【推荐1】It was my mother who worked alone to support our family. A car was badly needed but we just couldn’t ___________ one. One day, our neighbors, the Whites, offered my mother an envelope with $500 inside. My mother wouldn’t ___________, saying she couldn’t possibly repay them.

Mr. White smiled at her ___________, “Don’t worry about ___________ the money. When times are better, just help someone else in need. “

My mother took his advice ___________. A year later, my mother brought home a poor woman who was trying to reunite with her only relative but lost all her money. My mother knew it was time to pay forward our neighbors’ ___________

My mother put the woman up for the night. Later, I saw her ___________ her purse. That’s all her money ___________ I saw a look of determination upon her face. ___________, the young mother called her aunt, which brought me to tears too.

Through the years, times continued to be ____________ for us. Despite this, again and again, I saw my mother ____________, offering help in different ways. Decades have passed since our neighbors came to us with their ____________. I try to follow their ____________, helping a little here and there. I’m hoping, in turn, my own children will get the sweet ____________ I did from my dear neighbors and mother: Acts of kindness, however small, can make a big ____________.

【推荐2】Pierre de Coubertin, the father of the modern Olympie Games, once said, “All_______for all people.” Sports were also a big part of Jim’s life. Jim was always on the team. And his favourite sport was football.

One day in practice, something went terribly _______. Jim got seriously hurt. Doctors had to cut off his right leg below the knee. After weeks of _______, Jim got a man-made leg. “I felt like a baby, because I had to learn how to_______ again,” he said. However, Jim never lost his courage to _______. “I took it just as a_______,” he explained.

One goal kept Jim _______. “I was determined (决心) to get back and play football,” he said. His coach and teammates visited him, offering their _______.

When Jim returned to school, he was in a wheelchair. Jim’s school had a top football team. Would Jim be able to play at such a competitive level? At first, no one was sure. _______, it turned out there was no need to worry. Before long, Jim mastered the use of his new ________. He was back on the football field and soon became one of the most ________members of the team.

Jim also ________playing wheelchair basketball and wheelchair football. He took part in weightlifting (举重) events for people with disability as well.

Jim always says, “Don’t try to be something you’re not, be the ________you can be.” Jim’s performance turns out to be better than anyone could have ________. Now he holds a world record for weightlifting. And he hopes to ________ in the Paralympics (残奥会).

【推荐3】“Look, Mum, he paints like me!” Eight-year-old Alexandra Nechita had just discovered Pablo Picasso’s artwork for the first time. The art world _________ and began to call Alexandra the “Petite (小的) Picasso.” This _________ artist has been turning heads in the art world ever since.

Even at age two, Alexandra spent nearly all her time on her coloring books. _________ that their daughter spent too much time alone, Alexandra’s parents took her coloring books away. They _________ she’d start to jump rope or play with dolls. But taking away her colors was like taking the air out of her life. Alexandra began to color on paper which her mother _________ home from office.

When Alexandra was four, her parents began to notice the figures she _________. They were abstract and looked like Picasso’s work, with four eyes and two faces. She _________ painting with watercolors and then with other paints.

Alexandra’s classmates would sometimes _________ her paintings. But her primary school teacher saw talent in her drawings. She helped eight-year-old Alexandra organise her first _________ at a local library.

Within a year, Alexandra had several other exhibitions. By then, she had __________ more than 250 paintings. Her exhibition at the famous Mary Paxon Gallery brought her to the __________ of national art critics (评论家). She began to appear on television, in news and talk shows around America.

Today Alexandra __________ paints in her special style. Admirers have spent a large amount of money buying her paintings. But the __________ doesn’t seem to have affected her negatively (消极地). Through various charities, Alexandra shares her wealth with those __________ around the world. And as Alexandra continues to paint, the world will be blessed to experience more of her __________ for life and art.

【推荐1】One day in 2012, David and Pam Brennan were walking on the shore (岸) near their house in Brunswick, Maine. Then they _______ a seal (海豹) that seemed to be stranded (搁浅的). They were _______ because the tide (潮汐) went out and came back in, and the seal was _______ there.

Their first _______ was to Marine Mammals of Maine (MMoME), an organization that runs a 24-hour hotline, dealing with calls about stranded sea animals. _______, a volunteer arrived. While the seal turned out to be _______ and just resting, the experience encouraged the Brennans to _______.

Within a year, the two had completed volunteer _______. They learned how to tell a stranded seal and studied the rules governing seal handling. When it was _______ for their first seal rescue, they were ________. “As soon as MMoME made sure that a baby seal had been abandoned (被遗弃的) and that the mother wasn’t ________, we knew what we had to do,” says Pam.

“We have transported many a seal in our car. Those rides are kind of fun and also a little ________,” David says. “Seals are easily stranded in June, so it might be warm outside, but you have to keep the seals ________. So the car’s air conditioner runs and the windows are up and the car smells like a seal.”

“We feel a great responsibility to ________ these animals,” Pam says. “And really, this is what we were put on this Earth to ________.”

【推荐2】Alina’s life as an angel of love began in middle school, when, in the planting club of her school, she learned how to grow eggplants.

From then on, she was _________ in growing the eggplants. Later she found a big piece of land in the home backyard to plant seeds, hoping to _________ her crop in fall.

This was _________ than it sounds. She spent all her spare time caring for the plants and she became thinner. However, her great work _________. Much more than the family can consume, she suddenly had an idea that she sold some eggplants to _________ fund for local Rescue Center for Blind Children. Her father Barret strongly supported her _________, and did some _________ on social media but he didn’t expect his daughter’s crop to become a big _________.

Alina’s eggplants _________ well, though eggplants aren’t the only choice when people buy vegetables. __________, they knew the earnings were for a good cause. Within a week, those eggplants helped her raise $1,000! Her father and she __________ every penny to the center.

What she did was very __________ to the center. The head said fund—raising __________ much to providing treatment for blind children and her donation can make a difference,

Alina felt very happy, planning to do it with her family all over again next year: In her words, “I get a lot from this __________, I’ll try my best to use my own hands to help the blind children in the poor __________.”