【推荐1】The future is burning bright for Smell of Love Candles and its 12-year-old CEO. After _________ the business in his family’s kitchen about two years ago, Alejandro will bring his candles to a world-famous shopping mall next week.

The _________ for Smell of Love came to Alejandro in 2019 when he discovered his mom’s head hurt from the smell of the candles she _________. Despite loving candles very much, she had no choice but to _________ them. Unwilling to see his mom _________, Alejandro started testing alternatives that would be _________ to make candles. To his delight, the first product was a _________ with his mom and her headache disappeared.

After deciding to form a business, Alejandro started brainstorming potential _________. “You smell candles, and they bring joy and love into your home, so why don’t we call them ‘Smell of Love Candles’?” he said. “The name truly goes with his _________,” said his mom. “Bringing happiness to others has been a big __________ in everything he does.”

Now Alejandro becomes the __________ stand owner of the nation’s most popular shopping mall. “We are very excited to support Alejandro with the opportunity to __________ his Smell of Love candles,” says the manager. “This is the first time that we have rented a place to a kid and __________ it will inspire more kids to follow their __________.”

Alejandro’s business is doing well, and he’s making money. Besides saving for school, he donates to charities monthly. To Alejandro, __________ isn’t only about making money. It’s about spreading love and helping others.

【推荐1】Verda Tetteh, a 17-year-old straight A high school student, is on her way to Harvard. At her graduation ceremony, Verda won a famous scholarship for general ________ that offered her $10,000 each year for four years. The scholarship was to help her _______ expenses on living, books, and computers.

She accepted, sat back down but then jumped up again, ________ to ask if she could say a few words. “It is such a great ________ but I also know that I am not in the most need of it,” Verda said. She ________ the money should go to struggling fellow students to help them ________ in community college.

After her ________, there was shock, and then applause followed for this ________ act of kindness. Verda ________ that right after receiving the scholarship, she ________ her mom, Rosemary Annan. ________, she knew that she should do the right thing and _________ the scholarship.

Annan worked hard and showed ________. She brought Verda and her ________ to the US from Ghana, often working 80 hours a week to ________ the family, and never hesitating to help out the needy in her community. Annan always stressed the importance of ________ and, in fact, went back to school as a(n) ________ student and is now working towards earning a bachelor’s degree.

Annan also taught her children to be ________. She is very ________ of her daughter’s act. “That ________ my heart. I would do that. And I know she would do that, too. She’s learned from me over the years,” Annan said.

【推荐2】A few notable moments from my most recent volunteering at the Children’s Hospital never escape me.

After we had ________ with the nurses, Dr. Tiny and I went to our first room, inside which were a mother and a two-year-old boy. This young boy was ________ on the bed, jumping up and down. Mom looked at us with a sense of expectation and curiosity. She was trying to calm her son, but she couldn’t. Dr. Tiny ________ his tool and waved it through the air creating bubbles (肥皂泡) in front of the child. I had a ________ with me. I started to play gentle, ________ music. As we did this, the young boy watched the bubbles with his eyes, and began to rock ________ gently to the music. He slowly reached out his hand to ______ the bubbles. We glanced over at the mom and noticed that she, too, had become ________.

Later, we walked into another room at the Emergency Department. The patient was a teenage boy who had met with a terrible ________, leaving him unable to sit up. ________, he could raise his head with ________ to see us as we entered the room. He saw our guitar. “Play me a song,” he said, “The Red Nose Reindeer.”

I quickly adjusted my guitar, ________ my throat, and began to sing, “Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way…” The patient looked up with a look of ________. With a smile, he said, “Play The Red Nose Reindeer, please!” Dr. Tiny looked at me and said, “You are starting to embarrass us.” I glanced at Dr. Tiny and the patient, ________ for getting it wrong I began to sing again. As Dr. Tiny and I sang the song, the patient sang along and laughed. “That was a good one!” he shouted ________.

【推荐3】One day after work, I was using a pay phone when suddenly I found a wallet on the floor. I _________ it and found that it was a man’s wallet. I decided to try to reach the _________ but couldn’t find anything except credit cards. So I called the credit card company and _______ what happened and offered them my name and phone number.

Looking in the wallet a little further, I found a ticket of buying the wallet with a phone number listed. I took a _________ and called it, contacting the man’s wife in the end. I gave her my name, phone number and _________ address in order that her husband could meet me to _________ his wallet. She _________ me and told me he was _________ anxious to find it. Therefore, we _________ a time for her husband to see me the next day.

The next day the man came to my office early. I returned him his __________ and he thanked me for trying every possible means to get his wallet back to him. The credit card company had __________ him that I called. He gave me a hand-drawn boat as a reward, which __________ me. We then sat down and __________ for a while.

But the following thing that happened caught me by __________. The man with the wallet happened to be a client(客户) of our company. Wow, it is a __________ world!

【推荐2】Stretching the Sharing

I made several loaves (条) of chocolate bread for my friends. Instead of ________ loaves, I’ve cut the sweet bread into slices and shared them with my friends and neighbors. Sometimes that is all you ________ with a cup of tea or coffee. AND... it ________ the number of people with whom I can share it.

Last week, ________ supply chain issues, I could not find my favorite ________ product in stores. I checked the company’s ________ and found that it was ________. I ordered several bottles from them. When the package arrived, I discovered that they had doubled my order in it, but didn’t ________ me for the extras. I phoned customer service. The sales girl couldn’t have been ________. She said that since the error was their ________ and that I could keep the extras at no charge. After our conversation, I took the phone survey and gave the girl and the company their highest ________. I gave one of the bottles of cleaner to a friend who also had difficulty trying to find the ________ on store shelves.

My friends praised me, “Your ________ to report extra bottle is a very good deed indeed and sharing extra chocolate bread and bottle with friends ________ your kindness.” Hearing that, I was happy that my kindness to more was greatly ________.