【推荐1】“Believe in yourself, and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe in you.”

—— Cynthia Kersey

Enur Pakashtica has been a(n) ________ to the young generation as he has developed ________ over the years to push his limits. Born into a poor family in 1994, Pakashtica has been singing since the age of six. As be ________ for the other kids in school for events, it built his self – esteem (自尊)and helped him ________ his confidence. Pakashtica is a singer and producer, who has used his skills to ________ the world with his passion and commitment. Pakashtica has ________ more than 15 songs and joined forces with artists such as Adrian Caxha for the remake of the song Ajshe.

Pakashtica officially started his ________ when he was 12, and since then, he has never ________. As he performed on TV in front of thousands of people, he made it to the top ten, which gathered ________ and built his will to achieve more and more. There is ________ that can hold people back if they have the ________ attitude, and Pakashtica has been channeling positivity throughout his life. Pakashtica has taken part in Season 2 of X Factor Albania. where he reached the semifinals and performed ________.

Pakashtica follows a ________: “People who want to succeed have to ________ between whether they want to go far or fast. If you want to go far —- be yourself, never ________, and if you want to go fast, and go down fast, fake it till you make it.”

【推荐2】Alonzo Johnson stopped. He decided to help a(n) ________ elderly man down an escalator (自动扶梯)in a Massachusetts shopping mall last week, ________ the 23-year-old could never have predicted that his simple, random act of kindness would win him the ________ of thousands of people online.

An old man ________ at the top of an escalator and a few people started gathering ________ to get on. It was clear he was feeling ________ as to whether to step on to the escalator or not. Johnson spotted the senior citizen hesitating and ________ the simplest kindness. He reached out an arm and asked with a smile on his face, “Can I help you, sir?”

The old man quietly started to ________ to the young man that he had gotten stuck on an escalator once and was a little ________ . The young man gently offered his assurance, they ________each other eye to eye for just a moment and the old man ________ his arm. Everyone else remained ________ and waited.

Paula Picard and a friend were standing nearby and ________ to take a touching photo of the pair linking arms as they ________ the escalator together. She posted the photo on Facebook and it spread ________ with more than 20,000 likes and 25,000 comments in just a few hours.

【推荐3】During my second year of college, I was looking around for a place to live. One Sunday after church, the pastor(牧师) told me to stay in his daughter’s room because his daughter was studying abroad for one year.

To be ____ , I really didn’t want to stay with “the pastor’s family”. He told me how much the____would be---a very low figure that ____ one home-cooked meal a day. I thought about the___and decided to move in.

At the end of the term I had planned to find____ living place, since the daughter was to____home. To my delight, they ____ that I share a room with their son. I seemed to have been adopted into their____----their people became my people. I____ accepted the offer.

As I emptied the daughter’s bedroom, I thought it might be____ to have a little sister to look after. But when I later met my new sister, I____that she was more independent than I first ____ .

We finally fell in love, ____ , and have looked after each other for many years. There have been times that life turned out more ____ than either of us could have known. But we have always been able to go____largely because we knew that we are deeply ____ .

It isn’t about marriage… It’s about ____ . It’s about mothers and fathers, sisters and brothers and special friends who are as____as family. It’s about anybody who can say, “I’ll be ____----you can count on me. I’ll try to look after you and sometimes I will need you to look after me.

Is there somebody you can depend on?   And are others counting on you? We travel the path of life best when there is ____   to look after, and when someone is looking after us.

【推荐2】For Adam Harvison, it all started with an electric wheelchair. He had _________ from his Army career in 2013 with one goal: to work with other veterans (老兵). He got a job helping _________ veterans in Las Vegas find housing.

Then came a phone call about the _________. Someone wanted to donate it only to veterans in need. Adam made sure that happened. From there, word _________. “People just started calling me,” Adam says. “Hospitals and other organizations are saying, ‘We have a used one. Can you use it?’ It all _________ the founding of Harvison House.”

Adam _________ this nonprofit organization in 2017 to provide low-income veterans with furniture (家具) for their _________. Adam and his team of volunteers _________ the donated items, clean and repair them, and then send them to veterans.

While other organizations can provide them with _________, they can’t always provide them with sofas, beds and kitchen tables, which are __________ parts of a home. “If someone’s just staring at four walls, they feel like they have nothing to __________,” Adam says. “We give them a place where they feel __________.”

After the donated furniture has been __________, a photo of it in its new home is sent to the person who donated it, along with a letter of __________. Adam believes that personal touch makes a(n) __________. “We don’t advertise (做广告) at all,” he says. “But within 20 minutes, I could get three phone calls with offers for furniture.”