【推荐1】Ever since I was 13 years old, I wanted to be a photographer. I had a(n) _______ of working for some magazines, which would allow me to travel around the world to ________ the right picture.

After leaving high school, I ________ in photography in the University of the Arts. However, I kept reflecting on my choice ________ I learned a lot in my freshman year. There was nothing ________ with the school, but it was not ________ for me.

I ________ my high school photography teacher and couldn’t help but envy (羡慕) his work. Such a feeling made me know teaching students how to ________ their full potential in their artwork was what I wanted. And ________, I wanted to be involved in a ________ that made me feel like I was actually making some ________ in the community.

I decided to transfer (转学) to Buffalo State College. When I was in class, I always ________ myself with what I was learning. Then, during my first on­site teaching lesson at a middle school, it ________ me that this was what I would want to do for the rest of my life, and I ________ loved it. Now, as I’m finishing my senior year, I’m happy I came to such a ________ in my life. I believe this is just the one for me.

【推荐2】My First Job

Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till I’d got one.

I had seen an agency advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the house in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as _________ as if I were going on the stage. Finding the _________ quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter without knocking, if you please.”

The simple atmosphere of the office _________ me. The woman looked carefully at me for a while through her glasses, and then _________ me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather _________. She wondered why I was looking for this sort of job. I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be difficult to get a job without _________. I was wondering whether I ought to leave _________ the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say: “_________, I’ve got someone in the office at this very moment who might _________.” She wrote down a __________ , and held it out to me, saying: “Ring up this lady. She wants a __________ immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.”

“Oh yes,” said I — __________ having cooked for more than four in my life. I __________ her again and again, and rushed out to the __________ telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.

I spent the next few hours __________ cook books.

【推荐3】“Daily Star, sir” called Jason, carrying some newspapers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty_______left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was heavy. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers_______money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a_______for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He broke down as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

“You don’t know the _______of selling papers. You must shout, “Hot news! Bomb bursting（炸弹爆炸）!” another newsboy Chad told Jason. “_______it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly_______they have time to see, and you’ll sell out and get your money,”Chad said.

It was a new _______to Jason. He thought of his bird with no seeds and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was_______that he would not tell a lie. Though he was _______ a poor newsboy, he had been________ some good things.

The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers________. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared(宣称) with a________smile that he sold six dozen the day before. He added that Jason________money because he would not tell a lie. The boys ________at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder fondly.”You’re just the boy I am looking for.” A week later Jason started his new________. He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

【推荐1】I used to hate being called upon in class mainly because I didn’t like attention drawn to myself. And _________ otherwise assigned a seat by the teacher, I always _________ to sit at the back of the classroom.

All this _________ after I joined a sports team. It began when a teacher suggested I try out for the basketball team. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because I didn’t have a good sense of balance, nor did I have the _________ to keep pace with the others on the team and they would tease me. But for the teacher who kept insisting on my “_________ for it”, I wouldn’t have decided to give it a try.

Getting up the courage to go to the tryouts was only the _________ of it. When I first started _________ the practice sessions, I didn’t even know the rules of the game, much _________ what I was doing. Sometimes I’d get _________ and take a shot at a wrong direction—which made me feel really stupid. __________ I wasn’t the only one “new” at the game, so I decided to __________ on learning the game, do my best at each practice session and not be too hard on myself for the things I didn’t know just yet.

I practiced and practiced. Soon I knew the __________ and the moves. Being part of a team was fun and motivation. Soon the competitive __________ in me was winning over my lack of confidence. With time going by, I learned how to play and make friends in the process.

With my improved confidence comes more praise from teachers and classmates. I have gone from __________ in the back of the classroom and not wanting to call attention to myself, __________ raising my hand—even when I sometimes wasn’t 100 percent sure I had the right answer. Now I have more self-confidence.

【推荐2】From the fourth grade, I was in very low spirits. I never really had any friends during that time. My only friend had just ______ to another city with her parents at the end of the third grade. What was ______, my pet dog and my cat had just died. It almost seemed as if my life was slowly ______for me, and I always felt ______ because no one and not even my family would talk to me. I didn’t think they knew what I was ______. It was a really hard time for me. I’d always ______my feelings and just put a nice, fake smile for them. That’s all they ______, right?

During the end of my seventh-grade year, I started to make a friend or two. That is when my depression ______started dying down. But, I was still ______myself, calling myself fat or ugly, and my friends knew this! They tried their best to help and it did ______in some way but not fully. Eventually, I found this song called “Beautiful”. There was one line that said, “We are beautiful in every way, yes, words can’t bring us down.” I now realize we are all beautiful.

【推荐3】I first become aware of the power of the mind over 40 years ago at a lecture by Konosuke Matsushita, who was regarded by many people as the “god of management".

During his lecture, Matsushita _______ his famous "dam management" theory, whose concepts are as follows. A river without a dam _______ during heavy rain and dries to a small river during droughts. _______ if we dam the river and store its water, we can gain _______ over the river so that we are no longer _______ the weather or the environment. The same _______ , he claimed, can be _______ to management He _______ that companies create reserves during times of plenty to ensure stable growth _______ scarcity（缺乏）.

________ in the back of the room, I could almost see a wave of dissent（异议）spread across the audience. "We can't do that. That's ________ we have to struggle night and day. If we had enough money to do that, things wouldn't be such a（n） __________. We already know we need to __________ . What we dorn't   we know is how to make ________ people whispered.

During the question and answer ________ at the end of Matsushita's talk, a man stood up voiced his frustration, "__________ dam-style management would be ideal if it were ________.   But it's not. If you aren't going to tell us howbuild a dam, what's the ________?"

Matsushita said simply, "To be ________, I don't know how either. I don't how but I still have to want to make one?¹ Although most of the people were clearly ________, I was shocked by his words. He had revealed a profound truth.

【推荐2】My mother is 92. Unless I have to be out of town, each week I take my mother to do her shopping and visit the doctor, providing______and transportation. During the week, however, she likes to go to a nearby store to ______ some small things she needs.

Last week she walked up to the store, but when she went to pay for her groceries, she was ______ about three dollars. The only way to pay for the groceries was to take off the ______she could do without: bottle of rubbing alcohol and a bar of soap. By taking off these, she was able to bring the new total to the amount of cash she had with her.

At this store, people check off and then go off to the side to ______ their own groceries. My mother was putting her groceries into shopping bags when a ______ came up to her and said, “Here are the things that you ______,” handing her the rubbing alcohol and the ______. My mother, who is never speechless, was speechless. She ______ for the woman’s name and address so that she could ______ her. The woman told her it was her   ______ .

My mother was so ______ by her gesture that she decided to go back to the store and give the cashier (收银员) five-dollar bill to keep on hand______ the same happened to someone else if they didn’t have enough ______ for all of their groceries.

So, whoever you are, thank you for the random act of ______ that not only helped my mother out, but made her day too.