【推荐2】Last weekend I decided to treat myself to relaxation by reading a magazine. As usual, I looked through the front pages of _______women wearing designer clothes with ads promising it to be "Best of the Best". I read the ad. _______, instead of offering advice on how to live well, the entire article _______expensive treatments that slow the effects of getting older while fooling others into thinking you stay young naturally. What?Is that even_______?

You may have already guessed—I seldom make up, _______buy a few creams for my skin, and wear only one or two pieces of _______. Instead, given the choice I spend my money on travel, learning experiences, fun and a few causes I support. Fortunately, my husband Thom not only likes me this way, _______he's the same as well. _______comes naturally to us because we both prefer _______experiences.

There was a TV show in the 1980's called Fernando's Hideaway. Regardless of whom the host Fernando was ________in the show, he would always say, "You ________marvelous(棒极了)!"And that was usually followed by, "As we all know, it's ________to look marvelous than feel marvelous. "I knew everyone used to laugh at that show because what made it so ridiculous was how it pointed out the obvious ________of grasping for outside appearances, ________real feelings.

Some women out there might be telling themselves, "I ________possibly feel good if I don't look good. "Really? Your life is ________to feel good to you. We can control the way we feel by controlling our thoughts. Instead of _________outside circumstances to bring about responses in us and make us happy or not, we can put our time, attention and resources on ________can affect inside. No one else knows your reason for being happy. You do. Your happiness ________you to it. When you travel along your ________to joy, your conversation is of joy; your feelings are of joy—you're on the right way.

【推荐3】I grew up in three cultures: I was born in Paris, my parents were from China, and I was_________mostly in America. When I was young, this was very _________: Everyone said that their culture was best, but I knew they couldn’t all be right. I felt that there was a(n) _________ that I would choose to be Chinese or French or American. For many years I bounced(弹跳) among the three, _________ each but never being wholly comfortable.

However, the _________ of trying on each culture taught me something. As I struggled to belong, I came to understand what made each one _________. At that point, I realized that I didn’t need to choose one culture to the _________ of another, but instead I could choose from all three. The values I selected would become _________ of who I was, but no one culture needed to win. I could _________ the cultural depth and length of my Chinese heritage, while feeling just as __________ about the deep artistic traditions of the French and the American culture.

So, __________ settling on any one of the cultures in which I grew up, I now choose to __________ many more cultures and find __________ to love in each. This wandering leads to the accidental learning that continually __________ my life.

As I work in music today, I try to carry out this idea — that the music I play, like me, doesn’t __________ only one culture. In recent years, I have explored many musical traditions. Along the way, I have met __________ who share a belief in the creative power that exists at the intersection of cultures. These musicians have __________ become my guides to their traditions.__________ them and their music I have found new meaning in my own music making.

As we struggle to find our __________ voices, I believe we must look __________ the voice we’ve been assigned and find our place among the tones of human expression.

【推荐1】My husband and I once had a good friend. We would invite him for meals and we spent much time doing things _______. We considered him as our family member. It was such a _______ relationship that we even bought a _______ near his home. Our friendship was built on “fun times” and activities.

After some years, we moved away but stayed in touch. As time passed, _______, we heard less and less from our friend. Later, when we heard things _______ badly in his life, we were happy to be there for him and _______ him. He finally moved to where we lived. Though his life became worse, we supported him in every _______. However, he chose to live a meaningless life, which _______ us deeply, so we gave him lots of help.

Later he moved away and told another friend of mine he didn't_________ us for anything. We were ____________ by his words and we realized though we had____________ true friendship to him, it was only one-sided. We weren't interested in____________ the things he chose to do. He wanted us to follow him to walk on a____________ we would never enjoy. As we often see, friends always____________ in the end. Our friend and we had different hobbies and goals, so our friendship was ____________ finally.

