【推荐1】Torrie, 16, and her friend Azarria were driving back home when another car hit them. When Torrie opened her eyes, she _________ their car had been pushed into a tree. There came _________ from the gathering crowd as the car was smoking. Torrie’s door wouldn’t open, but her window became an escape _________.

“Everyone ran away, fearing the car was going to _________. But turning around, I didn’t see Azarria. I ran back and saw she was _________ in the back seat. I decided to help her out of the _________.”

“I didn’t know how I made it. I just became stronger at that moment,” she says. She _________ a bystander to call 911 and started CPR.

After 30 chest compressions and two rescue breaths, Azarria began to show _________ of life. Just then, the paramedics _________ to rush Azarria to the nearest hospital.

__________ for both girls, their Lakewood High School offers a First-Aid Skills class taught by Erika Miller. Torrie had earned her __________ in the class just the day before this accident.

“I was absolutely astonished,” Erika says. “In my years of teaching, I never __________ a student would finish the course and in 24 hours have to __________ CPR on her friend.”

“I was grateful to Torrie, but I wasn’t surprised.” Azarria says. “She would have done that for anyone. That’s just __________ of her.

“First-aid training should be a(n) __________ in schools,” Torrie says. “It can make a difference between life and death.”

【推荐2】The first day of school, I came home crying because all the other kids said I was too big for kindergarten. On the bus, the first three seats were_______for kindergartners and the bus driver made me move _______because she didn’t believe me when I told her I was in kindergarten-I was just too _______

When I was about nine, my sister and I were _______ in a play area at the mall and a security guard came up and told me I was too big. The age _______ was 12, but they still wouldn’t let me play.

Finding jeans that are_______enough for a girl like me is nearly impossible. One of my friends is a boy. One day, we decided to _______jeans-his came up to about my mid-shin(小腿中部), and everyone kept telling me I _______like Tom Sawyer.

At 16, however, I suddenly found being tell has its_______

I can ________ things on the top shelf, like Wal-Mart and the shopping mall, where I ________by little old ladies to get stuff down for them all the time. I also get ________ first in a crowd because my head sticks way ________everybody else’s. But I do run a higher ________of hitting my head on things.

Being tall is a great way to get people’s________I get approached by strangers all the time, asking me if I played ________ . I did play basketball, but the thing I was________at in it was intimidation. I loved watching the other team’s faces when I walked out to________.You could usually see the________in the eyes of whoever had to jump against me.

I used to________ being tall. Now I’ve gone back to smiling when I hear someone tell me how lucky I am.

【推荐1】Justin Horner was driving down a freeway in Portland, when his tire blew out. He _________ to the side of the road and made a sign that said he needed _________.

Three hours later, a truck _________ pulled up. Out came a family of four. They were Latino, and their young daughter acted as the _________ between her parents’ Spanish and Horner’s English, so that they could work together to _________ the car. They spent about an hour on the repair.

“I just _________ them,” Horner recalled. “And I tried to give the daughter a $20 bill. And she just wouldn’t _________ it.”

But Horner was stubborn, and he put the money in her _________, and walked away. Then Horner heard their daughter asking him if he was _________. Indeed he was, and she came over with a tamale (玉米粉蒸肉). They exchanged thanks and the family __________ to drive away.

“I __________ the tamale and my money was in it,” Horner said. Horner immediately ran over to the truck to get the father’s __________.

The father saw Horner __________, rolled down his window, gave him a wave, rolled up the window and drove off. Horner also saw the young girl __________ goodbye through the window.

A few months later, Horner posted his story on social media, which drew thousands of likes and hundreds of __________.

【推荐3】Kindness is all around us with inspiring stories every day. Small acts warm our hearts, but it’s the constant devotion to _______ that truly inspires. John Cena is this _______   kind of person—strong, intelligent, and possessing a heart of gold.

At 45 years old, the former wrestler-turned-actor has _______ a remarkable world record. Through the Make-A-Wish foundation, he turned shocking 650 wishes into reality, surpassing(超过)any other _______ in the organization’s history. Make-A-Wish, established 42 years ago, fulfills(实现)dreams for _______ ill children aged 2－18, providing fun experiences like trips to Disney World, family reunions, concerts, and vacations. Meeting a celebrity(名人)of their choice, most of whom are athletes and actors, is a commonly _______ wish.

Other _______ celebrities who fulfill wishes include Maroon 5, Dwayne Johnson, and Lady Gaga. However, Cena is by far the most requested celebrity and has said he’ll always answer the _______ to fulfill these children’s dreams. “If you ever need me for this ever, I don’t _______ what I’m doing, I will drop what I’m doing and be ________ because I think that’s the coolest thing,” Cena said of the organization in 2019.

Cena’s ________ extends beyond fulfilling wishes. He has donated over six million airline miles to ________ air tickets for families and aims to ________ at least 1,000 wishes. He has also found wish kids even ________ than the toughest opponents he faced in WWE. He eagerly looks forward to fulfilling 500 more wishes, appreciating the huge ________ of wish fulfillment.

【推荐2】In just 15 months, this 441-pound man who couldn’t _________ in a theatre seat lost 223 pounds. The _________ for the change came when the 31-year-old recognized that he didn’t have the _________ to play with his two young children.

“In the past, I couldn’t even walk up a _________ of stairs without feeling out of breath,” said Sparkes, a salesman from Weston-super-Mare, in England. Before his weight loss, Sparkes was eating 6,000 calories a day and _________ a completely sedentary(久坐的) lifestyle. His doctor was actually shocked that he didn’t have any health issues, but _________ him that it was only a matter of time until he would develop diabetes(糖尿病) and joint problems.

“I was _________ I wouldn’t be around for my children,” he said. So in September 2019, he changed his diet and started trying to lose weight. After losing some weight, Sparkes turned his _________ to his physical fitness. In March 2020, he started running and used an app to _________ it, and he joined a running club. On December 20^th he ran his __________ marathon. “I had my wife and my kids there waiting for me at the end, and it felt __________. I ran it in five hours and 24 minutes, but I ran the whole distance.”

He has four marathons __________ this year and runs half marathons on most weekends to stay __________. He also raised ￡1，280 for the Alzheimer Society by joining the Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge to help those who are __________.

Sparkes says that he underwent much trouble but he never gave up and that his wife has played a big role in his success by being __________.

【推荐3】This week I saw a video of a mountain climber lying on the back of the Sherpa guide who helped rescue him.

Gelje says he was_______a client toward the summit ofEverest last month when he noticed another climber_______a rope, alone, in what's called Everest's“death_______”.These are the highest_______, where temperatures can drop below minus 30 degrees Celsius, where human cells begin to________without oxygen.

Gelje stopped the climb of his own client. Then he rescued the________stranger, left hanging for his life,and________him for about six hours, to an area called theSouth Col, where another guide joined in the_______.

“We________the climber in a sleeping mat,”Gelje said,“dragged him on the snow, or carried him in______ on our backs to Camp Three, which is still more than 7,000 meters high.”

A helicopter met them to lift the________climber down to the base camp. He was taken to a hospital, and has since returned home to Malaysia.

We don't know how the Malaysian climber_______himself in danger. But the two guides who grow up in and know those________saw a stranger in danger, and risked their own lives to________him. As Gelje said,“Saving one life is more________than praying at the church.”