【推荐3】I had a student today who got his finger stuck inside a test tube in science class. It was really quite stuck. This young man’s finger ____ to get whiter and whiter right before my eyes.

Remaining ____, I suggested he carefully rotate(转动) the tube. It wouldn’t move a bit. He ____ soap and cold water. Still stuck. Meanwhile ____ was breaking out in the class.   ___, I sent the young man to our secretary, who was a miracle worker raising three kids of her own. With her in charge, I was ____ all would be OK.

To get the students back in order, I ____ my own story of getting my knee stuck between the rails of a balcony. Same kind of curiosity, I remembered ____ then how far I could thrust(塞) my knee between the rails. Inch by inch, I kept ____ and before I knew it, my knee was stuck and ___ before my eyes and in front of lots of strangers at a popular Las Vegas hotel!

Hearing my story, many students followed with their own ____ of heads, arms, fingers stuck in places they shouldn’t be. A few minutes later, the young man came back, test tube unbroken and finger ____ to lovely shade of pink.

I just couldn’t get mad at this kid. He’s only twelve. I too got my knee unstuck, but not without great ___.The excuse for me, however, was not ___ but plain stupidity. I was ___fifty years old when this happened.

【推荐1】Last July 4th, three police officers went into a supermarket to get something cold to drink.

Once inside, the cops were __ by a store security guard who asked for __ with a suspected thief. The woman in question didn’t have the look of an __ criminal. She was obviously scared, and her cheeks were wet with ___.

The cops looked __ her bag. “We just saw containers of ___. Nothing else,” Mike told CBS New York.

“I’m hungry,” she explained ___.

Being caught, the woman no doubt expected to be taken to jail for the __ of being hungry while poor. __ the cops had other ideas. “We’ll __ for her food,” Sojo told the __ security guard.

The three men had no discussion at all. It went ___. Instead, each of them __ out 10 dollars to pay the tab. She would not be arrested today.

The woman wept in ___. Drying her eyes with a kerchief, she ___, “Thank you, thank you.”

She wasn’t the only one touched by this act of ___. “It was a very beautiful,____moment,” says Paul, who was at the store. He was so __ by what he’d seen that he posted a photo on Twitter for all to see.

But attention was __ what the officers wanted. They were driven by a far more common emotion. As Sojo told CNN, “When you look at someone’s face and see that they need you and they’re actually hungry, it’s pretty __ as a human being to walk away from something like this.”

【推荐3】I was a single mother of four small children, working at a low-paid job. Money was always_______, but we had a roof over our heads, food on the table, _______on our backs. It was Christmas time ,we_______ downtown to see the Christmas lights ,and enjoyed a special dinner, _______ the big excitement for the kids was the fun of Christmas _______ at the market. They talked and planned for weeks ahead of time, _________   each other what they wanted for Christmas.

The big day arrived and we started out early. I _______ each kid a twenty-dollar bill and   asked them to_______for presents . Then everyone scattered (散开).

Back in the car driving home, everyone was_________ about Christmas , laughing and asking each other about what they had________ . I found my younger daughter, Ginger, had only one small and flat bag with her. I could ________ enough through the plastic ________ to tell that she had bought candy bars— fifty-cents candy bars！What did she________ with that twenty-dollar bill I had given her? I was so ________ .After getting home, I called her into my bedroom and closed the door. This was__________ she told me.

"I was looking around and thinking of what to buy, and I __________ to read the little cards on one of the Salvation Army's 'Giving Trees'. One of the cards was ________a little girl, four years old, and all she   ________ for Christmas was a doll with clothes and a hairbrush. So I took the card off the ________   and bought the doll for her. We have so much and she doesn't have anything."

My anger ________ and I had never felt so rich as I did that day.