【推荐1】This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana, who also _________ to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know, went blind in one eye about nine years ago. Diana sometimes feels _________ about the way her eye looks now. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “glows” in photos. Diana recently bought a special contact lens (隐形眼镜片) that makes her eye look like it did _________ it changed color, but she doesn’t wear this lens often because it becomes quite _________ after about an hour.

One night during our holiday, a hotel _________ was taking pictures of the guests as they entered the area set up for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to _________ this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so shiny in the picture.

The next day, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted. While we were talking, the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, _________ her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, “I _________ the color of your eyes in the picture.” As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, “Look! He fixed my _________!” The photographer stopped. He __________ around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana’s shoulder, leaned in again and gently said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t fix your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I __________ matched the color.”

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her __________ to hear these beautiful words. It didn’t take much time and made so much __________. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.

I have always loved the saying: “The world is full of good people. If you can’t __________ one, be one!” Your acts of __________ can impact on the world in profound ways!

【推荐2】One day a well-dressed woman was walking down the street when she found a beggar sitting on the corner near a cafeteria. He was elderly, unshaven, and in _______ . Pedestrians(行人) talked giving him _______ looks. Clearly they wanted nothing to do with him. She _______ and looked down. “Sir?”she asked. “Are you all right?”

Thinking that she would make _______ of him, like so many others had done before, he told her to leave him alone. However, to his _______ , the woman continued standing.

Anyhow, with some _______ , the woman got the man into the cafeteria and _______ him at a table in a corner. She stared(盯着看)at him _______ ,“Jack, do you remember me?”Old Jack _______ her face. “I think so I mean you do look _________ .”

The woman recalled what she ________ when she graduated. She tried looking for a job, but without luck. Cold and ________ , she got into this very cafeteria, ________ to get something to eat. Later on she found a job, ________ her way up and eventually started her own ________ .

Jack ________ with a smile, saying it was he who made her the biggest sandwich.

In the end, she ________ her purse, pulled out a business card and promised to help him economically(在经济上) ________ he got back on his feet.

Jack thanked her with watery eyes. The woman held his hands and said,“Don't thank me, Jack. Without you, I wouldn't have ________ so much. ”

In life, one never expects how a small act of ________ changes another soul.

【推荐3】It’s a rare thing now to get into a new neighborhood and find yourself welcomed by the locals. Yet, Katie and Patrick Smith were accepted with truly________when they relocated to Newton. The residents came over with plates of cookies and dishes.

Katie got pregnant before the________a and within months of settling in, she gave birth to Rebecca.________, tests discovered Rebecca was born deaf. The Smiths knew________Rebecca was going to take some serious work and commitment.

The neighborhood was still________to welcome Rebecca with them, but they realized what a(n)________the situation was for her parents. They wanted to make things________for the family. Learning sign language to help Rebecca learn to________as she grew was a great idea. The neighborhood agreed to________the task of mastering an entirely second language for the________of their youngest member, although it was indeed________. When 3-month-old Rebecca learned at a center for the deaf, the 18 residents hired an instructor, who get all of them to be________in Rebecca’s growth. Neighbors kept things________for as long as possible to give the Smiths a surprise. They wanted desperately to interact with Rebecca. Finally, the time came to show the Smiths what they’d________. The family they found the welcoming________of their neighbors surrounded them.

Now at very turn. in the street or the grocery store. Rebeca feels included language — she’s part of this community.

【推荐1】Before Jenny passed away from cancer, she made her husband, Steve, and their daughter, Brittany, promise her one thing: he would _______ Brittany, a high school senior, to the homecoming (返校节) game, where she was _______ for homecoming queen. It was important to her that her daughter should go. Brittany and Steve _______.

Days later, on the morning of Friday, September 24, Jenny died. Keeping their _______, that very afternoon, an emotional Brittany walked arm in arm with her father across the football field with the other nominees (被提名者) to await the _______ of the voting.

Brittany wasn’t named homecoming queen that day; Nyla was. But, like many in the close-knit community, Nyli had heard about Jenny and her noble deeds for the community. In a(n) _______ gesture, moments after receiving the crown, Nyla walked over to Brittany, removed the crown from her head, and placed it atop her friend’s. The two embraced, _______ holding each other tightly for support.

“She’d rather have her mom than a crown,” Nyla said. By handing it to Brittany, “I was telling her that she was her mom’s queen, and that she was loved by many, especially me.”

“I fell so much love from her, and I just felt s much love for her,” said Brittany, who paid Nyla the ultimate praise. “I can see my mom through Nyla. They have the same caring, _______ spirit.”

“Nyla is no less queen for lack of a crown.” said a teacher. There’s a saying that real queens _______ each other’s crowns. But the truth is, real queens give up their crowns to let other queens ________.