【推荐1】Community ovens are a centuries-old tradition worldwide. There are actually records going back to the 12th century when home ovens were not _________. The community ovens were places where people chatted together while their food was _________.

Fast forward to today, Brickyard Bakery has _________ the unique approach. It _________ to bake cakes for customers and provides them with a warm place to stay while their cakes, which _________ take four or more hours to bake, are in the oven. It’s reported that due to the increasing cost of fuel, many individuals cannot _________ to leave their ovens on that long.

Owner Ed Hamilton-Trewhitt told the BBC, “We’ve _________ the idea of a community oven from ancient times. People can _________ their cake base (胚) at home. But _________ being baked in their own ovens, it can be __________ to our bakery for a large amount of baking.”

“It struck me that if one was __________ about the energy costs of baking the Christmas cake, there would be lots more out there __________ the same situation,” he added. “In the big picture, it costs me so little but makes a massive __________. ”

The response to this attempt has been so __________ that Hamilton-Trewhitt has provided the __________ until right before Christmas. After all, that’s what being a good neighbor is all about.

【推荐1】In January 2008, Rachel Lapierre, a full-time nurse and part-time volunteer aid worker, made a life-changing decision. After an exhausting day at work she ________ a $4 lottery ticket (彩票) at a local store. At that moment, Rachel made a(n) ________ — if she struck it lucky with the lottery, she would ________ her nursing career. Because humanitarian (人道主义) work was what she had longed to ________ her life to. When Rachel scratched the ticket, she discovered she had won a big ________ — $675,000.

True to her word, Lapierre spent all her life through her ________ project, Le Book Humanitaire. It began as a humble ________ of good deeds in a simple notebook, which she used to keep track of what she had done to ________ those living in the small communities around her. To her, they were just small acts of ________ — buying clothes for newly arrived immigrants, or delivering ________ to lonely seniors. But ________ started spreading, and a Facebook page she created for the project became a(n) ________ way to answer requests from those in need.

Over the years, Le Book has ________ a remarkable team of 80 volunteers. This nonprofit ________ has become a hope for the community. The notebook itself has since been replaced by dozens more, ________ millions of deeds. In 2022 alone, it ________ nearly 450,000 acts of service, ________ the lives of countless individuals.

Le Book Humanitaire, born from Rachel’s lottery win, continues to be a source of ________ for the community. “When you do a good deed, it has a butterfly effect,” says Lapierre. “One good deed can ________ 10 people. So if we all do a good deed? That can ________ the world.”

【推荐2】On Christmas Day in 2012, when I was fourteen, I didn’t get a single Christmas present. That wasn’t a _________. It was what I had _________. A week before Christmas, I decided that _________ presents, I wanted donations to buy presents for the children in the local orphanage (孤儿院).

When I told my family and friends about my plan, there were a lot of _________ but also support. However, it was only on Christmas Day that the reality hit me. When my baby sisters jumped out of bed, singing carols and opening presents, I lay there feeling _________ and making a list of all the things I really wanted for Christmas that year. I realized I had made a huge mistake.

As I _________ on the door of the orphanage that morning, I felt _________ because I realized how unprepared I was for what was _________. I even had the _________ of dropping the bags of presents outside the orphanage and________. I almost did, but then a kind woman opened the door and smiled when she __________ me in. I was taken to a room full of children, and was __________ angry at how empty it felt. I wanted the room to be filled with __________instead of fear. I wanted to make these children smile but I was __________.

But then something happened. As the workers in the orphanage __________ presents, the __________ in the room changed. I could see the __________ in the eyes of the children and their bodies filled with hope. I __________ feeling so powerless. A little girl, Diana, ran up to me and __________ my legs. I didn’t know I was crying __________ she asked me, “Auntie, why are you crying?” This only made me cry more.

【推荐3】It was hard not to notice the 8-year-old boy across the street who stormed in and out of his own house. He did it so often that a neighbor, William Dunn,_______what was going on in his life. So Dunn asked him.

“He told me that he didn’t have a father,” says Dunn, now 58, “and I_______there might be something I could do for him.”

That something was fishing, a _______Dunn’s father had shared with him. “Fishing always brought me peace and taught me how to be _______. When you’re on the water, you can forget about your problems and just _______the moment,” Dunn, who has three children of his own, got_______from the boy’s mother to take him fishing.

One Saturday afternoon on the water led to another, and soon he was teaching other kids in their _______how to rig a line, hold a pole, and reel in a big catch. That was 16 years ago.

Since then, Dunn has taken groups of kids out almost every weekend to fish. Most didn’t have father _______in their lives and had never fished before. Some were adopted kids who had_______from one home to the next.

“They’d been through a lot, and they’d seen a lot, and their lives were ________,” Dunn says. “But when they were fishing, all of that ________.They’d be laughing and smiling and making new friends out on the ________.I knew I was on to something.”

In the beginning, Dunn—“Big Will” to the kids—spent a good chunk of his ________from his job renting boats for the kids. Then, in 2018, he________the nonprofit Take a Kid Fishing Inc. He and a small group of volunteers have introduced more than 2, 500 kids—most without fathers around—to the inner ________found on the water and the excitement of catching a fish.