【推荐1】It was a regular day for volunteer firefighter Matt Owens. As he drove home from visiting a friend, he_______a little baby magpie (喜鹊) on the side of the road. He had no idea how special that bird would be when he _______to investigate. Finding she had blood all over, Matt _______her in his hands and took her home.

His neighbour, a vet (兽医), examined the injured chick _______ and pronounced that if she made it through the night, she’d be all right. Matt was excited the following morning to _______ his new rescue, now named Swoop, was indeed alive.

Matt’s major _______while Swoop recovered was his cat Mogli. Anyway, cats eat birds. It’s _______ . So he kept Swoop high up on a table. However, much to his_______, the cat wasn’t eyeing Swoop up for lunch. Instead, the two were often seen lying on the sofa, fast asleep.

Meanwhile, Matt started _______her, teaching her how to hunt for insects and slowly helping her build her ________in flying.

Matt ________ her progress and her unusual friendship with Mogli online, which went ________. The one-in-a-million ________of feather (羽毛) and fur won many netizens’ hearts.

Despite his love for Swoop, Matt ________that people shouldn’t pick up baby magpies if there’s no ________ of injury and the best thing to do is leave them there.

【推荐2】A farmer had some puppies to sell. He was putting up a _________ advertising the dogs in his yard when he felt a tug (拉扯) on his trousers. He _________ and saw a little boy.

“Mister,” he said, “I want to buy one of your puppies.” “Well, they come from _________ parents and cost lots of money,” answered the farmer. Then the boy reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of _________. “I’ve got 89 cents. Is that enough _________ to take a look?”

“Sure,” said the farmer. And he _________, “Here, Dolly!”

Out from the doghouse ran Dolly _________ by four little balls of fur. The boy pressed his face _________ the fence, watching in _________

As the dogs made their way to the farmer, he noticed __________ inside the doghouse. It was another little fur ball, noticeably smaller. It __________ walked out toward the others, doing its best to __________. “I want that one,” the boy cried out.

The farmer __________ at his side, “Son, you don’t want that puppy. He'll never be able to __________ with you like these others.”

With that, the boy stepped back, bent down, and __________ one leg of his trousers. There was a __________ made shoe with a steel brace (支架) supporting the leg. “Sir, my leg fails me too, and he’ll need someone who __________,” he said.

With tears in eyes, the farmer __________ picked up the little puppy and __________ it to the little boy.

“How much?” asked the boy.

“No, I won’t charge,” answered the farmer, “as love and understanding is __________.”

【推荐2】I had a deadline (截止日期) for a huge project at work. When I’d picked up my son that afternoon, I bought a roast chicken for dinner. I _________ that’d save me an extra hour to _________ my project.

It was 6:00 p.m., and I was typing, making good _________. Then my sons, Nathan and Jordan, came in and said they were hungry. Soon my 18-year-old daughter, Julia, made the same   _________ .

Suddenly I couldn’t help _________. “You can put the roast chicken in the microwave by yourself,” I nearly shouted. “I think you’d realize I’m busy and just take some _________.”

Twenty minutes later, a plate filled with food appeared on my _________. I smiled. “Sorry I screamed at you guys. I’m just so _________ of being ATF around here. I mean All Things Food. If it’s food-related, it _________ falls to me. Since we eat three times a day, it’s a __________ job. Now I am so busy and have to __________ my project in two days.”

Then Julia said, “Mom, for the next two days, we’re ATF. We will __________ the load to help you.”

The next two days, my children prepared the meals and __________ them to me. Then I took a __________ , and got back to work.

To my great joy, I finished my project __________ . I’m grateful to my children. They showed me that it’s our joint duty to take care of each other.

【推荐1】When I was a boy growing up I can't remember either my mom or my grandmother wasting food. Anything we didn't eat at one meal was ______, stored, and served as leftovers later on. I can ______ my grandmother making a huge pot of brown beans with a large cake of cornbread. We would all eat until we were ______ but there was always about half of the beans ______ A few days later grandmother would take those ______ out of the refrigerator, boil pasta, add parsley and ______ them all together into her delicious Pasta Fasule. And I also remember when I   ______     my mom fry bacon for us in the mornings, she would always take the

I learned the ______ well and after I grew up I tried to never waste food myself. I always ______ the week's meals ahead of time and only bought what was on my shopping ______ so nothing went to waste. Every ______went into our stomachs and any leftovers were later eaten by either myself, my boys, or my dogs. To me throwing food in the trash was just ______ . All the work it took to grow it, harvest it, and prepare it needed to be ______and not wasted.

【推荐3】Once a highly successful businessman, _________ a health insurance company, was getting ready to go to his office. When he _________ the car door and tried to reach into his car, a dog sleeping under his car suddenly came out and _________ on bis leg! The businessman got very angry and quickly _________ a few rocks and threw at the dog but none hit the dog. The dog ran away.

Upon reaching his office, the businessman _________ a meeting of his managers and during the meeting he put the anger of dog on them. The managers also got upset by the anger of their _________ and they put their anger to the employees working under them. The chain of this reaction kept going _________ the lower level of employees and _________, the anger reached to the office peon (苦力；苦工).

After the of office time was _________ the peon reached his home, and his wife opened the door. She asked him, “Why are you so late today?” The peon __________ and upset, gave one slap (用手掌打，拍，捆) to his wife! And he said, “I didn’t go to the office to play football. I went to work so don’t irritate me with your stupid questions!”

So now the wife got upset, for she got a slap for no __________. She put her anger on his son who was watching TV and gave him a slap, “This is all you do, and you have no interest in studying! __________ the TV now!”

The son got upset now! He walked out of his house and saw a dog passing by looking at him. He picked up a rock and hit the dog in anger and frustration. The dog, getting hit by a rock, ran away barking, __________.

This was the same dog that bit the businessman early morning.

What we can learn from this story is that we should be mindful of our __________, because good actions will bring you good things and black deeds will lead to __________ results.