【推荐2】Several weeks ago, my friend offered to sell some of our things for us. I thought it was a good chance to _______ my 7-year-old son’s room and _______ some toys that were no longer suitable for him to play with. We _______ that all the money we got from selling the toys would be his money.

The night before the _______, we loaded up the truck with toys and a little bike that was too _______ for him. In the yard he _______ the bike for the last time and then happily put it onto the truck. _______ this little bike had at least two previous owners, it wasn’t in the best _______ and was certainly not new, but the tyres (车胎) were _______ good.

We put a price of $10 on it, but it didn’t sell. So, after the sale was ________, my friend put it on the sidewalk with a sign that ________ “FREE BIKE”. Within five minutes her doorbell rang. A little boy was ________there. In poor English he asked whether the bike was ________ free. She said yes and that he could have it for ________. He smiled, got on the bike and rode away.

Later that evening when I told my son how much money he had made at the sale, he was very ________, shouting happily. He asked about a few of his things, wondering ________ they had been sold. When he asked about the bike, I told him about the little boy and that made him ________. He was much happier than when I told him how much he had ________. He was so happy to ________ that someone else would make good ________of that little bike!

【推荐3】It was the second day of a winter holiday in Queenstown, New Zealand, three years ago. When we decided to explore the beautiful scenery, our landlady _________ us, “Make sure you are well wrapped up today. The weather is _________. Head back when you see snowfall. ”

The day was bright and sunny, and I started to wonder if she was being too _________. When snow began to fall at 6：00 pm, I was not worried, thinking we’d have no _________ in catching a taxi back. However, we waited for a while, and all the drivers _________ their heads when told of our _________.

The first driver passed by and gave me a card with a number for me to _________ help. I was filled with _________, but I had no choice but to lead my three sisters to a nearby place to make the _________. Then a taxi ____________ up and we climbed in. The driver did not appear very ____________ Then the light streaming from his headlights showed very ____________ why no taxi wanted to take us to our hotel. And I began to understand the driver’s apparently unfriendly silence-he was ____________. The steep incline (斜坡) ahead was ____________ with snow. The taxi slowly made its way up the hill. Suddenly, we came to a dead ____________, and the driver turned to us. “Look! It is very ____________ to go forward. You have to get out and walk. If I drive any ____________, the taxi will slide back, ”he said. “Er…can you keep your headlight on and help my elder sister?The rest of us will ____________ you up, ”I said. The driver ____________.

We made it safely back to our hotel. Even though it ____________ for the rest of the days, we could see the silver lining in the cloud(一线希望)：the generous soul who helped us.

【推荐1】The COVID-19 pandemic (疫情) has left many worrying about the future. However, I’ve found _________ in my mother^’s one simple self-care ritual (仪式) and I have decided not to keep drowning in a sort of uncertainty.

I was raised by a single mom who had two kids, two jobs and a mile-long _______ of cleaning, cooking and bill-paying. _________, she was never seen with a hair out of _________. Every morning, she^’d head to a _________, lift her chin (下巴) up slightly, a gesture of confidence, and put on lipstick (口红) _________ delivering a forced yet toothy smile. I was too young to _________ why.

My mother _________ her red lips until the very end. In hospital, she asked me to help walk her to the basin to brush her teeth. I stared at her from behind _________ she might fall. I was deep in sorrow and uncertainty, tears streaming down my face. Then suddenly, from behind, I sensed that ____________ gesture. Chin up. Confidence. A second later I heard the click of the ____________.

We don’t know what’s going to happen next. Yet one thing is ____________. When the world falls apart, we^’ve still got unbelievable power to choose. I'm not suggesting we ____________ what^’s around us but focus on what we can control to ____________ getting knocked around by uncertainty. Get up and shut the door on anything terrifying. Just be sure to keep putting that ____________on.

【推荐3】Our house was across the street from the entrance of a famous hospital in the city. We lived downstairs and _________ the upstairs rooms to outpatients (门诊病人) at the clinic. As I was _________ supper one summer evening, there was a knock at the door. I opened it and saw a truly awful-looking man whose face was _________ and red.

He told me he’d been _________ a room since noon, but he had no success. “I guess it’s my _________. I know it looks terrible, but my doctor says with a few more treatments…”

For a moment, I _________ but his following words persuaded me, “I could sleep in this chair on the porch (门厅). My bus leaves early in the morning.” So I told him we would find him a bed but to rest on the porch.

