【推荐2】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3】Actor Anthony Anderson has realized a dream 30 years in the making. The 51-year-old ________ a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University last week. “It was all a dream! Words fail to________ the feeling I’m having right now,” Anderson wrote on a social media platform. “My proudest moment is a sense of ________—finishing what I started many years ago.”

Anderson finished his junior year at Howard 30 years ago. ________ some financial difficulties, he had to ask for a________ from school. He worked hard to make a________. Later he started a family and his career ________. He played the starring roles in many films and became a________. The following years he was occupied in his work and didn’t return to school. It was something     he always felt________ about — until his son, Nathan, gained ________ to Howard four years ago. That inspired his longing for university study, so he was________ to go back and finish his degree.

“This spring I was________ able to finish the work to graduate from Howard University,” Anderson said. He marked it as a________ by calling it “a full-circle moment” and ________ his fans, “It’s never too late. Things happen when they’re supposed to happen!” Anderson, now a father of two, plans to ________ his education and go to graduate school for a master’s degree.

【推荐1】I spent 15 years trying to make it in the music industry. As a teenager. I'd work any odd job to________ time in a recording studio. I knocked on managers   doors and sent out demo (样本唱片) after demo, but I got nowhere. In 2007, I ________a song called This is My Dream. It was a song about never giving up. I just ________all of my frustrations at the keyboard.

Over the next five years, the music ________never materialized I and nearly stopped. Then, in 2012, I ________the song to a music sharing website. I didn't think anything more would come of it, but just wanted someone to ________my music.

Later that year, I received an email ________from Universal Music in Hong Kong, requesting a(n) ________for the song. I   ________a contract for 55.000 for the use of the song and signed up straight away. My first record deal had appeared out of nowhere. I was pretty excited. The song was a(n) ________ and I was contacted by HKTV who invited me to go to Hong Kong to ________

When it was my time to go on the stage, there was huge cheers and all I could see was a sea of lights. I was ________ in the moment. It's only when I ________the footage (录像) that I realize what was going on around me. It was the ________ I had been waiting for my entire life.

After coming off stage, I had photographers and journalists ________to interview me and hundreds of people ________ to have their photograph taken with me 'The next morning,   I found out my song had gone to number one in the iTunes chart in Hong Kong, ________Lady Gaga.

Life can________you. I had knocked on doors for years, yet my moment came when the opportunity called me. It has re-inspired my ________ for music. Hopefully the ball will keep rolling. After all those odd jobs and weekends spent in recording studios, this has made it all ________.

【推荐2】Stephen Hawking not only changed the way people thought about science, but he also changed the way people viewed ________ . Diagnosed(诊断) with motor neurone disease in his twenties, many of his scientific discoveries were made while his body was ________ .

When Hawking studied at Oxford University, he had a ________ for being lively, humorous and popular. ________ , during his final year at Oxford, he fell over for no particular reason. When noticing his speech began to be ________, Hawking sought medical help. It was then that he was diagnosed with the disease. Doctors at the time gave him less than two years to ________.

Luckily, he survived. However, after his diagnosis, his ________ failed quickly. Throughout the 1960s, he required stick to walk, ________ a wheelchair for many years. It was only by the end of the 1960s that he ________ accepted he would need a full-time mobility aid.

Despite Hawking's poor health, he made some important scientific ________. It was in 1974 that he discovered what now is ________ as "Hawking radiation". Later, in 1988, Hawking published his book A Brief History of Time.

It was his ________ —focusing on what was possible rather than impossible—that defined (定义) his public image. His books made science easily ________ to a wider public. Hawking once said, "My advice to other people would be: ________ things your disability doesn't prevent you from doing well, and don't ________ the things it interferes with(干扰). Don' t be disabled in spirit, as well as physically.”

【推荐3】At 7a.m.on October 2，2016，I got up，feeling excited and nervous. The first thought in my mind was，"Today's game is my first _____ football game." I'd played before but not like this，not in pads（防护垫），not with a helmet on my head and my heart started beating faster. I _____ finished breakfast and left for the field.

The whole time on the bus，I felt sick and nervous. Finally，I reached the field. ____that white numher7 jersey（运动套衫）for the first time made me feel ____ .I felt like football was my fortune.

We stood there. By the look on our faces，you could see who had _____ before and who hadn't. To me，it felt like a war. I was a（n） _____ soldier going into battle. Now I know that feeling was fear. We had _____ ，but not the real game. In training，we took a form and knew each other. In the _____ you don't know your opponent's strength. Everything just happened _____ you know it was happening.

We did warm-ups and some of us couldn't ______ to play，jumping around and yelling. Others stood still waiting for the direction. The referees（裁判）came out. We knew the game ______ came. As a captain，I went out for the coin toss to see which team would get the ball first. Campus Magnet won the coin toss. They ______ to receive.

Soon the game ______ and I caught up with the ball carrier and ran at a full speed. I lowered my shoulders and ran to his side with all my _____ ，knocking him down and at the same time knocking my ______ out. I rose to my feet and ______ what I had done. I'd made my first tackle（阻截）.I was ______ my dream，feeling renewed. That tackle encouraged me，giving me strength，______ and the desire to go on.

We ______ that game--8 to 6. That year we went undefeated, ______ every team on our schedule, and I was rated the best receiver in our division.

【推荐3】Like many parents, I enjoyed reading a bedtime story to my two sons each night before they went to bed. After the story was over, we would turn off the lights, and talked until they fell _________

One night after the lights were off, my 3-year-old son, Will, _________ me to tell them a story_________ by myself, not one from a book. So I _________ told him a story about the first thing that came into my _________. But to my surprise, he _________ it so much that he asked me to do that the next night.

Thus a story-telling tradition was _________ in our family. Ever since that night, they seemed not to be able to sleep without hearing one of my _________ stories. Of all the things I do for my _________ ,my storytelling is what they love most. It has created a special __________ between us. And they find that their day isn’t __________ without one of my stories, and so do I.

When I see how __________ my storytelling is in their lives, I come to realize how much our television and video-oriented (以视频为导向的) society has __________in terms of the personal connections that storytelling brings. Before the __________ of television, computers and smartphones, a family’s __________was built around storytelling. This oral (口述的) tradition was __________ from generation to generation, and many of the stories we have today originated from this tradition until someone finally __________them down.

Storytelling is used as a creative way to __________ for me. During the storytelling, I forget about the pressure of the day and enjoy the __________ time I can spend with my children. I hope that other parents can gain __________ from storytelling, too.