【推荐2】Ebra Ferrell got the standard well wishes on social media on her 53rd birthday. Meanwhile, she got some _______ messages too. One was about a family who had just _______ their four-year-old son due to cancer. His older brother was especially _______. Could Ferrell help?

That _______ and the 30 others like it were exactly what Ferrell was looking for. To celebrate her 53rd, Ferrell had put out a(n) _______ on social media. She wanted to _______ 53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed _______ on people who could use one. When she got the note about the family, she sent a wind chime (风铃) with the words “Listen to the wind and know that I am near” _______ on it. It now _______ in the four-year-old’s bedroom, where his brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Ferrell has decided to give ________ for her birthday. For her 47th, she ________ Love with Skin On, an organization devoted to doing good deeds in her town and ________. Its motto is simple: Be Love, Do Stuff. Over the years, Ferrell has ________ and touched well over 100 strangers, some found via social media callouts, others with ________ from her grandkids.

Ferrell ________ everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases, and care packages, as well as the gas it ________ to play fairy godmother (仙女玩具). Her family often gives some ________ birthday cash to her with their   ________ not to spend it on anyone else, which she ________ ignores. “I got a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday this year, and ‘YESSS!’” It’s Ferrell’s party, and she’ll ________ if she wants to.

【推荐3】Jane has been married for many years. She is always hoping for romantic moments, just like a little girl wishing for candies. However, her husband is just the _______. He hardly brings romantic moments into their life, _______ has made Jane tired of their marriage. Finally, one day, Jane told her husband that she wanted to divorce （和…离婚）him.

“Why?" he asked, in _______ .

"I am tired; there is no _______ for everything in the world!" Jane answered.

Lost in deep thought, her husband sat there, _______, with a lighted cigarette in his hands.

Looking deep into his eyes, Jane answered slowly, "Let's say, if I want a flower on a mountain cliff （悬崖）,but picking the flower will cost you your _______ , will you do it for me?"

He answered, "you will have my answer tomorrow?"

Waking up the next morning, Jane found a piece of paper lying on the dining table, which _______: “My dear, I would not pick that flower for you, but please listen to my _______

Though it only ________ the feeling of her disappointment, Jane continued reading: "The moment you leave the house keys ________, I will have to save my legs, rushing home to open the ________ for you. You always like to stay indoors and I ________ that you will feel too lonely, so I have to save my mouth to tell you jokes and stories. You always ________ long at the computer, which will do ________ to your eyes, so I have to save my eyes so that when we grow ________,1 can help to clip your nails. Thus, my dear, unless I am sure that there is someone who loves you ________ I do, I could not pick that flower yet, and die."

Jane's tears fell on the ________ and she continued reading: “Now that you have finished reading my answer, if you are ________ , please open the front door, for I am standing outside bringing you your favorite bread and fresh milk."

________ , not words, wins arguments.

【推荐1】When I was ten, I lived in a neighborhood with a public library nearby, which opened in the evening. I enjoyed reading and after school I would ______ there ahead of its opening time. Without waiting for things there to be ______, I would just turn on the lights in kids’ section and start my reading.

The ______ didn’t look approachable. I used to hear him being ______ on people who had late returns or damaged the books, so I was afraid of him. Every day, fifteen minutes before the ______closing time, he would start announcements and ask people to ______. I didn’t have a library card and couldn’t take my half read books with me, simply putting the books back ______. The librarian must have silently ______ my long face, because he started ______ the closure only in other sections. This ______ me minutes to read.

For five years, I had read most of the books in the library. The librarian was still serious and ______ on words, but he would smile at me. If I missed going to the library, he would be ______ and ask why I had missed my routine (常规). Then one day the librarian asked me to ______ for my own borrower’s account and wrote my name on my first-ever library card.

After my graduation, I moved away and ______ that library. When I went to the library again, unfortunately, I was told that the librarian had retired and the library has smart cards instead of those with the librarian’s ______ !

【推荐2】Every year, the fifth graders at Brookstone Elementary School went on a field trip to Washington, D.C. Terence ________ the exciting trip, and was dying to go the next year.

Terence asked his parents ________ if they would pay for half of the trip if he earned the other half of the money himself. His parents agreed. He had almost a year to earn $150. His first ________ was to earn money by babysitting, and he typed a nice letter saying that “he would babysit during his neighbours’ ________ ”. He named a few afternoons available and said he would ________ $1 per hour per child. After five babysitting ________ , he earned $45.

When the ________ weather arrived, Terence knocked on his neighbours’ doors to ask if they needed help with yard work. He helped with mowing and weeding gardens. After the summer was over，he earned $75. When the fall arrived，he counted his money and ________ that he still needed $30 for his trip. Soon his mom saw a(n) ________ for a job for him. He got a job ________ newspapers every Wednesday afternoon, making 5 cents for every paper, $10 in total each Wednesday. It wasn’t long before he had ________ money to go on the trip to Washington, D.C. He was ________ in time. The class trip was on October 15. His mom and dad gave him a check for the $150 they ________ him. What a great feeling! He helped ________ the cost of his trip.

This experience ________ Terence in many ways, making his dream a reality with great efforts.

【推荐3】Adventure is in my blood. And I had been considering how I was going to celebrate my high school graduation. I didn’t just want a small ________ in the backyard, I started thinking about doing a solo (独自的)________ somewhere out of the ordinary. I took out the ________ and drew a 1, 500-mile route along which I would be ________ from the northernmost point in Norway to the southernmost section of Sweden. When I ________ my plan with my dad, he ________ as I thought he would. Because I got my adventurous ________ from him, he was all for it.

I had only been away from my home for three days, but there was an inner ________ going on. Part of me was homesick and doubting whether I really could ________. The other part of me was ready to ________ to myself and my family that I could do it by myself.

On the road, I met another bicyclist who was quite a bit older than I was. He started his journey alone by bike at the southern part of Norway and just finished. I could tell he had a great sense of ________. It encouraged me not to ________.

As I listened to my favourite artists on my MP4 player, I pedaled with my feet. There was nobody around me for miles. ________, that wasn’t entirely true. There were millions of mosquitoes (蚊子). My arms were so dotted (布满) with ________ that they looked like a topographical (地形的) map. But however ________ it would be, nothing could stop my advance on the destination. As you know, adventure is in my blood.