【推荐3】Sophie is blind and went to my elementary school. She changed the way I think about people. She showed me that you shouldn’t _______ them without getting to know them. The minute she said _______ to me, I knew that we would become great friends.

We met on the bus. She sat next to me. She could not _______, she had trouble talking sometimes and she couldn’t _______ well. I was nervous, so I _______ how to talk to her. When she turned to _______ me and said hi to me, I knew right then we would become good friends. She _______ my name and my appearance. I made a stuttering (结巴) reply at first. After a while, I _______ found the words and started to describe _______ the best I could so she could __________ me.

She told me what her family was like and her __________. She liked singing and playing the piano. She read Braille. She began __________ at age eight and won many Braille prizes. It took me a while to __________ the fact that Sophie would sit next to me for the year. It’s __________ to remember that on the bus we __________ together, talked about school and homework, and even played games.

I was __________ when I first saw her. I judged her too ____________. Now I have entirely changed my __________. She can do anything I can do __________ she is blind. We will always be __________, since she said hi to me on the bus.

【推荐2】I was doing some last-minute Christmas shopping in a toy store. A nicely dressed little girl was _________ the teddy bears beside her father _________ she saw a little boy walk in and stop in front of the Pokémon toys. His jacket was obviously too small. He had money in his hand. _________, it looked no more than five dollars at most. He was with his father as well, and _________ picking up the Pokémon video games. Each time he showed one to his father, his father _________ his head, “No”.

Rather _________, the boy gave up the video games and chose a book of stickers _________. After they walked away, the little girl ran over to the Pokémon video games. She excitedly picked up one _________ on top of the others, and raced down toward the check-out. I picked up my purchases (购买物) and _________ the girl and her father.

Then, much to the little girl’s __________, the little boy and his father got in line __________ her and me. After the video was paid for and bagged, the little girl __________ it back to the cashier (收银员) and __________ something to her. The cashier smiled and put the __________ under the counter (柜台). I was putting things in my bag when the little boy came up to the cashier. The cashier said, “__________, you’re my hundredth customer today, and you win a prize!” and she handed the boy the Pok émon game. The boy could only __________ in disbelief. It was, he said, __________ what he had wanted! The little girl and her father had been standing at the doorway, and I saw the biggest and __________ smile on that little girl I have ever seen in my life.

I suddenly understood that the world is not __________ into the strong who care and the __________ who are cared for. We must each in turn care and be cared.

【推荐3】Our school club ‘Poets of the Next Generation’ is a literary club that was started by our English teacher Mr. Owen. We ____ on the last Friday of every month to ____ about poem and poets that we like. In the club meetings, we ____ select poems that we love, and then read ____ aloud. We also discuss poems in our meetings.

___ I attended the first meeting, I ____ to write a poem and I had to read it to the club. I was a little ____ at first, but everyone was so nice and friendly that I soon stopped worrying. I once read a ____ about nature in the school courtyard. I chose an old tree and gathered everyone under it before I ____. The club ____ said it was one of the best compositions they had heard.

【推荐1】Willard Franklin came to my class half a year ago. But from his first day here, he ________ himself in his own world and he never spoke to others. As his teacher, I tried to start a talk with him but ________. It seemed as if he just didn’t want to break his ________.

After the Thanksgiving holiday, we received the news of the ________ Christmas collection of money for the ________ in our school. “Christmas is a season of   ________,” I told my students. “Some students in our school might not have a ________ holiday. By offering a little money, you will help ________ some toys, food and clothing for these needy students. We will ________ the collection tomorrow.”

The next morning, ________, I found out almost everyone had ________ this matter except Willard Franklin. He came up to my desk with his head down. ________, he dropped two coins into the small box. “I don’t need milk for lunch,” he said in a ________ voice.

After school I couldn’t help sharing what had ________ in the morning with our headmaster. “I may be wrong, but I ________ Willard might be ready to become part of our class.” “I am ________ to hear that,” he nodded. “And I just received a ________ of the poor families in our school who most need help. Here, take a look at it.”

As I sat down to ________, I found Willard Franklin was at the top of the list. At that moment, I felt I really ________ Willard for the first time: a cold face with a warm heart. From this ________, I also learnt that whether rich or poor, every child has a kind heart.

【推荐2】The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to lovingly engage the homeless through art. In July 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife had just moved to Santa Ana, California with a burning desire in their hearts to love their neighbors. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a(n)____ man was often yelling on the street corner, sometimes keeping them ______ at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to work as a car designer, but they never _____ .

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in action, when his ____ disturbed by the homeless man. _____ by the book’s compassionate (有同情心的) message, Peterson made a(n)_____ decision: He was going outside to introduce himself.

In that first _____, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California to pursue a career _____, but he soon fell on hard times and _____ living on the street for more than a decade.

“It was a strange thing to me,” Peterson recalled later. “I saw ______ on the face of a man who hadn’t shaved in probably a year. And the ______ inside of him inspired me. ”______ Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could ______ Faris’s portrait. And Faris said yes.

Peterson’s _____ with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on _____ and painting portraits of members of the community who are unhoused. Peterson sells the 30-by-40-inch canvas(画布) — signed by both subject and artist—for a few thousand dollars, and put half into what he calls a “love account” for his _____.

Many of Peterson’s new friends use the donations to secure immediate ____ — medical care, hotel rooms, food. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, realizing his ____ dreams.

Peterson has painted 41 of these portraits himself. He’s discovered that the buyers tend to connect to the story of the person in the painting, finding ______ and often friendship with someone they might have otherwise overlooked. “People often tell me, ‘I was the one that would cross the street. But I see homeless people ____ now,” Peterson says. “I didn’t know that would happen. ”

【推荐3】My husband Philip and I often went camping to celebrate special occasions. In fact, our anniversary (周年纪念日) was coming up. But this time I felt a sense of ____. I couldn’t help thinking about my journal.

For birthdays and anniversaries, ____ giving each other cards that we were not interested in, Philip and I wrote letters. For nine years, I’d written almost all of mine in a journal. For our eighteenth anniversary, we had gone camping. After a hike, we returned to ____ our letters. But the campsite was ____ by a bear. Our tent fell down. Worst of all, my journal was ___. We searched for hours, but it was ____.

I never ____. I always wanted to have back those nine years of letters! One day, I came home to find a car in our driveway. Two   ____ stood in the yard with Philip. Philip held up a weather-beaten book. My journal! The woman and her husband had ____ it weeks earlier in the underbrush. She was ____ when reading my love letters. “We only have your first names, so it is a bit ____ to find you. Luckily, we make it. ”the woman said.

As a result of their ____, I could hug my journal again. I just couldn’t thank them more. There are always people in the world who show ____ to others. What the couple did doesn’t ____ change our lives, but it can certainly change the way we ____ life.