【推荐1】8- year- old Dillon Helbig has _______ much attention over social media for his lovely book The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Christmas that he made all by himself. But the second-grader never _______ the book to go viral. It was a pleasant surprise.

Dillon’s journey to get it published is a pretty _______ story. He _______ his handwritten, 81-page graphic book onto the shelves of the local library without being noticed while _______ the library with his grandmother. After his mom discovered that Dillon left his book at the library, she wasn’t _______ by what he’d done. She knew Dillon had wanted to published a book since he was five. _______ that Dillon’s book would be lost, they returned only to find the book was _______ from the spot where Dillon put it. They contacted the library and were told that the manager Alex Hartman and a few coworkers had already discovered and read Dillon’s book. They not only _______ it, but decided it met the selection criteria (选择标准). So they stuck a bar code (条形码) on it and added it to the library’s ________. Dillon’s wish of earning a place in the library’s card catalog came true. Before long, the book proved so ________.

Alex Hartman said, a reader ________ out the only copy of The Adventures of Dillon Helbig’s Christmas days ago and now there’s a 55-person wait-list. Library readers are allowed to ________ books for up to four weeks.

For his performances, the library gave Dillon a(n) ________ for Best Young Novelist. Excited with success Dillon isn’t resting on his laurels (荣誉). He’s already working on his next ________. “It’s about a jacket-eating closet,” he said.

【推荐1】I started the jar the winter when I recovered from a cancer. I thought it might be a good way to stay ______ . I chose a medium-sized Mason jar and filled it with notes listing the things for which I was ______ .

Years later, the jar has become an important part of my ______ . Every year on New Year’s Day, I start with a new jar and wrote notes on pieces of paper ______ the things I appreciated or moments that brought me joy. Some weeks, I can ______ add any notes. Other times, I’m ______ paper and adding note after note. When I ______ the jar on the following New Year’s Day, it’s like re-reading my diary. For a fleeting moment, I get to ______ those moments in the past 12 months.

Honestly, I never really ______ New Year’s Day. But now I look forward to it every year. It is the chance to ______ and enjoy all the moments that filled the past twelve months. It’s the perfect way to develop gratitude and keep myself ______ positivity.

The jars haven’t just helped me to develop a sense of gratitude. They’ve helped me to notice the seemingly ______ moments. Through the jars, I am ______ to the time when I felt happy and warm. The jars ______ me that simple blessings are all around us. Once we receive them with thanksgiving and ______ , we experience true joy.

【推荐2】Fifteen years earlier, I was a single mom with two children, a _______ job and a long commute. So I had to shop for groceries and plan for the next week on weekends. _______, I went shopping on Sunday. When I _______ to the cashier that the store was really quiet that day, she replied, “It’s always _______ on Mother’s Day. You must be the only _______ out there shopping.” I know she was _______ telling the truth and she did not mean to _______ me. Needless to say, all I could do was finish paying and get to my car. I hadn’t _______ realized it was Mother’s Day. My children were too young to know it. How _______ I really was!

I was excited to see my ________ soon. I decided to treat myself to an ice tea and ________ to the sandwich shop next door. It was ________ except for a mom and her son ahead of me.________ this was a single mom, celebrating Mother’s Day with her son in the sandwich shop. When she finished ________, I handed the cashier a $20 bill and said, “This is my treat. Happy Mother’s Day!” The cashier and the woman were confused for a moment.

Wayne Dyer once talked about the power of kindness. He said studies showed that not only do the giver and receiver of an act of kindness ________, but an observer benefits in exactly the same way.

【推荐3】My adult son walked to the table this morning for breakfast. As he did he opened his _________ to me. I did the same and gave him a big _________ just like I do every morning. And this time a beautiful _________ came back to me.

My Italian grandma had been a big hugger when I was a boy, but my mom had _________ in a more reserved (保守的) family and didn’t hug me often as I grew into my teenage years. My dad seemed to _________ the gender roles of the day back then and didn’t hug me much as I got older. By the time I was a teenager then, _________ grandma, I didn’t hug anyone.

When I was sixteen, I went on a trip with a group of boys to _________ a college. We visited a _________ on our way, where we were _________ by the largest monk (和尚) I had ever seen. He gave each of us a HUGE HUG. My own __________ came at last. Though I felt a bit __________, I stepped in and hugged him back. I sensed a __________ in my heart as he shared his loving kindness. It was amazing. Later that day I began to wonder why I had __________ giving and receiving hugs when they brought so much joy. When my own children were born, I __________ never to stop hugging them and telling them I __________ them, no matter how big they grew or how old they got.