【推荐2】Many years ago, when we first went to Canada, we were driving through Montana to Colorado with our two children, then aged 8 and 11. As it was getting_______we started looking for a hotel, only to find out that it was _______ time in that part of the country, and all the hotels were _______.

Finally, around 9 o'clock in the evening, we _______ at a gas station to fill up on gas. My husband asked for a _______ book and told the woman at the counter that we were trying to find a hotel. She told us it would be _______. He tried for 15 more minutes. When he was _______, the woman, Linda, said she and her family _______ nearby and would be happy if we spent the night at her home.

My husband was _______ at her offer of generosity (慷慨). She called her son to________us, since she had to ________ at the gas station till midnight.

When we reached their home, her husband ________ us. He invited us to have coffee and chat while we ________ his wife. She came past 12 am. We asked if we could slip away in the morning so as not to ________ them. They said we were now ________ and we would have to have breakfast with them.

Next morning, we ate breakfast, and when we were ________, my husband asked if he could offer some ________. They would not hear of it and ________ we were their guests. We kept in touch for many years, and invited them to our ________, too. Over the years, we lost touch, but have ________ forgotten their kindness.

【推荐1】It’s a blessing to do somebody a favor, but sometimes it’s a blessing to let another person do something for you.

The notice was posted next to the tenants’ mailboxes in the apartment building I had just moved into. “A Mitzvah (善行) for Mrs. Green, ” it ________ , “ Sign up to drive Mrs. G in 3B home from her chemotherapy (化疗) treatments twice a month.”   Since I wasn’t a driver, I couldn’t add my name, but the word “mitzvah” was always ________ in my thoughts after I went upstairs. It’s a Hebrew word that means “to do a good deed”. But according to my grandmother, it also had another meaning. This was the one she was always ________ to me because she noticed that I thought it a ________ to let people do things for me.

One evening, snowflakes had been falling past my window for several hours when the time to leave for class came. I ________ to the bus stop, reaching it just as a bus went by. For an hour, I prayed ________ that a bus would come. Then I gave up. The wind at my back pushed me towards home. Even if I wanted to ask someone for a good deed, which I did not, there wasn’t a _________on the street. But as I pushed the door of my apartment ________, I found myself face to face a woman at the mailbox with ________in her hand. Obviously she had a car and was going out. In that split second, desperation overcame my pride and I blurted, “Could you possibly give me a lift ?” A strange look ________ her face and she agreed. She ________ me off where I had been heading.

Back home as I walked up the stairs, I met her again. “Good night, Mrs. Green. See you tomorrow,” a neighbor was saying. ________, I had asked a person who________ with cancer to give me a lift in a snowstorm. ________ went down and I stammered, “Please forgive me.”

She visited me later and said, “I used to do things for others but now everyone keeps doing things for me. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, but I don’t have chances. Tonight before I went out to get my mail, I prayed for a chance to let me feel like ________ of the human race again. Then you came along…”

【推荐2】Nicole was a baby of only 28 months and had been in our neighboring playgroup with other little kids for over one year. Then my husband and I decided to move her to a full-day _________.

During the first several days, I went with Nicole every morning, and her new _________ , Diomara, was waiting for us. We stayed there for one _________ . At first, she only played with me or asked me to _________ her wherever she went. After 2-3 days, I could sit aside, watching her play with new friends, but sometimes she would make a _________ to look around for me.

During the second week Nicole gradually _________ into the new settings, and Diomara suggested starting to leave Nicole there _________ me. Then I hugged, kissed, and said goodbye to her, but she started crying with the clear _________ that mom would go. Feeling sad and _________, I knew it's just how babies __________.

Returning on time, my little girl ran to me at the __________ of me. Diomara told me all was perfect: Nicole cried and then stopped. Later she had a good time __________ a castle using Lego blocks. The next day she enjoyed a wonderful lunch with other kids. The last day I stayed there only for a while. By the time she had already __________ the concepts of leaving and returning, that day she stayed there till 3 pm.

Now she is happily in the new day care for two days a week. Meanwhile she is still in the __________ playgroup for another two half days. __________ , she’ll quit from the playgroup. There are so many things far beyond her knowledge, so we need to perform with patience.

