【推荐1】For a herder (放牧人) in Africa, the hardest part of the job is searching for cattle lost in the bush. But for Andrew, a herder at a farm in Zimbabwe, it’s not a_________. Once he_________Toro, he knows the rest of the herd is nearby. That’s because Toro isn’t an ordinary member of the herd. He’s a giraffe. In_________weather, cattle rest in the shade under his belly to keep cool. And because of his height, Toro can spot lions long before they come close to the herd.

Toro’s_________situation came about after his mother was killed by lions. Toro survived the attack, but he was left with no one to protect him or give him milk. About two days later, some herders spotted and rescued him. With the_________of the Department of Wildlife, the herders moved Toro to Andrew’s farm. Since giraffes and cattle are both plant-eating animals that live in_________, their behaviors are much the same. Toro was accepted into the herd and_________among the cattle as they ate grass.

Toro doesn’t always behave like the other members of his new herd. Like many kinds of animals, cattle_________leadership. Standing more than 13 feet tall, Toro is more than three times taller than the_________bull, but Toro__________tries to be “the boss”. “He is very used to their __________,” Andrew said. When the herd enters the kraal (家畜栏), the cows and bulls__________each other. “But thanks to his height, Toro does not need to join the__________,” said Andrew.

When asked if Toro would ever be__________to the wild, Munetsi, an officer of the Department of Wildlife said no. “In the wild, he would find it difficult to be accepted into another herd or defend himself from being killed by other animals,” he added. “He seems very much at home and is respected by the__________.”

【推荐2】George Vorel owns a company called Envirosafe. Caroline, his daughter，was ________ to heroin by Jeramie Miller soon after graduating from high school in 2010. It took Caroline 8 years to get ________ Once she was, she became a drug counselor (顾问). Among her ________ was to get her friend Miller clean too. Thinking a job would help him get his life on ________ Caroline decided to turned to her father, who had once drove this ________ guy out of the house.

Vorel had always resisted ________ anyone with a record. “He is the ________ guy you’d expect me to hire,” he would say. But Vorel, now 60, ________ a new-found faith in his later years. Through his church, he realized empathy and ________ were important to him. “God equipped us to have a ________,” he said. So Vorel offered Miller a job and even invited his new ________ to carpool. Miller was nervous when he ________ into the passenger seat. But “Within five minutes，I ________,” he said. Storytellers both, the men talked and talked and learned they both ________ a birthday with Abraham Lincoln. Soon, a genuine friendship flourished (蓬勃发展), as did Miller’s ________ at work, where he was promoted to a managerial position.

Because of Miller’s success, Vorel hired more men with dishonorable pasts. His son，who ________ the business with Vorel, estimates that of his 30 employees, 80 to 90 percent have ________ that would make it tough for them to ________ jobs. Men such as Gregory Fowler and Patrick Thunberg all got work they ________ might not have. “We are saving lives and that’s ________       to me,’’ Vorel said.

【推荐3】“Don’t worry. Those are just age spots (老年斑),” the doctor said. “Are you _________ that these are age spots?” I questioned, pointing to the dark spots on my hands. Angie, the doctor, smiled warmly and _________, “I’m 100% sure.”

I let out a scream of _________. “You’ve no idea how long I’ve waited for these to _________” I said. Angie looked slightly _________, and I realized there was no possible way I could explain my excitement. What Angie didn’t know was that I shouldn’t have _________ to see age spots! At age forty, there was not much hope that I would live long enough to see any signs of _________. I was in the battle of my life—fighting lung cancer.

After the five-year mark of being cancer free, I started to have hope. When I got my first white hair, I quickly pointed to my husband, “look, honey, a white hair.”

_________ I was taking a trip down the memory path, Angie _________ , “Here’s the fade cream (增白霜) that you can __________ to your hands twice a week before going to bed”. And then she mentioned another __________ , “of course, you can always have the spots removed with lasers (激光).”

“Remove them?” I questioned. “ __________ would anyone want to do that?” Angie stared at me, not understanding the meaning of those words, while I explained, “I’d like to __________ them.” As I walked out of the hospital, I was __________ that I had such wonderful age spots!

Later that year, I celebrated two milestone (里程碑)—my sixteenth birthday and twenty years of being ________ from cancer. I’m excited to be growing older with white hairs, wrinkles (皱纹) and now age spots. And I can see the beauty in all of them!

【推荐1】On a trip back from Boston, my two little guys and I stopped at a gas station. It was not until I got home that I _________ my wallet had been left there.

I tried to set aside my frustration and _________ over this and focused on taking action. First, I had to find the phone number of the gas station. Just a quick Baidu _________, right? Unluckily, the number had been recently _________ due to new ownership. So I _________ he restaurant across the street. The hostess warmly took down my _________ and had a waiter bring it to the gas station manager, who then rang me up. He told me that a regular customer had found my wallet and_________ it over to him for safekeeping. We arranged that I would drive back to the gas station the next day to_________my wallet.

My relief that the situation was heading the right direction was simple, as was my appreciation for the _________ and thoughtfulness of others — from the __________ who found my wallet to the restaurant hostess to the manager, who was willing to mail me my wallet if that was __________for me.

At every step of the way, a generous spirit was shown, which was__________ in a world where we often witness self-focused thinking and self-serving behavior.

Much good fortune __________ me after I left my wallet behind on that trip back from Boston — including a powerful reminder of the goodness and generosity of others. My world was righted and made more joyful, not just by being reunited with my wallet, but by the __________ acts of others. As Marianne Williamson wrote, "__________ is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are."