【推荐1】While another baby was on the way, Karen’s three-year-old son, Michael ______ to his sister in Mommy’s tummy.

The pregnancy progressed ______ for Karen. But something serious ______ during delivery. Finally, Michael’s little sister was born, but in serious ______. With siren (警报) howling in the night, the ambulance ______ the infant to the ICU at St. Mary’s Hospital.

____ inched by. The little girl got worse. The doctors told the parents, “There is very little hope.” They had ______ a special room in their home for the new baby-now they planned a funeral.

After two weeks in ICU, it looked as if a funeral would come ______ the week was over. Michael, however, kept begging his: parents to let him sing to his sister. Kids were never ______ in ICU. But Karen made up her mind to take Michael ______ they liked it or not. If he didn’t see his sister now, he may never see her alive.

She ______ him in an oversized suit and ______ him into ICU. He looked like a walking laundry basket, but the nurse ______ him as a child, “Get that kid out of here now!” The usually ______ mother glared steel-eyed right into the nurse’s face, saying in a ______ tone, “He’s not leaving until he sings to his sister!” Karen towed Michael to his sister’s bedside. He gazed at the tiny baby ______ the battle to live and began to sing. ______ the pure hearted voice of a 3-ycar-old, Michael sang:

“You are my sunshine, my only sunshine, you make me happy when skies are gray...”

____ the baby girl responded. The pulse rate began to ______ down and became steady.

“Keep on.” encouraged Karen. “You never know, dear, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away...” The baby’s breath became as smooth as a kitten’s purr.

“The other night, dear, as I lay sleeping.” Michael’s little sister relaxed as rest, healing rest, seemed to sweep over her.

Funeral plans were ______. The next day-the very next day-the little girl was well enough to go home!

Karen called it a miracle of God’s love!

【推荐2】As a teenager, are you getting along well with your parents? I had been going through a tough time _________with the problems of growing up and communicating with my mother. _________I got angry, we would end up in conflict with each other, unwilling to share our real feelings.

Several days ago, I ran _________from home to release the anger and pain bottled up inside me. I stayed away _________ many hours, well into the night, before I finally decided to _________home. Walking through the front door, I saw all the pain and anger on my mother’s face. For days after that, we said the _________. Everything we did was filled with tension (紧张), so we desperately (极其地) needed a talk and _________to have breakfast together in a local café the next morning. It turned out to be a _________ point of our relationship.

On our way to the table I _________ my mother holding two notebooks, “ __________ are they for?” I asked. “Sometimes it is easier to __________down our feelings than to talk about them,” She explained. She then __________ me a notebook and kept one for herself. The “ __________ ” were that she would pick a topic, and we would write down our __________ about it, however long or short. Our first __________was: “Why I am so angry?” I wrote a half page, and Mum__________up nearly three pages. Tears streamed down her face when she wrote.

After finishing writing we__________our notebooks and read what the other had written.__________reading mum’s words, I began to cry and so did she. Amazingly enough, when we finished discussing them, all the anger inside me was __________.

I gained a special gift that day. Mum and I continue to use our notebooks as an approach (方式) to expressing our different __________. No matter how we feel, our notebooks are a safe place to express it.

【推荐3】Christmas was near a season that we took seriously in our house. But a week or so before the 25th， my father would give each of his children ＄20. This was the 1970s， and ＄20 was quite a bit of money.

But I saw it___. My father trusted me to have the___to spend money wisely. Even better， he gave me the means to get it. On a very basic level， my father was giving me a shopping spree（狂欢） every year. But he was also giving me___over my own fun， trusting my ability to___money and making me feel like a（n）___. He didn't buy me Sherlock Holmes， but he gave me the means to walk into the bookstore and___it for myself， so it felt like a gift from him.

My mother had （a）n___for giving me what I needed， usually___at the moment I needed it most. This was when I was 25， I___at being an adult on my very first try. I had quitted my___job but had no new one. But when my mother paid me a visit， I___a good show， telling her I had started my own company.

My mother knew that I was trying hard and failing at that time. It wasn't until she___that I noticed at the foot of my bed an envelope thick with___. She knew how___I needed it. She knew that had she just shown up with groceries， or___to pay my rent， she would have made me feel much___. The cold， hard cash meant she was helping me. And， funnily enough， the___with which she gave the gift felt like she was giving me space to___my life and preserve my dignity （尊严）. My mother and father both did the same thing. One was giving me the means to make my own___，and the other was giving me a second___when those decisions had cost me dearly.

【推荐1】One action can set off a chain reaction. The phrase “One Person Can Make a Difference” is one of those _________ that we teach youngsters, to encourage them to do something kind, _________ another person, or dream big about how they will _________ the world.

As adults, do we believe this? Or is it a _________ just for young people? I am writing to tell you that indeed “one person can”. I _________ this because one day one person did an act of _________ that changed my life and the lives of millions more.

