【推荐1】Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to ________ a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could ________ help .

“Just start with a________. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A sweet smile can have a(n) ________ effect on others less fortunate,”   Hansen said in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________. Ward, a homeless, was ________   in a flat. He thanked the Hansens for helping him ________ the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I'm impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son's ________ have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can play in uplifting the homeless. They know they can't ________ the homeless problem alone. They’re hoping empathy will become________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless,” Chase said.

【推荐3】“Look Mom, he paints like me!” Eight-year-old Alexandra Nechita had just discovered Pablo Picasso’s artwork for the first time. The art world ______ and began to call Alexandra the “Petite（小的） Picasso.” This _____ artist has been turning heads in the art world ever since.

Even at age two, Alexandra______nearly all her time on her colouring books. _____their daughter spent too much time alone, Alexandra’s parents took her colouring books away. They _____ she’ d start to jump rope or play with dolls. But taking away her ______was like taking the air out of her life. Alexandra began to colour on paper her mother _______home from office.

When Alexandra was four, her parents began to notice the figures she_______ They were abstract and   ______Picasso's work, with four eyes and two faces. She______painting with watercolours and then with other paints.

Alexandra’s classmates would sometimes _____ her paintings. But her ______school teacher saw talent in her drawings. She helped eight-year-old Alexandra organise her first______at a local library.

Within a year, Alexandra had several other exhibitions. By then, she had ______ more than 250 paintings. Her exhibition at the famous Mary Paxon Gallery brought her to the _____of national art critics（评论家）She began to_____ on television, in news and talk shows around America

Today, Alexandra______paints in her special style. Admirers have spent a large amount of money buying her paintings. But the______ doesn’ t seem to have affected her negatively (消极地）.Through various charities, Alexandra shares her wealth with those _____around the world. And ______Alexandra continues to paint, the world will be blessed to experience more of her love for life and art.

【推荐1】It was 7:15 a.m. and Gary Messina was on his morning run along New York City’s East River. Suddenly something caught his eye — a man shouter for help _________ the current pulled him away from the seawall.

David Blauzvern and John Green _________ their phones and keys on land and jumped in. Messina, a police officer, also joined them in the river. Just as the man was_________, they stabilized him, with Blauzvern _________ his back and Messina and Green holding him _________from either side. After ten minutes, they managed to get to the river’s_________and stayed as close to the seawall as they could.

Fifteen minutes later, a rescue boat turned_________. As they approached the boat, there came a new _________: The wave created by the current was sucking(吮吸;吞没 )them under the boat.

Blauzvern remembers being pulled down just as someone in the boat _________on to the man,__________ Blauzvern to let go. Somehow, he grasped a pole attached to the boat deck and dragged himself __________. The men in the water pushed the drowning guy while the men in the boat pulled him up and, finally, to __________. The man they had saved was taken to the hospital for medical aid. Details on his __________ have not been released.

As for the rescuers, each of them was at work by 10:30 a.m. “I was a bit late,”__________Blauzvern, smiling. “But I had a good __________.”

【推荐2】A Toronto man is offering a free round-the-world air to the right woman. But _________ apply. You must be named Elizabeth Gallahgher and have a Canadian _________.

Jordan Axani, 28, said he and his then girlfriend, Elizabeth Gallagher, booked heavily discounted round-the-world air tickets in May, but their _________ ended and he did not want her ticket to _________. The ticket had a strict no-transfer (不可转让) _________, but since passport information was not required when _________, any Canadian Elizabeth Gallagher can _________ it.

“I just want to see the ticket go to good use and for someone to _________ a lot of joy,” said Axani. He posted his _________ on a social networking website, and received thousands of e-mails, including thirty from actual Elizabeth Gallaghers with the __________ passports, “More __________, there are hundreds of Canadians who are interested in __________ their name to Elizabeth Gallagher, Axani said. “It was absolutely out of __________, thousands of e-mails, people around the world __________ their stories of travel.”

Axani wrote in his post that he is not __________ anything in return and that the woman who uses the __________ ticket can choose to either travel with him or __________ the ticket and travel on her own.

The __________ is scheduled to start on December 21 in New York City and continue on to Milan, Prague, Paris, Bangkok and New Delhi before __________ in Toronto on January 8. He said the __________ woman will be announced on the website and the trip will be shared online.