【推荐2】Alice is a student who came to my class last year. Though she has already turned 60, Alice looks so fit and _______, with a bright smile and an enthusiastic attitude. I am Alice’s teacher in class, but I feel she is my teacher in life.

For my 2-hour class every Saturday morning, Alice has to take a 3-hour round-trip on the road. But she is never _______ for class. Alice is very passionate about learning English. She often says, “Don’t _______ me as a 60-year-old. I am just a new beginner who wants to learn anything _______. You know, I am very excited to come to the class!” So I feel a strong sense of _______ to make sure what I teach makes sense to her.

Alice came to me with very _______ English skills, but she turns out to be a very fast learner because she always puts English _______ on a daily basis. I _______ her homework before every class. Her homework is usually not what I _______ for the class, rather it is something that she ________ to put together. She makes various sentences using the important words and phrases she learned from our ________ class. I am always ________ by the quality of her work.

I feel fortunate to have a student like Alice. She has ________ me so much. Our interaction (互动) is a great learning experience for both of us. Though I have no idea why she learns English, I hope I can help her ________ her dream,________ it is.

【推荐3】My Papa Joe is 85 and has been faithfully married to my grandma for 60 years. But now his memory is _______ and he’s really starting to slow down.

Yesterday, he asked me to take him to the _______ because he wanted to get out of the house. I was _______ he asked because he shouldn’t be driving by himself. It would also _______ grandma to have the _______ to herself for a while, not having to worry about grandpa for a few hours.

I watched him, cane (拐杖) in hand, taking the tiniest _______ all around, searching through the shelves. I had no idea what he was _______; but, as I observed each item he put in the cart, I noticed a _______. They were some of my grandma’s _______ things.

He got the type of soda she liked. He ________ picked out a bag of seedless grapes she had talked about several days ago. He even ________ her a small lemon pie! And then, ________ filled my eyes as I watched him hobble (蹒跚) over to the fresh   ________and pick her the bouquet (花束) that had the most purple, her favorite color.

On our way home, he ________ we stop and grab a sandwich to take home for grandma’s lunch. May we all take a lesson from Papa Joe: Never stop ________ for our loved ones.

【推荐1】When I was a young boy, our whole family lived in my grandma’s old house right beside a set of railroad tracks. I can remember the whole house would ________ when the trains rolled by. These trains were few, ________, so I often spent my summer afternoons walking down the________ . I can remember the first time I tried to walk on a ________rail. The steel rail was very narrow so I didn’t have many ________ to succeed. First I tried holding my arms out and ________my feet as I walked. This only led to me falling off after a few ________. l decided to walk backwards once but quickly fell and hurt my ankle.When I started looking________, keeping my eyes forward, I put one foot in front of the other and was soon walking with ease.

Looking back on this time, I now realize that it also gave me a wonderful________ about living. You can’t ________ life watching every step you take or every ________you make. Looking behind you is even worse. With your eyes on the past you can’t see the way ahead. You can only stand still and remain ________in your regrets. Only when you look ahead can you really move forward, see the life you want to lead, and the________you want to make. Then each________step you take and choice you make is________ with love and you will walk on with a light heart.

Have you ever heard of an old saying? Intelligence is a born gift while goodness is a choice of people. Gifts are easy—they’re______after all. But choices can be hard.

I got the idea to start Amazon many years ago. I______the fact that the Internet usage was growing at 2,300 percent per year. I’d never seen or heard of anything that grew that fast, and the______of building an online bookstore with millions of titles was very ______ to me. I told my wife MacKenzie that I wanted to______my job and do this______thing that probably wouldn’t work______most start-ups don’t and I wasn’t sure what to______MacKenzie told me I should______ it.

I was working at a financial firm in New York City and I had a brilliant boss. I went to my______and told him I wanted to start a company selling______on the Internet.He______me for a long walk in Central Park,listened______to me, and finally said, “That sounds like a really good idea, but it would be an even better idea for someone who didn't______have a good job. ” That logic made some______to me, and he______me to think about it for 48 hours before making a final decision.

It really was a difficult choice,______finally, I decided I had to give it a _______After much consideration, I took the less______path to follow my passion, and I’m______of that choice. For all of us,in the end, we are our choices.

【推荐3】Courage involves the balance between fear and bravery. Without fear, we’ll do foolish things. And without courage, we’ll never step into the _________ . The balance of the two is where the _________ lies, and it’s a balance we all deal with every day.

It was frightening news when I was first diagnosed because I had no _________ with chronic (慢性的) illness or disabilities. And I had no idea how the disease might _________ . But I continued to _________ my dream of working all over the world. And then my work brought me to the United States. And even as the disease progressed significantly and I needed leg braces (支架) and a walker to_________, I still longed for adventure. And this time, I started dreaming of a grand outdoor adventure.

Sitting eight feet above the ground, riding a horse, I got the impression of the Grand Canyon—one of shock and terror. But there was no _________. In the first hour, disaster struck. Going down an oversized step, I was_________ forward and hit my face on the back of the horse’s head. There was panic. My head hurt fiercely, but the path was too narrow for me to_________ the horse.

Now that the trip is over, I know that I would never do horseback-riding again. The__________ , all that planning and the trip itself showed me a level of fear I had never experienced before. But more importantly, it showed me how boldly __________ I can be.

In facing my fears and finding the courage to __________ them, I swear my life has been__________. So live big and try to let your courage __________ your fear. You never know where it might __________you.