【推荐1】I listen interestingly how people discuss with each other. Mostly they _________. They get caught in negative (消极的) stuff, talk about it _________, and try to make others agree with them in their misery (痛苦). And they pay no attention to the most _________ thing.

Happiness is a feeling. We should _________ on how to create such a feeling. Can you learn how to be _________ on purpose?

We are so used to our negative mindset that we don’t even _________ it anymore. And so our mind, used to negatively, looks at the world through the eyes of _________. Even if an event (事件) occurs as happy and positive, we cannot find the emotion of pure (纯的) _________, because we always think of negative things.

This _________ happened to me, I first __________ my own negative self-talk in my twenties. Once, in a bus, looking at the sunny skies, I noticed the __________ and found myself thinking that rain was coming, and the __________ day should turn miserable soon.

Many people around me are __________ the same, and we see nothing __________ in it. We simply do not know how to be happy.

This was the moment when my __________ to positive thinking started. I cannot __________ bad stuff from happening, but I have built tools in my mind to __________ these events.

Happiness is a string (一串) of short moments, and in each of those moments we have the __________ to choose our own response to them. We can learn to think on purpose. And with purposeful __________ we learn to create wanted motions, which will help us find __________ in our life, and even happiness.

【推荐2】On such a rainy day, I had no intention to drive up the winding hilly road to my daughter Betty’s house. But she had _______ me to see something at the top. So here I was, _______ making the two-hour journey through the thick fog.

I _______ along the dangerous highway. Turning down a narrow track, we _______ and got out. When we turned a corner, we stopped and I gasped (喘息). To my _______, from the top of the mountain to several acres down across the valleys, were rivers of daffodils (水仙花) in blossom. A variety of _______—from the pale milky to the deep lemon, shone like a carpet before us.

A flow of _______ filled my mind. Who created such beauty? Why? How? _______ we approached the home that stood in the center of the possessions, we saw a sign _______: “Answers to the Questions. I Know You Are ________.The first was: “One woman—Two Hands, Two Feet, and Very Little Brain.” The second: “One at a Time.” The third: “________ in 1992.”

She began more than thirty years ago, probably just at the ________ of a novel idea, but she kept at it. “Imagine,” I said, “if I’d had a (n) ________ and worked at it, just a little bit every day, what might I have ________?” Betty looked at me sideways, smiling. “Start tomorrow,” she said. “________, start today.”

【推荐3】Sometimes I really doubt whether there is love between my parents. Every day they are very busy trying to _______ in order to pay the high tuition for my brother and me. They don’t act in the _______ ways that I read in books or I see on TV. In their opinion, ―I love you is too _______ for them to say. Sending flowers to each other on Valentine‘s Day is even more out of _______.

One day, my mother was sewing a quilt(缝被子). I sat down beside her. “Mom, I have a question to ask you. Is there _______ between you and Dad?” I asked her in a very low voice. She didn’t answer immediately. She _______ her head and continued to sew the quilt.

I was very worried because I thought I had _______ her. I was _______ and I didn’t know what I should do. But at last I heard my mother say the following words: “Susan,” she said thoughtfully, “Look at this thread. Sometimes it _______, but most of it disappears in the quilt. The thread really makes the quilt ________. If life is a quilt, then love should be a thread. It can hardly be seen ________, but it’s really there. Love is ________.”

I listened carefully but I ________ her until the next spring. At that time, my father suddenly ________ seriously. My mother had to stay with him in the hospital for a month. When they returned from the hospital, they both looked ________. It seemed both of them had had a serious illness. After they were back, every day in the morning and dusk, my mother helped my father ________ on the country road．

“Dad, how are you feeling now?” I asked him one day.

“Susan, don’t ________ me.” he said gently. “To tell you the truth, I just like walking with your mom.”________ his eyes, I know he loves my mother deeply.

Once I thought love meant flowers, gifts and ________. But from this experience, I understand that love is just ________ in the quilt of our life. Love is inside, making life strong and warm.

【推荐1】On a heavy rainy day, I didn’t have an umbrella. I had just _______ a bus and had to walk back to my house. I _______ walking in that direction, when I heard somebody shouting,“Sister, sister.”I looked back and _______ the stationery (文具) shopkeeper. I went to him and asked what was the _______. He said that since it was raining heavily, I could take a _______in his shop, have a look at his new _______ and go home when the rain stopped.

I hesitated for a moment, but the _______ of getting to have a look at the pens made me nod.

To my surprise, I found that the shop was larger than I thought. The stationery shopkeeper _______ me a chair and took out the pens for me. I _______ a beautiful Parker pen and had a try. It _______ so smoothly that I wanted to buy it with all my heart, _______ as expected it was very expensive. The shopkeeper said, “I can give you the pen for ninety-five dollars _______ one hundred.” I looked up and thanked him for the _______ , but refused politely as it was _______ quite expensive for me. By that time, the rain had stopped, and after _______ his kindness, I quickly walked back to my house.

After that day, the shop became my favorite place to hang out. Although both of us knew nothing about each other, we had a deep friendship.

