【推荐1】One summer evening as I was cooking supper,   there was a knock at the door. I __________ it to see a truly bad-looking man. But his voice was __________ as he said , “ Good evening. I’ve come to see if you’ve a __________ for just one night.   I came for a(n ) __________ this morning from the eastern shore.   And there’s no bus next morning.”   He told me he’d been __________ for a room but with no success.   “ I guess it’s my face … I know it looks terrible,   but my doctor says with a few more treatments …”   he said. I told him we would __________ him a bed, but to rest on the porch（走廊）. I went inside and prepared supper. When we were __________, I asked him if he would __________ us. “No, thank you. I have plenty.” When I had __________ the dishes, I went out to talk with _________. It didn’t take a long time to see __________ this old man had an oversized heart crowded into that tiny body. He told me he fished for a living to __________ his daughter, her five children, and her husband, who was __________ disabled from a back injury. At bedtime,   we _________ a bed in the children’s room for him.   On his next trip, _________ a gift, he brought a big fish and a quart of the largest oysters I had never seen. In the years he came to __________ overnight with us, there was __________ a time that he did not __________ us some fish or others from his garden.

I know our family will always be __________ to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the __________ without complaint（抱怨） and the good with thanks.

【推荐3】You never know how good your neighbors are until there’s an emergency.

It was after midnight when Clifford_________to the sound of a noise next door. Outside, he saw that the house next to his was_________, and there were three people_________. A mother with a teenager and a 5-year-old child were _________ for help inside the burning home. Unable to get down the stairs due to thick smoke and _________, the only way out of the big fire was through the window. Thinking fast, Clifford ran into his backyard and_________ an old mattress(床垫)out and placed it beneath the woman’s window.

“Come down, come down,” he called up to the family. He _________the panicked mother that he would_________ the child. In an act of_________and desperation, the mother handed her child out of the__________-into Clifford’s arms. Next, it was the mother and the teenager’ turns. Luckily, their landings were__________.

Nine people are homeless after the house was __________. The Red Cross is working to help the victims recover from losing their home and__________. The house suffered about $1 million in damages, and the fire was so hot that it even melted the siding(墙板)of the house next to it. Two __________from the Boston Fire Department suffered minor injuries.

After the big fire, Clifford was praised for his__________. Later he said he was happy he could help the family__________from the flames(火焰). He says the mother he saved was so__________ and she couldn’t stop thanking him for helping. It took a lot of courage for him to run towards that fire! __________, everyone made it out alive. Clifford didn’t think twice about running toward danger to help these __________. Everyone would all be __________to have a neighbor like him!

【推荐1】28-year-old Luke Wesley, a restaurant manager, was tall, energetic and kind-hearted. One evening, he noticed an old man in a wheelchair enter the restaurant and ________ by the window without ordering anything. He just had his eyes fixed on a ________ outside the window.

Since the restaurant should have closed an hour earlier, Luke had to remind the man it was________ closing time. The old man ________ sincerely, saying that the place was full of his ________ memories including his wife and many other things. Luke was ________ about what the man was saying; he just noticed the man’s eyes filled with tears. Later, the old man told Luke his name was Smith and was a regular________ 40 years ago and it was in this restaurant that he met his beloved Priscilla and fell in love with each other. ________, both of them loved to watch mountains. However, one day on their way to the mountain to ________ their first wedding anniversary his wife was hit dead by a speeding truck and he survived but lost his ________ to walk. Sad, Luke patted Smith on the shoulder to ________ him but words failed him. A good idea occurred to him suddenly, Luke promised to accompany him to hike the mountain and take a photo of the breathtaking ________ which his wife was dying for. That was actually Mrs. Priscilla’s long-lasting ________.

The next day, Luke carried Smith to the top of the mountain successfully. Seeing the old man ________ the photo with tears, Luke felt ________. The two became lifelong friends from that day onward.

【推荐2】It isn’t every day that the future and the past get to meet on national television.

When his wife of 72 years passed away six years ago, Peter Davies _________ he felt like “almost soul”. The 100-year-old man from Macclesfield, England _________ to find new purpose in his life, so when his daughter suggested he offer his help at the local elementary school, he _________ to go for it.

“I was married for 72 years, and when my wife died, life changed _________,” Peter explained. “My daughter suggested that, to get some _________ back into my life, I do something I’m _________ of doing.”

Peter chose to_________ at a primary school, and he was a huge _________ with all of the children he tutored. He _________ reading into a fun game. Besides, his new __________ as a grandfatherly figure made him feel more connected to his community than ever before.

“The __________ are great, ”said Peter. “I’m sure I get more than the kids do. It is a lovely warm feeling that I __________ the community. I’m part of it. Moreover, my image is __________ . Wherever I go in the village, a child will shout ‘Hello Mr. Davies. I feel 10 feet tall. ”

Recently he was __________ with a British Empire Medal (BEM) on television with the youngest recipient, 18-year-old Dara McAnulty. “He is the future, and I am the past, ”Peter said. “It’s just simple as that, it really is. I’m__________ for him.”