【推荐1】I have been looking forward to visiting Paris since I was young. When my daily life in New Jersey seemed boring, I _______ about walking around the streets of Paris. With our financial situation _______, European travel became a _______. 

Travelling to France with my _______ was exciting, but it would not be _______ without facing problems and figuring them out. 

We had just started to get _______ with the Paris subway system. Thus using it was very difficult. We were walking at a slow pace _______ we realised the subway was about to leave. As soon as I _______ the subway, the doors shut with my mom on the other side. I did not have my cellphone, neither of us spoke a word of _______ and we had no idea how to ________ each other. My mom and I, who were both ________, began to pound on the doors. Suddenly, a man with a puzzled look on his face walked over to the doors and simply ________ them. My mom stepped on and we hugged as if we ________ for the first time in years. A huge sense of ________ washed over us, followed by embarrassment. 

________, my mom and I were able to celebrate the victories of finding destinations.

【推荐2】Christmas Eve, 1870. Richard Wagner and his wife, Cosima, had agreed not to give each other Christmas presents. They were simply too ____ But Wagner was planning a surprise ____.

For more than two months he had been crafting a piece of music to be performed outside Cosima’s ____ on Christmas morning. He had ____ it on themes later to be used in his opera Siegfried, plus a little nursery song he had written for their ____ two years earlier. He ____ the Siegfried Idyll three weeks before Christmas and ____ for conductor Hans Richter to recruit the members of the small orchestra. Richter conducted ____ rehearsals (排练), first in Zurich then at a hotel in Lucerne.

Wagner ____ philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to the final rehearsal on Christmas Eve at the Hotel du Lac and they arrived together at the Wagners’ ____ in the village of Trihschen. There they found Cosima decorating the Christmas tree and ____ presents for the children.

At seven o'clock on Christmas morning the musicians arrived and ____ arranged themselves on the stairs outside Cosima’s room. They began to ____.

“As I awoke to the light of dawn,” Cosima said later, “my mind passed from one ____ into another. Familiar ____ from Siegfried came, to my ears. It was as if the house—or more accurately—our entire being, was rising up in ____ and going up to heaven. Birdsong and sunrise, together with music from Siegfried, soothed (慰藉) my heart and I came to ____ that I was not dreaming, and yet was ____ the most sublime (庄严) of all dreams. Now ____ I understood all of Richard’s writing in secret.”

And yet Wagner had ____ his pledge (誓言) not to buy his wife a Christmas present. December 25th was Cosima’s birthday.

【推荐3】My mom and dad got divorced when we were young kids, so we lived at different families. After we grew up, my three siblings (兄弟姐妹) and I could go years_______speaking. And that is where this story_______.

My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months _______, but by the time we were teenagers we had lost _______. By age 19, I had moved away from our home in Wisconsin to live on my father’s horse farm in Virginia. We lived separate and our connection somehow ended.

Fast-forward (快进) about five years, I was 24 and on a _______with my fiancé (未婚夫) to New York City, a place I had never been to.

During a day of sightseeing, we were crossing a very_______street loaded with people. I had laughed at something my fiancé said, and I _______heard my name yelled from somewhere around me: “Cheryl!” I _______in my steps in the middle of the road. Tears _______ in my eyes. I knew without a ________that it was my sister Jeanne. I yelled back before even turning to look. “Jeanne?” It was her.

I later asked how she’d known it was me — she had ________seen me since we lost in touch! She said it was my________. I wouldn’t say my laugh is all that ________, but I guess to a family member it’s infectious (有感染力的). It ________your heart and resonates (共鸣) in your mind.

Since that time, my sister and I have never been ________. We both moved back to Wisconsin. We ________daily. Many years have passed, and we are now in our 50s. But our reunion ________wasn’t just a sign. I see it as more of a/an ________, a reminder(提醒) not to lose touch with loved ones. It is so easy to remain ________. After our________of gathering, I don’t plan to let that happen again.

【推荐1】I went to a New York Mets fantasy camp in 1991, and I was fortunate to be on a team for a week whose pitching(投球) coach was famous Mel Stottlemyre.Mel was wonderful to all of us______ ballplayers throughout the week.He was warm and ______，treating us as if we were major leaguers.

