【推荐1】Many people are often puzzled by the question of what is success and how to achieve it. Actually, many ___________ have already answered this question with their growing _____________.

As a schoolboy, Charles liked drawing very much, but he was so _____________ at his lessons that he even failed every _____________ in the eighth grade. Yet this didn’t make him give up his ___________. No one else appreciated it, but that didn’t seem to _____________ to him. When he was in senior high school, he _______some cartoons to the school yearbook. The editors___________ the drawings. After completing high school, he wrote to Walt Disney Studios. They asked for ___________ of his artwork. Despite ____________ preparation by Charles, they, too, were rejected.

Repeated failures didn’t make him________ his interest. Instead, he decided to tell his own life’s story in cartoons. The main character would be a little boy who ____________ the pitiful loser. Today his cartoon character has become a ______________ phenomenon. People are____________identified with this “lovable loser,” who ____________them of painful and embarrassing moments from their own past as well as their pain and their shared humanity.

Charles’s story reminds us of a very important ________ in life. We all face difficulty and discouragement from time to time. If we hold fast to our ________ , if we’re persistent, if we continue to develop the ____________ talents God has given us, who knows what can happen? We may end up with an insight and an ability to ______________ others that come only through ____________. In the end, there are no “losers” with God. Some winners just take longer to develop!

【推荐1】I was walking in a park on a cool autumn morning. The view was charming, and a pleasant breeze(微风) was kissing my face ________.

Then I saw a mother and her little baby. The mother wore ________ clothes that seemed to be found in a dustbin（垃圾桶）—how easy it is for lucky people to ________ away things they don’t need, and they do this ________ thinking of the unlucky! She was holding her baby, protecting her from the morning ________ and expecting some money from strangers so that she could ________ food for both of them. It was then that I realized how ________ I had been in my whole life for living a rich life.

Then a man ________ some money and food to the mother, and as she took them, her face was ________ as if she had been the happiest person in the world. And why not, she could now __________ her baby at least for the day.

Actually, happiness doesn’t __________ luck, your financial（经济的） or your healthy conditions（状况）, but only on yourself. It is just a __________ in your hands. If you choose to be happy, __________ can stop you from it.

How __________ it is that one observation(观察) can change your life! Life has a lot to offer if you observe very closely. One who observes can __________ real happiness.

【推荐3】When I was 13，my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant ______ Miller King，who was the best player at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for ______. Just before September，Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him the day after football practice started—after he'd come back from hospital. He looked quite ______，but he didn't cry.

That season，I ______ all of Miller's records while he ______ the home games from the bench，wearing his jersey with an empty sleeve. We went 101 and I was named Most Valuable Player，______ I was haunted by crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller's ______.

One afternoon，I was crossing the field to go home and saw Miller stuck ______ a fence-which wasn't hard to climb if you had both arms. I'm sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to accept ______ from. But even that challenge he accepted. I ______ him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally ______ on the other side，he said to me，“You know，I didn't tell you this during the ______，but you did a great job. Thank you for filling in for me. ” His words freed me from my bad dreams. I thought to myself，how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not ______，he was still ahead of me. I was right to have ______ him. From that day on，I grew ______ and a little more real.

【推荐2】Recently while driving, I heard poet Robert Pinsky on the radio. He talked about poetry and said something that _____ the way I had always thought about the subject. The idea is so _____ that I am almost embarrassed to admit it. It is something similar to this: when we look at a painting, we don’t expect ourselves to _____ its deep meaning, or any meaning at all, right away. We enjoy _____ because we like it, but we don’t know why. We generally _____ this as aesthetics(美学), a word that _____ the most inartistic recognize and willingly accept.

However, when words on a page come into view, our brains _____, and we start trying to understand word structure. If we can’t understand the meaning within the first few _____, then our brains, trained since childhood in the task of “reading comprehension”, may start to panic about our _____. The information becomes difficult, maybe even unknowable and therefore ______. This can happen to even a great ______ or a lover of literature—for poetry is a different animal.

However, as Pinsky ______ that day, if we can recognize this, let it go, and ______ ourselves to read poetry as we would look at a painting, with no ______ of “translation”. Instead we should decide in our guts (直觉) if we like it — or maybe even ______ it. Once we fall in love with poetry, a true passion is awakened.

【推荐3】Reading and writing ______is a very personal experience.Poets use language as a way of______their feelings, whether positive ones of love, happiness and hope, or negative feelings like______and fear.Poems can describe the beauty of nature, a person，a dream or a memorable event.Most______have tried writing poetry at some time，for example，at school.For children, it is a good way to explore language and have______with words as well as to express themselves.

But teachers and psychologists have found another use for poetry as a form of treatment to help people with problems.There are______for people of all different backgrounds and ages.Writing poetry can help people deal with______in their lives－death or feelings of sadness, drug or alcohol problems or serious illness.By writing down your feelings，______can learn to understand yourself better and give yourself a voice if you feel you are being ignored.A poem might be a way of telling someone something when you do not feel able to talk about it______.And just because people are______or having difficulties in their lives, it doesn't mean they have lost their sense of humor.Poems______as treatment can be funny too, as laughter is also considered to be very good medicine.

Students at a special school in Dudley, in England, read and write poems______.Their reason for writing poems is not just to be creative, but some of them they write are very good.All of them have problems.Some of them have long－term______conditions, such as cancer，while others have personality disorders or psychological problems.By writing poems students are growing______self confidence.The poems provide a   channel through______they can______with the world，and convey their feelings.They______help them to recognize and explore their problems   and to   develop a positive attitude to life.

But the poems are helping______people，too.The school has collected some of the students'poems and published them in a book which is______to raise funds for a local hospital.The book has proved very popular, giving students a sense of______.