【推荐2】A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the _______ was that he found himself unable to ask for help-his mobile phone went out of _______ as a result of exhausted battery（电池没电）. Nothing could be done but _______ in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the _______ of the rescue（救援）.

It is almost _______ that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his _______ ：“First of all I checked up my _______ conditions and found myself not in fatal（致命的）danger. As there was no _______ to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from _______ . In this way I dozed（打盹）off.”

His story put an end to my regret for the ________ of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men ________ to explore a mountain cave and got lost. ________ to find a way out in the dark cave, they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of ________. Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the ________ people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the ________ of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to ________ themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering（闪烁）not far away.

Don’t you think that you can compare it with ________ itself? When you meet with obstacles in life, you are lost in darkness. Mind you（请你注意）when it’s ________ , you needn’t put up struggle ________. It seems to be a negative attitude, ________ a person who can afford to do so must have foresight（预见）as well as great courage in the first place.

【推荐2】I manage a financial department. I recently promised my team that if they exceeded (超过) their goal, the company would _________ them to a very good Italian restaurant that we all love. They exceeded the goal by a lot, so I made a _________ for the sixteen of us.

The day of our outing, we were seated. Right away and in a while the waitress took our __________ Then, the waitress told us that she was sorry, because the person who was supposed to be helping her didn't _________. So she had to _________ our party, and other customers on her own.

She looked visibly _________ when I told her that I would pay for everything on one check instead of separate checks. Our ordering was a little chaotic (混乱的). We were busy having fun and conversation, so none of us _________ that. The food was delicious and we enjoyed it very much. It came time for the _________ and, as was explained to me when I made the reservation, the restaurant _________ an 18% tip to the bill. The bill came to about US $650 before the tip and I gave her my credit card.

She returned with my receipt and thanked us and __________ that their service was a little slow. We told her everything was perfect and thanked her for working so hard. She had been so nice to us and __________, that I left an additional US $50 cash tip in the receipt folder.

All of a sudden, the waitress came out of the restaurant and grabbed my arm. I was thinking if I forgot to sign the __________ or something when I noticed she had __________ in her eyes. She thanked me for the tip and said she really didn't __________ it. She had had a __________ time lately and the tip really warmed her heart.

【推荐3】Two years ago, my friend and I were at college. With his birthday quickly approaching, he came to me with an unusual _________: instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was _________ for such an idea. Giving instead of taking for the birthday was really difficult. I asked him how he could come up with such a _________ idea. He told me about a TED talk he had watched on generosity, which had inspired him. So we started to _________ creative things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards to _________ its students. They have to work _________, keeping watch on every corner throughout the university. For the most part it’s a thankless job as most people grow _________ to seeing the guards all around and eventually barely notice their _________, let alone acknowledge their efforts. How could we show them our appreciation?

We decided to make a large pot of hot _________. We hired a Uber and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the __________ would be and we poured them each a cup of hot chocolate. The Uber driver was __________ a bit doubtful to the entire plan but after a while he was helping us __________ the guards and our lively spirit had __________ to him as well. We were met with many __________ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a __________ act or even intention of generosity can lift everyone’s spirit.