【推荐1】It end to go slowly when I drive in the mountains of my home because the forest _____ is beautiful no matter what the season. This morning I was driving slower than _____ because a nearly March snow had turned the roads _____. Going up a mountain road, I had to slow down as I _____a sharp, snowy curve (弯道). That was _____I saw a majestic buck deer (公鹿) standing in the middle of the road. I came to a full _____and for a few seconds we just _____ each other. His eyes seemed wise and his composure (镇静) refined. Finally, he _____his head at me. I nodded in return and signed _____my hand for him to go on. He then _____ across the road, up the hill and back into the woods. I drove on smiling at the magic of this moment and was _____ that I had been going slowly enough not to _____this beautiful creature.

Most of us rush through this _____not knowing what we are missing. We _____get to enjoy what each day brings us. Wouldn’t it be better to go slowly through our days here? Life is meant to be favored. Moments are meant to be _____. Days are meant to be lived in love and joy, not flown through at a frantic (疯狂的)_____.

The next time you find yourself going too fast, slowdown. Take the time to watch the sunrise over the horizon and fill the world with _____. Take the time to look your children in their eyes, hug them and tell them that you love them. Take the time to smile, laugh and sing. Take the time to read, lounge (闲逛) and _____. Take the time to live your life with love and _____ in all the miracles each day brings you. If you do, your life will be so much better and more beautiful. And you might even _____not hitting a deer on your way home.

【推荐2】I had just gone to bed after a very hard day when the phone rang. It was a________I had never________before although I had often heard people talk about him. He sounded quite________and he had been talking for about a minute________I understood anything. Even then what I could________was that someone called Milly had been badly________.I had no idea who she was but I had to go________.

It had been snowing so heavily that I once lost my________.I had been driving for at least an hour when I________found his place. He was standing there,________for me. It seemed that Milly had died. “She________more to me than anyone.________my own wife!” he said. I could see that he had been crying. I thought something________had taken place—a possible scandal. I was even more________when he told me he had put her in the barn. “I wouldn’t________her out in the cold!” he said.

Milly had clearly been a________lover of his. I was about to tell him he could not________me to cover anything up when he opened the barn door. He raised his candle and I saw a dark figure________on the ground. “She was such a good cow! I wouldn’t let anyone________a doctor touch her!” he said, and burst into________again.

【推荐3】I was having a period of bad health. I had one operation after another. I was falling_________faster than the doctors could put me back together. But I just couldn't bear the operation, the hospital stay, the long recovery and the physical therapy(康复治疗). I told my doctor I was going to try_________else.

I'd discovered that walking gave me a little_________. So I started walking. The first day, my wife_________off our steep Silver Lake hill to a flat street. She got me out of the car, and I walked about two blocks_________asking to be taken home. The next day, I walked about four_______.

Slowly, feeling a little_________every day, I began to walk a mile or more. I even_________some hills to my route. Interested in the network of public stairways around Silver Lake, I made a_________of it and walked every public staircase in Silver Lake. That went pretty well, so I____________onto Echo Park. I was feeling better, so I kept going. The search finally____________"Secret Stairs: A Walking Guide to the Historic Staircases of Los Angeles" a book ____________in the spring of 2010. By then, I had__________. I'd been walking at least an hour a day for three years. My life__________returned to normal.

In three years of walks, I've met dozens of people who'd had____________experiences of rebirth or recovery. One man told me he'd lost 80 pounds walking the secret stairs and was dating for the first time in a decade. One woman told me she'd____________knee operation. Another told me she'd been____________to start ballroom dancing again.

All I'd____________from the walks was relief from pain. What I got was__________, community and a whole new experience of my city. Out of the car, on my feet and moving at walking pace, I____________Los Angeles for the first time.