【推荐1】A young girl is smiling at me from a picture frame on my desk as I write this. She is my child I _______ sponsored from the Philippines. Even though I have never met her in person, she has found a _______ place in my heart. It doesn’t _______ me much to help her, about a dollar a day._______, millions of people in this world live on less. The _______ that helping her gives me, however, is beyond _______. It connects me to her, to life,_______ to love.

I can still _______ the first time that I decided to help a child overseas. It was many years ago. I was only a teenager myself and had a little extra _______ each month. I didn’t feel like ________ anything, though. We had ________ everything we had in a house fire a few years before.________ that had taught me a lot. I had learned that I didn’t need a lot of “stuff” to be ________. I had also read a lot about the ________ of children in poor countries around the world. It seemed like a far better thing then to give what I could to help them. With my Mom’s love and ________, I soon found a few organizations like Children International that were ________ others around the world. It felt so good being able to reach out and help another ________. It felt so good being able to make even one life better. I could feel the compassion and ________ growing within me and beginning to change me.

Empathy (同情) does change us. It helps us to ________, to be kind, and to make this world a ________ place.

【推荐3】Kim and I decided to go to see a new movie. We arrived a little early, _______ we were talking about our day. Then came a young girl, _______ by a man who we thought was her father. They sat one row ahead and about two _______to the right. _______ they began to talk, it was clear that the man was her father? and that their family was _______ hard times.

The young girl seemed mature （成熟的） _______her years. She encouraged her father, _______that everything would be okay and that she loved him. As they spoke, Kim’s eyes were filled with _______. He was thinking how _______ this father was to have the________and support of his daughter. The young girl reminded her dad of the ________times when they used to go to watch movies together, enjoying, talking,________and even crying. These were the times that she missed. She knew

It became________to us that they had chosen the early show because the ________were cheaper. They had bought a small box of popcorn and were sharing it ________. This young girl had saved her money to ________this daddy-daughter “date”.

The father felt________to his daughter, ________that things would go back to the way they were soon.

【推荐1】17 years ago, a big fire broke out. A girl named Dawnielle Davison______escaped death. As the house was filled with______, it was impossible to see clearly, but Mike Hughes had a hunch that there must be someone waiting for______in the house. Regardless of the______situation at that time, he dashed into a room and found a 9-month-old baby was______loudly because of the heat and smoke. He immediately gathered the baby in his arms and______her to safety. At last, Mike’ s timely______saved Dawnielle. “If I had hesitated for a moment, it would have been a totally different______,” Mike recalled.

The girl is now 18, and recently______from high school. Her family and friends were there to ______her on her big day. But Dawnielle also had a______guest in the crowd: the firefighter who saved her life.

Mike______with Davison about five years ago after discovering an old newspaper clip about his rescue of the girl. He______if that baby was still alive. So he tried to______for her. And finally, he found Dawnielle through Facebook. Since then, they have kept in touch, chatting over Facebook and meeting in person____

As for Dawnielle, who had come so close to______ at such a young age, she felt_ ______that there was someone who saved her and cared about her. Therefore, she decided to invite her______to attend her graduation ceremony to share the______moment with her. When receiving Dailiele’s invitation, Mike was in tears and said, “I don’ t know how to______my feeling. It means a lot to me, so I should go.”

【推荐2】With the plaster cast(石膏绷带) on my arm for weeks, I returned the hospital to have it removed.

The doctor cut away my cast and asked me to _________ my arm. When moving it in every possible way, I was _______ by the fact that my elbow(肘) was actually fixed, which was all thanks to the doctor and made me more interested in the _______ of the doctor. I began to think that he had a secret _______ that only a few people in the world had, and I _______ what it was. From then on, I was sure that I would become a doctor _______ him one day. At the age of four, I was already _______ to discover the art of healing and share it with the world.

As my mom and I made our way out of the hospital that day I released her hand and ran away. I wanted to _______ my experience with everyone. I found an elderly man_______ from a wheelchair and ran to help him, saying, “Don’t worry, Grandpa. The doctor will fix your__________. Look how he fixed my arm!” I then showed him my newly __________ elbow. He gave me the biggest smile. I waved goodbye to the man and felt __________ to have shared my good fortune with someone who truly __________ it.

Thirteen years have passed by since that day, and many things have changed. __________, I am still determined to discover the art of healing, even though I now know it is not as __________ as I originally thought. Last summer I had a chance to volunteer in __________ medical environments where I learned how to encourage patients to eat the healthy food they__________, and what doctors do when a child refuses a throat swab. Each of these experiences has taught me a lot, __________ most importantly they have further promoted my interest in __________. Although I have not yet discovered the art of healing, I know that every year I get __________ to it.

【推荐3】The other day, my husband and I took the kids for dinner at a branch of Pizza Express. There was a very friendly lady _____ alone at the next table. When the time came for her to pay the       __, her bank card was declined. The waitress told her, in a very kind way, that there was a _____ and that she would call her manager for help. Seeing this, my husband _____ got up and told the waiting staff that we would pay for the lady's meal. _____, when the manager arrived, he explained to the lady that although she couldn't use her card, there was no need to _____. Pizza Express authorizes(授权)the restaurant to _____ two free meals per month and on this _____, they would like to provide her with a free meal.

She was extremely grateful and apologetic that she had been unable to pay. We were relieved that the lady had been _____ with dignity instead of being placed in a ______ position.

Then the manager approached our table. He said that, ______ we had shown such generosity, he would like to donate the second free meal that the restaurant was able to ______ to us! We were absolutely astonished! I had never heard of any chain restaurant behaving in such a generous way. We were quite ______ with gratitude. I made sure that the lady was able to get home OK, and then we ______ the staff and left. I was really impressed by how the restaurant had treated this ______ case.