【推荐1】I believe in miracles because I’ve seen so many of them. One day, a patient was referred to me who was one hundred and two years old. “There’s a _________ in my upper jaw, ” she said. “I told my own dentist it was nothing, but he _________ I come to see you. ”

Her eighty-year-old son accompanied her. He would _________ to add something, but she stopped him. She wanted to tell everything herself. I found a large cancer that spread over much of the _________ of her mouth. A careful examination later _________ that it was a particularly bad sort of cancer.

During her next appointment, I explained to her the _________ of the problem. She clasped my hand in hers and said, “I know you’re worried about me, but I’m just _________. ”

I thought otherwise. After considerable _________ on my part, and kindness on her part because she wanted to please me, she agreed to have me refer her to a cancer surgeon. She saw him, but as I expected, _________ treatment.

About six months later she returned to my office, still energetic and __________.

“How are you?” I asked.

“I’m just fine, honey, ”she responded in high spirits. “When can I get started on fixing my dentures (假牙)?”

Surprised to see her at all, I answered __________, “Let me take a look in your mouth and we’ll see about it. ”

I couldn’t believe my eyes. The cancer that had covered nearly the entire roof of her mouth was gone—only one small area of redness __________.

I had read of such things happening, but had __________ seen them with my own eyes. That was my first miracle. Since then I’ve seen many others, because they keep getting easier to see. In fact, miracles are daily events for me now. And people are a miracle, for through them we have a chance to know ourselves and to __________ the miracles of one another.

Since my first miracle, I’ve come to understand that the time and place for a miracle is__________ we choose to find it.

【推荐2】Michael Evans was standing in line at the Treasurer’s Office last August, waiting to pay his taxes, when he heard a(n)____sound ahead of him. The elderly woman at the window was crying. He heard the cashier ____the woman that her house was in foreclosure( 丧失抵押品赎回权) and headed for auction(拍卖). He also heard the woman tell the cashier that her daughter had recently died. Evans, a businessman who had just buried his father, couldn’t____the idea of this woman losing her home ____after losing her child. He ____the window. “I don’t mean to butt in,” he said to the cashier, “but ____you can get her house back, I’ll pay for her taxes.” The amount added up to $5,000.

The old woman was shocked. Her despair turned to ____. The cashier left for a moment to___ that it was all right for Evans to pay it. Evans promised to go ____to the bank and come back with the money. But when he returned to the treasurer’s office, he asked   someone else waiting in line to hand the $5,000 check to the cashier. Evans was trying to ____quietly and, preferably, anonymously(匿名地).

“I didn’t want this attention,” he explained.

___, attention found him. It’s not every day that someone pays a stranger’s tax bill. As is reported, Evans often finds himself on the giving end of charitable situations, though for years he went unrecognized for it. ____ paying the elderly woman’s taxes, Evans said he did it for ____ but to make sure the lady stayed in her own house.

A few weeks after the tax____, Evans received the Spirit of Detroit Award for his lifetime of ___. Again, he didn’t want the attention, but his son felt the honor was overdue. “It was good to see my dad finally get the____ he deserves,” his son said. Michael Evans is nearing 60 and will retire soon. Before he does, he hopes that his son will ____ him in a fund-raiser to pay for a wheelchair for a boy with an incurable bone disease. And he’ll continue to___ the local youth football league team, paying for their equipment, uniforms, and out-of-state travel. His son is willing to___ the business, saying that he ____ his life after his father.

【推荐3】It was Friday morning, and Katie hurried to her classroom. She would ________ her best friend, Sarah, to work on their science project. The two girls were testing plant food mixtures on the same type of plant. Every morning, the girls measured (测量) the plants ________ to see whether they grew taller. In the afternoon, they took turns watering the plants with different types of food ________.

The four plants had been standing ________ on Wednesday afternoon. ________, they hung dangerously low now. Katie touched the soil and discovered that it was almost ________. “Oh, no!” she said to herself. “Sarah must have ________ to water them yesterday!” She ________ the plants worriedly and didn’t know what to do. Then Sarah came into the classroom.

Sarah felt ________ when she noticed the condition of the plants. “I’m ________, Katie. I was in a hurry to get to the softball practice yesterday afternoon, and I forgot to ________ the plants,” Sarah said.

Katie didn’t want to be ________ with Sarah. Whenever they worked on a project together, Sarah always had ________ ideas though sometimes she wasn’t responsible (负责的).

“What do we do now?” Katie asked Sarah. “Do you think our project will be ________?”

“No. Let’s try to save the project,” Sarah ________. She looked thoughtful as she touched the soil.

“The soil is still wet, so the plants are not ________ out of water,” Sarah said to Katie. “Go ahead and water them now. By the end of the day we should be able to tell if any permanent (永久的) ________ has been done.”

The girls quickly combined the different plant foods with water and carefully ________ the mixtures into the oil. Throughout the day they eyed the plants hopefully. Slowly the ________ leaves cheered up, and by the afternoon the plants looked ________ again.

【推荐1】Snowy wanted to be a show jumping horse. Every day she would _______ her mum to allow her to jump. Finally, her mum decided she was _____ enough and they went into the jumping arena (竞技场).

Snowy was very excited, but when she saw how ______ the jumps were, she started shaking." I can't jump that high. It's a good idea that we ________." she said. Her mum said,“I wouldn't expect you to _________ that high. There's a log (原木) on the ground. Why not start jumping over that?" Snowy gathered (积聚) her ________, walked to the log and then managed to jump over it.

“I did it!" she shouted happily. _________, her mum said,“You can't just jump over logs if you want to be a show jumper. ________ the low jump over there."

Again, Snowy was ___________but she tried it and found she could do it. As time went on, Snowy progressed to taller jumps, until finally she ________ the arena and looked at the tallest jumps. Over the past few weeks, something had _______. These jumps seemed much less ______ to Snowy. She jumped over them easily. Her mum looked with ________ at her and said,“This is what happens when you start ________ and build your way up."

So never be afraid of ________   in life, but start small and keep trying. Then you'll be able to do anything.

【推荐3】Long long time ago, in a small and distant _______, there was a place known _______ the House of 1000 Mirrors. A small, happy little dog learned of this place and _______ to visit it. When he arrived, he _______ happily up the stairs to the doorway of the house. He looked through the doorway with his ears lifted high and his tail _______ as fast as it could. To his great _______, he found himself staring at 1000 other _______ little dogs with their tails wagging just as fast as his. He smiled a great smile, and was _______ with 1000 great smiles just as warm and friendly. As he _______ the House, he thought to himself, “This is a ________ place. I will come back and visit it often.”

In the same village, ________ little dog, who was not quite as happy as the first one, was determined to visit the house. He ________ climbed the stairs and ________ his head low as he looked into the door. ________ he saw the 1000 unfriendly looking dogs staring back at him, he growled at them and was ________ to see 1000 little dogs growling back at him. As he left, he thought to himself, “That is a terrible place, and I will ________ go back there again.”

All the faces in the world are ________. When you smile at the world, the whole world will ________ at you, and vice verse (反之亦然). ________, it is you who can choose to be happy or to be upset. And what kinds of reflections (思考) do you see in the ________ of the people you meet?