【推荐1】After 49 years on the job, Marge Moore still mops and sweeps her bus every day and washes it on weekends. Every winter is a_________for Moore, just because she needs to_________her kids on time. Besides, she has to drag her blow-dryer to_________ the transmission ( 变 速 器) when_________ cold.

Even with vacations, Moore still gets _________ to work as a bus driver for Virginia Beach public schools. She’s seeing some_________students grow up and have kids, whom Moore also took to school.

“Moore’s absolutely_________. There’s a reason she hasn’t_________ a day,” people said, “ she’s just _______by her love for kids. ” She is earning a little __________as her term of service inches closer to the half-century mark.

The COVID-19 has seriously interrupted her school__________. When learning is virtual, Moore works to deliver food to 50 families, who wouldn’t__________ have it. Her consistency is__________, and she was nominated (提名) for the “ Recognizing Inspirational School Employees Award”. The__________ will be announced in the spring.

Moore isn’t sure when she’ll quit. “If I didn’t __________it, I wouldn’t be doing it,” she said.

【推荐3】If you could possess any three things, what would you want? Eleven-year-old Ruby Kate loves __ that question at nursing home in the Harrison. Even more amazing, she then __ to make the residents^' wishes come true.

Ruby Kate has long been close to __ folks, since her mother, Amanda Chitsey, works at nursing homes in northwest Arkansas and she often __ with her. Last May, Ruby Kate noticed an old resident named Pearl staring out a window   __as her dog was being led away by her new __ , since she was not able to __ to look after her with a small pension.

So Ruby Kate __ to do something about it and started by asking residents what three things they desire most. They simply requested for __ like chocolate bars, McDonald's fries, and even just a prayer. Using her __ money to change the situation, Ruby granted the __ of about 50 people in three months. Then she started appealing for __ .

The nice people of Harrison responded __ so much so that Amanda set up a GoFundMe page, Three Wishes for Ruby's residents, hoping to collect $ 5, 000. They __ their goal in a month. After GoFundMe promoting Ruby's __ internationally this past January, Three Wishes raised $ 20,000 in five months __ . With the money, Ruby was able to get more __ : One resident asked for a man cave, so Ruby came up with the novel idea to get him a tent and __ his fridge with snacks.

Earlier this year, “Three Wishes” became a nonprofit and launched its ___nationwide chapter. Ruby Kate doesn't plan to stop here. “I consider __to be my hobby,” she says, “and I'm very good at it and I would like to pass this kind act on.”

【推荐1】“I can’t fix people’s problems, but I can help them feel less lonely,” said Katie Steller, a salon owner. _______her chair and scissors around the city, Steller gives out-of-luck_______ the gift ---one free haircut at a time.

Last summer, Steller _______ off the freeway on her way to her salon. She _______ at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign asking for help. She_______her window. “Hey! ” she shouted. “I'm _______ around to give free haircuts. If I go and bring my_______, do you want one right now?” Hearing Steller’s _______ , the man, who was in his sixties, was very surprised. “_______, I was really hoping to get a haircut.” he said. Steller hurried to her salon__________, and loaded a red chair into her car. Then she drove back and gave the man a new haircut. Soon the man looked good again and was __________with Steller’s skill.

So far, Steller has given about thirty free haircuts to people around the city. She knows that a haircut can change a __________ because one haircut once changed hers. As a teen, she suffered from a serious disease, and her hair __________ terribly. Seeing this, her mother, for the first time, took her to a famous salon and she got a __________ haircut. “Sitting down and having somebody look at me and __________with me like a normal person instead of a sick one helped me feel __________ and less lonely.” she recalled.

After that, Steller __________to help people feel the __________ she’d felt that day. Not long after __________   cosmetology (美容)school, she began what she now calls her Red Chair Project, __________out to people on the streets to spread the kindness.

【推荐2】Many years ago, I worked as a salesman in a company. We sold______by advertising in small town newspapers and when we received________, we would load our little trucks, drive into the area and_________the pianos to those who had replied.

Every time we advertised, we would receive a reply from a small village on a______which said, “Please______me a new piano for my little granddaughter. I can pay $10 a month______my egg money.” The lady scrawled(潦草地写) on the postcard______she filled it up, then turned it______and even wrote on the front until there was______any room for the address.

Years later, I______my own piano company, and when I advertised in that area, the postcards started coming to me. For months, I______them. But then I______a piano to her and told her I would not _____for it.

But the payments came in, all as______ — sometimes with coins taped(用带子困起来) to a 3 x 5 inch card in the envelope. It was______ !

