【推荐2】A group of frogs went jumping through the forest one day. Suddenly, two of them fell into a deep _________. All of the other frogs came together to look _________at their two fallen friends. They all began to shake their heads _________ “It’s too deep!” said one frog. Another added that there was no way they would ever be able to get out _________.

The two frogs began to jump and tried to get out. But the frogs that were _________ kept shouting at them that they had better _________because they were just wasting their _________. One of the two frogs finally _________, listened to their advice and died.

The other frog just kept on jumping harder than ever _________all the shouts. They kept shouting at him to stop being so __________and save himself from all the pain when he jumped and fell back down to the hard bottom again and again.

Finally, to the __________of all the other frogs, he jumped right high enough and got out. The other frogs asked him, “Why did you keep jumping __________we shouted at you to stop?” The frog explained, “I was so worried at that time that I could hardly __________anything. I thought all of you were saying words of __________all the time and cheering me on to try harder.”

Yes! Cheering words can sometimes make such a(n) __________. A little encouragement can go a long way.

【推荐3】During my junior time, I was sensitive about what others thought of me. Then I grow uncommonly taller than others, which made me feel ____. To keep the focus off my unusual ____, I went along with those who would play jokes on other ____ at school, which gave me a way to make sure that the ____ were directed at others and not at me.

My parents didn’t always assume that my behavior was ____. They reminded me about the golden ____: To treat others as I would like to be treated. Once in a while, I was punished for the ____ way I was treating others.

During the lectures I got from my father, he ____ told me to be the leader that I was meant to be--to be a big man in my heart and actions. I had to ____ myself whether or not it was important to be the kind of leader and person my father ____ I was inside. I knew in my heart that he was ____. So I ____ no efforts to follow his advice.

Once I ____ being the best that I could be at basketball and became a leader in the game, I took my ____ to set a good example more seriously. I can make a difference because of my father’s advice. I now ____ it with you, “Be a leader, not a follower.”

【推荐2】Allen Minish was alone when he saw a large brown bear walking about 30 feet away. The bear closed the ground between them in a few seconds and tried to_________him. Minish hid behind the trees_________. But that didn’t stop the bear. As the bear_________, he held up the_________end of a pole and pushed it toward the bear to keep it away from him. The bear simply swept it to the side and the_________of the blow knocked Minish to the ground.

“As it got on top of me, I used my hands to pull it away,” Minish said, explaining why he got a wound in his_________.“But he took a big bite that broke the bones and_________my right hand basically.”

When the bear let go of his hand, Minish stopped_________and lay flat on the ground and put his hands over his head._________that Minish was dead, the bear just walked away.

“I realized I was in pretty”__________shape because I had all this blood everywhere,” he said.

He called 911 on his cellphone. While he was__________, he pulled off his T-shirt and wrapped it around his hand in an attempt to stop the__________.

Before help arrived, he worried about the bear returning to__________him off. But every time Minish looked around, there was no bear in__________.

“I guess I was lucky,” Minish said. “But I have learned a lesson. I should have had a____________I will not go there alone anymore.”

【推荐3】I was eating breakfast at home in Hampshire in March this year, scrolling through (滚动浏览) social media on my phone, when a story ______ my eye. It was about a 9-year-old dog, Charlie, considered as the ______ in Britain. He had been in a rescue center in Somerset for more than 500 days.

I ______ the link, and straight away, these huge, sad eyes stared at me. I fell in love with it at first sight. My husband Sam felt ______ the same way. We ______ our time with the application, and a few days later, we received an email asking us to visit him. We were ______.

Before we arrived, we didn’t know what to ______. We hadn’t been told much about Charlie’s condition, but ______ he hadn’t been placed with a new owner for so long, we thought there might be problems. But the dog that ran in was full of ______ and energy. He came straight over to us, quite ______. He wagged his tail and even jumped on Sam’s lap as if they’d been ______ forever. We were delighted when they said we could take him home.

Charlie is a dog who knows exactly what he wants, and that’s to be with us ______. If you give a dog love, they’ll give you a number of wonderful things ______. Now we get out every day on walks and we’re more ______. He’s always so happy to see us when we come through the door. We spoil him and enjoy his ______ so much. Charlie was once the loneliest dog in Britain, but he’s not alone anymore.

【推荐3】In his former life, Bunker Bean was tricked into believing that he was the great Napoleon Bonaparte. Believing this really lifted his life to great new _________. But then, later on, he discovered that his friend, the spiritualist, who _________ him of his past life, was revealed to be a _________, a man who lied to others to _________ their money.

Bunker Bean was broken by this revelation. So, he hadn’t really been Napoleon in a _________ life after all! He was just _________ old Bunker Bean. But the news came in a good way! Bunker realized that it didn’t _________ who he’d been in a former life. What mattered was what he had _________ himself to become in his present life.

His spiritualist friend had helped Bunker to believe in himself enough to change some of his _________, habits, and behavior. Bunker had learned to form a game plan __________ on what others had done in the __________ that made them super successful. He had learned the __________ of studying the thoughts of great men. He’d learned how to make those thoughts of __________ his own thoughts. He’d also learned the need for a goal and the need for a __________ method to reach that goal. And he __________ that one must follow his method religiously.

The story of Bunker Bean is told as fiction, but, ________ , his story is as true as any told. The principles of his success, as __________ above, can be the principles of each of us and our success. But to make those work, we must learn the ________ about ourselves and the truth is this: each of us has the __________ and ability to succeed if we believe in ourselves enough to make it __________. We are what, and who, we think we are.