【推荐1】It’s fortunate for children to have siblings (兄弟姐妹) accompanying them. And the kids would be luckier to have a brother as________as Christian Hamerter. The 1l-year-old boy, attended a father-daughter dance with his 7-year-old sister Skylar after finding Skylar was________by their dad.

In the days leading up to the________in March, it was all Skylar was________for, talking about it all day. On the other hand, her mom Trelysia felt more and more________. At this time of year, their father is always fully________in official duties. He didn’t attend last year’s dance due to a conference,_______having made a promise. Then, she was right to be worried. On the big day,________, their father was sent abroad for business. “It was________that he failed to go there for a second year. Skylar________because she had her heart set on going.” Trelysia wrote in a________. “I felt so bad and also cried uncontrollably.”

That’s when Christian________! The big brother wanted his sister to feel loved and special. And he picked out a suit and gold tie, a perfect________for Skylar’s gold dress. “The action filled me with________,” the mother wrote, “for I just know that I’m________a kind man—and an amazing father one day. He has________that he can be.” Skylar had a great time with Christian there without her dad’s________. Even better, now she knows her brother would always come to her________.

The post warmed hearts of the people it________and picked up more than 110,000 reactions________the sweet gesture.

【推荐2】Rosa liked making up stories. She was so _______ that her classmates believed her from time to time. In fact, the whole class believed her! At first she supposed it was _______. Now, as she got up to _______ before the class, she knew that make­believe stories had some way of coming back to make you sad.

Rosa's parents were separated. Nine months out of the year, Rosa lived with her mother in an apartment on Anderson Street. But when summer _______, she went to her father's farm in Arizona.

The farm was great! Rosa rode horses and _______ with some farm work. Her father, however, was so _______ that he couldn't find time to go places with her. When she arrived each summer, her father would _______ her at the airport and take her out to eat. And the day she went back to the _______ he would always buy her a present.

When summer came to a close, Rosa _______ to her mother. At school she heard lots of stories her friends told about their family trips. Rosa wished she had a ________ to talk about.

Not long after ________ began, Rosa was looking through travel magazines in the school library. They talked about many exciting ________, like England and Germany. When Rosa's friends asked what she had done that summer, she made up something that was not ________. Remembering the travel magazines she had looked at, she told her classmates that she and her father had gone to ________.

When the class began studying England, Mr. Thomas asked Rosa to tell all the things she could ________ about her trip to England!

It is the first time for my beloved son to step out of his home where he is happy and safe. The school life is going to be strange and ______ to him for a while. And I wish you would take care of him with enough ________.

So far, he's been ________ of his own room. He's been boss of the back yard. I have always been around to repair his wounds, and to ______ his feelings.

______, things seem to be different now. Today, he is required to walk down the front steps, say goodbye to me and start on his great ________ that will probably include wars, tragedy and ________. To live his life in the world in which he has to live will ________ faith, love and courage.

So, World, I wish you would take him ________ his young hand and teach him things he will have to know. Teach him — but gently, if you can. Teach him that for every scoundrel (恶人) there is a _______; that for every dishonest politician, there is a ________ leader; that for every enemy there is a friend. Teach him the wonders of books. Give him quiet time to _______ the mysteries of birds in the sky, bees in the sun, and flowers on the green hills. Teach him it is far more honorable to _________ than to cheat. Teach him to have ________ in his own ideas, ______ everyone else tells him they are wrong. Teach him to _______ his strength and brains to the highest bidder (投标人), but never to put a price on his heart and soul. Teach him to close his ears to a ________ crowd, and to stand and ________ if he believes he's right. Teach him kindly, World, but don't spoil him, because only the _______ of fire makes fine steel.

This is a big order, World, but see what you can do. He is such a nice little fellow.

Yours

Sally

【推荐1】Driving home from work every day on a long winding country road, I passed a house where an elderly man sat on his front porch (走廊). I had been _____ to him only when I first moved into my home. For these past fifteen years, I have _____ my window, waved, and shouted, “Hi, Charlie.“ I felt _____ to greet him in this way because I couldn’t _____ going through a day without hearing someone say my name. I felt he also needed to hear his name _____ by someone else.

I used to _____ his wife, too, when she was out walking their dog. She was a _____ woman in a long wool coato, whatever the _____. I didn’t know her name, but I’d _____ and say “Hi, Grandma“ and she’d smile and wave back.

But then came the day when she was not ______ walking their dog; instead, Charlie was doing so. I realized he was alone, and the desire to greet him grew ______. My window was rolled down before I came around the corner, and ______ he was not on the porch, I’d shout to him, hoping that in his ______ he’d hear me. As long as there was a ______ on in the house, I felt that he was all right.

But that day came when he had to sell his belongings; Charlie’s pickup truck was ______ on the front lawn. A few days later, a sign was ______, and I knew Charlie was gone. I still wave and ______, “Hi, Charlie” as I pass just as I did in the past. The house is dark now.

It is my ______ that all of us need to be greeted at least once a day and that we need to hear our names spoken aloud by another person, to know someone sees us and ______ the truth of our being. I believe it is our duty to greet each other each day, in this way to prove that ______.

【推荐2】I spent time with some elders during my grandmother's five-year stay in the nursing home. I knew what it was like for them without any_________. So sad. They just kept loving each other and being kind.

One day, I saw a man_________on a couch in the hall who was frequently lying with his head on the sidearm. Earlier he had been trying to push Jean, who couldn't_________ far alone in her wheelchair, with his head, from his wheelchair. Obviously, it was quite difficult for him and it was also a_________for Jean.

I asked if they would like me to push Jean. Jean said with_________, “Yes, please!” and the man smiled a toothless “thank you”. I thanked him for his_________and pushed Jean back to her room.

