【推荐1】I was in the first grade of high school when I began to suffer from depression(忧郁). I didn’t have friends. I could never _______ my problems. Soon I _______ to go to school for days. I became sensitive(敏感的) and angry. I would even _______ myself in my room for hours. The exams were approaching but I simply didn’t care. My parents and teachers were shocked at my bad _______.

One morning after a hard _______ from Dad, I stood blankly at the school gate. As the other students _______ to their classrooms, our English teacher found me._______what I’d done, she led me to her office.

The next 45 minutes was the most _______ moment in my life. She said she had noticed a big _______ in me. She wanted to know why I was so often absent and unhappy. She took my hand in hers and listened patiently as I spilled out(说出) my worries. She then ________ me as I cried out. I could feel my months of sadness and loneliness were gone.

No one had tried to understand what the real problem was, but my teacher had done it with her simple act of just listening to me with such ________ and caring.

She ________ to be my best friend. From then on, I often went to her office and we discussed my problems, hobbies and everything on my mind. I ________ school every day.

As the exams ________ again, I studied hard. When the results were declared everybody was pleased. But the happiest of all was my English teacher. With tears of ________ she presented me with a pen. Today I have become a happy writer thanks to her.

【推荐3】Liz Woodward worked as a waitress at the route 130 diner in Delran, New Jersey. One Thursday morning around 5:30 am, she was ______ two firefighters,Young and Hullings. Quite ______, she heard that they had been up all night putting out a ______ warehouse fire. It took 12 hours to get the fire under ______.

Liz decided to honor these two ______ by paying their bills and writing them a heartfelt ______ of gratitude (感谢). It read, “Your breakfast is on me today — thank you for all that you do, fueled by fire and driven by ______. What an example you are! Get some rest!"

The simple act of ______ meant so much to the exhausted fire fighters. The firefighters were ______ deeply and thanked her before leaving the ______.

To return the young lady’s kindness, upon his arrival home, Hullings posted a Facebook update to ______ his friends to go to eat at the diner, which was quickly ______ more than 3,000 times.

______ it was not until afterwards that they ______ Liz was really the one that was in need.When they found out that Liz was trying to ______ money for her paralyzed father to get a wheelchair-accessible van (面包车),Young posted with a ______ to a GoFundMe page for Liz’s dad. Then the support ______.

The total donations reached $60,000 and went beyond Liz’s wildest dreams. She had never ______ that her small gesture would, be paid in such a(n).______ way.“ To be honest,I’m truly.______ for what they have done for me,”Liz Woodward said on Facebook.

【推荐1】Huping Mountain features deep valleys and dangerous peaks. In 1990, Du Dengwen joined the local post station and was immediately _________ with serving 13 villages across the mountainous area. For the past three decades, Du has been one of the few _________ between villagers there and the outside world. ___________ difficult geographic conditions, letters and parcels always make it to their destination. Du has _______ mail and goods to the villagers from their loved ones, most of whom are in the distant cities for a living. His _________ always brings joy to the mountain villagers, because it _________ letters or parcels of huge value are coming their way.

A round trip to _________ all of the villages in his charge runs about 180km, and the only thing he could rely on was a _________ that the post station offered. Even so, only two villages were _________ by cycling, while the rest were __________ roads, so Du had to walk.

Du also wrote down villagers’ __________ and tried his best to meet them. Du had developed a close bond with the local villagers, and refused to __________ his job regardless of his family’s concern over his __________.

Du’s kindness and __________ have not only endeared him to the mountain villagers but also earned their trust and respect. He was __________ “Angel Courier” by locals heartily.

【推荐2】On a steamy July day in Bayonet Point, Florida, Gene Work and his brother-in-law, Mark Rouco, were resodding (重新铺草皮) Gene’s yard.

The lawn had grown ______ in the heat, and the Works had been threatened to accept a huge fine if the situation wasn’t remedied. The new sod was sitting in the driveway, but the job was slow-going.

Gene, then 40, wasn’t feeling right. He went inside to take a break and ______ on the couch, clutching his chest. His wife, Melissa Work, called 911 quickly. Even though he was ______ down death, Gene had one thing on his mind: that ______.

If the sod wasn’t ______ that day, it would die. “While he was having his heart attack, literally in and out of consciousness, he kept ______ me to have it put down because he didn’t want it to go to waste,” Melissa wrote in a Facebook post.

Soon Pasco County Fire Rescue arrived and took Gene and Melissa to the hospital, leaving Rouco behind to ______ the yard. Within an hour, he had managed to remove the old grass. He was about to lay the new sod, which he ______ would take him well into the night, ______ two emergency vehicles appeared. Seven men — the same ones who had treated his brother — ______. Gene had told them how ______ he’d wanted to get the sod down, so they had returned to help. The job was done in under two hours. Meanwhile, Gene had surgery to insert stents (支架) in his heart, ______ a potentially deadly blockage.

He’s home now, fully recovered — and enjoying his beautiful lawn. The Works are still ______ that those EMTs went above and beyond their job ______. “These men,” Melissa told tampabay.com, “saved Gene’s life, and then came back to save his grass. That’s just so ______.”

【推荐3】Have you imagined that planting trees can make a big difference? People say that one man can’t make a difference, but Abdul, a 60-year-old taxi driver, has _________ that doing a _________ thing over a long period of time can _________ very much. He has planted at least one tree every day since he was 12 years old, which means that he has so far planted a small forest of over 17,500 trees.

Abdul has worked as a(n) _________ for most of his life. He makes _________ money from his job, but he somehow tries to buy at least one _________ every day. He considers it his _________ to the world. _________ he plants them on government land so nobody can cut them down later. He also waters them, and if he sees anyone cutting a tree, he _________ them.

Abdul, his wife Jorna, and four of their children live in two __________ houses, on a piece of __________ that is __________ by the Faridpur deputy commissioner’s office. They have no land of their own.

Sometimes, his wife commands him not to plant trees but he doesn’t listen. Abdul’s 30-year-old son has never told his father not to plant trees, because he thinks his father does a good thing for   __________.

Abdul’s colleagues all know about his __________ habit, and praise his __________. Whoever can ask of him anything, he will do his best to help. Therefore, Abdul is loved by __________.

For his __________, Abdul was recently __________ by The Daily Star, and given $1,253 to help him build a __________ home for his family. The Daily Star wished everyone to __________ his example, and protect the environment.

“I can’t do it alone. I need the help of you all,” Abdul said in his speech.