【推荐2】Ever since I was a boy, I have been an avid (热衷的) reader. I have read and been _________ by so many books from so many authors. I think it may be one of the reasons I started _________ myself. I even enjoy hearing _________ about other authors, because they can _________ me a lot as well.

I heard one such story the other day that really made me stop and _________. The two famous authors, Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller were invited to a(n) _________ given by a billionaire at his home. As the host _________ his luxury house to his guests and bragged about the rare works of art he had collected, Vonnegut _________ to his friend Heller that their host had probably made more _________ in a single day than Heller had earned from his most popular novel, Catch-22 over its entire history. Heller smiled back and said, “Yes, he probably has __________ I have something he will never have—ENOUGH.”

What is enough? Our society tells us that __________ is ever enough. The messages and advertisements bombard (轰炸) us every day, attempting to __________ us to spend all the money we have and all the money we don’t have to __________ more and more stuff. However, what is really enough for us? If our bellies are full, then we have enough. If we have clothes to keep us __________, then we have enough. If we have a roof over our heads to __________ us from the cold, wind and rain, then we have enough. If we have people we love and people who love us, then we have enough.

【推荐3】Sometimes, a mother just recognizes her child, even when the two have never met. That’s how Devon Toomey felt in 2013 when she __________ a photograph on a website for an international adoption agency.

Toomey had been on the site many times and seen __________ many kids, but she’d never determined to email the agency about anyone __________ she saw one baby born without arms and legs. “__________ seeing him, I just knew he was our child. There was just something that spoke to me,” she says.

Today, four years later, that boy, named Bowen Toomey, is a 5-year-old __________ with two older brothers living in Eagle, Idaho. He is __________ on going to school, jumping on trampolines（蹦床）, reading books and __________ himself to difficult tasks.

But his __________ disability means he can’t live __________ like others: Where other children use their __________ to handle things, Bowen sometimes uses his mouth or a special band he wears that lets him __________ things like a spoon.

“He does everything any other kids do: he just finds his way to __________ various problems. He can ride his skate already,” his mother says. “He __________ loves to swim, and can dive and swim independently. I think he loves it so much __________ the water is the place where he really doesn’t have limitations.”

A former special education teacher, Toomey and her husband, Jeremy, knew they wanted to adopt. Nine months after she __________ Bowen on the website of a Serbian orphanage（孤儿院）, __________ in Belgrade, the entire family went there to take home their 18-month-old addition.

Although Bowen had been well taken care of at the orphanage, he didn’t get much attention, and for the most part he was just laid in the bed.

The young boy __________ to his new family in a way __________ he surprised everyone. “We laid eyes on him and from that moment on, he __________ joyful, which really touched our hearts,” she says, “I said to myself, ‘__________ is no wonder that I wanted him the moment I saw him’. He is my child.”

【推荐2】Off goes your alarm clock!   Your eyes snap open!   What is the first thing on your ___________? Do you calculate how long you can hit snooze (回笼觉)? Are you already going over the day's to-do list? ___________ checking your phone?

You are definitely not ___________ if any or all of these morning habits sound familiar. ___________, 60 percent of people check their phones immediately when they ___________, according to a 2015 survey. You stop using your smartphone in bed seriously - these mind-numbing routines are among what you will ___________ most in life. So why not take a ___________ approach?

At the graduation ceremony in Stanford University in 2005, Steve Jobs made a speech, advising his ___________ to start each morning with one specific sentence. Doing so, he said, will ___________ the way we deal with our day-to-day lives.

Jobs got the idea after reading a quote about ____________ when he was 17. From then on, he started each morning by looking in the ____________ and asking, "If today were the last day of my ____________, would I want to do what I'm about to do today?"

Now,____________ it for yourself. Asking yourself this powerful question every day requires you to deeply ____________ what you do on a daily basis - and if you find satisfaction in it. It can also help you ____________ your tasks to the fundamental ones. ____________ wasting time with mindless activities like surfing the internet, you'll start filling your days with more satisfying things, such as spending time with family and friends. ____________, you'll stop worrying about what other people think of you; your energy and focus should be ____________, like improving yourself, reaching your goals and making an impact on the world.

____________ you have made a habit of asking this one simple question every morning, congratulations! You are ____________ finding the secret to living a meaningful life.

【推荐3】Life is filled with challenges. As we get older we come to realize that those challenges are the very things that ________ us and make us who we are, it is the same with the challenges that come with ________.

When we are faced with a challenge, we usually have two ________ to beat it off or to call it quits. Although there are certainly ________ when calling it quits is the right thing, in most ________ all that is needed is ________ and communication.

When we are committed to something, it means that no matter how ________ or how uncomfortable something is, we will always choose to ________ it instead of running away. Communication is making a(n) ________ for discussion and talking about how you feel as opposed to just saying what the other person did wrong. ________ you can say to a friend, “I got my feelings hurt,” ________ “You hurt my feelings,” you are going to be able to solve the problem much faster.

In dealing with many challenges that friendship will bring to you, try to see them for ________ they are: small hurdles you need to jump or ________ on your way through life. Nothing is so big that it is ________ to get over, and hurt only ________ to make us stronger. It’s all part of growing up, it happens to everyone, and some day you will look back all of this and say, “Hard as it was, it made me who I am today. And that is a good thing.”