【推荐1】It was a Friday morning, 7:30 a.m. I felt too late to drive my car, so my son ______ an Uber(优步). In five minutes, the Uber reached at the entrance gate, waiting for my arrival. I just saw the cab ______and entered inside the car. I was so busy that I didn’t pay any attention towards the driver. I was ______an important paper from my leather bag, so ______ said, “Please, go quick! I’m in a hurry!”

The ______ came, “Yes, Ma’am!”

I was surprised when I heard a ______ voice! I stopped my work for a second and looked at the driver. The driver was a young lady. For the first time, I saw a lady, driving an Uber!

The car was running on the national high-way towards the ______. It was quite a distance from my home. She was driving ______ well. I didn’t know, why I became so ______ to know why she had chosen this ______. I started the conversation, “If you don’t mind, can I ask you some questions?”

“Yes, ma’am! No problem.”

“I guess, you are well ______.”

“Yes, ma’am! I have completed my ______. I have done my MBA course.”

“Oh, wow!!! Why did you then choose this profession, instead of going for an ______ career?”

I could see her face in the rear-view mirror. She ______ and the way she expressed her views made me really amazed!

Very politely, she said, “Driving was my _______from my childhood, ma’am! Of course I do ________each and every job. In this case, ______ I satisfied my desire! I love driving! I don’t mind for big or small job. I wanted a job where I can get satisfaction. I got ______ from international companies but this one I preferred because I like it! I know, I can’t get enough money out of it, ______ as I told you ‘I love driving’! That’s it!”

“Is it worth it?

“______you like it, yes!”

【推荐2】Small business hold the key to employee happiness

As the calendar flips to another year, many employees will consider starting the new year on the hunt for a new job.

In today's changing workforce, it is more important than even for companies to realize that a salary alone is no longer enough to ______ or retain strong employees.

According to survey by Aflac, small businesses deserve a round of ____ for their ability to keep employees happy. The report found that 85 percent of small-business employees are happy in their current job, and more than half (51 percent) agree that most of or all of their happiness in their current job is a(n) ____ of working for a small business.

Nearly a quarter of participants (23 percent) stated that the feeling of importance was the best part of working for a small business.

Small businesses have the ____ ability to make employees feel appreciated, respected and valued on a personal and ____ level.

In a small-business environment, there are ____ fewer layers between newcomers and leadership.This tight-knit structure can create a(n) ____ atmosphere that allows employees to feel that their opinions matter and that they play a significant role in the business's mission.

____ is also vital in creating employee happiness. According to the report, 30 percent of respondents noted that flexible_____ was the best part of working for a small business. A workplace that ____ healthy work-life balance can create happier, less stressed employees and can also increase ____.

Although small businesses ____ at keeping employees happy, there is always room for improvement. In a small-business community, money does not seem to be the only ____. In fact, 65 percent of small-business employees indicate that an improvement in their benefits offerings would make them happier.

By offering a comprehensive benefits plan that include ____ benefits, small businesses can ensure that their employees are able to find the right benefits to meet their ____ needs

【推荐3】For many young Canadians, planting trees is more than just a job. It’s a way of ______ — and it could be catching on, thanks to a popular ______ by Leslie. While working for a logging company, the 29-year-old filmed herself using the ______ method that allowed her to plant 4,545 trees in a single day. She said that the summer work is incredibly ______. Many college students are ______ to tree planting as a summer job, for which they receive 13-27 cents per tree.

In Canada, planting tree is not easy work, according to Leslie. Not only is it ______ tiring, but it also ______ laborers to the bad weather.

“It could start the day off ______ and then minutes later, it will just be raining or snowing. You never know what to ______,” she described. “There were some days that we were planting through a heat ______, so we had like 37-to-40-degree weather for several days straight and that was really ______.”

Leslie has also had to ______ being bitten by mosquitoes while walking through rocky places. Then, there’s the threat of local wildlife becoming ______. While Leslie herself has only seen most large animals from a distance, a 21-year-old woman performing the same ______ just survived a bear attack last week.

So far, Leslie has planted a total of 372,290 trees in the past few years. ______, she’s still nowhere near beating the Guinness World record. That honor ______ Kenny Chaplin, who once planted 15,170 trees in 19 hours. After 35 years on the job, he says he’d ______ it to anyone.

