【推荐3】Last Monday, to prepare a picnic, I decided to go into a superstore. I parked my car and went into the superstore, which was a _________ one. After 45 minutes of _________ to just get some tomatoes, cheese and 3 toothpicks, I got to the cashier line (收银员线), a bit _________ by the time I spent to get 3 _________. I wondered why I did not go to a small local store.

After 15 minutes of waiting in the line, the woman _________ me calls me, “Hey... you only have 3 articles? _________ before me, I have more items than you!”

It wasn’t the first time it happened to me. _________ her initiative (主动提议) was disarming, as well as was her _________ (she did not wear any _________, so I could see it). Not knowing what else to do, I accepted her ________________. We chitchatted a bit waiting for the ________________ ahead of us to finish—she was unbelievably ________________. Then I thanked her, giving her back my brightest smile.

Getting back in my car, I rethought about that ________________ moment, and realized that she________________ my day. In the meantime, I wondered how to give it back to her. No doubt it was quite ________________, so I considered how to pay it forward to someone else.

While ________________, I realized that she saved me 10 minutes. And while I was driving at 70 mph, I reduced my ________________ to 55 mph. My fuel consumption sharply ________________ by 35%.

I ________________ part of the 10 minutes that the woman offered me, but it was a way to ________________ her and do a small thing for the environment.

【推荐1】Last week I went to a grocery store, just to check it out. The person in front of me at the checkout was pregnant(怀孕) and________a couple of containers of milk. No big_________, so I thought she would finish it quickly and I could be on my way. Her method of__________was a VIC card and it kept telling her that it wasn’t working. A manager__________and told her to come to a __________register; maybe there was a problem with the machine. After I checked out, I noticed she was still there, trying to get her card to_________.

It was obvious that the young woman was getting_________about the purchase so I offered to_________her purchase. She was shocked that I had even offered but finally_________my help. She thanked me and I went on my way with a smile from her.

Everyone needs a_________hand sometimes and you never know when it will be your _________. Today I found that it was indeed my turn.

I went boating north of the city. I t was a very hot, sunny day,_________I bought a large container of soft drink, thinking it would be plenty to drink. I didn’t realize the________that would have on me. Before I got back to shore, I________that I finished the bottles.

When I got back to shore and managed to drag my boat to the car, I was very hot and_________. Seeing a drinking fountain(饮水器), I________my problem was solved... but it wasn’t working at all. Though I was embarrassed, I had no choice but to_________a family who were having a picnic nearby if they had an extra bottle of water, which they________gave me. The bottle of water wasn’t a big deal to them, but it made all the__________to me.

The little things that can be done for others don’t usually________important to the people doing them, but it can be huge to the receivers.

【推荐2】One day, a kind woman happened to say something that hurt her best friend of many years. She _________ immediately and would do anything to take the words back. What she said hurt the friend so _________ that this good woman was herself hurt for the _________ she caused. In an effort to undo what she had done, she went to an older, wiser woman in the village, explained her ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ her. She also knew she could never _________ her pain, but she could teach. She knew the outcome would only _________ the character of the younger woman. She said, “Tonight, _________ your best feather pillows and put a single feather on the _________ of each house in town before the sun rises.”

The young woman hurried home to prepare for it, even though the feather pillows were very dear to her. All night long, she labored alone in the cold. Finally the sky was getting light. She placed the last feather on the step of the last house. Just as the sun rose, she ____________ to the older woman.

“Now,” said the wise woman, “Go back and ____________ your pillows with the feather you have put on the steps. Then everything will be as it was before.”

“You know that’s impossible! The wind ____________ away the feathers as fast as I placed them on the steps!” The young woman was surprised.

“That’s true, ” said the older woman. “Never forget. Each of your ____________ is like a feather in the wind. Once spoken, no amount of ____________, no matter how heartfelt or sincere, can return them to your ____________. Choose your words well and, most of all, guard them in the presence of those you love.”

【推荐3】I was a person who always felt desperate (绝望) before. Months ago my mom_________ from a serious disease and had an operation on her brain. I felt the whole world falling down and I had no _________ what I could do to help her to reduce her _________. Whenever I was alone, tears welled up in my eyes.

Last month I _________ a valuable watch, which was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my dad. I couldn’t sleep for several nights for the reason that I felt _________about the loss.

There have been many _________ like these in my life. I could never know what to do with such tough matters _________ I read If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade by American author Dale Carnegie.

