【推荐2】A little boy named Roy liked to pick flowers. He just couldn’t help doing it wherever he saw flowers. The villagers found that their flowers had been   _______   picked or damaged. Of course, they were _______ and reported it to his parents every time, who did nothing but to say, “Well, boys will be _______ !” The father assured (向……保证) villagers that he would eventually _______ ! As a grown man, he would never touch them.

The villagers decided to speak with the boy. They went into _______ about how much care and _______ they put into their gardens. The boy listened with lowered head and what they considered to have been an expression of _______ . He seemed genuinely sorry and _______ to stop doing that. But after just a few days, when all had finally seemed _______ , he started doing it again. When asked why, he said that he was just a boy acting like a boy.

Then one day, Roy’s parents found the boy was nearly drowned to death and asked the ________ what happened. They responded that he had been ________ to the bogs (藻泽地) to pick the wild flowers there, since there were no longer any flowers ________ in the village he could pick. They claimed to have warned him of the ________ . But he insisted on (坚持) going anyway.

“Why didn’t you tell us right away?” his parents asked with ________. “Well, we ________ that you would just tell us that boys will be boys as you did before!” they all responded.

【推荐1】Since retiring from football, David Beckham has been widely celebrated for his global giving, but it seems the former England captain hasn’t forgot that charity _________ at home.

David, 47, was an unexpected _________ to lend a hand to a paramedic treating an elderly man who had _________ on a London Street on Monday.

Catherine Maynard, who works with the Cycle Response Unit, said that she had been waiting for an ambulance with her patient _________ a man who resembled the Manchester United great walked by.

“I was waiting with my patient for an ambulance to _________ him to hospital and although I was keeping him warm, it was very cold outside,” she told the Evening Standard newspaper.

“All of a sudden, I looked up and _________ someone who looked like David Beckham walking past us. He said hello and got into his car _________ . I said to the man I was treating, ‘I think that was David Beckham.’ A few moments later, he came back with a cup of _________ for me and a tea for the patient. It was _________ cycling around in the cold today and I couldn’t believe it when he came back with some hot drinks—I was so pleased,” she __________ to the newspaper.

The father-of-four’s actions were then __________ on the London Ambulance services Twitter with the organization thanking the star for his __________ and encouraging others by David’s offering to buy their __________ crews a tea or coffee.

Never __________ the power of your action. With one small __________ , you may not only spread love, but also positively influence others’ lives.

【推荐2】The moonlight poured in through the windows, lighting the room. Oliver was sitting at the table, totally _________ in his book. Oliver was a book_________ . He read books whenever he could. Grandma Agnes felt _________ Oliver when she heard him talk _________ about the books he read because they were poor. She knew the money she gave him for lunch was_________on those books instead.

The next day, on the bus, Oliver was reading his storybook again when he heard a noise and _________his eyes. He saw the bus driver_________ at a blind older woman. She _________ to the driver that her daughter was ill in hospital, and that she _________ to bring her purse. The driver mistakenly believed that she was making __________ to avoid paying the bus ticket! Knowing she wouldn’t be able to __________the driver, the older woman was about to get off the bus, when Oliver __________.

“I’ll pay for her fare, sir!” he said. Then Oliver helped the __________ older woman into the seat next to him and paid her fare. When he __________ to his seat, the woman said to him, “Thank you, little kid, you have a sweet voice!”

“I’m a big boy! And my name is Oliver,” Oliver said __________.

“I’m Mary,” the older woman __________ herself and expressed her __________ for helping her. Although Oliver had planned to use the money to buy the next book in the series he was reading, he couldn’t __________ to see Mary in trouble.

They had a __________ before Oliver’s stop arrived. Oliver liked Mary. She __________ him of Grandma Agnes. When he talked with her, she listened to him with the same patience as Grandma Agnes.

【推荐3】These days, senior citizens sometimes have to work well beyond the average age of retirement just to make ends meet.

Devan Bonagura is a 19-year-old boy from New Jersey, who just started to work. He was working at the Hackettstown store when he_________Nola, a nearly 70-year-old employee sitting in the break room. She was_________, and he took a video and added the video to a social networking website_________by the heart-breaking words: “Life shouldn’t be this hard.”        

Nearly 20 million people viewed Devan’s video, and the 39,000_________demanded he do something to help the old lady. With their_________, Devan started a GoFundMe for Nola, and within 24 hours he already_________over $100 ,000!

Once the donations hit $ 110, 000, Devan spoke with Nola about the Internet’s good deed. “The viewers_________that you’re a very hard worker,” Devan told her. “They’re all proud of you, and they’d like to_________help you out.”

Nola was so_________because she badly needed to pay off the mortgage(按揭) on her house.__________that she needed another $ 60,000 to__________the mortgage, Devan decided to continue his__________. He posted Nola’s story on the website, and even more people__________their wallets to help Nola. Her GoFundMe shot up above the__________she needed.   

Now Nola can finally__________, and she’s incredibly thankful to Devan and all of the people who donated to help her out.

【推荐1】Akondi was trapped by the travel ban because of the lock down. She longed to ______ in her own way during a national emergency.

On the evening of May all, she ______ a group of migrants (移民) being stopped by the police. Akondi learnt that they were ______ their way to their distant home. Akondi ______ thought of helping them, ______ there were 10 children and a pregnant lady.

Her first ______ was to help them get movement passes within the state. Then, Akondi arranged for food and ______ the railway authorities to let them stay at the station.

Akondi next turned her attention to the women, ______ for vitamins and medication for them. Alongside the arrangements, she also made frequent posts to the social media, ______ attention and help for the migrants. There was no ______ for days, but she didn't give up.

Her steady efforts finally ______ On May 19, the happy group were waving a ______ goodbye to Akondi. “Some of them still send me ______ of themselves,” she tells us.

Afterwards, Akondi ______ to help other migrants — around 3,000, in fact — reach their homes. ______ the world came to a standstill, this woman became the ant that moved mountains.