To build a true friendship, we should show ____________, kindness and understanding to others. Being a true friend not only means being there when things are ____________, but also being there when everything is crumbling（崩溃）. We didn't walk away when our friend’s     __________ got hard. Though we may never speak again in this lifetime and our friend is ____________ to us, we love him anyway. We do make him____________ that we are always true friends to him.

【推荐3】When high school started， Becky and I became best friends. We _______ many interests and quickly became inseparable （分不开的）. When high school ended， we both cried _______ we would attend different colleges in the fall.

Our first term of university life was ______. We had a huge telephone bill and our emails were incredibly long. In the second term， I found some new friends with whom I felt very_______. These， were friends with whom I could be myself and _______ out my feelings. I was eager to share my new friends with Becky.

When Becky finally visited me at my school， we were excited. She brought a toy bear to me as a present and told me about her college life. However， something unexpected happened when I _______ her to my new friends. Her eyes grew dark and I could see the _______ within them. My new friends tried to share their friendship， but Becky seemed _______ to accept it. I didn't understand why the people I loved most couldn't love each other.

Becky left. I knew she was not happy. I thought long about what had happened. After many unanswered questions， I understood that she was jealous. She saw me with my new friends and _______ that we no longer shared the same experiences. She saw all the fun I was having ______ her and wished she could be a part of it. She wished she could be in their position.

I wrote a letter to Becky explaining she's always my best friend. I told her everyone had friends from home and friends from school， and all the friends were indeed life's greatest _______ . Becky wrote me back soon. She was in _______ and felt sorry about what she had done.

I think Becky and I both learn an important lesson from it. _______ can influence our friendship and change the experiences we've shared. We are now walking on two different paths of _______ While new friends are special and exciting， old friends are always there， _______ to share their heart and soul， no matter how far apart.

【推荐1】My husband and I had been short of money lately. That, _______ with the fact that he was anxious about being in public, meant we hadn’t been able to _______ outside for a while. Things were finally beginning to _______. So we decided to go to a pizza house that I had been wanting to _______ for a long time.

Once we saw the _______ we knew we could only afford a small pizza so we would have enough money left to _______ the waiter. Before long our 4-slice pie arrived. My husband offered to serve me a slice, only to _______ it onto the floor. He felt embarrassed and got angry with himself. I tried hard to _______ him.

Noticing this, the manager came over and _______ cleared up the mess. Then he apologized that the oven (烤箱) was already being __________, or he would bring another __________ to us.

__________ our meal, the manager returned to thank us for being there. Then he gave us 2 coupons (优惠券) and invited us to dine in his pizza house __________. Wow! We were totally surprised. How kind he was! He could have been annoyed when he saw the __________ we made so close to closing time. He could have been __________ at my husband’s carelessness. __________, he chose to do all he could to make sure we left with a __________. To some people it may seem __________ because he was just doing his job. But to us it meant the world! Our __________ treat of enjoying a night out was made so much more pleasant by the __________ he offered us. Thank you, kind sir, for choosing to shine your light on us!

【推荐3】A little girl lived in a simple and poor house on a hill. Usually she _______ play in the small garden. She could see over the garden fence and across the valley a wonderful house with shining golden windows high on another hill._______ she loved her parents and her family, she desired to live in such a house and _______all day about how wonderful and exciting   _______must feel to live there.

At the age when she gained some _______ skill and sensibility (识别力), she _______ her mother for a bike ride _______ the garden. Her mother finally allowed her to go，_______ her keeping close to the house and not   _______ too far. The day was beautiful. The little girl knew________ where she was heading! ________ the hill and across the valley, she rode to the ________ of the golden house.

________ she got off her bike and put it against the gate post, she focused on the path________to the house and then on the house itself. She was very disappointed when she ________ that all the windows were ________ and rather dirty.

So ________and heart­broken, she didn't go any further. She ________， and all of a sudden she saw an amazing ________. There on the other side of the valley was a little house and its windows were golden. Looking at her little home, she________ that she had been living in her golden house filled with love and care. Everything she dreamed was right there in front of her house.