【推荐1】At approximately 10:15pm, Janice Esposito began the 20-minute drive to her family from the train station in Port Bell, New York. She has traveled the_________so many times and was familiar with it. She first drove to the station road,_________to Montauk highway, and then-wham! Out of_________a car pushed her backward onto a railroad track. Though suffering from injury, she was more stunned(打昏)by the impact and vehicle_________.

As it happened, Pete Di Pinto was about to go to bed. As soon as he_________the book, he heard a loud sound of metal and shattering(破碎)glass not far away. Di Pinto, 64, a retired firefighter, has_________stopped thinking. He grabbed the_________, still in his nightwear, and rushed out of the door. He told My NBC5: "Any firefighter will do what I do. We never_________."

The first car he met was_________2,000 feet from his front yard, the one that__________Esposito. Di Pinto__________that the driver was not injured, and then looked around to find Esposito's car straddling(横跨)the rails. Then he heard a harsh sound: a bell,__________ an oncoming train.

Di Pinto__________to Esposito's car and banged(猛敲)on the driver's side__________. She looked at him and said: "I don't know where I am." She__________unhurt, "Honey, you are on the__________." Di Pinto shouted. "We must get you__________right away!" He pulled the handle hard, but the door was smashed(撞毁)and jammed shut. The train was dashing toward them. Di Pinto ran to the passenger side and opened the door. He__________the open airbag, grabbed Esposito's arm, pulled her towards him, passed through the passenger seat, and quickly led her to__________He__________that within six seconds, the train ran into the car. "It's like a Hollywood movie," the firefighter told reporters the next day.

【推荐3】A second lifetime

Although in 1947 we were still very new to the atomic age, we knew about mushroom clouds. A huge   _______   spread across the library wall upstairs, sending teachers and students screaming down the hall.

_______ , our young science teacher quickly _______   us for a fire drill. We huddled(蜷缩) in little _______ on the school grounds and watched the   _______   cloud darken the sky.

Rumors   _______ every which way. One was that the Texas City Chemical plant had blown up; children whose parents worked there began to weep.

I   _______ — that was where my father was working that day.

We were dismissed to find our way home. I’d walked a quarter of my _______ when a car horn startled (使吓一跳) me to _______ . Uncle Barney pulled up alongside me. The instant I saw him, I knew my father was gone. Otherwise, Papa would have come for   __________   himself.

Uncle Barney motioned(打手势) for me to get in.   __________   with grief, I crawled into the __________   seat. I barely took notice of the man __________ there, and didn’t recognize Papa until he reached for me.

Tragedy would one day come to our   __________   , as it inevitably comes to all, but on that day, it miraculously passed us by. Because he lost his keys on that April morning, as he   __________ , my father lived for another 32 years---we were to have a second lifetime forever.

【推荐2】As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I found myself refusing to _______ out at home with even the simplest things.

Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother _______ me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of_______. Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, and _______for my lesson, you’d think I’d be very _______ to help her bring the groceries into the house. But I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an arm-load and disappeared into my room, leaving the _________ for my mom.

Don’t get me wrong. Back in my room, I felt _______ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my _______. But I also realized that once I took on more responsibility, my parents would start _______ more from me. At age fifteen, I ________ that this one small change would mark something much bigger: my personal change from a spoiled child to a more ________ young man.

I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a decision to ________ and see what happened. Returning home from the lesson I disappeared into my room as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep ________. I headed back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day!

Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. As Mom and Dad realized they could depend on me more, our trips became far less ________, too. Sometimes the little things we put off doing the longest ________ to be the simplest things to complete.

【推荐3】Brenegan McNulty is a server at Yellowknife’ s Nova Hotel restaurant. She says that her weekend _______ has fallen into a wild and uncontrolled _______ since they were a little short-handed for the evening.

When a group of ten women entered the restaurant looking for a table, _______, McNulty was still ready to_______them with a smile.

As she _______the table, McNulty assumed that the women were _______a birthday since they had been passing around a _______ for all of them to sign.

To her _______, the woman finished _______ the card only to hand it over to her. Furthermore, she opened up the card and found that it ________ $ 1,100 in cash.

When McNulty asked them why they had surprised her with such a ________ gift, they simply said that they had selected her as a random ________ for a random restaurant.

“They wanted to do something ________ for someone who was working hard during the ________ season,” she recalled to CBC. “That’ s something you hear about ________ on The Ellen Show, you know, not here in Yellowknife. ”

Since McNulty works two jobs to ________ her one-year-old son, she says the ________ is a much- appreciated financial aid she has received ________for the New Year.

“It could ________ a new stroller (婴儿手推车) for him, food, or saving for rent for my own place in the New Year,” McNulty told the reporter. “ ________ working seven days a week, going to work and having something great like this happen makes it all worth it. I felt like I won some sort of lottery. I don’t know how I got so lucky.

【推荐1】Draper was the owner of a secondhand bookstore. One day, when he was sorting through old books, an envelope _________ from one. Inside was an undated _________ and a faded photo of a woman holding a little girl on her lap. The letter said if Bethany was _________ it, it meant the author had died.

Tears were welling up in Draper’s eyes. These were a _________ woman’s last words to her child. He had to _________ Bethany. “Whoever it is will want this,” he thought. “You wouldn’t _________ a letter like that.”

He supposed if the book ended up in his shop, then Bethany was _________ from around Bishop Auckland. And he thought he would _________ the little girl’s face. Even if she’d _________ the area, there might be someone in the town who would recognize the picture.

He started with the local newspaper. The Northern Echo wrote about the story of the __________ letter.

__________, Bethany Gash, now 21 and a mother herself, was on Facebook about 10 miles away when a close friend messaged her to check out the __________ . As she read her mother’s __________, which she thought had been lost forever, she said she thought she must be __________

Bethany was only 4 when her mother died. Five years later, her family __________ to a new home. And the letter, put away in the pages of a book for safe keeping, was unintentionally __________ . She remembered unpacking and looking for the letter, and then madly searching through everything in the __________ that it was there. “That’s when I realized it was gone and I’d never see it again,” she said.

Draper __________ the letter in person. He also __________ her a children’s book for her son. Bethany was greatly moved to have the letter back, and also touched by the stranger’s __________.

【推荐2】Ten years ago, my mom gave me a fancy blood pressure monitor which was very expensive for her. 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 was happy that I no longer needed my blood pressure monitor. 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 met 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 was more than ________ that I repaid her by passing on her ________ to someone who may be a stranger but ________ needed it.