【推荐1】My grandmother stayed in the nursing home for five years. _______ all of the elders that I got to spend time with there, I couldn't _______ what it was been like for them without any visitors at all. I felt it was so _______ , of course.

That day, I saw an old _______ alone on a bench, in the front entrance hall of the nursing home. Earlier he had been trying to _______ Jean with one leg, from his wheelchair. Jean is a woman who had cerebral palsy (中风) and couldn't_______ alone in her wheelchair.

I asked if they would mind my pushing Jean the rest of the _______. Jean said, “Yes, please!" The old man smiled and said, “Thank you.” Then I praised him for his_______ and pushed Jean back to her _______ down the hall.

Now, this same man was ________ on the bench and as I got closer, he ________ me and smiled. I realized he had only one leg which was dry and a little dirty. Maybe because of the________ , he was scratching (挠) the leg ________ . I had a cream (药膏) in my bag that seemed to do good to his ________ skin. So I handed the cream to him.

He couldn't speak English but spoke to me in his ________ language and tears started to come down his face. I________ his tears with a towel, He kept ________ and looking at me ________ I understood. I didn't really understand, but I listened and nodded.

We didn't ________ each other and aren't blood-related but, at that moment, we shared a ________ that went beyond blood, heart to heart. When I see him again, he may not remember me but I will remember him.

【推荐2】I’m proud of myself for this kindness I did last night. I did it ________ and did the right thing. However, I was unwilling to _______, because by sharing 1 am also sharing the ________ and more self-centered side of myself.

It was last night and I ________ my shift at work. It was late and I wanted to go straight home. On my way out of the door I ________ a fellow staff member and colleague. She doesn’t have a ________ and usually either catches a taxi home or _______ for an hour waiting for _______ staff member and friend of here to finish work.

In the past I’ve ________ to drive her home as she ________ on my side of town. But last night I really did not want to. I wanted to ________ straight home, alone. And I did not have to make “small talk”.

So I tried to ________ her, walking past her, heading down, and stealing out (偷溜) to the _______ without letting her see me and _______ without offering her a lift.

Yet, something in myself was stopping me. Something in myself made me ________ her and put myself in her shoes. She had young ________ who she wanted to go home to attend to and, she could go home right now _______ I took her, not an hour later when the other staff member and friend of hers who was taking her. So I offered.She_______. And of course, she was extremely ________.

Well, I learned a great ________ last night about not being so self-centered and selfish!

【推荐3】One day.a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods from door to door found that he only had one dime left．He was hungry so he decided to _________ for a meal at the next house．

However，he lost his nerve _________ a lovely young woman opened the door．Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water．She thought he looked _________ so she brought him a large glass of milk．He drank it _________，and then asked，“How much do I owe you？”

“You don’t owe me anything，”she _________．“Mother has taught me never to accept pay for a_________．”He said，“Then I thank you from the bottom of my heart．”As Howard Kelly left that house，he not only felt stronger_________，but it also increased his faith in God and human race．

He was about to give up and quit before this point．

Years later the young woman became critically ill．The local doctors were baffled．They finally sent her to the big city，where specialists can be called _________ to study her rare disease．Dr．Howard Kelly，now _________，was called in for the consultation．When he heard the name of the town she came from，a strange light __________ his eyes．Immediately，he __________ and went down through the hospital hall into her room．

__________in his doctor’s gown he went in to see her．He __________her at once．He went back to the consultation room and __________ to do his best to save her life．From that day on，he gave__________ attention to her case．

After a long__________，the battle was won．Dr．Kelly __________the business office to pass the final bill to him for approval．He looked at it and then wrote something on the side．The bill was sent to her room．She was afraid to open it because she was__________ that it would take the rest of her life to pay it off．Finally she looked，and the note on the side of the bill caught her__________．She read these words…

“Paid in full with a glass of milk．”

（Signed） Dr．Howard Kelly

Tears of joy flooded her eyes as she__________ silently．“Thank you，God．Your love has spread through human hearts and hands．”

【推荐1】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were ___，we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _____，a lot of people stopped to help out.

