【推荐1】A couple of years ago, my husband was jailed by mistake in Idaho，about 400 miles from our Oregon home. He had ________ a month in the small jail before the judge finally ________ the mistake and let him go. The problem was that when he was arrested he only ________ jeans and a light T-shirt, but when he was set free the weather was ________ colder. It was early evening when my husband began ________ towards the freeway, unsure how he would get home.

Just a few minutes had passed when a man stopped and offered him a ________. And after my husband told him about his ________ , this stranger went out of his way to help. First he drove my husband to the ________ only to find out there wasn’t another bus leaving for Oregon for another two days. After letting my husband ________ me, he took him to his home, where his ________ and 7 lovely kids all got out of bed to greet him and fed him a wonderful meal. Then this man ________ half the night simply talking with my husband, and both of them had a good time.

Receiving the call, I ________ their area early the next morning about sun up . ________ I had a bit of trouble finding his place in the country. I had to call for ________ and the nice man drove out to find me, and led me out to his farm home where my husband was waiting .________ , the whole family got out of bed. made us a wonderful ________ to make us full, and offered to let us stay and rest before we left for home.

This man and his wife, ________ my husband from freezing to death alongside the freeway, and then made him ________ until I arrived. We are always ________ for his kindness, and we will keep the ________ forever.

【推荐2】It was the first day I was able to get out of bed since getting my heart shattered (难过的). I decided to have a ________ , trying to start feeling human again.

When my hairdresser asked how I had been, I wanted to say “fine” because that’s what you’re ________ to do when you make small talk. ________ I even realized what was happening, tears started rolling down my cheeks.

________ missing a beat, this woman who ________ knew me gathered me in her arms and ________ me as I cried.

She said, “I can feel all your pain and it’s ________ .”

I had been feeling so ________ sad and hopeless for days. When people we open our hearts and souls to ________ us, we lose faith.

I was ________ that I couldn’t hold myself together for a simple haircut. I felt like my tears were admitting my ________ . I had lost a friend, and lost a home.

But this stranger took care of me in a way that I ________ . I opened up to someone I hardly knew, and just let all my hurt pour out into her arms, and she did the same. We ________ together.

In just that moment, my ________ closed just a bit more, and it reminded that there were truly ________ people in this world. I began to understand that I was not alone.

【推荐3】Smith brought his three-month-old son out for breakfast one day. He was playing with his son and tending to him while eating, and just doing his _________ thing.

But then he noticed a _________ staring at him. He was _________. “What is going on?” “They kept _________ at me,” he wrote in a post.

As it _________, the strangers were just happy to see a dad spending time with his son, and they felt inspired while watching the _________. Smith had no way of knowing that until he paid for his meal. He was given by the waiter a _________ from the couple, saying what a great father he was and that they would like to leave some _________ for his meal.

“Today your meal is on my wife and me,” it read. “_________ that baby as long as possible. The Masons.”

For Smith, it was a happy moment of reassurance (认可) and feeling __________. He was touched by the generosity and noted that he didn’t have a father figure growing up, so spending this time with his son is super __________ to him.

He wrote that he’ll share this __________ with his son when he’s older and that he wants to teach him kindness and about the __________ of giving back.

“I make sure I’m __________,” Smith wrapped. “I get blessed — I want to __________ someone else.”

【推荐2】In 1996, Novak and Sue Cohen founded Sketch Working Arts, a charity. It aims to ________ the lives of homeless youth through their ________.

Sketch’s programs assist participants to find out a ________ they didn’t know they had. Novak believes the arts provide skills to ________ the homeless, who are in economic and social ________ : “You need creative ideas to ________ these challenges,”she says. “The arts ________ the creativity and confidence required to make the homeless ________, prosper and team up in their communities.”

The homeless artist and musician Kut Throat Kleo ________ Sketch’s programs in 2019. At Sketch, she had ________ access to a music studio and a silkscreen-printing program where she could learn, experiment and ________ others.

Using her silk screening skills, the 25-year-old now ________ a clothing label. She says she wouldn’t have the rich life she has today without Sketch. “There’s a lot of ________ and honesty in the community,” she says, “as well as freedom to express and exist as who you are.”

In 2021, Sketch ________ nearly $70, 000, as well as free cellphones and tablets, to support young artists and keep them ________ during the isolation of lockdown because of COVID.

This year, the ________ is planning a party for its 25th anniversary. Novak is ________ that Sketch will fully reopen this spring, COVID permitting. She says. “ Sketch is ________ for now, but I know that hope and creative energy will return ________ We believe we can use arts education to end ________.”