【推荐2】It’s a Friday morning in Boston, which means Dr. Jim O’Connell is making his rounds. He might be more_______ inside an exam room, but that’s not where his patients are. Dr. Jim O’Connell is one of a handful of physicians making house calls to the_______ in the city.

More than 550,000 Americans are homeless, and many have health problems but no_______to cure. O’Connell and his team are doing something about it. On a daily routine, they_______about 700 regular patients. “I feel like I’m a country doctor in the middle of the city,” he says.

O’Connell began to do this 33 years ago, when he was at Harvard Medical School and was_______to be a one-year position as the founding physician of a new health-care program for Boston’s homeless people. That turned into a 33-year _______ at the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, one of the country’s largest of its kind. O’Connell _______ about everything, from stitches (缝线)for an arm to surgery for the heart. If patients can’t be treated in the street, he finds them a treatment bed at the respite facility(短暂休息场所), a place for patients who are too _______to be in the street_______ not ill enough for a hospital stay.

“__________ I had been taught to do -- go fast, be efficient-- is impossible when you take care of homeless people. When you see somebody outside, you get them a cup of coffee and sit with them. Sometimes it __________ six months or a year of offering a sandwich or a cup of coffee before someone would start to talk to me. But once they get involved, they’ll come to you any time because of__________ you.” When asked about how his life might have__________, if he had become a highly paid physician, O’Connell said, “I __________ think about it.”

Some things are far more valuable than money. Just ask Dr. Jim O’Connell who__________ everything from patients who have nothing to give.

【推荐3】Jayce Crowder began noticing when he was in kindergarten that he looked different from his classmates. They had two ______. He had one.

It started when one boy ______ at him, said his mother, Cortney Lewis. He returned home with ______: Why am I different? Why me? Why? Lewis ______ she didn’t know what to do at that point. How could she provide answers to her son’s questions when she had never found those ______ herself?

A few weeks later, Lewis came home from her job and turned on the TV to a ______ story about Trashaun Willis, then 14. He had become an Internet hit after ______ videos of his slam dunks (扣篮), and, like Jayce, he was ______ most of his left arm. At the time, it seemed that ______ Trashaun would simply be an ______ moment for Jayce. He’d see a role model with a similar defect (缺陷). Then a family friend ______ the Des Moines Register, asking the newspaper to help set up a ______ with Trashaun to build Jayce’s ______.

The boys met at Washington Middle School a couple of months later and ______ bonded at first sight, because both of them had the same problem. The day was not spent ______ themselves in self-pity — it was ______ fun. Trashaun also told the boy not to let anyone’s ______ shake his confidence.

______ that meeting, Lewis has seen a(n) ______ difference in her son, who is now in second grade. He recently started wrestling and loves it. Lewis points to Trashaun’s ______. As for Trashaun, his relationship with Jayce made him look forward to helping more kids in the future.

Last week, I had a wisdom tooth (智齿) pulled, which left me swollen and unable to speak. It was very strange spending a few days in this _____ but judging from other people’s responses, not as strange as it was for them.

I thought my husband would be the first to feel upset. I tried to imagine how _____ it must be to have half of the house go silent. _____, when I found him in the kitchen at midnight, cooking potatoes for my recovery and _____ the silence by singing “your lovely swollen face” to the tune of My Humps, I, too, was surprised, but also _____ .

When I felt _____ I went to my local shop. It still hurt when I moved my face, so when I _____ a friend, I couldn’t say anything. The friend wanted my _____ on a Twitter disagreement that I didn’t seem bothered. I was not bothered-and it felt good to remember that.

Later I visited my mom, who chatted away (闲聊) as normal. She didn’t even _____ that I was on the silent mode. This makes me certainly believe that my family role is part ______ part listener.

People say ______ is golden and that sometimes it is wise to say nothing and to let people reveal (吐露) themselves. Perhaps that is the ______ of the wisdom tooth. Maybe when they arrive with all their pain, forcing us-even just for a while-to move our ______ a little less, they give a lesson for living well: Listen, ______ and try-being quiet now and then. Then maybe adulthood (成年期) won’t be quite like ______ teeth.

From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students Union. I always ________my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. So I dreamed of being a leader.

Years flew by, and soon I was able to take part in the election(选举), _______I would win. But the reality proved that I hadn’t had a chance. I wasn’t pretty. Girls in the school hardly knew me. I just did not have what it _______to win a school election. I was_______

As I cried in my room that evening, I suddenly took a deep breath and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming. I decided that I would _______ for elections again in my final year at school—and I would _______the election.

I recognized that my _______ had a lot of things in their favor. What were in ________favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. And my biggest ________was the faith I had. I would not allow my plain appearance to hold me _________from my heading forward. That evening, I _________my election plans a whole year ahead of time.

I realized that girls would have to get to know me and recognize that I had the ability to ________ them. I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, _________I decided that perhaps I could use these qualities to win. In order to learn how to give a great election   ________, I also attended a course on effective public speaking.

The day after the election, when the headmaster announced I won the second highest number of votes, the students ________ . That joy on the faces of all my friends showed me that my victory was ________theirs.

Suddenly, I realized that I had ________ much more than I had dreamed of. I had made many new friends and had helped people along the way. I had won the ________and love of my schoolmates and they ________me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and ________their day.