【推荐1】As a medical student, I was absorbed in studying and hardly spoke with real patients in a hospital. Then I started visiting local hospitals to gather _________ for my essay (论文)．

One cold evening, I was “hunting” for the final three patients I needed to _________ my study. The records showed a 43­year­old patient, Ms. A, was in the ward (病房) still _________ from her recent stroke (中风), no relatives or friends with her. When I sat down on a chair next to her bed and told her my _________, she agreed. The questionnaire (问卷) was made up of three simple questions. Before I could _________ after finishing it, Ms. A spoke up in her weak voice, “Doc, do you think I can get back to my _________ life?” Deep in my heart, I wished I were her doctor. I replied that _________ I didn’t know much about her case, I could tell her what I had learned about the recovery of stroke patients.

Ms. A then talked about herself. She told me that her husband died and her pay as a cleaner was _________ enough for her kids. I didn’t know what to say. Looking into her eyes, I _________ to remember the lessons from a communication skills class a few years earlier, but my mind was __________. Without realizing it, I had begun holding Ms. A’s hand. Since I didn’t have anything to say, I just sat __________ while she talked. That’s when it __________ me that she was not expecting any __________ from me. She just wanted me to listen. All I did was nodding my head as a way of showing my __________. Finally, Ms. A stopped talking. “I’m very __________ for keeping you here, but I feel __________ now.” Finally, I knew what to say. “It’s OK, Madam. It’s part of my __________.”

Ms. A taught me one of the most important __________ a doctor can learn. Sometimes patients do not need expensive medicine. They just need someone with __________ and willingness to lend an ear and __________ a little of their time.

【推荐2】My father lived a long life and was deeply loved by his wife, three children，eleven grandchildren and a large number of friends. He was smart and quick-headed. When I asked if he’d like to join me on Virgin Airlines, I remember him _________ replying: “Why not? It’s as close to heaven as I’ll ever get!”

While he could always make us_______, he was also quiet, considerate and full of wonderful _______ for us so that we could do better.

When I was a child, I _________ myself to the change in Dad’s loose drawer—I didn’t see it as stealing, but rather as just borrowing without a _______ to give back—and bought chocolate from our local corner shop.

One day, while_______ the shop with my father, the shopkeeper questioned my_______ spending habits: “Now I don’t want to get him into any_______, Mr. Branson, but I don’t know where young Richard is getting all his___________from. He’s becoming my best customer—I ____________he isn’t stealing it.”

Dad ________ by looking her straight in the eyes and saying loudly, “Madam, how dare you ________ my son of stealing?”

After we left the shop, my father never spoke a word about the ________. However, his deliberate ________ for the rest of the day expressed everything. The way he ________ the situation taught me a hugely effective lesson. I learned that the power of the ________ words can be frighteningly influential.

By __________ my honesty he made me feel more __________ than if he had scolded me. I also learned the power of ________ and second chances. And these lessons have __________ me well in both life and work.

【推荐1】When I began my teaching career, I gave honest marks on the students’ work. In Simon’s ____, the grades were very low. He couldn’t read his own handwriting. But he was a _____student. He discussed adult subjects with nearly adult understanding. His work in no way reflected his _____.

I had worried myself sick over Simon’s mother coming to see me. So when Simon’s mother entered the room, my palms(手掌) were ______. I was completely unprepared for her kisses on both my cheeks. “I came to thank you,” she said, surprising me beyond speech. ______me, Simon had become a different person. She talked of how he ___me, he had begun to make friends, and for the first time in his twelve years, he had _______spent an afternoon at a friend’s house. She wanted to tell me how _______she was for the self-respect I had developed in her son. She thanked me again and left.

I sat, surprised, for about half an hour, _____what had just happened. How did I make such a life-changing difference to that boy without _______knowing it? What I finally came to _______was one day, when some students were ______presentations in the front of the class. Jeanne spoke _______, and to encourage her to raise her voice, I said, “Speak up. Simon is the expert on this. He is the _______one you have to convince(令……信服), and he can’t hear you in the _____of the room.” That was it. From that day on, Simon had sat up _______, paid more attention, smiled more, and became happy. And it was all because he _____to be the last kid in the last row. The boy who most needed ___was the one who took the last seat that day.

It taught me the most _______lesson over the years of my teaching career, and I’m thankful that it came early and positively. A small kindness can really make a _______

【推荐2】Many years ago, I was an art teacher. I was very bored then. About four years later, I started making _______ in the classroom. I first became _______ about hyperrealistic(超真实) drawing. I took photographs of my students, which I would _______. In the darkroom, I would _______ things I hadn’t seen. The student was sitting behind the model, or the one was holding the paper background and looking away. So I started to _______ more students into the images(像).

