【推荐1】John entered a college and often worked late until 12 at night . He fell into the _______ of smoking a year ago. He smoked so much that he _______ had a cigarette on his lips. He smoked while he read, while he watched television and _______ while he drank a cup of coffee or tea. He smoked nearly forty cigarettes a day, but he was _______ about it.

John’s friend, Frank, _______ many times to _______ him not to smoke. “Smoking is bad for your health!” he said, “You’d better give it up.” But his advice didn’t _______.

Before long John _______ that he often got a bad cough so he went to see a doctor. The doctor _______ him carefully and asked whether he often smoked. John told him the ________. Then the doctor told him that his cough was ________ by smoking and he wouldn’t get any better unless he stopped smoking.

“If not,” said the doctor, “you will never ________ from your cough and some other illnesses may also be caused.” John became ________ and made up his mind to give up smoking. At the beginning, it was very difficult for him. Every ________ when he wanted to smoke, he got something to eat. At last, he was not ________ smoking at all. And he no longer had coughs.

【推荐2】In 2006, Jackie Briggs was working 60 hours a week at a high-pressure IT job. One Saturday afternoon, she decided to take some _________ for herself and go to a women’s health conference. As she was walking around to find her _________, a lovely dark-haired woman came up to her and said, “Excuse me, I can’t help but notice your arm.”

That day, Briggs uncharacteristically _________ a sleeveless dress, leaving a rose-shaped mark on her upper arm _________. The woman asked Briggs if she had seen a dermatologist (皮肤病医生) about the mark. When Briggs said that she had, the stranger _________ her doubt. “She pressed me and said, ‘When?’ I was _________ at that moment. I had to stop to think. I counted back…and it had been over three years,” Briggs recalled.

The woman _________ Briggs to call her _________ when she heard how long it had been. After _________ that she was a nurse at a plastic surgeon’s office, she gently reached out and touched Briggs’ arm. “Really, don’t wait,” the woman said __________.

When Briggs followed up with her dermatologist, she __________ what the woman said made great sense. It turned out that the __________ was actually a melanoma (黑素瘤) — one of the deadliest types of skin cancers. “If I hadn’t listened to her, I probably wouldn’t be here,” Briggs said.

Briggs had surgery on her arm to __________ the melanoma. With special care, she recovered quickly. She was __________ to the medical team and that woman, an unsung hero, who saved her life. She is now happily retired “I have a comfortable retirement. My six inch scar on my arm is my everyday __________ of her-my guardian angel,” said Briggs.

【推荐1】Ebra Ferrell got the standard well wishes on social media on her 53rd birthday. Meanwhile, she got some ________ messages too. One was about a family who had just ________ their four-year-old son due to cancer. His older brother was especially ________. Could Ferrell help?

That ________ and the 30 or so others like it were exactly what Ferrell was looking for. To celebrate her 53rd,the ________ social service sweetie had put out a(n) ________ on social media. She wanted to ________53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed ________ on people who could use one. When she got the note about the family,she sent a wind chime with the words “Listen to the wind and ________ that I am near” carved on it. It now ________ in the four-year-old's bedroom, where his brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Ferrell has decided to give ________ for her birthday. For her 47th,she ________ Love with Skin On, an organization devoted to doing ________ deeds in her town and beyond. Its motto is simple: Be Love, Do Stuff. Over the years, Ferrell has ________ and touched well over 100 strangers, some found via social media callouts, others with ________ from her grandkids.

Ferrell ________ everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases, and care packages, as well as the gas it takes to play fairy godmother. Her family often gives some ________birthday cash to her with their ________ not to spend it on anyone else, which she ________ ignores. “I got a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday this year, and ‘YESSS!’” It's Ferrell's party, and she'll ________ if she wants to.

【推荐3】A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the ______ of a noble who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years. In the last act, a gaoler (狱卒) would always come on to the ______ with a letter which he would hand to the prisoner. Even though the noble was expected to ______ the letter at each performance, he always ______ that it should be written out in full.

One night, the gaoler decided to play a ______ on his colleague to find out if he had managed to learn the contents of the letter by ______. The curtain went up on the final act of the play and revealed (揭示) the noble sitting alone behind bars in his dark cell. Just then, the gaoler ______ with the precious letter in his hand. He entered the cell and presented the letter to the noble. But the copy he gave him had not been written out in full as usual. It was simply a ______ sheet of paper. The gaoler looked on eagerly, ______ to see if his fellow actor had at last learnt his ______. The noble stared at the blank sheet of paper ______ a few seconds. Then he said, “The light is dim. Read the letter to me”. And he suddenly ______ the sheet of paper to the gaoler. Finding that he could not remember a word of the letter either, the gaoler replied, “The light is indeed dim, sir, I must get my ______”. With this, he hurried off the stage. Much to the noble’s ______, the gaoler returned a few moments later, with a pair of glasses and the usual copy of the letter. Then the noble ______ to read the letter.

【推荐1】In 2020, 13-year-old Adcola Olagbegi caught a rare illness, and had a successful operation. _________, Adeola is now out of hospital. While he was _________, he found out that he was qualified for a(n) _________ to ask for a dream wish from Make-A-Wish Foundation. While many teens would choose a Disney trip or meet a favourite figure, Abraham _________ chose to feed the homeless.

The Make-A-Wish Foundation is famous for brightening the lives of children _________ illnesses by realizing their wishes, A wish always includes having something or going some-where. However, Adeola’s wish to give came as a _________ to the organization, as Adeola’s_________ wish was the first of its kind in the organization’s 35-year history.

“When he so easily offers to help others, you just have to say, that’s a(n) _________ young man.” said Linda, an official of the organization. She was _________ with the teen’s kindness and sense of ______________.

Adeola thinks his past experiences ______________ with his family in their community are what______________ him to make the giving wish. When deciding what to do with the ______________ chance, the one thing that was the most important to him was that his wish had a long-lasting ______________.

“My mom always says it’s lucky to be someone ______________, so I just wanted to do something for other people to make it last longer.” Adeola explained.

【推荐3】Glen Edwards became a hero when he rescued a construction worker trapped on the top of a 16-story burning building.

As a crane (吊车) _________ working on a construction site, Edwards _________ found himself in a life-saving mission when a fire broke out. He recalled how he _________ the trapped worker from his crane’s cabin (驾驶舱), and how he came up with the idea of saving the man by lowering a cage to him to let him _________.

However, his attempt to _________ the cage before the man was by no means an easy job, as each gust (阵) of wind threatened to throw his crane off balance. Besides, the smoke and flames also added to the difficulty. _________ the great challenges, Edwards refused to give up and fought to _________ control. Luckily, someone on the ground offered _________ on where to land the cage through a radio. Edwards _________ the crane’s movements, inch by inch, until the cage hovered (盘旋) just inches from the edge of the __________. With determination, Edwards successfully landed the cage.

Eventually, Edwards watched the cage __________ the man away from the horrible fire below and lowering him to safety. The crowd __________ a big round of applause, a tribute (致敬) to the courage and skill __________ by Edwards. He knew that his quick thinking and strong __________ had made all the difference between life and death in the face of disaster.

A GoFundMe page has now been set up to raise money for him—with organizers __________ people to “buy Glen a beer” for his life-saving efforts.