【推荐2】There once lived a young man who was always unhappy and complained about his poverty. One day, he went to see a fortune teller to inquire how to become _______. The fortune teller said, “Young man, you are already wealthy now.”

“Where is my wealth?” the young man asked _______.

“It is with you. Your _______ is (are) your wealth. You use them to see this world. You use them to see all the _______ things in this world. You can read, study and learn. Your hands are your wealth. You can use them to work. You can use them to hug your beloved ones. Your _______ are your wealth. You can go to any places…” the fortune teller said.

“You call these wealth? Everyone has them,” the young man said.

“These are wealth. What you have now are not what others can luckily have. Are you _______ to give your eyes to me? I am willing to give you a lot of money to _______ for them,” the fortune teller said.

“No, are you crazy? I am not going to exchange my eyes for money! They are _______ to me!” the young man _______.

“Precisely, these are wealth to you. You will not exchange them for money. Furthermore, although a lot of people have their wealthy things, they do not ________ them or treasure them. They are not ________ to Heaven for giving them their wealth. They even complain that Heaven is unfair to them. Do you want to ________ one of them before you will treasure them?” the fortune teller said.

Everyone is wealthy. But we should not ________ it for granted. We need to treasure our wealth, take care of it and use it ________. We should not overuse it because once it is ________, it is gone forever. Remember it is our wealth that we do not want to lose.

【推荐3】One day I hopped in a taxi and we took off for the airport. We were driving in the right lane ________ suddenly a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed (猛踩) on his brakes, and ________ the other car by just inches! The ________ of the other car whipped his head around and started ________ at us!

My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. He was really ________. So I asked, “Why did you just do that? This guy almost ________ your car and sent us to the hospital!” This is when my taxi driver ________ me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck.” (垃圾车法则)

He ________ that many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage (frustration, anger, and disappointment, etc.). As their garbage ________, they need a place to pour it and sometimes they’ll pour it on you. Don’t take it ________. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and ________. Don’t take their garbage and ________ it to other people at work, at home, or on the streets.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let garbage trucks control their day. Life’s too short to wake up in the morning with ________, so... love the people who treat you right and ________ for the ones who don’t. ________ is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it!

【推荐1】When I was in seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town. Most of the _________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his_________.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, _________he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was no longer there. I didn’t have the_________to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might tell me he had died.

Several_________later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I_________who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was_________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. He_________yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever_________.

He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie__________believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death.

【推荐2】I was sleepy as I drove home one night in the pouring rain. I was driving too fast. I fell asleep and________my truck six times. I remember feeling rain on my face and________a helicopter. And I remember the doctor who stitched me up in the operating room.

As I was being________from the hospital, the nurse put a huge pile of________in my arms. They were not mine. So where did they come from?________, while I was hanging from the truck in the rain,________people had stopped, walked through the broken glass and crumpled（变形的）metal, and laid their coats over me to________me from the elements. I left the hospital with ten coats. Ten strangers________me, even though I had made a terrible________.

I cleaned the coats and put ads in the paper offering to________them, but no one ever came forward. I________at them every day for nearly a year and felt impressed by the________of people. I finally________them to a local church.

I still have a________of the truck I destroyed. And any time I need a________of the kindness that is a permanent part of humanity, I look at that picture.

【推荐3】Xie Jun is a middle school student, studying in Grade 8 in a middle school in Changsha, Hunan. He has had lots of _________ since he was little. But as time goes by, there is only one dream still in his mind.

When he was a child, he heard of rockets and spaceships. _________, he didn’t know what they were. From his father, he started to know that scientists make _________ to carry people and things into space. From then on, he became very interested _________ space. Every time he sees beautiful stars and the moon in the sky at night, he gets very excited. He is always dreaming that he can fly to space to _________ the Earth one day.

Xie learned that the first man flew into space in 1961, and later, _________ astronauts made it successful to travel into space. Some even landed on the moon. He knows not _________ can travel into space. More importantly, _________ he can fly to space, he must be trained specially.

Xie knows it’s not easy to realize his dream, but he decides to try _________ best. He says, “I’ve had this dream for many years. It brings me a lot of __________ and always makes me study harder.”