【推荐1】Last year, I was lucky enough to work at an office near my mother’s house._________, I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I _________ her out with the housework and contributed to the groceries.

After a week, I started to _________ the groceries were running out pretty quickly.___________, I began observing my mother’s daily routine for two weeks. To my _________, I found she would pack a paper bag full of canned goods and _________every morning at about nine. She took the food to the slums(贫民窟) and distributed it to street _________.

I asked around and _________ my mum was popular in the area. The kids looked up to her as if she were their own mother. Then it hit me ——why didn’t she want to tell me about what she’d been doing? Was she _________ that I would stop buying the groceries if I knew the truth?

When she got home, I told her about my discovery and __________ she could react, I gave her a big hug and told her she didn’t need to keep it a __________ from me. She told me that __________ of the children lived with an old lady in a makeshift home while others____________on the streets. For years, my mum had been helping out by __________ whatever food she could __________. I was so moved by how __________ she was. She used what was__________for her to help others in need. And I was so __________ of her.

I __________ to buy groceries for my mum. But now, I always add a(n)__________bag for her other children.

【推荐2】When I search my mind for who has made an impact on my life, my father steps out first. To be honest, my father is not an_______ dad because he can be defined as a workaholic without_________ I had a memory that he has been_________like a machine for days and nights. As a famous teacher and the boss of a training institute, his schedule is filled up with_________to give and decisions to_________ on management. It was he who left me weeping alone_________ a locked door when I was 5 years old. In adolescent years, I rarely _______his words on anything. When I grew up, I still find it_________to communicate with him.

While I believe I won’t _______my dad in some parts, I deeply understand him and even feel________about him. He was ________for 7 years into high school because of the Cultural Revolution, but later his diligence and ________brought him a diploma of a key university, a job in a big city and his enterprise. His single-parent ________ and his childhood with his grandparents hold him back from taking the father’s ________in the best way and showing his love to his son.________ , I do know he loves me so much.

After I failed the college entrance exam, he________me to take it easy, and encouraged me to be confident and ________. In that summer, he got up early in spare mornings, took a walk with me in the park, telling me his story of fighting against________. During the Spring Festival when he stood at the window,________me lighting fireworks outside, smiling, I said to myself it was such a wonderful moment. It was the first time we had been so________to each other.

【推荐3】Paul looked out of the window of the classroom and sighed. The driveway was still ________ and it was getting dark. His father had said that he would ________ him up by 5:30, but it was almost 7:29 and Paul hadn’t heard a word from him. Paul ________ to do some of his reading homework. ________, he couldn’t help thinking of his father. He knew that his father had a job and a ________ life, but he couldn’t understand why he was always breaking his ________.

The next day at school, Paul didn’t ________ his math homework. Paul’s teacher noticed his unusually ________ performance and asked him why, but Paul didn’t want to ________ him. He knew that if he started talking a flood of ________ would pour out. He just wanted to be alone with his ________ anyway, so he just sat in the classroom _________, not even looking at his teacher. “Well, Paul, you can’t have this thing ________ you up. The sooner you get it off your ________, the sooner you can heal.”

As Paul walked home from school, he ________ the things that his teacher had told him. Paul knew that he hadn’t been himself recently. Maybe he stopped doing his work ________ he was looking for ________ from his father. He realized that he was not just letting his father ________ his plans, but he was letting his father spoil his _________. Eventually, he decided to accept his teacher’s ________.

【推荐1】“Daily Star, sir,” called Jason, carrying some newspapers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty____left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was____. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers____money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a____for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He____as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

“You don’t know the____of selling papers. You must shout, ‘Hot news! Bomb bursting!’” another newsboy Chad told Jason. “____it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly____they have time to see, and you’ll____out and get your money,” Chad said.

It was a new____to Jason. He thought of his bird with no____and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was____that he would not tell a lie. Though he was____a poor newsboy, he had been____some good things.

The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers____. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared with a____smile that he sold six dozen the day before. He added that Jason____money because he would not tell a lie. The boys____at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder____,     “You’re just the boy I am looking for. “ A week later Jason started his new____. He lost the sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

【推荐3】In October 2015, Shah began picking up rubbish from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began_________others to join in. Word spread and with help from social media, more volunteers got_________.

Shah hasn't stopped since. He's now spent 209 weekends_________to this mission, inspiring more than 200,000_________to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was_________clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another_________as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

For Shah, the work has_________been a personal journey, but it has earned_________attention. After he was_________as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Bollywood celebrities and politicians__________his mission and joined in his cleanups.

Today, Shah is also working with coastal communities to__________plastic pollution at one of the sources. In areas lacking waste management systems, __________often end（s）up in streams and rivers that empty into the__________. Shah and his volunteers__________and assist villagers in reducing, managing and recycling their plastic waste.

