【推荐2】England is a highly developed country. Many people think its people lead a luxurious (奢侈的) life.

One day my friend and I _______ a restaurant. There was a table where a young couple was having their meal. There were _______ two dishes and two cans of beer on the table.

There were a few old ladies on another table. When a dish was _______, they would finish every bit of the food on their plates.

As we were hungry, our friend _______ more food for us. When we left, there was still about one third of _______ food on the table.

When we were leaving the restaurant, the old ladies spoke to us in English. We understood that they were _______ about us wasting so much food.

“We _______ our food, and it is none of your business.” My friend told the old ladies _______. The old ladies were angry. One of them immediately took her phone out and _______ a call to someone.

After a while, a man ________ uniform from Social Security organization (社会保障组织), looking like a policeman, arrived. Upon knowing what had happened, he gave us a 50 euro (欧元) fine, which surprised us.

The officer told us in a serious voice, “________ is yours but resources belong to society. There are many poor people in the world who are ________ hunger. So you have no ________ to waste resources.”

Their attitude to eating put all of us to ________. We really need to reflect on this. We have been given a lesson: Yes, money is yours but resources belong to the society. We can't ________ to waste them.

【推荐3】The bond between mother and daughter is irreplaceable. One of the most famous women scientists of the 20th century, Marie Curie, worked _______ her daughter Irene in the field of radioactivity（放射性）, each of them _______ earning their own Nobel Prize. Today, there are more _______ mother-and-daughter pairs showing what happens when _______ works together.

In April 2020, Dr. Cynthia Kudji and her daughter Dr. Jasmine Kudji have become the first mother and daughter to _______ from the medical school at the same time and be placed in the same hospital. Cynthia Kudji put her dream of becoming a _______ on hold when she became pregnant at 23. She worked as a nurse for almost a decade _________ making the decision to attend the medical school at the University of Medicine and Health Sciences. _______, her daughter Jasmine attended Louisiana State University School of medicine.

At first, it was _______ for them to live and study so far apart from one another. “I thought initially it was hard because my mom and I had always been really ________ so I had to get used to the ________,” Dr. Jasmine Kudji explains to Afro Tech. Although the experience was difficult, it also had ________ results. “Sometimes people struggle to find someone who ________ their struggles, so for that person to be my mom was extremely helpful,” she adds.

After years apart, both Cynthia and her daughter earned their M. D. degree. Then on “Match Day” when recent med school graduates ________ the results of their residency (高级专科住院生实习期) applications, Cynthia and Jasmine learned that they were ________ in the same hospital.

This pair of mother and daughter proves that family can do anything together.

【推荐1】Today we spent the morning going through our personal belongings. We were looking for items to______for free at a local park. Not just any items but things people really______. Our aim was not to find things we no longer______but things we use every day that would be______to others.

We packed these things______the box and added some small toys. We added a list of local addresses and phone numbers of local______agencies. Inside the box a simple letter was placed. It______: “Please take these items and know that your life is important.______are difficult but these days will pass. We share what we have believing that it will______. Use the food to nurture your______and use the blankets to stay warm. Be safe and know that the human______can overcome anything. Do not hold your head______for having a need to stay warm. Someday please do the same when you can.”

This kind______was not because the phone rang or for any reason. It was______because it was the right to do. We have often seen______people at the park where we left the belongings. I______that my wife had put her favorite green coat into the box. I asked if she was______about it and she just replied that it had a hood (兜帽). Her answer told me why it is I who love her. She liked the coat but knew the hood could______someone from the rain.

Who knows where these gifts of______will go? How many uses can a blanket serve______what it was designed to do? We never go back and see what happens. It is unimportant. The right things will find the right people and that is all that counts.

【推荐2】Compassion (同情) is a desire within us to help others. With effort, we can translate compassion into ________. An experience last weekend showed me this is ________. I work part-time in a supermarket across from a building for the ________. These old people are our main ________, and it’s not hard to lose patience over their slowness. But last Sunday, one aged gentleman taught me a valuable ________. The man walked up with a box of biscuits. He said he was out of cash and asked if we could let him have the food on ________. He promised to ________ me the next day.

I couldn’t ________ staring at him. I wondered what he would be like if ________ had gone his way. I had a   ________ in my heart for this kind of human soul, all alone in the world. I told him that I was sorry, but store rules didn’t allow me to do so. I felt stupid and ________ saying this, but I ________ my job.

