【推荐1】In the middle of town lived an old man. One day he _________ his watch in his own store. It was _________ to him because it was from his wife. After searching high and low in the store for a long while, he _________ to ask for help from a group of children playing outside the store. He _________ them that the person who found it would be rewarded. _________ this, the children hurried inside the store, went through and around the _________ store, but still could not find the watch.

Soon the man felt _________ and wanted to give up. A little boy went up to him and asked for another _________. The man looked at him and thought, “Why not? After all, this kid looks sincere enough. ”So the man sent him back in the store. After a while the boy _________ with the watch in his hand！The man was very __________, and he asked the boy how he found it while the others had __________. The boy replied, “I did nothing but sat on the ground and listened. Then I heard the ticking(滴答声) of the watch and just looked for it in that __________.”

We usually think about our own needs, which can’t bring peace into our mind. __________ we need to think about ourselves and keep peaceful for a while, which can produce a __________ result. So allow a few minutes of silence to your mind every day, and see how it helps you deal with your work and make __________ as you expect to!

【推荐2】An executive was driving his new car on a street. He was _______for kids rushing out from between parked cars.

_______his car passed, a brick hit the car’s side door. He pressed hard the brake and drove the car back to the_______ from where the brick had been thrown.

He jumped out of the car,_______ a kid and pushed him up against a parked car,shouting,“What was that all about and who are you?Just what the hell are you doing?”_______more and more angry, he went on “That brick you threw will_______much money. Why did it?” “Please, mister, please, I’m sorry. I didn’t know what else to do!”_______the youngster.“My brother fell out of the wheelchair and I can’t_______him up.”Sobbing,the boy asked, “Could you help me? He’s hurt and he’s too heavy.” 

_______beyond words, the driver tried to__________the rapidly swelling lump(块)in his throat. He helped the young man back into the wheelchair and used a __________ to wipe the scrapes(擦伤)and cuts,__________ everything would be okay. 

“Thank you,” the little boy__________his brother to the sidewalk toward their home. 

After that, he never did__________the side door in order to remind him not to go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your__________.

【推荐3】I want to tell you three stories from my life. The first story is about connecting the _______ . When I was at Reed College, it offered perhaps the best calligraphy _______   in the country. I decided to take a calligraphy class. At that time none of what I learned about calligraphy seemed to have even a(n) _______ of any practical application. But later when we were _______ the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we put it all into the Mac. Of course, you can only connect the dots looking backwards. But you have to trust that the dots will _______ connect in your future.

My second story is about love. I _______ Apple at twenty. And then at thirty, I got fired. _______ something slowly began to strike me -- I still loved what I did. And so I decided to start over. In a wonderful turn of _______ , I returned to Apple. The only thing that kept me going was that I _______ what I did. So, if you haven’t found what your interest, keep looking. Don’t ________ .

My third story is about death. About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs ________ , which is doctors’ code for “prepare to ________ . ” Later it turned out to be curable(可治愈的) with surgery. I had the surgery and, ________ , I am fine now. This was the closest I’ve been to facing death.

Having ________ it, I can now say this to you: Your time is limited, so don’t ________   it living someone else’s life.

【推荐1】At Christmas time, I often reflect upon one particular evening in the early 1960s. Back then, we decided to go carolling ( 唱圣诞颂歌) to spread the Christmas spirit which might ____ someone else’s life. So we quickly _______   members, for whom the only _______   was   warmth of spirit.

Soon we discovered that carolling brought various_______. Sometimes we were greeted with open doors and open hearts, while other times, folks remained in the safety and cosiness of their homes, watching___ through their windows.

One stop on our journey particularly_____ our memory. That night, after a couple of   songs, one   door swung open. A gentleman,   gray-haired, tenderly_______   we go   upstairs to sing for his bedridden(长期卧床的) wife. He added _______, “She loves music and used to be an opera singer.”

We   stepped briskly upward into the couple’s_____ apartment. Books, records, and     antique furniture whispered   stories to us. I reminded myself not to stare _______   invading       their privacy.

Sitting beside his wife,   the gentleman gave us a______. Then our   voices rose and     lingered around their small home. Had our voices been given extra___ and beauty for this occasion? Perhaps they had.

A smile flickered on the woman’s_____, yet beautiful face. She snuggled her head   against her husband’s shoulder and both of them heartily enjoyed our performance. Witnessing such a heartwarming scene, we felt it was a holy night, for we were in the ________   of love that was gentle and mild.

At that moment, we found, and maybe even____, the Christmas spirit.

【推荐3】Lewis B. Smedes once said, “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” For years Tom Anderson’s life was withered (枯萎) by the memory of his ________ in an adventure that ________ the death of one of his classmates. He and his wife ________ after six years of marriage. Then the news about Tom Anderson changed. His wife Betty came back; he ________ a fine position.

One day he told me what had changed his life, “I used to think nothing could ________ what I had done. The thought of my ________ would stop me in the middle of a smile. It put a ________ between my wife and me. Then I had an ________ visit from the person I dreaded (恐惧) most to see — the mother of the college classmate who died. ‘ ________ you forgive, you cannot love,’ she said. ‘And without love, life has no meaning. She paused, and then said ________ , ‘You are the only person who hasn’t forgiven Tom Anderson.’ I found there in her eyes ________ to be the person I might have been if her boy had lived. For the first time in my life, I felt ________ to be loved.”

It is only through forgiveness of our mistakes that we gain the ________ to learn from experience. But forgiving our shortcomings doesn’t mean ________ that they exist. On the contrary, it means facing them ________ .