【推荐1】About twenty years ago I was living in York. ________ I had a lot of experience and finished my lesson of psychology (心理学) doctor, I could not find ________ work.

I was ________ a school bus to earn my living and had to ________ with a friend of mine, for I had lost my flat. I had________ five interviews with a company, and one day between bus runs, they called to say I did not ________ the job. “Why has my life become so hard?” I thought________.

As I pulled the bus over to let a little girl ________, she handed me an earring and asked me to keep it________ somebody claimed (认领) it. The earring was painted black, ________ “BE HAPPY”.

At first I got ________, thinking the girl was fooling me. But then it caught me—I had been ________ all of my attention to what was going wrong with my________ rather than what was right! I decided then and there to make a ________ of fifty things I was happy with. Later, I decided to ________ more things to the list. That night there was a phone call for ________ from a lady who was a director at a large ________. She asked me if I would ________ a one-day lecture on pressure management to 200 medical workers. I said yes.

My ________ there went very well, and before long I got a well-paid job. To this day I know it was because I changed my way of ________ that I entirely changed my life.

【推荐2】As a young child, I lacked confidence, mainly because of my foot defect（缺陷）. I was_______about it by being called penguin. It made me feel ignored. It was not until I moved to a new place that a（n）_______happened in my life. This move was important_______here I could have a fresh start.

My_______life started when I met my best friend who was the reason I_______social loneliness. He helped me by being a friend in_______.Someone who you can trust will_______when you come to them with a problem. Unfortunately, however hard I tried, I could not get rid of my shame. This is when I learned some things never change. I was_______enough to have one friend to help me survive.

I came to_______that I don’t want others to feel________and left out. I started by becoming more easy—going and open. I________at people to show I was friendly. Finally, I not only helped people who were left out, but also helped myself by________more friends and grew more as a person. I________more when I finally accepted my name and defect for what they were.

This experience changed my view on life. Life is to give everyone a________to overcome（克服）. Everyone eventually has to________life as it is.

【推荐3】A wise teacher let her class play a game. The teacher told each child to bring a bag containing a few ________. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child _______hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put into his / her ________ will depend on the _____of people the child hates.

Some children had two potatoes; some had three and others had_______ up to five potatoes. The teacher then told the children to carry the bag ______ they go for a week.

_____ the days went by, the children started to _______ ，because the rotten（腐烂的） potatoes   ______ an unpleasant smell. And the students with five potatoes also had to carry ________ bags.

________ a week, the teacher asked, "How did you________?" The children started complaining about the trouble they had to ________, when they had to carry the heavy and _______ potatoes everywhere they went.

Then the teacher said, "This is the ________ when you carry your hate for somebody inside your________. The smell of hate will _______ your heart and you will carry it with you wherever you go. If you cannot ________ the smell of rotten potatoes for just one week, can you ________ what it is like to have the smell of hate in your heart for a _______?"

【推荐2】“This Friday we’ll have the yearly Egg Drop Challenge,” said our science teacher, Mr. Baker.

“You can work alone or with a partner.”

My friend. Cassie, and I smiled at each other. We always worked on projects _________.

The goal of the Challenge was simple -- to build a protective container to keep an egg from breaking when _________ the stadium wall.

I made my sandwich that afternoon while waiting for Cassie. _________ the butter-cream gave me an idea.

“I have a brilliant design for our egg container!” I said when Cassie arrived. “We can _________ the egg with some butter cream.

Why not put the egg in a basket with a parachute (降落伞) _________?” Cassie rolled her eyes. “The parachute is better than that stupid idea.”

I couldn’t believe it. Of course we’d had our little _________ in the past, but she’d never called any of my ideas “stupid” before.

“Then I’ll build mine and you build yours!”

Since words had been out, our friendship was _________.

When Friday finally arrived, I had to _________ Cassie’s Egg Force One looked pretty good.

Anyway, my Egg-cellent Egg Cream didn’t look quite scientific. We kids carried our containers up three stadium steps and dropped them over the side wall. Those whose eggs broke were out; those whose egg _________ walked up three more steps and dropped them again. This would go on till the last egg broke. After four __________, only Cassie and I were left. I let go of my box. I heard someone say “ew” after seconds. Had my egg broken? I raced down the __________. The sidewalk was __________ with egg shell (蛋壳) from those failed drops. Finally I found my little Egg-cellent Egg Cream.

“That looks like egg drop soup, Laura,” Cassie said. She was holding her Egg Force One. My heart __________. Had she won? I looked at her basket. __________.

“My egg bounced out,” she explained, pointing to a broken shell.

“A tie.” Mr Baker said.

Cassie looked at me, and her glare __________. I laughed. She smiled…

【推荐3】Tim Cook is both blind and deaf. And try as they might, staff on a recent flight just couldn’t figure out how to ______ with the man, who was traveling all alone.

