【推荐1】It all started with a simple question: “Can I paint your portrait?” Outside the Brian Peterson’s fourth-floor _________ in Santa Ana, California, a homeless man was often yelling on the street corner, sometimes keeping him _________ at night. Peterson would _________ the guy on his way to his job as a car designer, but they never spoke.

One day, Peterson was _________ in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in action, when his quiet was _________ by the homeless man. Inspired by the book’s compassionate (有同情心的) message, Peterson made a(n)_________ decision: He was going to go outside and introduce himself.

In that first _________, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved from Kentucky to _________ a career in music in Santa Ana, but he soon fell on hard times and _________ living on the street for more than a decade.

Maybe the life inside of Faris inspired him. And even though Peterson, a __________ of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a __________ in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could paint Faris’s portrait. Faris said yes.

Peterson’s connection with Faris led him to __________ Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on __________ and painting portraits of members of the community who are __________. He sells his portraits signed by both him and the subject. The money he gets will go toa “love account” for his __________. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, fulfilling his musical dreams.

【推荐2】“How does the yard look?” My father asked，with his eyes shining. I could tell he was eagerly waiting for my ________ “Wonderful!” I replied after I gave it a thorough ________. Then I recited all the changes I had ________ in his yard and he smiled contently.

When I was young, my mother ________ in a car accident, leaving my father alone to ________ their three young daughters. At the beginning, life was not always ________ and my younger sisters usually complained. However，Dad always ________ us to believe that life was good. Meanwhile, he tried his best to ________ that belief.

In 1972, my dad developed a piece of waste land that had been ________ on Okaloosa Island. Every year at the first sign of ________, he would begin spending countless hours working there to make it be bursting with colors. Through his continuous hard work, the land ________ turned into a beautiful garden with different types of flowers and other unique plants. While our friends were enjoying their vacation through traveling to different places, we were ________ working with my dad in his yard, watering the flowers, weeding or cutting off the branches. Sometimes, our friends were envious of our working vacation，and we would ________ them. Dad made his yard very ________ so that it became our vacation paradise (天堂) during our childhood.

For so many years, when we were ________, we liked to visit Dad's yard, because it could ________ us of Dad's belief. It was Dad and his yard that gave us ________ that enabled us to survive and ________ major challenges in life. One day, it shocked us that Dad said he would not ________ the yard. Then he explained, “Twenty years ago I decided to start my work in that yard to tell you life is good. Now my work is done.” We were sitting in ________, recalling what we had experienced. Life was good. Dad was right.

【推荐1】Around 28 years ago, photographer (摄影师) Liu Shibin first came to the Shitan Village in She County of Anhui Province. He was deeply_________by the sights there. The 800-year-old village has peaceful lanes (胡同),_________Hui-style architecture, water scenes, beautiful mountains and a great _________. After that, Liu came to the village almost every year and started to_________how to use his power to help the village get out of_________.

Spring is the_________season for photography tourism in the village. As how to attract visitors during other seasons, Liu got a(n)_________. As the sunflower scene in Qinghai Province was quite famous, Liu_________the local villagers to_________that and plant sunflowers. In April of 2009, the photographer bought some__________and paid to villagers to try out the seeds (种子). After the successful__________, Liu spread his sunflower photographs online and the local government then__________villagers to plant more fields of sunflowers. Thus, more and more photographers and tourists__________the village which brought development to the__________tourism.

When Liu first__________to Shitan Village, there was only one hotel for photographers, which could only accommodate 12 people. However, now the village can__________ nearly 10,000 people per day at the tourist season of spring.

Over the past years, photographer Liu Shibin has also shot many__________for local villagers and__________them a copy for free. Liu has “shot” the small unknown village into a nation-wide famous photography attraction, helping local people__________more money and get on a road to________with his lens (镜头).

【推荐2】My high school life was a very fulfilling one. Apart from studying in class, I got a part-time job at a local _______ shop. I hoped it would be easy, and for the most part, _______. I imagined myself pouring coffee and becoming close friends with my customers.

But what I hadn’t _______ was the people with so many orders and the moments when I couldn’t seem to _______ anyone. There was always too much sugar, too little ice, or not enough skim milk. _______, I kept at it.

One day, one of my customers dropped in, _______. Before he left, I handed him a bag along with his iced coffee. He looked at me _______ because he had ordered nothing but the coffee. He opened the bag and saw his favorite doughnut (甜甜圈) I had _______ him. He smiled and thanked me before _______ out into the rain.

The next evening, he came. Instead of ________ something, he handed me a single pink rose and a note. “Thanks for being so sweet and ________ yesterday. It is so nice to meet someone who is warm. Please don’t ________ your ways because I truly believe that you will do better. Have a great day!”

As time went on, I did ________ some customers really particular. But whenever I felt cast down, that man and his kindness would occur to me. Then I would ________, hold my head up high, clear my throat and ask politely, “How can I ________ you?”

