【推荐1】The day started off just as any other summer morning. My father and sister enjoyed hamburger at the Macdonald’s. I _______ eating much food, because I wanted to be healthy for the Avoyelles Basketball League game later that day. However, my family demanded I _______. Finally, I ate it and headed to the gym.

While at the _______ sitting with my friends, I began to think back on my past and missed my _______. I remembered how every morning I caught the _______ at her house, ready for each day’s journey. I remembered how we waited for the bus, laughing at Kenneth running late every morning while we _______ ourselves to a Snikers candy bar.

Wherever she went, I was there. The best part of year was when those pecans (山核桃) _______ from the pecan tree behind her house. My entire family would set aside a day to pick each pecan for her to _______ her outstanding pecan candy.

Anyone who knew her never keep her _______ in the kitchen. She would be busy behind the stove, or whatever you gave her to ____________ with. She would make something happen. She would make food that made any ____________ day pure excitement. Her food tasted so good that you couldn’t stop to take a ____________.

One day while I was ____________ for my Avoyelles Basketball League game, my sister Shane caught my ____________. With a sorrowful look in her face, she ____________ said, “she was gone.”

The words repeated in my mind for what seemed like hours. Several of my friends ____________ and questioned “what’s up with you?” Immediately the tears welled in my eyes.

Thus I began to realize the ____________ . Nevermore will I enjoy a Snikers candy bar each morning while ____________ Kenneth. Nevermore will I enjoy picking pecans as a(n) ____________   .Nevermore will I enjoy delicious pecan candy. Nevermore will I enjoy my blessing in the form of an angel. ____________ forever my grandmother was gone.

The dream itself comes from hard work, some good luck and good timing. Here are some words of wisdom as you _______ your way in the world, from an entrepreneur (企业家) and your mama.

In high school, I wanted to be a politician. I left my hometown for college in Washington DC. There, I _______ that I loved to support women. It taught me that I'm a creative, strong leader and great at marketing. _______, I moved to be the head of a national healthcare nonprofit. Becoming a mother opened my mind to _______ a breast pump bag (储奶袋) business. Now I _________ a highly successful company that I started upon my own. _______ what you are good at and what you are passionate about. Keep an open mind.

Failure is _________ to your success. I won't tell you to feel good about failure. But I will tell you that every failure I've had along the way has absolutely made me _________.

Failing the big math exam in high school was _________. I eventually passed, and I've never failed an exam again. I learned from that ____________ to ask for help. Now I ask for help in business all the time.

Being passed over for a significant job opportunity that I more than qualified for hurt me. I was so depressed ____________ soon I got a big job at a national organization. It's okay to get angry! Take that and ____________ it into positive action.

I'm proud to be a role ____________ to you as a mom and an entrepreneur. I hope I inspire you to believe that you can be____________ you want and you can have everything on your list. It will be my pleasure to watch your life ____________ before my eyes.

【推荐3】Shortly after a father-and-son fight, my twelve-year-old son, Marlon, asked me if I was up for a basketball game of one-on-one. Without _________ much, I accepted his _________ which only goes to _________ how naïve (天真的) a dad can be. The moment he _________ onto the court, I realized this was not a friendly game, but a challenge.

There comes a time when sons _________ their fathers as a symbol of _________. The test maybe _________ or intellectual, but sooner or later the young man is to defeat the old one and becomes a real man.

When playing _________, my son is all the things I’m not; quick with a deadly shot. And I know the day will come _________. Just not today.

It’s a man thing, I guess. As a father, I need to __________ my impatient son an important lesson of __________, courage, and pride. Therefore, I wouldn’t __________ on the court or wherever.

We played for quite a long time that day. I won a narrow victory and told him that he played for the wrong reasons. He __________ as if he understood. A few weeks later Marlon __________ me to a friendly round of videogame. Beat me __________. And laughed while he did it.

【推荐2】Chicago was hit with a snowstorm over the weekend. and Jahmal Cole’s _________ blew up with messages from early neighbors: They need _________ shoveling (铲雪) in front of their homes. So Cole sent out a(n) _________ online Friday night asking for 10 volunteers to come to his neighborhood, Chatham, to shovel the snow that was _________.

When he went to the train station Saturday morning to see whether anyone had _________ to assist, he couldn’t believe what he saw. About 120 people stood on the platform, many with shovels, _________ to work. Many volunteers were from outside Chicago. One man had _________ taken a bus from Indiana. He sent them out to dozens of addresses where snow needed to be _________.

“When you’re getting such emails, you don’t want to _________ people,” said Cole. “This was literally me trying to help out the neighbors. I wanted to make a campaign next time __________ more people to take action.”

After shoveling dozens of sidewalks and walkways, a __________ that lasted until 3p.m. that afternoon. Cole and the volunteers went out together to have lunch at a neighborhood restaurant. To their __________ , an unknown customer paid the bill for their nice __________.

“I’m __________ of our city,” Cole said, “People could have been home with families or making snowmen, but they came out to help, which __________ the spirit rooted in the city.”

【推荐3】The Gift of forgiveness

The summer I turned 16, my father gave me his old 69 Chevy Malibu convertible. What did I know about classic cars? For me, the important thing was that Hannah and I could_________around Tucson with the top down.

Hannah was my best friend, a year younger but much_________. That summer she_________with a modeling agency, doing catalog and runway work.

A month after my birthday, Hannah and I went to the movies. On the way home, we_________at the McDonald’s drive-through, putting the fries in the space between us to _________“Let’s ride around awhile,” I said. It was a clear night, hot, full moon hanging low over the desert. Taking a curve(弯)too_________, I ran over some dirt and fishtailed. I then moved quickly through a neighbor’s landscape wall and drove _________a full-grown palm tree. The front wheel came to rest halfway up the tree trunk.

