【推荐2】In 2016,Maryann Webb was comforting her child when she asked herself a question:if a child from a loving family,   ___with toys and books,can still feel anxious,how can a child living in poverty deal?

The former primary school teacher knew the____that education and social skills can have on a child's wellbeing. After a little research.she discovered that three million Australians were living____the poverty line in 2017,and over 700,000 of these were children.

As a parent,I was shocked by that data."says Webb."The more I learnt,the more I was____to do something."Her bright idea was to create Play and Learn Packs.The result is carefully handmade dolls and books for kids ___that promote healthy bonds in the home and ___the cycle of disadvantage.What followed was Project KIN(Kids in Need): a charity that not only helps disadvantaged kids,__ provides social pathways to women who feel socially isolated.

Today,Project KIN has more than 600 volunteers.The"Play and Learn"packs each ___a handmade doll,the book Imagine If You Had a Friend,which also offers advice to ___and carers about bonding with children over reading,and an activity book.The packs are ___to children from poor backgrounds,and kids experiencing disadvantage.

But the good deeds don't stop with the children:Project KIN is also inspiring a movement of __ in the lives of its volunteers.“Our goal is promoting human ___that contribute to the social and emotional wellbeing of our volunteers and the communities they live in,"says Webb.The charity brings together volunteers across Australia who __ their creations,patterns,tips and stories,which in turn provides volunteers with a ___of connectedness and purpose.

＂We know our Play and Learn packs won't solve the problem of __,but we believe they're a powerful piece of the 'change' puzzle,"says Webb.

【推荐3】Every year I’d read over 2,000 college applications from students all over the world. It is quite ____ to choose whom to admit. ______, in the chaos of SAT scores and recommendations, one _____ is always irresistible in a candidate: kindness.

The most surprising ____ of kindness I’ve ever ______ came from a student who had excellent scores and a supportive recommendation from his college consultant. Even with these qualifications, he might not have ____. But one letter of recommendation caught my eye. It was from a school security ___ . Letters of recommendation are typically written by people like former presidents, celebrities, and Olympic athletes.

The security guard wrote that he supported this student’s admission because of his ______. This young man was the only person in the school who knew the names of every member of the guard staff. He turned off lights in empty rooms, consistently ______ the hallway monitor each morning and tidied up the classroom after his peers left school ______ nobody was watching. This student, the security guard wrote, had a(n) ______ respect for every person at the school, regardless of position, popularity or power.

It gave us a ______ onto a student’s life in the moments when nothing “counted”. That student was admitted by agreed vote of the admissions committee.

Next year there might be a flood of security guard recommendations ______ this essay. But if it means students will start paying as much ______ to the people who clean their classrooms as they do to their principals and teachers, I’m happy to help start that ______.

【推荐2】When I was in my twenties, I travelled alone through the UK. In order to_______locations that the public transportation couldn't get to, I bought a(n)_______car, drove it around for three months and sold it before I returned to Australia. The car cost most of my money, so I lived mainly on _______during that trip, it being cheap and filling. In Ireland, my_______was stolen, and it was impossible to get another. So for the rest of the trip I_______out in my car, being too poor to afford bed-and-breakfasts.

One morning, I_______in my old Skoda under a twisted tree on a remote lane in the Irish countryside, with no more than a_______ house in sight. I had a terrible desire for a_______cup of tea and some hot water to make porridge with_______I would not have to eat the cold leftovers from the previous day. My thermos (暖瓶)，had gone cold overnight so I knocked on the door of the house. A woman opened it. Hot water? She________let me get away with just that! I was invited indoors, seated at the breakfast table with the________and given a delicious breakfast, as much as I could eat. I was________to eat something more than porridge! I________being friends with the whole family.

That was only one of many acts of ________ strangers showed me when I was travelling alone in foreign regions. One London businessman rushing to work, seeing me________offered to pull my ridiculously heavy suitcase________several flights of stairs in the underground, After he'd done so, with a smile and a wave, he________into the crowd.

Kindness gets________.The other day, I was able to point out a rare parking spot to a young man who had been driving around the railway car park, looking________desperate. His grateful smile was all the________I needed as I dashed off to catch my train.

【推荐3】“Fire! Fire!” What terrible words to hear when I _______ in a strange house in the middle of the night! It was a large, _______ house —the kind that burns easily — and my room was on the top floor. I jumped out of bed, _______ the door and stepped out into the passage. It was full of _______.

