【推荐1】One of the world’s most encouraging sayings I ever heard was by Brian Tracy. He said, “The _________ between successful people and unsuccessful people is that successful people fail many times more than unsuccessful people.”

I deeply _________ the true meaning of the saying soon after my first book came out. I was living in Atlanta at that time and _________ my first signing sale for my new book at the largest bookstore in the city. _________ a nice sign was placed outside the room showing pictures of both me and my book, not any customer entered the room. As each minute passed, I became less _________.

At 6:25 p.m., just before the store’s closing, I _________ to leave. At that moment, just when I couldn’t feel any worse, a middle-aged couple walked into the room. I tried to _________ my feelings and introduced myself and my book.

The couple turned the pages each other, and the husband nodded (点头) to his wife. She then told me, “I think we will _________ the book.”

Although I held their hands to thank them for being my _________ readers with the excitement to jump in the air, I realized the woman was trying to say __________ else.

“The __________ why we’re buying it is that our son died two years ago,” she said. “Maybe your book will help __________ get it over.” At that moment, I knew if I never sold a copy of the book, my four years of __________ had been meaningless.

Although I would have many more challenges after my book became a bestseller, this couple’s story was all the motivation (动力) I needed at that point to keep me __________.

Thanks to them, I would realize that the greatest of lives are made all in the same way: One challenge... one challenge... one difficulty... one step... and one small __________ at a time.

【推荐2】One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There’s a horseshoe. ________ it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said ________ but picked it up himself. When they got to a nearby town, they had a rest. There the farmer ________ the horseshoe and with the few cents he bought some cherries (樱桃).

The father and the son ________ their way. The sun was well up in the sky, and there wasn’t a house or even a tree where they could have a rest. Thomas felt too ________ to walk on. At this time, his father ________ a cherry on the ground and Thomas picked it up quickly and ate it. After a while, his father dropped another cherry and once again, his son lost some time in picking it up and putting it in his ________ .

As they walked on, the old farmer dropped the cherries ________ the son picked them up. When Thomas had eaten up all the cherries, his father said to him,” My dear son, if you had bent (弯腰) down earlier to pick up that ________ , it would not have been necessary for you to bend so many times for the cherries. Always remember the lesson that anyone who does not ________ the little things will find that he cannot do the great things.

【推荐3】A man was walking through an elephant camp and found that the elephants weren’t kept in cages or held by chains （铁链）. All that was holding them back from escaping the camp was a _______ piece of rope—it was just tied to one of their legs.

As the man looked at the elephants, he couldn’t _______ it. Why didn’t the elephants just use their strength to _______ the rope and escape from the camp? They could’ve easily done so, but instead, they didn’t try at all.

Wanting to know the answer, he asked a _______ nearby why it was so.

“When they were very young and much _______ , we used the same size of rope to tie them, and at that age, the small piece of rope was _______ to hold them. As they grew up, they _______ believed that the rope could hold them and they couldn’t break away, _______ they never tried to break free,” the trainer answered.

The man was speechless. These animals could have broken free whenever they wanted, but it was just because over time, they had the belief that it just wasn’t possible.

How many of us _______ life like the elephants—holding on to the belief that we cannot do something simply because we failed once or some times before?

Failure is part of learning. If we have failed once or a few times, it doesn’t mean we can never ________. We should never give up trying when we experience failures in life.

【推荐1】One year, when I was teaching second grade students, a child was late ______ class. I was not very happy. He didn’t say ______, but came over to me and said with a smile, “Mrs Johnson, my name is Daniel. I ______ a short letter for you from my old teacher, ______ it’s not on the paper.” said the little boy.

“______ is it?” I asked him, “It’s in my head. She wanted me to tell you how lucky you were to have me in your ______!” I smiled, and then I said, “I have one in my head, too. And she wanted me to ______ you something, too.” “Really? What is ______?” “How unlucky you were to have a teacher like me!” I said, “Now you are late. Please stand and listen to me in class.”

