【推荐1】A businesswoman got into a taxi in midtown. As it was the rush hour and she was in a ________ to catch a train, she ________ a quick way to reach it. “I have been a taxi driver for 15 years!” the driver said ________. “You don’t think I know the best way to go?”

The woman tried to explain that she hadn’t ________ to annoy him, but the driver kept shouting. She finally realized that he was too annoyed to be ________, so she changed her ________. “You know, you are right,” she told him. “It must seem ________ for me not to think you know the best way through the city.”

________, the driver glanced at his ________ in the rearview mirror (后视镜), turned down the street she wanted and got her to the train on time. “He didn’t say another word the rest of the ride,”she said, “Until I got out and paid him. Then he thanked me.”

When you find yourself ________ with people like the taxi driver, you will always try to ________ your idea. It can lead to longer arguments, lose job chances or even ________ marriages. I have discovered one simple method though extremely unlikely method that can prevent the disagreement or other difficult situations from ________ in a disaster.

The ________ is to put yourself in the other person’s shoes and look for the truth in what that person is saying. Find a way to ________, and the result may surprise you.

【推荐2】A former teacher who went on to join the navy (海军) discovered the influence his small act of kindness had on one student thanks to a chance meeting years later.

_______ the story online, the man said while _______ science in 2015, there was one girl who sat at the front of the class and was filled with typical middle school anxiety.

She was _______ and kept to herself, but was always writing in a _______ during lessons. He said: “I decided to see what she was _______.” “I'm tiny. I'm ugly. I'm _______. No one likes me. I hate myself. Etc.”

“Without thinking, I _______ the notebook from her and started writing in it. You're great. you're _______. you're intelligent. You're loved. The opposite of everything she wrote, then handed it back.”

He said neither of them made a big deal of it at the time, but she _______ started opening up to him, ________ more and coming out of her shell in class.

Fast forward a few ________, the teacher says he's now in the ________ and gets talking to a woman when serving on the other side of the country and they ________ they are from the same area.

They realize he had taught at the same ________ her cousin attended and she asked if he ________ teaching her.

After recounting (讲述) the story about the ________, the woman replied: “No freaking way. It is you. She still has that notebook. She ________ it time to time to get her through the ________ times.”

He wrote: “Teachers always talk about how rare it is to hear from ________ in the future about how they ________ them. I only taught for a few years but I really tried and really cared.”

【推荐3】Many years ago, I was working in an office in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We had large _______ that look out over a busy street. I was standing by one of those windows one day when a woman in a _______ car looked up and made eye contact. Naturally I ______ as she turned and tried to identify me, a quiet laugh ______ my lips. My co-workers began talking an interest, and stood back watching the ______ I received, and laughing happily. Then the stress of work was ________away.

Christmas approached, and job ______ were announced. Several of my co-workers were losing their jobs, and everyone was _______. While I was working a night shift, a red jacket, a box of foam（泡沫橡胶）packing and strips of tape in the corner attracted my ______. They could be Santa’s jacket and beard! Then I folded a red file into a hat and tied the ______ to it. With the red jacket, a Santa’s Costume appeared.

The next day I walked ______ down into the office in the costume. My co-workers _______ around me and laughed for the first time in weeks. Suddenly, my boss came to me, _______ , shook his head and then left. I feared _______. Then the phone rang.

With a bead of sweat ______ my forehead, I entered the boss’s office. _______, he laughed, “Thanks, Mike! It’s been hard to enjoy the Christmas season. Thanks for the laugh. I _______ it.”

【推荐2】At the age of 60, my father was hit by a car when he walked to a nearby supermarket to buy vegetables. After sleeping for two months in hospital, he finally woke up. His waking up ___________ all our family. ___________, he didn’t know any of us. Doctors said his brain was hurt so ___________ that he had lost all his memory. And his mental age (心理年龄) was only five. We were sorry to hear about the bad news.

Since I was his only child, it was my ___________ to look after him. He forgot ___________ everything, but he did remember he liked sweets. I used the sweets as a way of ___________ bad behaviors. I would gave him one sweet if he didn’t sit on the ground, a second for stopping painting on the wall, and another for not trying to put clothes on the dog.

Dad became the ___________ child in town. He climbed up the tree to catch a bird and couldn’t get down after it flew away. He broke my window with a ball and ___________ our telephone in water like washing clothes. When I told him he was doing wrong things, he would answer smilingly, “I like that!” My son, then aged five, and two eight-year-old daughters, welcomed their ___________ playmate. He would happily make them real cigarettes, ____________ his sweets with them, and carry them high in the apple tree to ____________ apples.

It is eight years since the ____________. Dad has accepted the fact that he is the ____________ of his three playmates but not a brother. He has also accepted that they grow taller but his ____________ stays the same. Though it is still ____________ to take care of him, he brings us a lot of fun. In some way I think it is a happy thing to look after dad like looking after a child. How many people can have the chance to care for a child-like parent?

【推荐3】When you lose your wallet somewhere, you can pretty much kiss that wallet and anything in it goodbye. But 20-year-old Hunter Shamatt had a _________ person watching out for him.

Hunter was _________ on his visit to his sister's wedding in Las Vegas. However, it was far too _________ when he realized that he had lost his wallet on his _________ from Omaha the next day. That wallet had his ID, $60 in cash, a debit card and a signed paycheck (付薪水的支票).

But just a few days later,after Hunter had flown back home， he _________ a package sent by a stranger. Inside it was his wallet together with everything he had _________ along with it, as well as a little more _________. The package also _________ a letter comforting Hunter with only initials. Through the return address on the package, and with the _________ of a news station, Hunter and his family were able to __________ Todd Brown, the kind man who returned Hunter's wallet.

Hunter's mother, Jeannie Shamatt, __________ this on her personal page: “I personally want to __________ Todd Brown and his wife for __________ faith that there are amazing people out there and the __________ is not as grim (阴沉的) as it's being made out to be. It is __________ with love.”