“I think every parent in Canada should be ______ their kid out tree planting because it will take your child and it’ll turn them into a worker,” he ______. “They’ll learn how to work, and they’ll have ______. They’ll have money in their pockets.”

【推荐1】Ring! Ring! Ring! It was early in the morning and I knew who was calling as I reached for the telephone. I was a new substitute teacher (代课教师) trying to _______ enough money to support my family. Each morning, I _______ a call that would take me to a different _______ .

The last three classes had all been determined to test me and see how I could deal with their bad behavior. I had responded by being _______ about it. To be honest, I didn’t really want to go to work that morning, _______ since it was my birthday.

Still, I answered the phone and took the _______ . My family needed the money and I couldn’t afford to be picky. As I was driving to work, I _______ to try harder to be the best teacher that I could be. Shortly after the class began, the students _______ started to make trouble to see what they could _______ . This time, though, I was very ________ but fair with them. I did my best to make my ________ fun. I shared smiles, praised their efforts, and ________ them to work hard. The results were ________ . My unruly (难以管理的) classroom soon ________ . Students were learning actively and laughing happily, and I ________ felt like I was doing my job right. I went home feeling ________ in my heart and enjoyed the rest of my ________ with my family.

I remembered something that I once read: “Every day is a new ________ to begin again. Every day is your birthday.” Every day is a chance for us to get things ________ , live our lives with love and joy, and make this world a better place. Don’t waste a single day! Just try to be the best you can be! Never give up ________!

【推荐2】Exploring the peaks of the world’s highest mountains has become almost second nature for Poorna Malavath and Kavya Manyapu. It has taken Manyapu to NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) where her research has included designing ________ suits, and Malavath to the top of Mount Everest when in 2014, she became the youngest ever woman to ________ the top of the world’s highest mountain at 13.

Now, these two women have channeled their ________ spirit into climbing some of the world’s most difficult mountains as part of their campaign, Project Shakthi, which ________ money to fund girls’ education. At the end of August, they climbed a 6,012m virgin peak in Ladakh, India — one previously unmapped and ________ by human expeditions.

Never climbed before, the mountain ________ difficult challenges for even an experienced mountaineer like Malavath, for there were neither trails to follow nor ________ from previous climbers to stick to. “We have to prepare ourselves ________ to accept everything,” Malavath said. “So it’s completely different and it’s given me so much knowledge to ________ others.”

Complex weather conditions that turned to snow at high ________ added to the complexities of climbing a virgin peak. The night when they were to set out it ________, which meant avalanche (雪崩) conditions off the mountain. They had to ________ come back as a team, make a safety call and then prepare for the next day. So it was very challenging.

And for a relatively ________ climber like Manyapu, though she had trained extensively, the challenges were even greater.

“When we were, in the ________, we would talk about: ‘What if, you know, we won’t be able to make it to the summit, you know, what if this? What if that?’” Manyapu says. “But then we would always like to go back and encourage each other and ________ each other that, you know, let’s just take it one step at a time.”

【推荐3】Some people spend tens of years looking for their best friends. However, I was _________ enough to find mine in Grade 7 at my junior high school––eight_________ girls.

As we entered senior high school, a couple of girls_________ and a couple of new ones joined us. By the end of Grade 12, the group had more or less_________ into its final form, which remained amazingly_________ for the past 20 years.

Among our many_________ is a yearly Christmas exchange. This event first _________ when we were 12. We set it up on the long dining hall tables at our school to_________ small gifts bought with our limited pocket money. In the following years, we would _________ a night of it, watching movies and ordering pizza in parents’ living rooms. ____________, we moved into our own shabby(简陋的) student apartments, into slightly less shabby adult flats and then into our first____________.

At the beginning, we gave each other inexpensive gifts like butterfly hair clips, gloves and so on.Those gift ____________ bright earrings, necklaces and cheerful housewares as we began having our own homes in our 20s and baby clothes once we started having____________ in our 30s.

Holidays with family can be____________, but our exchange offered something else: a chance for my friends and me to____________ our own traditions and play at being grown-ups.