【推荐1】Once Confucius（孔子）was passing by a village where he saw an old man with his young son pulling water from the well. Confucius was ______ to see this as at that time people harnessed（使用）horses or oxen to pull ______ from the well.

Confucius with ______ went to the old man and said, “Why are you unnecessarily ____ yourself and the young man, now that we have harnessed horses and oxen?”

The old man ______ to him, “Please speak _______ I don’t want my son to hear this. I can answer you, but please ______ when my son goes for lunch.”

Confucius was puzzled. He kept ______ and waited until the old man came to him alone at ______ time. Confucius questioned, “Why would you not let your son ______ what I said?”

The old man replied, “I am 85 years old and yet I have ______ to work side by side. If today I ______ horses to pull water, then my son will not be able to have the same strength at 85 as I have now. That’s why I ______ you not to speak about it in front of my son. It’s a question of his _______ We’ve heard that in towns people use horses or machines to pull water from the well. ______ if I use them now too, then what will he do? What ______ will it have on my son’s health? If he is saved from doing hard work now, then how will he be able to   ______ his health? ”

What we do today will affect us _______. What we do on one hand has an immediate effect on the other. He who _______ during the daytime destroys his repose（休息）of the night. Rest has to be earned through______.

【推荐2】Snow had just melted off the ground that April day at our house in Regina Beach. My husband, Carl, had just cleaned up the pool in preparation for selling our _______. The year before, Carl had lost his job, and our economic situation was _______, so we had finally put our home on the _______. The thought of losing our beautiful home was almost more than I could bear.

Deep in despair(绝望), I sat _______ a job application letter for Carl. Out of the corner of my eye I could see our thirteen-month-old son, Forrest, playing near our two beloved dogs, Nana and Sasa. I hadn’t typed more than two sentences when Nana, began _______ violently at the pool and running back and forth.

I _______ to see what was happening. Suddenly, I realized Forrest was nowhere to be seen. Then to my _______, my eyes _______ Forrest’s yellow sleeper in the pool. Sasa was _______ doing her best to keep him afloat by holding on to his sleeper with her mouth. I realized that Forrest had somehow fallen into the ________.

In a split second, I dove in, lifted my precious baby out and carried him inside. But when I realized Forrest wasn’t breathing, I began to go into shock. ________, Carl, who was trained in CPR, arrived and then took over. I stood by with my heart in my ________, and after about three minutes, Forrest began to ________ again.

Things in our lives are much better now. Most importantly, almost losing Forrest —and then ________ — erased any despair I might have had about losing our home.

A house can always be replaced, but knowing we have each other is the greatest ________ of all.

【推荐3】One day a well-dressed woman was walking down the street when she found a beggar sitting on the corner near a cafeteria. He was elderly, unshaven, and in _______ . Pedestrians(行人) talked giving him _______ looks. Clearly they wanted nothing to do with him. She _______ and looked down. “Sir?”she asked. “Are you all right?”

Thinking that she would make _______ of him, like so many others had done before, he told her to leave him alone. However, to his _______ , the woman continued standing.

Anyhow, with some _______ , the woman got the man into the cafeteria and _______ him at a table in a corner. She stared(盯着看)at him _______ ,“Jack, do you remember me?”Old Jack _______ her face. “I think so I mean you do look _________ .”

The woman recalled what she ________ when she graduated. She tried looking for a job, but without luck. Cold and ________ , she got into this very cafeteria, ________ to get something to eat. Later on she found a job, ________ her way up and eventually started her own ________ .

Jack ________ with a smile, saying it was he who made her the biggest sandwich.

In the end, she ________ her purse, pulled out a business card and promised to help him economically(在经济上) ________ he got back on his feet.

Jack thanked her with watery eyes. The woman held his hands and said,“Don't thank me, Jack. Without you, I wouldn't have ________ so much. ”

In life, one never expects how a small act of ________ changes another soul.