【推荐2】I was sitting at the table having breakfast. A little taste of autumn _______ had risen in my soul. The cooling air and _______ leaves means the coming of the autumn. I _______ my meal and carried my _______ bowl over to the sink to clean it. My two cats sat on top of the kitchen counter, staring at something. I saw they were both _______ a spider on a web. Just as the spider came _______, both cats started to catch and eat him. I quickly took a paper towel and _______ the little guy before he became a kitty _______. I walked out of the back door to let him _______. As soon as I set him down he quickly crawled to ________ on the wall. As I shut the door, I noticed something too. I was ________ and my sadness was gone.

Now I know many people would be ________ about how saving the animal could have lifted my spirits so ________. After all, it was just a spider. As I thought about it, I ________ two sentences I had recently read. The first was: “The only true thing is ________.” The second was: “Do everything out of love.” I realized then that no act of love is ________. I had only spared a spider to live another day, but it had ________ my heart, improved my spirit.

Make your life full of love. When you do, you will ________ not only yourself, but others and this world. Your soul will ________ the cheers of other people. ________ people’s eyes every smile you share is a treasure and every kind act you do is a triumph.

【推荐3】One day a man was asked to paint a boat by the owner of the boat. He brought with him paint and ________ and began to paint the boat bright red, as the owner asked him. While painting, he ________ there was a hole in the boat and decided to repair it. When he finished painting, he received his ________ and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat came to the painter and ________ him with a nice check, much higher than the payment for painting, the painter was ________.“You've already paid me for painting the boat！”he said.

“But this is not for the paint ________. It's for having repaired the hole in the boat.”

“But it was such a(n) ________ service. Certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so unimportant！”

“My dear friend, you do not ________. Now let me tell you what happened. When I asked you to paint the boat, I ________ to mention about the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took the boat and ________ a fishing trip. They did not know that there was a hole in the boat. I was not at home at that time. When I returned and noticed they had taken the boat, I was ________ because I remembered that the boat had a hole. Imagine my ________ and joy when I saw them returning from fishing.

“Then, I ________ the boat and found that you had repaired the hole！You see, now, what you did？You ________   my children！I do not have enough money to pay your ‘small’ good deed.”

So, no matter who, when or how, just ________ repair all the “leaks” you find.

【推荐1】It was 1:20 a.m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上打开缺口) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone; __________ sobers (使清醒) me up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于) what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

【推荐2】Two weeks earlier, my husband, Russ, had got an early-morning call telling us to evacuate immediately. The wildfire tearing through Northern California had spread and _________ our way. We’d jumped in the car with our cats and a few belongings. For days, we’d moved from hotel to hotel, _________ for news. What finally came wasn’t good. Our house had been right in the fire’s _________.

Now we’d been given _________ to return. I wasn’t prepared for what awaited us. Our house was nothing but _________. Photos and my precious collection of inspirational books — all gone.

I wiped away tears as we dug through the ash and remains. “How will we _________ this? How will we go on?” It felt as if our lives had been _________.

Russ _________ what we’d found into the car. “Let’s go,” he said. I turned to get in the car. That’s when I noticed something stuck to my shoe. A piece of paper, dirty with _________. I picked it up. Its __________ were smoked, yet the words were surprisingly __________: “If life seems difficult, I pause and __________ the blessing sometimes hidden within every circumstance. With new __________, I begin again.”

Words that must have come from one of my books, a passage I couldn’t __________ but now said everything I needed to __________. Words that rose from the ashes. I framed that scrap of paper. It now sits in a place of honor in our new home, a reminder that we can begin again.

【推荐3】The experiences I had in high school showed me it was time to grow up. I don’t mean physical growth, but the growth in ________ as well as a build in ________.

To be honest, the process of changing from a middle school student to a high school student was exciting but somehow ________. I was used to getting A+s in all my classes and receiving constant ________ from teachers. As I walked into Somerville High, my whole world was turned upside down at the beginning, but it was gradually ________.

Once, I worked hard on a Biology project and thought it would come out ________. As I handed it in, Ms. Woods showed no________. Not even a “Wow! This is beautiful!”.. .Nothing! I was instantly ________ because I expected some sort of praise given to me just like I received in middle school. The ________ thing happened in all my other classes, ________ in English. When Mr. Clericuzio made ________ comments on my first English essay, I felt completely discouraged. ________, I searched for help, and Mr. Clericuzio worked side-by-side with me to help ________ the areas necessary. I can honestly say that might have been one of my ________ memories of freshman year.

All in all, my freshman year could be summarized in a single word -- ________. It taught me how to be responsible and independent. It also taught me that life is about both success and failure.

【推荐1】After Dave Bishop retired from a 30-year career in telecommunications, he got a job as a gatekeeper in a Maine school district. But after the ________ class ends, he takes his chess boards and begins his second ________ after-school chess coach.

The 61-year-old gatekeeper has coached both primary and middle school teams and they have been ________ with state championship titles this year. One of his ________ is 11-year-old Avery Zhang, who won the state champion for grades K-5 this year.

Bishop has played chess since he was a child, but he has never got the ________ to take part in a competition. He didn’t join his high school chess club, ________ he wouldn’t play well and be laughed at. These days, these old thoughts no longer ________ thanks to The Queen’s Gambit, a(n) ________ movie which tells a story about a girl with great gift. After a hard experience, she ________ won the chess championship under the guidance of a gatekeeper.

But unlike the movie’s gatekeeper, Bishop is ________ not just one girl but dozens of kids of all skill levels and backgrounds. His one worry is that there aren’t as many girls ________ chess. There’s only one female on his middle school champion team right now. He’s hoping to ________ the situation by getting kids into the game at earlier ages.

Bishop also ________ that chess is about more than winning. “I tell my kids that chess ________ your attitude towards life,” he told the Daily News. “If you work hard… if you’re not ________ by failure, you will be successful.”