【推荐1】Marty Verel, a 50-year-old kidney transplant recipient in Ohio, should have been near the top of the list to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. _________ like millions of others, he wasn't having any luck scheduling an appointment. Marty and his wife, Nancy Verel, would sit with computers on their laps trying for hours to book an appointment on different sites, all of which were slow and _________ . “I felt _________ ,”Nancy says.

Then Nancy heard about Marla Zwinggi, a 40-year-old mom of three from a Cleveland suburb who was spending up to ten hours a day online trying to get appointments for   _________   individuals. So Nancy _________ Zwinggi on Facebook: Can you help? Twenty-five minutes later, Zwinggi responded by asking for Marty's legal name, date of birth, and other _________ .Nine minutes after that, Zwinggi reported back—Marty had an appointment to get the vaccine.

Zwinggi's vaccine _________ started on February 1, when she learned that her parents—her father has leukemia and her mother is a breast cancer survivor with a heart condition—were _________ to get appointments themselves. She hated that they had to wait. Clicking around on vaccine registration sites, Zwinggi, who has helped her husband develop websites, discovered just how _________ it was to book an appointment. “It was like trying to get a World Series ticket,” she says.

She applied strategies that web insiders are __________ with ( keeping multiple browsers open, refreshing sites every 20 seconds, erasing cookies) and added a few of her special skills. “I work __________. I drink a lot of coffee, and I'm a fast typer,” she says. Soon enough, Zwinggi had secured appointments for her __________.

Zwinggi decided that helping others would be her way of __________ to the society. “I feel like I need to will us out of this pandemic,” she says. On February 10, she logged on to Facebook to let people know that she was __________ with bookings. By March 2, she'd secured appointments for 400 people, a feat that made Nancy conclude, “Marla is some sort of COVID-19 __________.”

【推荐2】Breathless as she reaches the last few yards of a day. Claire Lomas gives a tired smile. It’s the _______of another day of a 400-mile cycle challenge across England which she is doing on a specially-built _______and she is exhausted.

Her shoulders ache from the _______ pushing and pulling of the pedals(踏板)but as she stops, her spirits are soon_______by the sight of her mum Joyce and her three-year-old daughter. Maisie, waiting to greet her. Claire’s challenge is all the more admirable because she is paralyzed from the chest downwards.

Six years earlier, a horse-riding accident had left her paralyzed from the waist down. Instead of letting it _______her life, she chose to be strong and set herself _______,getting married, becoming a mum, joining a marathon and riding for charity.

Last May, millions of TV viewers watched as Claire burst into tears after she _______the London Marathon in 16 days, _______a specially-made suit. And now, close to finishing the charity bike ride, 33-year-old Claire _______:“I know it sounds strange, but the __________days of my life came after the accident, getting married, having my daughter, Maisie, who is the __________of my life, completing a marathon and holding the Paralympic torch. So many __________things have happened to me despite being paralyzed, for I never allow the negatives to__________me. I used to think my accident would ruin me but,____________, it has been the making of me.”

She __________what happened after the accident, “I remember lying on the ground, unable to feel my legs.” But she refused to__________. “When the specialist told me I’d be in a __________for the rest of my life, I remember thinking “You don’t know who you’re dealing with”. __________,Claire did make it to walk again. “I was__________to get out,” she recalls. “So I set myself small goals. I wanted to be as__________as I could. I’d never had to rely on anyone before and I didn’t want to then.”

【推荐3】It was time for Mr. Rocco to shut up the shop when I hurried into the flower shop. “Now, what is it you want? ” Mr. Rocco turned to me. “I want the most beautiful flower you have!”

I_________. “And just how much do you have to pay for this _________ flower ?” I held out a wet hand_________a quarter and dime. He_________his head, and then showed me a plant on the counter. “I can give you this one for 35 cents,”he said.“Aw, gee, ”I protested,“it looks like a weed(草)!”About 18 inches high, the plant was in a small pot covered with faded red paper.

“Now trust me, boy-I promise that tomorrow morning when you_________, you will find your most beautiful flower,” said Mr. Rocco. I knew him to be a good honest man, so I_________to take it.

It was almost midnight when I arrived home. Mum was_________sick and using the front bedroom. I looked in to see if she was asleep, and then_________tiptoed in and set the plant on the table beside her bed. I wanted her to be surprised when she_________ on Mother’s Day.

The next morning, I dressed and hurried downstairs. The sun was shining through the kitchen window as I looked into Mum’s room and glanced over at the table where the plant was. My goodness! There were three big yellow trumpet__________blooms. It was just like Mr. Rocco said- the most beautiful flower I ever saw! When I looked at Mum, she was smiling as tears streamed down her cheeks. She__________her hand for me to come near, then__________me close and hugged me till it hurt. Then remembering her__________condition and that she wasn’t supposed to touch me, she quickly let me go.

