【推荐1】It was years ago, but I still remember it like it was yesterday.I was driving my daughter to the nearest airport.It was a 3-hour round trip, so after ________ her off at the airport, my son and I stopped at a McDonald’s to have lunch.We found a free boot h and I went up to ________ our food.Working at the cash register was an old lady.Each person that came up to give their order was given a huge ________ of hers in return with a few kind words.When it was my ________ to order, I smiled back and told her that she had the sweetest smile I’d ever seen.She ________, patted me on the hand and said, “No ________ charge, Sweetie!”

When we drove back to ________ my daughter a few days later, we stopped at the McDonald’s again.I ________ for the lady but she was nowhere to be seen.Maybe she wasn’t working that day, or maybe she had moved on to ________ others with her smile somewhere else.Remembering our ________ encounter always brings a smile to my face.

It is ________ how we work so hard to make money to buy things, but the things we ________ the most can’t be bought.They are ________ given and joyfully received.Love, smiles, and joy are all free of charge.They are the ________ we give each other.May we always ________ and delight in them.

【推荐2】The best example of universally understood body language may be the smile. A smile can open doors and tear down walls among _______.

I have organized and reorganized an _______ with the dentist for months. I also _______ it twice and called the day before to ensure all the paperwork would be ready for the x-rays.

Then I arrived. It wasn't _______ at all. The lady there even had no idea what I was talking about. 1 _______ felt my blood boil. I was getting so _______ .I didn't yell at her but I may as well have because the _______ I was talking to her was not nice. I spoke down to her like she was a child and incapable. It was not a good moment. The whole time she smiled and was _______ to me.

Only when everything was finally _______ was I nice. I sat down in the waiting area and ________ it all. How can I make it better? How can I make up for my ________ behavior a moment ago? I couldn't. I could gift her a chocolate bar I had on me, but this needed more than that. It needed an honest ________ . And that is exactly what I gave.

I apologized for the way I had spoken to her and told her it was wrong of me. She accepted. Again with a hope. God help me be that woman who smiles and forgives so ________ .I don't get it right every time. I can be rude and when I am, I almost ________ myself for it. I am not that person, not anymore. Yet I continue to grow and continue to ________ . It's true that smile vanished my anger and opened a door to understanding.

【推荐3】A video about a homeless man went viral. Johal, a video-maker who is especially known for his social_________, decided to give a homeless man some money and_________his reaction.

In the video, approaching a_________homeless man, Johal carefully places some money on his bag. Minutes later, when the man wakes up, he’s surprised to see the cash and looks excited and grateful. The man walks to a store, steps out with a bag of_________, probably to face the cold nights, and returns to his bench (长凳).

Johal sits beside the man, talking on the phone with a friend, asking if he can borrow some money for his daughter. The homeless man_________listens to their conversation. After Johal hangs up, the man asks if he’s okay. Johal says he’s getting his daughter some_________while having a hard time financially.

In a (an)_________turn of events, the man asks Johal to_________his bag and leaves with the shopping bag. He comes back_________after returning the items and offers the money to Johal, who is a total__________, comforting he can go by without a blanket but the girl needs the treatment. Touched by the homeless man’s kindness, Johal__________this is an experiment and offers $500 to the man, leaving him in__________.

__________but true, the result proves that those with less are the ones__________most. Indeed, heroes are the ones with a __________.

【推荐1】Once upon a time, a group of businessmen were sailing on the Atlantic Ocean, _______ much American goods back to Paris, however, they ______across a terrible thunderstorm, both the men and ship ______into the Atlantic Ocean ______their goods.

The only survivor of the shipwreck was washed up on a small, ______island. Every day he ______ desperately for God to rescue him, but none seemed to appear. ______, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to ______him from bad weather, and to store his few ______. But then one day, after searching for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke ______ up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was shocked with ______and anger. "God how could you do this to me!" he cried.

Early the next day, ______, he was awakened by the ______of a ship that was ______ the island. It had come to rescue him. "How did you know I was here?" asked the ______man. "We saw your smoke ______," they replied. It is easy to get discouraged when things are going bad. But we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of pain and ______.

Remember, next time your little hut is ______to the ground, it just may be a smoke signal that calls for the grace of God. For all the ______things we have to say to ourselves, God has a positive ______to it.

【推荐2】Life is full of surprises. Happily this was the________for 18-year-olds Odin Frost and Jordan Granberry. The two boys from Texas were both given low chances of______at birth due to brain damage, but they went beyond doctors highest______to become high school graduates.

