【推荐1】I was away from my grandmother when I was eight years old. I missed her______.I was always aware Granny loved us. It was something you could______with your heart. She didn’t live in a fancy house or have______things, but I never noticed. It was the little things she gave me that had always______, things like letting me dip my fingers in the sugar bowl or the coffee she let me sip (抿一口)from her cup. She even allowed me to sit on top of her kitchen table as I had those______.

Granny always took the time to explain the______of her weather vane (风向标), hanging on the wall, which______the upcoming weather. How that little wooden boy and girl knew what door to come out of, when it was going to______,amazed me. She also had a vinegar glass bottle that sat high on a shelf. That was______, in my eyes; I asked if I could have the attractive bottle someday. It was given to me in a box after her______. She remembered it even when she was dying; love is like that.

She didn’t have much money,______she did something for my brother and me. I will always remember; she saved her pennies in a glass______.I am sure Granny could have used those pennies herself but she saved them to give us when we came to visit. Because I was the oldest I was_______

I don’t remember how much we collected, nor was the amount______.What counts was the idea that she remembered us, and______us, when we were away from her.

Those______still give me warm feelings on days that I need them. I often wonder, after all those years, when I am______enough to find a penny lying on the ground______, if it could possibly be Granny throwing it to me from heaven.

【推荐3】When I was about twelve, I was taken out for dinner with my family one day. As we headed towards the______, a girl about my age came up to us and asked if we had any spare______. My mom asked where she kept her things. She pointed to an old car. She said there were six of them ______ in that car, which was the same size as my______.

After ______ her a few dollars, we said goodbye. Then, my mother sent me inside the restaurant with my dad and my______. But she didn’t come. ______, she had gone home and ______our cupboards into a few bags. She brought all the ______ over to the car and handed the bags to the family. I wasn’t there when that______, but I could imagine the______appearing on their faces.

Later, when I ______about what she had done, I asked her______she helped them. She told me that the girl’s family ______needed help. The girl and I were the same______, yet we lived ______ lives.

Here I stood, ______ in good clothes, headed to dine(用餐) in a restaurant and then back home to the bedroom I ______with my sisters. I remembered thinking that the other girl didn’t have any food to eat and had to share an old car with five other people.

After______ this picture in my mind, I understood why my mom had done what she had done. She ______ me one of the best lessons I ever learned.

【推荐1】Jane’s husband died last year, leaving her three small boys. This created problems she had never faced before: severe ___________. She didn’t work and therefore she had no income. Christmas was coming, but she did not have money to buy her children any ___________. One morning she heard on the radio that the ___________near her home would be free of charge on Christmas Eve. “That will be the best gifts for my boys,” Jane thought. It was ___________. She dressed her boys in their coats and ___________to the park. On their way, a horse-drawn carriage (马车) pulled up and the driver asked her if she wanted a ride. She politely ___________stating that she didn’t have any money.

The experience inside the park was ___________for her boys. They played ___________and after having played two hours the children were getting ___________, saying they were so glad but they were tired out. She dressed them up and went outside. To her ____________, the horse-drawn carriage was waiting outside. The driver got down from his seat when he saw her and said, “Please ____________.” Jane said, “I don’t have any money for a ____________. I told you just now.” the driver told her there was no charge. “I know it is not easy for you to take three children home on so ____________a snowy night,” he said.

Throughout the ride Jane told the ____________her situation and that her Christmas wish was to get a job enabling (使能够) her to ____________her boys. The driver pulled up in front of her house and ____________a $20 bill to Jane. He told Jane to buy Christmas gifts for the children and he hoped Jane had a good ____________. “Never give up; there is always hope.” He ____________Jane. Jane was so ____________that her eyes were full of tears.

We should always try to pass along ____________to others, and even a complete stranger, whenever we can. We believe in never giving up, there is always hope.

【推荐2】Tim Cook is both blind and deaf. And try _______ they might, staff on a recent flight just couldn’t figure out how to _______ with the man, who was traveling all alone.

But then, a 15-year-old girl used _______ language and genuine compassion (关爱) to save the day. Teenager Clara Daly was _______ with her mother Jane from Boston to Los Angeles when the flight attendants made a(n) _______ over the speaker. They were _______ anyone onboard who knew sign language.

Clara _______ the call button, as she’d studied a year of American Sign Language in school. She was the only one on the plane _______ of truly communicating with Tim, and her heart went out to him.

“_______ six hours of just not being able to talk to anyone,” she said.

Clara knelt down alongside Mr. Cook and used fingerspelling to talk to him, which is where she sign each ________ in every word. This way, Tim could ________ Clara’s hands and they could communicate. First, Clara helped the flight attendants ensure all of Tim’s needs were ________ . Then, she spent the rest of the time just ________ with him.

Together, they shared ________ about their families and Clara’s future plans, while Clara learned about Tim’s past as a salesman.

A nearby passenger named Lynette Scribner couldn’t ________ taking a photo and sharing it on social media. She mentioned how ________ she was to have witnessed such incredible compassion.

After writing about Clara’s real-life act of ________ on social media, Lynette’s post took off. In fact, it has since been shared over 730,000 times on US social media platform Facebook.

The ________ teen was quick to point out that she just did what any one of us should do when given the ________: help out.

“Everyone should just be ________ each other just because that’s the nature of people,” Clara said.