At last，Mel______ the job at the Mets and became the coach for the Yankees.I followed his______and knew about his diagnosis(诊断)of a blood cancer in 2000.Luckily，a suitable ______appeared during a championship run，so he took ______ from the Yankees to   undergo a stem cell transplant(干细胞移植)．

In 2002, I was ______ by desperation because I was diagnosed with the same disease and needed a stem cell transplant too.I was in a very ______ need to speak to Mel，but I had lost ______ with him.One day，my phone rang.It was Mel.He explained ______ his experience of having the transplant to me—for all of an hour.I ______ every word.“I feel great，so I’m not ______，” he told me.At last，he ended the ______ by giving me his home phone number！This unbelievable experience ______ my spirits.Every time I saw Mel during games on TV as I ______ for my transplant，I repeated to myself，“Look at Mel.I’ll ______.”

The great news is that my doctors told me my ______ went into remission(缓解) thanks to the successful transplant—and it has been ______ for 15 years.Since then，I have spoken to many ______ with the same problem.I have been glad to ______ Mel to share what he did for me.

【推荐2】This might be the most magical way to lose weight.

A California resident __________ how he lost 150 pounds: by going to Disneyland. After a major health __________, his then-girlfriend-now-wife suggested taking long walks around the popular amusement __________.

Mark Gautier had just __________ from a two-week coma (昏迷) when he got some __________ news from his doctor. "The doctor said, 'You really need to do something or you're not going to __________ much long.'" After the time, he weighed 400 pounds and his kidneys (肾) were reportedly __________. His situation was so __________ that doctors had once given up on him.

In order to get the __________ he needed, his girlfriend suggested that they __________ to Disneyland and __________ walk around.

"The first two times that I came to Disneyland just to walk around it was __________ because I wasn't used to walking," Gautier said. "Then after about two weeks, I __________ the place." At length, he was walking seven miles a day through the park. __________ exercise, Gautier also changed his eating habits.

"It wasn't so much that we changed what we ate; it was the __________ of food that we ate," he explained. "We cut down on everything," Gautier said. This __________ him to still eat foods like turkey legs and corn dogs.

It took Gautier about five years to lose 150 pounds using this __________. Now, he's married, has a daughter and __________ works for Disneyland as a houseman at their hotel. He's also taking __________ of the Disney Aspire education program to get his bachelor's degree, and __________, master's degree.

【推荐3】There is an old English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” One person who certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins.

Norman Cousins was the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also _______ and spoke about world peace and anti-war issues, traveling to many different countries to share his _______.

In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe, Mr. Cousins got _______. He discovered he had a strange disease that caused great pain in his bones.

In less than a week after he got back, he could not _______ it. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to _______ at night. The doctor told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure his problem and he might never _______ the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope.

Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by _______ thoughts. He did not want to take _______ to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching comedy shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of _______ laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.

Deciding that the ________ could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could ________ his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins ________in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television, reading amusing books, and sleeping whenever he felt ________. Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for ________.

After a few months, Mr. Cousins was ________ to carry on his work. He had laughed himself back to health.

【推荐1】When Mrs, Klein told her first graders to draw a picture of something for which they were thankful, she wondered what these little _________, who lived in an underdeveloped neighborhood, actually would be _________ for. She knew that most of the class would draw pictures of turkeys (火鸡) or of _________ laid Thanksgiving tables. That was what they believed was _________ of them.

What _________ Mrs, Klein was Douglas’s picture. Douglas was so _________ and likely to be found close in her shadow as they went outside for breaks. Douglas’s _________ was simply this: A hand, _________, but whose hand? The class was _________ by his image. “I think it must be the hand of God that __________ us food,” said one student. “A ________” said another, “because they grow the turkeys.” “It looks more like a policeman, and they __________ us.” “I think,” said Lavinia, who was always so serious, “that it is supposed to be all the __________ that help us, but Douglas could only draw one of them.”

Mrs. Klein had almost __________ Douglas as she cheerfully found the class so responsive. When she had the others work on another project, she __________ his desk and asked whose hand it was. Douglas __________, “It’s yours, Teacher.” Then Mrs. Klein __________ that she had taken Douglas by the hand from time to time: she often did that with the children. __________, she never realized that it should have meant so much to Douglas ...

Perhaps, she __________, this was her Thanksgiving, and every body’s Thanksgiving—not the material things __________ to us, but the small ways that we give something to others.