【推荐1】I started volunteering at a soup kitchen several years ago. The original reason I was going was to ___________ community service hours for school. My plan was to __________ go there a few times and get my service hours, but it taught me a lot. The typical volunteer there served __________ to people.

Basically, I was ____________ serving bread and juice to whoever wanted it, which was a simple task. Some of the people were homeless, and some of them were __________ families. All of them were people in need of a hot meal and a place to __________ for an hour or several minutes. ____________ some of them looked like they weren't behaving well, we always took care of them.

The first time I went there was right before Christmas. For the people coming to the soup kitchen, it was not exactly a ____________ time. It made me think about my happy Christmas and made me feel how__________ I was. Unlike them, I have a home and I don't __________ cold or hunger. At that point, I decided that I ____________ wanted to go back there. I couldn't offer them much, but I could always offer my time and ____________. The experience also gives me a feeling of ___________. Whenever I go there , people are __________ that I showed up again . They know my name and they know that I am more than happy to ___________ them. It truly feels good to know that you can ___________ someone's day. I've realized that the feeling of doing good for people can be a better ___________than any amount of money. You can't buy that feeling.

I have never ___________ a single second of my volunteering. It ___________ me that dozens of cities have made it illegal to set up a soup kitchen. But I will continue my volunteer work and find more ways to show my ____________ to people in need.

【推荐2】My First Job

Since my family were not going to be helpful, I decided I would look for one all by myself and not tell them about it till I’d got one.

I had seen an agency advertised in a local newspaper. I rushed out of the house in search of it. I was wildly excited, and as _________ as if I were going on the stage. Finding the _________ quite easily, I ran breathlessly through a door which said “Enter without knocking, if you please.”

The simple atmosphere of the office _________ me. The woman looked carefully at me for a while through her glasses, and then _________ me in a low voice. I answered softly. All of a sudden I started to feel rather _________. She wondered why I was looking for this sort of job. I felt even more helpless when she told me that it would be difficult to get a job without _________. I was wondering whether I ought to leave _________ the telephone on her desk rang. I heard her say: “_________, I’ve got someone in the office at this very moment who might _________.” She wrote down a __________ , and held it out to me, saying: “Ring up this lady. She wants a __________ immediately. In fact, you would have to start tomorrow by cooking a dinner for ten people.”

“Oh yes,” said I — __________ having cooked for more than four in my life. I __________ her again and again, and rushed out to the __________ telephone box. I collected my thoughts, took a deep breath, and rang the number. I said confidently that I was just what she was looking for.

I spent the next few hours __________ cook books.

【推荐3】In a cold winter, a couple had to move out from their big house because of bankruptcy (破产). The husband worked day and night to _______the family but with no _______of his wife. So she thought, “he doesn’t love me any more; he just cares his business.…. not me.”

One day, when she began to take a _______, he stopped her at the door, “Let me take it first, okay?” “Why not let me shower first,” she asked. I was tired, sweetie; you take it later, okay?” She was quite _______.

On a boring day, she found nothing to do and _______his computer. A few words blurred(模糊) her eyes. It was his _______:

Today, I was quite _______. She asked me why I was always taking the bath first, and I said to her I was exhausted. She was unhappy. In her mind, I treated her not as well as usual, but how can I do? I wasn’t as _______as before! We moved to the small _______, and there was only a shower at the bathroom. It was so _______to take a shower in such a freezing winter. But I found that _______one person took the shower first, the room could get a little warmer, so every time I _______to the bathroom first. I was thinking that, when she took the shower, the room would get _______, at least 1℃, 2℃, or 3℃.

Now I can’t give her _______life, take her to good restaurant, buy expensive dresses for her, but _______, I can give her the 1℃ love.

【推荐1】After a long day at school, I walked home with my heavy schoolbag. Sleepy and ______, I threw my things on the couch and picked up something from the ______ to eat. I passed by the living room and wished I could watch TV, but I knew my ______ would take me the whole night. I took my schoolbag and went ______ to my room. I tried to understand chemistry and ______ sleepiness at the same time. I tried to keep my eyes ______ and I wanted something to cheer me up.

Later, I ______ the sound of the front door opening. And I waited for it — the sound of my mom singing. Though she sang off-key, it made me ______ that she was here. I ran down to ______ my mom. We hugged each other and talked for a while. I liked it when my mom was happy. Her ______ seemed to flow down to me and I got the strength to ______ the stress again.

Sometimes, I wonder how my mom can still be ______ after coming back from work. Every weekday, she wakes up ______ in the morning to go to work and spends all hour on the bus before getting downtown. At a ______ factory, she works standing for the whole day and draws patterns for clothes over and over. After work, my mom at times gets stuck in ______ for two hours on her way back home. When I ______ my life with her work life, I should not be the one to ______. At least I have some interesting things to do at school, but one mistake at work can cost my mom her job. I ______ that my mom has a positive attitude and lives her life with a joyous heart, which encourages me to do my work well, though there may be ______. Seeing her happy makes me feel ______, too.

【推荐3】Last Friday, after doing all the family shopping in the town, I wanted to have a rest before catching the train. I _______a newspaper and some chocolate and_______into the station coffee shop. It was a cheap self-service place with long tables to_________at. I put my heavy bag down on the floor,_______the newspaper and the chocolate on the table and then went to get a cup of coffee.

When I came back with the _______ , there was someone sitting in the next seat. He was a boy, with dark glasses and old clothes, and his hair was _______ bright red at the front. He had started to eat my chocolate！

_______, I was rather uneasy about him, but I didn’t want to have any_______ . I just read the newspaper, tasted my coffee and took a bit of chocolate. The boy looked at me in _______ . Then he took a__________piece of my chocolate. I could hardly believe it. Still I didn’t say anything to him. When he took a third piece, I felt more angry than uneasy. I thought, “Well, I shall have the last piece.” And I got it.

The boy gave me a strange look, then________up. As he left, he shouted out, “There’s something ________ with that woman!” Everyone looked at me, ________I didn’t want to quarrel with the boy, so I kept quiet. I did not realize that I had________ a mistake until I finished my coffee and was ready to ________. My face turned red when I saw my unopened chocolate under the newspaper. The chocolate that I had been eating was the boy’s!