【推荐1】It was a dark day, one of depression, sorrow and anger. As I climbed out of the _____, after witnessing my time in the 100 yard freestyle, I did not feel like speaking to anyone. I saw the bright smiles of swimmers who had just _____ a best time. _____ , I had failed. Or at least that is what I thought at the time.

I was lying on my cool bed when an idea _____ my head. Success is the _____ to go from failure to failure without _____ your enthusiasm. At practice the next day, I told my swimming teammates about my goal time and they all either laughed or replied with a _____ similar response like, “You can’t do it” or “Probably not”. Believe it or not, these are the responses that made my goal _____.

Finally came the day when I had to _____ to myself and others that with ______ there is no limit to your achievements.

With the starting gun ______, I dove with perfect form into the pool. I felt the cool water running ______ my back. I swam like a fish, bouncing off each ______ at the wall as if it was a spring board. On the ______ turn, I came back to the wall with every piece of strength I had. I ______ the final wall with my fingertips and knew that I had swum the ______ race.

I had done it! I had achieved my best time! Joy filled my ______ like water does a cup. I saw the ______ on all of my friends’ faces as I ______ out of the pool: their jaws dropped to the ground. I began to laugh and gave them thumbs up.

I have ______ in life that having belief in yourself opens all gates. Never forget that anything the mind can conceive and believe can achieve.

【推荐3】We live in a fast-paced and anxiety-filled world that often seems to shift beneath our feet. Thus, we are sometimes affected by _________ or anxiety impacting our life. For as long as I could remember, I had _________ with anxiety.

After graduating from university, I made friends with the Moroccan(摩洛哥的) woman at work. One day, she invited me to visit her and her family back home. I wanted to; _________, for a girl who had never been out of the UK alone in the past 23 years, it meant that I would have to travel in a very _________ area by myself for the first time in my life. Could I really _________ it?

Then one day it _________ to me that I had a life to live. Indeed, I could choose to give in to these awful concerns. There was always a sense of fear overwhelming from the bottom of my heart and still to that moment _________ I made up my mind to go to Morocco and feel something totally _________.

I remember how good it felt the minute I set foot in Morocco.

_________ arrival, my friend’s family arranged a generous welcome party and everyone was so loving toward me. Such a moment of love felt in distant rural village __________ me that I was “good enough” or I deserved to be treated like a star, which __________ helped to relieve my anxiety.

It was after I woke up the next day, in the morning light, that I was __________ by how underdeveloped the area was and the realization that these people had very few __________. Electronic items like smart phones, computer games are nearly __________ to be found.

In the days afterwards, under the guidance of my friend, I traveled around Morocco, __________ the rivers, mountains and the amazing food (most of them were new to me). It seemed that I had never felt so __________ be attached to nature as well as the people around me before.

At the end of my stay, something __________ me changed. From dawn to dusk, I was immersed in a sense of delight __________ depression for nearly two weeks.

That trip helped me to find out what really __________ in life. And with that, all my worries disappeared. When I returned home, I was much more active in challenging my anxiety. More importantly, helping others __________ their anxiety is how I can share the love I found in Morocco.

【推荐2】Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to_________in order to pay the high tuition (学费) for my brother and me. They don’t act in the_________waya that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, “I love you” is_________luxurious (奢侈) for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine’s Day is even more out of the_________.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt. I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there_________between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She_________her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had hurt her. I was_________and I didn’t know what I should do. But at 1ast I heard my mother say the following words:

“Susan,” she said_________, “Look at this thread. Sometimes it is_________, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt_________. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen_________, but it’s really there. Love is_________.”

I listened carefully but I_________her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly_________seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked_________. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother supported my father    16    on the country road.

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t    17    me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”    18    his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and    19    . But from this experience, I undentand that love is just    20    in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

【推荐3】I grew up in a small town in Ohio, where everyone knew a man called Tom. Uneducated, he couldn’t talk plainly. And because he was ______ and not very smart, everyone laughed at him. I ______ he was an easy mark.

One day, he came walking by. I was about 12 and thought it would make me feel grown-up to ______ him like the adults did.

He asked how I was doing. I told him my father was ______, and that we lacked money.

I could hear my friends ______ in the background so I went on with the lie. I had him ______ so completely that every time he inquired about the ______, I would make it seem increasingly worrying.

I knew he made a ______ by doing odd jobs, so it seemed ______ when he asked me if we needed anything. I told him that we didn’t know if we would ______. He responded, “You poor thing. I will ______ for you.”

That night I heard the ______ rattle (作响) softly. Thinking it was the wind beating against it, I ______ it. Later when I opened the door to go outside, I found a box of ______. I knew who had given the food. I ______ the small box of canned food with tears in my eyes. I felt ______, and wanted to return the groceries.

My father scolded me and ______ that I keep the box. Otherwise, it would hurt Tom. Each day when we were to have dinner, my father would ask, “What side dish are we having from the ______ box today?

Although the food was not tasty, I knew Tom had given ______. He gave the best he had, but I did not ______ the gift.

【推荐1】When I was in seventh grade, I volunteered at a local hospital during the summer.

I spent most of the time there with Mr. Gillespie, _____ to him and helping with anything that needed to be done. He _____ had any visitors, and nobody seemed to care about his condition. He became a close friend of mine, even though he _____ with only an occasional press on my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

Then I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was gone. I didn’t have the nerve to ask the nurses where he was, for _____ they might tell me he had died.

Several years later, I noticed a _______ face at the gas station. He was alive! I went over to ask him if it was Mr. Gillespie who was in a coma five years ago. With an uncertain look on his face, he replied yes. When I explained who I was, tears _______ in his eyes, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever received.

Mr. Gillespie began to tell me how, as he _______ there in a coma, he could sense my presence. He firmly believed that it was my _______ that had kept him alive. We both cried for a while, exchanged a hug, and went our separate ways.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a _______ between his life and death. More importantly, he has also made an enormous influence in my life. I will never forget him. He ________ my help.

【推荐2】I was sleepy as I drove home one night in the pouring rain. I was driving too fast. I fell asleep and________my truck six times. I remember feeling rain on my face and________a helicopter. And I remember the doctor who stitched me up in the operating room.

As I was being________from the hospital, the nurse put a huge pile of________in my arms. They were not mine. So where did they come from?________, while I was hanging from the truck in the rain,________people had stopped, walked through the broken glass and crumpled（变形的）metal, and laid their coats over me to________me from the elements. I left the hospital with ten coats. Ten strangers________me, even though I had made a terrible________.

I cleaned the coats and put ads in the paper offering to________them, but no one ever came forward. I________at them every day for nearly a year and felt impressed by the________of people. I finally________them to a local church.

I still have a________of the truck I destroyed. And any time I need a________of the kindness that is a permanent part of humanity, I look at that picture.