【推荐1】Sometimes people around you can change your life. The change may not be sudden or _______ , but little habits can produce big _______ that make you think about what is important in your life. The person who changed my life is Julia Masi. She has _______ me so many things that I will carry with me _______ my life.

One thing I've learned from Julia is how to balance   _______. Julia has shown me how to _______ ahead so that I can finish all my school work, enjoy sports and_______ have time for my friends. She has taught me that you can do anything if you are _______ and if you never give up. I've also learned that you can find anything fun or _______   if you connect it with something that you enjoy.

Last year I hated studying vocabulary, but I loved playing on my computer. Julia ________   the two and showed me a website called “freerice.com” where you can ________   a word game that gives you 5 grains of rice to donate to the poor with every correct word. She ________   me to learn a hundred new ________   by filling up the rice bowl. I liked playing the game so much that I ________   about 1,000 words in just one month.

Julia has always ________   me to try new hobbies. She showed me that going to the theater could help me become a better writer. ________ , she taught me that discussing a play can excite an interest in reading.

________   it wasn't for Julia I probably wouldn't have ________   how easy it is to help the poor. There are so many ways that one person can ________ . I've learned to be more appreciative of what I own. I am ________   for the opportunities that I have been given. I will continue to think of ways to help those less fortunate for the rest of my life.

【推荐2】When I was a child, I loved to go fishing with Dad. But the only thing that wasn't very _______ about it was that I couldn't catch anything. I usually got pretty _______ and kept asking him why. He _______ answered,"Son, if you want to catch a fish, you have to think like a fish.” I remember being even more upset then because I didn’t _______ how to think like a fish. Besides, I _______，how could what I think _______ what a fish   does?

As I got a little older I began to _______ what Dad really meant. So, I read some books on fish. And I even joined the local _______ club. I learnt that a fish is a cold-blooded animal and therefore is very   _______water temperature. That is why fish prefer ________________water to deep water because the former is ________________ .Besides, water is usually warmer in direct sunlight than in the ________________. Yet, fish don’t have any eyelids and the sun       ________________       their   eyes. The more 1 understood fish, the more I became effective at finding and ________________ them.

When I grew up and ________________ the business world，I remember hearing my first   ________________say, "We all need to think like sales people.”But it didn't completely make ________________ .My dad never once said, “If you want to catch a fish you need to think like a ________________ What he said was, “You need to think like a fish.” Years       later, with great efforts to ________________ long-term services for people much older and richer than me, I gradually       ________________       what   we all need is to think more like customers. It is not an easy job.

【推荐3】For years I have had no idea what I have been doing with my life. I was a 30-year-old lawyer in New York.___being a lawyer was never my dream or goal in life. I honestly wanted to be a writer. I have a great__________and would write amazing stories in my head. But I always knew that being a writer was_________ possible for me because it was a better________ decision to stay a lawyer.

Recently，I couldn't fall asleep___________my usual time of 10 p. m，and when I did fall asleep I had the same dream_________ The dream started with me in the ocean ________to go for a swim and I was searching for something，but I started to_________ and have no control over my__________Then a light shone through the water and when I looked up all I could_________was myself in a bright white room writing a ________ Then I heard a voice said_________ ，"Now is the time to try something new；now is the time to try something new.”

It wasn't just a dream；it was my_________ to make something good out of my life. That afternoon，I________ my job at the law firm and I couldn't have been any _________My life started at 30，and every day _______ that point I haven't stopped enjoying life. I started to_________and have been on the best-seller list for the last two months. Things have definitely turned_______

________ is a good thing, it gives us an opportunity to take a chance. So my two favorite words I live by and so ___you are "change and chance".

【推荐1】After getting "paying-it-forward. " several times, I always wish I could buy a coffee for a stranger too.

That particular morning, I _______in my rearview mirror(后视镜)when I got to the drive-through window to pay. A _______woman was driving a sports car behind. I could see her gold jewelry shining in the sunshine."No way does she need me to buy her coffee!" I was quite _______ , but then that _______shouted in my heart: “Pay for her coffee. "

Are you kidding me? I was _______on cash myself, and I was already feeling guilty for _______ cash on my own coffee. _______, I told the cashier, "Please put the red sports cars _______on my bill. " As soon as I said it, I felt _______. I knew I had followed my heart. I paid the server and drove to the parking lot.

________ , the sport car followed. The lady________and said, "I don’t know why I am telling you this but I need you to know how much I________that coffee. " She started to ________, "our business partner ________us and left us in the cold. This could not have come at a worse time ________we lost our son to cancer last month. I thought nobody ________ about us, and then you appeared. Thank you ever so much. "

Now I was the one who was ________tears. We chatted and she ________me that I gave her much more than a cup of coffee that morning. Next time I am in the drive-through and feel the ________to pay it forward-there will be no ________.

【推荐2】“None of us get out of life alive, so be brave and be thankful for all the opportunities (机会）you have.” Those were _______ words said by 18-year-old Jake Bailey, a cancer patient.

Bailey was in the leading position of the Students' Union. The young man had meant to_______ at his high school's end-of-year ceremony (典礼）on schedule._______. just the week before, he received shocking_______. After several weeks of not feeling well, tests showed that he had a fast-growing form of cancer. Doctors said, without_______,he would only have weeks to live, so they didn’t _______him to take part in the event. But Bailey put on his school uniform along with his_______face and left his hospital bed to give the inspiring speech to his _______ . Without doubt, his appearance _______everyone at the ceremony. Sitting in the wheelchair, he began to ________his ideas. He expressed that a strong-willed person would not easily ________ , no matter how hard life was.

At the speech, Bailey encouraged his schoolmates to________ their time. “The future is truly in our hands.________ about long-term dreams. Let’s be ________ to short-term goals .” He________ . "We don't know where we might end up, or when we will end up, so work with pride on what is ________ us.”

When the senior ________ his speech with the school’s ________ ,“Altiora Pcto, ”一a Latin   phrase meaning ‘I aim higher', the entire room burst into cheers.________ ,Bailey's message was heard loud and clear. Bailey then closed his eyes and ________the words “Thank you”.

【推荐3】When my wife, Jane, and I were 16, we were in the same class. About a week before Thanksgiving Day, we found out that our teacher Edward was having some ___challenges. We wanted to do something to help, so as a class we ___to gather food, clothing and gifts to ___his family had a good Thanksgiving Day.

When Jane told her family about our plan, her mother was ___. Together they searched their house for things they could ___. Her mother went to the kitchen, ___ a big turkey and saying, “Thanksgiving Day won’t be ___without a turkey dinner.” To this day, Jane remembers how moved she was by her mother’s ___.

Before making our ____, we said a prayer of appreciation for the wonderful ___ to help others. I will never forget the surprised ___ of our teacher and his wife when they ____ the door; their four children gathered around them as we handed out the gifts. It was a cold night; we all felt warm inside, ___.

Last month while I was in a meeting, my secretary informed me, “Your high school teacher Mr. Edward is wondering if you could ___ him a few minutes. He’s sitting in your office right now!”

I left my meeting and went to my office ___. My teacher and I hugged and began to ___ the last 42 years. He told me he ___ remembered that cold winter night when we brought the ___of Thanksgiving Day to his family. The food and gifts were certainly appreciated, ___what warmed his heart that night was to see a group of teenagers who understood the ___of Thanksgiving Day.