【推荐2】I remember my first woodworking project－a small table. It was absolutely beautiful and I was so _________ of it that I looked upon it as if I had created a(an) _________. I could _________ wait to give it to Mother Winters, the administrator of our orphanage (孤儿院), as a gift. We called our female caretakers “mother”. It was the title that we used when _________ them.

As the table legs were not ___________ from the coating, we were instructed to wait a few days before taking them to the dormitories. But I was just so _________ that I couldn’t wait. When I saw my chance, out the door I went like a _________, carrying my table and smiling from ear to ear.

I was ___________ it in my dormitory when Mother Winters entered. She walked over to the table and run her hand _________ the top.

“It is very pretty,” she told me. ____________ when she touched the table leg, she noticed that it was still wet.

“Were you __________ to bring this home?” she asked.

“No, ma’ am,” I whispered with my head __________.

She made me throw the table out. After she left, I got it back. There was __________ stuck all over the legs. I brushed and cried and brushed and cried, but it would not ____________. I hid the table in my closet.

A year later, I asked Mother Henderson, my houseparent (宿管员), to throw it away.

Thirty years later at a reunion, I ____________ that Mother Henderson was living nearby, so I drove up to see her. As I was about to leave, she asked me to come down to her ____________ to help her get something important. I __________ her into a dark corner. She picked something up. __________ she turned around, I could see that she was holding a little table.

Today, I look at that table with bittersweet memories but full of __________ to Mother Henderson, who kept it for a young orphan who tried very hard to __________.

【推荐3】Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he ______ the airline to see if anyone had turned it in — but fruitlessly. _______the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash , etc, he feared the worst.

Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was ______ to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous (匿名的) sender. Inside was his wallet — ______ an additional $40 in cash. “I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the ______ of your wallet.”, read a letter that was enclosed with the package.

Hunter’s mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the ______ to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the sender. All they had to go on was that the letter was ______ from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender’s initials were signed “T.B”. The sender was later ______ as Todd Brown, who was delighted to “have a little fun” with helping out a hard-working stranger.

“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I _______, ‘Well, he’s doing his best to make ends meet.’ ” said Brown. “Hunter was very ______. He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the ______ was right,” Brown added, “He ______ it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started screaming, ‘No way! No way!’”

Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that’s why he didn’t sign his _______on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on ______ him on social media. Jeannie wrote on Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding ______ in people than anything.”

【推荐1】Dressed up as Captain America for parades from time to time, Timothy White could have saved the day with his shield (盾牌) if he were the superhero. But in real life, when he saw trouble one afternoon, he wasn’t wearing his ________ and couldn’t depend on superpowers.

White was driving home in Harrisburg when he noticed something hard to ________. A truck on the other side of the street was moving from side to side uncontrollably and the driver appeared to be ________. Referred to as Captain Harrisburg, White had to stop that ________ before accidents.

Having made a U-turn, White faced the same ________ as the truck and tried to catch up with it. No luck with the heavy traffic. ________, Captain Harrisburg ran quickly to the truck and jumped in through its open window. The man behind the ________ was barely conscious and quite ________ by a stranger near him. White took ________ of the stick shift and forced the truck to park. The driver said he was not well. White ________ down a police officer. An ambulance ________the man to a hospital, where the doctor ________ that had his blood sugar gone lower, things could have been much worse. After his ________, the truck driver thanked White for saving his life.

White’s actions that day were ________ for him. He ran a nonprofit and he once tried to save people on fire. He was from playing a ________ to becoming one in real life.

【推荐2】Many of us dream of making all the difference—earning a lot of money. A great scientist has achieved that big success and _____ all the money to help others. Professor Nicola Curtin of the Newcastle University successfully _____ a new drug for cancer, but when the time came for her big _____ , she chose to give some of the profits away to help needy people to make their life better.

The drug Rubraca is the _____ of 30 years of research and helps people who have a gene known to lead to an increasing _____ of breast cancer. Rubraca helps target the cancerous cells so as to repair their DNA and finally _____ tumour cells(肿瘤细胞). The Newcastle University _____ rights of the medication(药物) for $40.8 million to a company, which is a large sum of money. Instead of treating herself, Curtin used her $1.2 million share to _____ The Curtin PARP (Passionate About Realising Your Potential) Fund.