【推荐2】The school held a teacher-parent meeting. A mother was asked to attend his son’s school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s ____, she said she would go. This was the first time that his classmates and teacher ____ his mother and he felt ____ of her appearance. Although she was a ____ woman, there was a severe scar (疤痕) that ____ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to ____ why or how she got the scar.

The people at the meeting were ____ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother in spite of the scar, ____ the little boy was still embarrassed (尴尬) and ____ himself from everyone. However, he could ____ a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked ____, “How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied, “____ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was ____ afraid to go in because the fire was ____, so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a long piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked ____ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She ____ the burned side of her face.” This scar will be ____, but to this day, I have never ____ what I did.”

Hearing this，the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great ____ of the sacrifice (牺牲) that his mother had made for him. He held her hand ____ for the rest of the day.

【推荐3】For most people, having things stolen feels like an offence. Robbie Pruitt admitted that he got mad when he discovered the theft of his mountain bike last September. But soon enough, his _____took a turn. After letting go of his anger, he found himself on a road to sympathy______.

For Pruitt, a keen bicyclist, the first thing to do was______his stolen bike. But when he went bike shopping, he found few available, which got him thinking: What if the ______of bikes was Covid-19 related, and what if the person who’d taken his bike really needed______to get to work?

With that thought in mind, Pruitt ______ a plan and posted it on the community website. He _____ to fix bikes free of charge for anyone who needed it. He also asked for unwanted bikes, which he would repair again______. And then he would donate them to folks who needed them but didn’t have the ______ to buy one.

The day the post went live, Pruitt received thirty used bicycles. Then came more than four hundred_______for detailed information. By the end of 2020, Pruitt had repaired more than 140 for donation and Pruitt tried to give his donations to families that were ______ struggling.

______simply satisfying a material need, he has provided an opportunity for kids in his neighborhood to learn how to fix their own bikes.In addition to_______ skills, Pruitt’s lessons teach teamwork, encourage self-worth, and promote feelings of community.

“Pruitt is certainly providing a ______, but it’s not just the bikes. It’s the relationships in the community. It’s the ______ that he can make on people. ”

On a cold winter morning, an old man sat awkwardly (笨拙地) against a wall at Sydney’s Circular Quay station. I glanced for a moment but _______ him and walked on to my office as I _______ he was a derelict (流浪汉).

On my way back that afternoon, in the _______ place I saw an ambulance and the man was being _______ by two nurses. He wasn’t a derelict but a worker, who _______ fell ill on his way to work.

Shame shocked me when I realized that sick, old man had put up with the _______ of the entire day. He probably reached out to passers-by for _______. No one stopped. No one _______ .

A different season and I again _______ an old man half lying on the footpath. Caught up in the ________ rush of people commuting (乘车上下班), I would have ________ him quickly as I had done before. However, the ________ of the old Winter Man forced me to walk to the man on the ground, who was dressed in smart clothes but lifeless, and ________ down to ask if he was OK. He ________ consciousness again, and told me he was diabetic (糖尿病) and ________ me to call an ambulance for him, which I did.

Very weak, he said to me, in a ________, “Nobody stopped. Thank you.” I looked into his eyes for a moment in ________, but much was spoken without a word being said.

As the ________ ambulance siren (警笛声) announced the arrival of help, a number of ________ rushed at me: sadness for the Winter Man and ________ that I didn’t walk past another person in need. I was amazed that it had been so easy to be helpful.

【推荐3】The plan for the annual Christmas Dinner for Those Alone and Homeless started between two church members who happened to share a plane ride back to Springfield.

Springfield physician H’Doubler Jr. told Gary Ellison he was_______about those who he knew were_______during the upcoming holidays. He wanted to help them. He said, “If you don’t have_______with you, the fact that everything, at Christmas is ‘family this and family that’ can be_______. Wouldn’t it be great_______our church could have a big Christmas dinner-free of_______?”

If they wanted the big dinner held in the church, admission of the preacher (牧师) was very necessary. Therefore, H’Doubler asked Ellison if he could_______the preacher to allow the dinner. H’Doubler would put up a sizable_______. “He imagined a nice event with no strings (附加条件) attached,” said Ellison.

With the physician_______the main course, other church members offered side dishes and desserts.

After a few years, the church picked up the expenses. “The first________may have drawn 200 people,” Ellison said, “but some years it may draw close to 700.”

In order that the church can________for the right size crowd, people who want to________are asked to call an answering service and select the time they will come in advance. Ellison said church members would do their best to make everyone feel________. Over the years he’s enjoyed seeing strangers socialize.

H’Doubler always smiled when he read or heard reports of the event’s________, his daughter Sarah Muegge said. “He was very________with the way it developed,” said Ellison. “It’s________the way H’Doubler expected it: no strings attached. Just fun and good________,” said Ellison.

H’Doubler preferred to keep secret his role in________he event, but he________recently at the age of 85. Ellison asked H’Doubler’s daughter if it was OK to tell people that it was H’Doubler’s________and money that started the tradition. And she said yes.