【推荐1】One day when I was 13, my family was working in the fields to clear away old brush when somehow the electric fence sparked(冒火星) and______a fire. We didn’t see the fire______it had blocked the way to the only gate. I______to jump over the fence to safety but the fire was all around us. I could only watch in______as the flames continued to rise. Little did I know that my father had once been a(an)______and knew what to do.______with only a pump sprayer, buckets, and his boots, he______down to the nearby pond, filled the buckets and the sprayer, and began spraying the______while my older brother threw water with the buckets. Soon the wind______, however, and with the Fire Department too far away to arrive in time, my father began to stomp(踩灭) out the flames as he moved to the______, so that my family was able to move inch by inch toward the gate.______he arrived at the gate, he jumped into the truck, rolled up the windows, and drove______the fire. Then the fire was put out, and my mother was looking at my father with her______eyes.

After that, my father began telling us about his days as a firelighter, and my brother and I became______, asking him what other jobs he had done before he______. Well, it turned out that he had done just about______except brain surgery!

He had been in the military as a carpenter, carpet layer, and electrician, and had built B2 bombers before being poisoned in an accident that had______him to retire. My father has a blood disorder as a result of that______, but that hasn’t stopped him form being a full-time electrician.

To all those people whose fathers have worked in the military and in other dangerous jobs, be______of them, and remember that some day their______might save your life.

【推荐3】When I was about twelve years old, my mother told us that we would not be _______ Christmas gifts for lack of money. I felt sad and thought, “What would I say when the other kids asked what I’d _______?” Then, three women _______ at our house with gifts for all of us. For me they bought a doll. I would no longer have to be _______ when I returned to school.

Years later, when I stood in the kitchen of my new house, thinking how I wanted to make my _______ Christmas special and memorable there, I_______ remembered the women’s visit. I decided that I wanted to create the same feeling of _______ for as many children as I could possibly _______.

So I _______ with a plan and gathered forty people from my company to help. We gathered about 125 orphans (孤儿) at the Christmas party. For every child, we wrapped colorful packages filled with toys, clothes, and school supplies, each with a child’s name. We wanted all of them to know they were ________. Before I called out their names and handed them their gifts, I ________ them that they couldn’t open their presents until every child had come forward. Finally the ________ they had been waiting for came as I called out, “One, two, three. Open your presents!” As the children opened their packages, their faces beamed and their bright smiles ________ up the room. The ________ in the room was obvious, and it wasn’t just about toys. It was a feeling — the feeling I knew from that Christmas so long ago when the women came to visit. I wasn’t forgotten. Somebody still remembered me. I know I ________.

【推荐1】At the age of 60, my father was hit by a car when he walked to a nearby supermarket to buy vegetables. After sleeping for two months in hospital, he finally woke up. His waking up________all our family. Unluckily, he didn’t know any of us. Doctors said his brain was hurt so________that he had lost all his memory. And his mental age was only five. We were sorry to hear about the bad news.

Since I was his only child, it was my________to look after him. He forgot nearly everything, but he did remember he liked sweets. I used the sweets as a way of________bad behaviors. I would give him one sweet________he didn’t sit on the ground, a second for stopping painting on the wall, and another for not trying to put clothes on the dog.

Dad became the________child in town. He broke my window with a ball and________our telephone in water like washing clothes. When I told him he was doing________things, he would answer smilingly, “I like that!” My son, then aged five, and two eight-year-old daughters, welcomed their________playmate. He would happily make them real cigarettes, and________his sweets with them.

It is eight years since the________. Dad has accepted the fact that he is the________of his three playmates but not a brother. He has also accepted that they grow taller but his________stays the same. Though it is still________to take care of him, he brings us a lot of fun. In some way I think it is a(n)________thing to look after dad like looking after a child. How many people can have the chance to care for a child-like parent?

【推荐3】I was tasked with looking after my 13-year-old cousin Megan while my parents were away. Megan had been living a _______ life, having lost her parents at a young age and currently living with my parents.

At first, I _______ that I could be a good role model for Megan and teach her the _______ way to do things, just like I had been taught to do the right A-levels and the right university. _______, things didn’t go as planned.

I _______ to get her to go to school and do her homework, but she just wanted to watch TV. I wanted to show her an educational movie, but she wasn’t _______.

One day, while driving Megan home from school, I stalled (使熄火) the car several times trying to do a hill-start. Megan found it _______ and started laughing uncontrollably. I couldn’t help but _______ . We both laughed and something _______ between us.

I realized that I didn’t have to be the boss of Megan and that we could just ________ together.

From that moment on, we started to enjoy each other’s ________, and Megan would share the day’s gossip with me. We have different personalities and interests, but we ________   spending time together. Despite my initial (最初的) ________, I learned that being a good ________ isn’t about being the perfect adult figure in her life but about building a strong ________ with the people you care about.

【推荐1】Pearl Moss looked out her front window in Bethel Park, Pennsyvania. She was instantly _________. A major snowstorm over the weekend had dropped_________ a foot of snow in her driveway, and there was more on the way. She was recovering from shoulder surgery and didn’t have family members nearby who could _________ to dig her out.

A few hours later, there was a _________ on her door. Moss looked out and was surprised to see two teenage boys with shovels (铁铲). David Shelpman and Aidan Campbell _________ in the same neighborhood as Moss and are on the football team at Bethel Park High School. Head Coach Brian DeLallo had emailed his team members on Sunday to _________ them that their Monday’s workout in the school gym wasn’t going to _________. DeLallo also instructed them to find an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel their driveway. Shelpman and about 40 other team members took their _________ seriously.

Helping elderly and disabled residents to dig out after snowstorms is a Bethel Park _________ that goes back two decades. In Bethel Park, community support of the football team is strong. “Our games are always well __________ so giving back is the right response,” DeLallo said.

Pearl Moss said she’s grateful for the teens adding that if they hadn’t shown up, she probably would have been stuck in her house for a while.

【推荐2】The most powerful hurricane (飓风) in the year was crashing into coastlines in Virginia. Lucky Dog Animal Rescue planned to take the 21 dogs, affected by the disaster, to a ___________ in South Carolina, which became crowded as people near the coast were evacuating.

Mirah Horowitz is the head of Lucky Dog in Arlington, Virginia. “It’s a double ___________,” she said. Her group found it hard to help the dogs as well as drive them from Virginia to South Carolina ___________ a seven-hour trip. Then they have to put dogs in wooden boxes and bring them to the Washington, D.C., area. Finally, they had to make sure there were enough families to ___________ the dogs.

The group attempted to ___________ more dogs from South Carolina over the weekend. They were going to hold an adoption (领养) event on September 8 at the shelter in the Washington, D.C., area. Horowitz and her colleagues decided to take some dogs and emailed ___________ that night looking for families to adopt the dogs. “We had to find people to take those animals between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” Horowitz said. ___________, they were getting many replies until 2 a.m. from people who were willing to help, after hours of ___________ waiting.

Lucky Dog was also talking to an animal shelter on the island of Grand Bahama in the Bahamas. That was where the hurricane had caused the most ___________ so far. The workers there did not know the dogs’ situations. ____________, they heard reports of heavy flooding that had ____________ the shelter. Horowitz’s group also has a helicopter which is ready to offer flights to ____________ some emergency supplies.

Horowitz said, “I really ____________ the help from those families. It feels nice to save animals from areas ____________ by severe weather and it is ____________ to make all the efforts.”