【推荐1】One day, many years ago, when I was working as a psychologist at a children’s institution in England, an adolescent boy showed up in the waiting room. I went out there where he was ________ up and down restlessly.

Tim wore a black raincoat that was ________ all the way up to his neck. His face was pale, and he stared at his feet while wringing his hands nervously. He had ________ his father as a baby, and had lived with his mother and grandfather ever since. But the year before he turned13, his grandfather and mother were killed in a car accident. Now he was fourteen and in family care.

I looked at Tim. He was very ________ and depressed. He refused to talk to me. The first two times we met, Tim only sat hunched up in the chair without saying a word. As he was about to leave after the second visit. I put my hand on his shoulder. He didn’t ________ back, but he didn’t look at me either.

“Come back next week, if you like,” I said. I ________ a bit. Then I said, “I know it hurts.” He came, and I suggested we play chess. He nodded. After that we played chess every Wednesday afternoon, in ________ and without making any eye contact. It’s not easy for me to cheat in chess, but I admit that I made sure Tim won once or twice.

Usually, he arrived earlier, took the chessboard and pieces and set them up before I even got a (n) ________ to sit down. It seemed as if he enjoyed my ________. But why did he never look at me?

“Perhaps he simply needs someone to share his ________ with,” I thought.

One afternoon. Tim took off his raincoat and put it on the back of the chair. While he was setting up the chess pieces, his face seemed more ________ and his motions more lively.

Some months later, I sat staring at Tim’s head, while he was bent over the chessboard. I was thinking about how little we knew about the healing process. ________ he looked up at me. “It’s your ________,” he said.

After that day, Tim started talking.

Maybe I gave Tim something, but I learned a lot from him. He showed me how one-without any words-can ________ out to another person. All it ________ is a hug, a shoulder to cry on, a friendly touch, a sympathetic nature, and an ear that listens.

【推荐3】I’ve heard such a story. On a Friday _________, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. The music was _________, and many people who hurried to go home _________ and put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next night, the young artist took out a large piece of _________ and laid it on the ground. Then he began _________. The music sounded more pleasant. Some people gathered and they found the _________ on that paper, ”Last night, a gentleman put a (n) _________ thing into my hat. Please come to get it back.“ When the people saw that, they felt very curious and _________ what it could be. After about half an hour, a man _________ there in a hurry and said, ”It can’t be true! You... you...“

The young violinist asked, ”Did you __________ something?“ ”A lottery ticket (彩票),“ the man answered __________.

The violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it?” he asked.

The man was too __________ to say a word. He __________ a lottery ticket a few days ago. The awards (奖) opened yesterday and he won $ 500, 000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he __________ 50 dollars and put it into the hat when hearing the music. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being __________. After the violinist finished his performance, he found the lottery ticket in his hat. Thinking that the owner would probably return to look for it, he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Someone asked the violinist why he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, ”Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever."

【推荐1】Saving a Tiger Named Cinderella

On an icy day in February 2012, two hunters in eastern Russia discovered a limp bundle of fur lying in the snow. It was an orphaned cub (幼虎)! The cub hadn’t eaten in days, and was _________ enough for the hunters just to pick her up. Dr. Dale Miquelle, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Russia Program, said, “A healthy tiger cub, even a three-month-old one, would give you reason to _________ before you stuck your hand too close to its teeth and claws. But this cub had no _________ left in her.”

The hunters wrapped the cub in a coat and _________ her to a local wildlife doctor, Andrey Oryol. Over the following weeks, Oryol _________ the orphaned cub back to health. But now he had a new problem: What could he do with an _________ three-month-old tiger?

The cub was an Amur tiger. _________ a small number of Amur tigers remained in the wild, so scientists wanted to return _________ cubs to their natural habitat. The orphaned cub was taken to a new wildlife center. The center was designed for raising wild animals without _________ them to people. It uses hidden cameras and covered fences to keep workers out of __________. That way, the animals don’t become __________ on humans.

The cub, now named Cinderella, became the center’s first tiger. Over the next year, she grew into a big, healthy tigress. In the center, she learned to hunt. By the spring of 2013, experts agreed she was __________ to return to the wild.

They chose the perfect new __________ for their tiger princess: the Bastak Nature Reserve. During the next two years, researchers watched Cinderella’s __________. They set up cameras to snap photos. When Cinderella passed __________ one of these camera traps, it took her picture. Cinderella not only __________, but grew healthy and strong.

Then, in December 2015, the cameras __________ exciting news: Cinderella had become a mother! For the first time ever, a tiger that humans had __________ and returned to the wild had given birth to two cubs of her own.

Tigers are some of the most admired animals on our planet, but they are also __________. Thanks to the work of conservationists like Dr. Miquelle, there is new __________ for these magnificent cats.

【推荐2】We’ve all heard the stories of an actor’s struggles before a career breakthrough. Shelby, the star of “A Dog’s Way Home”, has a hard-luck tale that could top them all. Before her ________, she was living in a landfill, ________ through garbage for her next meal.

