【推荐1】For Rachael and Leigh Barman, there is only one wish on their Christmas list this year---that their sick daughter Paige should survive/live until December 25. Fifteen-year-old Paige suffers from     1    rare brain disease,     2    affects (影响) as few as 12 people in the world, and could kill her any day     3    warning (警告).

And her condition has gone even     4     (bad) in recent months. Her parents filled the family home with Christmas decorations     5     September 1st so she could enjoy the rest of her life. Since then, she has     6     (regular) opened Christmas presents and received visitors---but she sleeps for up to 19 hours a day, her parents knowing that each time she closes her eyes, she may never wake up.

Mrs. Barman     7    (describe) dealing with the condition as “like being on death row” as she never knew if     8     daughter would wake up the next morning.

The mother said: “She always loves Christmas and I get my heart     9    (break) when I see her suffering like this. Our best Christmas present would be having Paige with us at Christmas. No matter     10     she leaves the world, we make sure that she is always happy.”

I am writing to ask for advice on my relationship with my teenage son. To tell the truth, I often struggle to get along     1     him. Recently we have argued with each other a great deal. He is     2     (anxiety) about his skin because it has started to become very oily, with lots of red     3     (spot). He is always angry these days and seems less     4     (confidence). I keep telling him that these changes     5     (be) normal, and that things will turn out just fine. Of course, I wanted to show my concern for his condition,     6     I asked him to see a doctor. But then he became angry and we had a big     7     (argue). He told me     8     I was putting even more stress on him by     9     (talk) about his spots all the time. In the end, I sent him to his room. He finally calmed down, but it took some time. The whole experience was really terrible and I do not want to go through    10       same thing again. What should I do?

On 31 October 2003, 13-year-old Bethany Hamilton went for a morning surf along Tunnels Beach, Kauai. She had just laid     1     (she)on the surfboard with her left arm in the water when suddenly a tiger shark attacked and had her left arm     2     (bite)off just below the shoulder. By the time she was transported to Wilcox Memorial Hospital, she     3     (lose) 60 percent of her blood and felt numb.

Initially the doctors told her parents that her chances of survival were very slim. Luckily, she bravely fought on and survived. She stayed in the hospital for a week to recover     4     eventually being released.

Within weeks of the shark attack, she made her comeback to surfing with a custom—made board that was longer,     5     (thick), and equipped with a handle for her right arm. But with time she learned to use standard     6     (equip).

Determined not to let her disability get in the way of her professional ambitions, Bethany entered her first major competition on 10 January, 2004 since     7     shark attack. Later in 2004 she wrote her autobiography ‘Soul Surfer’,    8     soon became a best-seller. In 2011, a film based on her autobiography     9     (release) and was well received by the audience.

Today, as well as     10     (spend) time with her family, Hamilton works with World Vision to help raise money for disabled children. Bethany has also become an inspirational speaker.

Enlightenment(启示)can show up in some pretty strange ways. The Buddha found it under a Boddhi tree and Nelson Mandela in prison. It doesn’t matter where and how it happens. What matters is that it does happen. Little did I know,     1    (I) would arrive in the form of a hard-shelled animal trying to cross the road—a turtle. But this wasn’t just any turtle; this was the world’s most optimistic one. He determined to cross twenty feet of tar(柏油)road as cars drove past quickly.

I thought    2    crazy to cross the road that way, the little one couldn’t    3    (realize) the danger, though. But today was his lucky day. My wife’s quick driving reflexes(反应)not only ensured that “turtle soup” would not be for dinner that night,     4     her act of kindness would eventually become the foundation for everything I teach today. As unusual as this sounds, the simple act of pulling over our car, removing this little turtle from harm’s way, and placing him back into the wild, caused something extraordinary    5    (happen) inside of me.

As I stood there holding this tiny creature in my hands, a wave of pure delight came over me. It was that warm, teary-eyed feeling    6    was felt during life’s greatest moments, like falling in love or the birth of a child. I honestly felt as if my heart was completely opening up as everything stood still around me.

In no way would I have described it as “enlightenment”, but there was no doubt about it—helping this little turtle just felt so good!

But why? After all, it’s just a turtle, right? And then it hit me. I finally realized what was happening. If it    7     (not be) for the turtle, I wouldn’t have got the feeling. At that point, a flood of    8    (inspire) thoughts ran through me. I walked back to the car, opened my journal and wrote eight words that would later prove to be life changing for me: “kindness creates happiness and live a life of kindness”.

It was the answer I    9    (look) for for so long. The secret    10    inner peace and lasting happiness was kindness.