【推荐1】After climbing up Mount Eiger, a group of friends were planning for their next goal Mount Matterhorn. The mount can be viewed from below for less ________ climbers, while for those who are experienced and want a(n) ________ the mountain offers a pyramid-shaped peak (山峰). As this was a very ________ climb to the top and they were already tired, they decided they wouldn’t go to the top. So they ________ camp and would return the next day. While they were ________ one of them named Mike was ________ a few people making their way to the top. He asked if his friends were ________ to join him but no one wanted to because it was dangerous. ________ another group of climbers were just passing by their camp. Mike asked if he could join them, and they happily ________ him.

When they reached the top, Mike was surprised about the final ________ as it wasn’t so difficult. So he asked a man next to him why there weren’t more people at the top. The man ________, “Most people are happy with what they find easy. They never think they have the potential to ________ more, and they don’t want to ________ any risk. ”

Don’t be like those people who have a “destination” but end up ________ in the middle of their journey. Follow through until the ________ at everything you start. You soon will see the result of finishing things.

【推荐1】I met Miss Jane when I joined a stage decorating project for a play in my ninth grade. _________ she had an unpleasant voice, she was very good at _________ me.

During the work, she kept asking me for my _________. She always wanted to know how I thought we should _________ certain parts of the stags. At first I kept silent because I was shy and did not want to make _________. But she would persuade me to respond to her _________.

Usually, Miss Jane would _________ me and say. “Try to _________ your ideas. We can do better together.” Little by little, I began to take _________ and told her my thoughts. Eventually, I started to express myself ____________.

She kept the ____________ going on. If I succeeded in something simple, she would ask me to complete more ____________ things. She told me not to be ____________. She trusted me so much that I began to ____________ myself. When we ____________ the project, I was recognized as “The Best Art Assistant” in the program.

Working with Miss Jane changed me ____________. She let me do things that I never imagined ____________. She taught me not to ____________ the difficulty in my life. It was my ____________. Miss Jane, that showed me a world I had never known before and led me to ____________ the rest of my life to stage design.

【推荐2】Last year, Doctor Steve truly understood what it means to be at the right place at the right time. During a half-marathon, he found himself in the position to ______ not one, but two runners. Things had been going ______ up to 3-mile mark, but that’s when Steve noticed a(n) ______ runner named Gregory.

Gregory had just reached the peak of an incline(斜坡) and was ______ to see that he’d get to run downhill for a bit. This was the last thing he ______ before collapsing.

Meanwhile, Steve saw this happen, and he could tell it wasn’t a simple ______ . Steve immediately stopped, performing CPR. Once it was ______ that Gregory was doing well and an ambulance took him away, Steve continued the race.

The rest of the race itself was ______ but, when Steve crossed the finish line, his life-saving ______ was needed once more. A man named Michael began to feel dizzy moments after crossing the finish line. Then, just like Gregory, he ______ .

“I never expected something like that in my whole life to happen again, let alone in the same ______ , ” Steve said.

The ______ of this entire situation is truly remarkable. Had Steve not ______ to help Gregory, he would have crossed the finish line much sooner than Michael, ______ he wouldn’t have been around to save him, too. Thankfully, the events had a happy ______ . Now the three men become good friends.

【推荐1】The day started out as many others before. I was always in a rush, always trying to ________ too much in a day’s time. It seemed as though the kids were________ underfoot.

Many times I heard that these were the ________ days, that I should cherish the ________. I couldn’t see it, though. I was________ by the long list of things to do.

A warm morning, I took the kids outside and started________ the flower beds as Emily and Logan played nearby. I was ________ to have a moment to myself while the kids were occupied.

It wasn’t long before I________ that the two of them were sitting beneath a small tree in the backyard, looking up into the ________ and singing a song. We had dubbed (把…称为) it“The Emily Tree” simply because it had been ________ when Emily was a baby.

Days and________ had passed, and Emily had grown ________ as well. She had turned into a bright and curious child who was always eager to learn and ________ and help her little brother Logan do the same.

________ got the best of me, and I headed over to ask why they were sitting there, apprently________ to the tiny tree.

Logan only________, but Emily told me softy in her matter-of-fact little ________, “You have to spend time with something if you want it to ________ nice and strong. ”She turned to finish her song.

Well, the weeds didn’t get pulled that day. ________, I went into the house, gathered a blanket and a picnic lunch, and________ my daughter and son under the Emily Tree.

【推荐3】In present times, stress is one of the major causes of mental illness and physical illness. Stress is no _________ to us. Everybody has met and experienced it. It lives in our homes, workplaces, and _________ follows us wherever we go, in some form or other. But do you know why you can’t _________ it?

You get stressed because you _________ to get stressed. This is ridiculous (荒谬的), you might say. You’re right. Who would _________ that stress is a choice that we make? And why in the world would we choose stress? Well, it is because we do not realize that we’re doing that. It happens _________. Choosing stress is easy, but the other way around is a _________ task.

Most of us would take the easy _________, the path of minimum efforts. We’re under stress at times _________ we don’t do anything that we should do — just because either we’re __________ or we don’t have __________ in ourselves. When you don’t complete your task on time, and the __________ draws near, stress envelops you.

If you did your task or carried your __________ as it should be, then you would not be stressed. Choosing not to get stressed is like swimming against the tide. Initially (最初), it __________ effort because you are used to going with the flow of your __________ behavior. So we need to overcome our laziness and self-abasement to be stress-free.