【推荐1】One day, hundreds of people were stuck in traffic on the highway in below-freezing temperatures due to a snowstorm. With the conditions making it _________ for rescue workers to help, many were trapped overnight with no access to _________.

But one stuck driver found a _________ spot in the despair. As she was sitting in her car fearing the _________, Casey Holihan and her husband, John Noe, _________ a bread truck just ahead of them in the jam. Willing to try just about anything, they called the customer service number listed on the back of the truck and left a _________ begging for the driver to open the back and _________ bread to the hungry passengers around them. It was a last-ditch effort, and the couple wasn’t very _________ about getting a response. But to their _________ they soon received a phone call from the company’s owner, Chuck Paterakis, with the news that he was __________ the truck’s driver to open up and pass out loaves of bread from his cargo. Overjoyed by the news, Holihan and Noe __________ the truck’s driver to bring much-needed things to the cars around them.

The simple loaves of bread were surely a ray of __________ in an impossibly disturbing situation. Holihan herself calls it “one of the __________ moments” she’s ever witnessed. This company could have made a(n) __________ from the bread but instead chose to help the people around them. That is just so incredible that someone chose __________ over profit, especially in a situation where people were so desperate.

【推荐3】My daughter Beth bought me two beautifully carved wooden butterflies for my 56th birthday. I hung them in _______places on my walls. When I see them, those good memories will _______fill my mind.

My mom died when I was only 25. Beth had _______memories of her grandma since she was only 3-year-old. I tried to_______it by telling her stories of Grandma. Each time I did, I could see there was a little _______in Beth’s eyes.

One day when she was seven or so, we were _______on the playground. Beth suddenly said how much she _______not having her grandma around. I was _______and told her, “Grandma loves you very much. She _______over us from Heaven. Maybe she is now riding on the back of a_______to come down and get a _______look at us.” Just at that moment, a   butterfly appeared,   _______around Beth’s face and then flew away. We both laughed with our hearts _______of love and joy.

Since that moment, both Beth and I seem to _______butterflies like flowers. Whenever we are _______, they seem to fly around us, take a good look, and then fly away. Each time it _______ us of my mom’s love. When there are no _______of any kind during the coldest months, I can_______the two beautiful wooden butterflies. They make me realize that we are _______ in this life. Perhaps the best way to remember, _______, is to be a reminder of love yourself.

【推荐2】On Christmas Eve, I was walking home, when I saw a boy on a bike. “It looks like my brother’s bike,” I thought. When I got home, I asked my brother Wayne where that ________ was. “It was down on the steps,” he ________. But it wasn’t.

We tracked down where the ________ lived and planned to beat him. But my father was there and said, “Just shut up and let me talk.” An elderly man answered the ________ on the door. The home appeared cold and ________ and he had a single candle for light. His grandson was the boy who had ________ the bike. The boy started ________ and said, “I just wanted something for ________.”

We ________ home with the bike and told it to my mother. Without saying anything, she started ________ the turkey in half and tried to ________ it up. My father went to get a big bag of coal. Then we ________ to the little boy’s home, this time with food, some coal to ________ heat. My dad gave them $20 and said, “Merry Christmas.” The old man was moved and broke down in ________. This made me feel ________ than any Christmas I’d ever had.

【推荐3】When I woke up last week, I looked out of the window and saw nothing but white snow. It wasn't a _________ ； for days the weathermen had been _________ the winter storm. In the past years I had shoveled（铲）snow without too much _________ , but this year the task seemed challenging as I had just had back surgery（外科手术）.

But when I looked out of the _________ again, I was surprised to see my young neighbor Gray clearing my walkways. I couldn't _________ it. I knew my neighbors well, but we didn't often socialize. I fixed a cup of coffee and took it to the back door. When I opened the door, Gray _________ his work and accepted the hot cup gratefully. Clearing snow actually wasn't a（n） _________ job because on the top of the snow was a solid sheet of ice, making the walkways and streets not _________ to walk on. However, that didn't stop Gray； he worked hard until the job was finished. I _________ to thank him, but he said it was nothing and drove to his office. His wife Cathy also left for her job.

What could I do to repay his __________ ? I decided to make a big pot of soup. Cathy would not have to prepare the meal when she came home from __________ on such a cold day.

But the street was still __________ ， and I couldn't deliver the soup to them safely. So when I saw Cathy come home, I __________ and told her I had some soup for them. When she came over to __________ the soup, she seemed as grateful as I felt when I saw her husband shoveling snow off my walkways.

Now I am constantly looking for ways of __________ others. Gray had started a chain reaction in my soul. By helping me out without being asked, he sparked（激发）a similar feeling within me.

【推荐1】There was an old couple who had been married for 40 years. They loved each other deeply and went on dates together. Every time they went out for supper, the husband would order pie for dessert, which became their ________.   Although the wife always ________ to order any, she would ________ the first bite of his pie every time.

But then the husband began to develop a type of disease. He started to slowly ________ who his wife was. It ________ progressed to the point where he didn’t recognize his wife at all and became troubled by living with a ________.

He moved out of the house and into a nursing home. She was ________. However, she thought of good ________to help him recover. She would visit him with items (物品) that he loved before, but he never knew who she was. Even seeing pictures of them together from their past ________ him.

One of the doctors ________ the wife to start taking him on a few dates like before, so that the husband could gain a new kind of familiarity with her. The wife accepted his suggestion. So she took him to a ________ they had been going to their whole lives and had dinner. Afterwards he ordered pie, and without thinking she stole the first bite of it. The husband looked________, and was ready to leave. But ________ he stopped and seemed shocked, and then started ________ .

Everything had come back. His wife’s ________ made him get back to who he was. Tears came to his eyes once more. They moved back together and enjoyed their lives again.

【推荐3】I was annoyed that my mom had even scheduled the appointment with a doctor for me. As doctors so often do, when he arrived he went straight into the basic small talk about my _______ history.

But then he _______ a question that took me off guard. “So Robin, what are you going to do after high school?” He wrote something at his notes, with not even a glance in my _______. “I don’t know,” I mumbled(嘟哝). I was seventeen. I had no _______ what I was going to do after high school. My high school guidance counselor told me that I wasn’t “college material” and I believed her. Education wasn’t exactly _______ in my family.

“You don’t know? Well, why don’t you go to college to become a _______ like me?” He smiled as he glanced at his watch. I thought he was _______ for even suggesting it. No one in my family had even graduated from college, let alone become a doctor. “I’m not smart enough to be a doctor.”

He looked me straight in the eyes when he _______ said, “Let me tell you something; you don’t have to be smart to be a doctor. You just have to be persistent(坚持不懈的).” Then the doctor hurriedly gathered his things and _______ to his next appointment.

I ________ to think about it when I was at school. What would I do after high-school? Even though I wasn’t college material, that doctor made a(n) ________ on me. I applied to a college and soon found myself walking in the ________ as a new student. I often questioned what I was doing there. Maybe I wasn’t smart enough for college, but I could be persistent.

I was ________ to find that with each individual achievement came newfound ________ in myself. I graduated with a master’s degree in September 2014, two decades after that ________ with my doctor.