【推荐1】People often ask successful men and women questions about they how they succeeded. What schools did they _____? What did they study? Why did they choose a particular career (职业)？The answers are ______. But business writer Tom Corley has _____ one thing in his study that most of them have in common: they______every day.

Corley's______ shows that 85 percent of successful people read at least two books a month. That comes to reading twenty four books a ______. They have discovered the importance of continuing to learn_______things.

Some______ business leaders with reading habits include Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Elon Musk. They art ______ about what they read, though. They read for ______rather than fun. They also read to _____ themselves.

What types of ______do they choose? They read life stories of other ______ people.

Let’s learn from those who have ______success, and open a good book today.

【推荐2】I live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. I used to give a lot of money to the homeless, feeling _________ for them. But as time passed, I became a mom with no home, a huge _________, and hardly any income. As a result, I _________ giving money to the people on the side of the road and became very _________. Things started to change for me _________. I had a home, a backyard for my daughter, and plenty of food, and I started to _________ myself out of debt. One day we saw a homeless person with the _________, “Will work for food.” I _________. My daughter commented. “Mommy, you used to always give money to those people in _________.” I replied, “Honey, they just use that money for __________, or other bad things.” She didn’t respond. __________ when I said that, I didn’t feel right. Three days later, I was driving to __________ my daughter from school. A man was standing on the corner, and something deep __________ me said, “Just help the guy.” So I __________ down my window, and he ran over excitedly. He said, “God bless you, I only need 77 cents.” I __________ into my ashtray(烟灰缸) and strangely enough, there __________ three quarters and two pennies. I picked them up and gave them to him. He __________ with joy and tears in his eyes. “Wow, you just made it __________ for me to see my mom for Christmas! Thank you so much; the __________ that had this great sale is leaving in 20 minutes!” It was a moment I’ll __________ forever. I think that man won’t forget it either, but I was the one who got the best gift in life — GIVING.

【推荐3】As the saying goes，"The rose's in her hand，the flavor in mine." I am always in the _________of giving money to every beggar or homeless person I pass by. My friends say it is not good to _________them. We may come across beggars or homeless people begging everyday and all beggars have their ability to survive. It _________them that I never listen.

On a _________day, my friend and I were walking to the _________when I passed a beggar lady. I had seen her several times before and had always given her a few _________. That day, I gave her 2 euros. I was waiting for the bus and reading a book when I _________to see that lady standing in front of me. She _________me a piece of paper covered in a plastic bag to prevent it from getting _________. She stood there, looking at me ______________. Putting my book ______________, I took the paper, which said she and her family had to ______________their country because of floods, and she was ______________to support them. She had got a bit of money, but she needed ______________5 euros to get home. I ______________in my pockets and found 20 cents. My friend ______________a 5-euro note. I asked her to give it to the lady, and said that I would ______________ the next day. When she got the money, the lady hugged us and said thanks again and again, and went on her way. Later on the bus, I ______________where her home was and how she had gotten to this country. In her story, I felt that my friend and I would always remain part of it as the ______________, who helped her get home on a rainy day. But for me, helping a stranger did bring me happiness, giving me a pleasant ______________.

【推荐1】Margaret Thompson and her husband, Kenneth, stretched their legs together on walking holidays in Switzerland. In Interlaken, they would head up the mountain and watch the paragliders (滑翔伞运动员) ______ themselves into the sky. Back in town, in a large park, they watched them return to the ______ . “Some day I’d love to do that,” Thompson told Kenneth.

But there was always so much to do in Interlaken. _______, Thompson didn’t know if Kenneth would have ______ it. “He was not so keen on heights as I was,” she said. So she ______ to watch the gliders take flight and land.

Kenneth died in 2005. Eleven years later, Thompson ______ took to the skies herself, in a paraglider at the age of 80. Although some people get scared while flying, she said she just feels ______ . Thompson did her second paraglide when she turned 85.

Thompson asked the organizers about the age ______ for paragliding. They said: “Any age, as long as you’re ______.” Thompson, now 86, plans her third flight for when she is 90.

Thompson______ living above her parents’ shop in Belfast. At 18, she helped in the shop while ______ for her music diplomas (文凭) in Stranmillis, south Belfast. She started to ______ piano to local children, and at the height of her teaching she gave 70 ______ a week. She still has 15 pupils on her books.

Is she scared of getting older? “Fear? No. People say: ‘Isn’t getting old ______ ?’ I say: ‘No. You are free to do more things that you want to do,’” Thompson said.

“People might worry about falling, it being the end of them. But that doesn’t ______ me at all. When it’s your time, it’s your time. No matter where you are,” Thompson added.

