【推荐3】It was the last day of the month-long summer camp. All the camp leaders and volunteers were preparing for the party that evening. Some were setting up chairs and tables outside, some were preparing water balloons for games we’d play later, and some were_________fruits.

A pastor（牧师）came to me,_________me a small broom and a dustpan, and asked me to sweep the gym. Alone. I had no_________. I was a team leader at camp, and this pastor was my employer. I put on as_________a face as I could and_________to sweep the floor. The whole situation felt so _________. I was angry.

During a_________between sweeps, I looked up. The same pastor who told me to sweep the gym was_________moving the speakers and cleaning the stage in the front of the gym. He worked alone, too. And I noticed the calmness and_________in his eyes as he worked.__________, my unhappiness left my heart, and in its place grew a sense of__________for what I saw in the pastor.

First, being a leader doesn’t mean doing all the fun things, all the time. It also means____________and hard work. To be a good leader, it means doing things one doesn’t really__________with a cheerful, genuine smile. Second, taking the time to think is________ to being a good leader. Without time for________, you might__________what’s more important. Third, however complex a task maybe, however long you have to work on it, you have to__________it. Cleaning the whole gym with a small broom seemed________. But I made it, one sweep at a time.

       I__________the pastor on my way to the garbage bin outside the gym. He looked up and smiled at me—and I smiled back. It was a tired smile, but it was a__________one.

【推荐1】As a backpacker(背包客),I am good at finding last minute flights that allowed me to reach my destinations affordably.The _________ ? Fly out on the holiday itself.

Just as my right hand was starting to feel sore from all the _________ ,I found it on the Internet:Mexico City,round _________ Leave on Christnas Day,which I don’t celebrate,and fly back on New Year’s Day, as there was no New Year’s Eve_________to attend.

I was also _________ to find a home-stay on the Internet. Each morning I woke to the best black coffee, which my host father affectionately called“gasolina”.Most days,my host mother would take me to town. She’d show me the sites not on the tourists’ _________ .I couldn’t believe how _________ the town was-old cobblestones(鹅卵石)and brightly colored buildings changed color when the light hit them and it _________ me. Time passed quickly. I was already wishing to stay longer _________ New Year was already upon us.

Not wanting to __________ my host family,I planned to celebrate the holiday alone, but they insisted I __________ with them.We ate a feast of salads and meats. As I sat there drinking, I looked over at my host family,whom I’d __________ for merely a week. Everyone in the family hugged me and wished me a happy new year. Everyone wanted to make sure I was __________ .We have become good friends.

With my host family getting ready for bed,I had to __________ before returning to my room to get ready for my early flight. This experience reminded me what __________ are all about: friends and family in whatever form they come in.

【推荐3】My father started his own business in the 1980. For a breadwinner with seven children, it was a _________ decision.

To improve himself, my father spent his evening _________ a business school that offered two-year programs for people interested in becoming _________ and administrative assistants. Besides, my father read the town newspaper every morning, and I _________ he would inevitably read the classified section, _________ the “help wanted” advertisements. As a kid, I thought such _________ was only for people seeking a position.

One day, I asked him, “Dad, you have a job. Why do you read the ‘help wanted’ section every day?” “Well,” he replied, “it’s _________ for me to know what the employers want for their jobs and what are the things they’re _________.” A light bulb went off in my mind. Yes, he obviously wasn’t looking through the “help wanted” section for himself. He wanted to stay _________ with a hiring mindset. Meanwhile, he __________ something new to develop his own business.

Recently, as a runner, I was __________ by an article about On, a company manufacturing athletic shoes. It won net sales of $345 million in the first six months of 2022 and it receives about 70,000 __________ per year. One of the key __________ the owners seek in new hiring is “an explorer mindset”, which is just what my father owns.

The explorer mindset sought by On can __________ people outside of the “help wanted” sections of life. As a saying goes, “In so many ways, comfort is the enemy of __________.”

【推荐2】One of my students once expressed a personal concern to me: He said he talked to himself. That _______ him. As a self-talker in my own right, I had words of _______ for him; People who talk to themselves are geniuses.

First, it shores up my _______. Take shopping for example. I’ve found that I can _______ paper and ink by reciting my shopping list over and over, from my house to a _______. Second, it keeps me _______. Many a time I have left the house with the _______, say, of dropping a letter off at the post office. I _______ place the letter in the visor(遮阳板) of my car, and to _______ myself to stop at the post office on the way to my ultimate destination, I keep __________, “The letter is in the visor, the letter is in the visor, the letter…”You get __________. Last, talking to myself helps me to __________. Recently. I was changing an electrical outlet(插座). something I’m somewhat __________ with but I do not do on a regular basis. The __________ is, I tend to forget which is the hot wire and which is the neutral wire(零线). And so I repeat. “Black is hot，white is neutral.” I’m __________ to report that the project was a success.

【推荐3】It was 9:55 am on Sunday. When I woke up, the first thing I saw was the shining mobile screen. I _________ it and found that it was a call from my boss. He screamed, “At 10:25. the meeting is going to start. If you _________ to bring the files to my office before the time, I would not hesitate to fire you.” I remembered taking his files and _________ to give them back to him that day, but I forgot to remove them from my bag.

With my bag, I _________ to the nearby bus stop and got into a bus which was already packed up with lots of people.

_________, I found a comfortable place. But the driver announced that we had to get down and _________ the bus. I checked for other choices but none were _________. So I _________ pushing it with others. After a few seconds, the engine _________ and I jumped inside the bus and said, “Fast, I am late.” But the bus was unbearably __________. Only seven minutes remained by then.

It was not expected that the bus broke down. I didn't wait any longer and started to run along the footpath. I__________ that I would still reach there in time. I wanted to run faster but it seemed that my __________ didn’t want.

At last, I arrived at my __________ before a minute or two. “Sir, I brought the files in time,” I said with a feeling of __________. “Then give them back to me,” he said hurriedly.

I turned only to __________ that I had left my bag IN THE BUS!