【推荐2】I always knew that I depended too much on my phone. But I didn’t know how much. So I decided to do this _______ to find out.

Every morning since I got a smartphone, I’ve used The Weather Channel App to find out what to _______. On the first morning I had to dress without guidance, but _______ I was able to guess that the day would be cold and foggy by looking out of my window.

I couldn’t tell what time it was. I haven’t worn a _______ for more than a year, because my phone showed the time. So I was late for _______ friends who had been on the bus for two hours from Santa Monica to Palos Verdes. I was also late for my part-time job. And _______, I couldn’t call people to tell them that I was running late.

Getting places was harder, too. I got _______ because I couldn’t use the GPS on my phone. My driving, though, got a lot _______ because I no longer had my phone in one hand checking directions while _______ with the other.

But the number one trouble was not having my contact list. I forgot to write down my friends’ and family members’ phone numbers before I ________ the challenge. It was sad to realize that I couldn’t remember my brother’s and my mom’s cell phone numbers. Oh, how I ________ to turn on the phone for just a second to look up phone numbers!

Even with all the problems, however, I found ________ not worrying about missing a text message or an e-mail.

This challenge was a(n) ________ learning experience. It surprised me how I’d taken no notice of even the ________ things like remembering phone numbers. We all should ________ some time to think about how we can depend less on our cell phones.

【推荐1】People often fall ill because of me. _________ , they can hardly blame me；it is   _________ their own fault. A tired person may get _________ , especially when he goes to crowded places with polluted air. A sudden change in _________ is another factor. In hot summer, people turn on the air-conditioner _________ returning home. They will catch a cold easily.

My latest victim is an energetic student. After school, he played football hard for two hours. Though_________, he still went to the cinema. Then he got back home and took a cold shower immediately.

I _________ this golden chance to attack him. He reacted, trying to _________ me, but I had already _________ deep in his throat. There were too many of us. He kept sneezing and his nose was __________. Besides, his sore throat kept __________ him, and he developed a cough to force me and my family out, but __________ .

The next day he couldn’t go to __________ . He had lost his appetite and was not as __________ as before. His mother made him orange juice every few hours for more vitamin C, which would help his __________ .

For two days he was __________ by his mother. As he rested more, his defense strengthened and I began to feel the __________ . But I am not the one who __________ easily, and I made every effort to fight back. Unfortunately, it was my __________ to be painful now, for his defense system was starting an all-out __________ against me. I became weaker and finally my time was over.

Do you know what I am?

【推荐2】It was pouring outside when we all waited inside the door of the Wal-Mart. Some were patient while others _______ , because nature messed up their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens _________ the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child in the rain awoke in me as a short relief of the _________ of my day.

Then, a sweet voice broke the atmosphere, “Mom, let’s run through the rain.”

“What?” Mom asked.

“Let’s run through the rain!” She _________ .

“No, honey. We’ll wait until it _________ a bit.” Mom replied.

This young child waited about another minute and repeated it again.

“We’ll get wet if we do.” Mom said.

“No, we won’t, Mom. That’s not what you said this morning,” the young girl said firmly.

“This morning? What did I say?”

“Don’t you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said if God could get us through this, he could get us through anything!”

The entire crowd stopped, _________ silent. I swear you couldn’t hear anything but the rain. Mom _________ and thought for a moment about what to say.

Now some would laugh it off and scolded her for being silly. Some might even _________ what was said. _______ this was a moment of confirmation in a young child’s life and a moment when ________ can be developed into faith. “Honey, you are absolutely __________ . If we get wet, we’ll maybe just need washing.” Mom said. Then they ran off, holding their shopping bags over their __________ just in case.

They got wet. But they were followed by a few who __________ and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And yes, I did. I got wet. I needed washing.

Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, including __________ and health. But no one can ever take away your precious ________ . So don’t forget to take the opportunities to make memories every day!

【推荐3】While taking a 20-hour train ride along the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in northwestern China, I had the kind of humbling, educational, and above all else, wonderful _______ with a local that all travelers long for. A young Chinese man approached me on the train. My _______ friend spoke virtually no English, so I happily took the chance to practice my Chinese.

Over several hours, he would tell me about how he had attended a two-year professional school to quickly find a job _______ highways in order to help support his family. Perhaps the most _______. however, was the fact. that this man spent hours studying every day after hard physical labor. Without batting an eye, he would _______ a translated Emerson passage before asking about the literary influence of American writers as a whole. “And what do you all learn about Russian authors?” I _______ him asking at one point.

It would have been easy to _______ my assumptions about this highway builder who had never been more than a few hundred miles from home. But this highly informed, _______, and admirable person prevented me doing so. In the course of a couple of hours, he showed me just how much one can gain from _______ with an open mind, and a willingness to __________ with locals from all walks of life.