【推荐2】While on a recent family vacation, 10-year-old Haylee was swimming carefree in the ocean waves. Suddenly, the young girl found herself____caught in a strong tide which was quickly pulling her further out to sea.

Her mother was walking along the ______ when she heard her daughter's cry for help.

The mother instinctively   _____       she had to quickly reach her daughter. She _____ out to try to rescue Haylee but was also __ in the strong current. The waves were now __ them both. Time was essential as the pull of the _____ grew stronger.

Kevin, who was also at the beach _____ with his wife-to-be, suddenly heard screaming. He then __ two people in the ocean struggling desperately to keep afloat. He ____ into action and swam towards them. Upon ____ the mom, Kevin just told her to give him the daughter because he could see the little girl was ____ . Kevin was able to reach young Haylee and bring her _____ to the shore.

“If it weren't for him coming to grab my daughter from me, there was no way we both would have made it," said the mother _____

After returning home, the mother and daughter could not stop thinking of the ______young mysterious man who came to their rescue. They searched for his identity _____with the motivation to somehow express their____. The mother posted about the rescue on a Neighborhood Facebook group in the hope of locating their ____ . Her strategy worked—remarkably, she _____ with Kevin shortly after the post.

They offered to contribute to Kevin's coming____. hoping to somehow pay it forward. Kevin felt their safety was more than enough reward. "That girl being saved was enough for me," he said.

【推荐3】Nisha Blackwell was putting herself through nursing school when she was laid off for the third time. To make matters worse, she couldn’t ________ a gift after being invited to attend the birthday party of a close friend’s daughter just a few days later. “That’s ________ I looked around and I said, ‘What do I have?’ I had a sewing machine still in a box,” she says. “And I had this bag of cloth.”

But she didn’t ________ know how to sew. So she turned to YouTube and taught herself, “I was typing into YouTube: How to ________ a sewing machine...” she remembers. I probably didn’t make the machine work ________midnight and this was in the hot summer when my house didn’t have air conditioning. I remember sitting there, just sweating to death, but so ________ to make this thing for this party!”

She ________ making a box of hair bows (蝴蝶结发饰). She went to the party, restless, ________ how people would react when knew that the hair bows were handmade. “I was so ________ because I kept imagining that these hair bows would just be like pieces of cloth, and I felt like I must have done something wrong. But something ________ happened. My friend ________ the box out onto a high chair and I remember all of the parents coming up to me saying, so ________ ! “Where did you get them? How did you do that? Can you make me some?”

Nisha left the party with six customers and started getting ________ soon. She began training other women from her ________ to produce the product.

“If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path. I make sure that I’m not just doing something that is only ________ me.” Nisha says.

【推荐1】Once there was a little boy who became very ill. He had to spend all day in bed, unable to_________.

Because other children weren’t_________to come near him, he_________greatly, and spent his days feeling sad.

There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the_________.Time passed, and his feeling of_________just grew. Until one day he saw a_________shape in the window. It was a penguin eating a sausage sandwich. The penguin got in through the_________window, said “good afternoon” to the boy, turned around, and_________.

The boy was very_________.He was still trying to work out what had happened, when outside his window he saw a monkey, busy blowing up a balloon(气球).__________, the boy asked himself what that could possibly be, but after a while, as more and more crazy looking__________appeared out the window, he began to laugh suddenly and found it hard to__________.The boy didn’t tell anyone about this because who would have__________him? Even so, those strange characters put joy back in his heart, and in his body. Soon, his__________had improved so much that he was able to go back to__________again. There he got to talk to his best friend all the strange things he had__________. He saw something sticking out of his friend’s school bag. The boy asked his friend what it was.__________his friend had to show him what was in the__________: There, inside, were all the fancy-dress suits that his friends had been using to try to__________the little boy!

From that day on, the little boy always did his best to__________that no one felt sad and alone.

【推荐2】Two months ago we were staying in the city of Hyderabad for a holiday. One day, along with my _____, I went to the Cake Castle. I took out my _____ from my bag to pay for what I bought and then we _____ our hotel.

While we were _____ back to the hotel, I got a call from a _____ number. It was my hotel manager who _____ me that someone called them saying that I’d left my purse in the Cake Castle. He _____ the number of that person. Only after that call did I know that my purse was _____, so I immediately called that person. He said voluntarily he could send my purse back to the hotel. How _____ I was! After some words to express my ______, I said, “Let’s ______ in the hotel hall.” I went there along with my friend. I was ______ because I didn’t know that person and it was a new city for me. And the purse was of vital importance for me ______ my gold earrings which cost around $800 and my ATM cards were all in it.

In the hall, I met that person who handed me my purse and asked me to ______ my belongings, which were totally ______. After giving back my purse, he left immediately, even before I knew his name. Later I came to know that he was also a customer of the Cake Castle.

【推荐3】Lara Harrison has always had a complicated relationship with her father.

Several times, Harrison felt she'd reached her breaking point and ________ her dad for months.

Still, she couldn't ________ him. Small actions showed he cared ________ he remained difficult to get close to: he went out of his way to ________ with tasks such as repairing her office. Harrison wanted the relationship to improve.

As her father reached his 70s, she realized that if they were going to re-establish ________ , they could not waste time. She made a conscious decision to change her ________ to him. If he was being moody during their time together, she'd end their interaction by thanking him for the visit and giving him a hug -- something that wasn't typical for them. The small interventions(干预） ________ ; he became kinder each visit, and his moods became ________ . Eventually he began reaching out to her, texting to ask, “How are you?” or saying he was proud of her, something she'd always longed to hear.

Rebuilding trust with her father ultimately helped her to engage in ________ . She realized she could also be stubborn when she felt ________ , and that her negative connection to her father made her less trusting of other people in her life. “I never allowed myself to dive deeply into relationships.

At the first sight of a challenge, I would blame others, get angry or leave. The effort it takes to be constantly ________ is exhausting,” she says. “It ________ you of life's happy moments.” Today, she's thankful to be able to approach others more ________ and with an open heart.

Trust is one of the most important elements of a safe, fulfilling and well-functioning relationship. ________ , it often isn't until something hurtful happens -- a spouse cheats on you; a boss makes fun of you in front of colleagues -- ________ we think about trust; we don't notice it until it's broken.