【推荐1】In our discussion with people on how education can help them succeed in life, a woman remembered the first meeting of an introductory _______ course about 20 years ago.

The professor _______ the lecture hall, place upon his desk a large jar(广口瓶) filled with dried beans, and invited the students to _______ how many beans the jar contained. After _______ shouts of wildly wrong guesses the professor smiled a thin, dry smile, announced the _______ answer, and went on saying, “You have just _______ an important lesson about science. That is: Never _______ your own senses.”

Twenty years later, the _______ could guess what the professor had in mind. He _______ himself, perhaps, as inviting his students to start an exciting __________ into an unknown world invisible to the __________, which can be discovered only through scientific __________. But the seventeen-year-old girl could not accept or even __________ the invitation. She was just __________ to understand the world. And she __________ that her firsthand experience could be the __________. The professor, however, said that it was __________. He was taking away her only __________ for knowing and was providing her with no substitute(代替品). “I remember feeling small and __________.” The woman says, “and I did the only thing I could do. I __________ the course that afternoon, and I haven’t gone near science since.”

【推荐3】It was a terrible day. Snow had been falling all day long, making the trip _________. I would rather have been in my warm home than drive along on such a cold day, but I didn’t have a _________. I had to have my paper work handed in and then _________ my son.

The snow continued to fall as we drove along for the 15-mile trip back home. I slowed the car and _________ at my son in his heavy coat as he looked _________ out of the window with a blank expression. In the eyes of the world he was looked upon as a mentally disabled child._________ , over the years what I saw was a beautiful, kind and _________ soul. He had shown me more about love than I could have ever _________on my own.

I slowed the car even more as we _________ a sharp curve(曲线). As we rounded it I saw a shivering(颤抖的)young woman in a light jacket walking in the snow storm. I pulled over and let her in. She was heading for her Mom’s house to visit her son whom she hadn’t seen for months. She had experienced a lot of disappointments and __________. Yet, she still held out hope for a new job and tried to __________ a new life for her son and herself.

I took her as far as I was able to and dropped her off. She thanked me for the __________ and I told her I wished I could have done more to help. Then as we were about to leave, my sweet son took off his coat,__________ down the window and gave it to her. She put it on, smiled and __________ to us as we pulled out on the road

In this world we will__________ many problems and challenges. Sometimes it seems that our entire lives are a trip down a curvy and dangerous road. Yet the power of love takes us straight back to a broad smooth highway.

【推荐1】I was ready for bed. My eyes fell on the musical _________ on my bedside table. In it was a photo of Dad smiling, and once opened, it would play his _________ song recorded before his death. It was propped (支撑) open just enough so the recording wouldn’t play.

Dad was a _________ man. He was always singing me his little made-up songs to share joy although he was _________ off-key, not hitting every note.

Dad was a man with big heart. When my house burned down a few years ago, Dad _________ my family into his home. When we tried to offer some _________, he said with his characteristic voice, “Don’t be _________!”

With happy _________ I fell asleep.

“Beautiful and marvelous (非凡的)!”

Suddenly, I was awoken hours later by the _________ song. The card! I snapped it shut (啪的一声合上).

How did that card just start playing? I checked the windows, all tightly shut. But why couldn’t I __________ the feeling that something was wrong?

I decided to __________ downstairs. Opening the door to the laundry room, I was __________ by a strong smell of smoke. The heat lamp had fallen, and the carpet was burning.

The __________ wasn’t too bad. I let out a shaky breath with __________. What could have happened? Perhaps another house fire... But we were safe. All thanks to Dad’s one-of-a-kind __________.

【推荐2】I sat down at my desk and started writing a letter of thankfulness, but when it came to actually putting the letter into the mailbox...I _________...I couldn’t do it. I suddenly felt a sense of _________ and insecurity(不安). The letter was to an old teacher with whom I kept in _________ on Facebook. For months, I read about what she set down on her Facebook page, which helped me to live my life differently. Her volunteer work wasn’t huge. _________, she was doing small, local good deeds. Gradually, she changed my views on the world and for some reason, I felt I should let her know how her example _________ influenced me.

I could have easily sent her an email, but that seemed not enough for such an important thank-you. That’s why I ended up _________ the letter. But now here I was, standing before the mailbox, unable to put the envelope inside. What was stopping me? It suddenly hit me that I was _________ of being too nice. I guess I felt strange because it wasn’t like she was my best friend or a relative. Maybe my _________ was more sincere(真诚的). Thinking this over, I put the envelope in the mailbox _________.

Weeks later I received a message from her. It turned out she was going through a hard time and my note __________ a lot to her. She said she had no idea she was playing such a big __________ in others life.

Not only did this letter make her happier, but her response to it brightened my world and __________ my level of happiness as well. I was so excited that it had such a great influence on her that I decided to write a __________ letter to someone each month. Now it’s easier for me to __________ the goodness in others and be more __________ for this beautiful life I’m living.

【推荐1】It was a cold, rainy day. And I had no _________ to drive up the winding mountain road to my daughter Carolyn’s house. But she had insisted that I should come to see something at the _________ of the mountain.

So here I was, _________ making the two-hour journey through fog that hung like veils (面纱). By the time I saw how _________ it was near the peak, I’d gone too far to turn back. Nothing could be worth this! I thought as I _________ along the very dangerous highway.

After picking her up and lots of extra miles, we turned down a narrow track. We _________ the car, got out and walked along a path thick with old pine needles. Huge black-green evergreens _________ over us. Gradually, the peace and silence of the place _________ us.

Then we turned a corner and stopped. I took a deep breath in _________ : from the top of the mountain, for several acres across the valleys, rivers of daffodils (水仙花) were in brilliant bloom. It looked __________ the sun had tipped over and spilled gold down the mountainside. __________ filled my mind. Who created such beauty? How? When?

As we __________ the house that stood in the center of the property, we saw a sign that __________, “Answers to the Questions I know You Are Asking.” The first answer was “One Woman, Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second was “One at a Time.” The third, “__________ in 1980.”

As we drove home, I was so moved by what we had seen. I could __________ speak. “She __________ the world,” I finally said, “one at a time. She began almost 40 years ago, probably just the beginning of a(n) __________, but she kept at it.”

The wonder of it would not let me __________. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a vision and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have __________?” Carolyn looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said, “ __________ yet, start today.”