【推荐1】While volunteering in Tanzania, my wife and I got the idea of what we call a "street library” because children in our neighbourhood were able to read but had no _____at all.

We had an idea to make books ____to local children who wanted to read. We ____a famous international charity for collecting money. We ___ books in three book stores of the capital city. My wife Sue ___ all , 180 books with sticky-backed paper to keep them clean. A local man made some _____ to store the books. I made some a “library cards" and _____with a tailor called Saddiqi, who agreed to keep the boxes in his ____and to run the library. The library was ______to open!

Anyone could ____ with their name and their parent's mobile phone number, Saddiqi gave them a _____ with a number, with which they could read the books only in his shop. I decided it was better to do that than let readers ____ the books. There is no ____ to join the library. Within five days we had over 100 _____ and more were joining each day! Even though the books are ____ for children in different, grades of difficulty, ____ were using the library for free, too.

This side-project was, I think, one of the most ____ things we did in Tanzania. It was in some way a thank-you gift to our_____ for welcoming us so warmly into their lives，. The whole_____worked together on the street library and that's surely part of the reason it is still ____ after we left.

【推荐2】When Freddie arrived to perform in the hospital room, Pam worried it was already too late. Her 88-year-old stepfather, Strobel, was ________. “You’re probably wasting your time,” Pam told Freddie. But Freddie, wearing a cowboy hat and carrying a Taylor guitar, ________ with her what medical professionals had told him: ________ maybe the last sense to go.

Freddie is a country and folk musician. When he was in his childhood, his mother encouraged her young son’s ________ talent. When she was dying of cancer, he tried to please her in the form of songs. He would go into the hospital with his guitar and sing her favourite. His mother seemed to relax, a ________ look crossing her face.

“That moment ________ her and me to connect like we used to when I was singing as a kid,” Freddie recalled. It emphasized (强调) to him the ________ of music. So when he heard about a nonprofit organization called Swan Songs, which arranged free musical last wishes, Freddie ________ on the spot.

Since then, he has performed dozens of musical performances. Sometimes they’re almost festive, with terminally (不治地) ill people surrounded by ________, including one patient who sang along and danced ________ with her walker (助行架). Other times, they’re quieter, as Freddie’s experience with his mum was. And sometimes they feel a bit like a miracle(奇迹).

That was the case with Pam’s stepfather. When Freddie arrived at the ________ that day, Strobel seemed ready to say goodbye. Pam and her sister, Paula, ________ their stepdad’s every breath, each holding one of his hands. Freddie played some songs and after 45 minutes, Pam ________ just one more song. Freddie chose Love, Me. When he played the last song, sang the last note, Strobel took his last ________.

“Oh, we just experienced one of the most ________ moments in our lives. It was a gift for us all. At a really sad time, it was delightful,” said Pam.

【推荐3】Carly’s eyes filled with tears as the dusty bus rattled(颠簸) down a dirt road in southern Vietnam. Now, hundreds of ______ school children lined the entrance to the Hoa Lac School, which Carly had ______ money for.

Carly started helping others when she was eight, ______ out baskets of gifts to families in need. ______, Carly wanted to do more — she wanted to “change ______”. She remembered that her grandmother’s Rotary club (扶轮社) had, years earlier, raised money to build a school in Vietnam. That was ______, She decided to build a school too.

At 12, ______ able to see over the podium (讲台), she gave her first fund-raising ______. Though her new braces (牙套) made it hard to ______, she spoke with enthusiasm to 200 Rotarians in a room. “That’s not ______. They are also children. I want to give them a place to make their lives better.”

That summer, Carly ______ with her family across Ohio, visiting three or four Rotary clubs a week. The first few ______ collected no donations. One night in a rundown building in ______fifteen Minerva, Carly and her dad, Fred, Rotarians in a darkened back room.

There was ______ silence and blank stares after Carly had finished. Fred thought this was never going to ______. Then someone proposed : “Let’s give this girl a check right now.” Minutes later, a(n) ______ Carly walked out it with her first donation: $500.

