【推荐2】It wasn’t easy to practice gratitude (感激) every day. After I _________ Cushing’s disease and had an operation a few years ago, my _________ was that everything would be OK. However, I was wrong. I had ongoing aches and pains, and _________ myself to a new life was difficult lor me, I began to notice that I’d become a _________ person.

One day, I heard a discussion about gratitude by Dr Tony Evans. It _________ me and forced me to take a long, hard, honest look at myself. I have a (n) _________ spouse (配偶) and patents. I’d heard the stories of other people’s struggles with Cushing’s disease. Their spouses had left them and they didn’t have family to _________ . I didn’t face any of these problems, yet I didn’t realize that.

I made a decision to start practicing gratitude daily. Once I decided that, my _________ improved, and I began to approach situations _________ . Instead of viewing situations negatively, I started to see them as __________ .

This led me to practice the concept of sowing and reaping (收获), which I learned from my parents. They didn’t just talk the talk, but rather they __________ this concept to us. __________ , it wasn’t until I had my own experiences that I understood what it meant.

Let me explain. When I was __________ by my own pity, my harvest in life was ruined, because everything I was __________ was negative. Since I started practicing gratitude, so many different doors of opportunity have opened up for me.

My advice is starting practicing gratitude until it becomes a part of your daily __________ . Take note of the difference it will make in your life.

【推荐3】I know what courage looks like. I saw it on a flight I took six years ago. When our L9869 left the Orlando airport that Friday morning, we were a chipper, ______ group. The early-morning flights hosted mainly professional people ____ Atlanta for a day or two of business.

Immediately upon ____, it was clear that something went wrong. The aircraft was bumping _____and jerking left to right.   The pilot soon made a grave______that we were about to crash. No sight has ever been so sobering as that fuel, hundreds of gallons of it, streaming past my window out of the plane’s tank. The flight attendants helped people get into position and ____ those who were already hysterical.

As I looked at the faces of my fellow travelers, I was stunned by the changes in their faces. Many looked visibly _____ now---gray in color. There was not one ______. No one faces death without fear, I thought. I began searching the crowd for one person who felt peace and ______ that true courage or great faith gives people in these events.

All around, people cried. Many wailed and screamed. However, I heard a still calm voice, a woman’s voice, speaking in an absolutely normal conversational ______. Finally I saw her. In the midst of all the chaos, a mother was talking, just talking to her child. The woman, in her mid-30’s was______full into the face of her daughter who______to be four years old. The mother’s gaze held the child so fixed and ____ that she seemed untouched by the sounds of grief and ______ around her.

I strained to hear what this mother was telling her child. I leaned over and by some miracle could I hear this soft voice with the tone of reassurance. Over and over again, the mother said: “I love you so much. Do you know for sure that I love you _____ anything?” Then the mother put her body ____ her daughter’s, strapped the seat belt over both of them and ____ to crash. For no earthly reason, our landing gear held and our touchdown was not the______it seemed destined to be. It was over in seconds.

The voice I heard that day never wavered, never acknowledged doubt, and maintained an evenness that seemed emotionally and______impossible. Only the greatest ______and love could have borne that mother up and lifted her above the chaos around her.

【推荐1】On an ordinary day, Debbie’s doorbell rang out of the blue. Sixteen-year-old Amy from next door was there -“Help, my brother Dylan is ___________,” she shouted.

Debbie and her sister Ellen _____________ to their house to find eight-year-old Dylan bleeding heavily from a huge cut in his _________.

Amy had been ___________ Dylan while their mum had popped out to the shop. Dylan had fallen while running through the house, _________ pushing his arm through a glass door panel.

Debbie had recently taken a first aid _____________ and knew what to do. “I knew I needed to _____________ pressure to stop the blood from running. I ___________ a towel from the bathroom and used it to press on the ___________,” she said. She told Ellen to call for an ambulance __________ she knew the cut would need medical treatment.

Just as the ambulance pulled up, Dylan’s mum came back home. She was deeply   ________________ by what had happened. She held Dylan’s arm and then the two of them __________ to the hospital together in the ambulance.

After a few weeks, Dylan ______________ and went back home. Dylan’s mother thanked Debbie and Ellen the day after the incident. “I’m so ____________ that I learned first aid,” Debbie said. “I never thought I’d need to use my first aid ________ so soon, but I’m very glad I knew what to do. ”

【推荐3】My most rewarding experience throughout the past two years was volunteering at the swimming competition of the Special Olympics where a disabled friend of my community took part. This had a special _________ for me because experiencing it helped improve my leadership skills, develop my character, and support my community.

Firstly, my _________ skills developed when I independently directed each swimmer where to _________ at the platform and _________ each competitor when they needed to swim. I had to make sure that the swimmers were well _________ and ready to perform. This kept me on my feet at all times and _________ of each event’s time and location. Secondly, my _________ was greatly influenced. When I saw the swimmers get their awards for winning each swimming event, I was deeply moved. Their _________ attitudes astonished me, whether they won or lost. This also enlarged my view, offering me the opportunity to _________ people I would normally not run into. Lastly, I was of __________ to my community by lending a hand to this organization. To be a part of it gave me a chance to improve our community and become __________ with the people living in this area. As Winston Churchill once said, “We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.” The importance of __________ should be stressed throughout our life. __________, through many opportunities my community has offered I was privileged (幸运的) to be __________ in this exciting and important event in these competitors’ lives. I hope to be a(n) __________ again at this event in years to come.