【推荐1】As a writer, I’ve felt that someday, somewhere my work would ________ human hearts. One night, it did.

I’m in a bar. A small, ________ man sits beside me. “My daughter has been in Germany for five years.” he says. “I think the ________ of that girl.”

“Does she ________ you?”

“Sometimes. But we don’t talk much.” his lips tighten as he looks into his beer. “It costs a lot of money to phone over there.”

“Write a(n) ________,” I suggest.

“Can’t hold a pen,” the old man says. “My arm is paralyzed(瘫痪的).” To show me, he lifts the ________ arm with his good hand.

I grab my notebook and open to a clean page, ________ in hand.

“What’s her name?”

“Suzie.”

“Dear Suzie,” I ________ repeat, then pen the words. “You talk, I’ll write.”

“Tell her I ________ every day... at the Senior Center. The ________ is wonderful. Spaghetti, cake, ice cream. All you can eat.” He adds, “Just no ________”

I listen and write nonstop, a kind of ________ opening between us.

“Tell her not to ________. I dance every night I can.” his eyes ________. “Tell her... I think the world of her.” his voice shakes. With his left arm, he reaches a finger beneath his glasses and wipes a ________.

Then I pick up his limp arm, “You ________ it,” I urge and watch him write each word, which read “Jove Da.” I knew he means “________, Dad.”

“Thanks,” he ________, then clears his throat.

“No big deal.” I pat his shoulder and leave, “Tomorrow I’ll bring a stamped ________.”

On the way home, I knew I had just written my Pulitzer Prize ________.

【推荐2】At the age of 4, the little Ulmer was stung by a bee. Less than a week later, she was stung by another bee, which ______ her naturally being deathly ______ of bees. However, this did not last too long. Soon, she began to do research on bees. As a part of it, she ______ that bees were not only on the ______ of extinction but were also ______ for the environment and ecosystem.

At roughly the same time, Ulmer’s great grandmother Helen ______ the family her 1940’s cookbook from a far city. One of the recipes inside was that for her so-called “famous” flaxseed lemonade recipe. This got Ulmer ______: How could she combine her grandmother’s recipe and ______ the bees at the same time? Her ______: a lemonade stand that doesn’t just take advantage of the bees ______, but helps them too.

Soon after coming to this ______, Ulmer asked her parents if she could ______ her own lemonade stand.   Her parents ______, and she soon started selling her own lemonade, operating as “Bee Sweet Lemonade”.   But Ulmer made one great ______ to her great grandmother’s lemonade recipe, using sugar instead of honey. Soon after, a local pizza shop asked Ulmer to ______     them with lemonade. This gave Ulmer the ______ of starting bottling her lemonade, ______ just selling it outside her house. She began offering her lemonade to nearby stores, many of which began to ______ her lemonade.

Now the teenage CEO Ulmer becomes the bee ambassador and she has been ______ to White House as a special guest to meet the president for her fight against the ______ of facing the world’s critically important honey bee population.

【推荐3】Ashley Jost was shopping at the department store when she ______ that she had promised to do a reading challenge with her friends.

The challenge was reading 10 pages of a book every day for 75 days. With this in______, Jost took a book written by Rachel Hollis.

Upon returning home, Jost sat down on her sofa and started reading. Shortly after she sat down, her dog started barking(吠叫). Jost then threw the book down onto the floor______ she could calm down the dog.

When she ______, she was surprised to find that a $5 bill had appeared on her floor.

Supposing the cash had flown out of the book, Jost began turning over the pages quickly in the hope of ______ a clue(线索). She then found a pink Post-it note hidden between the pages. The note read: “To the person who ______ this book: I am having a bad day. I thought maybe I could ______ someone else’s with this little ______. Go buy a coffee or an ice cream. Practice some self-care today.”

“Remember that you are loved. You are amazing. You are strong. Love, Lisa.”

Needless to say, Jost was ______ by the note. She wanted to share the ______ gesture(举动) with her friends on social media, so she posted a photo of the note and cash on the Internet. The ______ got thousands of likes.

Jost decided to pay the good deed(行为) forward by spending $5 on good deeds every day for a week. She has since ______ her own note and gift card inside a library book; and she gave a gift card to her friend ______ a hard time.

Jost says that she______ the media attention will finally reach Lisa, the writer of the pink note, so that she knows the full ______ of her simple act of kindness.