【推荐2】When Deirdre Taylor was preparing to leave her Virginia home to fight Covid-19 in New York, she made sure to   ________ a possession that she kept for over thirty, ________: a front-page newspaper article.

This article ________ Taylor’s rescue from a burning New York City apartment by a ________ in 1983. She was only four then. The picture on the front-page article shows a young Taylor with the man who ________ her, Eugene Pugliese.

“I always knew I came ________ to losing my life that day,” Taylor told CNN. “I could have a second chance at life ________ him.”

Today, Taylor, 41, is an emergency room ________ with a happy family. Ever since the incident, she wondered what ________ the firefighter who saved her, coming up empty when she ________him online. ________ to spend two months helping in the ________ against Covid-19 at NYU Langone Hospital, Taylor saw this as a(n) ________ to find him.

During one of her shifts (轮班), Taylor gave an ________ of her experience to a fire fighter her. He called the current captain of New York City Fire Department (FDNY) in Manhattan, who ________ knew whom Taylor was looking for.

Taylor gave Pugliese a(n) ________ right after her shift and was very happy to hear his voice on the other end. “I wondered about him on 9/11 and hoped I would get the chance to thank him, and I finally ________,” said Taylor.

Now 76 years old, Pugliese was ________ when he got the call from Taylor on Friday.

“We just sat there crying on the ________,” Pugliese told CNN, “________ that he’s had the same article framed on his wall for 37 years now.”

【推荐3】I am a single father with two young daughters. It had been a ________ year: Being out of work ________ me of a reliable income and thus I was always ________ on cash. But as Christmas approached, with little choice, I was still ________ to tell the girls, “It looks like our gift from Santa will be the gift of our love for each other.” I hated to see the ________ in the eyes of my girls. I just couldn’t stop feeling ________.

Then, ________, a miracle(奇迹) occurred to me. I won $1 000 in a contest. To give them a(n) ________, I kept it a secret and went on a shopping spree(一通购物) ________, all the time thinking, “How surprised they will be!”

The next morning, to lay out the gifts, I went to the living room but I ________ at the sight of the Christmas tree. There were already dozens of ________ under it—well packaged, all with my name on them. My girls had felt ________ that Dad wouldn’t be getting any gifts, so they’d carefully ________ their favorite old toys so that I would have   a merry Christmas.

So moved was I that I stared at the gifts through ________ eyes, promising myself to never again ________ Santa Claus as Santa did appear in many different guises(伪装).

【推荐1】Years ago, a critical event occurred in my life that would change it forever. I met Kurt Kampmeir of Success Motivation Incorporation for breakfast. While we were ____, Kurt asked me, “John, what is your ____for personal growth?”

Never at a loss for words, I tried to find things in my life that might ____for growth. I told him about the many activities in which I was ____. And I went into a ____about how hard I worked and the gains I was making. I must have talked for ten minutes. Kurt ____patiently, but then he ____smiled and said, “You don’t have a personal plan for growth, do you?”

“No,” I ____.

“You know,” Kurt said simply, “growth is not a(n) ____process.”

And that’s when it ____me. I wasn’t doing anything ____to make myself better. And at that moment, I made the ____: I will develop and follow a personal growth plan for my ____.

That night, I talked to my wife about my ____with Kurt and what I had learned. I ____her the workbook and tapes Kurt was selling. We ____that Kurt wasn’t just trying to make a sale. He was offering a ____for us to change our lives and achieve our dreams.

Several important things happened that day. First, we decided to ____the resources. But more importantly, we made a commitment to ____together as a couple. From that day on, we learned together, traveled together, and sacrificed together. It was a ____decision. While too many couples grow apart, we were growing together.

【推荐3】While waiting to pick up a friend at the airport in Portland. I had one of those life-changing experiences. This one ______ a mere two feet away from me.

Looking for my friend among the ______, I noticed a man coming toward me carrying two light bags. He stopped right next to me to ______ his wife.

First he ______ his bags and ______ his wife to give her a long hug I ever remember seeing. He stared into her eyes for several ______, saying. “I love you so much!” They stared at each other’s eyes, smiling big smiles at one another, while holding both ______.

I asked him how long they had been ______ and when he left. He ______ that they had been married for twelve years and he just left two days ago. I was ______. By their greeting, I had thought he’d been gone for at least several weeks. I know my ______ gave me away.

“I ______ my marriage is still that new after twelve years!” I ______ to myself. Hearing my words, he looked me straight in the eye, and with forcefulness that was burned right into my soul, he told me something that left me a ______ person. He told me. “Don’ hope friend, ______!”