【推荐1】“Look down, Lisa,” my father said gently. “There is more than one way to the square. Life is like that. If you can’t get to the place where you want to go by one road, ______ another.”

In the years that followed, I often remembered the words my father ______ me. I know where I wanted to go in life. I wanted to be a fashion ______. And on the way to my first small success I found the road blocked. What could I do? Accept the roadblocks and fail? Or use imagination and intelligence to find another road to my ______.

I came to Paris, the center of the world of ______, with my works. But none of the famous fashion designers seemed interested in buying them. Then one day I met a friend ______ a very beautiful sweater. The sweater was simple in color, but it had a(n) ______ knitting (编织) way.

I suddenly ______ a bold design knitted into such a sweater. I ______ a clear black and white butterfly picture and took it to Mrs. Vidian. She ______ it into a sweater. The result, I thought, was ______. Then came the test. I ______ the sweater to a party which people in the fashion business would attend. To my joy, the sweater was ______. In fact, the representative (代表) of a large New York store wanted 40 sweaters to be ______ in two weeks. I accepted the ______ and walked out on a cloud of ______.

My cloud ______, however, when I stood in front of Mrs. Vidian. “But it took me almost a week to knit that sweater,” she said. “Forty sweaters in two weeks? It is ______.”

I was so close to success and then to be blocked! ______, I walked away. All at once, it hit me that there must be ______ way. This knitting way did take special skill, but surely there must be someone else in Paris who knew how to do it. Luckily, I made it before the deadline.

【推荐3】A lady wanted a birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had liked a beautiful _________, and knowing her husband could _________ it, she told him that was all she wanted. On the morning of the _________ , her husband told her how _________he was to have such a good wife, and how much he loved her. He _________ her a beautiful gift package. She opened it and _________ a Bible. _________, she raised her voice and said to her husband, “With all your money, you give me a Bible?” She was so _________ that she left him.

Many years passed and the lady was very _________ in business. She owned two large companies. She __________ her husband was very old, and thought perhaps she should go to __________ him. But before she could, she __________a letter telling her that he had died, and gave all of his possessions to her. She needed to come back and __________things.

When she arrived at his house, sadness __________her heart. She saw the still new __________ , just as she had left it years before. With __________ , she opened it and began to turn the pages. A ring __________ from the Bible to the floor and a __________ could be seen. She picked it up and found it was the ring she wanted in those days. And on the card was the date of her birth, and the words “LUV U ALWAYS”.

__________ your gift is not packaged the way you want it, it’s because it is better packaged the way it is! Always appreciate little things; they usually lead you to bigger things! The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched for they must be felt with the __________.

【推荐1】For lots of people，the holidays are about helping the less fortunate._______than buying present for each other，a group of friends in a Vermont snowboard(单板滑雪）group like to go to their _______homeless shelter and give them a day to _______. They begin preparing at the_______of the snow season by asking people who come to the mountain to _______ old winter clothing like jackets，boots，gloves，and hats. Then the group_______the shelter to distribute（分发）the things.

Says Jay，18，one of the _______，“We tell them，‘Now you guys are coming with us and we’re going to teach you how to _______ or snowboard all day for free. ’It’s awesome(极好的)to know that we are able to take their minds _______the stress in their lives for one day.” For this group，working together to help the homeless makes their relation________.They feel like a part of each other’s lives in a ________way.

It may sound no wonder until you try it，but doing something for charity(慈善）can really help you________better about the whole experience of giving. That’s because it benefits for the ________as well as the recipient（接受者）-you’re left with a feeling of belonging and being connected.   ________to help an organization or group that fits with your________and the things you believe in. If you love children, buy a present for a child in need. ________ animals are your things you like，talk to your local animal shelter, distribute (分发)staples（主食）like pet food to low-income pet ________over the holidays. If you________a grandparent and would like to spend time with the elderly, ________ out at a nursing home over the holidays. Or share a special skill. If you’re good at doing something with your ________，you can help build or paint houses for people in need.

【推荐2】When I said that I would run a Volunteer House Project, many reporters interviewed me. They wrote _______ about me in various media. _______, the questions they asked me _______ were: “Are you crazy? Why are you doing this while you really need to find a job to earn _______?”

At that time, _______ a day when I was a child. That was an afternoon toward the end of the year, when an old man walked around and picked the _______ up on the road. He wanted to help my ward have a nice street to _______ the New Year. After they saw what he was doing, so many folks gave him their _______. Nevertheless, when they sat together, behind his _______, they gossiped. “Hmmm, that man is crazy. His house is dirty ________ he doesn’t care. And he is just showing off.”

