【推荐1】As a general rule, all forms of activity lead to boredom when they are performed on a routine(常规) basis. As a matter of fact, we can see this ________ at work in people of all ________. For example, on Christmas morning, children are excited about ________ with their new toys. But their ________ soon wears off and by January those ________ toys can be found put away in the basement. The world is full of ________ stamp albums and unfinished models, each standing as a monument(纪念碑) to someone’s ________ interest. When parents bring home a pet, their child ________ bathes it and brushes its fur. Within a short time, however, the ________ of caring for the animal is handed over to the parents. Adolescents(青少年) enter high school with great ________ but are soon looking forward to ________. The same is true of the young adults going to college. And then, how many ________, who now complain about the long drives to work, ________ drove for hours at a time when they first ________ their driver’s licenses? Before people retire, they usually ________ to do a lot of ________ things, which they never had ________ to do while working. But ________ after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes(消遣) become as boring as the jobs they ________. And, like the child in January, they go searching for new ________.

【推荐2】As a boy I was always small for my age. I remember one Spring afternoon I felt especially _______as I sat in the yard behind our house. We lived miles from town and I _______saw my own friends outside of school. I _______my brothers laughing from _______the house and felt a single tear coming down my face. At that moment I saw a large brown dog _______me. He was wagging his tail _______. He greeted me like a long lost _______, licking my hand and sitting beside me on the grass, _______he didn’t know me. I petted and _______this four-legged angel. He let me pour out all my troubles and share my deepest thoughts ________ he kissed me goodbye. I went back inside feeling happy,________that no matter what life might hold I was loved. I ________that the dog was sent in that moment of ________to remind me just how much I was loved. 

In truth, nothing brings us greater ________than knowing we are loved. Knowing we are loved gives us the ________to love others as well. It also helps us to be the people the world meant for us to be. Remember how much the world loves you and share your love with the world.

【推荐3】Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood-The Rolling Stones — have played together for more than 50 years. However, they still recognize the ____ of practicing together.

They understand that for excellence to become a habit, you need to define a ____ approach to working together. You need to practice it over and over until it becomes second ____. Before every tour, the band typically spends two months in rehearsing . They __ the opportunity to reconnect with their collective rhythm . The __ enables the band to perform with almost telepathic communication. Richards says that he knows exactly what's happening by____watching Watts' left hand. If the rhythm ever slows, one glance from Richards to Wood speaks volumes. Together they will then ____ the pace.

The Stones' ____ comes from each member having a distinctive yet complementary   ____ Richards is their spiritual leader, Watts the band's backbone, Wood the mediator, and Jagger is ___ everything he can be - a chief executive in many ways.

Each of the band's members is a(n) ____ in his own right, but it is the chemistry the band has on each of them that works best. Being part of the Rolling Stones remains the best way for each member to achieve their ____ goals. The best teams are those who ___ individual drive with understanding the importance and ____ of the team.

This is the secret to becoming an excellent team ： There is no ____ to the ongoing devotion and intentional practice required to build better teams.

【推荐1】I grew up in northern Arizona, where it has the most beautiful landscapes on the planet. Until I was invited to _______Guizhou province by the China Storyteller Partnerships Tour, I realized how _______ Guizhou can be in poetic (有诗意的) detail. There is _______better than seeing things with one’s own eyes. I will attempt to do so here.

My father used to ask my brothers and me on yearly fishing trips around Arizona. We would _______ to catch the largest fish, and those who succeeded would be rewarded. I remembered sitting in a small boat in the middle of the lake, mostly _______ my bored tongue, while my father tried to _______ me the whispers of the wind, or a fish dancing on the surface of the lake. He vividly described to me everything that he _______in nature. On my trip to Guizhou I had the _______ to kayak(皮划艇) on Wanfeng lake. At one point I rested, _______ floating at the center of the lake, listening to the spaces between silence and ________the surrounding karst (喀斯特) mountains. I thought about my childhood, and ________ I had listened more closely to my father’s ________ feelings.

I’ve ________ Arizona for 10 long years, creating my own destiny in China. I’ve managed to build myself a family, a career, and join in ________ activities. I feel as if I have everything I need. For a moment, in Guizhou, I felt ________.

【推荐2】It was 2002. It was suggested that I should learn to drive, so my father decided to teach me. Easier said than done. The driving plan was quietly ________ after I almost crashed his car into a stone wall. My next ________ was in 2006. This time, the ________ was a very nice friend. But after three sessions, he ________. “I can’t teach you,” he said. “You have no ________ at all.” To be honest, that was ________ to me. Actually, I thought I was afraid of many things—thunderstorms, forest fires, bears, but these were not the ________ kind for driving.

Nine years later, I had a life partner — Graeme Gibson — and a baby. One day, Graeme got his ________ seriously bitten when he helped ________ a dog trapped in the wire fence. Even so, he had to drive himself to the hospital ________ thanks to my inability to drive.

This accident ________ me and awoke my desire for learning. “That’s it,” I said, “I’m learning to drive.” I must qualify myself to ________ and protect my family. This time, I ________ a professional instructor. Despite various   ________, I got my license finally. I was pleased with myself: it seemed I now had the appropriate kind of fears. Learning to drive makes me a more grown-up and ________ adult.

【推荐3】Katherine would never forget the day when her daughter brought a plate from kindergarten, with a drawing of mouse-like creatures on it.

“Emma, what are these little characters? What do you _________ them?” Katherine said. “Mom, they’re my _______. They come to children who are lonely or who were meant to have a _________ life,” Emma said. It _________ the unemployed 36-year-old mom’s heart during a time when she wasn’t feeling too _________ about her job prospects(前景).

All this eventually _________ a new project for Katherine, unemployed for months—making a line of stuffed animals for sale based on her daughter’s _________. “Every day, I would work on it,” she said. “Over time, it felt like this is what I really _________.” In her basement, Katherine cut patterns, wrote storylines and _________ prototypes(原型样品) to turn “The Representatives” into dolls(玩偶).

Today she has four __________ doll prototypes and specific storylines to go with each main character. She hopes to __________ the dolls to parents going through hard times, or maybe those preparing to work overseas, leaving their __________ behind with relatives.

She said even if the dolls don’t __________, she’s taught her daughter __________ to keep moving even in down times. It’s really a __________ for those unemployed right now, she said.