【推荐2】During the final term of my theater and performance degree at the University of Leeds, we planned to _________ some interactive workshops with elderly residents to try to _________ memory and social engagement.

I remember being _________, aware that we were working with old people who were almost nonverbal (不能说话的).

I had decided to play music at the end of the session. We went with the song My Way _________ those elderly residents would have been listening to the hit song in their late 20s. Once I pressed play, nearly everyone in the room stood up and _________ what seemed like every word. I was so deeply _________. Many of them were communicating much better. It looked and felt like _________.

Off I went to drama school, but I thought about that _________ almost daily. So when we were given the opportunity to write a script (剧本) for a _________ festival, I created a love story about __________ and dementia (痴呆), spanning 50 years of a couple’s life.

And now, 10 years later. the show I __________ is running again in London thanks to the Music for Dementia campaign.

I now know that music-based interventions (治疗) __________ the need for antipsychotic medication (抗精神病药物) in more than 60 percent of people __________ dementia. I don’t know what my My Way would be, but I certainly think we should all try to find our __________ and do our best to stay connected to the people we __________ it with.

【推荐1】When I was 16, I worked at a fast food restaurant. That was when I came across two new family ________.

One afternoon in the fall I went out to ________ boxes and flatten them for recycling. When I opened the ________, I found a little cat crying outside. He got a little wet because of the morning rain. I picked him up into the kitchen, ________ him and fed him water and food. My boss was ________ when seeing a stray cat (流浪猫) in the kitchen and asked me to take him out immediately. I quickly got some towels and a box and made him a little ________ and put him in my car. It was cold outside so it was ________ for the cat to stay in the car.

After work, I rushed to my car to ________ him. I found another cat scratching my car door to ________ her brother. So I picked her up too. I had to carry them into my house ________ because my mother didn’t ________ a cat. Our cat had died earlier that year and she was in ________ and determined that she would not ________ any cats.

I ________ the two cats in my room for four days. One day my mother caught me taking cat food into my room, followed me and ________ me. Seeing her, I was ________ but I told her I had no choice but to ________ them. I told her we could just keep the boy and find another ________ for the girl. She yelled at me that we couldn’t ________ them. I knew I had her ________.

My family had Penny and Rizzo for the next 15 years.

【推荐3】It’s never easy to admit you are in the wrong. We all _________ to know the art of apology. Think how often you’ve done wrong. Then count how many _________ you’ve expressed clearly you were _________. You can’t go to bed with an easy mind if you do _________ about it.

A doctor friend, Mr. Lied, told me about a man who came to him with different kinds of signs: headaches, heart _________ and insomnia (失眠). _________ some careful exams, Mr. Lied found nothing _________ with him and said, “If you don’t tell me what’s _________ you, I can’t help you.” The man _________ he was cheating his brother of his inheritance (遗产). Then and there the __________ doctor let the man write to his brother and __________ his money. As soon as the __________ was put into the postbox, the man suddenly cried. “Thank you,” he said to the doctor, “I think I’ve got __________.”

An apology can not only save a broken relationship (关系) but also make it __________. If you can think of someone who should be __________ an apology from you, do something about it right now.