exciting. The sun was starting to break through the clouds. Its light was shining brightly on the __________ and making it sparkle(闪耀) with life. It was as if the Heavens had decided to join my song. I sang even __________ and let my spirit fly high.

Nobody can promise us a lifetime of sunny days. Sometimes you just have to __________ until the sun comes out in the sky. You have to create your own __________ and use it to brighten up the world. Don’t let your music die inside of you then. Sing! Live! Love! And shine!

【推荐2】One afternoon many years ago, I parked my car by the street, waiting to_______ my mother from work.   

As I looked outside the car window to my right, there was a small park where I saw a little boy, around two years old, running freely on the grass as his mother _______ from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been _______ from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, get up, and without hesitation or without looking back at his mother, run as fast as he could, again, still with a smile on his face, _______ nothing had happened.

Actually, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t think of their falling down as failure; _______, they treat it as a learning experience. They _______ try and try again until they succeed. While I was _______ by the boy’s persistence, I was equally touched by the manner in which he ran. With each _______, he looked so confident and so natural. No _______ of fear, nervousness, or of being discouraged — as if he didn’t give a care about the world around him.

His only aim was to run freely and to do it as effectively as he could. He was just being a child — being just himself completely in the moment. He was not looking for approval or was not worrying about ________ someone was watching or not. He wasn’t ________ about being judged. He didn’t seem to be ________ by the fact that maybe someone would see him fall and that it would be ________ if he did fall. No, all that ________ to him was to accomplish the task or activity at hand to the best of his ability — to run and to feel the experience of running fully and freely. I learned a lot from that ________ and experience, and have successfully brought that lesson with me in my many pursuits in life.

________, I’ve always believed that in each of us is a little child with absolute courage, a child that has the ability to run freely without a care for anything external（外在的）. I believe that courageous part of us — that courageous child ________ us all, will always be with us ________ we live. We only need to allow it to emerge more fully. We only need to once again ________ that child within us — and give that child permission to run freely, just like that boy in the ________.