【推荐1】It was a beautiful summer day. Steven Poust was having a family ______ on a river with his 4-year-old daughter Abigail and 7-year-old son Chase. The ______ children were swimming near their boat while their father was ______. What a peaceful moment!

All of a sudden, with her life jacket on, Abigail was ______ in the river’s powerful current (水流). Realizing his sister would be swept away, Chase tried to ______ his sister, but was caught in the current, too. When Steven dived from the boat to rescue his ______ children, he was also pulled in. Steve tried to stick with the two children, but gradually he became worn out. The ______ father realized they all floated (漂浮) farther from the boat, and he knew they had to seek ______ as fast as they could. Therefore, Steven ______ his son to swim to shore so that he could get assistance. Meanwhile, he ______ to reach Abigail, who was being pulled farther ______. Now on young Chase’s ______ was the task to save his family.

Without a life jacket, Chase did as he was told. It was a tough ______, but rather than swimming all out, Chase wisely ______ himself. When tired, he floated on his back or dog paddled to save his ______. The journey took an hour. Once on shore, he ______ into the nearest house and screamed for help. Rescuers quickly began their ______ and found the boat. Then over a mile away from the family’s ______ boat, the two were rescued.

Steven couldn’t be prouder of his son, or more ______. In such a life-and-death situation, Chase was so ______—he saved his beloved ones.

【推荐3】White made a U-turn and was now facing in the same direction as the pickup (皮卡车), but there were four cars separating them. White ______ his horn, hoping the cars in front would move aside. They didn’t. He tried to swing into the left lane and pass everyone, but oncoming traffic made it ______.

______, White pulled his car over, jumped out and ran up the sidewalk. The pickup was going 10 to 15 mph, White estimates. Captain Harrisburg even in loafers (懒人拖) ______ faster than a suddenly ______ pickup.

He ______ moved into the road, running around to the driver’s side. The window was down on this temperate autumn day. White ______ the frame of the window-his legs moving in step with the pickup-and with a mighty heave, leaped in.

White was now ______ the cab (驾驶室) of the truck, his legs hanging out the window. The man behind the wheel, 64-year-old Todd DeAngelis, was just conscious enough to be startled (受惊吓) by the odd sight of a stranger sprawled across his stomach, and he let out a ______.

White worked quickly. He took hold of the gear shift (换挡器) and forced the ______ into park, causing it to ______. He threw himself out from the truck window the same way he came in. By his estimate, he was in and out of the truck in about four seconds.

From outside the truck, White asked DeAngelis if he was OK. ”No,“ he replied, in a haze. DeAngelis, a diabetic (糖尿病患者), was ______ facing dangerously low blood sugar.

White flagged down a police officer. A(n) ______ soon arrived and took DeAngelis to a hospital. He kept me from a much worse accident than it could have been, and I could have lost consciousness because of low blood sugar DeAngelis said after his recovery.

White’s ______ that day was not out of character. As a teenager, he once kicked in the door of a house that was on fire to see if anyone was trapped inside. ______, the house was empty.   

”I’m always trying to help, where I can, when I can,“ he says. But jumping into a moving vehicle to prevent a crash? White admits this was new field.

【推荐1】It was sunny last Friday. I arrived at the railway station at three in the afternoon. I would take the _________to Shanghai to see my old friend Jack. But it was two hours _________my train left. I thought it was the perfect time and place to look _________an act of kindness to do.

Outside the station, there was a girl having_________for sale. I told her that I’d like to buy flowers for someone else, and that she could_________who she will give the flowers to. She looked a little puzzled(困惑的), _________I suggested that perhaps she could give the flowers to someone who looked a little_________. That was because the flowers might cheer him or her up.

“That’s a crazy idea!” said the girl. But then I explained a little more about the idea of doing something for a_________, and she understood.

“I’m leaving for Shanghai and then I’ll_________know how it turns out,” I said. “But you will have a good__________to make someone happy. __________good deeds(善举)we do, they always come back to us.” At that time, she started to seem excited about it.

She went to__________the flowers out of the water, and I explained, “You’d better leave the flowers there until the person__________.”

At that time, I thought she was__________surprised and happy, because it might be her first time to meet a customer like me. I__________for the flowers, said goodbye, and walked into the station.

How wonderful the day was!