【推荐2】One day, I experienced something that caused me to lose my temper, to the point that I was in tears. So frustrated was I that I reached out to a dear and ____ friend to ask for advice on how to let go of ___. And then, I went for a long walk.

As I walked, I ____ my anger and what may have caused it. I heard my friend’s voice saying “drop into the heart space”, a space that love booms and if we allow it, it will   ____ our hurts. It is my ____ that hate cannot grow where love ____. I allowed my mind to follow that love and to review what the ____ of my anger was. I realized my anger is the result of many emotions that are normal.

There is a ____ of being overwhelmed, frustrated, tired and there is sorrow ____ as well. And perhaps the sorrow is the biggest one. For example, it is not easy to ___ a parent’s falling weak even when I recognize that it is part of the cycle of life. I had not acknowledged my sorrow until a friend ____ that it was part of my anger, and she was correct. I am grateful for having friends I can reach out   for ____ and comfort.

I am now able to ____ my anger, to drop into the heart space, to send out love and light, and to let go of any frustration rather than to ____ my anger. I know it will get easier if I am ____ with myself and allow the healing that is needed to happen.

【推荐2】Their five-year-old daughter, Elissa, is about to be brought out of the operating room (OR) after receiving a new heart. Outside the OR, Patrick and Marie are _______ with joy. “Thank you to the donor’s family,” _______ Patrick. “We don’t know you, but you saved our child’s life.”

The year she was born, Elissa _______ two heart surgeries. She’d led a _______ life until four, when she was _______ by a virus that damaged her heart. Confined to (被困于) the ICU, she spent seven nightmarish months waiting for a _______.

In the five weeks leading up to the transplant, she was kept _______ by a mechanical heart. “She couldn’t leave her hospital bed, _______ the blood clots(血栓) that formed in the tubes of the machines could have killed her at any moment,” says Marie. _______ only a miracle could save their daughter, Elissa’s parents spent their days by her side.

Then on May 28th, just as it seemed all ________ was gone, a doctor summoned them to a small lounge next to their daughter’s room. Their ________ had been answered: A donor heart had ________ been found. Elissa would be getting it the very next morning. Following cheers of ________, Marie and Patrick spent the hours before Elissa was taken into the OR ________ by anxiety. “It was her last chance,” says Patrick.

Eight hours later, the transplant was considered ________. The little girl is going to live again.

【推荐1】For four long days, Nina Lipscomb’s family used every resource available to find her.

Nina is almost 83 years old and has Alzheimer’s disease. One day she told her family that she was ________ Senoia, Georgia, where her sister used to live, ________ she went missing afterwards. Now her family was ________ to bring her home.

On the fourth day of her ________, Brittany Moore and her l-year-old son Ethan were playing in their backyard, which is just a quarter of a mile from where Nina vanished. Ethan was playing with a bubble wand when a few bubbles ________ to the fence line. When the little boy got to the fence he ________, staring into the woods. Brittany followed her son.

“What do you see?” Brittany asked, and he pointed and responded, “feet.” Brittany bent down to her son’s ________ and gazed into the woods, where she saw the ________ half of someone lying down in the underbrush. Brittany said she panicked before calling the ________, fearing the feet belonged to someone who could hurt her and her family. But when the police arrived, it was Nina that they discovered in the woods. She was lost, but otherwise ________ even after four days living rough!

Nina’s family was beyond thrilled to have her back at home. Her daughter, Karen Lipscomb, said she’s not________ surprised that it was a child who found her. Actually,   “She’s very________ of children and has always been approachable to them.”

Nina’s daughter ________ the story online along with her heartfelt gratitude, attracting thousands of ________ and comments on her webpage-even a toddler (学步者) can ________ a hero.

【推荐2】Standing at the front of the classroom, Ljuba Medak asks her students to open their books. “Where are people better paid, in the north or the south of Norway?” she asks the _________.

This is no ordinary school and Medak is no _________ teacher. Her class is made up of students from a branch of the Third Age University (U3A), where older people learn for_________. Medak _________ remembers the best day of her career was in 2014—when she _________ from the secondary school where she’d taught geography. _________ did she return to the classroom just a week later? “I love to _________ my knowledge and enthusiasm,” she says.

Like more than half of European workers over 65, she works part time. No more preparing 18-year-olds for stressful exams or writing evaluations. “I’m much _________,” she says. Medak’s task is to open people’s eyes, whatever their age, to the _________ around them. “They must think about the things they __________,” she says. Bringing her students on field trips give them the __________ to do just that.

Taking a job after retirement is __________in Slovenia, where you can live on your pension (退休金) at age 60 if you have 40 years of service. Only 6.6 percent of Slovenians aged 65 to 69 work, compared to the EU __________ of 13 percent.

Medak likes to meet friends for coffee, __________ working offers something different. “There’s a saying: If you’re alone at home, you’re always in good company,” she says. “But we must __________ this way of thinking.”

【推荐3】Sometimes the simplest presents are the most meaningful.

When my son, Robert, was 12 years old, he got his first job, ________ newspapers. He was awake by 5:30 every morning and went out the door ________ the rest of us even managed to rise.

The weekend before Mother’s Day, he asked me if he could ________ by himself. I thought he had shown a sense of ________ by managing his first job so well, and I knew he wanted to shop for a Mother’s Day gift for me, so I ________.

A couple of hours later, he came home ________. “Do you know how ________ a dozen roses are?” he said, and went to his room. My first thought was that he was learning the ________ of money. My second was that I would not be getting ________ for Mother’s Day.

A week later, there was a knock on the door. It was a florist who, with a twinkle in his eye, ________ me a long, slender box. I opened it, thinking it was from my ________. Nestled among mounds of white tissue paper was a single long-stemmed red rose. The card ________, “Happy Mother’s Day. Love, Robert.”

Many years have passed, and Robert is now married with a family of his own. He lives far away from me but still ________ to send me a gift on special occasions. I always treasure his gifts and have ________ them all, but none is as precious to me as that rose. Although long gone, it is nestled ________ my heart.