Their story was actually sweet, as their strong ______came about after meeting at a school for children with________needs at age 3. Sitting together, the two boys became_____ ,even though they couldn’t speak, Odin's dad Tim said,

Tim also shared that when Odin came out, he was ______ breathing. It was a really hard labor( 分娩).The doctors gave their son a high chance of death. Jordan had a _______story at birth:Unable to breathe due to lack of oxygen, he_____brain damage. His mom Donna shared how doctors believed he’d not_______ it beyond his seventh birthday.

_____both boys went from strength to strength. At school, although both were non-verbal（非用言语的）music was a way for them to ______with each other." When my son started walking and Jordan didn't, they still had a connection. My son would try to________and push Jordan's wheelchair. "Tim said.

____,after 15 years of fighting against the difficulties, the two best friends got to graduate and walked on the stage.______by his dad, and wearing matching shirts, Odin went to have his hard work_____. Although he couldn't express verbally how he was feeling, Tim said he could feel his______as he held his hand. Then Jordan also appeared on the stage. After the______the boys sat together for a group photo.

Their______is a testimony（见证） to the encouragement and devotion of the boy’s families.It also______that where there's life, there’s always hope.

【推荐3】Recently while driving, I heard poet Robert Pinsky on the radio. He talked about poetry and said something that _____ the way I had always thought about the subject. The idea is so _____ that I am almost embarrassed to admit it. It is something similar to this: when we look at a painting, we don’t expect ourselves to _____ its deep meaning, or any meaning at all, right away. We enjoy _____ because we like it, but we don’t know why. We generally _____ this as aesthetics(美学), a word that _____ the most inartistic recognize and willingly accept.

However, when words on a page come into view, our brains _____, and we start trying to understand word structure. If we can’t understand the meaning within the first few _____, then our brains, trained since childhood in the task of “reading comprehension”, may start to panic about our _____. The information becomes difficult, maybe even unknowable and therefore ______. This can happen to even a great ______ or a lover of literature—for poetry is a different animal.

However, as Pinsky ______ that day, if we can recognize this, let it go, and ______ ourselves to read poetry as we would look at a painting, with no ______ of “translation”. Instead we should decide in our guts (直觉) if we like it — or maybe even ______ it. Once we fall in love with poetry, a true passion is awakened.

【推荐2】I work as a ________ at a restaurant. Last night I saw a moving scene—an old white wealthy couple came in and my co-worker ________ them. We usually do our own tables, but because we were so ________ last night we helped each other out. At one point the couple signaled to me that they were ready to order. I usually find it rude when people go out of their ________ to make their order, but once I took their order I understood why.

The husband began ordering and started stuttering(结巴). It was very clear that he had a ________ difficulty. I could ________ the wife had told her husband what she wanted as a way for him to ________ ordering. It took quite some time for him to order, and at the same time she was ________ there, looking so proud and satisfied, ________ her husband’s stuttering.

Honestly the incident later made me realize that a huge part of ________ is acceptance and support. She could have made the order and made ________ much easier for her husband and ________ the look from other tables, but she didn’t.

________, she supported him and was proud to see him complete the order. It also made me understand that ________ is difficult for all of us, we all have our own ________.

【推荐3】My driver Jacob was sent to _______ me up and take me three hours on a drive in Mexico la where I’ll be working. As we were driving he started to tell me his _______ . I like to chat and get to know people and their _______.

He told me that he was now _______ six days a week away from his family in a town that had more work.

At the middle of the talk he _______ the name of his hometown “Nah Bok” and _______ that it took him five hours on his only day _______ on three different buses to get there to spend one day with his family.

What he said _______ me that my father had worked away when I was young, sometimes away for weeks and months at a time. I _______ us kids waiting for our ________ to have just a couple of minutes on the phone with him.

So two hours into our drive when I saw a(n) ________ saying Nah Bok I asked him if that was where his family lived. He said yes and it was about 5 miles down the ________ .

I said, "Why don’t we stop and say hello? " He looked at me like I was ________ or joking and I said again "Why don’t we stop?" He ________ didn’t want to get in any trouble. He ________ and asked if I was sure. I absolutely was. Was half an hour so ________ to me when this man was spending five hours and taking three buses to get to spend same time with his kids?

As we ________ , his wife was chatting on the side of the road with her mother. They were so ________ to see him. All of the children ________ out to him!

Be kind. Slow down and listen to people’s stories. Take the time where you can give a ________ to someone else even if it’s just your time.