【推荐1】A little girl created the perfect Mother’s Day gift. It was a drawing of a _______ on white paper with the words "For mom: love, love, love" decorated in hearts. She folded(折叠) her letter,_______then she lost it.

For most people, that would be the_______of this story, but this story has a different result: James Carrell _______the letter. He had just _______his mother, wishing her a happy Mother’s   Day. After he got off the phone, Carrell saw the _______ on the ground outside of a hardware(五金器具) store in Manvel in Texas, United States."I _______ it was a note" said Carrell. "I _______ it and saw the flower and hearts. It _______ moved me." Carrell thought the letter would ________someone’s day and maybe he could find the________, so he posted it in the Talk of Alvin Facebook group. The message ________a lot of people, especially one man.

"I was sitting at my friend’s house and saw a man ________, " said Carrell.

His Facebook comments(评论) included a message from Roberto Alvarado. He wrote, "I can’t ________ you found my baby’s letter. "Carrell reached out to Alvarado to ________the letter. It took a few days, but the men finally ________ on Thursday night, one day after Alvarado’s   daughter Natalie celebrated her seventh birthday.

"________ the letter made it home," said Alvarado. " We are ________ for what James Carrell did.”

We often forget the power of ________ things, but for this family from Alvin, Carrell’s small act left a(n) ________impression(影响).

【推荐2】Jean was a nurse who worked in a children’s hospital. One ____ there was a big dance at the hospital. Most of the doctors and nurses would be there, but of course some had to be ____ to look after the children, and Jean wasn’t one of the lucky ones who were free to go to the ____.She liked dancing very much, so when she had to start work that evening ____ her friends were getting ready to the dance, she felt very ____ for herself.

She went to each sick child one after the other and said ____,until she came to one little boy whom she was very ____ of. His name was Dicky, and he was eleven, but he already talked like a(n)____.Poor Dicky had a very serious illness, and now he was ____ able to move any part of his body except his hands. Jean knew that he would never get any ____,but he was always happy and always thinking about other people ____ about himself.

He knew that Jean loved dancing, so now, when she came to ____ good night to him, he greeted her with the ____, “I’m very sorry that you have to miss the dance because of ____.But we’re going to have a party for you. If you look in my drawer, you’ll ____ a piece of cake. I saved it from my supper today, so it’s quite ____.And there’s also a shilling (先令)there, which my mother gave me last week. You can _____ something to drink with that.” “And I’d ____ and dance with you myself if I were ____ to,” he added. Suddenly the hospital dance seemed very far away and not ____ at all to Jean.

【推荐3】It was the first night of a tiring seven-day 250km race across the Gobi Desert a year ago. Mr. Leonard___________a little dog going around his camp trying to ___________herself.

“Cute, but I’m not giving you any,” Leonard thought. Like all ___________, he had packed just enough for the whole ___________. He’d been running competitively for three years, and he had a___________ to win.

The next day, at the starting line, the dog ___________ him again. He waved her away, worried that she might be stepped on by the runners. ___________, the dog followed him all the way until the day’s race ___________. That night the dog snuggled (偎依) up to Leonard and even___________ to get a little food from him. By then, he was determined to name her Gobi.

The pair went on to finish the seven-day race, with Gobi____________ a distance of 125km on her own, and winning Leonard over, enough for him to make a____________ — he would take her home to Edinburgh. “Seeing Gobi on the race ____________my attitude to things. It made me think more about stopping and helping her, rather than just focusing on winning, ” said Leonard, who finished second. “It also made my running more enjoyable , giving me a lot of pleasure.”

As Leonard was preparing to get Gobi home, she was missing. With a group of 20 local volunteers coming to his ____________ , he finally found her. After that, Leonard never let Gobi out of his____________. Now Gobi’s favorite activity is still running, and she__________ does at least 8km a day with Leonard up the hills.

