【推荐1】Why do so few people find fulfillment in their work? Amy Wrzesniewski, a Yale School of Management professor who studies these issues, offered an explanation that made a lot of ______. Students, she said, “think their calling is under a rock, and if they ______ enough rocks, they will find it.”

Surveys confirm that meaning is the top thing Millennials (千禧一代) say they want from a job. And yet her research shows that less than 50% of people see their work as a calling. So, many of her students are left feeling anxious, ______, and completely unsatisfied by the good jobs and careers they do secure.

What they—and many of us, I think—fail to realize is that work can be ______ even if you don’t think of it as a calling. The four most common occupations in America are retail (零售) salesperson, cashier, food preparer/server, and office clerk—jobs that aren’t typically ______ “meaning.” But all have something in common with those professions that are, such as teachers and doctors: They exist to help others. And as Adam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has shown, people who see their work as a form of

That means you can find meaning in nearly any role in nearly any organization. ______, most companies create products or services to fill a need in the world, and all employees contribute in their own ways. The key is to become more conscious about the service you’re providing—______ and personally.

How? One strategy is to constantly remind yourself of your organization’s main ______. Life Is Good is a clothing company best known for colorful T-shirts with stick-figure designs, but its mission is to spread

Even if you can’t get excited about your company’s mission or customers, you can still adopt a service attitude by thinking about how your work ______ those you love. Consider a study of women working in a shoe factory in Mexico. Researchers found that those who described the work as dull were generally less productive than those who said it was ______. But the effects went away for those in the former group who saw the work (however boring) as a way to support their families. With that attitude, they were just as productive and ______ as the workers who didn’t mind the task.

Not everyone finds their one true calling. But that doesn’t mean we’re fated to work meaningless jobs. If we ______ our tasks as opportunities to help others, any occupation can feel more significant.

【推荐2】Katie Whetsell’s job is to bring others joy. As a 10-year employee of Disney, she _________ families from around the world.

Katie always wanted to be a(n) _________. Fascinated by musicals and Disney movies from an early age, she __________ to sing along with her mom, Karen. When Katie was 9 years old, her happy life _________ forever. Her mother was diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer (卵巢癌晚期). Karen’s family _________ to take their dream vacation. They went to Disney World in November 1997.

The Whetsells _________ no expense, staying at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort for eight nights. They spent their days in the _________, pushing Karen’s wheelchair so she could see the sights and greet the characters. The _________ allowed the family to escape their tragic reality for a world of magic and laughter.

Katie says she’ll never _________ the moment that changed her life: The Whetsells decided to see one of Disney World’s famed light shows one evening. During the _________ , a Disney cast member came up to Karen and rested a hand on her shoulder. They exchanged _________ and Katie remembers how peaceful her mother looked. The _________ was moved to tears.Katie had a new _________ , to work for Disney. “Who wouldn’t want to work with a company that makes people feel hope?”

________, Karen passed away on June 2, 2003. 

Katie went on to pursue performing for a living. After receiving a(n) _________ in musical theater (音乐剧), she moved to New York City in 2006 to start auditioning (试演). She worked as a waitress and __________ to get acting jobs. Her hard work finally __________ when she was hired to work on Disney Cruise Lines in 2009. _________, she performed in “Disney on Classic” in Tokyo. 

Since then, Katie has never lost sight of the fact that she brings __________ to many people every day. She says it’s a dream come true to help other families __________ the suffering of their lives, whether it’s a battle with cancer or simply helping adults feel young again.

【推荐1】As a librarian, Jennifer William’s mother used to read to her children every day. Therefore, it was her mother who got her ________ to books. “Not until we went to kindergarten,” Williams told vadogwood.com, a local news site. “Until we went to college.”

When Williams, now 54, became a school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her students to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids had ________ access to books.

“It’s very ________ to teachers which kids are read to versus (相对于) kids who are not”, she said. “It’s obvious at the end of the first day of school.” To Williams, the solution was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, as part of an event called Engage Danville, she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. Most people would be satisfied with that. Most.

“I was like, ‘________ could do that;’” she said. “I wanted to do something that’s going to ________ my faith, my dream, my everything.”So she set a new ________ for herself: Give away one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams ________ on Facebook: “Don’t ________ in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field!”

