【推荐3】Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles. Suddenly, a flight attendant asked an ______ question: “Does anyone know American ______ Language?”

Clara, 15 at the time, pressed the call ______. The flight attendant came by and ______ the situation. “We have a passenger who’s blind and deaf. He seemed to want something, but we couldn’t understand what he ______.”

Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help with her dyslexia (读写困难) and knew she’d be able to finger spell into the man’s ______. So, she walked toward the front of the plane, and ______ down beside Tim Cook, then ______ taking his hand, she signed, “Are you OK?” Tim asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara ______ to her seat. But she came by again later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed for a while.

“I was like, ‘Wow, this is cool,’” Clara says. “I hope I don’t ______ anything wrong.”

“Actually, he didn’t need anything. He was ______ and just wanted to talk.” Clara says.

Clara talked about her family and her plans for the future. Tim told Clara how he had gradually become ______ and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman. “Although he couldn’t see her, she looked attentively at his face with ______,” a passenger reported.

“Clara was amazing,” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in an interview. “You could tell Tim was very excited to have someone he could ______, and she was such an ______.”

Tim’s reaction: “Best trip I’ve ever had.”

【推荐2】After ten years in the same company, I found my job was no longer fun. However, I didn’t have the confidence to apply for new jobs due to lack of experience. I felt ______.

A friend suggested another path- ______. I had toyed with the idea of studying for a master’s degree but ______ stood in my way. Yet I found a course at London College of Communication, ______ my job and enrolled (注册).

During the 18 months that followed, I began to flourish (茁壮成长). Not only had I found the courage to take my life forward in a new and ______ direction but the self-doubt that had followed me around like a shadow began to ______ gradually. My classmates and I treated each other as ______: Younger students ______ my experience and knowledge when it came to group work. I made new friends and joined committees.

I also decided to move out of home. Living in student halls was a(n) ______. The life in halls added to my sense of ______and confidence. I was ______ new things every day. Even making myself a meal or managing my small living space made me feel ______.

Soon after completing my master’s, I made my way back through the university gate-this time to ______. I am now a lecturer on the same course that I took. I ______ the person I was before and smile-she didn’t yet know her ______.

【推荐3】I was taking a nap(小睡)when a loud noise woke me. Outside the window in a parking lot, a car had just backed up into a chain-link fence. The fence bent out in exactly the________of the car’s back end.

A short man wearing a shirt unbuttoned to ________ his chest got out of the car, with a shaven head. I disliked him ________. After a few seconds of________ the damage, the man tried to repair that. He first attempted to pull the ________ fence back into place, but it wouldn’t move. I took a drink from the glass, ________ cheering. Then he pulled against the fence’s support pole, which bent ________ and was more likely to recover. But the pole suddenly broke. I laughed out loud this time. This was ________. He went back to his car. He must be going to leave all the________ behind for someone else to tidy up.

That, I thought, would be the ________. But he reappeared a few minutes later with some tools and got to work using them. He fixed the fence, and even improved it using a support bar bought from a nearby grocery. Now it would be extra ________, stronger than before.

This man was actually a________ for me, and I was the lazy one. My ________ assumptions were all about myself. I wouldn’t fix that fence and would ________. Years later, I still look out of my window at that fence. It still looks new. And it makes me ________ what else that man has made better, and how I can make myself more like him.

【推荐1】There were once two brothers who lived on the 80th floor. On coming home one day, to their _________ they found that the elevator wasn’t working, and they had to climb the stairs to get home.

By the time they reached the 20th floor, they were very _________, and decided to _________ their bags and come back for them the next day. When they had _________ to the 40th floor, the younger brother started to complain(抱怨). But they continued climbing,   _________ all the way to the 60th floor.

They then realized that they had only 20 more floors to climb, and decided to _________ quarrelling and _________ climbing in peace. They arrived home at last. Each stood _________ waiting for the other to open the door. It was then that they realized the _________ was in their bags which were left at the 20th floor.

This story is a symbol of how we __________ our lives. Many of us live under the expectations of our __________, teachers, and friends when we are __________. We seldom can do the thing that we really __________ and we are under a lot of pressure,   __________ by the age of 20 we decide to lighten the __________.Being __________ of the pressure, we work enthusiastically (热情) and have high hopes. But by the time we’re 40 years old, we begin to feel unsatisfied and __________ complaint and criticism(批评). Reaching 60, we realize that we have __________ left to complain about and we began to walk the final stage in __________ and calmness.

The bright side is that your dream can come true at any moment! __________ you’re on the20th, 40th, or even 60th floor or not, wake up to your dream and live it!

I have been looking forward to my holidays, which brings happiness to me. When I was a boy, every holiday that I had seemed wonderful. My _______ took me by train or by car to a hotel by the _______. All day, I seem to remember, I _______on the sands with strange _______ children. We made houses and gardens, and _______ the tide destroy them. When the tide went out, we _______over the rocks and looked down at the fish in the rock-pools.

In those days the _______ seemed to shine always brightly ______ the water was always warm. Sometimes we _______beach and walked in the country, exploring (搜寻) ruined houses and dark woods and climbing trees. There were ________ in one’s pockets or good places where one could ________ ice creams. Each day seemed a life-time.

Although I am now thirty-five years old, my idea of a good ________   is much the same as it was. I ________ like the sun and warm sand and the sound of________ beating the rocks. I no longer wish to ________ any sand house or sand garden, and I dislike sweets. ________ , I love the sea and often feel sand running through my fingers. Sometimes I ________ what my ideal (理想的) holiday will be like when I am ________. All I want to do then, perhaps, will be to lie in bed, reading books about ________ who make houses and gardens with sands, who watch the incoming tide, who make themselves ________ on too many ice creams.