【推荐3】Donald lived in three different foster homes and changed schools with each move. The experience left him ______ and often dropping out of school, making Donald lose all ______for school. Then he ______ Mr. Felipe, the CIS site coordinator (协调员) at his school.

Mr. Felipe ______ developed a plan to meet Donald’s needs. He ______ school supplies and clothes for Donald and encouraged him to join the schools karate (空手道) program. After months of working with Mr. Felipe, Donald’s ______ changed. He became more ______and optimistic. He ______ making friends at school and building ______ with his teachers and classmates. Meanwhile, his grades ______ as well.

“My mom has ______ that my attitude has changed a lot, and my grades are much better too. I like to come to the CIS classroom because it is ______ to be here. Mr. Felipe gives us snacks and provides school supplies for us. We work in the garden and we get the ______ we need to study and do our homework. I feel happy and motivated when I come to this ______.”

For Donald, Mr. Felipe is the person who changed his life. “I was in foster care when I was 4-5 years old and was ______ from my brother for part of the time. I’m back with my family now and happy to have them in my ______,” said Donald. “But I still ______ that time and the bad depression I felt. At school, art and football helped me forget and let it all ______. It is Mr. Felipe who helped me when I was ______. Because of him I became more serious about ______ and work in general. ”

【推荐1】Hester is an owner of a clothes shop who always does her bit to help the society.

She is more than just an _________ person, although she doesn't think similarly. Since she started operating her shop four years ago, she has been taking out 10% of her first _________ every day for charity. Besides, she has five piggybanks at home, and before she goes out for work every morning, she always _________ a least 15 coins into those piggybanks for _________ purposes.

She says she read of an article "If I were A Millionaire" in which the author said he would _________ most of his money to help the _________if he were a millionaire. And that story had fuelled her to do _________. Twenty years ago, she was _________ by a story in which the parents brought along their _________ with piggybanks to donate（捐赠）money to build a hospital, and some businessmen also __________ 10% of their first sale every day for charity. So she decided to __________ these people.

"If my monthly sales go beyond my __________, I will also take out part of the __________ for charity, I am always told that individually（个体地）we are __________, but our combined effort can do wonders. As long as each of us __________a little bit of light, we can __________ up the whole world."

"I hope I can __________ other people in the society to help those really in need of our __________. As long as each of us is __________to take out a few cents, there will be less __________ in this world.

【推荐2】I recently did a time diary project looking at 1,001 days in the lives of extremely busy women. They had _______ jobs, sometimes their own businesses, kids to care for and maybe parents to care for. I had them record their _______ for a week so I could _______ how much they worked and slept, and I _______ them about their strategies (策略) for my book.

One of the _______ whose time log (时间记录) I studied goes out on a Wednesday night for something. She comes home to find that her water heater has _______, and there is now water all over her basement. If you’ve ever had anything like this _______ to you, you know it is a hugely _______ and frightening mess (杂乱). So she’s cleaning up the basement that night, next day she’s got repairmen coming in, the day after that, a professional cleaning team _______ the ruined carpet. All this is being ________ on her time log. All this takes seven hours of her week. Seven hours. That’s like finding a(n) ________ hour in the day.

________, I’m sure if you had asked her at the ________ of the week, “Could you find seven hours to train for a triathlon (铁人三项)?” “Could you find seven hours to advise seven worthy people?” I’m sure she would have said what most of us would’ve said, which is, “No, can’t you see how ________ I am?” Yet when she had to find seven hours because there was water all over her ________, she found seven hours.

What this shows us is that time is ________ elastic(有弹性的). We cannot ________ more time, but time will stretch to fit in ________ we choose to put into it.

It’s about looking at the whole of our time and seeing when we can do what we want to do. I truly ________ this. There is time. Even if we are busy, we have time for what matters. And when we ________ what matters, we can build the lives we want in the time we’ve got.

【推荐3】As a waitress I have met and seen all types of people. I think it is _____ that brings us all together. I was about to _____ my job one afternoon and go home when a family came in.

As they sat down, they _____ that they were on their way home. And they added they just had enough money to buy their children only a _____ snack and that all they needed was _____ I showed them a few things on the menu and _____ them what they would like.

As I walked away to _____ their order, I just couldn’t _____ to see this family leaving,_____ with just a snack and some water!______ , I asked some of the other waitresses to ______ me in helping this family. They ______ because they knew I was kind when it came to ______ others. It made them feel good too. So I ______ to the table and told them that they could order what they wanted because it would be paid by some ______ strangers. At first, they didn’t know what to say, but then they looked at the ______ to see what was on offer. They then ______ accepted the meal and said “Thanks” with smiles.

When they left, all I could see was the ______ on their faces. With tears in my eyes, I wished them a ______ trip. I learnt that with every kind ______ , you can get to know a person, and the feeling it gives flows both ways.

【推荐1】On a trip back from Boston, my two little guys and I stopped at a gas station. It was not until I got home that I ________ my wallet had been left there.

I tried to set aside my frustration and ________ over this and focused on taking action. First, I had to find the phone number of the gas station. Just a quick Baidu ________, right? Unluckily, the number had been recently ________ due to new ownership. So I ________ the restaurant across the street. The hostess warmly took down my ________ and had a waiter bring it to the gas station manager, who then rang me up. He told me that a regular customer had found my wallet and ________ it over to him for safekeeping. We ________ that I would drive back to the gas station the next day to ________ my wallet.

My relief that the situation was heading the right direction was ________, as was my appreciation for the ________ and thoughtfulness of others --- from the ________ who found my wallet to the restaurant hostess to the manager, who was willing to ________ me my wallet if that was     ________ for me.

At every step of the way, a generous spirit was shown, which was ________ in a world where we often ________ self-focused thinking and self-serving behavior.

Much good fortune ________ me after I left my wallet behind on that trip back from Boston---including a powerful reminder of the goodness and generosity of others. My world was ________ and made more joyful, not just by being reunited with my wallet, but by the ________ acts of others. As Marianne Williamson wrote, “________ is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.