【推荐1】Two weeks of volunteer work lay ahead and my mood _________ . I realized that good _________ and a trip to Spain would not be enough to make the _________ that I had hoped for. My volunteer service was in a shelter in Peru. I was where I wanted to be, but, without the communication _________ I needed.

One morning the founder of the shelter, Miguel Rodriguez, _________ the story of how, after the death of his baby, he started feeding and taking in _________ children. He eventually _________ his family, wealth, and life to setting up what is now a shelter for over 1,300 children. As he finished, I asked: “I can _________ how the walls, the food, and the facility (设施) came to be, but, how did you _________ the atmosphere of love, respect, and care among these children?”

His response was simple: “Use the language of love.” He ____________, “The language of love is done with your eyes, your hands, and your smile.” “____________ are not only for work. They are for hugging, holding, and ____________.Do this, and they may well ____________ the example.”

This simple statement carried ____________. These children had communicated love, respect, and ____________ to me and each other without a word being ____________.These emotions, so ____________ to convey, did not need translation at all.

For the remainder of my service, I was determined to worry less about my ____________ of Spanish, and instead, focus on using the language of love. When I returned home, I ____________myself to use it more in my everyday life and to be mindful that being a(n) ____________ is sometimes all the power that is needed.

【推荐2】To make a difference in a child’s life, I recently Joined the Make-A-Wish Arizona team, which was able to accept 355 wishes this year. While each wish was as __________ as the child who dreamt it, one that touched me most was Annie’s wish to meet the Pope(罗马教皇). In fact, there was not one __________ eye in the Wish House when Annie’s wish came true.

Given 3-6 months to live after being __________ to have stage IV stomach cancer, most people would be __________. Not Annie, who wrote the most __________ letter to us asking for her wish: to have last rites (临终祈祷)__________ to her by the Pope. Well, the Pope doesn’t do that, but he did __________ to meet with her, and with planning by the staff, she eventually met the Pope and got a __________ from him. The time with him was __________ short of extraordinary. She reported that he even posed for photos!

Nothing could have made this __________ more amazing when the Pope asked the crowd to wait a moment while he __________ a full mass(弥撒)for her. Working there, we were all __________ to meet Annie as she came to the Wish House to __________ her remarkable story. She is __________ a fortunate young lady!

Wishes like Annie’s give life new meanings. You can __________ what an incredible amount of support it takes to make these happen. That is __________ I encourage you to join me in making a __________ to this charity activity, whether it is $30, $50, $100 or even more. Remember it can __________ allowing more wishes like Annie’s to come true and it can help Make-A-Wish kids __________ their courage to face illnesses and find a(an)__________ point in their lives.

【推荐3】I have a strong love for madrone(浆果鹃)trees. My _______is to live among them, but the real land prices on the mainland where they grow is very high and _______on an island cuts you off from your family. So instead I have been studying their specific growing _______and learning how to plant them myself where I live.

Last year I bought 150 young trees from a native _______sale. 25 of these trees were kept for myself, and the rest went to my nearby community (社区) in city parks, beaches near my home, and my grateful _______!

This year things are _______. The nearby community college didn’t _______madrones any longer, so I was “forced”to learn how to spread them from seeds (种子). I tried to do this once before _______failed completely, so this time I _______the process of preparing the seeds _______. I wanted to have _______trees, so I sowed as many seeds as I could, using different techniques _______one failed.

I won’t get another _______next year so it had to work or no trees! I _______built greenhouse, added air passage, and basically anything else I could _______on a very limited budget (预算). I hoped this time I got it _______.

About three days ago the first sprouts(芽) appeared! My seeding method _______! I will _______seeding as many trees as I can. Some will be _______for money when proper, and many will again go into parks and neighbors’ yards! I am as _______as my neighbors for this large quantity!

【推荐1】Yang Wenqing is the only teacher of this small school, more precisely a teaching center, _______ in Dengyunzhai Village, Luxi County, Hunan Province.

The tiny school was _______ built for this remote rural area with a small and scattered (分散的) _______. The school arranges different _______ from the neighboring areas into one single class. Situated in a mountainous region, the village is the home to many _______ children, as young and middle-aged parents have _______ into cities for jobs.

The 53-year-old teacher volunteered to come to Dengyunzhai a decade ago when Luxi County _______ its teaching center to make it _______ for the school-age children nearby to receive education.

“I _______ the second-grade students from the first -grade and kindergarten kids,” said Yang，adding that she splits her 40-minute class time between different graders. Besides Chinese and math, Yang is also ________ for at least two music and art classes a week. In order to better teach the students, she ________ training programs for music teachers organized by local authorities. “________ I am the only teacher here, children should learn nothing less,” she said.

At 4:00 p. m. every school day, Yang walks out of the classroom and ________ the school bell. Hearing the bell, the students ________ orderly to return home. After the students leave, Yang would carefully clean the ________ . She is always the last one to leave the school. “Education can change the ________ of these students. The better foundation I ________ for them, the brighter future they can have through further study," Yang said.

Yang’s work has ________. For years, the academic results of her students are among the best in the whole county. She has ________cultivated (培养) more than 100 children, who later went on to________ higher education.