I began to run, but as I was still only half awake, _______going towards the stairs I went in the opposite direction. The smoke grew thicker and I found it hard to _______. The floor became _______ under my feet. I ran into another room and tried to reach the _______ for fresh air. Suddenly, one of my feet got caught in something _______ and I fell down. The thing I had fallen over felt like a package of ________, and I picked it up to ________ my face from the smoke and heat. Just then the floor ________ under me and I fell through to the floor below with pieces of burning wood all around me.

________, there was a doorway in front, so I put the package over my face and ________. My feet were terribly burned, ________ I got through. As I reached the cold air outside my package of clothes gave a ________. I nearly dropped it in surprise. Then I saw there were many people in the street. A woman screamed as she saw me and came running ________.

“My baby! My baby!” she cried. Those people ________ loudly as she took the smoke-blackened package out of my arms. I almost ________ to see who she was—my boss’s wife. I had saved her baby, and become a(n) ________!

【推荐1】Do you remember the name of your kindergarten teacher? I do. Her name was Mrs. White.

I don’t remember much about what we learned in her ________, but my mother once told me we used to ________ a lot. And I would ________ what I wrote and my mother would look at it and see there were so many ________. But no red corrections. And always a star. Sometimes even a “Good”! That made my heart filled with ________, but worried my mother. So one day when she met Mrs. White, she asked her why she never ________ my mistakes; why she never red-penciled in the wrong ________ of words or pointed out grammatical errors.

My mother said Mrs. White said “The children are just ________ to get excited about using words, about ________ sentences. I don’t want to dampen (减弱) that ________ with red ink. Spelling and grammar can ________. The wonder of words won’t…” And maybe she didn’t ________ it exactly like that because it was a long time ago and ________ my mother told me was just what she could remember.

Thanks to Mrs. White, I ________ up learning to use words with loving ________. I had no qualms (顾虑) about writing what I meant ________ I couldn’t quite spell it out. A thought comes into my mind that if Mrs. White had used her red pen precisely, I ________ wouldn’t be telling you about this now. I look ________ now and think she must have been a rather ________ teacher — to exercise such red-pen-restraint (不纠错) — to ________ the joy, wonder and excitement of expression.

【推荐2】My family and I were on our way to Pennsylvania and it was the middle of a snowstorm. We were almost there when we got stuck in a _______ traffic jam. Cars stretched (延伸) ahead of us and behind us as _______ as we could see. We sat in the same _______ without moving for seven hours. We _______ periodically to see if the _______ ahead of us were moving, which they had never been. _______ there was a large 18-wheeler truck in front of us, my mom had to _______ the door to see around the 18-wheeler to get a _______ of the traffic jam in front of us. All we could do was sit and _______. At no time did any of us fall asleep or stop ________ attention, because we were always checking up on the traffic. We sat for hours and heard ________ about the cause of the traffic jam from the ________, and the only person we talked to was a truck driver ________ us, who didn’t know anything about it either. ________, after seven hours, the truck in front of us began moving slowly and we were happy to get moving, but when we ________ in front of the truck, there were absolutely NO cars to be seen, and NONE behind us, ________ one 18-wheeler. The only other vehicle besides those was the one of the trucker that had been next to us the ________ time. There were no signs of a traffic jam the entire ________ of our trip. It was as though the cars had all ________. To this day we have no ________ as to how this could have happened.

【推荐3】“Hi! How are you?” A woman smiled as she took the seat beside me. She had to lower herself slowly, squeezing her fat body into the seat, __________all available space. I __________ a little towards the window, feeling worried silently about the long hours of __________ I was going to experience with this monster (怪物) beside me.

She said, “My name is Laura. I’m from Britain. If we’re going to spend six hours side by side on this __________, we’d better be friends.” Then she started a conversation with me and didn’t __________ my unfriendly reactions. She talked __________ about herself and her trip to Hong Kong.

I gave her one-word answers to her questions about me. Not affected by my __________, she nodded as she made __________ about my answers. She was warm and considerate, __________ that I had room to stretch in my seat. I couldn’t help but let down my __________ slowly. Laura was an interesting conversationalist. During our conversation, Laura __________ to make every crew member on the plane who __________ us walk away laughing at her jokes.

I asked Laura, “Have you ever __________ losing some weight?” “No, I don’t trust the advertisements from slimming centers.” “You aren’t worried about the diseases that come with being __________?” “Not at all. You only __________ the diseases if you’re   worried about your weight all the time. I eat __________ and walk regularly; I’m this size, and the reason is __________ I was born to be big! There is more to life than worrying about weight all day long.” She drank her wine. “Besides, God gave me so much happiness that I need a __________ body to hold all of it! Why would I lose weight to lose my happiness?”

__________ by her unusual reasoning, I smiled. I suddenly __________ that Laura was the most beautiful woman I had ever met in my life.