【推荐1】This is a story that happened in a summer 15 years ago, but it has always stayed with me since then.

On the way back from work every evening there would be a _______ man, standing at the exit of the freeway. He often _______ at every car smiling. Every time I would remember to _______ any spare coins and put them aside. When I saw him, I would _______ hand the coins to him from my car window as parking was not allowed there. He always said to me, “Thank you. I’m blessed!” And I always left with _______ and satisfaction.

It _______ me that even in the unsettled lifestyle he was so _______. And his reply would remind me of how _______ I was — a single mother with a lovely child, with a place to call home and with a job to _______ my kid.

One day, I was informed by my boss that I was ________ due to the terrible economy. A feeling of ________ surrounded me. On my way home, I ________ to look for my spare coins as usual. I was in no mood to do anything. Without any ________, I got off the ramp(坡道) where the man would be. Yet there he was as always, still ________ others by waving with a smile. I didn’t look up at him and didn’t do ________ I had always done. I drove straight ahead coldly.

To my ________, while I was in line at a red light to leave the ramp, he stopped at my car with a dollar bill, saying ________, “You look unhappy, but you know all will turn out fine. Give you a dollar today and ________!” Then he left. I burst into ________. I wanted to jump out of my car and hug him!

That day he gave me more than a dollar bill. He taught me a lesson. No matter what material things are taken from you, no one can take away your ________ to be joyful.

【推荐3】I'm not a musician. I haven't been dancing since birth, nor have I been playing the ______ sport for 10 years. I grew up jumping from activity to activity, ______ nearly every sport under the sun. As a result, I've become a (an) ______ of all trades.

I always felt ashamed of this. I felt like I ______ time on these short attempts. ______, I stopped looking into new activities, because I was never going to ______ in any of them.

This is, I now realize, totally ______.

I did musical theater as a kid, but ______ after getting into high school because I had too many other ______. Those years on the stage led me to ______ public speaking. I tried every style of dance, which let me fall in love with ______. Later, I signed up for color guard(护旗队) because I ______ being in front of a crowd. Thanks to my background in ______, I had a better foundation than other ______, and was able to pick up the basics a little faster and learn the more ______ skills a little easier.

We love the activities we do. Our hobbies are a ______ of who we are. It only makes sense that as we grow and change, so should our ______. Old flames can lead to new passions.

____ is never a waste of time. We spend out whole lives ______. So why not start the guitar at   20, 40, or 75? It's never too late to pick up something new, and it makes you ______.

【推荐1】We think of teenage video gamers as being in a sort of solitary confinement(单独禁闭），shut in their darkened bedrooms.In _______,they are usually communicating with other gamers, via audio or text, about the action on the screen. And sometimes their conversations change from the world of fantasy to _______

That's what happened to 14-year-old Reilly Howard from East Hampton,Connecticut, last October. While playing Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, he _______ that a 13-year-old from Florida, was not his normal self. Reilly's feeling was _______ when the friend messaged him,"Yo, we need to talk. "Reilly _______ called him.

＂He starts to _______about what's going on in his life: 'I have nothing to live _______ ;I'm going to kill myself,'" Reilly told nbcconnecticut.com."He couldn't even talk. He was crying so much."_______ to express his inner pain in speech, the 13-year-old _______ out,"Tonight is going to be the night."

＂He's my ________.I didn't want him to die," he told WFSB.

For two hours, Reilly said everything he could think of to ________ the 13-year-old to embrace(拥抱）life.“I just kept comforting him," says Reilly. “I said, 'I'll see you tomorrow.I'm going to be playing with you tomorrow.You promise, ________ is going to happen tonight.'"

About that time,Reilly's parents came home from work.He________ them of what was happening,and they called Florida police, who tracked down the boy.

The troubled teen is doing ________now,thanks to a gamer-one he'd never met in person-who was willing to put down the keyboard and lend a(n)________,Reilly's mother, Sheila Reilly,says,"You just have to show up and talk to people.And listen."

【推荐2】It was my own teacher who inspired me to become a teacher like him.

One day many years ago, a friend of mine ______ the classroom with a new nice watch. I liked it so much that I decided to keep it. Shortly after, my friend found his watch gone and immediately ______ to my teacher. Then my teacher went to the classroom and ______ the class about the lost watch. But I didn’t want to ______ it. Then my teacher closed the door, told all the students to get up and began looking for it in students’ pockets one by one. But my teacher ______ us to close our eyes. When my teacher went through my pockets, he found the watch and took it. He went on till he finished finally. He never ______ the incident, nor even took me aside to give me a moral lesson.

But I received his ______ clearly. It was the most ______ day of my life, but it was also the day my dignity was saved and I made a ______ never to become a thief. And thanks to him, I understood what a real ______ needs to do.

When I asked my teacher if he still remembered the ______, he replied to me ______ he did remember this affair. But he ______ to remember me, because he also closed his eyes during the ______.

If to correct, you must make students feel ashamed or stupid and lose the ______ of other people, you don’t know how to teach yet.

【推荐3】A couple in ordinary clothes walked into the Harvard’s outer office. “We want to see the president(校长),” the man said softly. “He will be busy all day,” the secretary spoke_________, concluding that the couple had no _________ with Harvard from what they wore. “We’ll _________,” the lady replied.

Four hours, the secretary _________ them, hoping that the couple would finally become _________ and go away. They didn’t. And the secretary grew_________ and finally decided to disturb the president. Someone of his _________ obviously had no time to spend with nobodies, but he _________ people in such clothes filling in his outer office.

The president, frozen-faced, walked _________ toward the couple. The lady told him, “We had a son that __________ Harvard for one year. He loved Harvard and was very happy here. But he was accidentally__________. And my husband and I would like to ________ a memorial(纪念物) to him somewhere on campus.” The president wasn’t __________; he was shocked, “Madam,” he said __________. “We can’t put up a statue(雕像) for every person who studied in Harvard and died.”

“Oh, no.” the lady__________ quickly, “In fact, we thought we would give a building to Harvard.” The president __________ at the couple and then shouted, “A building! Do you know how much a building costs? The cost of the Harvard’s buildings is over 7.5 million dollars.”

For a moment the lady was __________. The president was pleased. He could __________ them now. The lady turned to her husband and said quietly. “Is that all it costs to __________ a university?” Her husband nodded. Mr. and Mrs. Leland Stanford walked away, traveling to Palo Alto, California, where they established the university __________ after them—a memorial to a son.