【推荐3】One Saturday morning, I did things smoothly. By 10 am I'd already taken a shower, made breakfast for my kid with a special diet, been to the bank and _______ produce at the farmer's market. Before heading to the laundromat（自助洗衣店）, I decided to _______ the living room.

I _______ my way steadily around the _______ until I got to the window. As I wiped the sash（窗框）I noticed, with some _______, that the window was not locked. I'd _______ my son to re-lock the window, telling him that the one point of _______ for robbery in NYC is through open windows.

I _______ waking him from his teen-deep Saturday morning sleep to make him lock the window. Before I did so I noted I was also _______ to have discovered the unlocked window before a robber did. __________ mixed feelings, I chose to __________ first on thanking God for the terrible __________ prevented from happening, and to speak to my son when I was less __________. So I did my __________ and considered what to say to my son, and how, and when. By the time I was done, I had a plan that __________ me to talk to my son calmly, so he could hear my words instead of reacting to my __________.

Giving myself __________ turned out to be a good choice. Over the years I've learned that anger is __________ an effective lesson plan for teaching responsibility. I was far more thankful for my unlocked-window discovery than angered by it. So as I moved on to the next __________ on my to-do list. I, in a heated moment, __________ and prayed over a situation of gratitude.

【推荐3】As one of the most common students. I pulled myself through every day hoping to stay invisible(隐形的)，yet somehow I wondered why it was impossible for anyone else to_______me.

Then one day, a simple_______from a teacher changed my life.

That day, Mr. Curtis, our band director, played a B-flat pitch and asked us to tune(调音) our instrument one by one. As he listened，his serious face and impatient steps showed his ______with each note.   No one____

My turn was coming soon, and I was fearful. I had to play all by myself while others sat and listened! I felt_______in my chair.

“Maya! It’s your turn. Play!”

“It was only a note.” I closed my eyes, and took my turn. I played my single note quietly, and with all the feelings I had felt that year. I poured my heart into that one moment of music, and the sound echoed softly through the room. I was right on pitch, but I didn’t _______Mr. Curtis’s reaction.

He looked at me as if for the first time; his serious face relaxed into a relieved smile. “That is what I have been_______! That was a perfect note!” And then he said something I have never forgotten. “Maya, that one note has earned you an ‘A’ this year. Keep it up.”

Nobody could imagine my_______at that moment. I had remained unnoticed for so long, yet Mr. Curtis helped me see my________

One ray of light came into the shadow of my school life, and a seed started to sprout(发芽). Thanks to Mr. Curtis， I found a place to________

【推荐1】Officer Joshua Scaglione of the Westland, Michigan Police Department was on duty when he spotted Dell’s Impala driving with tinted (染色) windows.____ his siren (警笛) and flicking on the lights, he pulled the car over to ask about the____ windows. It was then that Officer Scaglione ____ 3-year-old Lauren in the back of the vehicle — and without a baby car seat.

The police officer asked Dell why his 3-year-old daughter was not ____   in a car seat. The man answered as he fought back ____, explaining that it was due to some hard times. Dell told Seaglione how financially (经济上) he had been____ to keep his household above water, and that things like car seats were given a low____ below necessities like gas and food. The officer listened, as he took pity on the man who seemed to just want to ____ his family. He then asked Dell to follow him to the local Walmart, where the police officer ____ and paid for a seat to give to Dell and his daughter.

____, Dell posted his experience on Facebook in order to ____ the officer and his post went viral in the area.

“I’ve been in a____ situation like this guy before,” Scaglione said. “I____ it’d be better to help him out and just raise more ____about car safety rather than give him a ____ that would dig him deeper in a hole and make things worse for him.”

【推荐3】Earlier this year, I moved into a suburb of Atlanta. I decided to _________ the area on foot. On my walks, as I admired the range of residential _________, I also admired another type of house: Little Free Libraries. I’d seen them all over Atlanta and _________ it’d be fun to build my own, but when I looked at the website’s official map, it turned out there were already a handful nearby. _________, I decided to seek each of them out.

I’ve since found six sites of these free book _________. Without them, I would never have been able to “meet” people in my community. I quickly _________ my neighbors’ reading tastes, sorting through their small boxes of books. Each library is unique and shows the _________ of the person who built it, with _________ colors and designs. These Little Free Libraries are also the perfect way to _________ conversations with strangers.

Since the pandemic began, Little Free Libraries have become a lifeline for many. They don’t __________ social distancing and everything is on an honor system. People __________ a book in exchange and some libraries have even become __________ food pantries (食品储藏柜) for people in need. In all the __________ they’ve taken on, these libraries have brought people together in a sense, especially when it feels like everything is trying to __________ us. Beyond conversation starters and personality __________, Little Free Libraries find common ground — a precious thing, pandemic or not.