【推荐2】I prided myself on being a good neighbor.Each house I passed held a friendly _________. But except Kelly’s. It hadn’t always been this _________. We used to have a good relationship. I never went by her house without _________ if I saw her outside. But now, if Kelly was out in her yard when l passed by, I _________ not to see her. At first it felt satisfying to let Kelly know what I thought of her. Today the _________ of her house just made me sad.

How did things go wrong? It _________ with a homeless cat who appeared in my driveway. That wasn’t _________. I already had two homeless cats I’d adopted. But this cat was _________. He often drove my own cats away from their food bowls.

Imagine my _________ days later when Kelly announced she would take care of the __________. “I think he’s sweet,” she said. Living with Kelly didn't make the cat any __________. He constantly stole my cats’ food. “That cat is out of __________,”I said to Kelly angrily one day.

“He’s always perfectly sweet with us!” Kelly said, getting defensive. “I had no idea you __________ him so much.”

Things just got worse from there. Maybe I could have been more diplomatic about that cat, but Kelly should have been more sorry. If anyone was going to __________，it should be her! After that I never spoke to Kelly again. But months later,I now felt miserable（痛苦的）about it.

This time, as 1 walked by Kelly’s house, my feet slowed,almost __________.I gradually turned toward it. Just as I __________ so, I saw Kelly come out to her driveway. For a second, we just __________ each other. She looked as miserable as 1 felt, 1 thought.

I __________ hard and walked toward Kelly. Immediately we got close enough, Kelly and I found ourselves opening our arms and __________ each other tightly. Our friendship was __________!

【推荐1】Some years ago, Adrianne Drazin was flying overseas with her three children. Her husband was already at her _______ , so she had to travel with the kids by herself.

After a long flight, they got off the _______ and waited for their stroller, Drazin noticed a _______ standing next to her. They seemed to be waiting for something, but then she _______ they were waiting for her. “I _______ did not want to ask anybody for help, nor did I want to _______ their help,” Drazin recalled. So when the mother offered to carry some of her things, Drazin _______ her advice.

“And she looked at me with a(n) _______ look on her face and said, ‘If you tell me how you are going to get to the carousel (行李传送带) with two little _______ , an infant, and a stroller, then I will let you go. But until you tell me how you’re going to do this, I’m ________ you.’”

When Drazin finally met her husband, he asked how she had ________ to get across the airport, carrying everything by herself. Drazin ________ around for the woman and her family, but they were ________ .

Many years later, Drazin continues to ________ the woman’s act of generosity. “It made me think of her as a (n) ________ mom,” said Drazin.

【推荐3】Giving road directions in fluent Mandarin, 67-year-old American expat (旅居国外者) Terry Crossman has been helping people in Beijing Xicheng District for almost five years now.

He _______ the Xicheng Dama Club in 2017. The volunteer group is mostly _______ middle-aged women. Joining the group has made Crossman an online celebrity. “I guess my _______ is very suitable, because I’m very warm-hearted, very open and friendly.”

After _______ from the University of Pennsylvania, Crossman first came to Beijing in 1987 for business. He and his family then moved there in 1997. Over the past three decades, he has _______ the modernization and rapid improvement of the living standards in Beijing. “We all have electric heat now instead of coal heat, so it’s much _______ than it used to be. People here managed to preserve some of the old Beijing and I am really _______ of the city for doing that.”

Having spent a _______ of his life in Beijing, Crossman considers himself a Beijinger at heart and has made Beijing his permanent _______. But Crossman’s love for China goes ________ beyond natural scenery. He has studied Chinese history, literature, sociology and philosophy. Crossman says he became ________ in Chinese culture as a teenager when he first read the Tao Te Ching by Lao Zi, and Taoist teachings have ________ him until now.

“I mean concepts I like from Taoism or things like Wuwei: I like the whole ________ of going with nature, Shunqiziran: if you trust the universe, the universe will ________ you.”

Taoism has helped Crossman to not only enjoy serving people as a community volunteer, but also to seize today and ________ in the present.

【推荐1】After getting an electric shock, Felix Gretarsson had to have both arms amputated(截肢) at age 26. As the ________ man worldwide to have both arms transplanted(移植), he’s recovering his ability to make everyday ________.

As an electrician, Felix got an electric shock while he was ________ a power line. The fire ________ his hands and he lost consciousness. To enable him to ________, the doctors had to cut off his arms.

This ________ turned his life upside down. Fortunately, he ________ to convince a French surgeon to perform a never-before-seen transplant of both arms. The ________, which lasted 15 hours, took place in January 2021 in Lyon.

The Daily Mail reports the surprise of the scientific community in reaction to his ________ progress after the surgery. ________, although the doctors ________ he’d be able to regain the use of his hands in two years, he started to move his ________ only nine months after the surgery.

While Felix couldn’t feel his hands in the first few months, he can now write with his hands and use his phone ________. Though he still has to overcome many difficulties to ________ his daily routine, the 49-year-old gains more ________ every day— “I can go to a café and I don’t have to ask others to search my pocket to get the change...”

He’s full of ________ for all the people who’ve helped him. “I’m honored to always ________ the goodness of those kind people,” says Felix.

Since he doesn’t have full strength and mobility, he ________ at times, but compared to having no arms at all, it’s already been a ________. And his greatest joy now, he says, is being able to ________ his children again.

【推荐3】She was dancing. My disabled grandmother was dancing. I stood in the living room doorway absolutely ________. I looked how her body bent beautifully, her arms greeting the sunlight that was ________ through the window. And her legs… Those legs that had ________ walked, aided with a walking stick as long as I could remember. Now she was wearing beautiful dancing shoes and her legs ________ her perfectly.

She turned around and saw me standing in the doorway. Her beautiful movement ended so ________ that it felt like being shaken awake from a beautiful dream. Grandma looked so much like a kid ________ with her hand in a cookie jar. Grandma sighed and gave me the whole story.

“________, my legs have been well all my life”, she said. She thought for a while and then continued. “We were talking about engagement when your grandfather had to go to war. I put all my energy and time into ________. I was invited to perform with the best and one day I realized

I was considered to be one of them. And then one day a letter from the ________ came. He lost his leg and asked me to forget about him.”

“What happened then?” I ________ her.

“I made my decision ________. I loved him so much that I was not going to lose him to depression. I told everyone I had been in a car ________ and that my leg would never completely heal again. My dancing days were over. I only danced at home when no one was around and never ________ my decision. I figured I could change a few years of fame to a lifetime of ________. And I was right. It was worth it.”

Tears filled my eyes. I was thinking about how much joy we can bring to each others’ lives. I know people who have chosen to ________ a lot and done it gladly to achieve something they considered worth it, just like my grandma.