There were French fries on the floor, the dash(仪表盘)and my lap. An impossible amount of _________was on Hannah's face, pieces of skin hanging around her eyes. We were taken in separate ambulances. In the emergency room, my parents spoke quietly: “ Best plastic surgeon(整容医生)in the city… but it is more likely the_________ of her modeling career.”

We’d been wearing lap belts, __________ the car didn't have shoulder belts. I’d broken my cheekbone on the steering wheel; Hannah's__________ had split wide open on the dash. What would I say to her?

When her mother, Sharon, came into my hospital room, I started to cry, preparing myself for her__________.She sat beside me and took my hand. “I drove into the back of the car of my best friend when I was your age,” she said. “I completely__________ her car and mine.”

“I’m so sorry,” I said.

“You're both __________”she said, “Everything else doesn't matter.” I started to explain, and Sharon stopped me. “I __________you. Hannah will too.”

Sharon's forgiveness allowed Hannah and me to get back in the car together that summer, to stay________ throughout high school and college, to be in each others weddings. I think of her gift of forgiveness every time I tend to feel angry about someone for a perceived(可感知到的)__________,and whenever I see Hannah. The scars are now__________ and no one else would notice, but in the sunlight I can still__________the faint, shiny skin just below her hairline—for__________, a sign of forgiveness.

【推荐1】When I became an amputee(被截肢者) at age 29，I was forced to rethink the idea of physical perfection.My life became ________ as I changed from an acceptably attractive woman to an object of pity and ________.

Too busy ________ physical pain and obvious limitation of movement，I was not aware of this ________ at first.There were so many difficulties before me.But I was determined to manage my work and life as well as before，feeling ________ about the progress I had made.

________，as I made my first journey outside the hospital，society had already regarded me a new status.Happy to be free of my ________ in the hospital，I rolled through the shopping mall as a ________ survivor，feeling like a war hero.Unfortunately，I got a rude ________ as I discovered that others did not view me in the way I had come to view myself.

All eyes were upon me，yet no one dared to make eye contact.Their efforts to ________ my eyes forced me to realize they only saw my missing legs.Mothers ________ held their children closer as I passed.Elderly women patted me on the head saying，“God Bless You！” with ________ in their eyes.

While I sat thinking about what had happened，a small girl came up to me.She stared with unembarrassed ________ at the empty trousers.Finding nothing there，she looked up at me with a ________ look，and childishly asked，“Lady，where did your legs go？”

I explained that my legs had been sick.Since my legs hadn’t been strong and healthy like hers，the doctors had to ________ them.Leaning her head upwards，she asked，“Did they go to ‘Leg Heaven’？”

That incident made me think about how ________ children and adults react to the unknown.To a child，a new appearance is an interesting curiosity and a learning experience，while adults often ________ the same thing with horror.I began to realize that I also had been guilty of the same unsuitable ________ before I knew what life was like for an amputee.

To fulfill the wholeness of my mind and spirit，I now smile warmly，make eye contact，and speak in a ________ manner.By using a positive approach，I attempt to make society know the fact that having a not­so­perfect body doesn’t mean having a ________ quality of life.We disabled people also enjoy a colorful life.

【推荐1】The first time my grandma came to visit us in Canada she was a little upset. She ________ that there was nothing to do. Before my grandma arrived, I used to tend the flower in our garden. But while I was at school and my parents were at work, my grandma, feeling ________, came down upon the little piece of land. She pulled out the annuals (一年生植物) and ________ those with orderly rows of green cabbages, onions and other ________. I told her to stop, to keep the flowers. “They’re pretty but they’re ________,” she said matter-of-factly. I was annoyed until I learned something about her past. Grandma was ________ at the time of a severe famine (严重饥荒). She lost her parents and did everything on her own. ________, she never cried about it to anyone. Different times ________ unique characters. My grandma was shaped by the ________ of her family members and the difficulties in China’s recent history. Those who experienced the famine are ________ unwilling to use valuable land to plant flowers. Her ________, responsibility, diligence and frugality (勤俭), helped her through those difficult years, some of which were laid down by the hands of time, and to change them now would ________ her. She is an essential ________ between my family’s past and future — she ________ her times challenges to support the next generation. Someday, I will be like my grandma and ________ my small part to human’s moving on.

【推荐2】In a clean, clinical room, ray best friend was dying in my aims. His eyes, dark brown and trusting, would soon ____ forever. Heartbroken, I said, “Flash, you ____ so much happiness to me. I will do something good as a ____.”

Flash came into my ____ when I was nine. From the moment my parents brought this cute dog home, he ____ my family with joy.

Then, ____ happened. My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer when I was 11. Then my grandma, who was my ____, passed away. My sister developed Crohn’s Disease and while being tested, ____ a heart attack. I was being bullied at school and started to ____ classes and avoid seeing people.

Flash soon gave me all the ____ he could offer. There were times when I felt there was no   ____, but a pair of brown eyes and loving face would somehow ease me. I knew he was ____ there for me. I knew he understood.

Now after 15 years, Flash was ____.1 thought doing charity work was the best reward for him. I ____ in a non-profit organization in Southampton and contributed about 3,500 hours to ____ children with special needs, which completely changed my life. I learned to love the   ___ I had been on, and even accept the ____ bits.

I still miss Flash. It was him that had somehow ____ me to helping others. Flash’s death was one of the ____ moments of my life. But it was also an inspiring moment that ____ who I was-in the best possible way-forever.