【推荐1】Soon after my arrival in Luanda, I realized that I was going to have some free time available. I decided to _____ it doing something useful and involving with the ______community.

I started my research for volunteering opportunities here and a blog post ______ my eye. It was Ashima's _____ on how she started her _____ journey in Luanda. Ashima has been volunteering at the Foundation for Art and Culture for more than a year. I decided to _____ with them and soon after I got a very warm and welcoming _____ inviting me to the foundation. The next day as I _____ into the foundation little did I know it would become such a(n) ______ part of my life in Luanda.

I was a bit hesitant ______as I had never worked with children before and my Portuguese then was much ______than now. But as I slowly started doing some activities with children, there were not any ______ . All that you ______ was a heart full of love and everyone ______ the language of love.

I found plenty of _____ to do with kids, keeping them busy and having fun. Together we played, sang, learned new things, ______ new games and reinvented the old.

The children coming to the Foundation are wonderful, and full of _____ and energy. It is a beautiful place with wonderful projects. Without doubt it is the best _______ I could have found in Luanda, and I am very ______ to go there as often as I can. The staff _______there really make you feel welcome and at home.

【推荐2】Steve, a twelve-year-old boy with alcoholic parents, was failing. Surprisingly, he could read, yet, _________ his reading skills, Steve had been failing since the first grade. Steve was a big boy, yet, he went unnoticed _________ Miss White.

Miss White was a smiling, beautiful, young lady. For the first time in his _________ life, Steve couldn’t take his eyes off his teacher;  yet,_________he failed. In the middle of the first term, the entire seventh grade was _________for basic skills. Steve hurried through his tests, and _________to dream of other things, as the day passed slowly. One day, Miss White’s_________voice broke into his daydreams. “Steve!” Startled (吓了一跳), he _________to look at her. “Pay attention!” She began to _________the test results. “You all did pretty well,” she told the class, “__________one boy, and it breaks my__________to tell you this, but…” She hesitated, pinning Steve to his seat with a sharp __________ “the smartest boy in the seventh grade is failing my class!”

After that, Steve still__________do his homework. “Just try it,” Miss White said one day. “Steve! Please! I care about you!” Wow! Suddenly, Steve got it! Someone cared about him? Someone, so beautiful and perfect, cared about him! Steve went home from school, __________ that afternoon and decided to work hard.

The following Monday he arrived at school on time, and waited for Miss White to enter the classroom. She walked in, all sparkle and smiles! Immediately, she gave a __________on the weekend homework. Steve was the first to  __________his paper. With a look of __________, Miss White took his paper. Steve walked back to his desk, his heart beating strongly within his chest.

Miss White’s face was in total __________! Suddenly, her face broke into a bright smile. The smartest boy in the seventh grade had just__________his first test! From that moment __________was the same for Steve.

【推荐3】Before she passed away from cancer, A.J. Walters made her husband Sean and daughter Brittany promise her one thing: Sean would accompany Brittany, a high school senior, to the homecoming game, where she was in the running for homecoming _________. A. J. was a beloved administrative assistant at Brittany’s high school. It was _________ to her that her daughter go. Brittany and Sean _________

Days later, on the morning of Friday, A.J. _________. Keeping their _________, that very afternoon, an emotional Brittany walked arm in arm with her father. They crossed the football field with the other candidates to await the_________ of the voting.

Brittany wasn’t_________ homecoming queen that day; Nyla was. But, like many in the community, Nyla had also_________ A.J. Out of _________, moments after receiving the crown, Nyla walked over to Brittany, removed the crown from her head, and__________ it on her friend’s. The two__________, tearfully holding each other for support. “She’d rather have her __________ than a crown,” Nyla said. By__________ it to Brittany, “I was telling her that she was her mom’s queen, and that she was loved by many, __________ me.”

“I felt so much love from her, and I just felt so much__________ for her,” said Brittany, “I can __________ my mom through Nyla. They have the__________ caring and giving spirit.”

