【推荐2】Recently I got goosebumps (鸡皮疙瘩). I was so _______ since it was Friday and we _______ to eat out for dinner tonight. I went to school as usual, but little did I know there was a(n) _______ waiting for me.

There’s this boy, Nathan, in my band class. I never really _______ him since he was too slow. He didn’t have any friends at all. He always sat _______ at the lunch table. People just walked past him without _______. And whenever asked a question, he would take a(n) _______ time to answer it. The whole class would get _______. I didn’t know why _______ I didn’t care enough to know.

Our class began, and Mr. Kohler asked us to tune our instruments. But Nathan was just ________ around like usual looking for something. There is nothing ________ about that — he doesn’t just sit the whole class period. So then Mr. Kohler asked a question to us: “Who can ________ what note it is just by hearing the pitch (音高)?” Nobody raised their   ________ but Nathan. The moment I saw him, I ________ quietly, thinking he couldn’t do anything ________. Mr. Kohler even laughed a little and then told Nathan to step to the ________. Mr. Kohler played a pitch and asked Nathan to guess it. Nathan gave the right answer ________. Then Mr. Kohler ________ Nathan by playing 2 pitches at the same time.

Again two right answers. The whole class went totally silent.

At that moment I got goosebumps. How did he do that? That day I ________ that I shouldn’t judge people based on ________ things I see. I need to see the great things people can do.

【推荐3】“Doctors say men over 45 shouldn’t shovel（铲）snow because of an increased risk of heart attack,” the morning news from the television. “Well, that’s not ________ to hear it,” I said. I looked outside at a foot of ________ fallen snow. I had two walkways to clear, two cars to ________, and two driveways to shovel.

I breathed heavily, and stepped out of the house. The temperature was ________. I felt the icy air hit my lung and I licked（舔）my cracked lips. I got hold of my snow shovel and ________ my body to shovel out the first path. I knew this was going to ________ quite a while and wished that my 55-year-old back would hold out.

I shovelled, lifted, and dropped as I slowly ________ my way through the snow. I stopped from time to time to breathe in the cold air, look around, and ________ the beauty of winter, I went inside only once to warm my ________ fingers and change a thicker pair of gloves. But then it was back outside to finish the ________. Over an hour later, when I was ________ , I smiled and watched my breath move away ________. The good news was that I still felt a ________ heart beat and that my back stayed undamaged.

In this life we are endlessly ________ with frightening news. Sometimes this is not the ________, though.

【推荐1】Have you ever been to Thailand? When you travel in Thailand, you shouldn’t________the Bangkok Walking Food Tour. It usually takes three hours to________the whole tour. During the 3-hour tour, you can eat your fill (开怀大吃)in________excellent little restaurants and have great fun at the cultural attractions.

Here you can find lots of eateries(饮食店) that have been open for many years. Enjoy________when you have so many kinds of Thai dishes. As you know, they are all________deeply by Thai history and culture. The food is cleverly designed into small portion(一份) sizes, ________ you can try more dishes without feeling too full. The tour starts at 10 a. m. and________at around 1 p. m. If you are________ enough, you shouldn’t eat breakfast.

This tour is one of visitors’________activities in Thailand and really gives you a chance to get ________to the delicious food of the amazing country. You will also be able to find more wonderful food in the rest of Thailand with the help of this experience.

【推荐3】I’m not a good traveler. Without curiosity to get out and ________, traveling has never been my strong point. Sightseeing is not an experience that I find ________: when it’s too hot, I’m uncomfortable; when it’s too cold, I’m uncomfortable. Not knowing what the food will be like at new places has always made me ________.

It would be kind to say that I have a low sense of ________. So, I was ________ about doing a travel show that centered on pushing my ________. But it just goes to show that we’re never too old to ________ ourselves.

South Africa was the biggest surprise. I had never really ________ to go on safari (观兽旅行) and was not excited about the prospect.

Once I was ________ there, all of a sudden, I knew why people say it’s exciting. I started to develop a great ________ for the animals. We visited a rhino conservation park (犀牛保护公园), where rhinos which have been badly injured by hunters are taken good care of. I even bottle-fed these beautiful babies. The most memorable part was the people I ________.

I’ve always been a very ________ person. But the experience of meeting so many new people has been ________, allowing me to ________ some of the cobwebs (蜘蛛网) that have formed for many years. Seeing the world has helped me ________ my natural cynicism (悲观情绪) and turned me into a more outgoing and positive person.

【推荐2】Libby Federici loves her job at Haley House, a soup kitchen in Boston’s South End neighborhood. On a recent weekday morning she _________ among greeting guests, helping volunteers, preparing pots of fresh coffee, and answering endless questions. The guests enjoy her _________.

“The staff are my guardian angels,” says Linda Bell, a _________ at Haley House’s free morning breakfast. On a typical day, the soup kitchen _________ somewhere between 50 and 100 meals.

That feeling of home and _________ is intentional at Haley House, a program that for more than five decades has _________ social issues. But instead of relying on volunteers or passing-by helpers to _________ its soup kitchen, Haley House seeks out people interested in _________ two years of their lives to support lasting solutions to societal problems. _________, they receive room and board, living in the “community” above Haley House, __________ its kitchen, and caring for its guests.

“It’s really important to __________ people as people,” says Ms. Federici, who also works as an assistant for the organization __________ serving on its board.

Boston’s South End and nearby neighborhood of Roxbury have long __________ homelessness. Haley House is __________ the only effort attempting to meet the needs of unhoused people. But Haley House, which operates in both the South End and Roxbury, considers a wide range of __________ —from youth programs to job training and elder support.