【推荐1】The depression (经济大萧条) was coming to an end and Mum had a(n)_________ time raising us kids on her own. Christmas was _________,and we received some money for Christmas.Mum said that _________   buying food, she would use the money to pay back rent. Unknown to Mum, I had been doing tough and odd jobs (零工) to earn enough money to buy myself new_________.

The big day came on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. I was very _________, as I hurried up the road to catch the bus. But on the way, I _________ a house with Christmas lights and decorations. It was then that I realized that at our house, we had _________ for Christmas. I felt sad and I was feeling a strange_________ of guilt. Here I was going to buy a new pair of boots _________ Mum would be trying to explain to us why there were no presents.

I went into a grocery store and bought a turkey, ham, oranges and all the Christmas _________. I _________ every penny of my_________ money. I asked two boys to _________ them to our house. I _________ for the delivery boys to quietly _________ the groceries on the porch and pile them _________ the door. Once they had done this, I knocked on the door. I could hardly _________ to see my mother’s face! When Mum opened the door, some of the groceries _________ inside onto the floor, and she just stood there dumbfounded. _________ the tears, I yelled, “Merry Christmas Mother! There really is a Santa Claus!”

I had a lot of _________ as we unpacked all the food. That day I got enough hugs and kisses from Mum. It was a Merry Christmas for us after all!

【推荐2】On July 20, Yu Yifei, a 26-year-old medical intern(实习生)at People's Hospital of Zhengzhou, made his way home in a subway train on Line 5 after his first day's training. When downpours struck the city, he _________ about a dozen people trapped in a flooded subway train as the rainfall in Zhengzhou reached 201.9 millimeters between 4 pm and 5 pm, a totally new _________ in the history of Zhengzhou.

Flood waters _________ a barrier and entered the underground area. The train came to a sudden stop before the water began _________ in the carriages, trapping passengers inside. Thus Yu, _________ to leave and fearing for his life, made a _________ call to his father.

As water continued to flow into the carriages, passengers' _________ rose. When subway workers arrived to withdraw them, Yu _________ to get out. As he made his way to safety, he heard a cry for help from someone needing a doctor. He quickly _________ the white medical coat given to him at the hospital __________ and returned to the platform to save him. On seeing him, a number of frightened people were greatly encouraged and their spirits __________. Some even applauded him.

As more passengers were pulled from the __________, Yu instructed others in the key steps to save a victim from drowning. He __________ CPR, or first aid, to those in low-temperature shock from the cold water and near death from drowning. One of the passengers, a female doctor, nearly died. After __________ consciousness and strength, she joined Yu in treating others. Yu was __________ and needed all his concentration to perform another CPR procedure.

That night on a subway station platform, he __________ an exhausting six hours giving CPR to passengers who __________ survived drowning. He also treated the injured. He __________ the subway station at about midnight, with the white coat spotted with blood and __________. Three hours later, he met his father. With tears in eyes, his father and people __________ smiled and gave him the thumbs-up.

【推荐3】My father often works very hard. And he has_________to see a film. Here I’ll tell you_________about him.

One afternoon, when he finished his work and_________ go home, he found a film ticket under the_________on his desk. He thought he_________to have not much work to do that day and_________ was quite wonderful to pass the_________at the cinema. So he came back home and_________finished his supper. Then he said_________ to us and left.

But to our__________ , he came back about half an hour later, I__________ him what was the matter. He smiled and told us about__________funny thing that had happened at the cinema.

When my father was sitting in his seat, a__________came to my father’s and said that the seat was__________ . My father was surprised. He took out the ticket__________ looked at it carefully. It was Row17, __________ . And then he looked at the seat. It was the same. So he asked her__________ her ticket. She took out the ticket at once and the seat shown in it was Row 17, Seat 3.   __________ ? What’s the matter with all this? While they were wondering suddenly the woman said, “The__________of the tickets are different.” So they looked at the ticket more carefully. After a while, my father said, “Oh, __________ , I made a mistake. My ticket is for the film a month ago. Take this seat, please.” With these words, he left the cinema.