【推荐1】Ten cats and six dogs in W-Underdogs are safe thanks to the quick thinking of Keith Walker, a homeless man in Atlanta. Seeing a home burning, he called the fire department, and then _______ to save the dogs and cats.

Founded about six years ago, W-Underdogs is a community group _______ dogs and cats. Volunteers in the group _______ dog food to people who can’t always afford to buy it, _______ pets without owners, and provide _______ at times. Walker, 53, has been homeless for 40 years. He helps the group with odd (零散的) jobs, but since news of his brave _______ has surfaced, the group has received large quantities of _______ about how they can help. Go Fund Me _______ have been set up to financially (资金上) support Walker and W-Underdogs, which lost so much in the fire.

“Fortunately, they’re all safe now and lots of volunteers are walking them and loving them,” says dog trainer Victoria. “It’s a small but _______ job. We do the work in communities that is very ________. But people have been so unbelievably generous with their time and ________ blankets and helping us with W-Underdogs.”

Dozens of people left ________ online, but one summed everything up so well:

“I read about Keith’s heroism and it was possibly the best story for me. We all have problems, troubles and difficulties fitting in. But the pure ________ of this man is undeniable (不可否认的). ________ and people need someone like him to simply exist because his love matters. Thank you for ________ the light in the world.”

【推荐2】One day, when I was in high school, I saw a kid named Kyle from my class walking home from school with all his books. I thought to myself, “ _____ would anyone bring home all his books for the weekend? He must really be ________ .”

As I was walking, I saw several kids running toward him. They ran at him, ________all his books out of his arms and he fell down in the dirt. His glasses went _______and landed in the grass.

My ________ went out to him. So, I ran over to him.   ________ I handed him his glasses, he looked at me and said, “Hey, thanks!”

I helped him pick up his books, and asked him where he lived. As it ________ , he lived near me. We talked all the way home. Over the next four years, Kyle and I became best friends.

Kyle was the ________ student of our class, one of those guys that really found ______ during high school. Therefore he had the honor to prepare a ________ speech. On the graduation day, I could see that he was ________ . So, I patted(拍) him on the back and said, “Hey, big guy, you’ll be ________ !” He looked at me and smiled.

He cleared his throat, and began. “Graduation is a time to ________ those who helped you make it through those _______ years. Your parents, your teachers…but mostly your friends. I am here to tell all of you that being a friend to someone is the best ________ you can give him.”

I just looked at my friend with _______ as he told the story of the first day we met. He had planned to ________himself over the weekend and was carrying his books home. “Thankfully, nothing happened. My friend _______ me from doing the unspeakable(不能说出来的).”

Not until that moment did I realize that you should never underestimate(低估) the _______of your actions. With one small act you can ________ a person’s life. For better or for worse.

【推荐3】Hello! It’s me, the woman you robbed on Lepage Avenue. You might not remember me. But I will never forget you or your _______, which woke me up from a deep sleep.

“_______ and give me your money and jewelry!” you yelled. You told Walter, my 80-year-old husband, to take the drawers and _______ them on the bed. You told me to _______ the earrings and the necklace I was wearing. We had to obey. Your voice trembled. You had a gun, _______ it was pointed at the floor. I could tell you were new at this. When you were busy examining what you could get, I saw my chance. I immediately grabbed my phone and called 911.

“Help! There’s been a robbery...” You _______ the phone from my hand. My legs shook. In the distance, I heard sirens (警笛). Thank heavens! Then I blacked out.

I woke up in an all-white room in the hospital. The physician shook his head at the _______ of my heart. “Madame, when was the last time you had your heart examined?”

“My heart?” I said. “Never. Why?”

“I can hardly believe how blocked your arteries (动脉)are,” he said. “I’ve scheduled a (n)_______ operation for you. A few more days like this, Madame, and you might not have been so lucky.”

What he said _______ me a lot. I had never had any chest pain or shortness of breath. There was no ________ that I was a ticking time bomb, ________ feeling tired sometimes.

________, we didn’t have the nicest lawn or the fanciest car in the driveway. Still, young man, you did ________ us. Thus, thank you. Without you, I’d be a ________. I wouldn’t have had an operation. I wouldn’t have recovered.

Sir, I would like you to know you are ________. You saved my life. I pray you’ve started a new life. It’s never too late.