"This world__________too much. I think you must talk less and do action__________," he said. “Every citizen on this __________must be in for a long pull. I feel the__________to do something for my planet, so this will__________for life. If each one could start, this journey could become__________Can we do it together?”

【推荐1】It was a day in late June, gray and depressing, with clouds hanging low. My husband and I were driving to Nova Scotia, Canada, for a much-needed vacation. We traveled tiredly, hoping to_______rest and dinner before the rain came. Suddenly, on a lonely stretch of highway, the storm _______. Cascades of water shut us in, making driving impossible. We _______ onto the shoulder of the road and stopped.

Then, as though someone had turned off a celestial tap, it _______. A thin radiance, like a spray of gold, _______from the clouds. Every blade of grass was crystalline as the sun flashed on _______ drops. The very road shone, and a rainbow arched across the sky. It was as though this beam of color had been built for us _______. We could hardly speak for awe and joy.

A friend of mine has described a _______ experience. She had walked out on a lonely beach at twilight. It was a time of grief for her, and _______ was what she wanted. Offshore, across the darkening sea, she made out the __________ of an anchored fishing boat, and in it the figure of a man. My friend told me that after a while, she felt an intense and glowing sense of oneness with that __________ figure. It was as though sea and sky and night and those two solitary human beings were united in a kind of profound identity. “I was __________by joy,” she said.

__________almost anything may serve as the motivation of such a feeling—stars shine on new snow; a sudden field of daffodils; a moment in marriage when hand reaches out to hand in the __________ that this other person speaks as you speak, feels as you feel. Joy may wait, too, just   __________ danger when you have enough to face a situation and live it out. __________ the source, such experiences provide the most memorable moments of life.

What if these moments of joy are given to us to __________that this is the way we are meant to live? What if the clarity of joy is the way we should be seeing all the time? To many people, it seems almost wicked to feel this radiance in a world__________as ours is. But most generations have known uncertainty and __________. The more damaged the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life. Our moments of joy are __________that at the heart of darkness an unquenchable(不可遏制的) light shines.

Joy is the feeling that we have touched the edge of something far beyond ourselves.

【推荐2】I was eighteen years old and I was the golden girl. I was president of the college drama society, a member of the student senate and so on. I was the ______of all my friends and I was in a state of _____.

The old Greek tragedies ______us that when pride rises, punishment falls. My universe ________with great suddenness. The scenery (舞台布景道具) fell on my head and I was left almost _______for the next four months.

My memory was in a mess and within a few months all my ______were taken away. I was even told that I would have to leave the college at the end of the spring term ______, clearly, I couldn’t do academic work.”

Sad, I took one last ______by Dr. Jacob Taubes. He was the most brilliant teacher I had ever ________and in his class, I began to raise a tentative ______and ask an occasional question. He would answer with great intensity, and soon I found myself asking ______questions constantly.

One day I was walking to the bus when I heard Dr. Taubes ______me, ”Miss Houston, let me walk with you. You know, you have a most _______mind.”

“Me? I have a mind?”

“Yes, of course.” Then he asked my understanding of some problems discussed in the classes.

From that day on, Dr. Taubes continued to ______me to the bus, always ______me with intellectually vigorous questions. Within several weeks my eyesight came back and my spirit ________.

What I acquired from this experience was a ______sense of life. I remain deeply ______for the attention Dr. Taubes had shown. He ______me when I most needed it. I swore then that I would try to _______and acknowledge the unlucky person as I had been acknowledged.

【推荐3】My car needed some mechanical work that I could not do myself. Since the garage I had been taking my car to had ______, my friend Dave gave me a recommendation: D’s Auto Repair.

I was pleasantly ______ to discover that the owner of D’s was a mechanic who had worked on my car several years earlier. ______ he was an employee at a gas station near my house. I knew that his work was good.

I ______ the paperwork for the repair and ______ while D took a phone call from another customer. As I sat there, I looked around the small office to keep myself ______. A framed newspaper article caught my attention. The headline ______: “Local Dairy Farmer Kills Whole Herd.” The article was about the ______ of a fifth-generation dairy farmer during the polluted milk scare in Michigan several years earlier. Dairy cows were becoming ______ a disease that was affecting the milk supply. The fifth-generation dairy farmer paid to have all of his cows_______. It was found that out of the entire herd, only a few were infected. Because no one could ______ that the other cows were totally ______, he had the herd killed and buried to make consumers feel rest assured (放心). The farmer’s insurance did not cover his ______ because the state had not issued a(n) ______ for him to get rid of the herd. Asked why he did it, the farmer replied “Because it was the right thing to do.”

I asked D why he ______ the article on the wall. I thought that he might be related to or ______ knew the farmer. He said he had never met the man, but that the farmer was a(n) ______ to him and set a standard for integrity (正直), trust and honesty. He said that is how he ______ his auto Repair business.

I was now doubly ______ by both the farmer and D. The next year, on my ______, my son started a nine-month mechanics apprenticeship (学徒) at D’s Auto repair.