【推荐2】Ida Keeling was 67, weak and sick, when her daughter Cheryl suggested a run to her. Cheryl thought that maybe what would pull her mother out from dark cloud was something that would get her _______ again.

Keeling lived a hard life when young, growing up _______ in Harlem, and doing hard work in factories during the Great Depression. She had _______ her husband early, and two of her four children died in drug-related incidents in 1978 and 1981.

Keeling had sunk into a deep _______, her health had begun to _______, and her daughters began to _______ that they soon might be losing their mother as well.

It had been decades since Keeling had done any _______, and she would later recall that first “mini-run” feeling as if it would never end. But when it did, “I just threw off all my bad _______.”

She hasn’t stopped running since, and it’s no longer as _______ as it was during that first meet. “I was just exercising then,” she says ________ regarding that first run, “and now I’m all over the world.”

When she’s not running, she must be ________. She’s in the gym three to four days a week on a ________ basis. Part of her healthy diet is occasional consumption of alcohol mixed with her coffee or water to ________ blood circulation.

She’s written a book about her ________, titled Can’t Nothing Bring Me Down: Chasing Myself in the Race Against Time. Her ________ is also suitable for everyone: “Every day is another day forward.”

【推荐3】Each morning, I hear my phone ring around 8: 00 am. Instead of _________ it, I let it go to voicemail. Anyone who is not familiar with me will think I am _________ the caller and usually say, “Aren’t you going to respond to that?”

I listen to the message when I have time to relax. It is a _________ from my friend Tina. After listening to her talk, I call her cell and _________ a similar message.

The _________ started ten years ago when I came to a crossroads in my life. Tina was my advisor. I told her my confusion and she gave me some helpful _________. We finally came up with a(n) _________ to keep me on track. We decided to call each other daily.

“Let’s set some guidelines to these calls,” she _________. The guidelines for our calls were simple: We’d leave a list of what we are grateful for. We’d discuss three good things we did for ourselves the day before.

Like anything else, it took a while to _________ the calls. It was a new kind of relationship for both of us. But after ten years, it comes as __________ as breathing.

We’re a team, and when one of us __________, the other is always there to pick her up. I will put in that extra call and talk one-on-one when I’m __________ about her. Tina does the same for me. I know I can __________ her.

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to __________ you. I’m one of the __________ people on Earth to have a system like this.

【推荐3】Eleven days ago my brother was in an accident. We do not really know the full story, only knowing ha he was on electric scoter (电瓶车) an flew off, landing   on his ________. He had a head injury and we had no idea if he was going to ________. Twenty years ago we lost our mom to a head injury so it was really ________ because I know what the worst can be.

My partner and I went to the hospital to join my stepmother at my brother’s bedside. My brother looked much better than I feared, so I started feeling ________. Then he ________ the nurses while they tried to clean him a little. So they sedated (打镇静剂) him in ________ of the recovery of his brain.

He was awake the next day but his personality was off, ________ severe brain damage. But I ________ to wish for good luck and just thought of him living ________. I just worked on feeling gratitude for his ________ and recovery.

He was ________ a few days later. Yesterday, he had a doctor’s ________ to do some routine examinations about two thirds of the way between our homes, so he took a bus the rest of the way and I picked him up at the bus stop. He got to see my new home and play with my cat and we ________ old family pictures. His ________ was 100% back to normal!

He needs to rest and to not work for a few months, but he is going to be fine. He has learned a few life lessons and the ________ of cherishing life.

【推荐1】I was sitting in the living room with my pet, Toby, when there was a loud knock on the door. “The whole area’s flooding. You need to leave at once!” a rescuer _________.

My mind went to my son, Sunil. Following my cancer diagnosis, he’d moved in with me as I couldn’t walk without _________. Tragically, in late 2021, Sunil himself was diagnosed with bone cancer. He was now in _________ in another town, with only weeks to live. I _________ I may never see him again.

After four days, the water had subsided (消退) enough for me to _________ my home. It was beyond _________. Three days later, the _________ out had re-opened, and I could visit Sunil. I stayed by Sunil’s side _________ he sadly breathed his last. I’d lost my home and only child within two weeks, leaving my world in darkness.

A month later, I was sitting alone as pets weren’t allowed in the _________ accommodation. A young gentleman, Myles, approached me and explained, “I’m a tradesman and was about to return home. But when the floods __________ the area, I thought I’d stay and help someone.” He promised to clean and decorate my house for free if I __________ the cost of materials. Meanwhile, I was moved to Rainforest Resort, where the owner kindly allowed me to have Toby. Slowly, __________ was coming back into my life.

Each week, Myles would send me photos of his __________. In July this year, after sixteen months, I __________ came home. I see Myles regularly when he comes to do the finishing work, and we’ve developed a great friendship. He’s shown me that __________ people can be found even in the darkest times.

【推荐2】I grew up 3 hours outside of Pittsburgh, with my _______ and 3 younger siblings. My mom was a single mother and worked a minimum wage job, so we _______ had much, but that was OK, we made _______ meet anyhow.

Freshman year of High School, I got a job at a local bakery and immediately started saving money for _______. I was accepted into the University of Pittsburgh and received some academic scholarships that _______ my tuition. Room and board were not covered, so I opted to pay for the meal plan but not the housing, _______ it was too expensive for me. I lived in my van for the next 2 years. Being homeless forced me to take _______ of everything the campus had to offer, I ended up spending most of my time throughout the week at the library. I _________ my professor office. I ended up getting really close to some of my professors because of this, and it really helped me excel in the classroom. I _______ a lot of social events, guest speakers, plays, charities, students’ life event around campus too, and this was really good for me, because I ended up ________ a lot of new friends by attending all these things. And I really developed an ________ personality because of it. But, prior to college I would have considered myself introvert.

Even after I moved out of the __________, I continued to spend hours at the library, working out every day, attending events, etc, and I really think that having to deal with the __________ that I had to go through really made me into a better person.

Since then I got a really good job and have been helping my ________ prepare for life and I’ve even been able to help my mother ________ a little bit. It just feels good.

【推荐3】It was a very exciting day for us-the championship Little League game of the season. Two teams would be _________ it out one more time for the championship.

Ben, my husband, who had to stay in _________ for a grave disease, had coached the Little League team for the past two years. He had coached _________ undergoing many doses of chemotherapy (化疗) and many stays in the hospital, along with daily trips to the hospital for _________. Despite being worried and _________, he had continued to coach.

He taught the teams how to play the game and about good _________, fair play and physical fitness. He also taught his family and a _________ community how to fight a terrible disease with faith, _________, courage and dignity. He gave us all the courage to hope when all hope was lost. One famous _________ he loved was by Winston Churchill: “Never, never, never, never __________.”

Today, one __________ father, whose son was new to the team, came to the game with twenty five paper cups on which he had written different baseball __________: “Get a base hit”, “Catch that fly __________”, “Pop-Up”, “Bunt”. What fun it would be for each __________ to read a message on his cup after drinking his water.

The score was close; it was a(n) __________ game. In the fourth inning (回合), our son, Jared, also a player, pulled a cup out for his drink of water. __________ he ran from the bench over to me with the cup. Written on his cup were the words, “Never, never give up.” The news __________ fast among the players. Ben was there, __________ in spirit only. Needless to say, we won the game, and the very __________ now sits on a shelf next to Ben’s bed, who is recovering from his __________ day by day.