【推荐1】A man, who is now sixty-eight years old, went overseas forty years ago. Just before they _______, the girl he loved gave him as a souvenir, a heart-shaped knot（结）(symbolizing devotion) made of knitting（编织品） _______. And he hung it on his belt _______.

Several years later he _______ and had children. His sweet-heart’s looks, _______ time went by, became dimmer（更模糊）and dimmer like a landscape picture _______ away gradually, and his homeland only appeared in his _______. In the evening of his life he often looked at the knot and sighed.

One day, _______ the sight of the knot, his grandson _______ getting hold of it as a toy. The boy touched it and tried to __________ it. At last he did the trick and got it __________ and open.

When it was spread out, it turned to its form as a long __________, a very simple wool thread. Only by the clever __________ of a beloved girl could the thread be knitted into such a complicated knot. __________ love made so many simple things complex in the world.

The old man was thus __________ to a great truth. Most of the complaints, __________ and hatred in life result from very __________ matters. If one is __________ mindful of them, they become mental knots. But if one __________ the knot, it remains a simple thread or line, __________ shape it becomes.

【推荐2】An artist in Oakland, California, is using his skills to help the homeless. Greg Kloehn builds very small______that make life on the streets a little more______, which offer the homeless some safety and______from bad weather. Each little house also has______on the bottom so it can move wherever its owner goes.

“I like to help them. Actually, I mean it is______for me. I like to make things, and doing something that makes a big______to someone’s life is good.”

Sweet Pea, who lives in one of the little homes the artist built, says it protects her______and keeps her safe. “I love my house,” she says______. In another little house, Mr. Young gets______from cold night on the streets. “Well, it is______than living on the ground. If it was not for Greg, I would be still on the ground.” “I’m living in one of Greg’s houses, and I am______to that man.” Sheila Williams, a mother says.

In the mornings, Mr. Kloehn______for his building materials in the streets. He______what he can and takes them to his house. There, he ______his special houses.

A shelf becomes a window. Flat wooden structures used in storage(仓库) become walls. Empty coffee bags become the roof. The artist also______a small electrical device (电气装置) to the house just towards the sun, for the device is______by the sun. Nails(钉子), screws(螺丝) and the glue(胶水) hold all the______together.

The Kloehn house owners have got used to collecting wood and other materials______for Greg Kloehn.

Greg Kloehn has______at least 20 tiny houses. Mr. Kloehn says his work is not a social project. He says he is just someone using his skills to help those in______.

【推荐3】I’ve finally become a big brother! It was quite an exciting day, but something _________happened while Mum was going to give a birth in the delivery room (产房).

I was waiting _________the delivery room when a _________came up to me and asked in a soft voice, “Hello, I _________your leg. Could you please tell me how it has influenced you?” Her question got me thinking. I got my man-made leg _________doctors had to amputate (cut off ) my left leg after a road accident. Not many people have asked me _________my life is going without the leg. Then, the lady dropped her _________and looked at the floor and said, “My son just had an accident and the doctor says he has to have his leg cut off. ”

I felt sad for her and wanted to _________something to cheer her up. In my mind, I _________for the right words to say.

After what seemed like a long time, finally I said, “Auntie, your son won’t have a ____________. He’ll feel different but you can teach him that difference is special.” I told ____________how Mum always encouraged me to continue learning and to be independent. I also said ____________that I had learned to do many things that other ____________people might find difficult. I’ve swum, cycled and even taken part in marathons.

The lady smiled and thanked me. As she waved goodbye to me, I heard my newborn sister ____________in the delivery room! I thought to myself: What an unusual day, with an unusual question from a ____________.

【推荐1】The day that I will always remember is when I ran my first 10 miles. While putting my toe on the starting ________, I felt my heart drop to my stomach. However, I would ________ my heart, because in running, when you run out of your _____, you just run with your heart.

That day the ________ was cool and fresh, and my courage had set in. The race was about to start. Bang! The ________ of the starting gun ran into the air. I took off running, ________ like the wind. I knew it would be a really great challenge for me. In the first four miles, I felt like a cheetah   (猎豹). I felt ________ and forceful in my pace.

Then came the fifth mile. My legs _______ like jelly (果冻), and I could feel fire burning in my lungs. “Keep going!” the thought ran through my head. Now was the time I had to run with my _____. I had to win although I didn’t know whether I would ________ it. My body really wanted to give up, but my heart told me not to. I think it’s the ________ thing about running. The real run starts when you want to ________.

I saw the finishing line and I felt like an Olympic ________ who was about to win the race. I had ________ been happier, and felt proud too when I had my ________ put around my neck.   As the saying goes, “Running is the greatest metaphor (隐喻) for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.”