“When the wise man is handed a lemon, he says, ‘What _________ can I get from this? How can I _________ my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?’ ” he wrote.

I suddenly ____________ that life is full of ups and downs, so I need to stay ____________all the time. Now when I think of my past, I wish I could have handled things ____________. When my mom was fighting for ____________, I should have held her hands in mine, telling her things would get better instead of ____________ and crying.

Several weeks ago, I participated in a campus singing competition. I didn’t ____________a prize. If I had not ____________ this article, I would definitely (当然) have felt ____________again. But instead, I smiled after the competition. I was pleased that in the end I had got some stage ____________

Life is not just a bed of roses. There are thorns (刺) as well, but these thorns help us become ____________ and strong. When life ____________ us a lemon, let’s try to make a lemonade.

【推荐1】The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.--Thomas Macaulay.

Some thirty years ago, I was studying in a public school in New York. One day, Mrs. Nanette O’Neillgave an arithmetic___to our class. When the papers were___,she discovered that twelve boys had made the __ mistakes throughout the test.

There is really nothing new about__in the exams. Perhaps that was __ Mrs. O’Neill didn’t evensay a word about it. She only asked the twelve boys to__after class. I was one of the twelve.Mrs. O’Neill asked no questions, and she didn’t__us either.She wrote on the blackboard the__words by Thomas Macaulay. She then ordered us to__these words into our exercisebooksone hundred times.

I don’t__about the other eleven boys. Speaking for myself I can say: it was the most importantsingle__of my life. Thirty years after being introduced to Macaulay’s words, they__seem to methe best yardstick(准绳), because they give me a__to measure myself rather than others. ___of usare asked to make great decisions about__ going to war or armies going to battle. But all of us arecalled upon daily to make a great many ___ decisions. Should the wallet, found in the street, be putinto a pocket or turned over to the ____? Should the__change received at the store be forgottenor___? Nobody will know except___. But you have to live with yourself, and it is always better tolive with someone you respect.

【推荐2】Unchangeable Love

One day I visited an art museum while waiting for my husband to finish a business meeting.

I was expecting a quiet_______of the splendid artwork.

A young_______viewing the paintings ahead of me_______nonstop between themselves. I watched them a moment and decided the lady was doing all the talking. I admired the man’s _______for putting up with her_______stream of words, _______by their noise, I moved on.

I met them several times as I moved _______the various rooms of art. Each time I heard her continuous flow of words, I moved away___________.

I was standing at the counter of the museum gift shop making a _______when the couple approached the__________. Before they left, the man __________into his pocket and pulled out a white object. He____________ it into a long stick and then tapped his way into the __________to get his wife’s jacket.

“He’s a __________man.” the clerk at the counter said. “Most of us would give up if we were blinded at such a young age. During his recovery, he made a promise his life wouldn’t change. So, as before, he and his wife come in ____________there is a new art show.”

“But what does he get out of the art?” I asked, “He can't see.”

“Can’t see! You’re__________. He sees a lot. More than you and I do,” the clerk said, “His wife __________ each pointing so he can see it in his head.”

I learned something about patience, __________and love that day. I saw the patience of a young wife describing paintings to a person without __________ and the courage of a husband who would not____________blindness to change his life. And I saw the love shared by two people as I watched this couple walk away, hand in hand.

【推荐3】Don and his 11-year-old son, Allen，love basketball very much. On Allen’s birthday，Don_______to drive him to Chicago，more than two hours’ distance，for the first game of the World Championships. They had no_______but hoped to buy two from other people.

After arriving，they_______in the streets for two hours carrying a_______which said，“We need two tickets._______the cheapest ticket was175 and they could not_______it. They were about to leave when a man_______ them. He pulled_______two tickets and handed them to Don.“How much do you want？” “_______！ No money is needed！” said the man.

When asked，the man________，“I am working for Joe，who hasn’t________a World Championships for 16 years.   But he is ill and can’t make it this time. So he told me to give the two tickets away. The only________he set is to give the tickets to people who I think will be deserving. A lot of people looked as if they might just take the tickets and________them right away. Then I saw you. You seemed very________and you make me________ my dad and myself when I was a child. I________wanted to go to see a World Championships game with my father at that time. But I never got the________.”

How important and________the game was to Don and his son! Here is________Don said，“It’s the most worth ________thing that happened to us. My boy and I must have turned to each other 30 times during the game. I can’t forget that night.”