【推荐1】My parents went bankrupt (破产) when I was seven years old. I went from a kid who got everything he asked for to one _________ having nowhere to stay. This change was as_________ for my parents as it was for me. But I wasn’t used to hearing “no” so I _________ asking.

When asked what I wanted for my birthday, I said I wanted a video gaming system. I didn’t know it was _________. All I knew was that my friends _________ them and that I wanted one too.

On my birthday, I _________ started opening my present,believing I would get what I _________. But I didn’t. My mom could tell my_________ and she started crying. I gave her a _________ that was bigger than ever. Her tears __________ me that she was working so hard and that she couldn’t __________ to give me anything I didn’t need.

From then on I learned to __________ the things I had. When I wanted a new iPod, I had to work to buy it. I got a __________ job and after working for a month every day after school,

I saved up enough __________ to buy it.The feeling of having __________ something is one of the best feelings in the world.

【推荐3】I received a letter from a woman who lives in New York. She _______ that her 22-year-old electrician son went to Manhattan a few days after the September 11. 2001 terrorist attack. He wanted to _______ his services, but discovered that his _______ were not needed.

Joe may have _______ in a way he never expected. ON the train home, he sat across from a tired firefighter_______ with what appeared to be _______ and debris(碎片). Though he could see bits of rock in the man’s_______ and noticed that his hands were bloody, what_______the young man most was the look in the firefighter’s eyes. They appeared lifeless and _______.

Then the man began to talk and Joe listened. He talked about finding a shoe with a ________ inside, Joe listened. He talked about ________ debris from a face, then discovering this person’s body was gone. Joe listened. And as he listened, he didn’t ________ with disgust. He didn’t judge. He didn’t interrupt. He ________listened.

He listened as the firefighter talked about shoes… there were so many shoes, he said. Everywhere…shoes.

Through it all Joe ________ held the man’s attention and listened, which is exactly what the rescue worker ________ at that moment. And because he listened, the man ________ to speak. He talked his ________ out as much as possible. And Joe helped him carry his unbelievably heavy burden. That day Joe didn’t give blood, nor did he use his ________ skills to help . But he did one of the most ________ things a human can do for another .He gave a disheartened man his whole ________ , and thereby immeasurably assisted in the work of setting the world right.

【推荐1】Emily Bhatnagar is a shy girl who has always loved reading. She says, “The books sort of became my best friends when I didn’t have one.”

When Bhatnagar was 16, her father was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. The news was________for the family. Books became an even bigger ________, and she started thinking about families in similar situations. When her father recovered, she ________a plan to help others. “The idea came from not just great thanks that the doctors were able to ________such a miracle (奇迹),”she said, “but also a little of ________ that there were kids who were ________ the same battle.”

Bhatnagar started a ________ in her hometown. The goal was to collect books and give them to kids being ________ for cancer in local hospitals. Since the start of the book drive, which she called For Love & Buttercup, Bhatnagar has ________ more than 10,000 books.

Bhatnagar had no idea how much ________ her work would get. She started by posting on social media, asking people in her area to donate. “I was expecting maybe two or three ________ from neighbors,” she said. But it ended up blowing up, ________ when news stations began reporting it. “The public response has been super great,” her father said.

Bhatnagar continues to run the book drive, with a little help from her parents. She hopes to expand the project to ________ more kids one day. The memory of the first time she visited those children who’d ________ her books sticks with her. “It was the best ________ of my life,” she said. “I realized I wanted to do this type of work forever.”

【推荐2】As the head of a secondary vocational school（中等职业技术学校）,Zhang Juncheng does not avoid telling his students that he used to be a security guard （保安）when he was a young man. He believes a person's _______ in society is not decided by others, but their own _______.

Back in 1995, Zhang, who had _______ a junior middle school, tried different _______ before being hired as a security guard at Beijing University. Standing at the gate of the _______university, Zhang was content at first. "I was ignorant（无知的）then, “ the man _______.”

He _______ his mind after he saw an elderly man _______ a bicycle towards the gate. When the man went by him, he nodded and said to Zhang, “Thanks for your hard work." Zhang did not expect such a _______ from the man and was amazed to later find out that the man was the ________ of the school. At Beijing University, Zhang stepped on his road of learning ________ the help from several teachers. Zhang Yushu, a foreign language professor, liked talking about philosophy with the ________ security guard and recommended lots of good ________ Another professor called Zhang Xuecheng ________ him to read more and “make a plan for his life.

Under the guidance of teachers like them, Zhang started reading ________. He used his spare time to read and his ________was spotted by Cao Yan, an English ________ at the school. The teacher gave him ________for English classes and encouraged him to ________ for the national entrance examination for adults. In the autumn of 1995, Zhang attended the national entrance examination for adults and was ________ into the law department of Beijing University.

【推荐3】Kemira had just taken a shower when she found her 12-day-old daughter, Ryleigh, was choking. The 24-year-old new mother _______ the bathroom and began patting her daughter on the back. But the baby _______ was hesitating to breathe. She _______ that Ryleigh needed to get to the hospital quickly.

She had hardly made it out of her neighborhood when she was _______ by Kimbro, a police officer, for speeding. Kemira _______ over to the roadside. Desperate for _______ , she handed the baby to Kimbro. He put a hand on her little _______ gently. Ryleigh’s heart was barely beating.

Kimbro _______ for an ambulance-it was seven minutes out, and the hospital was ever further away. But Ryleigh couldn’t _______ seven minutes, her lips already a shade of blue.

The fact that Kimbro was there was something of a ________ . He is a school resource officer who ________ spends his days patrolling (巡逻) the middle school ten miles away. But he travels farther when ________ is out in the summer. Even ________ : he had recently completed a CPR class and knew exactly how to treat a baby. Kimbro used one ________ to clear the baby’s airway. That was the magic touch. 20 seconds later, Ryleigh began to ________ .

“As long as she’s crying, she’s ________ .” Kimbro said. He worried that Ryleigh would ________ again, so he continued pressing her chest ________ and periodically clearing her airway with his finger. “The whole time I was thinking, ‘Do not let this baby by ________ in front of h mother’” he later told Inside Edition. “Just don’t.”

At the hospital, Ryleigh ________ quickly, thanks to a determined school police officer who was in the right place at the right time.