【推荐2】I sat at my desk staring at the letter. It was written by a friend of mine who was _______ some difficult times. It listed problem after problem and seemed full of _______. It ended with these words: “I would like to have faith, but I have always had trouble _______what I can’t see.”

After a while I still hadn’t thought of _______ to answer my friend’s letter. Hoping a walk would _______. I headed out the back door. The warm, golden _______ of spring warmed my face. A fresh breeze carried the _______smell of a thousand budding trees on. A butterfly danced from flower _______ flower. Some birds were flying back and forth to the tree _______fresh grass and thin branches to decorate their nests ________ the road, my new neighbor’s children were playing in her backyard ________ a big ball. It was such a ________ seeing her young child chasing after it with such ________.

The laughter of the children ________with the sound of insects in the woods ________ a unique and beautiful music. I started to walk ________. When I got inside the house, I knew what to write. I went to my friend’s letter and wrote of ________ I had just seen, smelled, ________, and felt in those brief moments outside. ________I finished by writing this: “I think we all can see the good things! We just need to know where to ________!”

【推荐3】I was really worse off (更糟的). I had only $10 and even didn’t have ___ to eat breakfast or pack my own lunch that day. As I ___ my son to school, I noticed a man walking on the road. I’d seen him before — elderly, worn, ___ in whatever rags he could find and ___ on a piece of branch as a walking stick. ___ I’d always pack two sandwiches in case I saw him or anyone else in need. I also noticed a lady ___ fresh fruit cups ($5)&fruit bowls ($7)on the roadside. I prayed (祈祷) I’d see him when I came back in the ___ to go to work. I did, and he was sitting on the bus stop bench right next to the fruit seller! I pulled over (向路边停靠), ___ a bowl of fruit, told her to keep the ___ and immediately turned to give the ____ to the man. As I jumped back into my car to rush to work, the lady stopped me and gave me a(n) ____ fruit bowl! I know she had it hard financially (财政上). So I refused but she ____ I take it.

When I got to work I took a different ____ that I don’t usually use, which passed my favorite store, so I ____ to say good morning to the ladies working there. The ATM was right there, and as I passed, I ____ stepped on a $10 bill 1ying on the ground! I ____ but there was no one who just used the ATM. I asked the girls in the store if they may have ____ it and they said no, and told me it was a ____ and persuaded me to take it.

Later, during lunchtime, a coworker said she’d brought too much food and ____ me half. Another co-worker had the same problem so we had a ____ feast!

You get what you give, and blessings come just when you need it.

【推荐1】Nancy was out for a day hike in the mountains of Washington state in October when she first spotted a hiker in a red jacket heading north towards Canada without snowshoes. The hiker was named Katharina. She traveled from Munich（慕尼黑）and was________to hike the entire

2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail.

Katharina and Nancy spent several hours________while hiking side-by-side along the trail until they________. Nancy, however, could not stop________the German hiker, so she decided to check the daily________along the trail（路径）from her home in Salta, Washington.

Only a few days later, a________rolled in. Concerned for her new friend, Nancy posted on a local hiker's forum asking if anyone had_________a German hiker heading north. Someone reported they had run into her two days previously—but________had seen her since.

Nancy couldn't shake the feeling that Katharina was________, so she called rescue services and told them about the ________hiker. Since she knew that Katharina had________to hike 15 miles every day, she________how far along the trail the German hiker would likely be based on the weather and how much she was________.

Sure enough, Katharina had________down—to a pace of 7 miles per day. She was________wet and showing signs of frostbite. She was running out of food and her________had lost service. Katharina was prepared for the worst—________ then suddenly, a rescue helicopter spotted her red jacked based on Nancy's exact calculations. Katharina was________.

She was then________to stay with Nancy at her home, where the two have become "Wild" friends, and even though Katharina didn't________the trail, she gained something more important—a friendship she would treasure forever.

【推荐3】Last month, I slept through a flight from London to Beijing. Upon waking up, I was shocked to discover that I could no longer _________ my right arm and fingers. My arm just simply did not follow my brain’s _________, as if it no longer _________ my body.

The doctor at the China-Japan Friendship Hospital _________ me to have suffered neural (神经的) injury. Aside from _________ that I see a physiotherapist (理疗师), he only told me, “Rest for two months first and come back for _________ check-up.”

In that moment of _______, a long-time family friend, who is an acupuncturist (针灸师) in Sichuan, _______ to help. I started my acupuncture _______ the next day. I was skeptical at first, but my ____________ was soon beaten by the results. After a few days, I could move my __________. Two weeks later, I could have meals using chopsticks. After a month, my arm and fingers were almost back to their ____________ functions.

In that clinic, I heard many other patients’ ________. One 11-year-old boy, who was born with ________ autism (自闭症), was treated at the age of three, and now he communicates quite __________. One lady, who suddenly became deaf two months ago, has just __________ her hearing.

I’m surprised at how these ________ needles can cure so many illnesses, many of which even big hospitals with expensive medical devices __________ with. Is it magic? No! But it is the right __________ of the Chinese tradition that brings __________ and happiness to friends here and farther.

【推荐2】I lost my sight when I was four years old by falling off a box car in a goods yard in Atlantic City and landing on my head. Now I can dimly remember the ______ of sunshine and what color red is. It would be wonderful to see again, but a(n) catastrophe(灾难) can do strange things to people.

It ______ to me the other day that I might not have come to love life as I do if I hadn’t been blind. I believe in life now. I am not so sure that I would have believed in it so deeply, otherwise. I don’t mean that I would prefer to ______ without my eyes. I simply mean that the loss of them made me appreciate the more what I had left.

Life, I believe, asks for a continuous series of ______ to reality. In spite of the fact that they are never easy, I had my parents and teachers to help. The hardest lesson I had to learn was to believe in myself. If I hadn’t been able to do that, I would have ______ and become a chair rocker on the front porch for the rest of my life. When I say belief in myself, I am not talking about ______ the kind of self-confidence that helps me down an ______ staircase alone. That is part of it. But I mean something bigger than that: an assurance that I am, despite ______ , a real, positive person; that there is a special place where I can make myself ______ .

It took me years to discover and strengthen this assurance. It had to start with the most elementary things. Once a man gave me an indoor baseball, I thought he was laughing at me and I was hurt. “I can’t use this.” I said. “Take it with you,” he urged me, “and roll it around.” The words ______ in my head. “Roll it around!” By rolling the ball I could hear where it ______ . This gave me an idea how to achieve a goal I had thought ______ : playing baseball. At Philadelphia’s Overbrook School for the Blind I invented a successful variation of baseball. We called it ground ball.

All my life I have set ahead of me a series of goals and then tried to achieve them, one at a time. I had to learn my ______ . It was no good crying for something that I knew at the start was wildly out of ______ because that only ______ the bitterness of failure. I would fail sometimes anyway, but on the average, I made progress.