【推荐2】As human beings, we are alike in many ways. Yet_________ our similarities, no two people are exactly the same. Even identical twins_________ different life experiences. Just because of these_________ , the "one size fits all" solution will not be the most_________ answer to our problems.

One of my life_________ is to find what works for me best, and forget the rest. Just that something works well for someone else, doesn't_________ mean that it will work well for me too. I have found that I am successful when I_________ any new method or strategy I learned to deal with my_________situation.

A perfect example of why it's best to find what works for you is when it_________ to trying to pick a diet   and an exercise plan. There are__________ diet plans and exercise programs out there to__________ from, and it can be quite overwhelming(令人不知所措的). When choosing a__________ plan you have to consider food allergies, how portable the food is if you are away from home most of the time, and many other__________. When choosing an exercise program you have to consider your starting level of fitness, and health issues that might adapt your ability to do the program, and ________  you actually enjoy the exercise enough to__________ with it. Many people like jogging, but it is probably my least__________ form of exercise. By finding more suitable and enjoyable alternatives（供替代的选择）that give me the same__________ or better, it is easier to stick with my exercise program.

You__________ yourself better than anyone, so don't be ________ to experiment with different solutions to whatever you are trying to achieve. Don't__________ use something because it is "the best", or because it works well for someone else. Find what works best for you, and forget the rest.

【推荐3】It was a long drive to the nursing home where my Grandmother was living. _____________, at least twice a month I drove to see her. I'd already___________my Mom to cancer and I wanted to always remember my Grandmother, especially because she was beginning to     ___________me. Nana had Alzheimer(老年痴呆症) disease, which was slowly starting to eat away at her___________. Sometimes she recognized me when I visited her and sometimes she didn't.

On one visit, I___________ my Grandmother good-bye and started to walk towards my car.___________a tiny hand seized mine. "James!"   a___________voice said. I turned and saw a smiling, wrinkled face.___________my Nana, she had Alzheimer disease but was still able to walk and get around. She___________ me for her son(A nurse told me he'd died years ago). I held her hands and let her joyfully____________. Though her eyes didn't know who I was, I saw the____________in them when she spoke to her son through me.

On the following visits, I always took____________ to visit my Nana as well as her. I always got a smile and sometimes even a____________from her. The nurses told me she was always____________and gladder after seeing her "son".

Then one day I noticed she was____________ . I spoke to the nurses and they__________told me that she'd been dead for some days. I put my head____________and went quietly into my Nana's room.

Her loss didn't really hit me____________ I went for a walk at night. I looked at the sky,____________something, for a while I really had been her son. Actually, in this world we're all____________by invisible strings of love.

【推荐1】Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bending (弯腰) over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so focused on his ________ that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept noticing him and ________ what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make sand, but why would he do that?

________, we decided to go up and ask him. He was crushing pieces of left-over bread that he had ________ to prepare food for the birds that come there early morning. The large pieces of bread would be ________ for the birds to eat so he crushed them into powder. Every ________, after coming home from his job as a tailor, he goes ________ the villa (乡间别墅), collecting left-over bread from all his neighbors. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1-2 hours carefully crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3-4 years, which ________ us a lot. When we told him that we took an interest in this, he felt ________, since for him it wasn’t a big ________.

When we asked him what encouraged him to do this act of ________, he said, “It’s just something ________ I do, so that the left-over bread doesn’t go into the rubbish and the birds get food.” We ________ his story with the hope that it would ________ us to be aware of leftovers too and that it might ________ someone to start something similar in their own area.

【推荐2】Last year, a community theater decided to find someone to act in the production of The Sound of Music. My husband said our daughters might enjoy being a(n) _________ of it.

"You can try out for the band," he said.

"I'm not trying out for the band," I answered. “I'm trying out for the show.” But there was one _________ with my declaration: I'd never sung _________.

