The writer Devin with his friend Johnson went to his favourite news-stand. Johnson _______the salesman selling the newspapers gently, but in return he received poor _______The salesman never even looked up at his customer when he _______the late-night edition. Accepting the _______, Johnson politely smiled and wished the salesman a pleasant weekend. The salesman made an unclear sound and seemed _______that the two men had completed their business. As the two friends walked down the street, Devin asked, “Does he always treat you so _______?”

“Yes,_______he does,” Johnson responded. “And are you always so _______and friendly to him?” “Yes, I am!” Johnson _______ as they turned a corner. “Why are you so nice when he is so unfriendly to you?” Johnson ________,“Because I don’t want him to decide how I am going to ________”

Who ________ how you are going to act? Is it your circumstances or the difficult people in your life that determine your ________? When we allow our conflicts to ________ us, we behave as if getting rid of our difficulties is our only priority(优先权)________, it doesn’t really matter how we treat one another. For example, we’ll say, “This ________ is causing me problems right now so I don’t care about exercising ________, self-control, and loving kindness. Instead, I want to let him know how ________ I am because of his action.”

We forget our difficulties will eventually weaken. But the way we handle conflicts will influence our ________for a long time. Will you only respond to the momentary crisis（危机）or will you be more concerned about the ________ of what kind of person you are becoming? Who decides how you will behave when the pressure is on?

【推荐2】I’m sure many of you are familiar with the New Year’s resolution (决心) — “get _______”. After a Christmas of staying _______,   watching television and eating far too much chocolate, I decided enough was enough. January was going to be _______．January was going to be the start of the new, healthy me — less chocolate, more _______, an all­round healthier lifestyle. But how was I going to do this? As I browsed the Internet looking for _______, I realised just how little I knew about ways to get fit. In terms of exercise, I had always _______ you either played a team sport like football or went to the gym. And with the arrival of January snow, playing football outside didn’t seem like the best option, and as I have a deep­rooted _______ of falling off running machines, the gym wasn’t going to work out either. Plus I’ve never quite understood the concept of _______ to run inside when you could run outside for free!

_______, I knew that I needed to research my options further.The first thing I found was the world of YouTube exercise videos. There are videos for ________ about everything. The good thing about YouTube videos is that they are free, they are flexible (you can do them whenever you want)and you don’t have to ________your nice warm house to do them. But unless you do them with a friend it’s difficult to motivate yourself to keep going, and without an instructor there with you it’s sometimes hard to know if you’re doing the move ________．

I then researched local fitness classes and found my small town to be absolutely swimming with ________! I quickly signed up to the overall sports club, had a look at the weekly timetable and ________ to try them all out. So far I have tried out most of them.My ________ ones are by far the dance­based ones that take place to music, because it makes exercise so much more fun!

【推荐3】Millionaire Peter became blind because of an illness. The doctor told him that only by having a cornea transplant surgery(眼角膜移植手术) could he _______his sight. Peter offered a large amount of money for the cornea, but he didn't get any_______ .

Because Peter was too proud of his _______ and had done many unkind things, he had a bad _______. So as soon as donors(捐赠者) heard his name, all of them _______.

At first Peter got _______ easily because of his wealth, but later, he had nothing to do but wait quietly.

One day, Peter _______ his way to the little square before the hospital. He raised his head to enjoy the sunshine. However, he saw nothing but   _______. Just then, someone _______ him all of a sudden. Peter became annoyed, so he cried, "Don't you have __________ ? Don't you see who you hit? I’m millionaire Peter!"

The answer was from a __________, "Sorry, sir. Please forgive me!" Peter then said. "I can forgive you but you must __________with me!" The boy said yes. Peter nodded happily and his face__________with a smile. Peter asked, "Is the scene here beautiful?" The boy began__________ it, "How beautiful! The green grass, the blue sky, and the beautiful flowers everywhere ... "

Peter began to__________ that boy as he was listening. __________ he became impatient, shouting toward the sky. "Oh. my God, the little boy is so __________, he has nothing but a pair of eyes! Why do you give him light?"

At this moment, a lady __________ Peter, "You are wrong! My son is too poor to have eyes. What he just said is what I told him!” __________, Peter sat on the square, tears running down his face.

