【推荐2】My daughter had just turned five when I took her to go grocery shopping with me one day. There on _______was the most beautiful toilet paper she had never seen, for it was pink. During_______ awareness month, the toilet paper company had made their produce pink, with a part of each sale’s profits helping the people in need. And my daughter simply had to have it. She _______with her sweetest pretty pleases. Of course I met her request, explaining that it was pink to _______awareness of kindness and that _______of the money we were paying was going towards helping others.

My little girl sat in the cart, holding her package of pink toilet paper. She could not contain her _______ and talked on and on about how _______the rest of the family would be when she shared her treasure with them. On the way out, she retold to the cashier everything she could remember about the_______of the colored toilet paper. Her passion spread among the other _______, and several more packages________the checkouts that morning.

My daughter carried the tower of toilet paper into the house herself and dragged it upstairs, which was a great ________ considering the package stood as ________as she did. That evening, I walked into the bathroom to find all the rolls neatly stored in the cupboard, in the shape of a ________castle. She began in all seriousness as she ceremoniously (隆重地) ________a half used white roil on the holder with a new pink one, “ Every time I use it, I will remember to pray for all those people who are________right now.”

【推荐3】There are all kinds of enemies, and one of the arts of living is to learn to tell them apart. There is a kind of enemy who ______ meant to be an enemy at all. He’s not mad at you; he’s mad at the world, and you are wandering around on his lonely battlefield and ______ lines of fire.

Let me tell you about one of them. Years ago, I ______ my two girls from South America and put them in school. They talked a ______ language that was neither English nor Spanish, and their ______ gave them a hard time, especially Lolla.

Pat and Peggy came home ______ almost every day, so I decided to cheer them up by ______ a party. Their tears dried ______. Right away they got ______ and offered many ideas. However, when I ______ which friends to invite, the tears started again. They said they had nothing but _______________. Then I had one of my rare ______. “Let’s invite all your enemies and we’ll fill them up with ice cream and cake.” Little Pat and Peggy ______ knowing looks.

The party was a(n) ______, and the best time was had by the ______ enemy, Lolla, who rolled on the floor and screamed with ______. Pat and Peggy never came home crying from school anymore.

One day Lolla’s father ______ and said, “I came to thank you for asking my little girl to the party. ______ ever did it before.” His ______ left me deep in thought. Are the Lollas left out because they are enemies, or do they become enemies because they are left out? Love your enemies and do good to them, because ______, it works!

【推荐1】I’m a vegetarian whose parents are from South Africa, which no one in my small hometown in Washington understood. I always felt ______ from everybody else at school. As hard as I tried to keep myself ______, I started getting bullied. I ______ who I was, wore really plain clothes, and tied up my bright red hair and ______ I wouldn’t attract as much attention. Eventually, I ______ to an arts high school, which was much more inclusive. There, I felt brave enough to show off the unique sides of my ______ and made friends who loved me for who I was.

More recently, I’ve ______ with confidence in my skin. When I moved to L.A. , I started getting bad cystic acne (痤疮). I didn’t want to go outside, and if I had to, I would _______ makeup. I’ve learned that you can’t ______ control your skin, but you can control how you treat yourself. When I tell myself I’m beautiful, or take a(n) ______ few minutes for skin care, I wake up the next morning feeling ______.

A lot of Riverdale fans made the ______ that I was as mean as Cheryl when the show was first aired, so I started a YouTube channel for them to get to know my true characters. And so many of them ask for advice about how to ______ bullying. Playing a mean girl has helped me see the reasons I was bullied. I tell them, whoever is treating you that way is ______ something, and it has nothing to do with you. Like for Cheryl, every time her violence erupts, it has to do with how she’s feeling about herself rather than the other characters. Cheryl behaves in a way that ______ her wealth and upbringing, a privileged daughter of a businessman.

My motto: If you take care of yourself, you’ll always feel confident and happy.

【推荐2】I’ve had many opportunities to experience living in a foreign culture. But my first experience came in an _______ place—my own country. When I was 20, I got an internship (实习职位) in New York City. It was my first time to _______ outside of my home state of Texas.

With my move north came culture _______ . I grew up in a big city in Texas. But it was no comparison to the tightly _______ New York with their 8 million citizens. I was used to life at a _______ pace; New York moved fast. The saying is true—this city never _______ . I had to adjust.

My first reaction was fear. Fear I would _______ at my new internship in the 54-store y office building. Fear of getting lost on the subway. Fear that the locals wouldn’t have _______ for my frequent moments of confusion. My fear ranged from reasonable to silly. But I _______ my fears and kept trying.

I learned quickly never to ________ a New Yorker always speaks English. New York is home to people of all walks of life, from all corners of the world. At weekends, I would spend hours ________ along Canal Street in Chinatown—the closest I’d ever been to an Asian country.

By the end of my internship, I was a little older, a little wiser and ________ of big city life. I hated the skyscrapers, tourists and the high price I had to pay for a cheeseburger and fries. But I had ________, too. I was quicker, smarter and more independent. I knew I would ________ that feeling of having the world right at my doorstep. It was good ________ for the life of travel I’d soon begin.

【推荐3】When Wendy McDowell was 8 years old, she found herself all alone in one of the busiest international airports in the country.

It was 1979, and McDowell needed to________from Bismarck to Burlington. No one in her family could go with her, so her parents decided it would be________for a 19-year-old family friend to go with her.

When they arrived for their layover(转机停留) at the international airport, they realized their connecting________was canceled.

What the family friend did next still________McDowell to this day. She bought herself a________back home and left McDowell all by herself. And she felt all alone, until a woman walked over to her.

“I remember she was wearing ________, and she came and sat beside me. And I just remember________feeling a sense of safety because someone was with me.”

The woman could________something was not________, and she got________from McDowell to help her and persuaded her mother McDowell would be safe with her.

The woman in white was flying to Pittsburgh, but she made a detour (绕道) to Burlington to________McDowell.

The kindness of the________has left a lifelong impact on McDowell. She has used that________to teach her son about kindness. “People can________to be beautiful and________and provide security to strangers and people like this are out there,” she said.