【推荐1】Jarrett Little was road testing his mountain bike outside of Columbus, Georgia, when his riding partner, Chris Dixon, stopped suddenly. Something _______ in the distance among the trees had caught her attention. It _______ out to be a sandy-colored five-month-old puppy.

＂He was really thin,his ribs were showing,and he had a broken leg,"Little told John Parks,a reporter from CBS News. The cyclists _______ the friendly pup and shared their water. They also quickly realized that the dog was coming with them, although they had no idea how. They were more than seven miles from downtown and riding bikes. "We couldn't _______ him, “Little said. "Out there, next to the Oxbow Meadows, he was going to _______ as the food of alligators living in the river. "

Little, a 31-year-old businessman, had an idea. He carefully picked up his new_______ and slipped the 38-pound dog's hind legs into the back pockets of his cycling coat. Then he put the dog's front paws _______ his shoulders.

＂He was _______,so he wasn't trying to fight, “Little says. "He was also _______ that we were there, touching him,and hadn't left him behind. ”

The group's 30-minute ________ into town ended at a bike store, where they got more water and food for the dog. That was when Andrea Shaw, an accountant from Maine in town on business, happened to come by. "The dog ran to her straight, licking and rubbing against her, “says Dixon. Shaw was a little surprised. ________, learning what had happened, she declared her   ________:“I am keeping this dog. "

Shaw called him Columbo after the town where they'd________ and scheduled an________ on his leg. Today Columbo is living a happy life on a farm with a horse,a pony, a six-year-old boy, to keep him company. As Dixon told John Parks,"He is literally the ________ dog alive. "

【推荐3】A friend of mine is a musician. He always seems to be learning new tunes, new _______, and new ways of making music in cool ways. At the weekends, he _______ to go into Central Park in the center of Nagoya during the daytime where lots of bands _______ .Some of these bands are really good, but some of them are quite _______.One of the reasons why my friend likes watching all the bands is that they are free! And as he says to me, “_______ expensive things don't necessarily mean that they're good, free things don't necessarily mean they have no _______.You have to listen and look yourself and_______what is valuable for you. And _______, as you listen and look, you may learn different things.”

So my friend goes to the park every week when the weather is fine, and he says he learns_______ from every single band！ When he watches and listens to the really good bands, he learns new concertos from the ________ and cool rhythms from the drummers. I guess that it’s not ________that you can learn a lot by watching ________performs. But what impress me are my friend’s words—You can learn by watching and listening to the bad performers, too. When I watch a bad performer, I think to myself — wow, that’s another thing that I'm going to ________ .”

So my friend makes ________ by leaning from both good and bad performers. And he says he also finds ________and pleasure in learning and improving in ways that he never even imagined!

【推荐3】Two years ago, my friend and I were at college. With his birthday _________, he came to me with an unusual _________: instead of receiving presents, he wanted to do some acts of kindness.

I was _________ by his idea. So we started to _________ things we could do.

Our university employed some security guards(保安)to _________ its students. For the most part it’s a thankless job as most people grow used to seeing the guards all around and usually ignore their presence, let alone their _________. How could we show them our thanks?

We decided to make hot _________. We took a taxi and asked the driver to take us around the campus where we knew the _________ would be and we gave them each a cup of hot chocolate. The taxi driver didn’t _________ the entire plan at first but after a while he was helping us __________ the guards and our lively spirit had __________ to him as well. We were met with many __________ and appreciative words. It was amazing to see how a __________ act can lift people’s spirit.

I now realize that __________ energy is created when you choose to think just not about yourself and act in place of others. You’ll find it’s actually the greatest __________ you have ever got.