【推荐1】“ELSA, IT’S YOU!” It was the four-year-old’s surprise birthday party, and her favorite Disney character, Elsa from Frozen, had arrived. The two_______ began to sing the movie’s big song, “Let It Go,” and were soon joined by Tinker Bell and four other fairy-tale princesses: Anna, Ariel, Jasmine, and Snow White. You would swear you were_______at the most magical place on earth.

But this wasn’t Disney World. It was the cancer ward at a hospital on Long Island in New York. And the princesses were college students who_______ for A Moment of Magic, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to_______ the spirits of sick children.

It all began once upon a time with a family movie night featuring Frozen. Kylee McGrane, now 23, noticed that she and Elsa had_______blond hair and big blue eyes. McGrane and her friend Maggie had an idea—dressing up as Disney princesses and_______ little cancer patients.

In 2015, after they_______ $2,000 on a GoFundMe page to pay for costumes and travel_______, McGrane and McAndrew landed their first live performance, at Cohen Children’s Medical Center in New Hyde Park, New York. They dressed as Elsa and her sister, Anna, to the screaming delight of the girls and shy_______ from the boys. They spent nearly three hours singing songs, taking pictures, and traveling from one________to the next until they had visited and chatted with every one of the 50 children. “To see the kids believe in me, my character ... It was life________ ” says McGrane.

They have a__________ kingdom of fans. Shara Moskowitz from New Jersey says that her seven-year-old daughter, Avery, still________almost every day by phone or text to the ________she met nearly two years ago at her birthday party. Avery was receiving treatment for a neuroblastoma. “My daughter found something that she really needed to________”, says Moskowitz, “These girls gave her that moment of imagination, freedom, and happiness of dreaming.”

【推荐2】I became a magician by accident. When I was nine I learned how to make a coin disappear. At first the magic wasn't any good; it was just a bad _________ I spent hours each day practising in the bathroom, running through the secret _________ in front of the mirror.

One day I made the coin disappear on the playground. What a miracle(奇迹)! Dozens of people were _________. I showed the coin to everyone. Then it disappeared. The kids _________ and laughed. It was great. Everyone went _________.

The teacher on duty crossed the playground to _________ more about it. Mrs. Tanner was a(n) _________ woman who controlled her class with an appetite for punishing students. She marched toward me and _________ to know what was going on.

The coin disappeared for her too. “Do it again,” she said angrily, and I did. My hands were _________, but when I looked up, everything had __________. I would remember the look on her face — the look of wide-eyed, open-mouthed __________.

I kept seeing my teacher's face — the strict look __________ into great wonder and joy all at once. The kids' too. They had been __________ immediately from an indifferent(冷漠的)pack of creatures into real people. When the __________   of worry or pain had gone, the faces that shone without it were amazing.

Magicians get to see people at their very best, and in this transformation we can see what can only be described as real, actual __________.

【推荐3】Last Saturday, I decided to visit my cousin in Ithaca. It was a 9-hour journey by bus to my ________.

The first leg of the journey spanned (跨越) about six hours. Then, I had to________ to another bus, which spanned about three hours. ________, my first bus got delayed (延误) by two hours. ________, I missed my second bus and had to wait for a couple of hours until I could take the next bus. It was 6:00 pm when I waited for the bus. I called my cousin to tell him about the delay and added that it might be midnight when I reached home.

While I was on________, I did not realize that there was a lady standing close by, listening to my________. I also couldn’t have imagined that what was about to follow would have a deep________ on me.

When I________, the lady       came close to me and we got into a conversation. She asked me about my journey. When she learned that it had already been a long and________ day for me, she took out some snacks and________ them to me. This was a kind act and I felt thankful. However, that was not all that I would________ that evening.

As I________ my conversation with her, I learned that she was from a________ background. This made my heart sink not out of sadness________ out of humbleness (谦卑). I realized how true and kind an act of giving is when one gives away what another needs. As I stood beside this________ lady, I found myself feeling a lot. The strongest feelings were gratitude (感激) and the need to give up my own selfishness.