【推荐1】Letting me move into my university dormitory wasn’t an easy decision for my parents. However, they knew if I wanted a good ________, I’d have to live away from home. I’d always dreamed of living alone: the life of no rules and regulations and being independent. So I was ________ about this new stage in my life.

________ during the first few months of living alone, I’d find myself crying every day. I’d call my mum every day. I ________ to fly back home as soon as I got any time off. That was the only thing I was concerned about. Coming from a big family, I was ________ to noises surrounding me. Therefore, the scary silence at night was the worst. I couldn’t even ________ without keeping the lights on.

As time went by, I started enjoying the ________ that came with living alone. I could do things in my own time: eat whenever I want, wake up whenever I want. The space of loneliness was also then ________ by friends who became like family, so I ________ missing my family less.

When it was time to say goodbye and go back home after my ________, I felt bittersweet. I’d enjoyed my time alone, learning things which wouldn’t have been ________ if I had never moved away from home. But I’d also missed my family too much.

I’d learned a lot from this ________. Living alone made me value ________ time even more. I realized that every second with them ________ though I might not get the freedom I had while living alone.

I guess it isn’t meaningful for everybody, but for me, there is no warmth in a house ________ it’s filled with loving members and people you love.

【推荐2】Learn to Meet Challenges

My classmates called me “the alien”, and they avoided me like the plague (瘟疫). As a young boy, I ________ from a serious skin disease, which filled my arms with scars. The true ________ of my condition, however, was social: I lived a life of loneliness.

Doctors predicted (预言) that I would never fully recover, but my parents encouraged me to hope for the future, teaching me that my difficulty could be overcome. I therefore took a/an ________role in fighting against my disease, trying many medications and herbs, and my health improved greatly before I graduated. I realized that my personal ________ had led to this improvement. I regained self confidence and made many friends at school.

Years later, like my personal battle against disease, I learned a great deal about ________by overcoming difficulties.

I joined the Culture Club as a Special Event Director. I ________a group of six students in organizing various activities. I was the most advanced ESL (English as a second language) student among the group. So I considered myself the most capable. But I quickly learned my ________. While preparing for our first presentation, I was strict with my team members and often rejected their ________. I performed most of their tasks myself, allowing them to help me only with small details. As a result, the presentation was not very successful. The setback ________me, and I spoke of it to the club’s director. She responded that she ________ my ability to succeed in the future. This comment filled me with ________, for I realized that I had never trusted my own team members.________they were weak in English, they had many valuable talents. I immediately ________ my policy, allowing my team members to choose the tasks they desired and to complete them on their own. For our program, we had many meetings, which gave ________ to many good ideas. Most importantly, the atmosphere among us improved dramatically. We were happy and eager to devote time to the program, and I learned what true leadership is.

My experiences ________ improved my ability to handle challenging situations.

【推荐1】Things have been rough lately, for example, grocery shopping at the dollar store roughly and borrowing money from my boss to pay rent roughly.

One day I drove to a store with my daughter and we were _______ for some little things such as potatoes and some cheese. The lady in front of us had a grocery basket of food and told us to go _______ her, because we only had a few things. After we were all checked out, she said she would _______ for our items with hers.

I started to choke up, so I _______ her and we left. I don't know why it hit so hard but I was _______   sobbing by the time we got to my _______.

When I went back to thank her again, I was already in _______, and the checkout lady was still checking her up. I _______ her if I could hug her. She said yes and _______ hugged me. I was crying and telling her how much her ________ meant to me, and that things had been so ________.

I knew there were many people, and they all ________ me strangely. I probably looked ridiculous because I hugged a ________ and burst into tears in a ________ grocery store, and thanked her. But I didn't mind their ________. I just wanted her to know how much it meant, and how badly I ________ a person like her. She reminds me that there are still ________ persons, even when things feel the worst.

I promise that once I become a(n) ________, I will return the favor as best as I can. I will do what the ________ did. Hopefully, I will help someone in need. Or maybe ________ them to do the same.

【推荐2】A farmer had some puppies to sell. He painted a _________ advertising the pups and began _________ it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls. He looked _________ into the eyes of a little boy. “Mister,” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.”

“Well,” said the farmer, _________ he rubbed (擦拭) the sweat off the back of his neck, “These puppies come from fine parents and _________ a good deal of money.”

The boy _________ his head for a moment. Then _________ deep into his pocket, he pulled out a handful of _________ and held it up to the farmer. “I’ve got thirty-nine cents. Is that enough to take a look?”

“_________,” said the farmer.

And with that he let out a whistle, “Here, Dolly!” he called.

Out from the doghouse ran Dolly followed by four little balls of fur. The little boy pressed his face __________ the chain link fence. His eyes danced with __________.

When the dog __________ to the fence, the little boy noticed something else stirring (微动) inside the doghouse. Slowly __________ little ball appeared; this one noticeably smaller. In a somewhat __________ manner the little pup began hobbling (跛行) toward the others, doing its best to __________.

“I want that one,” the little boy said, pointing to the little pup.

The farmer knelt down at the boy’s side and said, “Son, you don’t want that puppy. He will __________ be able to run and play with you like those other dogs would.”

Hearing that, the little boy stepped back from the fence, bend down and began __________ up one leg of his trousers. In doing __________ he showed a steel brace (支架) running down both sides of his leg attaching itself to a __________ made shoe. “You see sir, I don’t run too well myself, and he will need someone to __________ the same feelings.”

The world is full of people who need someone who understands.

【推荐1】Clara was seated on an Airlines flight to LA when a flight attendant asked an urgent question over the loudspeaker, "Does anyone on________know American Sign Language (ASL)?"

Clara had been studying ASL for the past year and she'd be able to________spell into a man's palm, so she____the call button. The flight attendant came and explained the________, "We have a passenger who's blind and deaf." The passenger seemed to want something, but the flight attendants couldn't________what he needed.

Clara________her seat belt, walked toward the front of the plane, and________by the aisle seat of Tim Cook.________taking his hand, she________, "Are you OK? What do you need?" Cook________for some water.

When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She________again later and stayed. "He was________and wanted to talk," Clara says.

For the next hour, she talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told Clara how he had gradually become________and shared stories of his.“________Tim couldn't see her, she looked________at his face with such________,” a passenger said.

"Clara was________," a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. "You could________Tim was very relaxed to have someone he could________to, and she was such a (n)________."

【推荐3】When Beverley Burdeyney turned seventy-four last year, she started having problems with her _________, notably dryness and discomfort.

“I was simply _________ a terrible experience,” MS. Burdeyney said at her home in Toronto. “I felt so _________ and insecure because the quality of my life was affected.”

Ms. Burdeyney talked to some friends who had similar problems and discovered that they were largely suffering in silence.

“Nobody chooses to talk about it because it seems so _________,” she said. “But more and more are suffering and lives are being compromised (妥协)”

Eventually, Ms. Burdeyney learned about plans for an eye research _________ at Tel Aviv University in Israel. The research team _________ Canadian doctor Allan Slomovic, who has done ground- breaking (开拓性的) work on eye care using stem cells. Seeing a ray of hope, Ms. Burdeyney began raising _________ for the project with a friend, Toronto businessman MeyerZeifman. _________ she has raised $110,000 with another $40,000 _________.

“I’m trying to get more and more people to __________ that there are solutions,” said Ms. Burdeyney, a trained nurse who is still working as a personal trainer after __________. “I say there is no old __________, here’s only neglect (忽视). Don’t stand still, do something about it.”

Ms. Burdeyney __________ that she was hoping to do more for the research project. “I just want to bring __________ into people’s eyes and this is just the __________. There is still a long way to go.”