【推荐1】After the quake hit northeast Japan on March 11, many moving stories that I saw with my own eyes happened around me.

I had to walk home since all the________had stopped after the earthquake. On my way home I________an old lady at a bakery who was giving out free bread, which made my heart ________ . A man was holding a sign that said, “Please use our________.” He was________his house for people to go to the restroom.

My friend wanted to________others. He stood in the cold with a sign “If you’re okay with a motorcycle, I will________you to your house.” And then I saw him take one gentleman home, all the way to a faraway place!

Then next day I drove to________my car with gas. There is a lack of________now and many gasoline stations are either closed or have very________lines. I got________, since I was behind 15 cars. Finally, when it was my________, the man smiled and said, “________this situation, we are only giving $30 worth gas per person. Is that all right?” “________. I’m just glad that we are all able to________,” I said. His smile gave me so much comfort.

I saw a man at the evacuation(疏散)center________when people brought food to him. It was the first time in three days that food was brought to their center. However, after he wiped the tears, his next________surprised me. “I am very________that we are provided with food. But people in the city next to us haven’t________any food at all. Please go to that center as well. ”And when hearing that, I realized there is a bright future on the other side of this________.

【推荐3】Skydiving isn’t an activity for the faint of heart, but when you do it at 101 years old, you’re pretty much a superhuman. On May 13, Verdun Hayes became the ______person in the world to complete a 15,000-foot tandern jump (双人伞), ______ the Guinness World Records he once set up.

Verdun Hayes wasn’t ______. He finished the jump with eight family members and two close ______ at Dunkeswell Airport in England. As they_____to make the jump, the entire family looked nervous, but______as well. Hayes’ grandson–in–law Ian Honnor, the organizer of the family’s jump, told TODAY, “He was probably the calmest one on the ______. He had no fear and just loved it. He just wanted everyone to______it and be healthy.” Honnor, who helped ______the outing, said this wasn’t Hayes’ first jump! “When he was more than ninety years old, his family kept telling him he wasn’t ______ to do the jump. However, he didn’t give up his _______. At the age of 100, he ______realized his ambition and became the first man of such an advanced age to ______a tandem skydive.”

This time he decided to shoot for the world record. “Because it’s such a big______, it was decided that as many people in the family as we could possibly get were going to go_______him,” Honnor said. “He had four generations(世代) of his family in the ______at the same time—they ranged from age 16 to 101.” The family held a big party to ______his achievement.

Hayes even had some______for those people hoping to _______the same thing at his age. “Just keep your mind_______occupied by positive thought and keep your body as fit as you possibly can,” said Hayes. “Those are the two great things.”

【推荐1】I will never forget the year I was about twelve years old. My mother told us that we would not be _________ Christmas gifts because there was not enough money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _________?” Just when I started to _________ that there would not be a Christmas gift that year, three women _________ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they brought a doll. I felt such a sense of _________ that I would no longer have to be embarrassed when I returned to school. I wasn’t _________. Somebody had thought _________ of me to bring me a gift.  

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _________ Christmas there special and memorable, I _________ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create that same feeling of __________ for as many children as I could possibly reach.  

So I __________ a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans(孤儿)at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colourful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, __________ with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were __________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I __________ them that they couldn’t open their presents __________ every child had come forward. Finally the __________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles __________ up the room. The __________ in the room was obvious, and __________ wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew __________ that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody thought of me. I matter.

【推荐2】In February 2020, Max’s friend Rick was diagnosed with cancer. Max _________ Rick during the last month of his life, thus becoming _________ of the care provided to his friend by North Devon Hospice. “The hospital took such good care of him that I wanted to do something to show my _________,” says Max.

Max _________ a fundraising mission in March 2020. When Max first put up a tent in the yard of his house, he was 10 years old and had just _________ his friend Rick. “Before my friend died of cancer, he gave me a tent and told me to ‘have an adventure’,” says Max.

Through a years-long campaign, he became known as “The Boy in the Tent” and _________ more than £700,000 in 2023. Such a _________ allowed the hospital to _________ around 500 patients in their own homes, helping them face the _________ of an illness like cancer.

When he recalls his __________ experiences. Max says that he won’t __________ a single thing about the past three years. It’s easy to imagine, however, the past years weren’t free of __________ for Max: from collapsed tents to keeping warm throughout storms and snowy nights.

Max faced everything with his positive attitude and goal-driven mind. “One time my tent collapsed in the wind and rain at about 10:00 pm and I __________ to put it up again,” he says. “Despite all, I never regret it. I __________ love my one-of-a-kind adventure and I believe Rick would enjoy it as well if he were __________.”

【推荐3】My parents and I visited our relatives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Everyday I enjoyed walking a circular way starting from their house. One evening I decided to be adventurous and changed from my _________ way - I was looking forward to a longer walk, _________ that I would be able to find my way back. My walk took me beyond the living area and into a beautiful place with an expanse of fields on both sides of the road. With the sun beginning to _________, it was really a wonderful sight. After about thirty minutes, I noticed that I was not _________ back in the direction I had come - in fact I seemed to be moving further away. I searched my pocket for the mobile phone to get help, but it wasn't there. I had left it at home.

However, I remained _________. Although there weren't any people about, there was some _________ and I was sure that someone would stop and point me in the right direction. As each car or truck came, I stopped and _________, but time after time each one passed me by. No one seemed to feel any sympathy for me. About forty minutes, I was beginning to feel _________. There was no one in sight and my family was completely in the dark as to my _________.

When I just gave up all hope, a black SUV __________ me and stopped. A mother and daughter wanted to know how they could help. I told them I was lost and gave them my address. The mother pointed to a turning a little further down the road and promised me I was pretty close to home. Expressing my thanks, I started off at a fast __________. I had been walking for about five minutes when I heard a car drive up behind me and stop. It was the mother and daughter again. They realized that they had not given me the correct __________ and my destination was much further away.

They offered to __________ me home, and I was so grateful for their help. During our brief conversation I got the __________ that the teenage daughter was going to a school party and would now arrive late. We didn't __________ names but I will never forget their act of kindness.