【推荐1】When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant _______ Miller King, who was the best _______ at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _______.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he come back from hospital. He looked very _______, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I _______ all of Miller’s records while he watched the home games from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, but I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller’s _______.

One afternoon, I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller _______ going over a fence - which wasn’t _______ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept _______ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I __________ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally __________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did __________. Thank you for filling in for me.”

His words freed me from my bad __________. I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was still ahead of me. I was right to have __________ him. From that day on, I grew __________ and a little more real.

【推荐2】Winners are not born but made with efforts. I learned this ______ when I took the head coach job at a school with a weak football program in Georgia.

I made a ______ team soon and was ready to play against the old one at the end of spring practice, which was a school tradition. The old team had no coach, and even didn’t practice regularly. To win would be a ______ thing, I thought. However, to my disappointment we were defeated. ______ it, I came to realize that I had to change my ______ about their ability and potential.

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ______, treat them like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we ______ passing and kicking the football every day.

Six months after the ______ on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and continued to ______. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a（n） ______ for us even if we lost the game. But the truth was my boys beat the best team in Georgia. I was ______!

How the attitude of the leader can ______ the team! Instead of seeing my boys as ______, I ______ them and helped them to see themselves ______, and built themselves into winners.

【推荐2】A couple of weeks back, my darling wife had been asking me to come over to my son’s school (where she teaches) and teach the pupils “Origami”, a Japanese art of _______ paper into different objects. My 7 - year - old son had no _______ of my coming and that makes it _______ for me.

We were about to take the _______ when I got my first “starring moment”. “Who Is this daddy? Why is he walking in a funny way? How is he going to climb the stairs?” _______ these, my wife helped me with one of my crutches (拐杖).

Little did I know that the first class she’s taking me to _______ to be my son’s. On opening the door, with no warning, and to the _______ of his classmates, came that unique but _______ scream “Daadalll” and he actually ran out of his classroom to give me a bear hug. His mates couldn’t help staring with envy and _______!

I sat down, made my introduction and gave ________ on paper - folding. They all clapped and ________ their thanks even as I made my way to the next class.

I left that school feeling ________. What more do I want but to continually be ________ for everything? My wife has always seen me as a physically fit person who can ________ any task and now I find my 7 - year old boy is actually ________ of me!

【推荐3】I was deeply moved by the kindness of an elderly flower seller at Sydney’s Central Station one evening.

I was feeling as cold as the chill winds ________ the steps of the workers who buried hands deep into coat pockets. In many ways, 2018 had proven a ________ year. My teenage daughter had left home for university, my job of 23 years was no more, and a creative project I’d given my all to for years had also been ________ called off. I also found out a person who I’d thought was a friend was ________ it.

A year earlier, I’d dreamt about an earthquake. In the dream, a red light flashed inside a building and then the earth began to ________.Walls collapsed and pieces of brick rained down on me as I ran into the open, feeling ________ for the people I hadn’t loved enough. ________ I was buried completely by the falling world, I stretched out my hands and ________, “Abuelo, ayudame,” in my native Spanish. “Grandfather, help me!”

Now, with the very real aftershocks of a number of ________ endings, I walked into a little flower shop to buy a gift for a friend. The gentleman at the checkout looked at me and ________ for a moment, returning with a fragrant flower. “For you. You need to smile today,” he said in a rich and beautiful accent, ________ me the flower with eyes full of care. It took all my strength not to ________ tears. Then he ________ me in a grandfatherly hug that made me want to tell him everything. ________, I just thanked him and headed for the train. How did he know? I wondered. For the first time in weeks, I felt ________.

【推荐1】These days my work is mostly on the Internet. However, there is one ______ that I use nearly every day. And I learned it from my dad almost 40 years ago in a very different ______.

My father ran a plumbing(水管) shop. I had to ______ him with his work. One day, I was asked to work ______ a concrete floor. It wasn’t the kind of work I ______. The work was physical work which involved ______ a chisel(凿子) and swinging a five- pound hammer at it really ______. Often, my aim was bad ______ the hammer missed the chisel and ______ my wrist. After ten minutes, my dad came, expecting to find the job completed. Actually, it wasn’t. He asked, “Son, have you been doing it all the time?”“Well dad,” I told him ______, “I figure out a good way to do this more ______. I just tap the chisel and move it. I’m generating a circle of shock wave down into the concrete. That way, it’ll break along the lines and I won’t hurt my wrist again.” Dad gave me a ______ look. He said, “Son, just hit the thing.” Then Dad ______ me his hand. I saw many scars on it .He told me, “If you stick to the work, you’ll ______ it sooner. “ Well, I did hit it then. And the job only took five more minutes to finish. ______ enough, even though I hammered my ______ two or three times, I was proud that I’d just done it.

Today, nearly 40 years later, when I ______ any difficulty in work I still hear my father’s voice, “Son just hit the thing.”I feel ______ because I know he’s still urging me to take action, go ahead, get the job done, and never ______ the scars.   And that’s not a bad ______ to carry through life.