Just then, another old man, standing behind the first, spoke up: “________ it to me.”

What I had been feeling was pity. Pity is soft and safe and easy. Compassion, on the other hand, is caring in action. I thanked the second man but told him that was not ________ either. Then I reached into my pocket and paid for the biscuits myself. I reached into my pocket because the second men had reached into my heart and ________ me compassion.

【推荐3】Michael Evans was standing in line at the Treasurer’s Office last August, waiting to pay his taxes, when he heard a(n) _________ sound ahead of him. The elderly woman at the window was crying. He heard the cashier _________ the woman that her house was in foreclosure (丧失抵押品赎回权) and headed for auction (拍卖). He also heard the woman tell the cashier that her daughter had recently died. Evans, a businessman who had just buried his father, couldn’t _________ the idea of this woman losing her home right after losing her child. He _________ the window. “I don’t mean to butt in,” he said to the cashier, “but if you can get her house back, I’ll pay for her taxes.” The amount added up to $5,000.

The old woman was shocked. Her despair turned to _________. The cashier left for a moment to _________ that it was all right for Evans to pay it. Evans promised to go straight to the bank and come back with the money. But when he returned to the treasurer’s office, he asked someone else waiting in line to hand the $5,000 check to the cashier. Evans was trying to _________ quietly and, preferably, anonymously (匿名地).

“I didn’t want this attention,” he explained.

However, attention found him. It’s not every day that someone pays a stranger’s tax bill. As is reported, Evans often finds himself on the giving end of charitable situations, though for years he went unrecognized for it. As for paying the elderly woman’s taxes, Evans said he did it for _________ but to make sure the lady stayed in her own house.

A few weeks after the tax _________, Evans received the Spirit of Detroit Award for his lifetime of __________.

【推荐1】19-year-old Torri together with three other teenage girls drove through Florida last February. _______ the laughter from the four teenage girls inside her car gave way to _______. As they approached a crossing, another car drove towards them unexpectedly, _______ theirs to come to a stop when it _______ into a tree. _______ Torri was slightly injured and climbed out through the window successfully _______ two of her friends, who’d also _______ to free themselves. She felt relieved.

But _______ Torri could dial the number for help, she realized that her best friend-Simmons wasn’t with them. She looked into the car and found Simmons _______ on the back seat, unconscious (昏迷). “I checked her pulse.” “Nothing.” “I put my head against her chest.” No ________ of life. “That’s when I started CPR.”

If the accident had happened a few weeks ________, she might not have known what to do. But Torri, who wants to pursue a career in ________, had earned her CPR certificate (证书) just the day before. Torri knew she had ________ little time to practice what she’d learned. She started pumping Simmons’s chest with her interlocked fingers and ________ into her friend’s mouth in the hope of filling her lungs with the kiss of life. No response. And then, after the 30^th ________, Simmons began ________ and gasping for air. The CPR had ________! Soon, doctors arrived and ________ Simmons to the hospital, where she received careful ________. Later she was informed how her best friend had saved her life. “I wasn’t ________,” Simmons told CGTN. “She is always helpful and ready to help others by all means.”

【推荐2】Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia was delivered to my house. With no card or note, I ______ who sent me the flowers. After a while, I ______ discovering the sender’s ______ and just delighted in the beauty and ______ of them. But I never stopped ______the giver. As a teenager, I imagined that it might be a ______ who had noticed and loved me ______. I had even been ______ someone wonderful but too ______ to make known his identity.

When I was 17, a boy ______ my heart. One morning when I awoke, I saw a ______ on my mirror in red lipstick: “Heartily know when half-gods go, the gods arrive.” And I ______ the quotation where my mother had written it ______ my heart healed. I had thought my mother couldn’t understand. But she did.

One month before my high-school graduation, my father died of a heart attack. I became completely uninterested in everything, even my graduation ceremony. But my mother, in the midst of her own ______, would not hear of my ______ it.

The day before my father died, my mother and I ______ a spectacular dress for my ceremony while shopping, which made me feel like a princess, but it was the wrong size. Because of my father’s death, I forgot about the ______. The day before the ______, I noticed that dress — in the ______ size, lying over the sofa. It was presented to me — I didn’t care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother did.

My mother died ten days after I got married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenias ______coming.