Almost 15 years ago, while driving across town, I was _________ a radio interview and heard a story of selflessness that was _________. Over Thanksgiving weekend, a woman _________ ten heavy winter coats on a bus in hopes of donating(捐赠)them at “A Warm Coat” drive. She knew the city had many __________ people in need and that her __________ could make a difference between cold and __________ for ten people that winter.

She was only one person, yet it was her action that encouraged me to __________ that there would always be a __________ for more coats. And I also realize that more people would be able to __________ clothes if there were more convenient clothing collection __________. Now, nearly 15 years later, One Warm Coat has __________ over 4 million coats across the country. As the national founder, my heart is full and __________, knowing that we, each one of us, make a real difference in the lives of thousands.

So when you step forward to donate your time, or give a(n) __________, or help your neighbor, perhaps wondering “will it __________ matter?”, I can tell you that it will!

【推荐2】It was 1:20 a.m. I had just gone to bed, a bit _________ after celebrating my 31st birthday. Before dinner, I’d placed _________ outside my garden door and prepared the cell phone just _________. After all, it had been _________ that week, resulting in flood warnings.

I was awakened by the _________ of rushing water. When I swung my legs off the bed, I was shocked to feel cold water already up to my knees and _________ fast.

Shaking in darkness, I _________ my phone and turned on its flashlight. Then by the light I could _________ water was from the garden door. It must have breached (在……上打开缺口) the sandbags. The river, usually such a quiet, slow moving river in my region, had _________ burst its banks. And now I had to __________!

I took __________ action. Any effects of the alcohol before sleep were gone; __________ sobers (使清醒) me up. After I went outside, I learned the river had flooded the neighbourhood. Therefore, if I had woken up just a few minutes later, I would have drowned.

In the end, I think the experience made me __________ and determined to live each day to its fullest. I came very close to drowning that day. But rather than dwell on (沉湎于) what happened, I prefer to __________ what my mother told me afterwards, “Don’t remember the day when you lost everything. Remember the day you __________. That day marked the beginning of a new chapter in your life.”

【推荐3】I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized(侵袭)me. My wallet was gone. I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some ________ station.

The ________ moment was quickly followed by mental math. How much time and money would it cost to replace the ________ of that little wallet? The credit cards, the driver's license, the cash, all lost to the bus.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door. My husband ________ it while I was on the phone in the dining room. "Does Jennifer live here?" I heard a lady say. In my husband's hand was my wallet, with not a penny ________ . She left before I could ________ make it to the door to offer my thanks.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who recognized the lady as Erin Smith. Without a second ________ , I called to thank her. She said she found my wallet on a bus seat. She ________ that going to a stranger's house was a risky(有风险的)move, but she decided to take the chance. "If I were in that ________ , I would want someone to try to find me," she said.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my ________ , but she actually wasn't the only one. The moment Erin found my wallet on the bus, she ________ a picture of my driver's license to an online forum(论坛), trying to see ________ anyone knew me. Right after she left my doorstep, I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son's nursery(幼儿园)and who recognized my face. I've never ________ words with those moms except some small talks, but they wanted to help. I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I came across tend to act.

________ , I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger. Erin had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was rather ________ .

【推荐1】As a little girl, Dr Emma dreamed of one day becoming an opera singer. Born to make beautiful music, the mum-of-two never _________ organizing her hospital’s Serub Choir(合唱团).

It was at the beginning of 2020 that the _________ came about. “It _________ my heart to see colleagues pushed to the limit, and see so many seriously ill patients _________ to death. To lift spirits across the _________, I started singing in the passages. The mood _________ as soon as the music started! I _________ felt them cheer up. I decided to call on people to make music in the hallways and spread our message of appreciation to worldwide healthcare workers,” she says.

Emma appealed to anyone who was _________ to unite(团结)in song and show respect for healthcare workers. “I _________ 20 people at first, so you can imagine the __________ when I got 200 eager musicians and songbirds ready to __________!We perform songs touching the hearts of people, providing __________ for everyone,” says Emma. “If you’re having a bad day, I __________ our music will __________ your day! You may have a tough time, but we want you to be __________ that we’re here for you, always.” Emma says.

【推荐2】I have a lovely neighbour. Now that our kind neighbor is used to________over her homemade foods to us every Friday evening, instead of every once in a while, as she used to do, I enjoy__________a little something I know she will like each week to gift to her when she__________.

Sometimes I give her something of mine that I feel she’d like or I order a________for her that we had spoken about. This Friday I was able to give her something I saw on the Fresh Direct website that was__________for her and her family.

Receiving is________for our beautiful neighbor, for although a generous (慷慨的) giver,________was difficult for her in the past. We had a few________in the past where I shared how receiving was a kindness act for the giver._________it has become easy for her to allow her kindness to others to be________to her.

I enjoy her easy sit-down chats that________on these Fridays when she comes bringing ________full course dinners. She likes to try out different recipes(食谱)and I always send her praiseful________the next day with a thankfulness photo. What a lovely person she is. She started e-mailing me the__________the night before, telling us what she planned on making and it__________ makes me smile when I see it and I send her back a “can’t wait.”