【推荐1】I was sitting in my car at a stoplight intersection (信号灯交叉口) listening to the radio. I was_______at the moment, _______how happy I was to be inside my nice_______car. It was cold and_______outside and I thought “Life is good.”

This was a long _______.As I waited, I noticed two people huddled (挤) together at the bus stop. To my eyes, they looked_______— they looked cold and they looked poor. It _______that their coats came from a second-hand store.

The couple seemed to be doing their best to _______warm. They were huddled together and I thought to_______, “Oh, those poor people in that punishing wind.”

________they were also laughing while they were huddling. They looked to be sharing a good ________. Suddenly, I envied them much________pitying them. They didn’t seem to________the wind. They weren’t worried about their________. They weren’t looking at my car.

In that moment, I ________I had assumed this couple needed my pity, but they didn’t. I ________things were all bad for them, but they weren’t and I understood we all have the ________to make moments of happiness happen.

Creating our own ________is something all of us can do — Try to be happy within the context of the life that we’re ________living. Happiness is not a ________to be longed for, or a collection of lucky coincidence. Through the power of our own minds, we can help ourselves.

【推荐2】This afternoon I was driving home after visiting my mom. I took the route that was more like a canyon(峡谷)drive with beautiful sceneries.________I heard a pop. I knew what happened-a big flat tire! I________ to the side, but this was a canyon drive with not much shoulder space. What’s worse, it________to be around a bend that people couldn’t see me, which made the situation________.

Cars were passing me with no________of slowing down. I got________in the car, feeling very________After what seemed a few hours, I________a car stopping at a distance behind me. A gentleman ________out and signaled to other drivers. With his help, I________to walk out of the car very carefully. Then he moved my car a bit out of the way while I was________the police to seek help. After much back and forth, they said________they gave me priority(优先权)since I was in a dangerous place，they needed at least 20-30 minutes to send________,The gentleman offered to check my spare tire while I was making the call. ________ ,by the time I was waiting, the gentleman had changed my________!I felt a wave of ________ coming over me. I told him if he hadn’t stopped by and helped me, I would have felt________.He just laughed.

Even after we________,I saw in my mirror that the car just followed me to________I was OK.I thought how lucky I was to be the________of such kindness in a hot dry afternoon.

Bad things can happen, but life will bend toward goodness.

【推荐1】Mrs. Doyle was a hero. She will be awarded the Legion of Honor, France’s highest decoration, in honor of her in ______ helping to liberate the country from the Nazis.

Mrs. Doyle was one of the female agents ______ for the Special Operations Executive (SOE). She engaged in gathering ______ ahead of the D-Day landings. “It wasn’t until after my first round of ______ that I was told to become a member of it,” she said in a rare interview.

“We ______ how to get in a high window, and how to climb over roofs without being ______,” she recalled.

After the training, she was ______ behind enemy lines under a code name, Paulette. ______ aged 23, she dressed up like a poor 14-year-old French girl to make the Germans less suspicious. She used bicycles to _______the area, passing information through coded messages.

The ______ would take half an hour to send and the Germans need an hour and a half to pick up the ______. She would have just enough time to send her message and move on before being ______.

She would sleep rough in forests and was ______ to hunt for food, or stay with our supporters. “One family I stayed with told me we were ______ a squirrel,” she told the Army News, “I found out later it was a rat. I was half ______ so I didn’t care.”

It wasn’t until the last 15 years or so that Mrs. Doyle made known her career as a ______ “My eldest son found out by ______ something on the Internet, and my children ______ I send off for my medals,” she said.

“I was asked if I wanted them to be ______ presented to me, and I said no, I didn’t, it was my family who wanted them.”

Laurent Contini, the French ambassador to New Zealand, said, “I have deep ______ for her bravery and it will be with great honor that I will present her with the award.”

【推荐3】The bond between mother and daughter is irreplaceable. One of the most famous women scientists of the 20th century, Marie Curie, worked _______ her daughter Irene in the field of radioactivity, each of them _______ earning their own Nobel Prize. Today, there are more _______ mother-and-daughter pairs showing what happens when _______ works together.

In April 2020, Dr. Cynthia Kudji and her daughter Dr. Jasmine Kudji have become the first mother and daughter to _______ from the medical school at the same time and be placed in the same hospital. Cynthia Kudji put her dream of becoming a _______on hold when she became pregnant (怀孕的) at 23. She worked as a nurse for almost a decade _______ making the decision to attend the medical school at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences. _______, her daughter Jasmine attended Louisiana State University School of medicine.

At first, it was _______ for them to live and study so far apart from one another. “I thought initially it was hard because my mom and I had always been really ________ so I had to get used to the ________,” Dr. Jasmine Kudji explains to Afro Tech. Although the experience was difficult, it also had ________ results. “Sometimes people struggle to find someone who ________ their struggles, so for that person to be my mom was extremely helpful,” she adds.

After years apart, both Cynthia and her daughter earned their M. D. degree. Then on “Match Day” when recent med school graduates ________ the results of their residency (高级专科住院生实习期) applications, Cynthia and Jasmine learned that they were ________ in the same hospital.

This pair of mother and daughter proves that family can do anything together.