【推荐1】There was in Washington a policeman who was known as the man who arrested the president. The_______ took place when the man was a green officer_______ at No. 1 Street.

One evening, President Grant, who had been invited to a party of friends, was_______ home to meet the engagement. The _______, with its four horses, was running down the street so fast that the new policeman _______ the driver to stop. The driver _______ him and asked what was the _______. “Don’t you know you are driving about nine times as fast as the law _______?” said the officer.

“Yes,” answered the president. “I suppose I was, _______ you speak of it.”

“Well, then, you may __________yourself under arrest and go with me to the station house.”

There were some marks from the other __________of the carriage __________ whom was a foreign minister, but the president said, “The man is __________ right.” and asked the policeman to __________himself behind him.

__________ the policeman heard a soft voice, “I only thought you __________ know that it’s President.” The officer was very __________ and begged them to let him go, __________ the president would have none of it.

When they reached the station, the captain turned __________. Apologies were made, but the president __________on paying the proper fine.

【推荐2】In 1989 an earthquake hit America, killing over 30,000 people. A father_____his wife safely at home and rushed to the_____where his son was supposed to be,______to discover that the building was in ruins.

Seeing this, he remembered the______he had made to his son, “No matter what happens, I’ll always be there for you.” Tears began to_____ his eyes. As he looked at the pile of______that once was the school, it looked______, but he kept remembering his words to his son.

He began to______his attention towards where he had______his son to class before. Remembering his son’s______had been in the back right corner of the teaching building, he rushed there and started digging______ the ruins.

He kept digging and digging. Hours later, other______parents tried to pull him off the place______had been his son’s classroom, saying, “It’s too late! They are all dead!”

But the farther kept digging for his son. The fireman______and said, “Fires are breaking out. You’re in______. Go home.” Hearing this, the American father,______very tired now, asked politely, “Are you going to help me?”

He went on____. He dug for 8 hours...12 hours...24 hours...36 hours...then, in the 38th hours, he heard his son’s_____. He screamed his son’s name, “ARMAND!” And he heard his son shout back, “Dad! It’s me, Dad! I told the other kids not to worry. I told them that if you were______ you’d save us. You promised no matter what happened, you’d always be there for me! You did______, Dad!”

【推荐2】A five-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money. Only a(n) ________ could save him now and there was no one to lend them the money.

One day she heard her Daddy say to her ________ mother, “Only a miracle (奇迹) can save him now.” The little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her piggy bank from its hiding place. She poured all the coins out on the floor and ________ them carefully.

Holding her piggy bank, she ran to the nearby ________ store. “I want to buy a miracle for my little brother. He is really sick.” said the little girl to the shop assistant. “I beg your pardon?” the shop assistant could ________ believe what he heard. “His name is Andrew and he has something bad ________ inside his head and my Daddy says only a miracle can save him.” “We don’t sell miracle here, child. I’m sorry,” the shop assistant said. “Listen, I have the money to pay for it. If it isn’t ________, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.”

In the shop was a tall and well-dressed customer. His name was Carlton Armstrong. He ________ and asked the little girl, “What kind of miracle does your brother ________ ?” “I don’t know,” she replied. “He is really sick and Daddy says he needs an operation. But my Daddy can’t ________ it.”

“How much do you have?” asked the man. “One dollar and eleven cents,” she answered. “Well,” smiled the man. “A dollar and eleven cents? What a ________! That is the exact price of a miracle for your little brother. I have the kind of miracle you need.”

He took her money in one hand and held her hand with the other. He said, “Take me to where you live. I want to see your brother and ________ your parents.” Carlton Armstrong turned out to be a famous ________ and saved Andrew’s life by giving him a successful operation.

“That operation,” her mother said in a low voice, “was a real ________. I wonder how much it would have cost.” The little girl smiled. She knew ________ how much the miracle cost — one dollar and eleven cents.

【推荐3】This story happened when I was in Saint Lucia with my family. My sister, Diana, who also _________ to be my best friend and one of the funniest and kindest people I know, went blind in one eye about nine years ago. Diana sometimes feels _________ about the way her eye looks now. The pupil (瞳孔) is no longer black; it’s sort of “glows” in photos. Diana recently bought a special contact lens (隐形眼镜片) that makes her eye look like it did _________ it changed color, but she doesn’t wear this lens often because it becomes quite _________ after about an hour.

One night during our holiday, a hotel _________ was taking pictures of the guests as they entered the area set up for dinner. Diana casually said if she had known there was going to be pictures taken to _________ this special memory, she would have worn her contact lens so her eye wouldn’t be so shiny in the picture.

The next day, I was sitting with Diana and her husband Ted. While we were talking, the photographer who had been at the dinner the night before, _________ her a photo, leaned in and quietly said, “I _________ the color of your eyes in the picture.” As he walked away, my sister happily said to me and Ted, “Look! He fixed my _________!” The photographer stopped. He __________ around and walked back to our table. He put his hand on Diana’s shoulder, leaned in again and gently said, “Just to be clear: I didn’t fix your eye. There isn’t anything wrong with your eye. I __________ matched the color.”

Her eyes filled up with tears. It was very healing for her __________ to hear these beautiful words. It didn’t take much time and made so much __________. It helped her change the way she feels about herself.

I have always loved the saying: “The world is full of good people. If you can’t __________ one, be one!” Your acts of __________ can impact on the world in profound ways!