【推荐1】The sound woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning. It was so loud that he _________ it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to investigate, he heard another sound, this one coming most _________ from outside. Watching out of his bedroom window, he saw a tree _________ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car was wrapped around the tree’s base, its engine _________.

“I _________ buckets of water,” said Languell. Then he ran to the crash _________. The car looked worse up close. It was nearly _________ into two, and the tree was where the driver’s seat ought to have been, as if planted there. No one should have _________ this crash, and yet there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, his __________ face pressed against the driver’s side window, in visible __________. Languell, 35, tried pouring the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the __________ got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he said.

Completely __________ his own safety, Languell opened the car’s back door and __________ in. He cut through Thompson’s seat belt using a __________ he’d had the foresight to bring with him. Now that Thompson was free of the __________, Languell pulled him out of the vehicle, and then __________ the teen to safety just before the entire car was surrounded in flames.

Although Thompson suffered several breakings to his legs, spine, and face, a social media post __________ him as “looking great, smiling, and joking”. Languell thinks about that day often. Displaying the sort of sympathy that __________ him to help, he explained, “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so __________.”

【推荐3】Kindness can really make you pause and be thankful during a stressful time.

Cassandra Warren was in a____and was feeling a little overwhelmed(使应接不暇)by work and planning her wedding. After she got her____invitations ready one day she hurriedly____one to her aunt and uncle. A week later, the invitation came back. She had written down the____address. A handwritten note was____to the returned envelop, which read, “I wish I____you-this is going to be an enjoyable experience. Congratulations- go to have dinner on me.” A $ 20 bill was inside.

Cassandra was at a bit of a professional crossroads and had been having a____day. In fact, she’d nearly broken down, telling her____to her husband-to-be Jesse Jones just as she____the misdirected envelop. Then she read the note. “It was kind of perfect timing, ” said Cassandra Warren. “We are____of who the mysterious(神秘的)note writer is．But I really____it．”

Cassandra and Jesse ____ with a friend who was going overseas the following night. They happily put the $ 20 towards their___. Then Cassandra bought a thank-you card. She____wrote her aunt’s address on the envelop again this time ____ and addressed it to “Kind Stranger”___by the following words inside, “Thank you for the____and taking time to____it.   Not so many people would have done that. It was a big____after the day I was having. I am___ for people like you still being in the world. ”

【推荐1】One small mistake changed Sonia’s life. Now she is ______and tries not to miss any opportunities that come to her way.

One day, Sonia walked ______ a little boy, who wanted to buy crayons(彩色蜡笔), but he couldn’t ______them. He looked sad when he saw the money in Sonia’s hand. ______she didn’t realize he was in ______of help at all. Sonia ignored him and ______on her way home.

After reaching home, she told everything to her brother Gur. Gur told Sonia, “God had given you a(n) ______to help a boy, but you _____it. There’s a possibility that God was _____ you; maybe today would have become your big day of your life.” Hearing Gur’s words, Sonia ______back to the shop to find the boy but time never _____for anyone. Sonia got disappointed and returned home, continuously ______at herself. Why didn’t it come into her mind what Gur had ______? “Chances are everywhere, and all you need to do is _____them because they don’t always show up,” said Gur. Now what Sonia has missed is a chance that she can only ______.

On that day Sonia learnt the biggest ______in her life. Actually not only Sonia, but many of us ignore the chance of helping in ______ways because we always run after bigger ones. However, big opportunities do come but not every day. Therefore, ______small ones so that you can’t miss big ones. Sonia also ______to wait for big opportunities, but now she knows that with small that with small opportunities she can make big ______in her life.

【推荐3】I had not hugged a friend or a family member for more than two years until recently when my sister-in-law flew in for a brief visit. For everyone’s safety, we met outside. In spite of the wintry weather, her hug ________ me from the inside out. It’s strange, but only now do I truly realize how much I’ve ________ embracing loved ones-the warmth that remains long after our arms have untwined(松开).

Growing up through war in my hometown of Sarajevo, Bosnia, every moment was full of ________. On one peaceful morning, I had begged my mom to let me go outside. She finally ________. I was outside for only 10 minutes when I was caught in an explosion. I ran to my neighbor’s house for ________ before my legs collapsed. She hugged me with both arms and ________ me into her house. I was still in her arms when the ambulance arrived. Thankfully, I made a full physical ________, but the emotional scars never left me. Years later there was another ________ near my house. I was safe, but my father had left to buy a loaf of bread. He had only just ________ the explosion. When he came back, I gave him the biggest hug ________ I was caked in tears as I held him ________. That same night my parents ________ to arrange my escape from our war-torn city. They desperately wanted at least some of my childhood to be ________. I was 16 and came to America on my own. A ________ host family took me in and I began learning English and going to school. They had a large dog called Oscar. Over the next several months, I secretly struggled with feeling ________ and worried about my family back home. Despite getting on quite well at school, I couldn’t ________ my feelings. The only way I shared how I felt was by giving Oscar a big hug.

Perhaps we have undervalued the ________ of a simple hug. As I look back on my past, I ________ myself truly lucky to have been held, ________ and encouraged at some of the most key moments of my life by the almost otherworldly(超世俗的)power of a hug. I pray that in the not-so-distant future we can safely ________ one another again-a friend, relative, or even a stranger.

【推荐2】Most people get rid of their leftover foods, but in Nigerian-born visual artist Haneefah Adam's kitchen, they're put to good use.

Adam, 28, is famous for_______food in creative ways, using it to make portraits and other works of art. She has_______been artistic. Her mother said she had a_______for art.

Now, she's building a career out of changing food into art. “I do_______portraits and also often sew and paint, but what_______me the most is food,” she says.

Adam is inspired by_______things, including life experiences and culture. She_______everything around her as something that can be made into art.

In 2016, she_______the TechMeetsArtNG exhibition, which was_______and funded by Samsung Nigeria and Rele Gallery. The________was a culinary（烹饪的）exhibition aimed at________the artistic presentation of some of Nigeria's local________.

Her winning entry was________by one of her favorite childhood meals—Ogbono soup which was________the dried seeds of mangoes. “Before the competition, my art was mostly random, and I was just________food art on social media. But after winning, I started to think about actively making a living from food art,” she says.

Winning the competition kick-started Adam's career and her full-time job is now creating art for food brands such as Maggi and Dangote Salt. “I want to participate in more exhibitions. I currently live in Kwara, northern Nigeria; it is difficult to make a difference in the country's art scene from here,” she says.