【推荐1】I was having a much-covered (渴望的) weekend lie-in when my four-year-old kid came in to inform me it was time to get dressed. ________ to find I had wasted nearly two hours looking mindlessly through my phone instead of resting, I got out of bed feeling more mentally ________ than on mornings when I get up at the crack of dawn.

My husband has been ________ about my screen addiction for months. I ________ it off. But somehow those two precious lost hours led me into ________: My phone was controlling me.

Considering what sort of digital ________ to put myself on, I came across a company named Mind Over Tech. The product is a physical deck (实体牌) of 50 cards, each ________ bite-sized experiments to help users ________ technology more mindfully. Over a 24-hour period I tried a few out, including: “________ early morning tech use”, which ________ me to try to delay the first moment when I ________ my phone each morning, and “Post-It note on your phone screen”, to help me notice when and why I pick it up. The goal is not to force yourself to change, but to try to build a new healthy ________.

I decided I would only keep doing something if it stuck naturally, and kept a diary of my progress. The first two cards ________ well for me. Over two weeks, I practised them each day and found myself feeling more positive about my relationship with ________. And I was more able to exercise self-control when it came to my phone. I will stick to these habits ________, as I’m afraid I’ll relapse into (退回) old ways.

【推荐2】I had a quarrel with my husband. We shouted to each other, like two _______ animals. What he did really made me so angry as to _______ my temper, and that made him lose as well.

I left my home angrily and walked in the street _________. An hour later, it was getting dark. Feeling hungry and _______, I went into a Mc Donald’s. I _______ an old couple sitting at a table near the window. They have ordered their meal and started taking food out of the plate. There was one hamburger, one order of French fries and one _______. The man divided the food into two halves and carefully placed one before his wife.

He took a small sip(啜) of the drink. His wife also took one and then set the cup down _______ them. The man began to eat his French fries, but the woman only looked at her husband, smiling and _______ something to him. “That _______ old couple! All they can afford is one meal for the two of them on such a cold winter night,” thought I. I left the waiting line, ________ over to their table and said that I was willing to buy another meal for them. But they kindly refused me and said that they made it __________ to share everything.

________ the lady didn’t take a bite. She only sat there watching her husband eat, and taking turns sipping the drink. Again I asked to buy them something but was refused. When the man ________ eating and was wiping his face with a napkin. I could no longer stand it, I made an offer to them a ________ time. After being politely refused, I asked the lady curiously, “Madam, why aren’t you eating? You said that you would share everything.”

Looking ________ at me, the woman smiled and said, “In fact, I got a stomach illness, because of ________ I am not allowed be eat anything greasy(油腻的). My husband loves McDonald very much but he has been fighting with his appetite, ________ I might feel uncomfortable. I’m feeling much ________ today, so I insisted that we come here enjoying one meal. What we share is actually each other’s ___________”

Moved by her words, I felt warm deep down inside. Now, I am heading home with Mc Donald food for my ________ in my hands.

【推荐3】This year my husband and I decided to have a quiet, low-key New Year's Eve. We wanted to spend it with our kids and other immediate family and make it a special ______ for them, instead of ______ a babysitter and going out on our own. The logical way to do this was through _____. As we all know, food had a magical way of making a night ______, and our New Year's Eve certainly ______ that way, thanks to doughnuts (甜甜圈).

I decided to make doughnuts because my cousins had ______ a batch (一批) on Halloween and I found it very ______. I used a recipe from the 1976 Mennonite cookbook More With Less and it ______ a curious ingredient — two cups of mashed potatoes that ______ made the texture lighter. The doughnuts were ______ and cut from a sheet of dough (生面), then left to rise until ready to fry in hot oil. Then they took several seconds to ______, which meant that my enormous batch of 100 doughnuts was ______ cooking in a fairly short time. We glazed (浇上浆液) the tops and then ______ them for the rest of the evening. The leftovers disappeared at breakfast.

This will become an annual ______ , I have no doubt. Whether we host a bigger party or keep it small, there will always be ______ doughnuts, because when you have hot homemade doughnuts, you can't help but have the best time.

【推荐1】All my students in my class knew I was getting married in June and moving out of the state. I was sorry to see the month of June ________; all my students wanted to learn more, They were obviously agitated (不安的) whenever I mentioned it. I was glad they had become ________ of me, but what was wrong? Were they angry about me ________ the school?

On my ________ day of class, the headmaster greeted me as I entered the building. “Will you come with me, please?” he said ________. “There’s a problem ________ your classroom.” He looked straight ahead as he ________ me down the hall. “I'm going to leave the school tomorrow, but what now?” I wondered.

