【推荐2】When I first met Sarah, all I noticed was her drool (口水) running from the corner of her mouth. As Mrs. Wagner pushed the wheelchair toward me, I felt _________. Why was she seated beside me?

For the entire morning, I was uneasy. _________, I nerved myself to ask Mrs. Wagner, “Mrs. Wagner, can I have my seat _________?”

She patted (拍) my shoulder _________ and said, “Natalie, Sarah needs our care. Try it.”

Why? I didn’t need a deskmate with running drool! I decided to _________ Sarah. At three o’clock, our gym teacher came and said, “Kickball time! Put on your gym shoes. ” As I bent over to tie my shoes, Sarah’s caught my attention and I _________ how it feels to never walk. My _________ felt tight.

Mrs. Wagner asked me, “Natalie, although Sarah cannot kick, she can _________ balls. Would you help her in the gym class?”

I had to _________ and push Sarah to the __________.

Firstly, Matt kicked the ball and it came to me. I __________ it to Sarah and she threw it, which just struck Mike’s heel!

“You got him out!” I __________. Sarah laughed happily. Then I laughed, too. The rest of the game was __________ and we all enjoyed ourselves.

At the end of the day, Sarah read a journal entry to us, “My first day of school went well. I __________ playing kickball. I made a nice new friend, Natalie. ”

Sarah smiled at me. I didn’t __________ her drool. What I saw was a new friend, a friend I had almost missed.

【推荐1】The coronavirus pandemic ( 疫 情 ) affected 4-year-old twin sisters Gianella and Luna in Liberal, Kansas. Suddenly, their learn-and-play sessions had stopped, _________ to birthday parties appeared to be no more and bright orange _________ blocked off their nearby playground.

To help them_________ time, their mother, Flores Gonza, started making arts and crafts projects with them. In early December, the twins _________ another project: sending Christmas wish _________ to Santa via red balloons.

“I took a picture of it because I never thought we’d see it again,” she said, “It was super windy and cold. I didn’t expect it went any _________ than Liberal.”   Flores Gonza later told The Washington Post.

One of those balloons _________ its way to Alvin Bamburg in Shreveport, Louisiana, more than 500 miles away. That day, Bamburg was deer hunting in Grand Cane _________ he spotted a red balloon with a note_________ in a fallen tree. A little girl in Kansas had written to Santa that she had been a/an __________ girl all year and requested a Disney “Frozen” doll, a puppy and a few other gifts.

Bamburg __________ his finding for a few weeks before posting his __________ hunting catch on the Facebook, hoping to find the address of the little girl. Though it was not their original purpose to really get gifts, __________ by friends and net citizens, Flores Gonza eventually got in contact with Bamburg.

About four or five boxes of __________ were shipped to the girls, but there was still one last thing the girls had not received: a puppy. Bamburg __________ some trouble when trying to find a shelter dog in Louisiana until a dog breeder (饲养员) who had heard about his tale __________ the red balloon offered a little dog.

Flores Gonza and Bamburg arranged to meet in Oklahoma City to __________ the girls with the one item that hadn’t been __________ their lists. Seeing the puppy running over to them with his wagging tail, the little girls grinned __________.

Bamburg’s __________ led to the girls receiving everything from their Christmas list and a new extended family.

【推荐3】I’d been staying in Punta del Este for a few days, just enjoying the end of a holiday, and the day before I was going to go back to Argentina I was walking on the beach and _______   lots of dead penguins covered in oil and tar. Rather than   _______   round and walking away, I walked on just to get some idea of how many were dead. And while doing that I _______   one of them move.

My first   _______ was to walk away but I thought if I put him out on the rocks, as the waves came in he would _______ and just swim off and he would be fine. So I placed him out on the rocks, went back to _______ , and the wave came in and he disappeared. But while I was saying “ Goodbye and good luck little bird ”, out he came again and came _______   back to me! So I tried again and again and he wouldn’t go. He kept coming back.

_______ I decided if I abandoned him there, if I just left him and walked off the beach and went back, he wouldn’t be able to climb up the wall. So I walked off and I left him. And then he came   _______up the beach after me, like a small child!

Then I __________   him home. I suppose the __________   moment I spent with the penguin was sitting there, with him — doglike-leaning his head on my foot, and __________“I ought to write a book about you.”

And he just looked up, and the shiver (抖动) of __________   that ran from his beak down to his bottom gave me absolutely __________ about what he thought of my idea. That’s the moment I will __________   remember.