Since then, the city charity would __________a large amount of money every year. The donor was the very millionaire named Peter.

I was fat kid who grew into an overweight adult. I was _______laughed at for being heavier than the other kids, _______ me feeling shy. I tried several diets, but _______worked, and I _______gaining weight. Another factor _______ my weight gain was my love for cooking, especially rich, high-fat desserts, which I enjoyed preparing and, of course, eating.

When I finished high school at the age of 18, I weighed 215 pounds. _______ the self-confidence to go to a new, faraway school, I decided to stay close to home instead of going away to college. I continued with my unhealthful eating habits and felt more miserable as the weight came on, but I did nothing about it except buy larger plus-size clothes.

My turning point came 10 years later at a friend’s New Year’s Eve party when I was at my all-time highest weight of 330 pounds. I caught my _______ in a mirror and the truth hit me: I was overweight and unhealthy, and unless I did something about it now, I would only get bigger and _______.

After leaving the party, I thought about my past weight-loss _______ and realized they didn't work because they required me to abandon foods I loved. Then I would constantly think about food and binge, ________ the diet satisfy my hunger and not feel deprived.

My biggest ________ was finding a way to fit my passion for cooking into my healthier lifestyle. At first, I tried to stay away from the kitchen to prevent myself thinking about food. The result: Food was all I thought about. ________ had to be some way to combine cooking with healthful eating. I found the ________after reading several low-fat cookbooks. With some trial and error, I could modify my favorite foods and make them low in fat, yet delicious.

The pounds started coming off, and when I started exercising (usually cardio and weight training five times a week), they seemed to melt away. I didn’t feel deprived, and I felt free to give my body the care and attention it ________.

I lost 165 pounds over the next two years. I had many ups and downs. I was determined to go on. Another challenge to me was not to beat myself up if I ate something that was unhealthy and to take it as a sign to abandon my healthful habits. Instead I vowed to start again and always keep my goal in mind.

Thanks to losing weight and becoming fit I am ________ my body and myself. I have finally found myself.

【推荐2】About a year ago, my department invited me to submit a 5-minute video clip about my research laboratory to be screened at a secondary-school summer camp. With many ________ under my belt (已获得的) after five years as a main investigator, I was quite ________ about getting this ________.

Three seconds into ________ myself on my phone in my office, I realized that I had been too ________. I had to press ‘Pause’ ________ I couldn’t help looking around the room. And while watching myself on camera, I couldn’t obtain the excitement I brought to the classroom—all my ________ trained teaching method didn’t work well for a video clip. Admitting that my acting career had ________ a wall, I decided to ________ to a directing role and asked my graduate students to help me to film and present the video.

The 5-minute clip ________ taking 2 hours to finish, but it was so well received by the audience that it ________ me to create an account on Bilibili, one of the leading video-sharing websites in China. I got my lab to ________ making short films in Chinese on the main topics of our ________, which include digital fabrication (数字制造) in architecture and adaptive structures that can respond to stimuli (刺激物). In the nine or so months since I created that ________, our lab videos have attracted more than 20,000 subscribers and received nearly 3 million ________, mainly in China.

【推荐3】Ten years ago when I was diagnosed with a serious illness, my first thought was, “Why me?” And this thought _______ me throughout my journey. It wasn’t until I was _______ enough to look back that I realized how much of my life was _______ by my illness not in a bad way.

Being _______ for our past experiences and _______ can be a hard thing to do. We sometimes wish events in our past could be _______ so we could start a new life. But without these events, we wouldn’t learn, change and grow.

The day I _______ this was volunteering with my boyfriend. A friend’s wife came up to me and asked me how school was, _______ I said I didn’t like it that much. She then _______ by saying, “Well, if you hadn’t gone, you wouldn’t have met him,” and pointed at my ________       .

This really opened my eyes, and after I left I started seeing everything in my life in this ________. If I hadn’t gone to that school, I would never have met my future husband. If I hadn’t battled ________ the illness, I wouldn’t have found my true ________. At first I didn’t see how my illness could have ever been a blessing. But when I looked at it as an experience for me, I started to see that I had a lot to be grateful for.

I grew closer to my mother while ________. I gained knowledge about myself that I could ________ gain through struggle, and learned how to take care of my wants and needs in a way that made me happy.