It was ________! There were bouquets (束) of flowers in each corner, on the students’ desks, and on my desk. “How could they have done this?” I________. Most of them were so poor that they ________ the school assistance program for some ________ and enough meals.

I started to cry, and all my students ________ me.

Later I learned how they had succeeded doing it. Mark, who worked in the ________ shop on weekends, had seen ________ from several of my other classes. He mentioned them to his classmates. Too proud to ever again wear an insulting(侮辱的) label like “ _________ ”, Mark ________ his boss for all the “tired” flowers in the shop. Then he called funeral parlors (殡仪馆) and ________ that his class needed flowers for a teacher who was leaving. They ________ to give him bouquets saved _______ each funeral.

That was not the only present they gave me, ________. Two years later, all fourteen students graduated, and six earned college scholarships.

【推荐2】Most stories of kindness do not begin with a Marvel (漫威) movie superstar. Mine _______.

It was at a garden party for the ACLU. I was _______ my grandmother to the event. When Robert Downey arrived, in a gorgeous cream-colored suit, my grandmother shrugged, far more interested in _______ her paper plate with cheese. He wasn’t Cary Grant or Gregory Peck. What did she _______?

After the speeches _______ with thanks, we stood up to make our exit. But as she rose, my grandmother _______ into the wheelchair ramp (坡道) that provided the disabled with _______ to the stage. The wheelchair ramps had _______ edges, which cut her leg right open. The blood was _______. I put my head ________ my knees because I thought I was going to faint (昏倒). ________ somebody took control of the situation. That person was Robert Downey.

He ordered someone to call a(n)________. He took off his gorgeous suit, ________ his sleeves, and grabbed my grandmother’s leg. Then he took the suit, which I’d ________ he’d taken off only to get it ________, and he tied it around her wound. I watched the suit turn red with her ________. He knew how to speak to her, ________ her, and—most critically—play to her vanity (虚荣心). He told her how beautiful her legs were. He stayed with her until the ambulance came.

Believe it or not, I hurried into the ambulance without a word. I was too ________ and too shy to thank him.

We all have things we wish we’d said, moments we’d like to revisit and re-experience. Rarely do we get that chance to ________ those times when words completely ________ us.

【推荐2】I live in Watts in South Central L. A, and I’m fat. There are many fast food stores near my home and my mom _______ buys hamburgers for dinner. I’ve tried to talk her so many times into buying something _______. But she just doesn’t have time to do it. So I had to make better _______ for myself.

To learn more, I talked to Andres Chopin, a student at Jefferson High School who is part of an after-school program where students learn to cook and they’re taught ways to eat healthily. Andres said it’s _______ to eat whole foods, like vegetables, fruit and whole grains. Processed foods don’t _______ you as many nutrients. He told me to prepare food for myself,   _______ I had never cooked before. I thought, “I may not be a good cook, but I can prevent myself from eating things that are _______ for me.”

I learned from Andres to look more _______ to food labels for ingredients (成分) that I know are bad for me. Now I know _______ about which foods I can eat more of and which I should eat less of. I’ve been eating more fruit and I’m getting better about not going into the kitchen to see what there is to eat after I’ve already eaten.

________ a habit that you’ve had since you were young is not easy. I want to lose weight in the healthy way, something I can control for the rest of my life. With time and self-control I know I can ________ it. I can take two ways looking into the mirror at myself — feeling bad about myself or encouraging myself to ________. I choose to encourage myself.

After a month I ________10 pounds. I’m not going to ________ trying to eat better. The changes I’ve made ________ me to keep on going. I can still do better.

【推荐3】Being a parent is already a life-changing experience. However, this 40-year-old dad______an astonishing transformation after a hike with his kids.

Before Jeremiah Peterson looked like a supermodel, he weighed 290 pounds. He was only ________to lose weight after he went on a ________ with his family in 2017 and became aware how quickly he got ________ from the activity.

“Instead of remembering all the good ________ we had made on this trip, all I can remember is this one thing that kept playing in my head over and over again: I found myself running out of breath and having to take ________ before my 9-, 7- and 4-year-old kids,” Peterson wrote on Instagram.

The dad from Missoula, Montana then ________ himself to get into shape.

________, he started by giving up drinking and ________ a balanced diet. Every day for five months straight, he would hike for two hours and spend one more hour at the gym.

After 150 days of a strict diet and lots of ________, Peterson lost 92 pounds. Not only that, he can now run ________ up the hiking trail that once made him extremely exhausted.

Peterson now uses his story and fitness knowledge to coach and ________ almost 100,000 social media followers — but he says that his kids are the real _________for his success.

“Finding your reason is ________ if you want to achieve success in life,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “If you don’t have a strong reason behind your ________, you are less likely to get the results.”