【推荐1】How often do you let other people’s rude(粗鲁的) actions change your mood (情绪)? Do you let a bad driver or an awful(糟糕的) waiter make your day terrible? However, your smart _________ to the actions is that you can smile to them. Sixteen years ago, I learned this lesson in a taxi in New York.

We were driving fast in the right lane(车道) when suddenly(突然地), a black car _________ quickly in front of us. My taxi driver stepped on the brake(刹车) as hard as possible, and luckily our car _________ just one inch (英尺) from the back of that car.

I couldn’t _________ what happened next. The driver of the car turned his head around and started shouting bad words. But then here’s ___________ really surprised me. My taxi driver just smiled and waved(挥手致意) at the guy. I said, “Why did you just do that? This guy _________ killed us!” He told me what I now remember “The Law of the Garbage Truck(垃圾车).”

He said “Like garbage trucks, many people run around _________ of garbage, anger, and regret. As their garbage gets more and more, they look for a place to _________ it. So when someone shows you the rude actions, don’t feel hurt. Just smile, wave, and move on. You will be _________.”

I started thinking: How often do I take others’ garbage and throw it to other people? Then I knew _________ what I should do.

【推荐3】Long ago, there were two neighbors living next to each other. One of them was a retired teacher and the other was an engineer. They planted the same plants in their ________.

The retired teacher gave a small amount of water to his plants and didn’t always give full ________ to them, while his neighbor gave much water to his plants and ________ them very well.

One night, there was a heavy ________. The next morning, they came out to see their gardens, the engineer was ________ to see that his plants were uprooted (将连根拔起). But the retired teacher’s plants were very well.

The engineer went to the retired teacher and asked, “We both ________ the same plants together. I actually looked after my plants better than you did for ________, and even gave them more water. Still, my plants were uprooted, while you weren’t. ________ is that possible?”

The retired teacher ________ and said, “You gave your plants more attention and water, but because of that they didn’t need to work to find water. You made it ________ for them to live. While I gave them just adequate (合乎需要的) water and let their roots (根) ________ for more. And their roots went deeper and deeper, which made them ________.”

This story is about parenting and the children are like plants. ________ everything is given to them, they may not learn to work themselves. Teach them how to work, but let them ________ their path. Sometimes, it’s best to guide them instead of ________ them.

【推荐1】Mr. and Mrs. Green were very worried about their son, Leo. He seemed to be dumb (哑的) ________ he was normal in every other way. Mr. and Mrs. Green tried everything to get him to ________, but with no success. When Leo was six years old, the best ________ in the town examined him carefully, but could find nothing wrong. And he seemed to be smart. It was just that he ________ spoke.

“There might be something wrong with his ________, and he doesn’t know he’s able to speak,” said one doctor. “But he can read and write.” said Mr. Green. “We’ve written him notes, telling him that he can speak.” “It’s certainly very ________,” another doctor said. “Perhaps he’ll be able to speak some day.” ________ passed, Leo went to university. ________ he did not say a single word. Then one day, Leo was having a meal with his parents. Without any warning, he looked up from his ________ and said, “Pass me the salt, please.”

Mr. and Mrs. Green were excited. “You spoke! You spoke!” they cried.

“Why have you ________ so long to speak?” “I didn’t have anything to say.”he said. “Until now everything was perfect. But you forgot to put salt in potatoes.”

【推荐2】Martin Henfield talks about some of his experiences as a twin: When we were small my mother _______ us in the same clothes. That was _______ enough and we didn’t like it. But when we went on our first camping trip, it was even worse. We were only ten years old, and while all the other boys went into their sleeping bags for the _______, we were not happy to snuggle（偎依）inside a double sleeping bag my mother made for us.

At school our classmates _______ us Henfield one and Henfield two, so people couldn’t even see our _______ according to our initials（首字母）because both of us were M.H. It was only when I went to college and began to have my own friends that I started to feel my own freedom of identity.

