【推荐1】Can you imagine finishing 20 miles on two legs? With his car breaking down, Walter was left with no choice but to get to his first day of work: Walk. Figuring it would take _______ seven hours to be on time before 8 a.m., the Alabama college student set out at _______.

“I occasionally _______my decision. But I'm well _______ how much the job means to me, “Walter says. About 4a. m., four local policemen _______ him and learned about his story, full of _______. Although Walter didn't want to be a(n) _______,they gave him some food before driving him to a _______,a safe place for him to stay until morning.

However, he left the church and started walking again after 20 minutes. When Scott, the police officer, was _______to take over work, he heard about Walter from his workmates. He picked up Walter and drove him his rest way. Despite walking for hours, Walter ________ to take a break and started to work before the rest of the crew arrived.

Walter's new boss, Lamey, wrote on Facebook, “I can't imagine how many times on that exhausting and ________walk in the dark he wanted to turn back. But he ________it to get here! “She was ________by Walter, who desired to finish his bachelor's degree after he and his mother ________their home in Hurricane Katrina. Lamey added that she had started a GoFundMe to help this hardworking boy with his________. After seeing the ________on Facebook, CEO Marklin presented his new ________employee with his personal car! Tears ________up in Carr's eyes. “I don't think that little walk so ________.”said Walter.

In fact, the barrier to one's success often lies in himself. One could only be ________if he let himself be beaten.

【推荐1】It end to go slowly when I drive in the mountains of my home because the forest _____ is beautiful no matter what the season. This morning I was driving slower than _____ because a nearly March snow had turned the roads _____. Going up a mountain road, I had to slow down as I _____a sharp, snowy curve (弯道). That was _____I saw a majestic buck deer (公鹿) standing in the middle of the road. I came to a full _____and for a few seconds we just _____ each other. His eyes seemed wise and his composure (镇静) refined. Finally, he _____his head at me. I nodded in return and signed _____my hand for him to go on. He then _____ across the road, up the hill and back into the woods. I drove on smiling at the magic of this moment and was _____ that I had been going slowly enough not to _____this beautiful creature.

Most of us rush through this _____not knowing what we are missing. We _____get to enjoy what each day brings us. Wouldn’t it be better to go slowly through our days here? Life is meant to be favored. Moments are meant to be _____. Days are meant to be lived in love and joy, not flown through at a frantic (疯狂的)_____.

The next time you find yourself going too fast, slowdown. Take the time to watch the sunrise over the horizon and fill the world with _____. Take the time to look your children in their eyes, hug them and tell them that you love them. Take the time to smile, laugh and sing. Take the time to read, lounge (闲逛) and _____. Take the time to live your life with love and _____ in all the miracles each day brings you. If you do, your life will be so much better and more beautiful. And you might even _____not hitting a deer on your way home.

【推荐2】A few years ago, a friend sent me a restaurant gift card and I picked a pretty Sunday afternoon to use it. It felt _______ taking my kids to a nice restaurant instead of the fast food places we_______ate at.

When the waiter _______the bill，I looked down at it. The gift card couldn’t_______all of it. I reached into my wallet to get money for the_______. I saw two notes in it. The first would pay the rest of the bill and _______ the waiter a nice tip (小费）.The second was much larger_______ I wanted to pick out the first one.

At that moment my_______went back to 30 years before as I worked in a restaurant for long hours with low_______that could only feed my family. I also remembered how more than once I saw the waiters________their small tips while worrying about how they were going to buy what their________needed. I still remembered the ________in their eyes and saw the sadness in their faces.

Soon, I was back in the present again. My fingers________the smaller note, I smiled, pushed it back and took out the much larger one. I handed it to the waiter, “You keep the change.” I said with a________heart.

We are all one family in this world. Let's just do our best to be a good person and________the suffering with joy.

【推荐3】It was June a few years ago right around the Summer Solstice(夏至). The first fireflies (萤火虫)had appeared, _________ on and off in the woods around my house. What a (n) _________ it was to see them again! How amazing was the natural life! Their small light made me smile, and I couldn’t help but feel grateful to _________.

As the daylight _________, I saw some children trying to _________ the fireflies in the dark .A girl went inside and came back with a clear glass bottle. After several _________ attempts, she went to run after another one _________. Anyway, she was very happy.

All the other children including me were very _________. We gathered around, desiring to watch the fireflies’ light inside the bottle. Soon the girl’s mom walked to us and told us it was time to set the fireflies _________. One of the children didn’t __________. But the girl’s mom __________ that the fireflies would die if left in the __________. Then she said something that still stays in my __________ to this day, “Let them go so they can share their __________ with the rest of the world!” Finally, we knew the meaning of life.

I __________ in our childhood, we used to sing the song, “This little light of mine, I’m going to let it shine!” But as adults we find it __________ to do so. We often forget to share.

Don’t __________ your “light”. Don’t keep it in a “bottle”. Share your “light”, no matter how __________ it may be. Let __________ light up your heart and then give it to the whole world. Let the “light” within you __________ the darkness away. Learn from the lightening fireflies. Be loving and willing to share!

【推荐1】One hot July day, three police officers went into a market to get something cool to drink. Once inside, they were _______ by a security guard (保安人员) to help with a     _______woman. The woman in question was obviously _______, and her face was wet with tears. The officers looked inside her bag. All they saw were packets of _______.

“I’m hungry,” she explained_______. Caught in the act, the woman no doubt expected to be treated as a_______. But the police officers had other   _______. “We’ll pay for her food,” one of them said to the _______ security guard, “She would not be_______.”

“Thank you! Thank you!” the woman repeated, ________ her wet face. She was not the only one touched by this act of ________. Customers at the store were so impressed by what they had________ that some even posted a photo online________, attention was never what the officers tried to get. They were ________ by a far more common emotion.’

When we look at someone’s face and see that they need you, it’s pretty________as a human being to walk away from something like this.

【推荐3】It was a very cold Friday. When I observed the _____ falling onto my car, I really began to wonder if I was going to _____ it on time. Of course I must, because I had no _____.

About two weeks ago, what my _____ Ellen talked about was her New Year’s concert to be held in her school and some rumors about it. “Mom, Rachel was _____ to sing alone, but she's not! Linda will replace her to do it.” “Mom, you won't believe it, _____ Lexie's whole family is coming to the concert, even from another _____!” Making a long way out of a state to see third graders sing a song seemed to be a pretty big deal(待遇) for her.

When I sat in traffic,I thought about all the school _____ I had attended alone. Ellen never mentioned it, but I wondered how she _____ about me being the only one who ever came to her events. My own family lived out of town, and her father and his family ______ quite succeeded in filling those things into their schedules. I ______ if it bothered her.

At eight o'clock the ______ was scheduled to begin. With only a few minutes to ______, I found myself running: first through the snow-covered parking lot, then through the school passage. I entered the ______ hall and found an empty seat near the front. From her place onstage, Ellen saw me ______ to the chair, and she smiled. I was ______ enough to hear the loud conversation of the children onstage.

“Look, Ellen, there is my uncle and my cousin. They came all the way from West Virginia. I can’t believe my whole family is here!” Ellen ______ at Lexie and said, “My whole family is here, too! Look, there she is!” Ellen gave me a big smile. I smiled back at her, never once ______ the melting snow dripping down my head. It ______ occurred to me that while we tried to teach our children all about ______, they actually taught us what life was all about.