【推荐1】I was recently invited to dinner by a friend. During the meal, the manager of the restaurant came _______ and said that our meal was free. He stood there _______ at me and he seemed a little _______ to me but I couldn’t quite remember him. _______ I asked him if he knew me. He laughed and said I had probably _______ him, but that I'd changed his life. My friend was quite _______ and asked him how I'd done that.

He said that twelve years ago he _______ a stress management class that I was giving. I asked the group what their greatest _______ was and most of them, including him, said it was their bosses.

He said I listened _______ and then took a chair and placed it in the center of the room. I __________ on the chair for a few moments, and then I __________ everyone to come and do the same. I wanted them to look at the room from up there. After everyone had done it, I asked the group to __________ how the room looked different when they changed their perspective(角度).

Then I asked them to __________ their bosses. Was him the same person who had seen their good __________ and hired them? Did they remember how happy they were to be __________ for the job? But how did these wonderful people become terrible bosses?

He said I looked at him and asked if he had __________ said "Thank you" to his boss for the __________ to earn a living. He answered he hadn’t. Then I asked him why he hadn’t tried being __________ to his boss.

He told us his __________ changed from that night. He went back to work the next day with a thank-you card to his boss, He said I’d __________ him to look at life from different perspectives and express thanks.

【推荐2】I was a boy of nine in 1960. I used to mow the lawn for Mrs. Long. She paid me little for the job, but promised to give me a Christmas present.

I spent much time _________ what it would be. Many boys had baseball gloves or ice skates and I was eager to have any of these. “It would _________ be a baseball glove,” I _________ with myself. “She wouldn’t know much about baseball.” So I was convinced that she would give me ice skates. I even imagined myself upon the skates.

As Christmas approached, it was with _________ that I stopped myself from reporting to Mrs. Long and demanding my present. On December 22, I presented myself at the door of the house. Mrs. Long handed me a small box which under no circumstances could _________ a pair of skates. I was disappointed. When lifting it from her, I was curious about the _________ of the present. It weighed almost nothing.

“What is it?” I asked.

“A kind of magic,” she said. Her words were enough to set my mind _________ with new possibilities.

On Christmas morning, I had this box on my knees. With great _________ I opened the box to find inside ten sheets of black paper, each labeled in colorful letters, Carbon Paper Regal Premium. “What is it?” I asked. Mum took two pieces of white paper, placed between them one of the black paper, and wrote my name on the upper sheet. Then she handed me the second sheet, which her pencil had in no way touched. There was my name!

It was a miracle to my _________ mind. In that one moment, I remembered the ideas about the duplication(复制) of words and the printing and the mystery of spreading ideas. Thank Mrs. Long for her wisdom to guess that a boy might profit from a present totally outside the realm of his ordinary experience.

The __________ present merely satisfies a temporary desire; the great one lights up all the years of life that remain.

【推荐3】It was a very foggy day in London. The fog was so thick that it was impossible to see more than a foot or so. Buses, cars and taxis were not able to________ and were standing by the side of the road. People were trying to________their way about on foot, but they were still________their way in the fog.

Mr. Smith had a very important meeting to attend at the House of Commons. He had to get there before 9 o'clock, but________could take him there. He tried to________, but soon found that he was quite________. Suddenly he knocked into a stranger. The stranger asked if he could help him. Mr. Smith said he________ to go to the Houses of Parliament. The stranger offered to________him there.

Mr. Smith________him and they started to walk. The fog was getting________every minute but the stranger had no ________ in finding the way. He went along one street, turned down another, crossed a square, and after about half an hour's walk, they arrived at the Houses of Parliament.

Mr. Smith couldn't ________how the stranger found his way. “How do you find the way in this ________?” he asked.

“It is no________ to me,” said the stranger. “I am________.”