My daughters wanted to _________, so we prepared to audition(试镜). But when the day came, I started to get cold feet. My children looked to me for courage._________ would set a bad example. Since I was auditioning alongside them, I had to build up _________.

"Whether you're chosen or not isn't important -doing your best is what matters," I'd been telling them. Now I had to _________ it.

I sang my song, _________ to look comfortable and confident. My daughters _________ quite well. Then we waited. I was __________.Not only was I chosen—I was a lead and we all made it!

To __________, I sang to the cat and the dishes when I was at home alone, I knew I'd have to get over my __________ since I'd never sung in front of so many people.

I told friends and family about the __________.Everyone wanted to see it __________ I was in it with my daughters. I didn't want the theater to be __________, but I didn't want it packed either.__________, if it was full, I preferred to fill it myself with __________ faces.

The show went off smoothly, friends and acquaintances(熟人) all __________ us. After that experience, I __________ more auditions and even learned to enjoy singing on stage. And I filled my life with __________.

Marshall Helm had been _______ his granddaughter to the bus stop early in the morning when the smoke and _______ arising from the house next door _______ his attention. Helm _______ to the endangered home and threw open the garage door only to find flames climbing up one of the building walls. _______, at that very moment he did not _______ to charge past the flames and into the house so he could make sure his neighbors were _______.

Gary and Kathy Benjamin had been _______ upstairs when they awoke to hear Helm shouting about the fire. Although they were confused by the _______ and had no time to figure out what had happened, they __________ to run into the hallway and escape with Helm through the back door just as the flames were swallowing the __________ through which he had come in only a minute before. Thanks to Helm's quick __________ , the Benjamins suffered only __________ smoke intake—and even though they lost their home in the fire, they are simply __________ to Helm for saving their lives.

“Lifesaver-lifesaver is all I can say,” Mr. Benjamin said. His wife added, “Hero, he's our __________”.

【推荐1】One hot summer I was traveling down the freeway on a day journey to Los Angeles. During my travel down the highway another motorist suddenly started __ into my lane(车道). Being in the far right lane, my car was forced onto the __ of the road. Being a professional driver, I __ moved my car back onto the highway without __ the violent anger caused by it to __ me.

__ I wasn’t very happy with the person for cutting me off, I decided to consider it an honest __— a lack of __ to the lane change, a driver __ in a good daydream. It certainly could not have been an __ act. The car __ after cutting me off and soon was out of sight.

After a while, I came around a bend and found the __ motorist on the side of the road. He was an elderly gentleman who was __ along the side of the freeway on this hot day. With the nearest __ being at least twenty miles away, I decided to __ and see what the problem was.

The man’s car had a __ tire and while he had a spare tire, he had no tools to change it. I __ to help him. Fifteen minutes later, I was hot, sweaty and __, but I sure did feel __ after a random act of __ to someone who had earlier run me off the road.

【推荐3】My Chinese speaking experience

It’s one thing to learn a language, but it’s quite another when you finally get to use it.

On the _________from Venice to Paris, a group of girls sat around me. I realized that they were speaking Chinese, but at first I didn’t feel _________starting a conversation with the strangers next to me. If it didn’t _________well, I’d be stuck next to them for the rest of the flight.

As the food cart began to make its way down the aisle (过道)towards us, I finally found my _________. I _________to the girl to my left and asked, “Will you be having lunch?” in Chinese. She _________ her head and asked me in English, “You speak Chinese?” I _________ again in Chinese, “A little bit.” She nodded again and then returned to her magazine, _________ my effort to communicate with her.

Another time, at a dinner I sat next to a man who I knew spoke Chinese. I told him that I was learning Chinese, but could only _________ a little. When __________ me use the language, he suddenly began to speak __________ in Chinese. I didn’t catch him at all. I felt somewhat __________. I never __________ the chance to continue because the conversation returned to __________ as other people speaking English joined the table.

All in all, my experience has __________ me that I still have a long way to go in using Chinese.