【推荐1】Picture that your life is like a treasure hunt. One day, a particular goal_________ your attention and you decide to_________ on a treasure hunt. You begin the long hike and encounter a challenge or two along the way. Already the_________ path is starting to look different from the buried treasure that you have been imagining. Things get worse when you finally arrive at the spot. You say to yourself, “This doesn’t look like the treasure I_________ imagined! I must be on the wrong path. I_________ all this time!”

You wonder, “Hmm ... maybe I should_________ goals?” after thinking for a few moments. It’s natural to feel a sense of disappointment or_________ when this occurs, but I think the deeper problem is _________ in how we approached the treasure in the first place.

The_________ is that most people spend all of their time thinking about the treasure. The fastest way to get to a particular spot, __________, is to set your compass and start walking. The idea here is to commit to your goal with the strongest belief. Develop a clear, single-minded__________ for where you are headed. And then devote all of your energy to the journey and be committed to the path you are walking.

In other words, your goal becomes your compass, not your buried treasure. The goal is your__________, not your destination. The goal is a mission that you are on, a path that you__________.That is just fine and worthwhile, __________ comes from that path. It is the commitment to walking the path that__________.

【推荐2】When I was younger I was addicted to the stories in magic books. I read them _________. Also like most of the     _____ of these stories, I secretly__________for magical powers for myself. I wanted to be able to magically make my__________ disappear, to make my problems go away, and to have power over this world that so often has ________ over us.

As I got older,________ , I realized that there was no such thing as magic and the__________ reality of life set in. I struggled through a long period of___________. I had daily pain from a back injury that never________ right. I felt sadness and sorrow when both of my sons were diagnosed with autism(自闭症). I________ sometimes daydreamed about magic but in time even that _________ .

Then one day I began to _________ that a different kind of magic called LOVE grew stronger in my heart, soul and _______ day by day. This magic__________ me to my own best self and to all of the other souls in this world. It didn’t __________ me of poverty but it made every day of my life feel __________. It didn’t make my back pain go away but it helped me _________it so much better. It didn’t cure my __________autism, but it helped me see them the beautiful, _________, lasting, and joyful souls.

There is such a thing as magic in each one of us in this world. This magic is called LOVE.__________ you choose it, share it, and live in it every single day of your life.

Mr. Jackson was blind from birth. He owned a fruit __________ on a very busy street. _________he was visually disabled, he ran his business pretty handsomely. He could see nothing and he could only __________ the things within his reach. __________, he was able to handle it and was content with everything he had.

One day his son came to him. He told Mr. Jackson in __________ that he read in the newspaper of a __________ who could operate on his eyes and allow him to see. The father and the son traveled to the doctor and paid for the __________.

After the operation, the doctor asked Mr. Jackson, “What is the first thing you are __________ to see when I take the bandages off?” He replied, “I really want to see my beautiful ___________on my stand!”

The doctor and the son ___________Mr. Jackson down to the busy street where his fruit stand had been located for so many years. The doctor ___________ unwrapped the bandages ___________ he could lay his eyes on the beautiful fruit! Mr. Jackson was so full of ___________ that he could finally see his life’s work—taking care of his fruit! After a few hours of ___________ his beautiful fruit stand, he looked down the street both ways and saw there were quite a few fruit stands in both directions. He looked ___________ the street and saw many other fruit stands. He spent so much time looking at other people’s fruit stands and ___________ the competition that soon his own business ___________.

From Mr. Jackson’s failure, we should know that everyone is a ___________ individual with different fingerprints, DNA and thinking. What we need to do is just be ourselves and ___________everyone else to be who they are. Mind our own business and we should never be afraid of ___________.

【推荐2】Arriving in Sydney on his own from India, my husband, Rashid, stayed in a hotel for a short time while looking for a house for me and our children.

During the first week of his _______, he went out one day to do some shopping. He came back in the late afternoon to discover that his _______ was gone. He was extremely worried _______ the suitcase had all his important papers, _______ his passport.

He reported the _______ to the police and then sat there, lost and lonely in a strange city, thinking of the terrible troubles of getting all the paperwork organized again from a distant country while trying to _______ in a new.

Late in the evening, the phone rang. It was a _______. He was trying to pronounce my husband’s name and was asking him a lot of questions. Then he said they had found a pile of papers in their trash can had been _______ out on the footpath.

My husband _______ to their home to find a kind family holding all his papers and documents.

Their young daughter had gone to the trash can and found a pile of __________ papers. Her parents had carefully __________ them out, although they had found __________foreign addresses on most of the documents. At last they had seen a half-written letter in the pile in __________ my husband had given his new telephone number to a friend.

That __________ not only restored the important documents to us that day but also restored our faith and __________ in people. We still remember their kindness and often send a warm wish their way.

【推荐3】Chelsie Hill dreamed of becoming a dancer when she was very young. But that ambition _________ ended one night in 2010. Hill, then a high school student, had a car _________, which left her paralyzed (瘫痪的) from the waist down. For most people, that would have _________ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, she wanted to prove that she was still _________.

Hill did it in her wheelchair right with her non-disabled high school dance team. After graduation, Hill wanted expand her dance network by _________ women like her. She met people online who had suffered various _________ but shared their determination, and she _________ them to dance with her.

Hoping to _________ more people in a larger city, Hill moved to Los Angeles in 2014 and built a team of dancers with _________, which she called the Rollettes. In dance __________ for the disabled around the country, the team members not only __________ themselves, but also brought great fun to the audience and won lots of prizes.

Hill has __________ what many of us never will: her childhood dream. But the Rollettes have helped her find something else just as __________. Every year she holds a dance camp for wheelchair users of all ages and abilities with the purpose of helping them __________ their inner dreams in their life. In 2019, 173 participants from ten countries attended. Edna Serrano says that being part of the Rollettes team has given her the __________ to live on and she has gained more confidence.

【推荐3】In 2016, 60-year-old Marshall Reeves got onto his bike in California. He _________ the Race Across America, a 3000-mile _________ than runs from coast to coast.

The _________ was to cross the finish line in Maryland in two weeks. It had _________ him twice. But he didn’t give up. For his third _________, Reeves had a new source of _________; He was racing with 3000 Miles to a Cure, which raises money for brain cancer research.

The race is one of the most _________ in the world. Only about half the competitors are able to finish it. _________ other long-distance bike races, it is continuous—once the clock starts in California, it doesn’t stop until Maryland. Therefore, racers have to meet the _________ time cutoffs（截止点）, otherwise it is impossible for them to __________ it.

Racers are typically __________ by a small crew in cars, whose job is to keep the racers not only physically fit, but also mentally __________. In the early days of the race,when Reeves had time to stop at a hotel, he would be __________ to a full-body massage（按摩）and a good night’s sleep. But after three days, rest was a luxury（奢侈品）as he needed to __________ for over 20 hours a day to achieve his goal.

After crossing the two points where his previous attempts had __________, Reeves entered an unknown area. With just 25 miles left, Reeves __________ to stay awake, just catching quick naps. __________, he successfully crossed the finish line in 12 days, 13 hours and 52 minutes.

This year, Reeves will __________ across America again. But this time it’s a little __________ —as a road director, he returned the __________ for his crew’s hard work.