【推荐1】One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order： I was to walk to the public library and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to defeat my strange problem —_______ to read.

In the library, I _______ a few books off the shelf casually. The cover of a book _______my eye. It presented a _______ of a beagle. I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal_______I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was _______，given away to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.

There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked similar to my dog. My eyes ran_______the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. _______，I had read the title. Without _______ the book,I borrowed it from the library for the suminer.

Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. Though pages were turned very very________, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been ________from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final scene of ________,on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together.

My mother’s call ________ me to the real world. I________realized something： I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read________Books could be incredibly________and I was going to read them.

I never told my mother about my “miraculous’’（奇迹般的）experience that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable________ in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was________that her son had read thousands of books,________his own books, articles, poetry and fiction and was awarded a PhD in ________ . The power of the words has held.

【推荐2】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five­year­old son, Tenyson. As we were _________, we realized that only minutes earlier an elderly woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _________ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _________, a lot of people stopped to help out.

_________we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _________ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _________to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of everyone.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _________ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _________ that he’d come up with this _________ idea. So we went over and told the flower seller __________ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I __________ take your money for such a wonderful deed.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were __________ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was from my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a __________ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from.

__________ being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with __________ in her eyes and gave him a little smile.

【推荐3】Around Thanksgiving, I flew to visit my family. A woman across the aisle________to push her suitcase into the tight overhead bin. When we landed, she was pulling, but the suitcase didn’t ________. I asked if I could help, ________ she replied, “It’ll come. I got it in, and there has to be a way to get it out.”

Her calmness and confidence inspired me, ________ me as a recipe for cultivating (培养) resilience (抗逆力) in life. Resilience is the ability to ________ challenging circumstances, refocus and find ways back into a positive life. The woman’s reaction to her ________ luggage was a beautiful example of cultivating resilience: “________ seeing crises as unsolvable problems. ”

The ________ situation might not be a “crisis”, but you know how ________ a plane aisle can be when everyone is trying to get off the plane. The woman never kept herself ________ by recognizing her problem had a solution.

The ________ reminded me of something that happened to me this past fall, when I took a solitary (单独的) hike along a rocky ocean path. I was enjoying myself in the fresh air, feeling________ as I picked my way from rock to rock and congratulating myself when I reached the end of the dock. Then I turned around and saw how ________ I had traveled, I felt myself slipping into nervous self-doubt. What if I ________ and twisted my ankle?

I took a deep breath and, like the woman on the ________, realized with relief that I could certainly make it ________. When I finally stepped back onto the shore, I not only felt ________, but also confident and accomplished.

When ________ plant seeds of “I can’t” in your mind, maybe you’ll remember the woman on the plane. Wherever life has brought you, consider that there is a(n) ________ to coming back to yourself. You have the power of resilience within you whenever you are ________ it.