As ______ spread, in two years, Carly had raised $50,000. The Vietnam Children’s Fund also ______ $50,000. At the ______ of Hoa Lac school, the school principal was ______ with the ninth grader. “How wonderful it is,” he said through a translator, “that a girl at her age wanted to do something for kids so far away.”

【推荐2】At the very beginning of this school year, I got myself into a regretful situation. It was a Wednesday _______ and I went to see a friend to watch the sunrise before school. It was about 4:30 a.m. and we were _______   outside next to my car. To our _______, someone in a neighboring house had gotten in his _______ and shown the headlights on us, yelling at us to _______   . As we got into my car, he had called the policemen. Since I had my _______ for only about 6 months and not a full year, I was charged for _______ a passenger.

This was the first time that I had ever got in _______. For about two months, I was _______ and had no one to _______. I kept everything to myself because I was not _______   talking about everything that had _______. I didn’t even talk to my head teacher and lied to him by saying everything was _______. But my attendance and _______ became worse. I was among the top 30% of my class _______   my rank had dropped by about 6 marks. I was under lots of stress and lacked _______ to do well in school. My biology teacher noticed I didn’t try my _______   and talked with me. She made me realize the last two months was not me.

Now, my working habits have been much better and I know what I want to do with my _______. I plan to take courses in graphic design (平面设计) in university because I can express my thoughts in a _______ way. I’ll work to my fullest potential (潜能). This is what I _______ and I know that now.

【推荐1】Alicia never thought her mother, Jiamin would operate a big business. Jiamin worked her whole life as a housewife and had never _______a business before, but she wanted to do something 　_______. As the owner of the Oakland Fortune Factory, Jiamin is happy to _______how much people enjoy the unique flavors and designs of her cookies.

Jiamin _______with her family from Guangdong, China, to Oakland in 1999. She lived in Chinatown, not far from the bakery, which she did not yet _______. When the bakery was on the edge of shutting down in 2016, Jiamin decided to 　_______ it.

Running the bakery posed a number of _______. Much of the equipment had to be _______and the facility needed improvement. Besides, Jiamin had no _______of operating a business and couldn’t speak English ________. Working by herself, she kept calling Alicia for help.   

Today, with their intense efforts, the bakery ________and the fortune cookies are becoming culture carriers. For example, some cookies feature traditional Chinese culture, ________how amazing the Chinese nation is. To ________the Year of the Tiger, the bakery makes some of its cookies with the Chinese character for “tiger”.

“The tiger represents ________and strength,” Alicia explained. “It really reminds me of my mom because she’s a 　________and fearless woman who is protective of her family.”

【推荐2】Two years ago, Dubuque, Iowa, started its first annual “Back to School Bash” program. It offered needy families an opportunity to learn about free ________ in the community. Holmes decided to ________ by providing help to kids. He was ________ two jobs at the time, one of which was working as a barber. Saturday was his ________ day, but he chose to ________ his time and gave free haircuts to lower class kids on condition that the kids should ________ their free haircut by having to read a book to him.

The idea was so ________ that he continued it for the next two years. Many kids would ________ a favorite book, settle into the barber chair and read aloud ________ Holmes was doing their hair. After the haircut, they’d review the book, from the ________ and vocabulary to the themes—just like in school, only more fun.

Holmes, who is married ________ two sons, recognizes that not every parent has the time to ________ with their kids. So he hopes to offer some ________ in this way. And he admits he,________, benefits from doing that.

There was a seven-year-old kid who ________ stuttered (结巴) over words while reading. He had the boy take the book home and ________. When the child came back a few days later, he read it with no problems. That ________ Holmes to do more.

Holmes and his family have recently moved to a Chicago suburb. When they get ________, he plans to restart his ________ as the Storybook Barber. “Today’s world is full of guns and violence,” he says, “The barbershop is a ________ place for the kids to come and read books.”