【推荐3】Michelle Bruce and her husband, Jeremy, both had cancers, and their son Holden had a brain tumor（肿瘤）. With three other children to ________, the family moved to Michelle’s hometown of Franklin, Nebraska, six years ago so her ________ could give a hand.

When living in a small town outside Lincoln, Nebraska, Holden ________ two operation at adult clinics in Omaha. Both treatments were tough, and swelling left him in ________ care for about a week. When Holden’s cancer ________ in 2017, the Omaha clinic wasn’t able to operate. But the Bruce family wouldn’t ________. They reached out to Boston Children’s Hospital, which had better equipment and surgeons. After looking at Holden’s ________, the doctor said she could ________ the tumor for good. ________, the surgery would cost $ 39,000 – more than the parents could ________.

In a town of just 1,000 people, though, ________ traveled fast. Within days, a local woman Michelle had never met called to say she was planning an event to ________ money for Holden. Michelle was ________.

The day of the fundraiser was ________, but that didn’t prevent Franklin citizens showing up. Michelle ________ it had probably raised a couple thousand dollars. Back at her parents’ house, Michelle got a call from the fundraiser’s ________. In all, the town raised $ 45,000 – enough to ________ not just Holden’s hospital bills, but for her and Jeremy’s ________ to Boston with their son.

Holden’s third surgery went more ________ than before. “He had no ________, no pain,” said Michelle. “It was really amazing!”

【推荐1】The ambulance driver, Mr. Goodman, turned on his siren and flashing light, and started speeding towards the nearest hospital, fighting ______ time. Inside were the ______ parents, Mr. and Mrs. Black, the mother holding their baby daughter, Marley. The little girl had some food ______ in her throat and could hardly breathe. The ______ ahead of him pulled out of the way ______ Mr. Goodman drove through the busy traffic. From the back of the ambulance the parents were shouting at him to hurry, since Marley had almost stopped breathing. In front of him, he saw some traffic lights, with the red “STOP” light shining. Mr. Goodman knew that he had no time to ______, so he drove straight past the traffic lights.

Coming towards him from his right was a taxi. The driver had the windows ______, since the car was air-conditioned, and he was playing his radio. He did not hear the ambulance. The lights were green, so he drove straight on into the part of the ambulance.

Mr. Goodman tried to stop his ambulance but it was too ______. It hit the taxi. ______ was shaken but no one was hurt. Mr. Goodman looked to see how little Mariey was. He was astonished to see relief instead of ______ on the faces of the parents.

“Look!” cried Mrs. Black. “She is ______ again.

“It ______ have been the crash,” said her husband. “It ______ the food out of her throat.”

The baby’s color was turning to ______, and she was crying in loud but healthy voice. They were all joyful, and quite ______ about the accident, the taxi and the lines of cars all around them.

【推荐2】When she was 16, Joanne learned that she was adopted and that her birth mother was a woman named Lillian and that she had died days after giving birth to her. Feeling betrayed (被背叛的) and confused, Joanne spent many nights crying, _________ what her birth mother had been like. And yet, some part of her believed her mother was still _________.

The doubts _________ Joanne for years. In 2017, when Joanne was already 79 years old, her daughter-in-law, Shelley, suggested her taking a DNA _________. Shelley thought learning something about her _________ family might give Joanne some _________.

So Joanne took the test, and about a year later, Shelley received a message on ancestry.com from a man named Sam, whose genetic report had _________ him with Joanne.

Shelley immediately wrote back to Sam, asking _________ he knew a Lillian. Yes, Sam said, that was his mother’s name. Almost _________, an even bigger shock came that Lillian was alive, at age 100.

The families quickly planned a(n) __________ where Lillian lived. A month later, Joanne found herself sitting across from the mother she had __________ in her whole life, looking at Lillian, who suffered from dementia (痴呆症) and used a wheelchair.

“I don’t know if she recognizes me,” Joanne said.

She told Lillian that she had been __________ in 1940 and that she’d been told her birth mother had __________. No response. Joanne started to cry. At that point, her mother __________, as if she had started to understand. Joanne excitedly continued telling Lillian all about her children and grandchildren. Lillian smiled. Then she said the words Joanne had waited more than 60 years to hear: “This is my __________.”