My dear mum died the next night. The moment she__________me turned out to be the most wonderful moment of my life. Not only had that beautiful__________ helped show just how much I loved her, but I’d always know how much she loved me.

【推荐1】I have to make a confession: I’ve shed tears at every job I’ve had. I always find it difficult to _________ my emotions. And each time I’ve _________ exactly why these emotional moments are considered so taboo (禁忌). Is it a universal truth that you just can’t cry  _________?

As someone puts it on the internet, as professional women, we’re dealing with the great expectation to “be _________ in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire” while also making enough money to pay rent. _________ , my eyes get a little watery just thinking about it. So if crying at work is unavoidable — yet taboo — what is an ambitious young woman to do to _________ after one of these embarrassing incidents?

My usual routine after an in-office _________ is to remove my contact lenses, have a massive iced-coffee, and _________ it never happened (until it happens again). Clearly, I’m no expert on the _________  professional response. So I spoke with my personal finance coach, Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, to see if she had any  __________  for reducing the humiliation (丢脸).

“It’s so __________ , but telling yourself not to cry usually  __________ making you cry more,” she says. “You’re using all your energy to hold it together, trying to  __________  an awkward situation, but there’s so much pressure that the __________  will almost unavoidably come.  Women __________ to over-apologize, especially at work. If you do end up getting upset, it can be helpful to __________ yourself from the situation. Take a minute to get it together, and come back ready to have a more composed (镇静的) exchange.”

Maybe there’s some __________ in crying. I’ve definitely found that __________ the taboo can lead to greater relationships with __________ . I’ve noticed how tears have helped solve a disconnection or problem that might __________ have gone unsolved. To be honest, I’m hoping to recognize, if not celebrate, the rare office cry as a hidden skill for greater future.

【推荐2】“This will never do.” I kept telling my husband as he set the table on Thanksgiving. I wanted everything to be ______, because my parents would come. Criticisms from my childhood ______ rang in my mind. So whenever my parents visited us, I ______ myself for more faultfinding. The ______ pursuit of perfection took the joy away from our celebration. Gradually I ______ the reason for Thanksgiving, and I found myself, like my parents, ______ people around me.

Then luckily, I read from a book, “Too much criticism hurts; necessary praise helps. Put your praise of someone in ______ so that the person can save and read it.”

So the next Thanksgiving, I ______ to my husband and my son, “We’re each going to write a message saying what we ______ about one of us.” Despite their eye-rolling, we soon finished and exchanged our ______. My son sat up straighter after ______ what his father had written about him. And I felt so uplifted myself when I read “I am proud of your cooking.” That was a life-changing ______. Since then my family has the ______ and we do it year-round ― not just the fourth Thursday of November.

I no longer focus on finding fault with others. ______, I’m more interested in how I can help the people around me feel loved and appreciated. Especially in writing, every ______ is the power of love.

【推荐3】There was a time when I thought my dad didn’t know a thing about being a good father. I couldn’t _________ him ever saying the words “I _________ you.” It seems to me his only purpose in life was to say “No” to anywhere I wanted to go and anything I wanted to do, including getting a car. Some parents bought their kids cars when they got their driver’s licenses. Not my dad—he said that I’d have to get a job and buy my own.

So that is what I did. I got a job at a very nice restaurant and _________ every penny I could and when I had enough to buy my car, I did! The day I brought that car home, my dad was the first one I wanted to show it off to. “Look, dad, a car of my own. If you ever want a ride, I’ll only _________ you five dollars.” I offered with a smile. “I see,” was all he said.

One day, there was something wrong with my father’s truck. So he needed a _________ to work. The sun wasn’t even up when we left the house, _________ it was already getting warm out. It was going to be a (n) _________ day. As I dropped my dad off, I watched him, dressed in his work clothes, getting his _________ from the truck(车尾箱)of my car. Watching his sun weathered face, and even from a distance I could tell there were _________ lines than I ever remembered being there before. I realized how hard my dad works for the family. My father is a cement finisher(水泥修整工).

In that instant, it __________ to me that he actually __________ on his hands and knees to sweat over hot concrete(混凝土)to make a living for his family. And he did this day in and day out, however hot it got. Never, not once, had I heard him __________ about it. To him we were “worth” it. And never once did he “charge” us for it.

When he closed the trunk, his tools set off to the side, he walked over to my window to __________ me five dollars. I rolled down the window and said “Good-bye, dad. Keep your five dollars. It’s my __________. Don’t work too hard. I love you.”

His __________ met mine, then glanced away in the direction of his waiting tools, he cleared his throat and said, “Oh, and... me, too.”