【推荐2】I have (有) a good friend. Her ________ is Helen. She is a ________ girl. She has (有) many (很多) friends and she is good to them (他们). But (但是) she often (常常) ________ her pens and books. Luckily (幸运地), her ________ are good to her, too. They help her a lot (很多). She feels (感觉) very happy (非常快乐) ________ this. This morning in class (班), Helen can’t find her pencil box. She is not happy because (因为) her ________ are in it, and she can’t write (写) without (没有) them. After class (课后), we (我们) look for (寻找) the pencil box and find ________ pencil boxes in the school library. They have different ________. One is yellow and one is green. Helen says the yellow one is ________. We are very happy and Helen ________ us (我们) a lot.

【推荐3】It was early on Monday morning and Mr.Thomas said, “It’s hard ________ this, but I’ll have to leave school ________ a few weeks’ time.” His students were shocked at the news. All of ________ loved him very much and they never thought that he might leave. ________, Mr. Thomas reached the age when he was going to retire (退休). After hearing this news, the class was sad for the next few days until the class monitor ________ them a small scolding (斥责).

“We should not be like this,” she said, “Instead (反而), we should study hard to thank Mr. Thomas for being so good to us.” The class ________ her and they thought of an idea of throwing Mr. Thomas a farewell (送别) ________ to surprise him.

On Mr. Thomas’ last day at school, ________ bought a different kind of delicious finger food to class. They covered the blackboard with farewell messages. When Mr. Thomas showed up, all the students said “Goodbye and Thanks, Dear Teacher” together and promised Mr. Thomas that they would do their ________ in schoolwork in future.

Mr. Thomas was really ________. And he was really touched. The class, in turn, was glad that they did the right thing. After all, it was the simplest way to show love and thanks to their favorite teacher.

【推荐1】Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You may ________ they go to learn languages, PE, history, science and other subjects. But why do they learn these ________?

We send our children to ________ to prepare them for the time when they will be big and will begin to work for themselves. Nearly ________ they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that the ________ reason why they go to school? There is more in education than just ________ facts. We go to school above all to learn how to learn, ________ when we have left school we can go on to learn. A man who really knows how to learn will always be ________, because whenever he has to do something new which he has never had to do, he will rapidly teach himself how to do it ________ the best way. The uneducated person, on the other hand, is ________ unable to do something new, or does it badly. The purpose of school, therefore, is not only to teach languages, math, geography, etc, but to teach pupils the way to learn.

April 27 is a special day in Britain．It’s called Take Our Daughters to Work Day．It was________to Britain in 1994 from America．On that day thousands of girls take a day_____school and go with one of their parents to their workplaces．By doing this，it can____girls more about the society where they live．

Now the girls can have a close look at_____their parents are doing．This may help them to be calmer when they have to choose a_____．Mary experienced a day of work at her mother’s office．This helped her_____her mother’s work better．She said that this made her feel more confident about her future．

Schools and many companies_____the activity．too．Some schools_____make the day a necessary part of school life．

Experts think that girls with more selfconfidence are more likely to be_____than common girls．_____parents can set good examples both at work and at home for them，they will do better than others．Take Our Daughters to Work Day is surely a step in the right direction．

Stand in front of a mirror and look at it. How much do you really know about the ________ in it?

Liu Yue, a teacher, has recently given her students a ________ tool. “People call it the Johari Window,” said Liu. “It has four areas about one’s self: open area (that everyone knows about), hidden area (that only you know), blind area (that everyone knows except you) and unknown area (that nobody knows). Using this tool, students did a good job ________ themselves.”

“I’m most curious about my blind area,” said eighth-grader Yang Manfei. “So I did a survey with my friends.” The results showed that Yang easily gets impatient. “That’s a bad habit I’ve never ________!” Yang said.

“I find the unknown area most amazing,” said Sun Boyin. “It means everyone has lots of potential (潜力).” When Sun ________ middle school, he was not good at math. “But I tried my best and did lots of math exercises. Now I’m much ________ at math. The unknown part of my math ability is getting clearer!” Sun said.

When it came to the hidden area, most students kept ________ and sat still. “I’m afraid to show my secrets deep down,” said Li Yixuan. Then one classmate ________ and said his favorite cartoon is Tom and Jerry. Li thought, “Can I ________ show my childish hobby? Perhaps not. I want my classmates to see me as a big person, not a silly kid.” But then Li realized that he didn’t think that classmate silly. Li thought his classmate had the ________ to be himself.

“Show yourself and make yourself better—that’s the best lesson I learned,” Li said.