Before I went to college, during my last secondary school holiday, I _______ a job as a worker on a building site. My twin brother, Mike Henfield, didn’t work. One day I said to the boss, “Can I have a week off?” “_______” he said, “but you won’t have the job when you are _______. ” I didn’t want to _______ the job. So on Monday morning, Mike went there in my hat, jacket and __________ and he worked for me for one week. None of them knew the difference.

【推荐3】A girl was watching her mother cooking a dish in the kitchen. On the shelf, there were several containers (容器) with labels (标签) like “salt”, “sugar” and “oil”. The mother opened the containers in a certain order and ________ the required amount of each ingredient (原料) into the cooking container which was heated on a stove. Finally, she opened a container and looked inside for a while and then ________ it. Then she would be happy and offered the delicious dishes to everyone with great love. The child enjoyed the dishes ________ a smile. This happened every day, ________ the mother was always happy.

One day, the mother was ________ sick to cook. Her daughter ________ to do the cooking. She followed her mother’s method (方法). The girl examined the labels of all containers while trying to follow the directions of ________ mother. She found that the last container did not curry a label. So she quickly forgot the container and placed the cooking container on the stove and turned on the fire. According to her mother’s way, everything went well.

When the dish was getting ready, she wanted to open the ________ container without a label, because she wondered why her mother used to open, look and close it. Then she carefully opened the container. She was ________ to find in that container, a small card on which several words were written, “Is all your work in ________?”

Now she realized that her mother used to serve their food with love every time she read the message in the last container.

As a famous saying goes, “Do small things with great love.”

【推荐1】With the development of science and technology, people can change their bodies in the way they want in the 22nd century.

As years went by, Mr Black was ________ his look. So several months ago, Mr Black went to a body engineering shop and ________ a small nose. Small noses were very ________ these years. After the operation, he looked at himself in the mirror (镜子) and found that his ________ hair no longer fit his new look. Then he wanted a change to long hair. When he was leaving, the shop keeper ________ told him that the shop had a special offer on ears. At last, Mr Black went out of the shop with a small nose, long hair and two new ears.

In the next few weeks, Mr Black’s interest in his ________ kept growing. He bought new eyes, new hands and new feet. After that, he looked very young for his age, and ________ different. He felt satisfied with himself. However, the ________ in the face and fingerprints brought him much trouble. He was ________ to enter places like railway stations and airports. In the end, he decided to have his old body back!

【推荐2】Hi, my name is Jim. I have two friends. They are thirteen ________. Now we are in a high school. They ________ from Canada. Look at the ________. His name is Jack. He has a ________ face, a small mouth and small   ________. This girl is his ________, Julia. She and Jack are from ________ same family. But they look ________. She has a long face, a big ________ and big eyes. They are ________ good friends.

【推荐3】Body image, the way people feel about their looks, is a big problem for many young people today. According to a ____ , more than half the teenage girls in the USA think ____ should be on a diet(节食), and almost one in five teenage boys are _____ about their bodies and their weight.

But what’s the cause? In the study, many blame(责备) the media(媒体), turn on the TV and you’ll ____ see beautiful models, handsome actors and fit sports stars. ____ a magazine or a newspaper, look through the Internet, and it’s usually ____ .

Many young people feel pressure(压力) to ____ these “perfect” people. But for most, this is just not possible. In the USA, the average(平均的) woman is 163 cm tall and weighs 64 kilos, ____ the average model is 180 cm tall and weighs 53 kilos.

When people don’t look the way many ____ people look, they may become less confident. Some stop eating enough food in order to lose ____ . Students can lose so much confidence that they start to ____ taking part in classroom activities at school.

Body image problems don’t disappear(消失) as we get ____ , either. In the UK, for example, women over 50 years old spend more money on cosmetics(化妆品) than any other ____ group. Older men ____ a lot of money trying to avoid(避免) hair loss(损失).

Is there a way to solve the problem? A 2016 study in the UK says that body image lessons should be given in ____ , others believe it’s a problem that all of society needs to deal with. As Meaghan Ramsey says “We need to judge people by what they do, not what they look like.”