【推荐2】Ida Nelson was relaxing and enjoying herself at home. At this moment she _________ a series of long low sounds from an airplane, which was circling the nearby airport in the village.

It was 11:30 at night and, as she told the reporter, “Any time a plane flies over that late, you know something is _________.”

Nelson ran to the window, and saw the problem: The airport’s runway lights were out.

At once, Nelson jumped into her ATV (沙滩车), and drove it to the airport, where she _________ a local pilot trying to turn on the lights.

She ran to help _________. “Usually, if you push the button 10 or 15 times, the lights will just light up,” Nelson said. But it didn’t work this time. Meanwhile, they learned of the plane’s _________: It was a medevac (医疗救护直升机), there to send a seriously ill local girl to the hospital 280 miles away.

Nelson decided to drive her ATV to the end of the runway and shine the headlights for the plane to follow. Great idea, _________ it wasn’t enough. More light was needed, so a neighbor called nearly every home in the village.

Within ten minutes, twenty cars arrived. Following _________ from the medevac pilot, the cars lined up on one side of the runway.

The medevac was guided by the headlights and landed _________. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane _________ at once.

In a world filled with uncertainty, the little community’s __________ action was a big deal. Not so much for Nelson. As she told the reporter, coming together “is kind of a normal deal.”

【推荐3】It was 12:45 p.m. on January 2, 2007. Fifty-year-old Wesley Autrey was ______ the train at a subway station in New York. His two daughters, aged four and six, were with him.

____, a sick man fell on the platform (站台). The man, 20-year-old Cameron Hollopeter, got up, but then ______ again — this time, onto the track between the two rails. A ______ was coming into the station. It was a(n) ______ moment. But Mr. Autrey wasn’t afraid. He ______the man, and he looked at the ______ that the man was in. It was about half a meter deep. And he_____, “The train is going to travel over this man. ______ he tries to get up, the train will _____him. But if he lies on the ground and doesn’t ______, he’ll be OK.” So he knew he had to ______. And there was no time to think carefully.

He ______. Mr. Autrey lay on top of Mr. Hollopeter and kept him down on the ground. The train driver ______ them. He was afraid, but he couldn’t ______ in time. Five subway cars traveled over the two men before the train stopped.

The people on the platform were ______. When Mr. Autrey heard them screaming (尖叫), he shouted, “We’re OK down here, but I have two daughters up there. Let them ______ their father’s OK.” People on the platform clapped and ______. They were amazed at Mr. Autrey’s ______. Subway workers helped the two men out. They had no serious injuries.

Mr. Autrey said, “I didn’t do anything special. I just saw someone who needed ______. I did what I thought was right.”

【推荐1】A little boy almost considered himself as the most unfortunate child in the world because a terrible illness made his leg lame（癖的）. He _______ played with his classmates; and when the teacher asked him to answer questions, he always _______ his head without a word.

One spring, the boy’s father got some saplings （树苗）_______ the neighbor and told his _______ to plant one each person. The father also _______ to buy a favorite gift for whoever grew best. The boy also wanted to get his father’s _______. But seeing his brothers and sisters carry water actively, he lost _______. So after watering it once or twice, he never _______ it.

A few days later, when the little boy went to see his tree again, he was _______ to find that it appeared greener and ________ than his sisters’ and brothers’. His father ________ his promise, and said that he would surely become an outstanding botanist（植物学家）when he ________ up.

From then on, the little boy slowly became ________. One night, looking at the bright moonlight outside, he suddenly recalled what the ________ teacher once said: plants generally grow at night. Then he came to the courtyard and unexpectedly found his father ________ under his tree with a big spoon. ________, he understood: his father had been secretly watering his small tree! He ________ to his room, tears running down out of control.

Decades passed. The little boy didn’t become a botanist, ________ he was elected President of the United States. His name was Franklin Roosevelt.

________ is the best nutrition （营养）of life; even if it is just one spoonful of clear ________, it can make the tree of life lively.

【推荐2】After 21 years of marriage, Bill Henrichs and Mary Ziegler concluded that they were no longer a good match. The couple politely divorced in 1995 and went their ____ ways, but they continued to see each other when meeting their ____ at their school and sporting events. In February 2018, ____, she and Henrichs learned they were a match in a different way.

Henrichs’s kidneys(肾)were ____, and he was in need of a ____. After nearly 40 family members and friends were tested as possible ____, the result surprised all—only one person ____to be a perfect match—Ziegler.

So on Oct. 16 more than four decades after they said “I do,” she and Henrichs, 62, were _____into an operating room and one of Ziegler’s healthy kidneys was _____and given to her ex-husband. The surgery went well, and the transplant is ____ well and continuing to improve as Mr. Henrichs_____ from the surgery. Henrichs was beyond grateful for his ex-wife’s sympathy and ____, but he was also worried in the hours before the ___ .

Just three weeks after the transplant, she was back to work and doing yoga—a quick turnaround considering that the ____ kidney donor needs a healing period of six to eight ____. “This entire experience has brought us all ____ .”She and Henrichs hope that by sharing their story, other _____will realize that divorce is not always a reason to ____ ties.

“Divorce is divorce, but there’s no reason to ____,” Henrichs said. “There are lots of reasons why it’s _____to get along.” He pauses and laughs. “Someday, you just might need a kidney.”