So she got to work, first by persuading (说服) friends to ________ books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’ project ________, strangers started leaving bundles of books on her front door.

In the four years she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to reach her goal! And she’s not slowing down. It’s too important for kids with few ________.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she told CNN. “You can feel ________ in time and space. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

【推荐2】I opened the hotel curtains to find dark rainy streets. After training in nearly 100-degree weather in St. Louis, I wasn't _______ a rainy 55-degree day. However, it didn't _______because it was marathon day.

My group _______with ponchos (雨披) on. I took off the poncho around Mile 9 as the rain seemed less _______.

I was still energized at Mile 13, and supporters were still _______ us on. Not too long after Mile 20, I was feeling some _______ in my legs. I never stopped though. I just put my head up and _______ going. As Mile 22 passed, I _______ and I began to cry, but kept on moving. The view alongside was _______ and it kept my mind busy.

At the end of Mile 25, my body was beat. As I saw that finish line in the wind, I put all my__________into running for it. The__________said my name and made some careless Irish remarks that I can't remember, and I__________the line in total tiredness. Some staff__________me my marathon medal, bottled water, and helped me keep warm.

Traveling for my first marathon will be__________remembered. I could not have done this without the__________of my family, friends, Coach Rich, my teammates and my sister, who gave me the strength to__________. As Norman D. Vaughan, the surviving member of the Byrd Antarctic Expedition said, “Dream big and be __________ to fail. ”

【推荐1】Inspiration can be a strange thing. You never know when it might hit. And sometimes, it can come from the most _______places.

I recently read about an author named Nnedi Okorafor. When she was in college, she had a serious spine disorder（脊椎病）. Okorafor was told that a simple operation could_________it. But when she woke up from her_________, she found that she couldn’t move her legs and was in great pain.

Okorafor got well later. But before she did, she saw strange things in her hospital room. She imagined her_________as a beast that hunted her from the shadows. But she also_________a woman-a woman who could fly. In fact, this     _______woman inspired her and helped her forget her pain. “I felt myself become_________.” she wrote in her book Broken Places & Outer Spaces: Finding Creativity in the Unexpected.

We never know where we might find the inspiration to create. As a_________, most of my inspiration comes from other people’s music. But I also find_________in other places. Books, movies and__________just moments in everyday life can lead to new creations.

__________, I recently rewatched the film Blade Runner. I’ve seen it plenty times before; it’s one of my favorite movies. But this time, for some reason, I saw it__________. I decided to make that could create the same feeling as the ________. It’s not done yet, but the music I’m working on now is heavily influenced by the movie’s setting and characters.

Anything can   __________us. You just have to be__________to catch inspiration when it hits.

【推荐2】One night I was short of breath and my chest felt tight. It was _______ a sudden attack of asthma (哮喘), so I took some oral steroids (口服类固醇). In the following days, I _________ to take high doses of them. _______, to my disappointment, the result was far from what I expected. My doctor _______ that I should be admitted to hospital. Eventually, I was there.

To deal with the _________ of long days at the hospital, I brought my computer with me. My consistent strategy during such a hard time was _______.

It’s not difficult to find how ________such a coping tool has been for me and how large a part words have played in _______me. Every time I’m under ________, I keep journals. They have always been the place where I can __________ and get in touch with my inner self. Through putting innermost thoughts into words, I can be______of what is going wrong and finaly ________ the problem. Of course, I then feel relieved and cheerful. Writing is actually a ________process.

_______keeping journals, I regularly update my columns. Each week, I post one article. Whenever seeing people ________my post and share their opinions with me, I know my stories resonate (产生共鸣) with them, which brings mẹ a strong sense of _____. The joy that writing brings me is undeniable, which inspires me to keep moving.

There is __________ behind the statement that writing can improve our mental well-being. James Pennebaker, a social psychologist, states, “When something ______happens, the brain tends to play the non-constructive thought patterns over and over again and thus we become stuck. In such a case, writing ________ us in looking back,constructing a narrative, and then organizing ideas.”

Needless to say, I have no intention of stopping in future ________ writing takes root in my life and keeps enriching my life.