【推荐1】Every Sunday morning I take a light walking around a park near my home. There’s a lake ________ in one corner of the park. Each time I ________ by this lake, I see the same elderly woman sitting at the water’s ________ with a small metal cage sitting beside her.

This past Sunday my ________ got the best of me, so l stopped jogging and walked ________ to her. ________ I got closer, I realized that the metal cage was ________ a small trap. There were three turtles, unharmed, slowly walking around the base of the trap. She had a fourth turtle in her lap ________ she was ________ scrubbing with a spongy brush.

“Hello,” I said. “If you don’t mind my ________, I’d love to know what you’re doing with these turtles.”

She smiled. “I’m cleaning off their shells,” she replied. “________ on a turtle’s shell, like algae or scum, ________ the turtle’s ability to absorb heat and impedes its ability to swim. It can also ________ and weaken the shell over time.”

She went on: “I spend a couple of hours each Sunday morning ,relaxing by this lake and helping these little guys out. It’s my own ________ way of making a difference.”

“But don’t most freshwater turtles live their whole lives with algae and scum ________ from their shells?” I asked.

“Yep, ________, they do,” she replied.

“Well then, don’t you think your time could be better spent? And 99% of these turtles don't have kind people like you to help them clean off their shells. So, no ________...but how exactly are your localized ________ here truly making a difference?”

The woman giggled aloud.

She then ________ at the turtle in her lap, scrubbed off the last piece of algae from its shell, and said, “Sweetie, if this little guy ________ talk, he’d tell you I just made all the difference in the world.

【推荐2】This happened when I was ten. On a normal Sunday, I went to the barber shop where I always went. That day, along with the barber there was an assistant, who had recently________the shop.

So I sat for the haircut. The uncle asked me how________I wanted it. I answered, “Just do as my dad had________you the last time.”

He smiled. Before starting the________, he added, “What if I keep it long?”

I________he was joking. So I joked too. I said, “I can't________what would happen to your shop then!”

The moment I said it, the assistant________from behind. “How dare do you say that! Who are you to take us down, eh?”

I admit I was too________at that moment and the uncle standing beside me was giving me an________look.

From that day on, I________stopped joking about anyone's profession and works. It is one of the most________incidents in my life, which taught me to________the profession and works of a person, no matter how________they are.

I'm________that the assistant responded in a way that made me rethink the power of my words. Words do make a________.

【推荐3】Rebecka Peterson, a high school math teacher, is the nation’s 2023 Teacher of the Year. Her first year of teaching wasn’t without its ______ , but she remembered why she was there and wanted to bear those ______ thoughts in mind. So she ______ the One Good Thing blog.

It was ______ and fun, really. Every evening, she would write on her blog, ______ one good thing she experienced that day. She gave her blog the tagline: ”Every day may not be good, but there is on good thing in every day.“

She encouraged her ______ to do the same in their handwritten journals. Just a few minutes a day to ______ something good that happened—that would be enough, she ______ . She believes that it will make them happier and more ______ to learn.

During her eleven years in teaching, Peterson has ______ that some students find math difficult. But her efforts to make it ______ made her the 2023 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. From there, she made the ______ to win the nation’s 2023 Teacher of the Year.

Peterson has travelled around the country, talking to teaches about bringing ______ back into Classrooms. Her goals include emphasizing the positive experiences students have not only with math but with learning ______ . She hopes her stories will attract new teachers to the profession and give ______ to current ones.

【推荐2】I received a private message on Facebook. It began harmlessly enough. “Hi, girl. Wanted to _________ you to join my next challenge group—We will be _________ on 60 minutes of exercise and balanced nutrition.” It was all becoming too much. Facebook was _________ my life, not me.

But what killed Facebook for me was when I _________ a photo and my son asked me how many “likes” it had got. His question was a/an _________ call. “Likes” are signs of acceptance and _________. I had forgotten they both need to come from within and had _________ set him a bad example.

To recreate the simplicity of those days and set a/an _________ example for my son, I deactivated (解除) my Facebook _________. I had been in the habit of __________ Facebook many times a day, so I had to come up with some new habits. I __________ a novel and a crossword puzzle book around with me. I rediscovered knitting and yoga classes.

I started to __________ a few things. My body is fine just the way it is. I have friends who will help me out when I am __________. I do my best to be a good mother and our son is happy and healthy.

I stopped looking at the world through my cell phone. I felt completely __________ in the moment. The __________ left me feeling better about myself, my family, my home and my life.

Less social media is more.