Now, this same man was on his own and as I got_________, I realized he had only one_________and the one he did have was dry and full with rashes (疹子); he kept scratching (抓) it. I had a lotion (涂剂) in my bag that seemed to made him feel better. I even found myself________thing to do. He didn't speak English but spoke to me in his home language — Vietnamese — and tears started to come gently down his face. I____________his tears with tissues and patted him on his shoulder to__________him. He kept talking and looking at me as if I understood him. I nodded and listened.

We didn't____________each other and weren't blood-related and yet, in that moment, we shared a____________that went beyond blood-heart to heart. When I see him again, chances are that he won't recognize me-but I will remember him forever. And, every time my heart extends, it is______________.

【推荐3】Coronavirus(冠状病毒) is not only a globally terrible story, but a window to people's soul Coronavirus erupted in many countries and resulted in a great number of deaths, leaving the world _______.To control the spread, the Spanish government _______ announced lockdown(防范紧闭)and _______ people to stay at home.

With the 80-year-old birthday _______, Charo intended to prepare for it, which fell just days after the _______. At the thought of the lockdown, _______, the urge to celebrate it wasn't as particularly strong as ever.

On the birthday, having her simple meal, she was called out by her neighbor when she was a bit _______. With the door opened, Charo was _______ to find there was nobody, but a gift. It was a cake with a birthday candle that was placed _______ on a table outside her front door! She was ________. Who could remember the special day? Her friends and neighbors, who were familiar with her, had moved away.

As Charo ________ up the cake and stepped out to find the visitor, her neighbors suddenly appeared behind their apartment windows, ________ singing the birthday song. ________ of what happened, the elderly woman struggled to hold back ________ when she returned to her house. After a while. she rushed back to the window to ________ at her neighbors and expressed ________ with a round of applause(鼓掌).

The lockdown didn't stop a(an) ________ from getting together. Fear around emergencies can also provide ________ examples. In the face of threat, these adorable people are helping people, ________ the lives of one another in their ________ways.

You’ve probably seen blind people walking with their trusted and gentle four-legged guides-or “seeing-eye” dogs. The _________ trained dogs serve as eyes for people who can’t see, making it _________ for them to lead independent lives._________ what you probably didn’t know is that about 80 years ago, a doctor and his patient discovered this entirely _________!

Many people were killed or injured during World WarⅠ. Near the end of that war, Dr. Gerhard Stalling and his _________ walked with a patient—a German soldier who had been _________—around hospital grounds in Germany.

While they were walking, the doctor was _________ away. The dog and the soldier stayed outside. A few moments later, when the doctor returned, the dog and the soldier were _________! Searching the paths worriedly, Dr. Stalling made an astonishing _________. His pet had led the soldier __________ around the hospital grounds. And together the two __________ peacefully back toward the doctor.

__________ by what his dog could do, Dr Stalling set up the first __________ in the world to train dogs as guides. Dorothy Eustis, an American woman __________ as a dog trainer for the International Red Cross in Switzerland, was __________ to study the way Stalling trained dogs and spent several months in his school. She came away so impressed that she wrote a(an) __________ about it for the Saturday Evening Post in America.

A blind American man, Morris Frank, __________ the article and he wrote to Dorothy Eustis and asked that she __________ a dog for him. Dorothy Eustis took up the __________, and trained a dog, Buddy. She brought Frank over to Switzerland to join her in the training __________. Frank went back to the United States with what many believe to be America’s first guide dog in 1928.

【推荐2】Colorado’s grays peak rises 14, 278 feet above sea level, high enough that trees can’t grow toward the top. It was in this _______ area that Bev Wedelstedt was unlucky enough to get her left _______ broken.

It was August 2018, and Wedelstedt, 56, was on her way down the path with three _______ . A storm was coming, and they were anxiously trying to _______ the mountain, Wedelstedt accidentally fell and _______ on her left leg. Every step after that was _______ . Before long, she had to stop. As one friend ran down to get help, some other hikers, all strangers _______ to help Wedelstedt down the narrow path by walking on either side of her to _______ her weight, but that proved slow and dangerous.

Finally, one hiker, Matt, asked her, “How do you feel about a fireman’s carry?” Before she knew it, he had _______ her over his shoulder. Matt ________ couldn’t carry her all the way down by himself. So six hikers and one of her friends took turns ________ her while she tried to make light of a difficult ________ , telling them she was fine. Three hours and two miles later, they finally met the doctors, who took Wedelstedt to the ________ .

She has mostly recovered from her ________ hike, but Wedelstedt knows she’ll never forget one thing from that day: the memory of the strangers who came to her ________ . “I’m alive thanks to them.”

【推荐3】Exercise and I had never had a good relationship due to my fear of sports. From a young age, my dad _______ me into a dozen sports. I didn’t like any of them, _______.

When I entered the University of Regina, my dad _______ telling me “You have to find a way to stay _______.” or “You don’t want to get the Freshman 15, do you?” So I _______ to give swimming a shot, but I _______ managed to go to the pool twice during the fall semester (学期). Worse still, I was _______ to convince myself that’s OK.

The spring semester came. A friend of mine _______ me if I wanted to try Zumba (尊巴) with her. All I knew about Zumba was that it was basically a kind of exercise: dancing to Latin pop songs. It didn’t sound too bad, but I couldn’t be _______.

I went, and that was it. Zumba became my ________ of tea. The instructor would always say, “Don’t worry about the steps. Have fun. Do your own thing.” That removed my ________ of sports. I didn’t have to be ________. I didn’t even have to be good. I just needed to ________ the music and move. Zumba did ________ me from the Freshman 15, and it also did so much more. It let me make ________ with my unpleasant past about physical exercise, and enjoy staying healthy.