【推荐2】Early on the morning of October 13, LaPierre was heading to the Chicago Marathon on the city’s Blue Line L. The ______ was full of energized marathoners. Before long, LaPierre noticed a man moving from passenger to passenger, asking for spare ______ . His behavior struck LaPierre as “really strange,” especially the way he stared down anyone he felt hadn’t ______ him enough.

At the Cumberland station, most of the passengers suddenly ______ the car, LaPierre rushed out to see what was going on, only to hear ______ people shouting that the man asking for money was, in fact, armed and ______ people.

As the armed man hopped onto the next train gar, LaPierre followed him. “I could not ______ knowing there were innocent children and people just trying to get to a ______ ,” he says.

The man turned and saw LaPierre, his head down, bull-rushing him. Although the man was far ______ and younger, LaPierre crashed into him and managed to press him ______ the closed door. “Once I got a few feet from him, I knew he wouldn’t be able to react fast enough to ______ me, ”he told the Chicago Sun-Times. The two men fought for the gun—and their ______ . The man tried pushing past him, but ______ , LaPierre grabbed the gun and handed it to a passenger. Then the police poured into the train, and LaPierre let them ______ . He had a marathon to run.

This was not the first time LaPierre had jumped into a(n) ______ . A few years back, he helped prevent a drugstore robbery. “I just happen to be at the right place at the right moment,” he says.

【推荐3】“I just think, a year ago, at 54 years of age, I couldn’t swim. I was terrified at the thought of going into the water. Now, I have just _________ my 200 meters. It is all thanks to Everyday Swim.”

It’s never too late to learn swimming. Angela King, 55, is a perfect _________ of it. In August 2020, the family went to an attraction they hadn’t _________ for 15 years. Angela thought, “All this time, I still can’t swim. When I get back home tomorrow, I’m going to find out more about swimming _________.”

In the cold light of day, she felt a little _________, but her husband David searched the Internet for swimming classes. He found Everyday Swim at the local Hadleigh pool and _________ Angela to sign up. When she turned up for her first training, she said, “I felt a bit sick and _________, but this soon passed. The instructor really put me at ease; so did the other people in the class.”

As the lessons _________, she learned to become more _________ in the water. At first, it was a simple __________ of learning she wasn’t going to sink. Then during the third lesson, the Olympic gold medal winner Duncan Goodhew turned up to offer __________ “I couldn’t believe it. He held my hand and we all held hands in a circle and splashed under the water. What he did made me believe that I could __________.”

When the 10 lessons for £ 100 offer finished at the pool, she __________ to sign up for lessons. In fact, from originally being __________ of the water, Angela is now becoming a regular swimmer and __________ some certificates (证书) along the way

【推荐1】One January evening in 2008, Rachel Lapierre bought a $4 lottery ticket (彩票) at the grocery store. After a tiring day in a full-time emergency-room, she needed something to _________ her spirits.

For years, Lapierre had done humanitarian work and she longed to be able to one day _________ her nursing job and focus on the volunteer work she found most _________. She decided that if she ever won the lottery, that’s what she would do.

Lapierre went home and scratched (刮出) her ticket, _________ three sunny faces. Not sure what they _________, she took it to a corner store, where she was informed that she had won a sum of $6,75,000.

Staying _________ to her word, Lapierre stopped her nursing job and devoted her life to helping others through her passion project, Le Book Humanitaire, which has since become a registered _________.

Le Book, as Lapierre, now 62,   _________ calls it, began as a simple list of good deeds she wrote down in a notebook. She had been using it to keep _________ of what she had done to help those living around her.

To her, the deeds were just small acts of __________ such as delivering a meal to an __________ senior or giving medical attention to someone living on the streets. But word started __________, her phone began ringing and a Facebook page she created for the project became an efficient way to __________ requests from those in need and those who wanted to help.

“When you do a good deed, it has a butterfly effect,” says Lapierre. “One good deed can __________ ten people. So if we all do a good deed? That can __________ the world.”

【推荐2】Once a gentleman was traveling in a train. He felt ___and got down at a station to look for some water. But when he got to the water tap, the train had started. He ran back but __ the train.

It was getting late and he decided to spend the night at the station. The next morning he asked about the next___. He came to know that the next train was on the other day. So he decided to find a place for a day's stay. It was getting ___and he could not find a place near the station.

At last he reached a small village. He asked a villager __ he could stay in his house for a night. The villager agreed. The villager cooked him food and ___him a room to stay. But he did not ask for anything in return.

At seven in the evening, the gentleman heard a knock at the door. The villager opened the door. It was a__ man in black. He asked the man to pay his debts(债务).

The next morning, the gentleman ___some money on the bed. When the villager found the money, he also found a note. It said: "You __me but didn't want any pay from me. Yesterday I heard the conversation between you and the rich man. I knew that you were in need of ________. This is what you need.”