【推荐3】I was walking around in a Big Bazar store doing a shopping, when I saw a Cashier talking to a boy who________ have been more than 5 or 6 years old. The Cashier said, “I’m sorry, but you don’t have enough money to buy this_______.”  Then the little boy turned________ me and asked, “Uncle, are you sure I don’t have enough money?”

I counted his cash and replied, “You know that you don’t have enough money to buy the doll, my dear.” The little boy was still ________ the doll in his hand.________, I walked toward him and I asked him who he wished to give this doll to.  “It’s the doll _______my sister loved most and wanted so much. I wanted to _______her for her birthday.” His eyes were so _______while saying this.

“My Sister has gone to be with God. Daddy says that Mommy is going to see God very soon too,” My heart nearly _______. The little boy ______ at me and said, “I told daddy to tell mommy not to go yet. I need her to wait until I come back from the ________ .” Then he showed me a very nice photo of him,   _____he was laughing.

Then he looked again at the doll with sad eyes, very ______. I quickly reached for my_________and said to the boy. “Suppose we check again, just ______ you do have enough money for the doll?” He said, “OK, I hope I do have enough.” I added some of my money to his, without him   _____and we started to count it.  There was enough for the doll and ______ some spare money.

The little boy said, “Thank you God for giving me______ money!” Then he looked at me and added, “I asked last night ______ I went to sleep for God to make sure I had enough money to buy this doll. The love that the little boy had for his mother and his sister is still, to this day, hard to ______.

【推荐1】My father used to like drinking. Every time when he got ______, he would shout loudly and beat my ______,who left my father and me when I was seven.

I went to a boarding(寄宿的)______when I was thirteen，and I finally didn’t have to see my father drunk every day. However, I didn’t talk to anybody and spent all my spare time alone in school because of the pain in my heart. When other boys were ______on the playground, I would sit there alone. This lasted for several weeks until a new______who was about forty came to our class.She, of course, ______I was different. She asked me to answer her question in her first class.I stood up and answered her question in a very ______voice, with my head down.That noon, after lunch, she found me and had a ______with me. She asked me if I needed any help. Nobody had ever cared about me like that. I ______told her everything about my family.

“Things won’t get ______,” she said.

From that day on, every time when she saw me, she would give me a ______. She often asked me to answer her questions in class, and she helped me with my ______after class. As time went by, I didn’t feel so lonely as before.

The day I left that school, I ______her why she did all that for me.

“My mother died when I was ten. I know how hard it is ______a mother,” she said.

I will never______her—my dearest teacher.

【推荐2】I was travelling on an overnight bus from Kolhapur to Aurangabad in India. The bus—an ordinary, non-air-conditioned one—was more than _________. All 55 seats were taken and there were some 20 people _________ in the aisle (过道). The hot day _________ the discomfort of the 10-hour journey. Because I was travelling on a student bus pass, I had no choice but to stand.

After around two very long hours, I was _________ with sweat in the noise of the bus. I suddenly sensed a hand tapping my hand, asking for _________. Turning around, I found a middle-aged man with a kind smile looking up at me. He stood up and said I could _________ his seat for some time. I was pleasantly _________ and immediately accepted his offer, my entire body feeling a sense of relief. And the man stood next to me, _________ around. After about 20 minutes, I signaled him to _________ his space. A man, who was sitting by the window on the other side of the bus, had observed our __________.

Just then, something __________ happened. Our observer stood up and offered his seat to another standing man. All of a sudden, we had caused a chain reaction: almost all the standees got a(n)__________ to be seated. More surprisingly, people even started chatting with each other while exchanging positions, and soon began sharing jokes. Needless to say, the rest of the journey was quite __________.

The bus reached its destination in the next morning. As I stood in the early morning light, waving goodbye to the groups, I was __________ of an important life lesson—that we can all __________ what we have, including our burdens, and help our co-passengers in the journey of life.

【推荐3】After a long day at school, I walked home with my heavy schoolbag. Sleepy and _______, I threw my things on the couch and picked up something from the _______ to eat. I passed by the living room and wished I could watch TV, but I knew my _______ would take me the whole night. I took my schoolbag and went _______ to my room. I tried to understand chemistry and _______ sleepiness at the same time. I tried to keep my eyes _______ and I wanted something to cheer me up.

Later, I _______ the sound of the front door opening. And I waited for it—the sound of my mom singing. Though she sang off-key, _______ made me excited that she was here. I ran down to _______ my mom. We hugged each other and talked for a while. I liked it when my mom was happy. Her ________ seemed to flow down to me and I got the strength to ________ the stress again.

Sometimes, I wonder how my mom can still be ________ after coming back from work. Every weekday, she wakes up ________ in the morning to go to work and spends all hour on the bus before getting downtown. At a ________ factory, she works standing for the whole day and draws patterns for clothes over and over. After work, my mom at times gets stuck in ________ for two hours on her way back home. When I ________ my life with her work life, I should not be the one to ________ . At least I have some interesting things to do at school, but one mistake at work can cost my mom her job. I ________ that my mom has a positive attitude and lives her life with a joyous heart, which encourages me to do my work well, ________ there may be difficulties. Seeing her happy makes me feel ________, too.