【推荐1】It was 8:00 pm. I reached the railway station waiting for my train to arrive. One of the staff told me that the train would arrive at 9:00 pm, which meant I _______ to wait for an hour. Since it was a small station, there were very _______ passengers. I just saw some adults playing their cellphones and a group of boys _______ with round stones. The boys were all _______ dressed as their clothes were dirty and torn. But they were happy with the stones and _______ themselves. Suddenly I developed an _______ to drink tea. But to my _______, I couldn’t find a tea house at the station. The only one sat outside, but 1 couldn’t take the _______ of leaving my luggage there just to drink tea.

So I asked one of the boys to buy me a cup of tea, _______ him 5 dollars. He ________ and rushed out. After half an hour, I heard the ________ saying that the train would arrive soon. Then I was sure that the boy took ________ with the money. As the train arrived, I asked my-self, “How could I trust a ________ boy?”

I was just about to enter the railway ________ when I heard a voice, “Sir, your tea.” ________ at the voice, I said, “I didn’t think you could bring the tea to me!” I asked him why he was so ________. He told me that he ________ the 5 dollars, so he offered to clean the utensils(器皿) to earn the money for the tea! I felt ________ that 1 misunderstood him. We often ________   people too early in our lives. Try to look at things in a positive perspective and wait for a while before you actually ________

【推荐3】I remember one day last year when I was a counselor in training at my summer camp, and not having the greatest day. Nothing specific was _______, but everyone has those bad days. Well, when I went to bed that night, I found some flowers and a note that _______, “I hope this _______ your day!” I _______ do not know who left them on my bed, but it doesn’t matter. It’s the thought that _______.

One of my _______ personal experiences was when I was _______ the University of Miami. It was pouring with rain, and we were on the campus tour. To get from one building to the next, we had to cross into the rain, and right there was a student standing with a bunch of _______ Anyone who did not have their own umbrella was then _______ one by this student. The umbrellas were __________ with a logo and the word “kindness”. There was another student __________ at the other building, who was collecting and __________ the umbrellas to people traveling in the __________ direction. A __________ as simple as this has the power to make somebody’s day brighter.

As I said earlier, it’s the smallest things that make the biggest __________ on people’s lives.

【推荐1】Once there was a little girl who had many misfortunes in life and was struggling with problems. One day she felt so upset that she couldn’t help ________ to her father why her life was so ________.

Sensing her ________, her father, a chef, took her to their ________. He asked her to just ________ till he finished everything. He filled three small pots with water and placed each on a burner. Once the water began to ________, he placed a potato, an egg, and some ground coffee beans in each pot. Curious, though, she kept ________ as her father instructed her to do so.

About twenty minutes later, he turned off the ________. The chef turned towards his daughter and said, “See, the potato went in strong and hard but in boiling water, it became soft and weak. The egg was ________, but now the egg became hard. ________, the ground coffee beans were unique. After being ________ the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.”

Seeing the little girl was still confused, he then ________, “The potato, the egg and coffee beans had each faced the same ________-the boiling water. However, each reacted ________. When hardships come your way, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?” Hearing these words, the girl made her choice inside-she would be the ________, which could not only change the whole situation but also change in its own way. After all, life is 10% what happens to you and 90%how you react to it.

【推荐2】It’s often the simple things in life that make the most significant impact on us. It was late one afternoon in mid-September. My three-month-old son was napping in his ______. As I wandered through our living room, I happened to _______my balcony window. Puddles (水坑) had _______the ground and the rain had slowed.

Down below _______a boy of about four. Filled with a mixture of fascination and happiness, he stomped (踩) through the puddle, mud and _______flying. He walked, stomped, splashed through that puddle ______, happily enjoying what mother nature had left for him.

Not more than ten feet away stood his mother. She didn’t scold him. _______, she watched with a pleasant smile on her face and stood _______. As for me, it was a (n)_______moment that changed the way I will forever view my role as a mother.

The little boy probably will _______each afternoon that his mother takes him outside, as he _______. He may not remember each little thing that happens each time his mother lets him _______his world. But he will remember that his mother _______him and he will know that she helps him to learn and grow in a pleasant and fun environment.

Maybe we can all learn from the innocence of _______that views a rainstorm not as something to run through or to avoid, but something meant to explore, to _______ and to love.

【推荐3】When I was a young father, autumn would spread her colorful carpet across the hills and mountains of my home. I would often load my kids into the car and go on a tour, admiring the _________ of this world.

I remember I once drove a long way down a back road I was _________ with. At one point I came to a crossroads. One road was paved and looked in good _________. The other road didn’t look quite so good. _________ my better instincts(直觉), I decided to take a chance and didn’t go down the good one. It didn’t take long before I came to the _________ that I had made a big mistake. The road was full of potholes(坑洼) and rocks that dragged _________ my car. I almost got _________ in the mud once and the road seemed to _________ as I went along. Finally, I stopped the car and looked around, and I decided to drive a mile and a half backward until I _________ the crossroads again.

__________, that wasn’t the only time in my time when I took the wrong way at the crossroads. I have done so more times than I can __________. Thankfully, each time I realized my mistake, I would __________ to be on the right road again.

Crossroads call for choice, and there is no __________ in changing your choice if you see you are on the wrong road. Choose wisely and correct your mistakes when __________. Then all of your __________ will lead you to joy and pattern of your life will become as beautiful as a forest in the fall.