【推荐2】I used to be fit. But _____ a mounting list of injuries, the most active workout I do these days is _____ in front of the TV. But when I _____ a big European study on the benefits of chair yoga in the newspaper, I made up my mind to try it. Chair yoga _____ poses like twists and bends that are changed to be done while sitting on a chair.

I choose a chair yoga video on YouTube. The 10-minute _____ is a combination of slow movements every day. In each _____ my body remembers all that yoga I used to do 15 years ago. That isn’t to _____ it’s not challenging. And _____ I probably couldn’t get through a regular yoga class anymore, this way I still get to experience some of the sense of focus and _____ of being in that yoga   “flow”. Because it doesn’t need too much _____ I can even do it in that _____ dead time in the evenings when I’m too worn out to work but I can’t settle into a TV show because my kid isn’t in bed yet.

Chair yoga probably isn’t going to turn me into a _____ gym girl, but I notice that my neck and shoulders— _____ sore from staring at a computer too much—become less tight, and it’s also useful for helping my _____. It’s almost like mentally changing the channel—even for such a short period of time. It _____ my brain-from a state of great anger to one of just breathing. I’ll take it.

【推荐3】A week before Christmas, my grandmother passed away. I planned to_________on the 20th so I could get home to_________my mother with the funeral (葬礼) preparations.

However, my series of bad_________began: my start was put off by a snowstorm, and I had to_________my ferry (渡船) for the 22nd. I left as the roads were still_________ . Worse still, my car_________on the way. I pulled over and found a tire (轮胎)   flat. Although I had a_________one, I didn’t know how to change it. I felt hopeless and almost_________ . Just then a car stopped nearby, and a lady asked me what happened. I told her I had to go home_________for my grandmother’s funeral, but that I had a flat tire and would__________my ferry. Hearing what I said, the lady took out her__________and quickly changed my tire. Her kindness enabled me to catch the ferry,__________me hours on the roads.

The woman is a__________, but she helped me get home in time, even earlier. I’ll never__________her, who made a hard Christmas a lot__________ . I think the world is beautiful because there are lots of kind people in it.

【推荐2】A man worked in a post office.His job was to handle(处理) all______that had unclear addresses.One day he came across a letter which was_______to God. He opened it and it ______,“Dear God, I am an 83­year­old woman and I live on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my_________.There was a hundred dollars in it, which was all the money I had______until my next pension comes.Next Thursday is Thanksgiving Day, and I have invited my last two   friends for______Without that money, I have________to buy food with.I have no family to_______, and you are my only________.Can you please help me?” The man felt______about this，and went around showing the letter to all the other workers.Each of the________their wallets and donated a few dollars.By the time he________his showing, he had collected 96 dollars._______then he sent it to the old woman.Thanksgiving Day came and went.The workers________forgot about it.Then one day, there came another letter from the old lady to God.All the__________gathered around when the letter was_______. It read, “Dear God, how can I ever thank you enough for what you did for me? Because   of your kindness, I was able to_______a lovely dinner for my friends.We had a very________day, and I told my friends about your_______gift.Thank you very much!”   Seeing this，all the workers felt_______at the nice thing they had done.They looked into each other’s eyes and smiled.

【推荐3】Amy Jandrisevits knows that dolls have a power that is not completely comprehended. She realized that while working as a social worker using dolls to help her young_________through difficult medical situations. Many of the kids_________themselves in those dolls. But for the kids missing a limb (肢) or who had lost their hair, there were none they could_________.

So, seven years ago, when a friend revealed that her child had to cut all her hair_________medical treatment, Jandrisevits knew what might help the youth through this_________period.

She created a doll by hand that looked like the child and_______it off. After her friend posted a(n)_________online showing the happy child, another woman_________Jandrisevits to make a doll for her baby, who was missing a leg.

Word_________, and soon Jandrisevits was making dolls for children with scars, birthmarks, disabilities—in short, a doll just like them. She quit her job and started a non-profit, A Doll Like Me.

To craft each doll, it takes Jandrisevits____________seven hours and also much money, but she hasn’t____________for a doll since she began her non-profit.

In all, she’s made more than 400 dolls. There is still a long waiting____________, but Jandrisevits is____________. As she explains, “Every____________, regardless of sex, age, medical condition, or body type, should look into the____________face of a doll and see their own.”