When I had finished the dishes, l went to talk with him for a few minutes. He told me he fished for a living to _________ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was _________ disabled from a back injury. He didn’t tell it by way of complaint, but was grateful that no pain _________ his disease, which was a form of skin cancer. He thanked God for giving him the __________ to keep going. On his __________ trip, he brought a big fish as a gift. Other times we received packages in the mail. When I received these packages, I often thought of a(an) __________ our next-door neighbor made after he left that first morning. “Did you keep that awful-looking man last night? You may lose roomers by __________ such people!”

Maybe we did lose roomers once or twice. But I know our family will always be __________ to have known him; from him, we learned to accept the bad without complaint and the good with __________.

【推荐1】One of my favorite things in life is my monthly date with my daughter. Now it has become our _________to include some kind of Smile Card activity whenever we can. It’s very_______today, so we planned to make our_________act something cool. We went to an ice cream shop,________ at the table near the counter.

As we________our ice cream, we said that we’d like to________ice cream for the next person who came to the counter. After knowing my intention, the cashier was so excited and couldn’t_____for the_______person. My daughter was also excited to________our victim(受害者) secretly.

About five minutes later the cashier told us, “Oh, a mother and two little kids are coming!” As the woman_______their ice cream and______for her wallet, the cashier told her that someone wanted to buy her family’s ice cream. She couldn’t _____it. “Seriously?” she asked with ______. Rachel and I________not to notice.

The cashier came over to “wipe our table”, leaving our______without being seen. She was as________as we were about our act of kindness. We took a piece of paper and   _____a note to the cashier thanking her for helping us. We placed the note and a Smile Card on the counter, leaving the shop before we were seen.

When we got home, my daughter was still excited to tell her mom what we did. I love my date with my daughter more than________in the world. What’s more, I_______every moment with her. It is even more special that we________our Smile Card adventure together.

【推荐2】Ten years ago, my mom gave me a fancy blood pressure monitor. I had high blood pressure and she wanted to make sure I was always _______ it. Being in my early twenties, this situation should have _______ me, but it didn’t; I had long been _______ from nameless anxiety and stress. After a decade long _______, my blood pressure could finally be controlled. Through lots of meditation(冥想), exercise, and diets, I’ve slowly _______ from it in the last few years.

I’m happy that I no longer _______ my blood pressure monitor. My mom is _______ and doesn’t need it, but I know she _______ a large amount of money on it when her _______ was not the best. I decided to put it up for ________ online, and a woman ________, saying she wanted to buy it shortly after I posted it. I went to a coffee shop and ________ her, along with her mother. Neither of them were in the best of health.

She carefully took out some ________ from her wallet to pay me, and it ________ me that I could not let her pay me. I had a smile card ________ in my wallet; I slipped it in the bag and told her “Here, just take it.” She was ________ and tried to hand me the money again. I again insisted that she take it. She was ________ and thanked me. I wished them good health and a happy life.

Although I didn’t repay my mom in cash. I am more than ________ that I repaid her by passing on her ________ to someone who may be a stranger but ________ needed it.

【推荐3】A man went to buy fruits and asked the shopkeeper about the ___________ of the fruits. The shopkeeper replied that banana was $2 and apple was $4 per kilo. At the same time, a woman came into the shop and ___________ the same question. Without a second ___________, the shopkeeper answered, “Banana is $1 and apple is $3 per kilo.” Hearing this, the man stared at shopkeeper with_________ . The shopkeeper noticed this immediately and signaled him to wait for a while. The woman took the fruits, paid for them and left ___________.

After the woman left with a smile, the shopkeeper looked toward the man and said,   “I didn’t mean to ___________ you.” He continued after a brief ___________,“The woman lives in my neighborhood. She is a poor mother of four. I have tried many times to help her but she is not_____________ to take any help from anyone in our ___________. Then I thought of this way to help her. Whenever she comes, I sell her fruits at the ____________ price. This way, she won’t feel that she is being helped and __________ on others. This is the only way I can extend my help. And whenever this lady comes, my sales ______________.”

After the man learned the story, tears ____________ in his eyes. He hugged the shopkeeper and bought fruits without complaining or ______________. More importantly, he left with a lesson learned that if you want to ______________, you will always find a way and your own bless will come along.