【推荐1】Last summer, we went to Hawaii for holiday. During my _______ trip with my husband, we spent most of our time _______ during the day in the sea, and then enjoying walks along the beach in the evenings. We didn't take any photos because we had enough. We had visited the island many times _______ . On our way to the _______ we joked that other than（除……之外）our sunburnt skin, we had no way to show that we had _______ there!

As we stood in line at the check-in, we noticed the family who had been on out plane the week before. _______ they all had tear-filled eyes this day. On the plane, we sat directly behind them-a mother and her four children without Dad's attendance. We learned that the father had been _______ in a jet-skiing accident that week, and his wife and children had to _______ make their way home without him.

We watched the children become _______ while they were playing cards. But the mother stared at (凝视着) her knees, ________ to believe her husband's death. We could ________ feel her pain as we realized that this could have happened to any of us. ________ we were laughing and playing in the water, this poor family had been experiencing the sufferings. The vacation they had dreamed about had ________ the terrible dream they would never forget.

I suddenly regretted that we had no pictures for this, vacation together. I closed my eyes, ________ that my mind had recorded all the wonderful moments that I had ________ with my husband that week. What a trip！

【推荐2】Online gamers constantly make life and death decisions at their keyboards——but it’s just a game. A Texas gamer was faced with a real-life situation and helped________the life of a fellow player——5,000 miles away.

Aidan, in England, was playing an online game in his bedroom when he had a seizure (癫痫). His playing partner, Dia, in Texas, just put her________on and heard what she could only describe as a seizure, so she started to get________and asked what was going on and if he was OK. When he didn’t respond, she________started to look up the emergency number in the UK. When that didn’t work, she just had to________the non-emergency number. It had an________for talking to a real person.

Someone answered the call and she had to force herself not to________and to stay calm. “Hi. I’m currently in the US and in a call with my friend.” Dia told the________. “He had a seizure and he’s not responding anymore. I do have his address. No one is home with him right now, so I’m just trying to get him some help.”

Actually, Aidan’s parents were watching television downstairs and did not________their son was in danger until three police officers knocked at their door.

“We are extremely thankful for what Dia did and shocked that we could be downstairs and not know anything was happening,” Aidan’s mother said. “Dia had our address but didn’t have any contact numbers, so it was amazing that she________to get help from so far away. I’ve spoken to her and expressed our thanks-she is glad she could help.”

【推荐1】Tim, a blind and deaf man, boarded a six-hour flight, travelling from Boston to Los Angeles by himself. He_______ on board as no one was able to communicate with him.After flight attendants (服务人员) looked for anyone _______ sign language, Clara Daly came to Tim’s _______ and talked to him in the only way he knew. Signing each _______ letter, Clara was able to have a conversation with him. Her heart-warming act _______ the attention of a passenger Lynette Scribner,who recorded the whole thing. 

The flight attendants_______ wanted to help him, but had no way to communicate.They took his hands and _______ so hard to communicate with him, but of no use.Those sitting next to Tim also helped get his food and coffee and led him to the toilet.That was when this lovely young woman _______.Clara learned American sign language because she had dyslexia (诵读困难) and it was the _______ foreign language for her to learn. So for the rest of the flight, she took care of Tim and made sure his needs were ________. She signed one ________ at a time into his hand. He was able to ________ her signing and they carried on a lively conversation. 

Lynette was touched by the strangers’ ________ as everyone did their best to help Tim. She said, “All of us in the ________ rows enjoyed his pleasure of having someone to talk to. Actually it was a beautiful ________ that there are still kind-hearted people who are willing to help others.”

【推荐2】The first day at a new job can be _________ , especially when it’s your first job ever, and you’re starting during the Christmas _________ .

Stephanie Cole’s first job as a teenager was in retail (零售), _________ at a busy department store in 1960s Los Angeles. Her _________ had been quick, and the store was now _________ with people trying to finish their holiday shopping. It wasn’t long before an old woman walked up to Cole’s checkout with a _________ she wanted to buy for her Christmas tree.

“ _________ , I can’t remember anything. I can’t remember how to _________ the checkout. I am just absolutely _________ and probably very close to __________ ,” Cole said.

She’d wanted this first job to go well, and it was already going very wrong. But the woman looked at her with a kind __________ and said, “It’s alright. __________ . I’m not in a hurry.” Cole felt a sense of __________ when she heard those words. “All of a sudden, I could __________ , I could wait till somebody else could help me. It was gonna be okay.”

The moment was a small one long ago, but the woman’s __________ affected how Cole has interacted with people ever since. “She gave me a __________ without knowing she gave it to me. And it has __________ all these years,” Cole said.

“You know, you __________ somebody who’s just having a bad day, you can __________ they’re in a bad place, and you can say, ‘It’s okay. I’m not in a hurry. ‘ And it always makes the situation __________ . Always, always.”

【推荐2】Brave daughter Neve, aged seven, and son Billy, five, save their mum’s life after calling 999 to say “mummy’s dead”. A proud mum was _________ by her young kids after she fell down the stairs and knocked herself out. Neve found her phone and _________ called 999, while anxious Billy who _________   her a blanket as the mum _________   unconscious was saying, “My mummy is dead.” Ambulance service chiefs gave a lot of _________ to the children, describing Neve as “very brave”.

The mum said she remembered going upstairs at her home in morning, but after that everything went _________ and she estimated she had been black out for half an hour. Neve told the operator, “I need _________ for my mummy. She’s not awake.” _________, Neve was able to give the ambulance service her full _________, and counted her mum’s breaths for the __________.

Rebecca, who is diabetic (糖尿病患者) and has had four __________ on her back in the last two years, said, “I’ve always __________ them that if anything happen, this is what they have to do. They listened to everything.” Neve even had the presence of __________ to call a friend of Rebecca’s and a neighbour as the drama __________. “Billy went to get a blanket. He’s a very __________   little boy.”

The mother said it highlighted the value of being prepared, and said paramedics (急救人员) were full of praise for Neve and Billy for their incredible response to the crisis.