_____we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very ______about what had happened to the elderly people. He ______to me,“Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of ______." Seeing that there was a flower stall（摊位）in the front of the supermarket, he added, "Why shouldn’t we ______   the lady a flower? It will make her feel better." I was ______that he’d come up with this _______   idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ______ we wanted. "Just take it,”she replied. "I _______ take your money for such a wonderful ______.”

By now medical staff had arrived, and were ______ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ______my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, "Thank you very much." He then turned to me, “You have a ______ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you."

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, telling her who it was from. ______being badly hurt, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with _______ in her eyes and gave him a little ________.

【推荐2】It was Christmastime, and I had promised my son a bicycle. But life’s little catastrophes had __ my bike savings again and again. I stood at the bicycle display and my heart __ .

But, ___, there must be one that I could afford. I walked back and forth in front of the ___, as if I could will one into _____. “Please God,” I prayed silently. “I promised him a bicycle.”

I stopped and stared as the truth became __: there was not a single bike within my _____ .

A man walked up beside me and was excited about making his __. He wanted to know which one I was getting. I pointed to a green one, my son’s favorite color and explained to him the promise and my __ .

He stared at it for a moment and then said to me, “I’ll carry this to the __ for you.”

“I can’t!” I said. “I don’t have enough money.”

“I know,” he said,   “I’m _____ it for you.”

“What? You can⁵t get this for me.”

He __ me and walked to the checkout line and paid.

“Now which way to your car?” he asked, walking out of store.

A million concerns as to his motives _____through my head, but I walked to my car, full of ____ and gratitude.

He ____ the big box into the trunk. Then he turned to me, said, “Merry Christmas!” and quickly disappeared in the parking lot.

I ____ the generosity of that man’s deed in my heart, and over the years tried to be ___ to what I could do for others.

Fifteen years later, in that same store I heard a __ woman in the next line whispering that she couldn’t ____ what she needed for her unborn baby. I __ and said to myself “I’m on it, God!”

【推荐3】Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would _________ around and take all morning just to have a lesson.” Phoenix _________. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better _________. So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced but known for being _________. And she quickly lived up to that _________. Phoenix found the stressful life was _________ like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he _________ that he would quit.

One day, _________, Bade turned to him and said something surprising: “I have _________ in you. Keep going. ” Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising __________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a __________ from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment __________ their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having __________ during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into __________ and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I __________ it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

【推荐2】I wasn’t looking forward to Christmas 2017, after the passing of my mom in August. It was on a cold December day that I left work to meet my _______ at our lawyer’s office to sign papers of Mom’s will. With a sense of _______ my sister and I sat down and had a little celebration for what we had done. I have _______ this to the fact that we love each other very much.

That’s when my sister told me her family would probably not be coming to my place on Christmas this year. I had simply _______ I would continue holding a Christmas party. Realizing I was surprised, she explained a lot. _______, we began to call family members to ensure they’d be on that day. _______ no one was at home, we ended up leaving messages.

The first _______ came from my aunt letting me know she wouldn’t come. I said the _______ thing but I was depressed. The next came from my niece _______ me they’d go to Ontario to visit a family there. I felt ________. Then my brother called and ________ me not hold a gathering this year. I doubted my sister had asked him to call me, hoping he could ________ me, but I insisted I need to do this for Mom.

When I arrived at home, I was ________ shocked. A beautiful Christmas wreath (花环) was hanging on my front door. Where had it come from? It ________ my husband wanted to do something ________ for me. He was always busy with work. But to my ________, he had decorated the ________ house. “Where did the wreath come from?” I asked him. “It was in a plastic bag in our basement, so I ________ the wreath.”

It was only then that I remembered it was Mom’s wreath, which had been one of the things I bought home. When I was feeling ________, Mom sent me the very ________. I know she is still with me.