【推荐1】When I was a kid，my parents sent me to a summer camp in New Hampshire. At the _______we did tons of great things like swimming, sports and archery, but for me，the most memorable experience was an overnight trip of mountain climbing. If you’ ve ever_______a mountain, you know it's a _______challenge, especially when you’re carrying your food and shelter on your back. When campers got tired, they _______started complaining.

“ How much farther is it?”

“I can't go any further.”

“My _______is too heavy. Can you carry it for me?”

The reply of the _______ was,“ Suck it up(忍耐一下)！”. The _______ is that the complaining campers were nowhere near the point of _______. If they had been, the teachers would have noticed the signs and given them_______. The kids simply weren't used to the physical challenge. Once they realized they weren’t getting any sympathy, they ________the discomfort, and in most cases ________ having a great time. In my camp days, I don't ________a single camper complaining at the top of the ________.

There are two ways to deal with an ________ situation. You can complain, or you can make the best of it. If you complain, you might feel like you're getting that ________energy out, but you’re probably not going to cause a positive change. It’s much more likely that your complaining will cause the ________ of those around you. No one likes a complainer. They're ________ and they hurt the group. Complaining makes life________for everyone. Instead, if you determine to master your own ________, to move past it and focus on a ________, it’s my experience that you’ll realize it wasn't bad in the first place.

【推荐3】I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I ________ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a(n) ________ writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our ________ selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and ________ to mail them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he ________ remember?

________ the letter, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you’re eighteen years old, twenty-eight seems like a grown-up age, but I wasn’t feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had ________ me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it ________. It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?” It continued to greet me casually ________ we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the ________ SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so stressed! She was obviously not quite happy and hoped I wouldn’t worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn’t forget to be present and ________ my life!

Contrary (与……相反) to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have ________ meet. Instead, she wrote, “I’ll ________ you, because maybe who I’m imagining is someone else, but you are not someone else, you’re me.

I was touched, and tears came to my eyes at this ________ through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best ________ of myself that I could be. However, I came to realize what I would have accomplished (成就) in ten years would pale (本形见绌) in comparison to how I’d feel and who I’d be.