【推荐1】If you’re feeling that life just can’t be any worse for you, it can be challenging to think positive thoughts. When you’re stressed, depressed, ________, or in a negative state of mind because you feel “bad things” ________ happening to you, it’s important to change those ________thoughts to something positive. If not, you’ll only attract more “bad things”.

It’s often very hard to think positive when so many things are negative, but be ________that someone, somewhere is worse off than you. You can choose to think ________by beginning with the smallest of steps.

If you start one small, positive thing and ________it during the course of your day, you’ll begin to move into a more positive ________: positive thoughts, feelings and opportunities. With practice, you will find that over time, you will change your outlook and choose to be ________, regardless of the events around you.

Here are some examples for you to ________. Begin and end each day with a “Thank you for this wonderful day!” When you see gas prices rising, say “I’m so glad to have a ________in which to get around.” When your boss is too hard on you, say “I am grateful for my job as I know that many don’t have one.” If you are having health problems, be ________for what does work: “I do appreciate it that my eyes see, my ears hear, my mouth tastes, my legs walk, and my ________ write.” Write down whatever you’re thankful for each day. In moments when you’re feeling really down, read aloud what you ________beforehand. This will certainly help uplift your spirits. If you practice this ________, you will find your list getting longer and longer.

The________to making it a moment of joyful peace is to move yourself into a positive thought and keep it there long enough. The more you practice, the happier you’ll be.

【推荐3】For many people today, reading is no longer relaxation. To keep up their work they must read letters, reports, trade _________, interoffice communications, not to mention newspapers and magazines: a never-ending flood of words.

In _________ a job or advancing in one, the ability to read and comprehend _________ can mean the difference between success and failure.

Yet the unfortunate fact is that most of us are _________ readers. Most of us develop poor reading habits at an early age, and never get over them. The main deficiency _________ in the actual stuff of language itself-words.

Taken individually, words have few meaning until they are strung together into phrased, sentences and paragraphs. _________ , however, the untrained reader does not read groups of words. He laboriously reads one word at a time, often regressing to _________words or passages which itself is a bad habit.

Another habit which _________ down the speed of reading is vocalization—sounding each word either orally or mentally as _________ reads. To overcome these bad habits, some reading clinics use a device called an __________ , which moves a bar (or curtain) down the page at a predetermined speed.

The bar is set at a slightly faster rate than the reader finds comfortable, in order to “stretch” him. The accelerator forces the reader to read fast, __________ word-by-word reading, regression and subvocalization, practically impossible.

At first __________ is sacrificed for speed. But when you learn to read ideas and concepts, you will not only read faster, but your comprehension will improve. Many people have found __________ reading skills drastically improved after some training.

__________ Charlce Au, a business manager, for instance, his reading rate was a reasonably good 172 words a minute before the training, now it is an excellent 1,378 words a minute. He is delighted that how he can __________ a lot more reading material in a short period of time.