【推荐2】Every morning, Catherine takes exercise around some gardens in our neighborhood. One morning, she was walking _________ than usual, and it was still dark.

As she was walking, a cyclist (骑自行车的人)came up to her, _________ her handbag and sped off. She ran after him shouting “thief, thief”. A man further ahead must have _________ her or seen what had happened. He was washing a car with a bucket (桶)of _________ near him. He took the bucket and poured (灌)it onto the cyclist.

The cyclist drove off the street and _________ his bike. Some other people rushed over. My friend Catherine was worried that the people would beat him. She begged them not to _________ him.

She asked the boy why he did this to her. He _________ that he was the son of a farmer and that this year their crops had failed. He said that the money lenders would beat up his father and hurt his _________ if he didn’t pay on time. He said that he was hopeless and didn’t know what else to do. He was very _________.

Catherine was __________ moved by his story. She looked into the boy’s eyes and then took out some ________ from her handbag and gave it to him. She told him that stealing was __________ and that he shouldn’t do it again. He said he would follow her __________. He told her that he was in fact well brought up and that he had made a terrible __________

The boy left thankfully. Catherine sincerely __________ that this would be the last time that the boy tried to steal something.

【推荐3】Actor Anthony Anderson has realized a dream 30 years in the making. The 51-year-old ________ a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Howard University last week. “It was all a dream! Words fail to________ the feeling I’m having right now,” Anderson wrote on a social media platform. “My proudest moment is a sense of ________—finishing what I started many years ago.”

Anderson finished his junior year at Howard 30 years ago. ________ some financial difficulties, he had to ask for a________ from school. He worked hard to make a________. Later he started a family and his career ________. He played the starring roles in many films and became a________. The following years he was occupied in his work and didn’t return to school. It was something     he always felt________ about — until his son, Nathan, gained ________ to Howard four years ago. That inspired his longing for university study, so he was________ to go back and finish his degree.

“This spring I was________ able to finish the work to graduate from Howard University,” Anderson said. He marked it as a________ by calling it “a full-circle moment” and ________ his fans, “It’s never too late. Things happen when they’re supposed to happen!” Anderson, now a father of two, plans to ________ his education and go to graduate school for a master’s degree.

【推荐1】I’d like to share my story of kindness. I had a minor car _________ and needed to get a new car as soon as possible. But I didn’t have much _________. And everything is more _________ these days, so I saw some second-hand cars for around $5,000. And then I found one advertised for $4,000.

This car has some _________ outside and only one key, but it has power locks, steering, windows, newer tyres, and safety airbags, so it is much _________ than my old car. After a test drive, I _________ to buy it. The seller, Richard, said that he only wanted me to pay $3,500. I was very _________ and thanked him a lot. And out of _________, I asked him the reason.

Richard told me that he _________ I was a single mom of an eleven-year-old child and had had an accident. He was very __________ to me, so he wanted to give me a hand. __________, he told me that he’d paid three-month registration, __________ the tank and bought me a new key! These cost almost $300. I was totally __________ by what he had done for me. I expressed my sincerest __________ to him.

We have been driving around feeling so safe and happy, Richard has made such a __________ to our lives!