【推荐1】Did you ever have a dream, I’m talking about a conscious dream where you would like to see a new future, a different choice of employment and a _______ of your own.

Several years ago I had a dream of _______ a board game (棋类游戏) that would _______ my fortune. After many revisions, the board game was developed. It was a(n) _______ time my dream seemed to come true with sales starting to _______, and my company was also founded.

_______, another new board game came into the _______ and made great progress in sales. Eventually, my company was dissolved (解散). Perhaps for a game developer, the _______ emotions that it never was meant to be will discourage his future dreams of a different life. To me, maybe I didn’t succeed to the level I _______, but there is one thing I’m ________ of: At the very least I turned my dream into reality. If I had never transformed my dream into a ________ and then to action, there wouldn’t have been valuable lessons to be learned from the failure. It may take many ________ but success is only achieved. Once dreams are ________ into action, failure becomes a better action plan in the future. The important ________ here is that success only comes by turning dreams into reality and realizing that the ________ that you fortunately get along the way are only stepping stones to final success.

【推荐2】A young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my child I _______ sponsored from the Philippines. Even though I have never met her in person, she has found a special place in my heart. It doesn’t _______ me much to help her, about a dollar a day. _______, millions of people in this world live on less. The _______ that helping her gives me, however, is beyond _______. It connects me to her, to life, and to love.

I can still _______ the first time that I decided to help a child overseas. It was many years ago. I was only a teenager myself and had a little extra _______ each month. I didn’t feel like buying anything, though. We had _______ everything we had in a house fire a few years before. _______ that had taught me a lot. I had learned that I didn’t need a lot of “stuff” to be happy. I had also read a lot about the ________ of children in poor countries around the world. It seemed like a far better thing then to give what I could to help them. With my mom’s love and ________, I soon found a few organizations like Children International that were ________ others around the world. It felt so good being able to reach out and help another ________. It felt so good being able to make even one life better. I could feel the compassion and ________ growing within me and beginning to change me.

Empathy (同情) does change us. It helps us to love, to be kind, and to make this world a ________ place.

【推荐3】The word “happy” would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by hardship. The circular motion between happiness and ________ is the one I’ve been dealing with lately.

A year ago, I developed troubling symptoms in my left ________. My husband sent me ________ to a specialist who said I had already suffered some everlasting loss of vision and would, without ________, go blind in that eye within months. And I urgently ________ to begin painful eye injections. Almost blind? Painful eye injections? I was ________. What if the ________ medicine didn’t work? What if my right eye developed the same condition? I ________ thought that, amazingly, the medicine was only three years old; before that, patients just went blind.

Over that long week, I ________ myself to casually ________ sadness, to cry and acknowledge my fears about my very fragile body. I ________ to be near anybody but my husband. Fortunately, I ________ pretty quickly, within the week. During this ________ time, I posted my ________ in my blog and received great care and support from friends online, which filled my heart with ________ and encouraged me to receive the eye injections. Besides, the doctor ________ the efficacy ( 功 效 ) of the medicine. In the end, I bravely received the eye injections and they were very successful. I was lucky enough to see the world again with my healthy eye.

Finally, I gained a ________ insight: being your happiest self isn’t equal to a lifetime of ________ skies, and we are bound to ________ storms of life. Knowing this can help us ________ difficulties optimistically and adapt to the change of life.

【推荐2】At my heaviest, I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to ________ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried various diets but nothing ________. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my ________.

Then something enlightening (启迪的) happened when I was 50. That year, I attended a seminar (研讨会). One participant ________ me with her project, where she not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $ 25, 000 for homeless children. What a perfect ________ of healing oneself and healing the world! ________ by her story, I created the As We Heal, the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $ 50, 000 ________ a campaign to end hunger.

As I began my program, I was afraid that I would ________ the same difficulties that beat me before. But there were also signs that I was on the right ________. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It turned out perfect. Donations began to ________ from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some ________ steps to lose weight. I ________ a physician, ate healthy meals, and most importantly, exercised ________.

A year later, I ________ my goal! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is ________ and enormous.

【推荐3】My daughter and I were swimming in our pool one summer day. This day was like any of the other days, so I had no way of knowing that this one would go down in our family history as a________we cherish(珍惜)and still________from time to time.  

The sun was setting and the night was________approaching. My daughter________it first—a spider was spinning(纺织) her web at the bottom of the freshly painted blue fence(篱笆)that________our pool. It surprised me that she saw this, and it surprised me even more that she wasn’t________of the spider.  

Instead, she________watched as the spider busied herself in the cycle of life. As we both watched this wonder of nature, a very simple thought________me. I had lost the track of________. I honestly didn’t know how long we had been just staying there and________that spider making her web. But, regardless of whatever amount of time had passed, the truth was that we were________having fun.  

What we had done was to spend time together and________the simple things in life. We talked about how precious our________amount of time is on this planet and how we should________to enjoy the simple things in life like the flight of a bird. The simple things are the ________things in life, even when they include spiders and webs.