Shelby’s ________ came in April 2017, when animal-control officer Megan Buhler was ________ in Cheatham County. Buhler saw and approached what she recalled as a ________ scared puppy. “I knelt down and just said, ‘Oh, come here, baby,’” said Buhler. “She was so ________, but she came right up to me, and I was able to put her in my truck.” The pair headed to the county animal ________, where the staff began calling the new resident: Baby Girl.

3,200 kilometers away, Hollywood was ________ a dog to play Bella in a film. The find-a-Bella job went to trainer Miller. Her ________ was to search shelters for a dog that could play Bella. One day, Miller ________ Baby Girl’s adoption photo. “________, it was a really good picture, and she was flat-out smiling,” Miller said. Then she met Baby Girl, and assessed her on ________ and through tests further evaluate her multiple abilities to ________, to simple commands. After all these and overall ________ her, she adopted Baby Girl from the shelter, ________ her Shelby and took her for training. Miller and Shelby trained for just over three months before ________ began. Then they were together each day on the set.

Most ________ about the film have praised Shelby. They made the ________ “an amazing dog”! Shelby has come a long way from the garbage. But Buhler said when she saw Shelby recently she just needed only a second to ________ the movie star to the dog she found from piles of trash. “She’s ________ the same,” Buhler said.

【推荐3】Having recently changed my job, I moved from a house with a yard full of trees to a small apartment two miles away. I __ two loving cats. I brought them with me.

My cats were___ going outside to exercise,but in my new apartment, they were not afforded that___. For safety reasons, I decided to keep them___. Alley Cat was satisfied with just looking out the window. Stripes, on the other hand, didn’t___ being cooped up(关起来) and cried continuously at the door. It was___ for him to go outside because I had to walk down the stairs to let him out. After two days, I___ and opened the door. He walked around the tiny yard for a while and then came back.

The next time Stripes went out, he was___ for three days. I __ the neighborhood, calling out, “Stripes, come home.”

On the third day, I got a___. It was from the lady who had___ my house. She told me that Stripes was in her yard crying, probably___ me.

I jumped in the car and headed for my old house. Stripes was as___ to see me as I was to see him. He started rubbing ( 蹭) his head against my legs. The next day, the____thing happened again and again, Stripes made it clear that he___ to stay in my new apartment.

The new owners became____Stripes and even began feeding him. They offered to make Stripes a member of their family after I had tried many times to keep my cat and___. It was the perfect___, I' ve heard the expression," If you____something, let it go. “ Unwillingly, I did. __ I had visitation rights.

【推荐1】On our way home from school my kid and I shared each other our high and low part of the day. My 12-year-old, Karington, told me her _________ for a classmate with special need. This _________ action brought my tears flowing.

Her story started with, “Mommy, I made a teacher _________ today.” I didn’t know why my first thought was a _________ one. I definitely shouldn’t have _________ her. The rest of her story went like this...

“There’s a boy in my class with hyperactivity (多动症). Everyone _________ him because he does strange things. Today he fell to the _________ I looked around and all these kids were laughing, so I walked up to him and _________ with him. The class stopped laughing. A _________ was walking by the open door and saw my __________. She walked into the room towards me, bursting into __________. She held me up and gave me the tightest __________ ever and kept saying what a __________ girl I was.”

My voice was __________ by a lump (梗) in my throat. Tears flooded my eyes; I __________ them so I could see the road. I couldn’t __________. How could I find the right words to __________ just how proud I was? She looked at me, saw the tears flowing and knew. I didn’t need __________.

There is not a thing my child could do that would make me much __________! Nothing is better than standing up for what is __________ and showing compassion towards others.

【推荐2】As the train picked up its speed, the passengers slowly settled down on their seats. I   _________ the lower berth(卧铺), so that I could _________ the beauty from the moving train. I don't know why I always _________ to get the window seat. Perhaps it is because of the view. A(n) _________ lady occupied the front seat of mine. She must be in her eighties, I _________. She smiled at me. Out of curiosity, I gave her _________. But both of us were _________.

It was 4:50 pm. So, bed time was still in a long way. I couldn't _________ myself any longer and asked, "Aunty! Where are you going?"

She _________ me for a while and replied, "Army camp, dear."

Suddenly my __________ doubled to know the reason. I __________ said, "Aunty, you are __________ someone?"

She smiled and I continued to say: "Aunty, you must be feeling so __________ to see your child and your grandchildren."

Perhaps, this question __________ her a little but she answered, "Oh, dear! You are so sweet! __________, I had only one son who joined the __________ and was killed in a battle just a few days before. I had __________ so many new clothes for him. So, I thought why not __________ my son's clothes to some other soldiers, so that I would control my __________ and would be happy thinking that my own son has worn it. He was __________, so I don't have any grandchild."

I was astonished at her heart breaking story! But I admired the old lady from the core of my heart.