Then one day I was in Memphis on______, and after dinner, I went into the lounge(休息室).   ____I was sitting at the bar enjoying a drink, I______the most beautiful piano music behind me. I looked around, and there was a lovely young woman playing a very nice grand piano.

When she took a______, I picked up my drink and moved to the table beside her. She smiled and asked, “Aren’t you the man who sold my grandma a piano a long time ago?” Then I realized a little kindness meant much to a person who was in______.

【推荐3】The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he_______ it came from inside his house in Wade,Maine.As he got up to investigate, he heard _______sound, this one coming most definitely from_______ .Looking out of his bedroom window, he noticed a tree _______ in smoke about 500 yards away. A car wrapped around the tree's _______，its engine on fire.

Grabbing buckets of water, he and his wife ran to the crash(碰撞）_______. Up close, the accident looked_______. The car was split_______ in two, and the tree was where the driver's seat ought to have been,as if_______ there.No one should have survived this crash,and yet there was 20-year-old Quintin Thompson,__________terrified face was pressed__________ the driver's side window,invisible pain.

Languell tried putting out the fire with the__________ but failed. When the flames got into the __________ seats, he knew he had to get the young man out. __________ Languell opened the car's back door and__________ in. Using a pocket knife he'd brought with him,he__________ Thompson's seat belt. Now that Thompson was free, Languell pulled him out, and dragged him to safety__________ the entire car was in flames.

It is empathy(同情心）that__________Languell to help,just as he said,"My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that__________ to that level of hurt, you feel it so directly.” For his heroic __________,Languell was added to the list of real-life heroes changing the world.

【推荐2】I’m an 18-year-old student, tall and good-looking. Looking back, I realize how important it is to _________ oneself.

Born and raised in Africa. I had always taken my African origin as a(n) _________. Myself-dislike was further _________ when my family moved to Norway. Compared to all the white girls around me. I was so different. My nose often had a thin sheet of _________, regardless of the weather. What also _________ my self-dislike was my stuttering (口吃). It always stood between me and any fine opportunity. I’d taken it as a(n) _________ to avoid any public speaking sessions.

_________, there came a turning point. One day a white girl caught my eye. To my _________, she had a thin sheet of sweat on her nose too, and it was in November! “Wow, ” I whispered to myself, “this isn’t a genetic (遗传的) disorder. It’s perfectly _________.” Days later, my life took another __________. Searching the Internet for stuttering cures, I __________ learned that such famous people as Newton and Churchill also stuttered. I was greatly __________. Another __________ to myself-confidence came as I knew Oprah Winfrey, the famous host and writer, is black too!

Today, I’ve grown to accept what I am with pride. It simply gives me a feeling of __________. The idea of self-love has taken __________ a whole new meaning for me: there’s always something fantastic about us, and what we need to do is learn to appreciate it.

【推荐3】I sat nervously and waited for Kathleen to speak. Being called to the human resources department is a little like being called to the principal’s office. “Annie,” she said, “A food bank in our town that serves the elderly is asking for______. I’d like you to organize the event and see it through.” “Well, um, errr…sure. I guess so.” As I stuttered(结结巴巴地说) through my______, all I could think was, “What? Why me?” I walked back to my office without any idea as to where to______. This was a time when the economy was______. The rise in unemployment forced the families of many my coworkers to______to survive. How could I ask my coworkers for more?

That evening, I drove home______. Then I remembered a time long ago when my father was out of work. Mom wrote a note to Jim, the milkman, asking him not to______any more milk. Two days later, Jim picked up the______and left four liters of milk. He wrote his own message on the back side of Mom’s. It read, “Kids need milk.” The milk delivery continued as usual and Jim left four liters of milk every other day, never collected a cent______us.

The memory of Jim’s kindness______my enthusiasm. Perhaps I’d be in for a pleasant surprise.

The next morning I______signs about our food drive all over the cafeteria and on every notice board I could find. Each sign said, “Food drive to______the elderly poor of our town! Donations of non-perishable(不易腐的) foods are______needed.”

Within a few days, I had to locate empty office space to______the massive number of contributions we had collected. One of my coworkers, Maggie, made the rounds with me every day from one department to another to pick up the canned goods and other______. Maggie was over sixty but pushed our food trolley around with the______of a woman half her age.

As we were______one day, I asked her where she got all the energy and enthusiasm. “Annie,” she said, “with the unemployment rate touching 10 percent, I can’t think of a better way to be______for keeping our jobs when so many have lost theirs. Sure money is______. But when isn’t it? People need food.”

As I listened to Maggie, the milkman’s words______in my ears, “Kids need milk.”