The fund _____ to help the disabled, the homeless, and anyone experiencing a disadvantage. It helps them to develop the skills to ______ difficulties so that they can get education or employment. “Those people’s ______ makes me think about life. I have already had everything that I need in life but there are many people who are leading a hard life. ______, through The Curtin PARP Fund, I want to leave a(n) ______ legacy(遗赠) by helping them master the basic skills for life. And I feel ______ of what I have done. ”said Curtin.

What Curtin has done tells us that we can help others in many ______ by using our talent, and by reaching out and offering much assistance, etc.

【推荐3】When I was driving on the highway, a big storm came. The rain began to beat _________ against my car windows. I had to stop and _________ my car along the roadside. Sitting in the car with boxes of _________ in the back seat, I was reminded of Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina hit Houston when I was fourteen years old. I was _________ that it would destroy my neighborhood. But it missed ours, while leaving many parts of the city in _________ . From the TV, I saw a reporter _________ the homeless people inside the Houston Astrodome (体育馆). Many of them were in dirty and _________ clothes, and some had no shoes on their feet. I noticed a little boy behind the reporter hugging an old teddy bear. Suddenly, I knew I had to do _________.

The next day, my friends joined me at our volunteer club and we came up with a plan to _________ some used toys and give them to the kids at the Astrodome. I hoped they would bring some __________ to those homeless kids. We __________ the word to our schools and other organizations. Three days later, our club was flooded with new toys! When we __________ the Astrodome with our gifts, children __________ toward us from all directions.

My cell phone brought me back to the present. To my joy, the storm had passed. “Hector, we have had more __________ because of the tornado.” “Well, I've brought a lot of clothes for them. The __________ kept me late, but I'll be there soon!”

【推荐2】A tradition for my wife and me is to make Christmas treats and drive around town to deliver to about 15 friends. We do this over two days and gain a lot of ________ seeing people and wishing them ________.

Last night kindness had a strange connection with ________.

First, we showed up to ________ treats to our 95-year -old neighbor right before she was ready to go to sleep. Next, we delivered to friends who had just finished dinner and were ________ for something sweet. ________, with plate in hand, we ________ a neighbor and her daughter who were coming home from a walk. ________ then were leaving a friend’s house as she ________ from visiting someone else. An eighty-five year old neighbor was on Zoom with friends talking about what ________ meant and said that our ________ was the perfect example.

One friend was not at home when we ________. She was ________ on the phone when we said we were leaving a small ________ for her. She told us she was on her way and asked if we would wait. She said that she could ________ a hug. She had just returned from the ER. Her husband, who had been suffering continuous medical ________, had just fallen, ________ his hip and needed surgery. She got her hugs.

From a perfect ________ after a good meal to ________ for our friend worried about her husband, our sweets ________ a lot to many.

【推荐3】Rita was a lovely girl who grew up in the eastern region of Nepal. Watching tourists from everywhere visit her village made Rita ______. So she asked her father, “What are these people doing here, father?” Rita’s father laughed and said, “Darling, they have all come to challenge themselves to ______ to the top of those mountains.”

Amazed at their ______, Rita said. “Really father? Is it ______ to climb to the top?” “Of course, dear. Many people can do it.” ______ her father.

“Someday, I will be able to climb to the highest of these magic mountains,” said Rita, with a strong ______, a burning dream forming in her eyes. But life had other plans for her. Rita ______ one of her legs when she was thirteen. Clouds of hopelessness threw ______ to her happy world. “I will never be ready to climb those mountains,” cried Rita.

Her father ______ her greatly. He couldn’t see his little girl in pain. He was sad too. But he did not ______.

One day, Rita’s father built her a wooden ______, which she could wear and walk. “Never say ‘never’. Start climbing the mountains,” said the ______ father.

Rita was beside herself with joy. She wore the wooden limb (肢) and walked, and ______. She stood up, and had a second try, and fell again. The whole village ______ at the daddy and daughter’s foolishness. But nothing pulled them down. They kept ______. After five years, Rita made it to the highest of the mountains.