________, neither he, nor my friends nor I will ever care about what people say. Because we do ________ work not to get nice words from ________ but partly because we are ________ that bad things like drugs, alcohol, ________ addictions will tempt us in this ‘globalized’ world.

When I made plans for the volunteer House Project, some people couldn’t believe that there might be people who would ________ their empty houses or raise money for my project in a world where “money ________” Now, the fact is, I have more than 18 cities in my country where people are ________ to loan their empty houses for my project.

Even if this ________ fails, at least it would demonstrate that we have tried our best to do something good for the society ________ just sitting here and doing nothing.

【推荐3】When Lennon had just moved to Los Angeles, she met Carla. The two young women _________ they had something in common: Both were _________ with life after loss. Lennon's mother died of lung cancer three years ago and Carla had just _________ her father.

Lennon also met a few others of her age who were grieving (悲伤). She invited them all over for _________. It was a night of _________, expressing themselves to each other and healing. Each guest left with the belief that they weren't alone to feel _________.

After many meals, Lennon and Carla founded The Dinner Party. It's a nonprofit organization offering _________ and care to those who have _________ deep loss by hosting dinner parties. Since then, it has helped bring together over 13, 000 people to have meals and _________ their grief.

Lennon learned that there's almost no __________ of death and grief among young adults like her just because few have experienced such loss, making those who have feel __________. She found that people are more likely to put down their __________ and connect over a shared meal. That's where their healing starts.

So far, the organization has grown by almost 3, 000 members. “One trend we've seen in this is that people need platforms to __________ they weren't okay,” Lennon says. __________, the COVID-19 put a temporary end to dinner parties. “But it was not a(n) __________ to grief. So I hope the parties will continue.”

【推荐1】The young woman entered the pool where an injured dolphin was swimming. Despite her fear, she felt strong wearing her new leg.

In her second grade, Maja _______ her cousin, Jasmina. After Jasmina’s death, Maja swore she would honor the little girl by _______ with a dolphin, an animal that both girls _______ . “ Jasmina never got the chance to do it.” says Maja, now 32, “so I _______ that someday I’d do it for her.”

In high school, Maja was _______ about sports. She even planned to become an athlete _______ , in 1993, during the civil war in her home country, a bomb _______ her left leg.

After two years’ _______ in the U.S. , Maja received her first artificial leg, but _______ it didn’t fit well, walking for Maja was very painful. ________ , she managed to graduate from a local high school. Then after receiving a ________ from Saint Francis University, she got a job at an insurance firm and ________ started her own company.

To relax, Maja ________ often watch the dolphins play at an aquarium near her home. A young dolphin, Winter, who had lost its tail, caught her ________ . One day, Maja happened to see trainers ________ Winter with a high-tech tail. When they were done, Winter swam freely in the water Maja was ________ . She managed to find the Inventors of Winter’s tail. Within ten days, she had a new leg which freed her of the ________ that had troubled her for almost 16 years.

Now Maja was ready to keep her ________ . She went to the aquarium, lowered the pool and held out a hand to Winter, who approached ________ , then swam away. After a few minutes, the dolphin let Maja ________ its back. Finally, the two began to swim around the pool together.

【推荐3】On a raining day, I went to buy some aspirin. Upon entering a lady’s drugstore, I _________ that there was a keyboard on a music stand, leaning _________ the wall. Being a piano music lover and _________, I asked if the woman played. She nodded and added that she had been _________ lessons at age 60! I told her that it was very _________ that she was pursuing her passion to play the piano.

Then she asked me ___________question. “I have been playing for 8 years now,” I answered.

“Then you must play a song for me before you leave,” she _________. I thought she was joking and I simply smiled. At the end of the deal of the aspirin, she _______ me of our musical _______. She then showed me to an old upright piano in the living room, ________ asked me to play a song for her. I thought ________and decided to play David Lantz’s “Return to the Heart”, since she had so much passion for ________ and it was my soul-searching song.

I played the song to the best of my ability, and with my emotions ________ into it as possible. She loved it. __________ I was about to step out of the door, I heard a weak voice calling out, “Young man!”

I turned around. And there was an old lady __________ one little step at a time with the help of another woman. “I wanted to come out to __________ you for the beautiful song that you played. I have been very sick, and it’s very hard for me to ________ my bed, but your music made me feel good”, she said. With that, she turned around and walked __________ back to her room.

I was deeply ____________by her appreciation and felt a deeper understanding of the song. It served its purpose beautifully, returning to one’s ____________for peace and joy.