【推荐2】“Nobody else knows what they are doing either.” I read this quote about six years ago when I was in college．

I lived through college life without any _________. When professors said it was time to hand in my homework, I handed it in. When I was told that I hadn’t enough _________ to get my degree, I studied hard to _________ examinations to complete several courses．

One day, I was having dinner with some classmates. One said suddenly, “I plan to buy a _________ within three years after graduation.”

I almost _________, “Really? Do you know how _________ it is to buy one house?”

He said leisurely, “Mortgage (抵押贷款).”

Another added, “Great! I _________ to pass the examination of Chartered Financial Analyst and get the certificate within five years after graduation.”

I just seemed to hear something _________.

I _________ like this way. I worked at a bar. Unhappily! Every day, I got up hurriedly and got on the bus to work. After work, I slept, again and again. I didn’t know why I led such a __________ life that I had __________ wanted, and where my life would __________.

Like 90% of my peers, I still had no __________ what I wanted to do with my life or who I wanted to become. At the exact same time Instagram (一款社交软件) was becoming really big. I started __________ bloggers and world travelers who seemed to have it all together. How had they __________ it out? What had they been given that I hadn’t?

We were totally __________; the only thing __________ us was that they had plans or __________, and they had taken action. All of a sudden, I came down to earth, __________ that if I took things into my own hands, I would figure it out. I began to think my __________ and just do something. Then three years later, I became a freelance writer.

【推荐3】I have the bad habit of skipping to the last pages of a book to see how it ends while I’m still in the middle of it. This habit ________   people around me. Often my ________ wouldn’t be confined (局限) just to the books I read but also to what others were reading as well. Finally, one day my daughter told me with a little________, “Dad, please just read a book one page at a time like everyone else!”

At times I didn’t________ this bad habit to just reading books either. I also tried to skip ahead in my life and _________ what to do months and even years from now instead of________ each day as it is intended. I knew that the book of my life wasn’t done yet and that I had many________ left to go._________ that didn’t stop me from trying to write the ending halfway through. Time and again, I would ________ jump ahead and try to solve every potential problem before it happened so I could reach that storybook happily ever after ending. Life, however, doesn’t ________ like that. It loves to________ us, and you never know what new problem or opportunity each new day will bring.

Life has often had to________ me to slow down. Recently, when I found myself returning to that bad habit of rushing ahead and living in the ________ again, I felt a special voice gently telling me, “Live one day at a time.” Then I smiled, and turned the book of my life back to the________ page. Each of us has to live the book of life one page and one day at a time. Each of us has to write it________ and moment by moment. We have to trust that it will bring our story to its perfect end.

【推荐2】I loved working with my dad, but I hated a summer job he gave me. He owned a small _________ in Bank Street. In his shop, the most recently _________ person got the worst job, and the boss son was also _________.

I didn't want to spend hours _________ the frost on the ceiling of the walk-in freezer（冷库）, and it was the Saturday afternoon's job that I hated most. We received fresh _________ every day. Chicken sat in wooden boxes and was _________ with crushed ice（碎冰）. During the week, the ice and the blood of the chicken slowly leaked into the container _________ the chicken, creating its bloody smell.

There was only one _________ to get rid of the blood and wash the container: hold my _________ and carefully slide the container from under the chicken, as I tried not to __________ the contents over my clothes, and then __________ into the drain（下水道）.

Soon, students who have cut lawns, painted houses, worked in offices, __________ maybe even worked in the butcher's like me will __________ to school. Some will have great memories __________ others will come back with __________ ones.

Looking back, I think my father could have __________ me from my weekly hell. However, my dad, who'd dropped out of school to help support his family after his father died, was a teacher for me __________ He knew treating me __________ from his other employees would be an unfair thing. Most importantly, he taught me to __________ those who do the hard and __________ tasks in life.

For the next six summers, I returned not as the boss' son, but as one of other guys, and I cleaned the dirty container every Saturday afternoon, whatever splashed over my clothes.

【推荐3】I had suddenly run out of oil paints just when I needed them. So I made a long _______ to the only store around here that sells them. It was the _______ time to shop. The store was full of people and the checkout line was long. I could see the _______ faces of ton the face of the people around me. It was no better in the _______ and I found myself in the middle of a longline of cars waiting to pull out of it.

As my car was moving forward, I _______ a middle-aged, thin black woman in an old coat. She was holding up a piece of paper that said, “ _______ my job. Kids to feed!” I _______ as car after car drove past her while their drivers turned their eyes away. _______ I came closer, I took out my _______ and pulled out the little cash I had left. I __________ next to her, rolled down(摇下) my window, and __________ put it in her hand. She __________ and said “Thank you” before the car behind me __________ me to drive on.

I drove away and __________ that I had helped her even a little. Was my small act of kindness __________ to her? I don't know. Did it change the attitude of the driver behind me? Probably not. But it has been a wonderful experience for me.

【推荐2】Sometimes I thought I was a good mom. Sometimes, I felt like I spent the day nagging ( 唠叨不休) my kids rather than _______them, especially my strong-willed son. But a family get-together taught me an important _______.

My son was ten at the time and we were on a late night family _______ tip to Cleveland for the get-together the next day. I was taking my_______at the wheel while my husband and my small daughter _______. My son, full of energy, was wide awake in the back seat. I needed to stay awake, too, and I didn’t want to _______ the radio. So I asked him to talk to me to help keep me awake . “Sure, Mom,” he said, “what do you want to _______?” I told him I’d talk about _______ he wanted to talk about. “How about frogs (青蛙)?” he asked. I said that would be fine, and for the next hour or so we talked about the _______between frogs and toads (蟾蜍),and ________ --basketball and soccer. He was quite ________ when we talked about Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson and how they got to be so famous. Now and then he would ________, but we’d continue to talk as I drove down the ________ road.

About an hour and a half later, when I finally arrived , the bright lights woke everyone, and the magic of our discussion ________. But I knew that I had taken the first step toward changing a bad ________ habit with someone I love very much.