【推荐1】Brooke Ochoa was going to enter a restaurant for lunch when she saw an elderly lady approaching. The thirty-year-old woman _______to keep the door open for her. She thought   she was just doing something _______. She didn’t know, however, that a remark that a lady would make a few seconds later would _______a chain of events that would cause her to get countless likes on her post and _______on social media suddenly. As Brooke entered the restaurant, she _______the elderly lady asking for “a table for one”. Then she decided to do one more act of _______. Brooke walked up to the lady’s _______and asked, “I also_______alone, would you like to have lunch together?”

The lady, named Dolores, not only accepted Brooke’s_______, but she was very pleased to have________. The two________up an instant friendship during their meal.

Dolores told Brooke that she’d been having a ________time. “She spent the last decade living with her mom, who recently passed away,” Brooke wrote in a late post about the encounter. “She just kept smiling and saying ‘thank you for listening to me’, which made me ________too!” Brooke and Dolores enjoyed their conversation so much that they ________to have lunch with each other every Thursday from that point on. In a later________, not long after their first meeting, Brooke was________that Dolores had passed away.

If nothing else, this chance ________is evidence that the smallest ________of good will can quite exactly change a life. Neither of the two women knew that Dolores’s days on earth were so ________, but they found ________in each other, and that’s what matters.

【推荐2】A few years ago，on a flight I fortunately met with a psychologist，Daniel Gilbert.He was very humorous，and we talked a lot.I was completely _____．He was interested in the questions that we _____ but we never have the opportunity to _____．

Now Gilbert has written a book Stumbling on Happiness(《撞上幸福》)．Reading it _____me of that plane ride long ago.It is a _____ to read his book.Gilbert is charming and _____．He has a rare _____ for making very complicated ideas come _____．

Stumbling on Happiness is a book about a very simple _____ powerful idea.What distinguishes us from other animals is our ability to predict the future，______，our interest in predicting the future.We spend much time ______ what it would be like.Why？It is what allows us to ______ our life.It is by trying to apply some control over our futures ______ we attempt to be______．But by any objective measure，we are really ______ at that predictive function.We're terrible at knowing how we will feel tomorrow，and even worse at ______ what will bring us happiness.Gilbert ______ to explain why we are so terrible.In making his case，Gilbert walks(陪同) us ______ a series of attracting facts about the way our minds work.

I suppose I really should go on at this point.But I think that might ruin the ______ of reading Stumbling on Happiness.This is a story about the mysteries of our lives.If you have even the slightest ______ about the human condition，you ought to read it.Trust me.

【推荐3】Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service.

Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in case of _______. One night, the winds _______ hard, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The _______ were in trouble and they sent out the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers quickly gathered in the town square, _______ the sea. When the team started their rowboat and fought their way _______ the wild waves, the villagers waited nervously on the beach, holding lamps to _______ the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared and the hoping villagers ran _______ the volunteers. Falling on the sand, _______, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not _______ any more passengers and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely overturned the rescue boat and all would have been ________.

Anxiously, the captain called for another volunteer team to ________ the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, ________, “Please don’t go. Your father ________ in a shipwreck (海难) 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been missing at sea for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have ________.”

Hans replied, “Mother, I have to go. ________ everyone said ‘I can’t go, let someone else do it’, there will be ________ going to help. Mother, this time I have to do my duty.” Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and ________ into the night.

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans’ mother like a ________. Finally, the rescue boat came into sight in the distance with Hans standing up in the bow (船首). Cupping his hands, the captain ________, “Did you find the lost man?” ________ able to control himself, Hans excitedly cried back, “Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it’s my older brother, Paul!”

【推荐1】My son, Ben, was 23 when I lost him in an accident. As an outdoor lover, he ________ felt at home when he was outside. In his ________, the year after his passing away, I ________ 48 of New Hampshire’s tallest mountains. While ________ this unimaginable loss, I have managed to achieve inner ________ during the journey. Every step, path and summit — whether rough or________ — has been a way to make us emotionally strong again.

About a month after Ben’s death, my husband and I ________ climbing Carter Dome in the White Mountains, ________ with sorrow, since my son loved mountain climbing. ________, standing on the summit, sorrow seemed to fade into the ________ and timeless expanse (浩瀚) for a moment. In the silence, I felt quiet. The next weekend ________ us on Mount Cannon. Then Mount Flume, Mount Liberty and so on.

I hiked my 48th and ________ summit six days before the anniversary of Ben’s death. Then I ________ the top of a mountain is the only place to ________ my sorrow. It’s true that part of my heart is ________ damaged, but at the summit, I am able to ________ and hold on, because I know he lives in the constant mountains. These days, I climb not to hide, but to ________. I find Ben, and I also find myself: someone ________ now reassembling into someone braver. Mountain climbing is both tiring and ________, and it teaches me that sorrow and joy can actually ________.