【推荐1】On a December night, fire trucks arrived in the sleepy little town of Manton, Michigan and rushed to Chittle’s home. It wasn’t because a child climbed too high to a dangerous place. _________, it was for helping make a dream come true.

Outdoor activities are a mainstay in this rural town. When the town went into lockdown, Scott Chittle _________ the community needed a safe place to come together. And what’s a better outdoor activity to get people outside than ice skating? To make his dream a reality, Chittle _________ instructions on how to build an ice rink (溜冰场) and then _________ a 3,000 square foot waterproof cloth and some wood to create walls online. It took 12 fire trucks to get enough water to _________ the plot.

It took a little time and some unneighborly persuasion as Chittle went door to door to _________ people to come to see his _________, and soon Chittle’s backyard ice rink became a Manton _________ spot. Children were skating and shooting, a fire was burning, and hot chocolate was steaming in to-go cups. “When things were _________, it was a precious place,” says Chittle’s neighbour Audrey Hooker. “It was fantastic because we just came together and became __________.”

But the goodwill didn’t stop with Chittle. When the community heard how much money he used to make this __________ happen, everyone __________. A fundraiser brought in about $1,300. “Almost 30 complete __________ knocked on my door to just shake my hands and say thank you. Most of them __________ me money as well,” says Chittle. “This has been a community thing. It’s not just me. I want to show the rest of the world what a little __________ and the best intentions can do.”

【推荐2】It was a sunny day when I quit my job to travel. As a contract administrator(合同管理员)for a shipping company, I’d spent 2012 _______in Washington DC. While it was a well-paid job, even a_______career, it was not what I wanted, I wanted to _______stories and see the world.

The _______of this decision were sown(播种)in 2010, when I graduated from college and moved to Spain to teach English. I spent my spare time travelling around Europe, writing it all in my blog. After two years, my teaching contracts_______, so I moved back to work in Washington DC.

Writing, on the other hand, continued to make me_______. And during those two years in Spain, my blog had_______many readers. But I faced a   _______   decision: quit and pursue writing full-time, or keep a good job.I knew that _______to the world of writing and travelling was the right choice,________ I began planning my next move. This time, my________was New Zealand.

Every night________I came home from my job I work on my blog. I spent a year________my blog and setting up freelance(自由职业者)writing contracts, so that I would have guaranteed paid work once I quit. A few months later, I was invited to explore Jordan for a few weeks. I knew the time had come to________the final preparations. I planned out my trips, ________my flights and sold my car (my last strong tie to my old life)before________. And finally, I was on my way to New Zealand.

Since quitting my job, I’ve sailed off the coast of Italy and Greece; dived in Bali; ridden horses across western Mongolia; slept________the stars on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. Not once have I________my decision to leave my job in Washington DC. Through all this, I have achieved my________of becoming a writer. I gave up a comfortable life to pursue personal happiness—________proving that dreams really do come true, if you work for them.

【推荐3】On New Year’s Eve, I came across an old couple at a secondhand store. They moved slowly around me _______something.

“Can I help you?” I asked.

They stopped, looked at me and said, “We’re looking for _______ things that look new.”

Then they _______ . I didn’t. It must have been a private joke between them.

Noticing I looked _______, the man explained, “Look, every new year in the past we _______ to begin the year with new things. It was a goal to surround ourselves with things _______ and new so that we had new direction, new hopes and dreams for the _______ ahead.”

“How did that _______?” I asked.

“Well, after so many years, we discovered it really got us _______,” the woman said.

“Then why do you ________at a secondhand store? Are things bad financially?”

“No, not at all. We just discovered that things don’t have to be ________but to be of great value. ________ it’s old, it’s new to someone who ________ saw it before,” the man said.

“So, each year now we search for things that are ________ to others but mean the world to us,” the woman added.

This couple had spent most of their lives ________ that there was power in “things” and on New Year’s Eve, they should ________ old things and be surrounded with new things. They spent most of their lives believing that by doing so, their life was going to change magically.

________, the truth is, there really isn’t anything different from one day to the next, one year to the next, except for your ________ to it. Everything is there waiting to be ________, so everything is old until you see it for the first time.

I have learned a ________ that day and it has been the best New Year gift I have ever received.

【推荐1】I was a city girl who knew nothing about gardening. Then, in 2003, I ________ gardening with 10 neighborhood children.

At the time, I had a dress shop on the footpath between the church and their ________, and the children would ________ for a drink of water. Sometimes, they were in the back of my ________ doing homework. One day I gave them some fresh peas. I ________ peas didn’t come from the grocery store basement, but some of the children did not. I just wanted to show them where ________ came from.

Our ________ was considered a food desert: local people were ________ to buy healthy food within walking distance, and ________ people had cars. You could buy all the junk food you wanted, ________ you couldn’t buy foods like an apple, orange or banana. So I started thinking, “This would be a lot ________ if people could grow their own food.”

Soon we started gardening with one bed, growing tomatoes and potatoes. The kids were so ________. It was like magic for them. And it was magic for me, ________.

Now we have 65 beds. When people come to church for food ________ their eyes light up at the sight of fresh tomatoes, beans and potatoes. I ________ them to become gardeners and offer them a bed of their own to ________.

Now we have families growing their own vegetables, and community members ________ affordable food at our market. More than 1,800 people received fresh produce, and we ________ over 4,000 pounds of surplus (剩余的) prepared foods. The ________ of people coming to church for food assistance in the summer growing season has fallen.

But the garden is about more than just food. Our community members ________ in age from 3 to 93, and speak many different languages. We have a lot of divisions in our community but in the garden everyone is the same.

【推荐2】Zachariah Fike has an unusual hobby. He finds old military medals _______ in antique shops(古董店)and on the Internet. But unlike most collectors, Zac tracks down the medals’ rightful _______, and returns them.

His effort to _______ families with lost medals began with a Christmas gift from his mother, a Purple Heart with the name Corrado A. G. Piccoli, found in an antique shop. Zac knows the

Through the Internet, Zac _______ tracked down Corrado’s sister Adeline Rockko. But when he finally _______ her, the woman _______ him with questions: “Who are you? What antique shop?” However, when she hung up, she regretted the way she had ________ the call. So she called Zac back and ________. Soon she drove to meet Zac in Watertown, N.Y. “At that point, I knew she meant ________,” Zac says. “To drive eight hours to come to see me.”

Before hearing from Zac, Adeline hadn’t ________ the medal was missing. Like many military medals, the one Zac’s mother had found was a family ________. “This medal was very precious to my parents. Only on ________ occasions would they take it out and let us hold it in our hands,” Adeline says.

Zac and Adeline got to know each other well after their first meeting. They’ve talked about planning a ________ to Italy, hoping to visit some of the ________ Corrado could have stayed at during the war. Adeline says, “Zac’s ________ of our family now.”

Zac recently returned ________ lost medal to a family in Alabama. Since the first Corrado’s medal, Zac says his ________ is now 5 for 5.