【推荐1】If you want to achieve your dream, there is no choice but hard work.

Once upon a time a boy in _________ clothes full of patches ran to ask a successful building contractor(承包商) on a construction site, “How could I become as _________ as you when I grow up?”

With a _________ at the boy, the contractor responded, “There is a story about three diggers. The first digger liked holding a spade without doing anything but say that he wanted to be a (n) _________ in the future. The second always liked _________ about the work and his low _________. The third digger liked _________ devoting himself to digging. Many years later, the first was still holding his spade in the _________ place and the second looked for an excuse for early _________. Only the third became a boss. Do you understand the __________ of this story? Just go to purchase a __________ shirt and work hard.”

The little boy was __________. So he asked the contractor to explain further. __________ the working builders, the contractor replied, “Look at my workers! I can’t remember all their names, and even I have no __________ of some of them. Most of them wear blue shirts. But if you look __________, you will notice a sunburned man in red. He seems to be working harder than others. He is always the first one to arrive while the last one to leave. It is exactly his red shirt that makes him __________. Soon he will be __________ to my assistant. You know, that is also how I get where I am now. I worked hard and wore a striped shirt. My boss __________ me. I also became what he was like eventually.”

Success can only __________ action. Working hard is all winners’ shared __________ for achieving their dreams.

【推荐3】I had just started my second year studying at Cambridge University when I was faced with the news I had never expected. A lump in my neck ______ out to be cancer. I would ______ six months of chemotherapy (化疗).

After the shock, I was struck by this thought: my ______ didn’t have any room for cancer. I had so much I wanted to ______ and so many goals I wanted to chase.

I was faced with the ______ job of telling my friends and family. Then, I had to decide whether to ______ in Cambridge and take five exams at the end of the year. My doctor _______ against it, and so did my parents and teachers.

My doctors and teachers convinced me that taking some time off to _____ and relax would be the best thing for me. I could not think of anything ______. I did not want to ______ a year of my life, receiving pity from those around me.

Together with ray parents, I tried to persuade the university to _______ me to stay at Cambridge and study only half the course. At the end of the year I would take two exams. It was really a ______ to persuade them to agree.

Treatment began and I was up and down from Cambridge to London every other week. It made me feel ______, but to a much lesser degree than I had expected. I was _______ to read, eat and socialize exactly as I used to. I slept a lot and rested a lot, but I also worked hard at my studies. It gave me focus, and it also gave me purpose. Completing my ______ at the end of term felt like a great personal victory.

I took a ______ to continue studying while undergoing treatment, and it _______. I was successful in my exams, and more _______, I made a full recovery.

Every person facing a disease like cancer must make the ______ that are right for them. I am ______ that I made the decision that was right for me.

【推荐2】My job is to help clients find jobs and return to school for training. One day, a lady came to my office with a dream to become a registered nurse. However, her family did not _________ . With young children to care for and her husband unemployed, she simply didn’t have the _________ to return to school.

It was clear that this lady had a(n) _________ for the nursing profession, so I encouraged her to realize her dream. I _________ her with necessary information to apply for nursing school. She left my office, and I never _________ whether she followed her dream or not.

Many years later, I was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer, I was _________ to hospital. The surgery was successful. It was, _________ , very painful. Though I _________ myself on not being a bell ringer, one night the pain was so _________ that I had to call for a nurse. I rang the bell and waited for __________ . A nurse came through the door and offered to help. I __________ thanked her for coming to my rescue. I said, “I am not usually like this.”

To my __________ , she said, “Oh, I know that, Mrs. Bryenton.” It __________ that she was just the lady who I had encouraged to follow her dream years before. She subsequently (随后) returned to school for upgrading and later __________ nursing.

You never know what __________ your encouraging words will have on someone. It is amazing that many of my clients would __________ to say thanks to me. To this day, I am still __________ by strangers in the street and reminded that I was instrumental (起重要作用) in __________ their life.

I truly believe we make a __________ by what we get, but we make a wonderful life by what we __________ .

【推荐3】As a child, I was truly afraid of the dark and of getting lost; these fears were very real and gave me some_________ moments.

Maybe it was the strange way things looked and sounded my _________room at night that frightened me so much. There was never total darkness but a streetlight or passing car_________ made clothes hung over a chair take on the _________of a wild animal. Out of the corner of my_________, I saw the curtains seem to_________when there was no wind. A _________sound at night would seem a hundred times louder than in the daylight. My _________would run wild, and my heart would beat fast. I would lie very _________ so that the “enemy” would not discover me.

Another of my childhood__________ was that I would get lost, especially on the way home from __________.

Every morning I got on the school bus right near my home—that was no problem. After school，__________，when all the buses were __________ up along the street, I was certain that I’d get on the__________one and be taken to some unfamiliar neighborhood. On school or family__________to a park or a museum, I wouldn't let the leaders out of my __________.

Perhaps one of the__________ of all I had as a child was that of not being liked or accepted by others. Being__________was so important to me then, and the fear of not being liked was a powerful one.

One of the processes of growing up is being able to__________and overcome our fear. Understanding the things that frightened us as children helps us achieve greater__________ later in life.