【推荐1】In April, Matthew Sullivan watched his neighbors in Morris Township gaze out their windows. As the lockdown was coming to a _______ , many were about to return to the workplace. Unable to _______ their lawn (草坪), they showed a look of _______ .

Sullivan, a creative 14-year-old, saw the _______ in lawn care. Thus, he had a(n) _______ idea in his mind. _______ the boost in demand, Sullivan started his own business, and named it Leaf-it to-Us, in which he _______ a group of able-bodied 13-and 14-year-olds for weeding, leaf-blowing, planting and fence-painting.

Last Saturday, Sullivan and his partners presented the local charity Help MorrisNOW with a $ 1,000 check that they had earned. “The _______ from the Leaf-it to-Us kids made me _______ ,” Nestor Bedoya, the founder of Help MorrisNOW, said. “When they came up to me with the check, I could hardly ________ those kids doing such amazing things at their age to help others.”

Though the company had ________ given its earnings to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, this season it ________ its purposes. Now we’ve gone ________ , so we’re helping out people in our community,” Sullivan said. Sullivan estimates that they have made more than $5,000 in total since this April. They plan to keep the landscaping business running ________ they can maintain their ________ giving.

【推荐2】Our neighbors had a loud party last night. We weren’t _______ but this was one of those celebrations that I didn’t mind. They are a bunch of young, single guys and I would have felt out of place.

What _______   me was the way they behaved. One of the young men came over _______ in the day to “warn” us of the upcoming event and said it would be over at about 11 p. m. That was the first step. Even more _______ was what they did next. “Here’s my _______ , offered our neighbor _______. Text me if it’s too noisy.” That was a level of _______ I had never experienced in all my years of being a neighbor!

And it really worked in their favor. My husband and I were so friendly that even when the event went past the _______ end time, even when the music reached high decibels (分贝) and even when we couldn’t _______ to the phone number, we felt no anger. We knew they would stop and ________ to it finally.

It takes such little effort to make people feel that they ________ and get people on your side. Everyone needs to ________ every now and then, especially in these uniquely tough times. But people who do it without disturbing others are few and far between. I hadn’t fully ________ my neighbors until this week. But now I see them in a new light and with greater appreciation. They didn’t just bring the ________ to the neighborhood; they showed us a good way of ________ in life.

【推荐3】When my aunt’s children were small, she decided to get them a puppy. Her neighbor’s dog had given _______ to a couple of puppies a few weeks earlier and so my aunt arranged to buy one of the puppies _______ they had been weaned (断奶).

The day came to bring home the little puppy and the children were _______; they named it Shorty and _______ welcomed it, preparing its food and a comfortable _______ in a basket. The next day the children gave it some milk before kissing it goodbye and _______ for school. When they returned, they were _______ to discover that Shorty was missing. They _______ the whole house inch by inch, but it was _______ to be found. A few hours later, the neighbor who ________ the puppy came over carrying Shorty, ________. He explained that the mother dog had slid into my aunt’s house and carried the puppy back to his home.

For a number of days my aunt and her neighbour tried ________ to keep the puppy in his new home, because each day the mother dog would ________ it from the tiny bed. Finally, my aunt’s neighbour gave up and offered her a refund.

I came to realize that mother’s love is flowing all over the places you can imagine, ________ in the kingdom of animals. By the way, if you would like to keep a puppy as a ________ you might as well keep the mother dog at a distance.

【推荐1】Who to Believe?

“My doctors told me I would never walk again because of the illness. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.”

Wilma Rudolph was born in 1940 into a very large and poor African-American family in Tennessee. When she was four years old, a deadly _________ made her left leg useless. She had to wear an iron leg brace (固定器). Her doctors told her she would never _________ like a normal person without the brace. _________ she was fortunate in having a mother who encouraged her to have faith and _________ .

At nine years of age, the little girl _________ the leg brace and took the step that her doctors had said was _________ . Then she got the incredible idea that she would like to be the world’s greatest woman _________ . Now, what could she mean- be a professional sportswoman with a useless leg?

At the age of thirteen, she began to enter races, but she came in last in every race. Everyone begged her to   _________ it. One day, however, she came in next to last. Then there came a day when she won a race. From then on, she   _________ every race that she entered.

In 1957, Wilma went to Tennessee State University, where she met a __________ named Ed Temple. He trained her so well that in 1960 she went to the Olympic Games in Rome. There she __________ a German girl named Jutta Heine, the greatest woman runner of the day. Wilma had just won two Olympic gold medals both in the 100-metre sprint (短跑) and the 200-metre sprint. Then came the 400-metre relay. It would be Wilma __________ Jutta. When the third runner handed the baton (接力棒) to Wilma, she was so excited that she __________ it, and Wilma saw Jutta taking off down the track. It was impossible that anybody could catch this girl. But Wilma did just that! Wilma Rudolph had __________ her third Olympic gold medal in the 17th Olympic Games.

That day Wilma made history as she became the first woman to win three gold medals in the same Olympic Games. Later she said. “The success can’t be reached without the __________ . I have spent a lifetime trying to share my story so that other young women have a chance to reach their __________ ”

Wilma had never __________ that she would not walk again and she kept struggling and finally earned the title of the world’s __________ woman. Her story told us it is our __________ that show what we truly are far more than our __________ .