【推荐3】Dad had a green comb. He bought it when he married Mum. Every night, he would hand me his ________ and say, “Good girl, help Daddy clean it, OK?”

I was ________ to do it. At age five, this boring task brought me such ________ . I would excitedly turn the tap ________   and brush the comb carefully. Satisfied that I’d done a good job, I would happily return the comb to Dad. He would ________ at me and place the comb on his wallet.

Two years later, Dad started his own ________ which wasn’t doing so well. That was when things started to ________ . Dad didn’t come home as early and as much as he used to. Mum and I became ________ with him for placing our family in trouble. With   ________ , an uncomfortable silence grew between us.

After my graduation, Dad’s business was getting back on track. On my 28th birthday, Dad came home________. As usually I helped him carry his bags into his study. When I turned to leave, he said, “Hey, would you help me ________ my comb?” I looked at him a while, then ________ the comb and headed to the sink.

It hit me then: why, as a child, ________ Dad clean his comb was such a pleasure. That routine (惯例) meant Dad was home early to ________ the evening with Mum and me. It ________ a happy and loving family.

I passed the clean comb back to Dad. He smiled at me and ________ placed his comb on his wallet. But this time, I noticed something ________ . Dad had aged. He had wrinkles next to his eyes when he smiled, ________ his smile was still as ________ as before, the smile of a father who just wanted a good ________ for his family.

【推荐1】One day a man was employed to paint a boat. He brought paint and _______ and began to paint the boat as the owner wanted. While painting, he _______ there was a hole in the body of the boat and decided to repair it. When he finished painting, he received his _______ and left.

The next day, the owner of the boat visited the painter and _______ him with a cheque (支票), much higher than what he was paid for the painting work. The painter was   _______ .

"You've already paid me for painting the boat, sir!" he said.

"This is not for the paint job. It's for repairing the _______ in the boat. "

"Ah! But it was such a small service." the man said "Certainly it's not worth paying me such a high amount for something so _______ !”

"My dear friend," the owner said, "You don't understand. Let me tell you what _______ . When I asked you to paint the boat, I _______ to mention the hole. When the boat dried, my kids took it and ________ a fishing trip. They had a great time, not ________ that there was a hole there. I was not at home at the time. So when I returned and was told they had taken the boat, I was hopeless. Imagine my relief and joy when I saw them returning ________ from fishing.”

"Then, I examined the boat and found that you had repaired the hole!" You now see what you did? You saved the life of my children! ________ , I am here to thank you!"

Each of us has a moral duty to offer help, wipe tears, listen carefully and repair all the "hole" we ________ in our life journey, because a small act will make a big ________ in the future.

【推荐2】I’m not what you call a “good traveler”. Without curiosity to _________, I was unwilling to push my boundaries. But it just shows one is never too old to _________ himself/herself.

South Africa was the _________ surprise. I’d never _________ to go on a safari (观兽旅行). People said it was exciting, but I didn’t think so. However, once I was actually there, I _________ it.

I_________ at a beautiful hotel housed in train carriages on the Selati Bridge over the Sabie River, a hotspot for _________ the “Big Five” — the lion, leopard, rhino (犀牛), elephant and African buffalo.

The train cars are suites (套房) with floor-to-ceiling _________, so every day I’d look out of them to see elephants heading up the river. More _________, I started to develop a great passion for the landscape and the animals, which I’d never__________. I visited a rhino conservation park, where its workers were __________ rhinos badly injured by hunters. I bottle-fed these beautiful babies and hand-fed a black rhino. Being there, the concept of how much __________ these animals faced every day hit me hard.

But the most memorable aspect was the __________ I met. Meeting their families and dropping myself into their culture was __________. It did more good for me. I’ve always been __________ — never readily join in conversation with unfamiliar people. But the experience of __________ so many new people from so many attractive places has been a __________ thing, allowing me to brush off some cobwebs(陈腐)forming for many years.

Seeing the world has helped me __________ my ideas about the world, turning me into a more positive person. That’s what __________ can do. I am __________ not a crazy traveler exactly, but at least I’m making progress.

【推荐3】Days after Argentina canceled international passenger flights to protect the country from the new coronavirus, Ballestero began his journey home. He _______ aboard his small sailboat for what turned out to be an 85-day difficult _______ across the Atlantic.

Ballestero could have stayed put on the tiny Portuguese island, but the idea of _______ what he thought could be "the end of the world" away from his family, especially his father who was soon to turn 90, was _______. So he set sail in Mid-March after _______ his 29-foot sailboat.

"I didn't want to stay like a coward（懦夫）on an island where there were no _______," Ballestero said. "I'll do everything possible to be with my _______."

Friends tried to persuade him to _______ the adventurous journey, and the authorities in Portugal _______ him he might not be allowed to re-enter. But he was _______. "I bought myself a one-way ticket and there was no going back," he stated.

Sailing can be a lonely passion, and it was _______ so on this voyage for Ballestero, who each night turned in to the _______ on a radio for 30 minutes to _______ how the virus was spreading across the globe. "I kept wondering whether this would be my _______ trip," he said.

When he _______ it to his native Mar del Plata on June 17^th, he was surprised by the hero's welcome he _______. On the dock（码头）, a medical professional administered a(an) _______ for COVID-19. Within 72 hours, after the result came back negative, he was _______ to set foot on Argentine soil.

While he didn't get to _______ his father's 90^th birthday in May, he did arrive home _______ for Father's Day.