【推荐3】In the summer of 2020, I was leading eight junior high kids through the Appalachian Mountains. For a young teacher, that was a lot of _________.

When I was a teenager, time in the woods meant _________ from my difficult home life. The sights and sounds of nature _________ the condemning (指责的) voices I’d grown up hearing at home. But I could never completely _________ them, especially when others were depending on me.

We were having a(n) _________camping trip. I used our hike through the woods to _________ the kids and they all were interested. Suddenly, one of the girls in the group called _________,“Mr. Heim, my compass says we’re walking south.” That was impossible. I’d repeatedly _________ our position on the map. I couldn’t be so _________ that I was leading my students in the opposite direction, could I?

I kept my face calm, but condemning voices had already __________ in my head. The kids were __________, and their leader had no idea which way to go. What a(n) __________ I was! We’d just started walking again when I saw a hiker. He told us exactly where we were. Then he __________ us, “You’re heading in the right direction. Just keep following this path and you’ll reach base camp by nightfall.” His words made me regain my __________. At that moment, I realized I had to learn to believe myself and not let my inner barriers (障碍) influence my __________ in the future.

【推荐1】For the past 15 years, my family has gone Christmas caroling（唱圣诞歌）in my neighborhood. It's our _________We aren't good at it, but we love doing it. It's the one _________of the year when we can see some of our neighbors that we don't see _________, and in general, do something fun.

This year, for an obvious _________—the epidemic, and the fact that it happened to be raining slightly, we didn't go so that we could try to be as _________as we can. I did, however, go door to door （ masked and gloved） to _________a note so no one would stay up _________us. We sometimes show up _________some years and some neighbors with kids usually stay up specifically for us. I made the note _________to let our neighbors know that we were thinking of them this year.

It was really __________. For my family, this is the __________of the season, and we just didn't feel like Christmas without caroling. We had no idea of how our neighbors felt, but we did hope they __________us, which didn't make us feel any __________, though.

For the past 15 years we went door to door caroling, and this year, for the first time __________we didn't go, but our neighbors came to us. __________across our yard, they sang Christmas songs to us. They took __________against the rain and printed out the lyrics （歌词）of "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", and __________whoever they could. They decided to sing to us this year. It was __________. I'm still emotional.   

I was crying, my dad was trying to hold back his __________, and my mother was also weeping. It brought the Christmas __________we all needed.

【推荐2】I am a patrolman (巡逻警察), sent to check on the family. The young woman sat________at one of the back tables of a small restaurant on a highway where truck________stopped. Two girls, perhaps four and five years old, watched their mother________.

A flash of fear crossed the older child’s eyes as I ________ her. “Daddy left us,” she said. “He________put our stuff out of the car while we were in the bathroom.”

“Is that so, little lady?” I said. “I want you two to climb on those benches over there and order something to eat.”

After a while, they crossed to the benches, and I called the waitress to take their________.

We sat there________organizations and government agencies that could help her. When the waitress________hot dogs and French fries to the little girls, I went to the counter and took out my wallet to pay.

“The owner says no________,” the waitress said. “We know what’s going on.”

“Officer, excuse me,” a man said to me. He was a big man in jeans next to the waitress standing by the________. I noticed the restaurant was quiet; the customers, mostly long-distance truck drivers, sat________in our direction.

“Here,” he said, giving me a handful of paper money. “We made a________. There should be enough to get the woman and her girls on their way.”

When I________the money to the woman, she began to cry again. Then I called the police station and told the officer who sent me out that the situation had been________.

A police officer sees the worst in people most of the time. It is good to be________that kindness and love exist out there, even at a truck stop in East Tennessee.

【推荐1】Every time I hold a baby squirrel in my hands, I feel a sense of wonder. I volunteer as the squirrel team leader for TCWC, a nonprofit that________for injured or orphaned (成为孤儿的)squirrels, birds and other wildlife.

It’s a________job. Some days are hard, made harder by the________that I have intractable migraine (顽固性偏头痛)disease. So why do I________ myself into taking care of baby squirrels? Because at the   ________point in my life, saving wildlife saved me too.

I have had migraines since I was young. When I was 11 years old, I fell out of the window and________     a serious head injury. My________grew worse. I had to stay at home and receive treatment. My migraines didn't,________medication, though, and most of the time, I felt broken.

One morning my mom spotted a(n)________nest and two baby sparrows in our yard through the window. I went forward and called to my mom, ‘They’re________！”They were cold and covered in ants. I________the frozen babies inside a box with a towel in it and spent hours cleaning off the birds. For the first time in a long time, I felt________. It was as if the baby birds’________for me was stronger than my pain.

During the past years, I’ve helped hundreds of “patients” heal and grow and________return to the wild. It brings me so much joy to be able to give these injured babies a second________at being free in the wild.

【推荐3】As a woman walked down the streets one day, she noticed a beggar. The man looked old and ill-dressed. She _______ asked the man, “Sir? Are you hungry?” She tried to pick him up. “You need to _______ something,” the woman said.

The man looked at the woman, who, clearly by her appearance was from a _______ background. “No,” he said coldly.

The woman finally managed to _______ the man into the cafeteria and ordered him something to eat.

When the man was eating his meal, the woman stared at the man and asked “Jack, do you _______ me?” Old Jack examined her face. Then his face suddenly lit up. “Now I remember you. I used to be at the counter. You came up and asked me if you could work for something to eat.”

“Then you _______ me the biggest roast beef sandwich, a cup of coffee, and a table for me to sit at. I saw you put the _______ of my food in the cash register.” the woman said.

She opened her purse and pulled out a business _______. “Please pay a visit to the personnel director of my company. We need your help. We can pay you the _______ in advance.”

“How can I ever repay your ____________?” Jack asked.

“You don’t need to”, the woman smiled.