【推荐2】A homeless man finally has a home thanks to a homemade sign and the kindness of strangers.

Michael Bucknell has struggled with ________ and difficult landlords that have made it hard to hold down a place over the years. He has had a ________ time since he’s been on the streets of Wakefield. People have shouted at him and ________ him of being a drug-addict.

Tired of being shouted at, he wanted to have a ________ over his head recently. He made a post and ________ it to where he sat outside Wakefield Aldi, which read :“I’m Michael. I don’t do drugs or alcohol. I have been unlucky and ________ being homeless. I’m looking for work or any odd job. Thanks for your help and kindness.”

He was ________ by a woman named Mollie May who shared his sign on Facebook. She encouraged passers-by to give him a ________ or let her know if they could offer him any work. While Michael hasn’t yet managed to get a job, more and more people have stopped to ________ to him or grab him something to eat. He raised £ 150 and took it to Dominion Housing Services, which provides unemployed people with ________ in Wakefield. He has been given a place to stay, and is now hoping to furnish it with some ________ such as a toaster and a TV if he can raise the funds.

“It’s a ________ start and I hope it will be a new chapter of my life. It feels brilliant—I can’t thank the public enough. They ________ me in a big way.”

Michael is now ________ the street, planning his future. ________, he is going to grab this opportunity with both hands and not let it go.

【推荐1】Dana is a 10-year-old girl, who found her friend was sick with a rare and life-threatening disease. ________, she began her mission to find a way to help her friend and other________ children by funding research to discover lifesaving cures.

Dana's first idea was to________ lemonade (柠檬水) but it would be limited to the summer season. She had to________ an alternative concept. Dana and her mother had a fun habit of baking together, and it________ to her that she could bake cookies. She knew that most people love cookies and like eating them all________ long. She called her newly created________ Cookies4Cures.

Dana started her________ mission when she was only seven years old. She and her mother________ spent two days a week baking the cookies at home. Dana would then________ the streets every weekend attempting to sell the cookies door to door to the local________. Her first goal was to make $1,000 in sales.“It was so________ and took us three months," Dana recalled her first tiring yet rewarding sales attempt.

Dana soon decided to move her Cookies4Cures campaign________ and that was when sales really started to________. At the end of the year, she raised $ 56, 000. The concept was simple: she baked the cookies and then________ others to donate online to fund research for rare diseases in exchange for her________ cookies.

Cookies4Cures is now________ on raising awareness for the rare diseases for children. Without a cure, it is scientific________ that provides hope to children and their families that one day one will be discovered. It is this________ that motivates Dana to keep________ baking for causes dear to her heart.

【推荐3】The moonlight poured in through the windows, lighting the room. Oliver was sitting at the table, totally _________ in his book. Oliver was a book_________ . He read books whenever he could. Grandma Agnes felt _________ Oliver when she heard him talk _________ about the books he read because they were poor. She knew the money she gave him for lunch was_________on those books instead.

The next day, on the bus, Oliver was reading his storybook again when he heard a noise and _________his eyes. He saw the bus driver_________ at a blind older woman. She _________ to the driver that her daughter was ill in hospital, and that she _________ to bring her purse. The driver mistakenly believed that she was making __________ to avoid paying the bus ticket! Knowing she wouldn’t be able to __________the driver, the older woman was about to get off the bus, when Oliver __________.

“I’ll pay for her fare, sir!” he said. Then Oliver helped the __________ older woman into the seat next to him and paid her fare. When he __________ to his seat, the woman said to him, “Thank you, little kid, you have a sweet voice!”

“I’m a big boy! And my name is Oliver,” Oliver said __________.

“I’m Mary,” the older woman __________ herself and expressed her __________ for helping her. Although Oliver had planned to use the money to buy the next book in the series he was reading, he couldn’t __________ to see Mary in trouble.

They had a __________ before Oliver’s stop arrived. Oliver liked Mary. She __________ him of Grandma Agnes. When he talked with her, she listened to him with the same patience as Grandma Agnes.