【推荐1】“Paul must have been trying to carry his waste paper to garbage can and dropped a few pieces. “I ________, picking them up. ________ later I found more pieces. No quiet sighing this time. I ________, “Who is throwing garbage?” No answer. Instead, I saw more bits of paper ________ floating down from upstairs. Looking up. I saw my seven-year-old son, Paul.

“Stop making a mess.” “It’s not a mess. They’re ________.” “Sorry, what did you say?” I hadn’t heard him clearly.

He didn’t answer me. Paul has autism (自闭症) and ________ answers a question, especially when he’s_ ________ attentively on something else. He ran down the stairs. “Where are my other butterflies he asked, ________ around. Every time Paul ________ five or more words together, my heart says a ________ of thanks. But lately he seems to ________ that the benefits of forming complete sentences when communicating are ________ of the effort.

Butterflies. Of course. I rushed to ________ them from the garbage, ________ them off and handed them to my young artist “Want to see them ________ again?” he asked with a shy smile. “Oh yes! They’re beautiful.” I whispered. He ran back upstairs to float his ________ down again. They really did look like beautiful butterflies.

That day Paul ________ me to look up at ________ instead of down at garbage. How many other masterpieces (杰作) do I miss because I’m too caught up in my ________ to take time to appreciate what’s right in front of me? Life is not what happens to us. It’s ________ we look at it Now, I look up.

【推荐2】I teach economics at UNLV three times per week. Last Monday, at the beginning of class, I cheerfully asked my students how their________ had been. One young man said that his weekend had not been so good. He had his wisdom teeth________. The young man then ________to ask me why I always seemed to be so cheerful.

His question ________, me of something I’d read somewhere before: Every morning when you get up, you have a________ about how you want to approach life that day.” I said, “I choose to be cheerful.”

“Let me give you an example,” I continued,________all sixty students in the class. “In addition to teaching here at UNLV, K also teach out at the community college in Henderson, 17 miles down the________from where I live. One day a few weeks ago, I drove those 17 miles to Henderson I________the freeway and turned on to College Drive. I only had to drive.________quarter mile down the road to-the college. But just then my car died. I tried to start it again but failed. So I put my flashers on, grabbed my books, and marched down the road to the college.

“As soon as I got there I called AAA and arranged for a tow truck to meet me at my car after class. The secretary in the Provost’s office asked me what had happened. “This is my lucky day,” I smiled. She was_________

“My car broke down in the________place：off the freeway, within walking distance of here. If my car was__________to breakdown today, it couldn’t have been arranged in a more ________fashion,” I added. The secretary’s eyes opened wide, and then she smiled. I smiled back and headed for class. So ended my story.

I scanned the sixty faces in my economics class at UNLV. Despite the early hour no one seemed to be________, Somehow, my story had touched them. Or maybe it wasn’t the story at all. In fact, it had all started with a student’s________ that I was cheerful.

【推荐1】A dog waiting on a roadside for four years has finally been reunited with its owner thanks to a social media post. Anuchit Uncharoen happened to be there. He_________passing by the dog and seeing it being _________ by a woman late in the afternoon.

When he approached her, he learned that the dog was thought to have been_________. The woman said she_________took the dog to her home, but the loyal friend escaped and returned to the street, waiting for its _________. Since then, the nice woman had been regularly bringing food to him and making sure he was _________. Others in the community had been_________, too.

The dog’s heartbreaking situation made the_________online, eventually reaching his owner. He got in touch with Anuchit and explained that he and his family_________ a dog named BonBon four years ago. Their dog had the same__________as the one in the pictures.

The owner said that BonBon was with them on a trip to a relative. His dog might have__________out of the car while on the road. He and his family__________for BonBon back in the roads but without luck.

They assumed their pet dog had died and were__________to discover him alive and well.When the owner paid BonBon a visit, surprisingly, the dog__________to go with him, even if his tail wagged in excitement.

Someone once said, he might only be here for a(n)__________of your life, but for him, you are his whole life. So to them remember to be kind.

【推荐2】When my aunt’s children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbor’s dog had given _______ to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier and so my aunt arranged to _______ one of the puppies once they had been weaned(断奶).

The day came to bring home the little puppy and the children were_______; they named it Shorty happily and _______ welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable _______ in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and_______ for school. When they returned, they were _______   to discover that Shorty was missing. They _______ the whole house inch by inch, _______ it was nowhere to be found. A few hours later, the ________ who sold them the puppy came over carrying Shorty,________. He explained that the mother dog had slid into my aunt’s house and carried the puppy back to his home.

For a number of days my aunt and her neighbour tried ________ to keep the puppy in his new home, because each day the mother dog would________ it from the tiny bed. Finally, my aunt’s neighbour gave up and offered her a refund.

I came to realize that mother’s love is flowing all over the places you can imagine, ________ in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a ________ you might as well keep the mother dog at a distance.

【推荐1】Like many new graduates, I left university full of hope for the future and wanted to make a ______ in the world somehow, but I had no idea how to do that. That’s when I ______ the Lighthouse Project.

I started my ______ as a Lighthouse Project volunteer by reading as much as I could about the experiences of previous volunteers. I knew it would be ______, and that I would be away from my family and friends for a very long time. ______, I did not take my decision to apply for the Lighthouse Project ______.

I sent in all the paperwork needed for the application. After countless interviews and presentations, I managed to ______ among the candidates and survive the test alone. Several months later, I finally received a call asking me to report for ______. I would be going to a small village near Abuja, Nigeria.

After completing my ______, I was sent to the village that was small and ______ in need of proper accommodation. Though the local villagers were poor, they ______ their homes, hearts, and food as if I were their own family. I was asked to lead a small team of local people in building a new schoolhouse. For the next year or so, I ______ in that same schoolhouse. But I sometimes thought I learned more from my ______ than they did from me.

Sometime during that period, I realized that all those things that had seemed so strange or unusual to me no longer did, though I did not ______ anywhere with the local language, and returned to the United States a different man. The Lighthouse Project had changed my ______ forever.

【推荐3】It was a hot day in Bangkok. I was walking out of the busy Grand Palace. Some Thai teens were _______and started asking me questions. Noticing that I was _______, they were interested and wanted to know more.

"Oh, so lonely!" they said to me when they learned I was, indeed, _______by myself for the long journey. I just smiled. They didn't know I've hardly been alone.

I'm surprised by how much more _______I've become. Instead of putting my _______down and taking no notice of the person who may be _______me on the sidewalk, now I smile and say hello. The only bad thing is the fleeting (短暂的) nature of the relationship one builds on the _______. I've felt sad more than a couple of times over _______a fellow traveler. But there are always _______friends and possibilities just in the next town.

Part of the ________of taking this trip was the knowledge that I'd be doing this alone. At first, I tried to get friends to ________with me for the journey. I asked close friends, then even not-so-close friends, then ________realized that I might never travel if I ________around for a time when a friend of mine would be free to ________me. If I was really going to do this, it would have to be alone.

As it turns out, traveling alone is the best ________I could have made. You always have to make special ________for others when you travel with others. Sometimes, you have to do things you don't feel like doing.

Traveling alone is ________. And really, unless I want and seek out ________, I am never alone. I always have a group. I never feel ________. Sometimes, being alone forces you to get along with people you might not otherwise have ever ________.

So don't fear traveling alone. It's the best thing.