【推荐1】It was 11:30 at night in the Alaskan village of Igiugig, population 70. Ida Nelson was enjoying the bath when she heard the long deep sound of a small airplane________the nearby airport. She knew something was ________ any time a plane flew over that late.

Nelson leaped out of the bath, ran to the window,and________the problem:The airport's runway lights were out.

Nelson ________some clothes, jumped into her ATV, and floored it to the airport, where she found a local pilot trying to turn on the lights________.

“Normally, if you press the button 10 or 15 times,the lights will just light up," Nelson said. Not this time._________, she and the pilot learned of the plane's________mission: It was there to ________a seriously ill local girl to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in Anchorage.

Nelson had a________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway, she shone her headlights on the road for the plane to follow. More light was________, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the villege—32 of them.

Within 20 minutes, 20 vehicles arrived at the airport, many of the drivers________ in pajamas(睡衣)._________directions from the pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway.

The plane made its final ________ and guided by the headlights, landed safely. The young patient was ________ onto the aircraft, and the plane immediately took off again. Her illness was never publicly revealed, but she has since been released from the hospital.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community's positive activism—coming together—was a big________

【推荐2】Some people wouldn’t be happy about having to work on Mother’s Day weekend. However, I felt pretty ________ when I climbed into the florist delivery van (送货车). My own mother was no longer alive to ________ the flowers, so ________ the day of other moms seemed like the best thing to do.

First up on my ________ of deliveries was a nursing home. Someone named Mary was ________ a vase of pink roses from her children. I announced the name to the ________ on duty. “Roses for Mary?” the nurse said. “Room two twenty-four. Just set them by the ________. It’s a nice gesture, but ________ she won’t know the flowers are there.” Carrying the vase down the hall to look for Mary, I thought ________ like these couldn’t just be set by the window and ________.

“Happy Mother’s Day, Mary,” I announced. “Your children sent you these ________ flowers.” Mary’s eyes ________ the flowers and slowly she smiled. I ________ my cell phone. I had Mary’s daughter’s ________ on my delivery list. I combed Mary’s short gray hair into place and took a ________ of this loved mother with her roses. “Just look at your mama,” I ________ Mary’s daughter. “The roses were a blessing.”

I was a little behind schedule by the time I got back to my van, but it was ________ of it. I had many other deliveries at nursing homes like Mary’s. I took a lot of pictures, ________ a lot of texts and ________ a lot of joy.

Eventually when I got back to the shop my coworker gave me a bunch of flowers. “These flowers are for you, Happy Mother’s Day, Rita, we ________ your favorites.”

【推荐1】Jack was an American soldier. One day after he retired, he found himself ________ and then was told by the doctor that his kidneys (肾) were broken.

Jack, who was already 69 years old, __ started dialysis (化疗), which didn’t work well. The doctor said the transplant (移植) was a good choice. However, after several months’ searching, no suitable __ was found. Jack was so __ that, in early 2018, he even __ not attending a get-together party with some soldiers who he hadn’t seen for many years in Monterey, California. Finally, with his wife Shirley’s___, he decided to go, and that turned out to be a life-changing __.

In California, Jack __ with six fellow soldiers, including one he hadn’t seen in nearly 50 years, Danny. Jack told them about his __. “I asked him what his blood type is, and it __ to be mine,” says Danny. “I was immediately thinking, gosh. I might be able to___.”

Danny, then 70, was healthy and energetic. __, when he told Shirley that he wanted to donate a kidney to her husband, she worried that he might be too___. But Danny really wanted to help and ___to have a try. He sent his ___ records to where Jack was treated and soon, he was asked to take a series of physical examinations. __, the result showed that he was a perfect match.

The doctors gave him the OK to __, and the surgery (外科手术) was a success. “It's pretty amazing to be able to take a(n)   ___ organ (器官) out of one person's body, put it in another person's body, and have it __,” Danny says. “And there's nothing ___than helping another person live a better life.”

【推荐2】This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana, who also _______ to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know , went blind in one eye about nine years ago . Diana sometimes feels _______ about the way her eye looks now. The pupil(瞳孔) is no longer black; it's sort of "glows" in photos. Diana recently _______ a special contact lens(隐形眼镜片）that makes her eye look like it did _______ it changed color, but she doesn't wear this lens often because it becomes quite _______ after about an hour .

One night during our holiday, a hotel _______ was taking pictures of the guests as they entered the area _______ for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to _______ this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn't be so shiny in the picture.

_______, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted . While we were talking, the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, ________ her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, "I ________ the color of your eyes in the picture." As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, "Look! He fixed my ________! "The photographer stopped. He ________ around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana's shoulder, ________ in again and gently said, "Just to be clear: I didn't fix your eye. There isn't anything wrong with your eye. I ________ matched the color."

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her ________ to hear these beautiful words. It didn't take much time and made so much ________. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.

I have always loved the ________: "The world is full of good people. If you can't ________ one, be one!" Your acts of ________ can impact on the world in profound ways!

【推荐2】When I entered the 9th grade,I fell in love with college,wanting to pursue art for the rest of my life.To me,__ means a chance to further my education and my abilities in art.I want to __ in Game Art and Animation to develop characters and their stories that I do now through drawing,hoping to be recognized in the game industry like

Rill Gates known in the computer world.I long for a kind of busy lifestyle __ new things.so Game Art will not be the___ thing that I will be known for.I plan to make a career out of every talent I have,developing each talent to the fullest.

I think as I get older my curiosity will___ to the height I have never thought possible.I remember when in the 3rd grade my teacher Mrs Green said something to us in Spanish.I never understood ___she did that,but now I realize she wanted to expand our little brains,showing us that there was __ our neighbourhood in the world.I ___her greatly for that. Back then I didn't really care for anybody else' s __,but now l' m teaching myself Japanese and Spanish.Culture is a very important part of life and college will help me __ different cultures.

College is also an opportunity to meet new people.Looking forward to attending college outside my__,1 believe being in a different environment will __ me to learn and create.I will feel __,surrounded by people with dreams and even more individuals willing to help others __ their dreams.

I wish to inspire future generations just like Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.did!College will take much time and __,but I am ready to consider it as both a challenge and a fun experience.

Mr. West wanted to buy his wife a Christmas present, but he was always very____1_____, so he was never able to find time to go to the shop. At last, when it was the week_____2____ Christmas, and the shops were very crowded, he decided that he could not ___3______any longer. He worked in an office, and ____4_____had lunch in a restaurant, but one day he bought some sandwiches, ate them   _____5____ and went out to a big shop near his _____6____ during his lunch hour.

The shop was full of women, who were also buying _____7____during their lunch hour. Mr. West stood ___8______at the edge of the crowd of_____9____ who were pushing forward to try to get to the people who were____10_____ necklaces and earrings. He tried to move forwards slowly, taking his turn with the others, but more and more women were___11______into the shop the whole time and pushing selfishly (自私地)____12_____ him. After half an hour, he was just as______13___from the people who were selling the necklaces as he had been when he came in, and his lunch hour was coming to _____14____, so he decided to change his ____15_____ of doing things: he put his head down, gave a sudden loud shout and started to ___16______his way towards the __17_______of the crowd as hard as he could.

The women around him became very ____18_____when they saw what he was doing, and began to scold (责备) him. “Why can’t you behave (做事) like a ___19______ ?” they shouted.

“Ladies,” he answered them, “I have been behaving like a gentleman for the past half an hour, and it has got me _____20____, so now I am starting to behave like a lady.