【推荐1】A few years ago, LaQuista Erinna’s son, Jackson, was diagnosed with autism (自闭症). Erinna had always noticed Jackson was _________ to everyday things. But the most difficult thing was getting a(n) _________. “Usually I have to do some coaching to get him in the chair and he will put on his headphones.” Erinna explained. The stress was so _________ for her, so she decided to stop taking him to the barber.

“We went almost two years with no haircuts. People would always comment on how _________ his hair was,” Erinna remembered. “It was really _________ for me. I was trying to protect my baby, but I just had to develop some tough skin.”

Ultimately, Erinna found a _________ named Ree and things seemed to be possible. Ree has been able to do things _________.

However, things went _________ at the beginning one day. “We got caught in traffic. He left his headphones. We hadn’t had lunch. It was just like a series of _________ events,” Erinna said.

Jackson __________ to get in the barber’s chair. He started running around the shop. Erinna was about to __________ and call it a day, but Ree encouraged her to __________. Then Ree noticed Jackson’s Super Mario Bro shirt and told him that he needed to save Mario by making sure no hair got on Mario.

At last, Ree managed to get Jackson to sit down. She talked to him throughout the entire process and turned the haircut into a __________, encouraging him to protect Mario to keep him engaged.

“It just __________ me so much,” Erinna said. “When the haircut was complete, Jackson was like, ‘Well, can we go back tomorrow and play again?’”

It __________ a lot to Erinna that Ree took the time to figure out a way to give Jackson a haircut that day. She shared a video online, which has gotten millions of views.

【推荐1】Architect Brian Bononi was at a job, measuring a portrait (相片) studio that had been shut down. That was when he _________ it—dozens upon dozens of family portraits that had been taken but never delivered to those who _________ their photos. He couldn’t get the _________ off his mind. They were waiting to be thrown out, and that didn’t sit right with him.

“My heart _________ every time I looked at the pile,” said Brian. “I knew that those photos _________ a lot to the people who were in them. _________ I didn’t do something, they’d _________ be gone and forgotten.” Then and there he decided to _________ these portraits and reunite as many families with their long-lost portraits as he could.

Brian, with the help of his wife and four children, took all 167 _________ portraits to their house. They developed a system of ____________ photos—alphabetizing all the portraits with the available information. Then they started tracking down the parietal ____________. It’s really a lovely ____________, especially because it turned out to take so much ____________.

So far they have been able to ____________ over 60 people and returned more than 40 photos. Just recently, they created a Facebook page to help spread the message with the hope that more people will ____________ themselves.

【推荐2】Kaycee, Wyoming, was the exit we took to seek help for our leaking back left tire on our rental car. Traveling from northern Wyoming down to Denver, we were only an hour into our six-hour _______.   The exits are few on this part of highway. At the end of the _______ was a Sinclair gas station. When we _______the woman at the register who might be able to help us, she _______Tom and gave us his number. She was so _______, even offering to call him herself,_______there was a large stream of customers.

When my husband _______ Tom, he was just pulling off the Kaycee exit himself, returning from a four-hour delivery of a vehicle to Sheridan, Wyoming. What were the chances that his timing (时间的选择) would be _______ for ours? The man within 100 miles who could _______ us was there for us.

During our visit to his __________ in the heart of Kaycee, the tire was__________

From start to finish, what could have been a several-hour__________ took just 45 minutes. At that time, we __________the workings of a small Wyoming town where everyone knew each other and where we were helped by a man named Tom, who had spent his entire life in Kaycee and __________ told us about his school days, and his children.

When something like our __________ time in Kaycee happens, I imagine what if it had been __________ ？What if we had been there for hours? What if we had __________ our appointment later that day? It gives me an even deeper appreciation for the way it __________, for the people we met, for the town we came upon and for the __________ of others and the skill of Tom, whose life is far different from ours,__________ surely a very happy and content one.

【推荐3】My husband gave me a surprise gift for Christmas-a gift that, at the time, seemed odd. It was a little, a cute, colourful bird, conure(锥尾鹦鹉). She liked biting at first, but she quickly became the sweetest little creature, and she _________ every day. I was looking forward to every morning to seeing her.

Before I would never have _________ myself owning a bird but now she had _________ her little self firmly around my heart. _________, three days ago, she seemed not quite herself. She was _________ to fly. So, I brought her to the vet(兽医), and she was much more _________ than I could have imagined. It was touch and go, but she _________ it through the night. But when it was starting to look like she was almost out of the woods, we _________ her quite suddenly.

I was overwhelmed. I cried all the way to the vet to _________ her little body. When I walked into the clinic, they brought my little conure out in the travel cage I’d __________ her in. She was placed in a felt pouch(毡袋), with a flower tied to it with a ribbon(丝带). I settled my bill while wiping __________ off my cheeks.

When I turned around to leave, I was __________ to see a girl standing in front of me. She looked at me right in the eyes with a look of sincere __________ and asked me if I wanted a hug. I __________ on her shoulder because that’s exactly what I __________ . It was the kindest gesture that I’d never expected.