【推荐1】A professor stood before his class with some things in front of him. When the class began, he picked up a very large, empty _________ and filled it _______ golf balls.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor then _________ small pebbles(鹅卵石) and put them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into _________ between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was _______. They agreed it was.

The professor next _________ sand into the jar and it went into the places _________ between the golf balls and the ___________.

He asked once more the same question. The students said, “Yes！”

The professor then took out two cups of _________ and poured the coffee into the jar.

“Now.” said the professor, “I want you to recognize that this jar ____________ your life. The golf balls are the ________ things-your__________, your children, your health and your friends. If you lost everything else, only they would remain and your life would still be full. The pebbles are the things that matter like your job, your __________ and your car. The____________ is the small stuff(事务).”

“If you put the sand into the jar __________,” he continued, “there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for __________. If you spend all your __________ and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

One of the students __________ her hand and asked what the coffee represented. The professor smiled, “It just shows that no matter ____________ full your life may seem, there’s always ______________ for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend. "

【推荐2】Through the cold winter wasteland a man walked hard, leaning into the harsh wind which tried to force him back. He was covered from head to toe in layers of ___clothing, layers of protection against the____weather. On he ___, searching, searching. This must be the way.

In the distance he saw what looked like ___rising out of the ground. It rose a few feet and then was quickly ___away by the biting wind. He changed his ___and turned towards the steam. As he got closer, he thought he could make out ___. Their melody(旋律) was unfamiliar to him -musical, ___and warm - it ___him closer.

There before him was a remarkable sight. In the middle of the frozen wasteland was a large ____. Several people seemed to be ___easily in it without any effort. As they saw him ___, a man called out to him.

“Come in here. It is lovely and warm. You can just ___back and relax,” said the man.

“I can’t. There are no ___.” The man replied.

“Just jump in. It really is lovely. There’s plenty of ___for another.” Another of the floaters joined in the ___.

“But what if I want to get out? The sides are too ___to reach up to.” “Believe me, you won’t want to get out. Come on.” But he decided not to jump in. And that was a(an) ___decision.

There’re many things and people in life like this pool. They ___you life can be easy. But in fact, they are ___that you can’t come back from.

Life is hard. Stay wise. And fight.

【推荐3】The best way I can think of to describe this situation: We finally have time to stop and smell the dandelions (蒲公英).

Technically dandelions are weeds, so they don't often_______ in any kind of decorations. When I pass dandelions in my lawn, my reaction typically is to not _______ them at all, or think we really need to_______ the weeds. But for the past couple of days, my kids have been_______ by these little yellow weeds. They have filled my pockets with them, and we have even smelled them. We can be bothered by the weed and_______ by the weeding. But we are still giving it our _______ and looking at it for a glimmer of(一丝)good.

While before we may have been too _______ to smell the dandelion, now, with the spread of COVID-19, we are forced to stay at home and _______ and appreciate it. In fact, I've _______ a great deal about dandelions in the past several days. Like that they are one of the first food sources for bees in the spring, and are __________ to eat, even nutritious. These little weeds are amazingly __________ , but I had __________ stopped to think about it before.

I'm __________ the days when we can __________ our friends and family again, and honestly even a handshake with a stranger sounds nice. I can’t wait for a time when we can go outside without__________and send our healtheare workers out into the world safely. Yet, right now we have the time to smell the weed. It's a forced __________ to consider all the things we could or should have been doing all along __________ rushing off to the next big important thing.

As I dig a dandelion out of my pocket and let out a sneeze (喷嚏), I realize this isn't fun, but there are pockets of __________. Dandelions don’t smell like roses but they are __________ when you really look at them and important when you really think about them.

When this is all over, I hope I will still __________ to stop and smell the weeds.

【推荐1】Last weekend I took a bus to New York City. As I took the window seat and wore headphones over ears, I almost didn't _______ an elderly man sitting beside me. The elderly man asked me a simple question _______ the bus' s WiFi connection, which turned into a two-hour _______.

We talked a lot about my dreams, my fears and my life. I _______ more with this stranger on the bus than I have with any friend or family member in months. Maybe it is because I am _______ to let anyone I know close to me. I was _______ that the stranger was not only deeply interested in getting to know me, but also just willing to     _______ me to my greatest abilities. Instead of politely _______ his head when I mentioned my major, he told me that my strong liking seemed to be psychology, but not the one I was studying and that he fully understood my _______ for the failure.

This elderly man made me ________ the plans that I had made for my life. He helped me realize that my carefully ________ plan for the next five years of my life wasn't all that good, but actually complex and filled with     ________ . Most of all, he helped me ________ the complex rather than stay away from it because of my fear for the unknown.

A few days later, he emailed me, saying, “I think you' re ________ for great things whatever you decide to do.” The email, filled with words of encouragement made me realize that life is sometimes ________ but it is going to be okay.

【推荐3】A Dog’s Day in Court

We used to live about a quarter mile from a train crossing. Our dog, Lenny, had a very annoying habit: he howled (嚎叫) whenever a train whistled for the crossing, due to his very _______hearing. Outside or in the house, he howled and howled _______the train went by. When the wind was _______, he would even howl for the crossings farther down the _______. We learned to _______the noise, mainly because we loved our pet so much.

Early one morning while we were eating breakfast, we heard a long ,very high sound of a train’s _______efforts followed by a terrible crash. We _______out and discovered a twisted car jammed on the cowcatcher (排障器) of the massive locomotive (火车头). Unfortunately, the driver of the car had died_______.

Back in the house, we called the local rescue workers. But we all immediately said to each other, “Lenny didn’t howl. The whistle could not have blown!”

At the _______, my brother recognized what was left of the car ________that of his friend’s father and knew the sad news would now have to be ________to the family. When the rescue team arrived, my brother told them, “The engineer couldn’t have blown the ________because our dog did not howl. And he always does!”

The story of Lenny’s howling ________rapidly around our small town as everyone ________in the sorrow of the wife and family. Left without the ________, the family of nine was in a difficult situation. One of the county’s best-known lawyers ________to pursue a claim against, by now, the infamous (声名狼藉的) Soo Line Cooperation for the sake of the widow and children. The lawyer hired an investigator and recording technician, who, for days, at all hours, visited our home listening for oncoming trains and ________recording Lenny’s howl. Lenny never ________to respond with his howl to the sharp sound of an approaching (靠近地) train.

The taped evidence, ________in court, along with the testimony (证词) of my family members, convinced the judge and jury. The settlement ________to the family secured their home and future. County court records give evidence of the success of a “dog’s day in court!(法庭)”