【推荐2】All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson's mission. "I wish everyone could join me. There are so many _______things going on in the world; I mean every day," said Karla.

Karla had the commitment and sense of_______in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to feel depressed around the holidays, so she _______to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and_______her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated( 囚犯) .She hoped to _______others.

"We have to do something. Our_______can make a difference in someone's day. You_______know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude," Karla_______.

Karla's greatest_______so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla’s birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the________$127 to pay for other people's drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-through holding a________that read. "Have a great day." She ended up________about 23 customers. "It was really fun. I was________one of the best birthdays ever," she said. Her kindness that day didn't go ________. One couple were so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their________

Karla's acts of kindness have become a________affair. Her two sons are always ________others. "Sometimes I'll ask Kyle, ‘ So, did you do anything extra nice today?   and his answers are like ’Somebody________something in the hallway and I picked it up’ or 'I held the door for someone', that kind of thing," said Karla.

It's because of Mom that the boys think it's________to give a hand to others.“ think it's a great idea of hers. It's always nice to help someone out________they really need it," said Karla's 15-year-old son Chad.

【推荐3】When I was younger, I belonged to a club that did community service work. There was one specific event that was _______ for me. We spent four hours handing out warm dinner to the homeless in the streets. After that we went to a(n) _______ shelter.

I was in high school at the time and my sister was too _______ to take part. She wanted to _______, so she made sixty cookies for us to take and _______ to people. When we got to the homeless shelter we passed out the remaining _______ we had left. Next, we began making sandwiches and pairing them with other goodies(好吃的东西)and _______ them with the crowd. I had the cans with my sister’s cookies in them and began to walk around, offering them to anyone near me.

I _______ an older gentleman and said, “Sir, would you like a _______?”He stopped and turned around, ________,“What did you say? Did you call me sir?” And I told him I had, and his eyes watered a little bit and he said, “No one has ever called me sir. ________”

It________ me to the core(彻底地).

I explained I had been taught that everyone deserved respect. It ________ me to think that just because he was homeless, no one afforded him the ________ which every person should get. It broke my ________, and I couldn’t help but cry. I just didn’t understand ________ no one ever called him sir. Just because he didn’t have money or a place to live in. Every single person ________ to be treated with dignity(尊严). Years later, I ________ carry that memory and the lessons it taught me. Sometimes, what we take for granted as ________ gestures can really make a(n) ________ in someone’s life.

【推荐1】Two Sundays ago. Tischler woke bright and early and said to herself, "I have nothing to do today-let’s do this."

To get "the Sharing Table" going, Tischler_______the boxes on the table with food, toilet paper, toothpaste and other items. Then she placed handmade _______on the table,_______that everything on it was_______.

With the_______of her sister-in-law, Kristine Lenza, the first day of the Sharing Table was_______successful. "I didn’t think anybody was going to_______much of anything, " she said. "I thought people would be more_______to donate. A lot of people have donated but a lot of people have also taken things."

Weather permitting, Tischler now sets up the table every day. She said the Sharing Table will_______through Christmas. Tischler wants people to know that their personal information will be________. "Nobody stands behind the table or________what you take from it. The Sharing Table is judgement-free." she said.

"Whatever situation you are in, you are welcome. You don ’t have to have________your job, or you don’t have to have had COVID-19," she said. "It could just be that you need a(n)________support to get you through the year, or if you are having a tight budget(预算)this month________Christmas presents and you need help with groceries. "

At the end of each day, Tischler goes outside.________, she finds just as many items have been taken as they’ve been given.

【推荐2】Leaping on a narrow balance beam (平衡木) is not easy. But Lola Walter, a 13-year-old gymnast, is an expert at it.

To _________ her skills, Lola trains for four hours a day, five days a week. At the state championships, she _________ seventh out of 16 girls. That’s especially impressive, _________ she is legally blind, born with a rare eye disease.

When she was little, her mom _________ that even though little Lola couldn’t _________ well, she was _________ . So her mom signed her up for gymnastics.

Though learning gymnastics has been _________ for her, she has never given up. She doesn’t let her _________ stop her from doing what she wants to. Her biggest _________ is the balance beam. Because of her eye disease, she must use her sense of touch to help her. “ You have to __________ your mind that it’ll take you where you want to go. ” says Lola. At the state competition, Lola didn’t fall off the beam and got her personal best score.

Lola never thinks about __________ . The highest is level 10 in gymnastics and her __________ is to reach level 9. She says she wants to be a gymnastics coach to __________ what she’s learned when she grows up.

Lola is __________ of all her hard work and success. Her __________ for others is “ just believe yourself ” .

【推荐3】I was tired and hungry after a long day of work.

When I walked into the living-room, my 12-year-old son ________ up at me and said, "I love you." I didn't know what to say. For several ________ all I could do was to ________ there and look at him. My first thought was that he must need ________ with his homework or he was trying to ________ me for some news. Finally, I asked, "What was that all about?"

"Nothing," he said. "My teacher said we should ________ our parents that we love them and sees what they say. It's ________."

The next day I called his teacher to find out more about this "experiment" and how the other parents had ________.

"Most of the fathers had the ________reacting (反应) as you did," the teacher said. "When I first

________ we try this, I asked the children what they thought their parents would say. Some of them thought their parents would have heart trouble. "The ________ is," the teacher explained, "feeling loved is an important part of ________. It is something all people ________. What I'm trying to tell the children is that it's too ________ we don't all express those feeling. A boy should be ________ to tell his dad he loves him."

The teacher, a middle-aged man, understands how ________ it is for some of us to say the things that would be good for us to say.

When my son came to me that evening, I held on to (抱着) him for ________ second. And just before he ________ away, I said in my deepest, most manly (有男子气概的) voice, "Hey, I love you, too."

I don't know if saying that made either of us healthier, but it did fell pretty good   (感觉很好). Maybe next time one of my children says "I love you", it would not take me a whole ________ to think of the right ________.