But then, a 15-year-old girl used ______ language and genuine sympathy to save the day.

Teenager Clara Daly was ______ with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles when the flight attendants made a(n) ______ over the speaker. They were ______ for anyone onboard who knew sign language.

Clara ______ the call button, as she’d studied a year of American Sign Language in school. She was the only one on the plane ______ of truly communicating with Tim, and her heart went out to him.

“Imagine six hours of just not being able to ______ to anyone,” she said.

Clara used ______ to talk to Tim. This way, Tim could ______ Clara’s hands and they could communicate. First, Clara helped the flight attendants ______ all of Tim’s needs were met. Then, she ______ the rest of the time just chatting with him.

Together, they ______ stories about their families and Clara’s future plans, while Clara learned about Tim’s past as a salesman.

A nearby passenger named Lynette Scribner couldn’t ______ taking a photo and sharing it on social media. She mentioned how ______ she was to have witnessed such incredible __________.

After writing about Clara’s real-life act of ______ on social media, Lynette’s post ______. In fact, it has since been shared over 730,000 times on US social media platform Facebook.

The ______ teen was quick to point out that she just did what any one of us should do when given the ______: help out.

“Everyone should be helping each other just because that’s the nature of people,” Clara said.

【推荐1】Now he is 22 years old and has become an example of young people because of his story of ________.

Michael was born in a very ________ family. His parents worked in Vietnam before they ________ to Britain in 1980. They couldn’t find jobs in Britain because they ________ little English.

The whole family had to live on ________ and they lived in a small house in Hackney, a poor area in East London. Growing up is not easy for Michael, but he never ________.

At the age of ten, he made up his mind to go to Cambridge University. It was not easy, ________. Michael studied at a school, which used to be ________ “the worst school in Britain”.   However, young Michael made up his mind to try his best, no matter what kind of school he was studying at. The smart boy studied very hard and did ______ in every subject at school. Once he made a bet (打赌) with his friend to learn further ________. As a result, after just spending four months ________ himself from a textbook, he got an A in further maths.

Now Michael is the ________ medical student in St John’s College, Cambridge and has just won a(n) ________ for his excellent grades. He ________ he will be an example for other ________ people from poor families.

【推荐2】Being good at something and having a passion for it are not enough. Success depends fundamentally on our view of ourselves and of the events in our lives.

When twelve-year-old John Wilson walked into his chemistry class on a rainy day in 1931, he had no way of knowing that his life was to change _________. The class experiment that day was to _________ how heating a container of water would bring air bubbling (冒泡) to the surface. Anyway, the container the teacher gave Wilson to heat _________ held something more volatile (易挥发的) than water. When Wilson heated it, the container _________, leaving Wilson blinded in both eyes.

When Wilson returned home from hospital two months later, his parents attempted to find a way to deal with the catastrophe (灾难) that had _________ their lives. But Wilson did not regard the accident as _________. He learned braille (盲文) quickly and continued his education at Worcester College for the Blind. There, he not only did well as a student but also became (an) _________ public speaker.

Later, he worked in Africa, where many people suffered from _________ for lack of proper treatment. For him, it was one thing to accept his own fate of being blind and quite another to allow something to continue when it could be fixed so easily. This moved him to action. And tens of millions in Africa and Asia can see because of the commitment Wilson made to preventing the preventable.

Wilson received several international _________ for his great contributions. He lost his sight but found a vision. He proved that it’s not what happens to us that ____________ our lives — it’s what we make of what happens.

【推荐3】Midwife Priscilla Sitienei has become a celebrity (名人) as the oldest primary school student in Kenya. At 98, she sits in class alongside some of the pupils she _________ to bring into the world.

Sitienei, who comes from the remote village of Ndalat in Nandi county, had always wanted to become a _________. Though that _________ never came her way, she instead used her traditionally learned skills to _________ babies safely for mothers at home.

However, she never let go of her dream to get a(n) _________. In 2003, the Kenyan government made primary education _________, giving poor Sitienei a dose of inspiration. In the beginning, Sitienei could only communicate in her mother tongue of Kalenjin and Kiswahili but she was willing to start learning at the _________ level so that she could learn some English. _________ at grade six, she has learned the language and even though she is not _________ in it, she can understand what the teachers are saying in class.

Sitienei said, “I wanted to __________ children, especially girls, that education is important in __________ their future and getting out of poverty. Being a grandmother, I have __________ some of my grandchildren __________ school due to early pregnancies or lack of interest and the best way to show them the importance of education was by going back to school myself.”

The story of her was __________ by the local media, which not only encouraged many Kenya people, but also moved the French director Pascal Plisson. The movie, The First Grader, was brought to __________ in 2010. In August, Sitienei made a 10-day tour to France, being the highlight in the premiere (首映) of the movie inspired by her life story.