【推荐2】I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the _______ of the restaurant came over and said our meal was free. I was _______. He stood there smiling at me and there was an air of _______. Finally I asked him if he knew me. He said I had _______ forgotten him, but I had _______ his life. My friend was quite _______ and asked him how I had done this.

He said twelve years ago I was teaching a stress management class and he was one of the _______. I asked the group what their number one _______ was and most of them said it was from their bosses.

I listened to everyone, then _______ a chair and invited everyone to stand on it. I wanted them to look at the room from ________ there. After that, I asked the group to think about how the room looked ________ when they changed their perspective (角度).

Then I asked them to ________ their bosses. Was this the same person who had ________their good qualities and hired them? Do they remember how ________ they were to be chosen for the job?

He said I looked at him and asked if he had ever thanked his boss for the ________ to earn a living and ________him new skills and to be a better employee.

He said he went back to work the next day with a thank-you card to his ________. He learned to ________ stress in a smart way. Now he has been the manager of the restaurant for eight years. He said I had taught him to ________life from different perspectives and to express ________.

【推荐3】An anxious father,was worriedly sitting outside an operation room.Having met with a bad accident,his son was lying_______inside.For the father,every moment seemed longer than a year.Suddenly a doctor_______towards the operation room.

The father just could not control his_______,“My son is lying on the_______table for so long!”The doctor_______the father and said,"This is the_______I could reach.Please don’t_______.”Then he continued running to the operation room. The father became even angrier,"How_______you said not to worry!You doctors have no_______at all!”

An hour passed;three more hours went by;the father then began to think of all the________things that he might have to hear once the doctor finished the marathon operation.________,the doctor came out of the room.Before the father could ask him________,the doctor said,“Your son is fine now.”land rushed away.

The father became angry again.He shouted at the nurse,“How proud!What does he think of himself?He has done no________to me at all!It is his________to serve his patients.”

The nurse requested him to________down and said,"I'm sorry,sir.Your son is out of________.The doctor who operated on your son was in the graveyard（基地）when we called him________your son was brought here.His son________away last night.Before leaving,the doctor gave me all the necessary________.”

Don't________before knowing the whole truth.

【推荐1】Sonia learnt some first aid skills in her infant CPR (幼儿心肺复苏) class. Last week she told us that she_______ her daughter’s life using the skills. Her experience might be _______ to other parents with young children. Here is her _______.

Last Friday I took my 9-month-old daughter to a doctor and she had blood drawn (抽血) from her finger. The doctor put a band-aid on her finger. Then we _______.

My husband _______ the car outside his friend’s house because he had to _______ something that he borrowed from his friend. Then I heard my daughter make _______ sounds. I looked at her and found she had tear-filled eyes, vomit (呕吐物) on her shirt, and a look that said, “Help me, Mom.”   _______, she wasn’t blue (青紫的).

I jumped out of the car, _______ her out of the car seat, flipped her over, and hit her on the ________ three times. I saw something fly out of her ________. I saw it was the ________ when I picked it up. I was so ________. I couldn’t imagine what could have happened if we had ________ home instead of parking the car there.

I went home and ________ signed up for Child CPR. I had taken Infant CPR in our town and remembered not to stick my ________ in her mouth to get out the choking object (填塞物) ---- ________my instinct (直觉) was to do just that.

It terrifies me that ________ like this can happen so suddenly to people around us. I think if it happened to my daughter, it could happen to anyone’s ________. I’ve also been telling all my friends with children to sign up for CPR classes because you just ________ know what might happen.

【推荐3】Driving laws in Ontario allowed teenagers to get their licenses (执照) at the age of sixteen! As my sixteenth birthday drew near, I got increasingly __ .

My father, who __ driving, was the clear choice to be my driving instructor. The first __ took place in the driveway. I was afraid to touch the gear shift (换挡杆), which was sticking out of the floorboard. However, my father___ explained everything from the gear shift to the turn signals.

For the next lesson, my father asked me to __ the car, and then he guided me into reverse (倒车). As I pressed the gas (油门), I felt the car starting to move backward. I was___ the car!

Two weeks of lessons passed, and I was beginning to get __ . My father had me drive around the same block again and again. When I couldn't __ it any more, I asked to move to a street that had more action. “Tomorrow. I think you are __ ,”my father replied, his eyes shining with pride.

I was __ on a busy street the next night. I shifted from first gear to second gear with no____. Then came third gear. When I reached the __ I wanted, I put the car into fourth. I was flying in the car! My father's __ brought me back to reality. He said calmly, “Darling, there's a red light ahead.”My mind went blank (空白的). I did not __ what to do. I flew through the crossroads, which by chance was empty.

That night my father was ___. I cried silently. How____we hadn't hit anyone or any car. I waited for my father to ___me, but he did not. I realized the seriousness of my driving through a red light. That lesson has __ with me for thirty years. Until now I have not ___that day. I remember how __ a loving father who taught his daughter to drive is.

【推荐3】I was driving on the freeway when I noticed heavy clouds roll in. A storm was coming. The rain began beating ______ against my car windows, making driving impossible. I ______ onto the shoulder of the road and stopped. The rain ______ me of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina struck when I was nine years old. I had worried it would strike us in Houston. It missed us, but other cities were not so lucky. I remembered watching the ______. A reporter stood inside the Houston stadium, ______ people. Many wore dirty and ______ clothes, and some had no shoes on their feet. I noticed a little boy behind the reporter ______ an old teddy bear. Watching him, I knew I had to do something.

The next day, my friends ______ me for our volunteer club and we came up with a plan. We wanted to ______ toys and give them to the kids at the stadium, which would bring some ______ into the lives of these families. We ______ the word to the school and other organizations. Three days later, the donation boxes were overflowing with new toys! When we ______ the stadium with our gifts, children ______ toward us from all directions, smiles lighting up their faces.

Suddenly, a phone call brought me back to the present. To my joy, the storm had ______. “Hector, we have more ______ of yesterday’s tornado.” “Well, I’ve brought clothes I’d like to donate to them. The storm stopped me, but I’ll be there soon!”