【推荐1】Steve Sanders is a dad who suffered from a serious kidney (肾) disease. Although he had been living a ________ life, going to the gym regularly, the doctors warned him that his kidney function was ________ and that he needed dialysis (透析). This made Sanders start a ________ for a kidney donor (捐献器官者) online. After he shared the post, he got ________ from 26 people who began handing in paperwork to become donors, ________ nothing moved beyond that. It could have been that they weren’t matched, or they stopped the process. “I don’t ________ them on that,” Sanders said. “I completely ________.”

One day, Chris, a local shopper, ________ him that told him he wanted to be a kidney donor. ________, Chris ended up being a perfect donor, making Sanders very excited. It was a total ________ for Sanders and he said he was happy that somebody was ________ to give him a chance.

Chris filled out the paperwork and ________ the process after a few weeks. When asked why he chose to donate his kidney, he said that he wanted to ________ what he preached (宣扬) to others on being kind and ________. Chris wanted his kids to grow up and ________ what kindness is.

Once the hospital showed his kidney was a ________ for Sanders, he agreed to receive the operation ________. Sanders was grateful for Chris’s ________. “Chris has made me feel very comfortable not ________ him anything. This is a guy who did this out of love,” Sanders added. After lots of tests, the two dads had the operation in October 2022. It was a(n) ________ transplant (移植) and even after it, they have continued their friendship.

【推荐3】I’ve been lucky to have some very wonderful teachers during the course of my school years. But when it comes to a teacher’s devotion (奉献), no one quite ______the level of K. D. Meucci, who is a 4th-grade teacher at Benjamin Franklin Elementary School.

Several years ago, she ______the Facebook group called “Franklin Bedtime Stories”. Each ______. the teacher would ______a story on Facebook Live to her students. However, she recently had to have brain surgery (手术) . One would think that it would ______the teacher out of her teaching for a short while, but it didn’t. ______just one day after her surgery, she was logging into Facebook Live to read to her students.

To everyone’s ______, Meucci-who had her surgery on a Wednesday -was going live from her ICU hospital room that very next Thursday night. She wasn’t about to let her teaching be ______by brain surgery.

Logging on, she ______to her students what she ______, saying, “I’m sorry if I look a little ______, because they cut open my ______right here to cure my illness.

She further ______them that once she was better, she would be going back to teaching, saying, “You are my friends. You are an important part of our school community. You are ______.” Then, she went on to read to her students the book, “Mr. Walker Steps Out.”

What a ______She set a good example to us students.

【推荐1】When my grandmother was a teenager, her family moved to Transylvania. To make money, she began ________ in a bakery (面包店). For two or three years, she threw herself into ________ desserts and became an excellent baker. It was there that she met my grandfather, got ________, and had two children: My mother and my uncle.

My grandparents treated us very well as kids, especially when it came to ________. We often stayed with them on the weekends and as an excellent cook with a ________ tooth, my grandmother always made sure to serve dessert after every single meal. It became a ________for her to make us a different dessert every Sunday. Of all the desserts, my sister Adriana and I ________ papanasi, a traditional Romanian dessert made of sweet cow cheese (奶酪), best.

After moving to Canada when I was a young girl, my family found it ________to find a suitable cheese for the recipe (食谱) for papanasi. Back in Romania, there was always fresh cow cheese at the farmers market, and we could ________buy this cheese. When I ________ my baking skills like my grandmother and finally found the ________cheese, the recipe turned out just right. It was like I could see her clapping (鼓掌) and ________ in the room with me.

My grandmother passed away when I was 9. Over the years, baking has become my way of _______ her. Every time I make papanasi I _______ her.

Family recipes and the love within them are not limited to space and time. The years may pass, but through this recipe, we’ll always ________ each other.