Nyla is no less perfect for __________ of a crown. A friend of the Walters family said, “There’s an old__________ goes, “Real queens fix each other’s crowns.” But the fact is, real queens __________ their crowns to let other queens shine.”

【推荐1】Daniel Coper is the founder of Take a Kid to Fish, a non-profit voluntary organization which teaches fatherless kids through fishing. Ten years ago, Daniel noticed his six-year-old neighbor, Cameron, seemed_________. He would storm out of the house, shouting at his _________. One day, Daniel saw the boy outside and started a conversation. Cameron _________ his problem that his dad wasn’t in his life.

Daniel asked Cameron’s mother for _________ to take him fishing. Cameron was interested from that first trip. The two fished together several times a week, and Daniel saw _________ changes in Cameron’s behaviour. Soon Daniel _________ more kids in the neighbourhood in his activity.

Daniel and other ___________ regularly take 20 to 25 kids out fishing on a boat on weekends. Besides the neighbourhood, Daniel _________ the local orphanage(孤儿院) to invite the kids to spend the day on the water. Many have never been fishing or even on a boat, so Daniel starts by teaching the _________. Then come the life lessons that fishing ________ : patience, teamwork and the simple joy of ________ in the outdoors. So far, this organization has taken more than 600 fishing __________ with almost 2, 000 fatherless kids. Many kids choose to catch and __________ , but on a recent trip, they kept the fish and enjoyed their delicious fish meal that night.

Fishing did have a huge impact on children. __________ , if you know a child who you get on well with,__________ them to fishing.

【推荐1】It's the seaside birds that deserve at least part of the blame for getting Nick Burchill blacklisted at the Fairmont Empress Hotel in Victoria, Canada. Burchill was staying at the hotel on business and planning to _________ some friends in the area. They had asked him to _________ some pepperoni (辣香肠) from back east. So he _________ a suitcase full of pepperoni. As he was _________ that it would be too warm, he laid it out on the table near an open window. He thought his pepperoni was _________ and well chilled (冷却) and he left.

That's when things went _________ . “I remember walking down the long _________ and opening the door to my room to find an entire flock of seagulls," Burchill said in a recent letter of _________ to the 4-star hotel. “The seagulls immediately went wild. They rushed to the window, 30 or 40 birds all trying to _________ at the same time, and pepperoni-everywhere. The curtains were falling down; the lamps were falling down. It was a real __________.”

Older and wiser now, Burchill chalked up the incident to youthful indiscretion (莽撞).

“I have __________ and I admit responsibility for my actions,” he said in the letter. “I come to you, __________, to apologize for the damage I had __________ caused and to ask you to __________ my lifetime ban from the hotel.”

His letter __________. Banned from the hotel since 2001, Burchill is now welcome to come back, the Fairmont said.

【推荐2】My son Tom taught me a beautiful lesson today. He is three years old and it is amazing watching him grow up.

He called out to me today saying“Papa, sit.” That usually means_______everything and going next to him and sitting down to play with him. I did that, as he can be stubborn and will not stop calling out until I_______. He was playing with beads (珠子) , pushing a string through them. Then after he finished playing with the beads, it was time to put back in the box that they are stored in. I saw him_______pick up each bead, look at it as if it were made of chocolate and then placed it into its box.

With over a hundred beads to go, I was getting_______. “What a long time it will take ! Why cannot he grab ten beads in one go and drop them in?” said my anxious mind. I noticed that he did this with as much_______as he had while we were playing. I didn’t see any difference between his play and his_______the toy. Obviously he enjoyed both.

Then it suddenly_______me that this boy was enjoying the whole_______.The journey was his goal. For him the_______was in the game and after the game, not just in the fun part. What a great perspective to live each moment as it is the________moment; to do each task as it is the most awesome task. Nothing else matters.

Looking at how________my son was putting beads into the box________me that the process was the goal.