【推荐3】What do you think of women’s influence on us and our society? Is their influence great? In fact, women have social status and power, whose work ________ great changes to their communities, countries and even the world. As women of influence, their work is ________. But there are other women of influence whose roles are ________ important but often go ________ in social media The roles our grannies, moms, aunts, sisters, friends and teachers play in our ________ affect who we’ve grown to be. These great women set an example with great love, courage, strength and gentleness. They have made and ________ to make many sacrifices so that we can always go further and develop ________.

There are a lot of women in my life who have ________ me to grow into the woman I am today. The first and also the most important, my mother’s strength and ________ demonstrated me how to be strong and brave too. My memories of her still ________ me with great love and much inspiration.

My grandma told me how to ________ gracefully (优雅地) while continuing staying ________ with the world even when she had to stay home for her healthy problem. I have plenty of ________ with different ages that share my happiness and sorrows, ________ my strengths and understand my weaknesses. ________ the effect of all these women in my life I wouldn’t be the person I am at present. I’m really ________ for their wisdom, love and ________ in my life journey. I really hope that all the women of the world can live happily. You deeply ________ all the people that ________ with you each and every day. No matter what your ________ is, you are a great woman of effect.

【推荐1】As sixth graders, kids were separated into groups, but I wasn’t sure where I belonged.

Our teacher gave us a task called “secret friends” for the coming week. We were supposed to do nice things ________ our friends without letting them know who was doing it. We could leave ________ notes or cards either on their desks or in their backpacks. Before doing the task, with our eyes closed, from a basket, we drew a name of a classmate who we were to secretly befriend over the next five days.

Soon, the task was turned into a competition of giving ________ instead of notes. Everyone was getting cool presents except me. My friend followed the teacher’s directions without a fault. I received nothing but handmade cards with nice words about me.

On the last morning, I finally got a package. When I ________ it, the girls around all ________. It was perfumed powder, an “old lady” gift. My face went red.

I tried to forget about the ________ gift, but when the same girls ________ it again during the break in the bathroom, I joined, “How stupid! My grandmother wouldn’t ________ want it.”

The girls laughed at my ________ and filed out of the bathroom. Washing my hands, I let the water run through my fingers as I thought about my words. It wasn’t ________ like me to say things like that.

“I’m your secret friend.” It was Rochelle. “I’m sorry about the gift,” she whispered to me, tears ________ down her face.

From a poor family, she was a ________ at school for those with rich parents. Yet she just took all the ________ and the horrible treatment silently.

I was sick to my stomach as my hurtful words ran through my mind. She had heard everything. How could I have been so cruel?

Later I learned she had felt bad all week about not being able to leave me any cool present and her mum had given up her only luxury.

And I had ruined everything for her.

I told her that I had only said those things to try to ________.

“We aren’t that different from each other, are we?” She smiled ________. Her simple words, spoken from her heart, found their way straight into mine.

【推荐3】As my husband, Doug, stood on the busy New York city street to stop a taxi, I tried to protect my daughter from the cold December wind and rain. I put my head down to kiss her tiny face.

_______ and wet, my husband gave up his attempt to nag down a taxi. I knew the _______. Just after her first birthday, we were told our daughter Katie has a _______brain illness. Since that moment, Doung and I felt like runners in a marathon race where the finish line kept _______. We knew Katie was running out of _______. It had taken months before we finally had a name for the _______，but we were told only a few specialists in the world knew how to_______ it. Now, as we finally found a brilliant doctor to _______ our girl, we were in a strange _______ in the cold rain.

Just at the moment, a middle-aged woman pulled over and said, “Pardon me? May I offer you a(n)________?”

Before we could say anything, she continued, “It's really no________for me. Just get in.”

It was then that I noticed her thick Irish accent, which ________me up like hot soup. We simply said, “Thanks! Roosevelt Hospital, please,” as we got in her car for the ride.

“Are you going________the baby?” she asked us.

I nodded my head, holding back my ________.

At the hospital, we ________her a dozen times for the ride. As the woman hugged me, I________her face was wet with tears. She promised to ________for us before she left.

After three more visits to New York and two more ________surgeries (手术)，Katie is cured. But the ________ of the Irish Angel still rang as a constant reminder of a tiny ray of light that appeared in our________ days.