【推荐1】I sat in the guidance counselor’s office, wishing for the possibilities of sports college. The counselor sighed. “Are you ________ you want to go to college?” she asked, “It will be ________ with your limitation, you know.” My limitation she called was diabetes (糖尿病). I was a(n) ________ on the track and field team. But according to her, I was limited.

“Well...” I ________, unsure of how to respond. Was I sure? Yes, I was ________ sure I wanted to go to college. But I started to feel an enemy in my heart, ________ my ability to succeed. Later that night at home, I asked my mom, “What would you ________ it I just went to community college?”

“Great!” Mom replied. So I talked to the admissions counselor at the school I really wanted to go to. She said all I was ________ was my official high school transcript (成绩单) so I   ________ to have it in the mail the next day. But two weeks later, I received a ________ letter.

I was burning. I knew I couldn’t lie down or ________ defeat; if so, my limitation would ________ . I readjusted my college ________ and eventually accepted a track scholarship to Cabrini College, where I spent four ________ years growing into a great woman. In 2012, I graduated with two bachelor degrees and my teaching certification. Now I’m ________ as a PE teacher in a high school in North Philadelphia.

I ________ have diabetes. But my ability to serve others and to teach is something diabetes cannot ________ . Actually my biggest ________ was not my diabetes, but my inability to ________ myself. Once I overcame that fear, I realized ________ could stop me from reaching for the stars.

【推荐2】Comfort food is something everyone can appreciate.________simply for our bodies. comfort food nourishes（滋养）the soul and spirit. Now, Spencer is taking the________to a new level. She is beginning to________comfort food to those in need.

A flood has brought stress and food________to tables where it's never been felt before, but it's also________the opportunity to be able to give back in ways that are immediate and meaningful. Last week, Spencer________a generous donation（捐赠）on his son Bill's 7th birthday. It________his birthday celebration from “doubtful” to “great”. Spencer had an idea to________that kindness further.

Immediately the mother of three________$600 buying food for eight strange people. “I just wanted to bring people ____ ,” Spencer said. Not being________, she was in a position both to give and receive. However, from her mom's positive example Bill learned to________what he received. “We've been on both sides of the range,” she said. “It's not a good________when you don't know where to get food for your kids and where your next________is.”

Spencer's acts of kindness were________by the public because a sharp-eyed store employee________the good deeds and posted them to social media. This week Spencer will further________the love by supplying holiday meals to two families in need in her community but she isn't________there. She says she also plans to________her kind acts she can, and hopes that others who see her story will be________to do the same.

【推荐1】It was Jennifer Williams’s mother who got her hooked on books. When Williams, now 54, became an elementary school teacher in Danville, Virginia, she wanted her ________ to fall in love with ________ just as she had. But early on, she realized that some kids had ________ access to books.

“At the end of the first day of school, it’s very ________ to teachers which kids are read to and which kids are not,” she said. To Williams, the ________ was simple: Give kids books. In 2017, as part of a charity event called Engage Danville, she ________ 900 used children’s books over three days. “I just ________ to do something that’s going to stretch my faith.” she said.

So she set a new ________ for herself: Donate one million books. It sounds like an ________ number, but as Williams posted on Facebook: “Don’t complain in the bleachers (露天看台) if you aren’t ________ to work hard out on the field.”

So she got to work, first by ________ friends to donate books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’s project ________, strangers started ________ bundles of books on her front porch. As ________ as the books come in, Williams ________ them to local schools and little free libraries around the city.       By 2021, in the four ________ she’s been doing all this, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be known, has given away more than 78,000 books—only 922,000 more to ________ her goal! And she’s not ________. It’s too important for kids with few ________.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” she told CNN. “You can travel in time and space. If you can read, there’s nothing you can’t ________.”

【推荐2】On June 18, 2018, Tim, who lost his hearing and sight, was aboard (在飞机上) a flight from Boston to Los Angeles. He needed ______ with a cup of drinking water, but couldn’t ______ his needs through sign language for a long time.

Even worse, nobody could ______ his hand gestures (手势), and even if they tried to relay something by sign language, Tim’s ______ impairment (障碍) made it challenging.

Several flight attendants gathered around Tim, ______ to help. After none of their efforts succeeded, one of them ______ aboard if anybody knew American Sign Language.

Clara Daly, 15, and her mother, were on the ______ flight. Clara heard it loud and clear and ______ the call button. She’d learned American Sign Language a year ago to deal with her reading disability and ______ took action.

Everyone around watched the girl in ______ as she approached Tim and knelt (跪) in front of his seat. She held both his hands and used fingerspelling to ______ him by signing each letter of every word.

In no time, the two became friends instantly. They chatted just like ______ people and shared their backgrounds and interests.

Tim and Clara’s chance ______ made the headline (成为重要新闻). Tim shared his ______ on the experience through an interpreter. He said, “I was in a bad ______ before Clara helped and she was very sweet. She had very clear communication, and we had a nice conversation. Best trip I’ve ever had.”

【推荐3】Raegan Lawrence is an 11-year-old student and band member at Bonaire Middle School, in central Georgia, USA. Over the past several months, she has used the grief (悲痛) and stress _________ by the COVID-19 pandemic to _________ her best and help others in the process.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been very _________ to Raegan and her family. She lost two of her aunts as well as her great grandfather to the _________. And she hasn’t been able to visit some of her _________ such as her grandfather.

Feeling constantly sad, she _________ to find out what she could do to make things _________. While thinking about ways she could _________, her band began to sell “the world’s finest chocolate bars” to raise funds.

This gave her a(n) _________ — why not buy the world’s finest chocolate bars to ____________ the world’s finest people? In her mind, the finest people in the world are the healthcare workers, firemen, and first responders who have ____________ themselves during this pandemic to helping others while putting themselves in ____________.

And sell she did! While Reagan is typically a ____________ person, this did not stop her from promoting sales of her candy bars and then using the money ____________ to buy bars for first responders. She also ____________ to take all the money she had in savings from Christmas, her birthday and other gifts to buy chocolate bars for the world’s finest people.

In all, Raegan ____________ over 400 bars. The first responders that received them were ____________ not just for the world’s finest chocolate, but the ____________ and caring actions of one of the world’s finest 11-year-old girls!

Raegan Lawrence’s story has ____________ many others to help those in need during this ____________ moment.