【推荐1】Madagascar was not the paradise I expected. A reporter and I were   ______ there to find out who was helping with drought relief and the prevention of famine (饥荒).

After a three-hour ride in a van, we   ______ in the small town of Ambovombe. Peter immediately ______ over to the hospital to speak with a local doctor on our topics of interest. Since I didn’t need to photograph the background _______with the doctor, I wandered out to the road.

I raised my ______ to get some pictures before the sun went down. I’ve   ____ been to Madagascar before, and until you’ve actually photographed in a place, you don’t know how people will ______ to the camera.

I photographed a handsome man who was ______ a wall in the golden light of dusk. No reaction. I took a breath. After a while, everyone within a 20-yard radius had ____ me. Some called out to each other, playfully teasing those I’d ______ .

Soon after, a mother encouraged me to photograph her young children. I ______ a moment. They were dressed in ______ clothes. One of them may not have even had any pants on – not because her parents were neglectful, but because they couldn’t ______ them.

Their mother really ______ me to photograph them. This happens everywhere I go. Parents,   ______ of their children, ask me to take a photo. I’d taken this photo of cute smiling children over and over. I don’t usually save ______, but I saved this one.

Why? The children’s ______. It’s something so powerful yet so ______ that we sometimes miss it. This mom, despite all the ______   obvious to an outsider’s eyes, found in her children something she wanted a photograph to remember. That’s because she saw a(n)   ______ picture: She saw them with a mother’s heart. As should we all.

【推荐3】It is getting hot. It’s time to put on _______ clothes and open up the windows.

Yesterday brought a(n) _______ visit to the kitchen during the brief time we were out. Two daring sparrows had _______ into a dangerous land — our kitchen.

When you come across such sudden callers, you are _______ to sense it as an action of intruding (入侵) into your comfort zone, or you might _______ it as a lovely shining moment of life. We decide on the_______, with no hesitation. After all, we’ve never stopped feeling urgent to strengthen the relationship with our sparrows more and more each day.

We can’t stop _______ and celebrating their dance from our window. We fed them with the leftovers on our tablecloth after every meal. And we have_______ them with every kind of bases and stands on our terrace (露台).

_______, they feel at ease in our backyard. And that has led them to ________courage to get into our house. Perhaps because they have the feeling that we don’t consider them________ , but friendly neighbors, who only leave some wastes from time to time.

The presence of our dear sparrow holds magical consistency with real life. And we’ve been having lovely sparrows ________ lately, whose presence ________ us out of our dull daily routines and shows us the hidden beauty and charm.

Like different human beings, these sparrows often take on different ________. We’ve met sparrows like those, of all shapes and colors. And they’re everywhere. Perhaps all of them are willing to call our attention, making us know they are there. They only ask from us not to be afraid of them or feel uneasy to their ________.

【推荐2】The fox was walking quietly behind the pink duck, ready to put his paws around her neck and throw her into a pot of boiling soup.

We turned the _______. While I laughed quietly at the impracticality (脱离实际)of a fox boiling _______ a duck, I lifted my head to find little Victoria sat huddled (蜷缩的)next to my arm, honestly _______ to turn the page and find her favorite pink creature in a fox’s _______.

My _______ began to wander. I _______ the Thursday when Victoria ran into the reading room showing a golden certificate (证书)from her _______. “Best reader,” it showed. A smile came across my face as I looked into the eyes of the 7-year-old who just last year was _______ in first grade _______ her reading was quite poor.

It was the same ________ that had filled my face six months before, when Victoria joined the ________ program. After spending the first term answering a lot of questions, I ________ that Victoria’s talkative nature and ________ for answers overshadow her desire to ________ and read. I valued her ________ and great curiosity and fueled it with my own enthusiasm. For every ________ she showed, I took her to scan the library shelves ________ a related book. I watched her eyes grow with excitement as I ________ helped her press through the stories, a journey in search of her ________.

Though I go to the library each week to be these kids’________, I come out, having been their student. They have introduced me to a side of me who I never realized existed.

【推荐3】It was Near Year time. We were travelling in a van(小型货车) _______ toys to the homeless. When we approached the spot, something caught my eye. Something or someone was moving in the rubbish. Soon I _______ that it was the home of a poor family. There were two _______, both about my age at the time, and a lady I supposed to be their mother. They sat there _______. 

As a little girl myself I was especially interested in the little girl. How _______ our lives were! She lived for the day, _______ through the rubbish for something to fill her stomach. I, on the other hand, was well looked after and never had to worry about _______. I had a good education and thus a _______ future. I looked at the little girl. The only _______ she had was the worn-out dress that she was wearing. 

Seeing this little girl I made the decision to ________ a doll that had belonged to me for a while. When the van came to a stop, I stepped out, called the girl over and ________ the doll in her hand. At first she looked at me with ________ and wasn’t certain what to do, but then she smiled and I saw hope in her eyes. I went back into the vehicle and we started to ________ off, and that’s when we realized the little girl was running behind. We stopped again and opened the door. The girl had ________ with us. She looked directly at me and said two ________ words “Thank you”.