【推荐1】A long time ago, there lived a girl named Lilly.When she started going to school, she was_______. All her classmates bullied(欺侮) her for her shy behavior. If the teacher asked any questions, she wouldn’t answer because of her shyness. But she was a_______student and she knew all the_______.

Out of all the subjects, her favorite subject was sports. She always_______to be a football player on her school team. But the students always made fun of her. _________, she didn’t care what her_______would say as she wanted to_________that she could be a football player.

So during the day, Lilly_________her school, and at night, she would practice football at her home. Her mother installed(安装) some more lights in their garden so that her daughter could_________properly .

Finally, the selections for the inter-school for football competition came. Lilly, without a thought, ____________to go for it. Her classmates____________her, and said, “Boo! you will not make it. Back off ! ” But Lilly decided not to____________their words.

As she began to play, everybody was______________ her excellent skills.The judges were so wowed by her confident______________that they not only selected Lilly but also made her the captain. Now, everybody wanted to become Lilly’s friend and soon she became the__________girl in the school.

【推荐3】Life skills or social skills are seldom prioritized (优先考虑) in most schools. However, a _________ school teacher in Canada, Jennifer Thiessen, thinks _________ and ensures her students are well-equipped for life. According to her, _________ these skills was as important as students knowing how to multiply and divide.

Thiessen discussed her _________ with a fellow teacher, Kyla Stradling, and they came up with a plan. They gave their students a project _________ to spreading goodwill. They called it the “Kindness Project”.

Thiessen told her third-grade students in 2018, “If we could be that spark of kindness, we could _________ others to do acts of kindness.” And the students did _________. They made cupcakes at home and sold them for $1. They made about $400 and then used it to buy small _________ like flowers and dog treats. They then gave it out to _________ near the school.

After this experience, Thiessen made it an annual activity for third-graders at the school. “This project isn’t about who can __________ well academically,” she said. “This is an everybody project. It doesn’t have any __________ when it comes to ability.”

The school has carried out the Kindness Project for the last five years. Due to the project’s success, the school __________ five classes, three third-graders and second fourth-graders. This year, the 100 students were divided into many groups and __________ different tasks. On March 15, some were at coffee shops helping people buy beverages, while others waited at a local park to __________ dog treats and flowers.

Besides beginning a chain of kindness, the teacher wants to show students what they’re __________ of.

【推荐2】The meteorite (陨石)made worldwide news when it flew across the sky in February 2021. There is an _______ driveway on a suburban street in Winchcombe. But soon a chunk (块)of it may _______ in the Natural History Museum in London, after being hit by an unbelievably rare meteorite falling from space.

During this week, the Wilcock family from Winchcombe have _______ a dozen scientists to their front garden. Their home, and the town as a whole, was at the center of the worldwide scientific _______ after a 300g piece of rock that might _______ the answer to how life on our planet began _______ on their driveway. Ashley King, a researcher in the planetary materials group at the Natural History Museum, explained that 12 percent of the _______ collected from the driveway is made up of off-earth water. Dr. King predicted that this _______ would cause the debate on where the vast earth ocean came from.

“They said they might want to put a bit of our driveway in the museum”, said Rob Wilcock, _______ the Natural History Museum might take a chunk which has ________ marks from where the hot meteorite fell. For now, the Wilcocks have ________ their driveway with a wooden board and parked a car ________ it to protect the elements inside.

The meteorite fell to Earth on Feb 28, with a bang that sounded like a firework ________ . In the morning, the family found a pile of what looked like black coal on their driveway. This was strange: it hadn’t been there when they went to bed and there ________ to be no way of explaining why someone would leave the ________ of barbecues into their front garden. The only ________ explanation was that it had dropped from the sky. He sent an email to the UK Meteor Observation Network and waited for a ________. In the meantime, the word started ________over the town that the loud bang had been a meteorite falling to Earth.

In fact, the falling of the meteorite is the biggest thing to happen to Winchcombe since the last country fair. Graham Pike, a 68-year-old resident says, “It was very ________until this happened”.

The discovery on the Wilcocks’ driveway will drive a ________ of new findings across multiple scientific fields, and it’s a treasure that generates excitement to the small family, the quiet town, and the entire world.

【推荐3】At Lucky Candy, a small neighborhood store, customers are in for a lucky treat.

Ahmed Alwan, a cashier of the store, invented a game that’s since gone viral: if _______ correctly answer his math questions, they are able to grab as many items as possible in five seconds—all for _______. Alwan came up with the idea to primarily _______“low-income community members” and he himself ends up paying for whatever the winners collect.

For Alwan, 23, joy is essential as breakfast—but regulars at his family’s corner store sometimes _______ both. “This neighborhood has a lot of poor people,” he says. “They’ve known me since I was a little kid. I know most of them by name. I see people—some of whom are _______ customers—sleeping on the train. I used to give them buttered rolls, coffee and bananas in the morning to _______ their days.”

A fan of math throughout high school and college, Alwan thought of the way to combine his love of entertaining and altruism (利他主义) into the game to go on helping people and keep their _______ skills sharp too.

So how does all the gift _______ and problem solving affect the store’s profits?

Alwan said it hasn’t affected the family business negatively.

“It’s out of my own _______,” he said. He recently launched a GoFundMe page on the Internet to raise funds for the game as well.

If the equation (方程式) for happiness equals kindness plus ________, Alwan has already solved it.