【推荐1】High school students have a lot more power than they may realize.

Belscher_______a dollar on the floor when having his English class. When the school day______, Belscher walked back to the classroom. He could easily have____it, for the wrinkled（皱巴巴的）bill was still there,____，he brought the old bill to his English teacher, Mattison.

Mattison was a little____that he'd turned in the dollar, knowing a lot of people would have just kept it. She____that Belscher tape it to the whiteboard, where she always puts___things.

A day or two later, the school shut down for Easter____.Neither the teacher nor her student thought twice about the dollar. After school, a boy named Tom spotted the dollar on the whiteboard. "There was a____to it,“ Tom says. He asked Mattison why it was there. She replied, "I don't know. "Then Tom______a second dollar.

The____of the two dollar bills side by side triggered（触发）something in Mattison's students. They started asking about the____of the money, to which Mattison always gave the____answer： She didn't know.

However, the students, among themselves, decided and understood Mattison had some good____final plan and goal. So, they wanted to be part of whatever this was. They___their savings and the amount continue to grow.

At last, they carefully peeled（录开）the cash off the board and made the donation to the ALS Institute established to find a cure for the disease.

【推荐2】At the end of my senior year of high school, I got a job working at a local coffee shop. I thought the job would be _______ and free of stress, and pictured myself pouring the best coffee, _______ delicious doughnuts(面包炸圈）, and becoming friends with _______ customers.

I wasn't _______ the people with enormous orders, the women who _______ that the coffee was much too creamy, or the men who wanted their iced coffee remade again and again until they reached _______. I couldn't seem to _______ anyone.

One a rainy day, one of my regular customers came in looking _______ . He said he felt like getting in bed, _______ the sheets up over his head, and staying there for a few years. I knew exactly how he felt.

Before he left, I handed him a bag along with his iced coffee. He was ________ , since he hadn't ________ anything but coffee. I had given him his favorite type of doughnut.

“It's on me.” I told him. “Have a nice day.”

He smiled and ________ me, before heading back out into the ________.

The next day, it is still raining. I spent my afternoon ________ of the window handing people their orders.I was completely wet and freezing cold. Worse, no one was tipping that day. Every time I looked into our empty tip jar, I grew more ________.

In the evening, the ________ from the day before drove up to the window. He handed me a pink ________ and a note.

The note read:

Thanks for being so sweet, kind and ________ yesterday. It is so nice to meet someone who's genuinely nice. Please don't change your way! Have a great day!

－Hank

After that, whenever I felt depressed or ________ of coffee, I thought of Hank and his kindness. Then I would smile, hold my head up high, clear my ________ and ask politely, “How can I help you?”

【推荐3】For Adam Harvison, it all started with an electric wheelchair. He _________ 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 his wheelchair only to veterans in need. Adam made sure it happened. From there, word _________. “People just started calling me,” Adam says. ‘‘Hospitals and other organizations are saying, ‘We have a _________ one. Can you use it?’ It all _________ the founding of Harvison House.”

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

While other organizations can provide the veterans 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 __________.”

Veterans connect with Harvison House through the organizations that provide housing __________. The organizations list what will be __________ needed in a new place. Then the team immediately cross-checks that list of the donated furniture. Sometimes there’s a waiting period if what’s needed isn’t __________.

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 difference. “We don’t __________ at all,” he says. “But within 20 minutes, I could get some phone calls with __________ for furniture.”

【推荐1】From childhood. Moira loved to write, Throughout school she _____writing, but pursuing(追求）it   ____was never a possibility. Her father was a doctor, her mother a nurse "Medicine was a fairly ____option," Moira says. "And writing was a career where it wasn't a ____that you'd have high income."

She became a doctor but still wanted to do some writing. However, being a doctor was so ____that she didn't take up writing until her thirties. She ____ a novel --- a fictionalized version of her travels in China after university. She got excellent _____ . Moira sent it off to as many agents as she could find and found one who wanted to _____her. Suddenly it seemed she was on her ____as an author.

"I had one lengthy phone call with the agent where we ____ all possible areas she thought needed _____I worked on those and sent it back to her but didn't hear anything, lt was not long _____Moira found another agent who was _____ if she was willing to rewrite" it from the first. person to the third person. She did the hard work and sent it off again. "1 got back a really brief   letter. 'Thank you. I'm no longer interested, It was really _______

A decade went by, and Moira found herself itching to write again, this time .____for her own enjoyment She______herself the challenge of creating a thriller and chose Western Australia as her setting.

As she was writing just for herself, something surprising began to happen. "The characters ____ a life of their own; they started doing things I hadn't thought about. It just _____out." One day. an agent called from Australia. Three weeks later, Moira had a publication deal. Her novel. Cicada. was published in March.

“ _____ it hadn’t been published I still gained so much from the _____ ，” says Moira.