【推荐3】For Brian Rizzo, it was just another day at work, cleaning up in the woods surrounding Tompkins Elementary School. Rizzo, 39, was sifting (筛) through trash when he _________ something shiny.

“It looked like a band, but I thought, ‘There’s no way there’s a _________ here.’”

_________, Rizzo brought back the mud-caked find (发现物) and soaked it in soap water. What _________ were the words “Croton-Harmon School,” followed by the year 1979. He thought to himself, “usually people put their initials in the band.” After some _________,he found the letters DPM.

Rizzo then went to the library and searched through old yearbooks to discover the _________, Daniel Patric Macrini. But it wasn’t easy to _________ Macrini. He reached out to Macrini on Facebook, but _________ heard back. He then found Macrini’s workplace and left a _________, explaining that he found something that might ____________ a lot to him. Less than 30 minutes later Rizzo heard back.

“I hadn’t thought about the ring for ____________, says Macrini, now a dietician (营养师) director in Tennessee. For Macrini, his 1979 class ring was a ____________ memory. “I liked that ring so much for the short time I had it. I ____________ I must have taken it off for sports practices and ____________ it.”

Rizzo and his wife ____________ a flashy box to put the ring in ____________ sending it to its rightful owner. “It looks ____________ the same, flawless and without any scratches. After 40 years, I wish I looked half as ____________ as this ring looks,” he says with a laugh.

It’s all in a day’s work for Rizzo. “Some people said, ‘I’m ____________ you gave it back.’ But it’s not mine — it’s a piece of someone that’s been ____________.”

Macrini, who plans to return home for his 40th high school reunion in October, has one thing on his agenda — to give Brian a hug.

【推荐2】Elsa Desmond knows she is not going to win a medal at the Beijing Winter Olympics. But she is ________ as the first women's luge (无舵雪橇)Olympian from Ireland. She was the 26th to ________ the line in the first run of the women’s race on Monday night, ________ than none of the other athletes. That did not ________ to her. She celebrated with a large smile on her face.

Although she will not win in Beijing, she has already won some ________. She had been given many reasons why she could not compete: she is too short, she did not start ________ at a young age, and she could not balance a(n) ________ job with competing in a sport. The biggest difficulty simply might have been that Ireland did not have a luge organization. So, she ________ one herself; she had to ________.

And now, ________, she is a luge Olympian. “I’m a doctor in general surgery, I have all these really visible challenges, but I think everyone has worked as ________ as they can to be here. ” She has delayed parts of her job to compete in the Olympics, but her ________ gave her the time off. And her co-workers are becoming big luge fans, extremely proud of her.

Desmond has ________ two demanding jobs—sliding a few months out of the year and living a life in medicine. There was a(n) ________ last season when she had to take important medical examinations in hotels in Germany where other sliders were staying. “I had to ________ signs on my door saying 'Do not disturb, exam in ________, 'in about six different languages. ”

Desmond got the ________ of representing her country in Beijing, and being one of two people ________ Ireland’s flag during the opening ceremony on Friday. “I don’t think I can ________ words how excited I was to lead out the team. I really hope that I make my country ________. ”

【推荐3】Michael Jordan is widely considered to be the greatest basketball player of all time. In fact, for more than a decade, he was the ________ of the NBA.

And then he made the decision: a career ________. How could a man, at the peak of his success, walk away from success? Not only did he walk away from his previous success, but he did the unthinkable. He risked his ________ talent by trying to play baseball, a sport he hadn’t played for many years.

Was it ego? Was it boredom? No. It was psychological. It was the mindset he buried in his soul after being cutting from his basketball team when in high school.

To understand why he ________ everything, let’s take a look into the mindset of Michael Jordan.

“I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve ________ again and again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”

As Carol Dweck, author of Mindset, would say, genetics may determine the starting line, but hard work determines the ________ line.

Jordan may have become bored with basketball. He may have desired another challenge. However, he wouldn’t have risked everything if he honestly didn’t believe hard work ________ all.

Coach John Wooden felt the same way. He ________ discussed wins and losses in his pregame speech. Instead, he focused on ________ his players were willing to give 100 percent and leave everything on the court. He knew by focusing on the process, things would change for the ________. Ten national championships later proved his theory of hard work.