Sometimes I’d need to _______ objects in from the outside, a woolen hat and a pair of trousers. With this _______, I started with the cardboard feet and _______ added cardboard arms. The student who wore them couldn’t stand up without _______ his shoes, and I left his shoes _______ where he put them.

If I was bored, the students were, ________. As soon as I took my ________ out, their faces would light up. I didn’t ________ them in terms of making facial expressions. I’d just set up the camera and tell them how to ________ themselves. It was only when I developed the ________ that I’d notice they were smiling, or looking serious.

One day I gave copies of one ________ to the two students who were in it, and they immediately put them in their notebooks. I asked them what they ________. They said they didn’t think it was beautiful — because a ________ picture, for them, was a portrait with big ________, which showed we had good feelings.

Once in Paris, I came across a North African girl, and she said: ＂You were my ________. You took photos of me, which made me happy.＂

【推荐3】I still remember my kindergarten teacher Mrs White, although I don’t remember much about what we learned in her class. My mother once told me that we used to____a lot. And I would bring back what I wrote and she could see there were so many____. But no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes____a “Good”，which would make my heart soar (高涨）with____, But it worried my mother, so one day when she met Mrs White, she asked her why she never____the wrong spellings of words.

Mrs White replied,“The children are just beginning to get____about using words, about forming sentences. I don’t want to____that enthusiasm with red ink. Spelling and grammar can wait. The wonder of words won’t…”Maybe she didn’t say it____like that. It was long ago. But I did grow up learning to use words with loving____like that.

I____now and think Mrs Whites was a rather____teacher. She encouraged the joy,____and excitement of expression-however faultily-like that. I used to____“beautiful” a lot. Never could I quite remember that the “e”went ___the “a”.____my teacher in high school very much.____eventually the e’s and a’s settled into their____places. I am glad I didn’t ___on them though. “Pretty” is ___to spell but it doesn’t hold as much as you mean sometimes. And thanks to Mrs White, I had no____about writing what I meant even if I couldn’t quite spell it out. Because life isn’t Pretty. It’s Beautiful.

【推荐1】I grew up poor-living with my wonderful mother. We had little money, but plenty of love and attention. I was _________ and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still _________ a dream.

My dream was _________. By the time I was sixteen, I started playing baseball. I could throw a ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field. I was also _________. My high school coach was John, who not only believed in me, but also taught me how to believe in myself. He _________ me the difference between having a dream and remaining true to that dream. One particular _________ with Coach John changed my life forever.

A friend suggested me for a summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket- money for a new bike, new clothes and the _________ of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to _________ up summer baseball to handle the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell John I wouldn’t be playing.

When I told John, he was _________ as I expected him to be. “You have your whole life to work,” He said. “Your ____________ days are limited. You can’t afford to waste them.” I stood before him with my head __________, trying to think of the ____________ that would explain to him why my dream of buying my mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his ____________ in me.

“How much will you make at this job, son?” He asked. “3.5 dollars an hour,” I replied. “Well,” he asked, “is $3.5 an hour the price of a dream?”

That simple question made ____________ for me the difference between ____________ something at once and having a goal. I decided myself to play sports that summer and within the year I was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates to play baseball, and was offered a $20,000 contract. In 1999, I bought my mother the house of my dream!

【推荐3】Today was Mother’s Day. The young woman was feeling a little ______ because she was 800 miles away from her parents.

In the morning she called her mother to ______ her a happy Mother’s Day and her mother told her about the beautiful lilacs (丁香花) in their garden.

Later that day, she told her husband how she ______ those lilacs in her parents’ garden. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the ______ and come on.” So off they went, ______ down the country roads. There on a small hill were a lot of colorful lilacs. The young woman ______ over and buried her face in the flowers, ______ and enjoying them. Carefully she ______ a few and went back to the car.

On the way home the woman held her flowers, ______ all the way. When they were passing a ______, the young woman saw an old granny sitting alone in a wheelchair at the gate.“______!” she said to her husband. Getting off the car, she quickly walked up to the granny and put the ______ in her hands. As their car pulled away, the old granny ______ with a smile and held the lilacs tightly (紧紧地).

When the young mother sat back to the car, her kids asked her ______, “Who is that old granny? Why did you give her ______ flowers?” “I don’t know her. It is Mother’s Day, and she seems so ______ while I have all of you. I believe those flowers ______ much to her.” The kids nodded with ______, looking rather happy.

Now, every Mother’s Day my kids will go to that small ______ and pick some lilacs for me and that old granny. I’m glad that my small act of ______ has a good effect on my kids.