【推荐1】I was required to read one of Bernie Siegel’s books in college and was hooked on his positivity from that moment on. The stories of his unconventional (新奇的)_______and the exceptional patients he wrote about were so_______to me and had such a big_______on how I saw life from then on. Who knew that so many years later I would look to Dr. Bernie and his CDs again to_______my own cancer experience?

I’m an ambitious writer, and when I started going through chemo (化疗), even though I’m a very positive person, I lost my drive to write. I was just too tired and not in the_______. One day, while waiting to go in for_______, I had one of Dr. Bernie’s books in my hand. Another patient noticed what I was reading and struck up a conversation with me_______he had one of his books with him as well. It_______that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer. He was actually a published author, and he was currently_______on a new book.

We would see each other at various times and____________friends. Sometimes he wore a duck hat, and I would tell myself, he was definitely a(n)____________of Dr. Bernie. He really put a smile on my face. He unfortunately____________last year due to his cancer,____________he left a deep impression on me and gave me the____________to pick up my pen again. I____________to myself, “If he can do it, then so can I. ”

【推荐2】When I was 13 my only purpose was to become the star on our football team. That meant_______Miller King, who was the best _________at our school.

Football season started in September and all summer long I worked out. I carried my football everywhere for _________.

Just before September, Miller was struck by a car and lost his right arm. I went to see him after he came back from _________ He looked very_______, but he didn’t cry.

That season, I _______all of   Miller’s records while he _______ the home games   from the bench. We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, _______I often had crazy dreams in which it was I who caused Miller’s _________.

One afternoon, I was ________ the field to go home and saw Miller stuck(困住) going over a fence—which wasn’t ________ to climb if you had both arms. I’m sure I was the last person in the world he wanted to ________ help from. But even that challenge he accepted. I   ________him move slowly over the fence. When we were finally__________ on the other side, he said to me, “You know, I didn’t tell you this during the season, but you did________ .Thank you for filling in for ________ .”

His words freed me from my bad __________ . I thought to myself, how even without an arm he was more of a leader. Damaged but not defeated, he was__________ahead of me. I was right to have __________ him. From that day on，I grew   ________     and a little more real.

【推荐3】I felt gloomy the other day. The weather was dark and rainy, and I just didn’t feel so______.

As I was sitting at my desk, I______it was the birthday of a dear long-time friend—a single, middle-aged woman who has devoted the past 15 years to nursing and loving her______. Knowing that she doesn’t have family in the town, I______to give her a call. Sure enough, she was on B-shift,______to work late till the evening, and wouldn’t make much of the birthday this year. As always,______, she sounded cheerful and was happy when I______.

After I hung up, I couldn’t______the feeling that she would really want to get a little attention on her special day.______feeling a little gloomy myself, I tried to put it out of my______, but as the day passed I couldn’t shake the feeling. I______gave in, and that evening set off for the hospital with a card, a cheese cake, and some balloons. My friend’s grateful smile and joyful surprise______me that I had done the right thing and were a generous______for me.

When I got home, I realized that not only had I cheered up a______friend on her birthday, but my own gloomy feelings had also______. Making her day had made my own!

That’s true______we take the time and make the effort to do something for someone else. It is like the little saying, “Loving kindness is twice blessed; it blesses him who gives, and him who______.”

Cheering up people on their birthdays isn’t the only thing we can do to make their day. Life constantly presents us with______to take an extra step or do a kind deed that will make a______to someone. And the_____thing is that as we do, it changes things for the better for us too.

【推荐1】You’re never too old to fulfill your dreams or even break records. A 104-year-old Chicagoan named Dorothy Heffner is an _________. She has just become the _________ person to skydive. After _________ the ground following her tandem (双人) jump alongside an instructor, she proudly said, “Age is just a _________.”

Hoffner took to the skies of Northern Illinois with the help of Skydive Chicago, _________ her way to the town of Ottawa for the jump. For all the _________, this wasn’t her first time to jump out of the plane. Hoffner’s first skydive _________ a few years ago, when she was 100. Although back then the _________ helped push them out together, this time she _________ leading the tandem jump from 13,500 feet up in the air.

A video showed Hoffner determinedly __________ towards the plane before being helped on board. Sitting among her fellow skydivers, she was all __________ as she awaited for her time to leap out. Once the back door opened, the woman __________ jumped out of the plane head first. After completing a forward roll in the sky, the woman hung on to the harness (安全带) as she enjoyed her moment in free fall. After a few __________, the instructor opened the parachute (降落伞), getting ready for a __________ drop to the ground.

Hoffner was happy with having __________ this, describing the jump as an incredible experience.

【推荐2】The student arrived early, sat front and center, and stood out in my classroom in more ways than one. I’d say that he was about 40 years older than his classmates in my undergraduate_________class at California State University, Los Angeles. He_________jumped into class discussions, with his humor and wisdom of experience. And he was always_________of other students’ views, _________each of them were a teacher. Jerry Valencia walked in with a smile and he left with one too. “These students gave me the_________so that I didn’t need to feel bad about my_________.” Valencia says.

One day, I_________Valencia on campus. He said he would have to_________taking classes that term and reapply for next year. By then, he_________to have earned enough money from construction jobs and have his student loan papers (贷款文件) in order. But he said he was still coming to__________to attend events or see friends. He asked seriously__________ he could still sit in on my communications class. Sure, I said. But he wouldn’t get any credit (学分). No problem, he said.

Soon there he was again, back at his old desk, front and center,__________into our discussions on how to find and tell stories in Los Angeles---a 63-year-old Cal State LA junior with as much energy and__________as any of the__________in class.

A lot of Valencia’s classmates apparently knew he couldn’t__________that term’s tuition (学费) but was still doing the homework. “Here he is,__________taking a class for the joy of it and the__________of learning. You don’t see that in our__________.” says Jessica Espinosa, a 25-year-old junior. Valencia __________and took the final exam too.

Valencia’s grade in my class this term will not show up on his report card. But I’m giving him an A and in the most important ways, it__________.