【推荐2】In October, I said to my students, “Why not do some _________ to make some money? Then we’ll buy food for someone in need.”

Then early in that week, they came with their hard-earned money at their homes, _________ to go shopping. We soon picked what we needed. As we headed toward the checkout, someone shouted, “Flowers!” The group rushed to the flowers. However, considering practicality, I said, “You can’t send flowers.” “But please, Mrs. Sherlock,” someone begged, “we want flowers.” Defeated (被打败了), I _________ them to buy some carnations (康乃馨).

An organization had given us the information of a _________ grandmother living alone for many years. After a long drive, we _________ arrived at a small, shabby (破旧的) house. An old lady came out to _________ us. Each box was _________ quickly. But when the woman noticed the carnations, she seemed _________. “She’s wishing it were a bag of rice,” I thought. “Do you like living here?” Michael asked. Hearing this, the woman _________,“ Of course. I’m quite fond of living here.” She told the children about the birds flying to the bread she __________. “Maybe that’s why I could get the food from you,” she said.

【推荐3】He came from somewhere south of Rome. I didn't know when or how he got to America, _________maybe. But one evening I found him standing in the driveway, behind my garage, extremely thin.     

＂My name Tony Trivionno and I mow （割） your lawn. "he said. It was hard to comprehend his _________ English. "I mow your lawn, "he said again and walked away. Yes, these Depression days were _________，but how could I_________a person who had come to me for help? When I got home the next evening, the lawn had been mowed, the walks_________and the garden weeded._________, my wife assumed I had _________him. I told her of my _________the night before and we thought it strange that he had not asked for_________。The next two days were busy, and I ____________ about him. But on Friday, I saw him, behind my garage again and busy around.

I managed to ____________ some small weekly pay for him and each day he cleaned up the yard and took care of any little ____________. He was very helpful whenever there were any heavy objects to lift or things to fix in my factory.

＂I want to be an apprentice （学徒），”he said one day. ____________ we had a good Prentice school that trained laborers, I doubted whether he had the ability to____________ blueprints and micrometers （千分尺）.Therefore, he took a ____________in pay to become an apprentice.

Many years later, I found him in our____________   meeting spot, much ____________ than he used to be and taking on a look of____________. He was a millionaire now!

Tony came to America seeking the American Dream. But he did not find it-he ____________ it himself. Tony didn't begin on the bottom rung （横档） of the ladder. He began in the____________. Tony' s affairs were tiny, and all he had were 24 hours a day. He wasted none of them and succeeded finally.

【推荐1】Eddie has lots of hobbies. but he loves baseball best. So it is his_________sport. Eddie plays baseball on a team every year in the spring. He loves to go to baseball_________.

Every day when it is _________, Eddies father throws a baseball to Eddie in the backyard. This is the time of day that Eddie_________best. He enjoys spending time with his father and he loves practicing baseball.

Eddie_________baseball cards throughout the year. He and his father visit the_________and buy cards for Eddie's collection. Eddie spends hours with his baseball cards. He arranges them in different _________,and trades them with other baseball_________.

One day, Eddie s father came home with two tickets to _________the Atlanta Braves play the next Saturday. Eddie was so__________. He counted down the days on the calendar.

Finally it was the day of the game. Eddie and his father__________to Atlanta early in the morning.Before they watched the match, they__________ the Braves' museum at the stadium and saw a short movie on the history of the Atlanta Braves. Eddie enjoyed seeing the ________

They ate__________at the stadium when it was at noon, and soon it was time for the game .

The game was exciting. Eddie tried to__________every move the players made.__________he watched carefully and practiced a lot, he might just be on one of those baseball cards some day!

________the game, Eddie and his father drove home. They talked about the game. They talked about which__________were the best, and which__________were the most exciting. Eddie went to sleep that night still __________of baseball. His dreams were filled with images from his very special day.

【推荐1】When I was a child, I suffered from a disease. It is a ________ condition, which makes it difficult fora person to form relationships and can make one very ________ in one particular thing. One of the biggest ________ I faced was communicating with others. I was shy ________ I loved to recite facts. This sometimes made me a ________ for bullies (欺凌). I didn’t really understand as much about the disease or how it ________ my life.

In my 20s, I ________ to Paris. I was deeply attracted by the city, and I ________ a job in a big hotel right then. As an Eiffel Tower ambassador, I ________ guests and visitors as they took the lift to the top of the hotel’s 46—story tower. There, I liked to ________ the local attractions and helped people find the best ________ for taking photos. ________, I had a problem with changes in everyday life, ________ when talking with people who were different from me. But I liked to memorize facts, and that really ________ in my job because people loved to ________ all of the interesting things about the city. Gradually, when I clocked in every morning, I felt it’s time for me to perform for and ________ the guests. I loved it when I learnt something new because I couldn’t ________ to share the information with others.

Everyone is ________, and everyone has a gift. It takes me more than 50 years to ________ that I am different. Just be yourself, be kind, and try to make a ________ in your life.

【推荐2】I never forget the single act of kindness that changed my life over 25 years ago. During a vacation trip, I needed to find my ________ to the Greyhound bus station, some 30 miles away. Being a ________ student, I had little money to get there.

I managed to call various taxis and shuttle(往返汽车) services but they were all too ________ or too far away to pick me up. Then, I got one person on the phone who managed to figure out that I needed a ride to the Greyhound station but only had limited financial ________ and he agreed to transport me! He came to pick me up about   minutes later. The driver was older and I remember wondering why the shuttle didn't have a meter (计时器) but his ID was there and I could see this was his ________. The driver was so kind. He knew I was upset so he distracted me with stories and good conversation. He said I looked like his granddaughter.

At one point, I asked him why he ________ so little to the others. Then, he patiently explained that he was actually retired and hadn't removed his number from the phone book but when I called, clearly upset, he felt driven to help.This man drove an hour out of his way to help a person he didn't know for a fee that only ________ his gas, if that! Because of his ________, I knew things were going to be okay. This man's kindness warms my heart every time I think of him.________, I didn't get his name and his face has disappeared gradually from my memory but he is on my mind often and I wish I could thank him in person.“Thank you Mr. Angel Shuttle-Man! I hope your granddaughter knows what a(n) ________ grandfather she has!”

【推荐3】There once was an ordinary street in the suburbs where no one cared much for their gardens. The lawns were overgrown, the weeds were taking over and the hedges(树篱)_________ needed to be cut back. It looked very terrible. _________ when the neighbors saw their gardens, they just looked at each other and laughed.

It seemed too hard to clear all the gardens and no one could be _________ to make them better because everyone’s garden was equally _________. No one felt it was urgent to change anything. Then a gardener named Bill _________ in the small town. Bill was a _________, hard-working and patient man who started working in the garden as soon as he moved in the street. He took his lawn mower(割草机) out to cut back the grass and pulled out all of the _________. Finally, he took up his gardening and started _________ his hedges, making them look like flowers, plants, stones, balls, etc. It was a huge project but his hard work _________ and his garden looked inviting.

__________ by the beautiful scenery, the neighbors walked by and admired the __________ manicured(修整的) garden. Before long, something __________ happened. One by one, the neighbors started to put in more effort in their own gardens and the sounds of lawn mowers could be heard again. After a few months, the street was transformed from a dirty, __________ collection of houses to a beautiful street that wouldn’t be out of place in a stylish magazine.

One person’s action showed everyone what could be achieved with a little hard work. It’s easy for us to __________ the environment around us because no one else cares about it. Remember what you positively do not only benefits yourself, but also __________ a change to the whole world.