【推荐1】The first day of school, our professor challenged us to get to know someone we didn’t know. I was looking for someone when a _________ hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a friendly, little old lady with beaming eyes.

“Hi, handsome. My name’s Rose. I’m 87 years old. Can I _________ you?” I laughed and _________ responded, “Of course!”, and we hugged. “Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?” I asked. She also joked, “I’m here to meet a rich husband, get _________, and have kids…” “No, seriously,” I was curious what may have _________ her to study at university at such age. “I always _________ having a college education and now I’m getting one!” she replied.

Over the course of the year, Rose became very _________ on the campus and at the end of the semester, we invited her to give us a _________. I’ll never forget what she taught us.

She was _________ and stepped up to the podium (领奖台). With all eyes on her, she cleared her throat, “There is a huge __________ between growing older and growing up. If you are 19 years old and lie in bed for one year without doing anything __________, you will turn 20. If I stay in bed for a year, I will turn 88. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t take any __________. The idea is to grow up by finding the opportunity in change and have no __________.”

She __________ her speech by passionately singing “The Rose.” She __________ us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives.

【推荐1】To increase his schoolteacher income, my dad worked as a shopping assistant. Dad could run his pencil down a long list of _______recording the prices of what customers bought and quickly arrive at the _______ sum, never getting the total cost wrong.

Later on, the store______, and Dad had another occupation as a taxi driver. His three _____ had one thing in common—they kept him in the public_______. He was so well-known that in any city in the USA he would meet someone he ______ in the first half hour.

My mother suffered from serious illnesses. _____ Dad taught all day and worked all evening, with all the ______ costs, there was not enough money for us to ______ a car. There was a bus he _______rode to and from the grocery store, but many times he ______money by riding his bike.

At that time I used to stutter (口吃) and had difficulty ______ the letter “R”. Dad would encourage me to _______ ahead about what I was going to say so I would be able to get it out without _________

I was always ______ that my father was a well-respected man. I used to think that being a teacher made him a ______ kind of person, but today I _______ that the most unusual thing about him was not his job, but the _______he kept going. The true ______always falls on those who always try their best to ______ their responsibilities and that’s what my father did.

【推荐2】One day, I went to a grocery with my 4-year-old daughter. On our arrival, she was _________by the pink toilet papers on the shelf. She had never seen such beautiful toilet paper before and _________ me to buy some, with her sweetest pleases. Of course, I _________ her request and tried to explain to her that these pink toilet papers were produced _________ for the charity month and part of the _________ would be donated to help the needy people. I added that pink _________ kindness and that when we were paying for the pink products we were also helping the _________.

On the way to the _________ , my little girl sat in the cart (购物车), holding a package of pink toilel paper. She could not hold back her _________ and talked on and on about how happy the rest of our family would be when she shared her ______________ with them. When we were waiting in the line, she retold to the cashier (收银员) everything she could remember about the ______________ of the colored toilet paper. Her enthusiasm spread among the other ______________, and several more packages ______________ the checkouts within minutes.

When we were at home, my daughter ______________ the toilet paper upstairs. It was a really great ______________ for her, since the package was as tall as her. That evening, when I walked into the ______________ to give her a shower, I found all the rolls ______________ stored in the cupboard. They were carefully mixed with the white toilet papers in the shape of a ______________ heart.

“______________ I use it, I will remember to pray for all those people who are ______________ right now," she told me proudly.

【推荐3】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2】The Little Baby Face Foundation (LBFF) provides free plastic surgery (整容手术) for children born with facial deformities (畸形). Many teenagers who have been _________ for their looks are now applying to have their problem areas “fixed” by LBFF.

Nadia, one 14-year-old teenager, had her face greatly changed in June when she went under the _________. Her classmates had been constantly making fun of her appearance. “They said I have the biggest ears that they’ve ever seen. They called me elephant ears,” Nadia said. Those _________ hurt her a lot. She even _________ how to end her own life.

But Nadia tried to _________ the bullying a secret from her mother, Lynda. Her mother was already dealing with mounting medical _________ for her 9-year-old son, Josh, who had a serious brain disease. When her mother did finally _________ about the bullying, she was heartbroken.

Then her mother _________ the LBFF, which accepted Nadia’s application. The surgeries were very _________ and it took months for her face to heal, but she did __________ return to school with a new face, a face she was finally proud of.

Nadia’s surgery may have helped her overcome her emotional pain, but should teenagers go to those __________ just because they are being bullied?

Experts __________ if the deformities are not really a problem to the child, plastic surgery is not the answer! In fact, when a teen decides to get plastic surgery because he or she is being bullied, it can send the wrong __________. By surgically changing the victim (受害者) of a bully, it is as if you __________ the bullying and agree the victim is in fact worthy of all those __________ he or she has been called.

For years, I had suffered from depression. I never seemed to be happy with my life, especially when I __ it to someone else's. I frequently felt I was not living up to either my own _____ or the worlds expectations.

Then, the week before Thanksgiving, every chair in the church has a paper bag underneath. All were expected to pick up one ____ and take them to a grocery store and fill them with some basic food items to be _____ to local chanty. Then, at the evening, a team of volunteers placed all the _____ bags, of food at the front of the church.

Included in the event was a sheet with ______, asking us to think of 100 things we were thankful for. This was a (n）_______to help us focus on gratitude. ______ I heard some kids next to me ______ each other to see who could fill in all 100 the fastest. My _____ nature pushed me to fill in blanks with any _____ in my life that I was thankful for. To my own ________, I filled in the list in four minutes. Then I joined the others ______ the bags according to their categories before they were donated to the ______.

One day not long afterward , I found myself sinking into my ______ depression when I remembered the ____. I took it out and read through it and ______ that not only did I have a lot to be thankful for but that the things I had written on that list ______ my talents , hobbies, faith , and people who had greatly _______ me.

_____to have an attitude of gratitude has made me more than happy and filled me with joy.