【推荐1】The pea incident happened when I was eight. My grandmother, my mother and I were having lunch at a restaurant. I _______ a Salisbury steak. When served, it was _______ accompanied by a plate of peas.

I have always _______ peas. It is a complete _______ to me why anyone would voluntarily eat peas.

“Eat your peas,” my grandmother said.

“Mother,” said my mother in her _______ voice. “He doesn’t like peas. Leave him alone.”

My grandmother _______ at me and said the words that _______ my life, “I’ll pay you five dollars _______ you eat those peas. Five dollars! And only one plate of peas stood between _______ and the possession of that ________ amount of money. I began to ________ the awful things down my throat and finally swallowed the ________ one of them. My grand-mother handed me the ________. I can do what I want, Ellen, and you can’t stop me,” she ________ to my mother. My mother glared at her and also glared at me ________ .

Several days later, at dinner, my mother offered me some steaming peas and I, of course, ________. My mother fixed me with a ________eye as she ________ more peas onto my plate. “You ate them for money,” she said, “You can eat them for love.”

Oh, despair! Now, too late, I realized that I had been ________ in a terrible place from which there was no ________. “You ate them for money. You can eat them for love.” Did I eat the peas? You bet I did. I ate them that day and every other time they were served thereafter.

【推荐2】Within two years of first showing signs of memory loss, Peter Marshall had to give up work as early onset Alzheimer’s began to take hold.

His wife Lisa started a blog called “Oh Hello Alzheimer’s” to help her cope with the progressive _________ of her husband’s fading memory. “I get _________ every day from people saying, ‘Thank you—now I don’t feel so alone’,” she said.

As the disease _________, Peter’s memory _________ faded and he began to refer to Lisa as his “favourite person”. Then, one day last year, they were watching a wedding _________ on television when Peter suddenly looked at his wife and said, “Let’s do it!” “Well, OK, we should get married then,” she told him.

The next day, _________, Peter appeared to have forgotten all about it. Still, with the 20th _________ of their wedding approaching this year, the idea seemed to make sense to Lisa in the face of her husband’s rapid _________. Sarah, Lisa’s daughter from a marriage before she met Peter, helped organize the event. “I knew that my stepdad, who I am very close with, was there through some of the _________ times of my life.”

When Lisa joined her husband to __________ vows for the second time, his delight was clear for all to see. “It was just magical—straight out of a __________,” she said.

The music __________ the theme of the day: a saxophonist played Unforgettable as Lisa walked down the aisle.

“There wasn’t a dry eye, and I was __________.” Lisa said. “I hadn’t seen Peter that happy in a long time.” As they danced while guests __________. Lisa said her husband __________ a few words in her ear. “Thank you for staying,” he said.

【推荐3】I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. I was a college freshman and had stayed up most of the ______ before laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ______ of the day my eyelids were feeling ______ and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a pillow. It wouldn’t ______ to spend a few minutes napping (小睡，打盹) before class, I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my ______ beating wildly trying to find the cause of the ______. My young professor was looking back at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had ______ dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk. “Good morning!” he said still ______. “I am glad to see everyone is ______. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock, either. It was instead from the ______ discussion he led. With knowledge and ______ he made the material come ______. His insights (洞察力，见解) were full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he ______ with were contagious (有感染力的). I ______ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little ______ and a little better as well.

I learned something far more important than not ______ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, and do it with ______. What a wonderful place this would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Let your love fill your work. Don’t sleepwalk your way through ______. Wake up! Life is too _____ not to live it well.

【推荐1】This past summer, I applied for my very first job at a small bakery in my neighborhood. I knew that if I were _______ there, I would learn how to use a cash register, prepare sandwiches, and _______ cake orders. I imagined that my biggest struggle would be _______ demanding New Yorkers, but I never thought that the act of tying a box would become both my biggest _______ and greatest teacher.

On my first day of work in late August, one of the employees quickly explained the _______. It seemed simple: wrap the string (绳子) around your hand, then wrap it three times around the box both ways, and fasten it. I _______ the message in my head, “three times, turn it, three times, tie it” until it became my prayer. After observing several employees, it was _______ that anyone tying the box could complete it in a matter of seconds. For weeks, I failed endlessly, only to watch the strong and small pieces of my pride unravel (散开) each time I tried.

As I _______ to push half-tied cake boxes into plastic bags with embarrassment, I could not help but _______ what was wrong with me. ________ the weeks progressed, my skills slowly began to improve. Of course, there were days when I just wanted to throw all of the string in the trash and use tape (胶带) instead; this sense of defeat was never ________, but remarks like “Oh, you must be ________” from impatient customers made me angry and determined to try even harder.

Gradually I began to realize that I should not be ________ if it takes me longer to learn. I kept on, and I continued to tie boxes every weekend at work. Even though I occasionally fell back into desperation, I always rewrapped the string around my hand and ________ over because I learned that the most satisfying victories come from not ________.

The easy way out isn't always the easiest. I learned that lesson when I decided to treat Doug, my husband of one month, to a special meal. I_______to make homemade bread. Knowing the bread would take time, I_______it as soon as Doug left for work.

As I was not_______in cooking, I thought if a dozen was good, two dozen would be better, so I _______everything. As Doug loved oranges, I also opened a can of orange and _______it all into the bowl. Soon there was a sticky dough covered with _______yellowish marks. Realizing I was _______，I put the dough in the rubbish bin outside so I wouldn't have to_______Doug laughing at my work. I went on preparing the rest of the_______, and when Doug got home, we sat down to Cornish chicken with rice. He tried to enjoy the meal but seemed ________. Twice he got up and went outside, saying he heard a________.

The third time he left, I went to the window to see what he was doing. I saw Doug standing about three feet from the ________,holding the lid up with a stick and looking ________.When I came out of the house, he dropped the stick and explained that there was something ________in our rubbish bin. Picking up the stick again, he held the lid up enough for me to see. I felt________. But I stepped closer and looked harder. Without ________it was my work. The hot________had caused the dough to double in size and the fermenting yeast made the surface________ and sigh as though it were breathing.

I could see why Doug was shaken. I had to admit what the“________” was and why it was there. I don't know who was more________by the whole thing — Doug or me.

【推荐3】See Me

The sun prepared to rest for the evening. Saying goodbye to the clan (家族), I headed back to camp. I looked forward to setting my _______ aside for an evening to reflect on my time in Ethiopia.

“Photo, photo”, a voice behind me called. A young Surma boy followed closely at my heels as I breathed a tired sigh. Over the past four days, many in the camp had wanted their photograph _______. I had no energy left after this long day, but the boy kept appealing, “Photo, photo.” He managed to catch my gaze. With eyes full of _______, he asked me once more: “photo?”

As I looked at him, an idea flashed before me. I knelt in the cornfield and instructed the boy how to _______ . Suddenly, he became shy, losing his _______. No matter how I instructed him, I couldn’t capture the shot. Frustrated, I _______. I looked at the boy, who seemed _______.

In an effort to cheer him, I said, “You were great.” Others from his clan gathered around, cheering and clapping. The boy’s face broke into a smile. I intuitively took shots of the moment. That photograph turned out to be better than the arrangement I’d imagined because it was _______.

Reflecting on my experience, I realized I had been caught up in my own ideas and wants. When I agreed to take the shot, I was looking for a particular end _______ for myself. But all the boy had really wanted was to be __________. That was the moment that needed to be captured.