【推荐1】When I was in my final year of college, a good friend of mine was planning to visit a toastmaster(宴会主持人) club and invited me to join her._________I loved the idea of public speaking and hoped that the_________would be also where I would see myself someday, I was a self-doubting person filled with pessimism, which never gave me the_________to take that baby step.

Later, my another friend encouraged me to_________one of the forums. _________, I still never joined in it until I_________ . It was when I started working in a company and moved to a different city, and I was lonely that I_________myself harder to give this forum a(o)_________. Little did I know that it was this little forum that was really a start to bigger_________Since then I have started to__________the road to my career as a toastmaster gradually.

That friend doesn't know what a(n)__________his little encouragement has made on my life. Today I am a__________individual; pessimism no longer has the upper hand and I can__________call myself a public speaker. I still remember when I__________my first paycheck for my public speaking, tears weren’t enough to__________my emotions. I have been speaking on __________occasions to various audiences since then. Whenever I walk up to the platform, holding the microphone, I believe that I am nothing but myself.

I don’t just give a__________to the crowd. Sometimes, I tell them a story—one that has a__________reflection of my past pessimism, one that is related to my sincere__________for that friend of mine and one that__________my hidden passion and talent, which might have been forgotten had it not been for her encouragement.

【推荐2】Recently I’ve completed my college degree.The________course was sociology and the last project was called “smile”, which asked us to go out and smile at three people and record their reactions.

It was freezing. My husband and I went out to McDonald’s. We were standing in line, waiting to be________,when all of a sudden everyone around us began to________away from their position.

As I turned around I smelled a________dirty body” smell, and there standing behind me were two poor ________men. As I looked down at the short gentleman close to me, he was smiling and his beautiful sky blue eyes searched for________.

To sit in the restaurant and________up, they had to buy something. When the young lady at the counter asked what they wanted, he said coffee because that was all they could________.

I smiled and asked the lady for two more breakfast meals on two________plates. I then walked around the corner to the table that the men had chosen as a resting spot.

I put the plates on the table and covered the blue eyed gentleman’s cold hands with my hands. With tears in his eyes, he said, “Thank you.” I noticed all the________in the restaurant were set on me. My husband________at me and gave me a big hug.

I returned to college and handed in a paper about this story as my________to the instructor. She read it and then asked, “Can I share this?” I nodded. Just at that time I realized in my own way I had________the people at McDonald’s, my husband, the instructor, and every soul that shared the classroom. I________with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn— unconditional acceptance. We shouldn’t________people based on their appearance.

【推荐3】On Monday morning around 9:30 a. m, 28-year-old Ben Delahunty’s hiking partner put in a call to report that his friend was _______ under a large stone in the area of Lake Viviane in Washington.

He said his friend’s wrist was stuck by the stone and it was also _______ his legs, but they were not able to immediately move the boulder as it was _______ the size of a refrigerator. They initially felt really _______ on the large stone-but all of a sudden it started to _______ and he ended up underneath it.

The rescue proved _______ for officials. They were nearly on a cliff (悬) side and the stone was also being held in place by a tree. The scene presented a unique challenge of getting _______ capable of moving the stone as well as rescuers on the scene _______ .

The State Emergency Management requested a helicopter to help. Additionally, local fire departments were also _______ . The crews immediately found this rescue had more challenges. The officials needed ropes to safely ________ the hiker’s location as there was a risk of falling while ________ the stone.

However, due to challenging ________ conditions, including heavy winds, the first attempt to lift him into the helicopter was ________ . At 4:45 p. m. there was enough of a ________ in the weather to allow them to attempt another operation. ________ , they were successful and transported Mr. Delahunty to the hospital.

【推荐1】The Pygmalion effect is a psychological phenomenon that positive expectations lead to better performance and negative expectations lead to worse performance. I taught algebra (代数) at a summer school. There I_________a student who taught me a lot more than what I could have_________taught him. Let’s call him Joey.

While he_________with his math at first, his enthusiasm and_________never changed. I quickly_________him as a star pupil. Joey shared with me one day that his mother passed away when he was young. Neither of his parents finished high school, so his mom’s dream was to see him_________. His dad was a plumber (水暖工) who worked long hours for low wages. Joey said he wanted to get his_________so that he could get a better job because he_________to see his dad happy.

From that day forward, I_________myself to ensuring he would pass. I taught him how to understand some of the____________topics in algebra. On the last day of the class, Joey____________ the final test. After all the students left, I____________ behind to help clean up. The head teacher____________ told me that he was amazed at Joey’s____________ in the test in spite of his disabilities.

The teacher went on to explain that Joey was____________with learning disabilities and that some “experts” said he would never be able to do math. I was____________to hear this, because I had never found it when I worked with him!

If he had learning disabilities, then how was he able to solve the problems____________to difficult algebra concepts with____________after some lessons? This question has____________me for some time. After spending____________hours searching, I’ve found the best explanation is the concept of the Pygmalion effect.