【推荐1】No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own________.

I learned this lesson from a(n) ________many years ago. I took the head_________job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small school with a weak football program.

It was a tradition for the school’s old team to play against the________team at the end of spring practice. The old team had no coach, and they didn’t even practice to________the game. Being the coach of the new team, I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment we were defeated(打败). I couldn’t________I had got into such a situation. Thinking hard about it, I came to ________that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they were _________me. I had to change my ________about their ability and potential(潜力).

I started doing anything I could to help them build a little ________. Most importantly, I began to treat them like ________. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their ________, we met every day and practised passing and kicking the football. Our efforts paid off in the end. My boys beat the best team in Georgia.

From the experience I learned a lot about how the attitude of the leader can ________the members of a team. Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and__________them. I helped them to see themselves ________, and they built themselves into winners.

【推荐2】During my second year at the city college, I was told that the education department was offering a “free” course, called Thinking Chess, for three credits. I _______ the idea of taking the class because, after all, who doesn’t want to save few dollars? More than that, I’d always wanted to learn chess. And, even if I weren’t _______ enough about free credits, news about out _______ was appealing enough to me. He was an international grand master, which _______ I would be learning from one of the game’s _______. I could hardly wait to meet him.

Maurice Ashley was kind and smart, a former graduate returning to teach, and this _______ was no game for him; he meant business. In his introduction, he make it _______ that our credits would be hard-earned. In order to pass the class, among other criteria, we had to write a paper on how we plan to _______ what we would learn in class to our culture profession and, _______, to our lives, I managed to get an A in that __________ and learned life lessons that have served me well beyond the __________.

Ten years after my chess class with Ashley, I’m still putting to use what he taught me. “The absolute most important __________ that you learn when you play chess is how to make good __________. On every single move you have to __________ a situation, process what your opponent (对手) is doing and __________ the best move from among all your options.” These words still ring true today in my role as a journalist.

【推荐3】One morning, the door to the classroom opened and a new teacher, Mrs Cosby, walked in. She looked too _________ to handle us. And we sure gave her a _________ time , but she never lost her temper. And then came the last day of the first month she had been our teacher. She took out some papers the moment she entered the classroom. We _________ the worst—a test. But oh no, it was something that totally _________ us.

Mrs Cosby asked us to come to the front of the class, and gave each of us a piece of paper, on which she had written what the student with _________ had been good at during the last month. You see, no one ever _________ us. No one ever liked us. We were constantly told what good-for-nothing we were. And here, suddenly, was someone who had been _________with us closely for a month. Mrs Cosby did this every _________ from then on. Each month we got a piece of paper that said our _________. She commented on my courage, and how well I did if I wanted to __________ arguments. Her attitude influenced our class. We did not want to __________ her feelings anymore. We actually started to __________.

And then came the day of our graduation. Mrs Cosby hugged us and told us with tears in her eyes how __________ she was of us. Then she handed each one of us a book. All the encouraging words through the years were there, in hard covers.

She said, “I want you each to keep this book and if ever during your life you feel unworthy,__________ this and read how good you are. You can be anything you want to be as long as you believe in yourself. __________ me you will remember that!”

【推荐3】Katie Whetsell has been enjoying Disney movies from an early age and would often watch them with her mom, Karen. Confident about herself, Katie knew she _______ would be a performer in the future.

When Katie was nine years old, her family were shocked by an unexpected _______. Katie’s mother was diagnosed(诊断）with cancer. When the doctor told the Whetsell family that Karen's disease was serious, and that she was _______ to get well again, they made a(n) _______. Disney World had been a longtime dream for Karen. So the family headed to Disney World for a trip that none of them would ever _______ .

While they were watching a light show, a performer put her hands on Karen's shoulder. They exchanged smiles and, to this day, Katie still remembers how _______ her mom looked. This was the day Katie decided she wanted to _______ for Disney. Sadly, Katie's mom Karen lost her _______ . Her family members _______ her every day and often think of that Disney vacation.

Katie went on to pursue(追求）performing for a living. She ________ for years, working as a waitress and trying to make it as a(n) ________ . Her effort finally ________when she was hired as a performer in Disney.

Katie says she could help other families get away from the ________ in their lives, whether it's a battle with cancer or simply helping adults feel like kids again. “Everything we do at the parks makes a ________ . We give people an opportunity to ________ with their childhood.”

【推荐2】In the summer of 2015, Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. Outside their apartment, a man was often _________ on the street corner, sometimes keeping them _________at night.

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in _________, when his quiet was _________ by the man. _________ by the book’s moving message, Peterson decided to go outside and introduce himself.

In that first _________, Peterson learned that the man, named Faris, had moved to California to _________ a career in music, but he ended up living on the street for more than a decade.

Even though Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t _________ a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could paint Faris’s picture. Faris said yes.

Peterson’s connection with Faris led him to _________ Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on befriending and painting pictures of __________ community members. Peterson sold his paintings and put money into what he calls a “love account” for his __________. Faris used the __________ from his picture to __________ an album, realizing his musical dreams.

Peterson discovered that the buyers tended to connect to the person in the painting, finding __________with someone they might have otherwise __________.