【推荐3】It has been another winter in the mountains of my home. High winds, heavy snows, and pouring rains have all ______ us, damaging power lines and the trees around. As I looked at the broken branches ______ my daughter’s yard it brought back memories from another ______ winter several years ago.

A foot of snow had fallen and was rapidly ______. The runoff from the hills had swollen the river and ______ puddles (水坑) in the road. In addition to this, broken and fallen tree branches were ______. I was driving home and suddenly saw one of these branches had ______ off a tree overhanging the road and fallen across it. I knew that it would only be a matter of ______ before one crashed into that branch maybe causing a/an ______ or even a death.

I quickly got out of my car and tried to pull the branch to the side of the road. It was a lot ______ than I thought it would be. But with a little prayer I started to ______ it. When it was finally ______ to the side I stood up and smiled. Just as I did, though, a red car raced around the curve, hit a pool of water in the road and ______ my pants. I shook my head and laughed.

Sometimes we all do good things in this life only to get ______. When this happens just remember that the real ______ you do good is because of the love inside of you.

【推荐1】My local supermarket is always busy. The first parking space I found was convenient, but I’d noticed a woman in a blue car ___________ for a while. As I was ___________, I let her have it. On the ___________ of the car park I backed into the next available spot — it was a tight fit.

Pretty soon, I’d made my way through the supermarket and was back in the fresh air. Feeling good, I ___________ my purse change into the hands of a homeless man and helped a ___________ woman reverse park (倒车).

Just as I ___________ my car, I saw the woman I’d let have my car space ___________. She was giving a mean odd _____________ — half puzzled, half intent (热切的). I smiled and wished her a pleasant day. As I squeezed back into my car, I ___________ the same lady looking in at me. “Hello,” she said, hesitantly. “This might sound crazy but I was on my way to ____________ some of my mother’s things off at the charity bins. You are just so much like her. You helped those people, I noticed, and you seemed so happy.” She looked at me meaningfully and passed a box in through the ____________, “I think she would like you to have it.” Shocked, I took it from her ____________. She smiled and walked away.

After a pause, I opened the box. ____________ was a beautiful gold necklace with a large grey pearl. It was the nicest gift I’d ever received, and it was from a complete ____________. The necklace was around my neck, a warm ____________ of human kindness.

【推荐2】Jeff Jensen was under depression. The businessman was limped by painful nerve damage in his leg and foot. He needed surgery, but he doubted if he could _______ it, even with insurance. “There’s nothing more _______ than seeing a bill for 182, 024, 000 dollars and going “How much of this will my insurance _______?” Jensen said.

_______ for Jensen, his doctor was Aguila, a nerve specialist who gave patients the option to pay for surgery through _______ work.

“We can’t ignore the people around us,” Aguila told TV, “We want to be able to offer hope to patients who have lost _______ in treatment.”

Using an algorithm (算法), the clinic _______ community service hours based on the price of the _______. In Jensen’s case, the price of the operation _______ 560 hours of helping out at one of the local charitable organizations.

Like 10 percent of Aguila’s patients, Jensen selected the community service. And because hundreds of hours of community service could seem ________ Aguila encouraged others to help. “I had the hope that we would ________ in our neighbors and in ourselves a sense of volunteerism.” he added.

Jensen, whose surgery was completed in February 2020, was helped by more than 100 friends and strangers who volunteered at a homeless aid organization which ________ food, clothing and medicine nationally and globally. Dave Harvey, ________ of the organization who was ________ by Aguila, said: “He not only helped those who couldn’t pay for the operation, but helped organizations like us by sending volunteers our way. What a (n) ________ thing!”

【推荐3】In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Julia Koch, a first-grade teacher, received a call from Cynthia Phillips, who was having technique difficulties with her granddaughter’s tools for online learning.

Koch _________ knew something was wrong with Phillips. The two women had spoken numerous times, but Koch had never heard the grandmother _________ quite like this. Her words were so _________ that Koch could barely understand her, although she was able to _________ that Phillips had fallen four times that day. Koch phoned her principal, Charlie Lovelady, who _________ that he would call and check on Phillips himself.

Just like Koch, Lovelady could barely understand Phillips. He _________ that she might be having a stroke (中风) because he recognised the _________ which his father had suffered from. Lovelady was able to make out the word ‘ kid ’ and immediately became _________ that Phillips’s two grandchildren, aged six and eight, were probably home alone with her —she was their primary guardian — and scared.

Lovelady asked his office manager to send a ( n ) _________ to the grandmother’s home. When he __________ less than ten minutes later, the ambulance crew was treating Phillips while the two girls, looking visibly __________ , were outside with a neighbour. The quick response from Koch and Lovelady saved Phillips’s life. She arrived at the hospital __________ to get treatment before chronic (长期的) damage occurred.

Virtual learning has been a ( n ) __________ across the world, but it’s fair to say that it has also helped communities grow __________ . Many teachers have given their personal phone numbers to students and families in case they needed extra help. In this case, the exchange was actually __________ .

【推荐1】At my heaviest I weighed 370 pounds. I had a very poor relationship with food: I used it to ________ bad feelings, to make myself feel better, and to celebrate. Worried about my health, I tried many different kinds of ________ but nothing worked. I came to believe that I could do nothing about my weight.

When I was 50, my weight problem began to affect me ________. I didn’t want to live the rest of my life with this extra weight any more.

That year, I attended a seminar where we were asked to create a project that would touch the world. A seminar leader shared her success story — she had not only lost 125 pounds, but also raised $25,000 for homeless children.

________ by her story, I created the As We Heal, the World Heals project. My goal was to lose 150 pounds in one year and raise $50,000________ a movement founded 30 years ago to end hunger. This combination of healing myself and healing the world hit me as the perfect solution.

As I began my own personal weight program, I was filled with the fear that I would ________ the same difficulties that beat me before. ________the fear hung over my head, there were also signs that I was heading down the right path. I sent letters to everyone I knew, telling them about my project. It worked perfectly. Donations began ________in from hundreds of people.

Of course, I also took some practical steps to lose weight. I consulted with a physician; I hired a fitness coach, and I began to eat small and healthy meals. My fund-raising focus also gave me new motivation to exercise ________.

A year later, I reached my goal: I lost 150 pounds and raised $50,000! I feel that I’ve been given a second life to devote to something that is ________ and enormous.

【推荐3】When an infectious disease broke out and supermarket shelves were _________, Daniel and Nancy decided they no longer wanted to _________ others for food. The couple decided to start a year-long _________ where they wouldn’t buy a single thing to eat. _________, they would grow, raise or catch everything.

Daniel said, “It is something that we have wanted to do. When the disease _________, it gave us that extra _________. At that time we were both _________, and that gave us even more motivation to see if we could _________ ourselves.” The pair built a house for chickens and ducks and studied online about where they would get all the things they needed. Daniel adds, “We had to learn so many new things like how to grow mushrooms and _________ salt from the ocean.”

Now after five months, they both feel well but Daniel __________ the first few weeks were difficult as their bodies adjusted to __________ coffee, wine and sugar all on the same day,” he says. “After three weeks our energy levels balanced out and our wishes __________ and now we feel great.” Now February has come to a(n) __________. As they survive winter, they feel __________ about continuing with this way of living, with their challenge __________ ending in August.