【推荐1】After years of working towards her bachelor’s degree (学士学位) at Xavier University of Louisiana, Pierce was upset when she learned that because of COVID-19 she would not be able to walk across a ________ to receive her diploma (毕业证书) like she had always ________ . She told CNN that she had been ________ over the news for one week straight.

Pierce wasn't the only one heartbroken by the ________ ; her father Burson could ________ bear to see her so sad. Rather than ________ the reality, however, Burson became ________ to host his own graduation ceremony for Pierce at their ________ — in Memphis. Over the following six weeks, Burson managed to ________ a photographer, a stage, and a podium (讲台) without his daughter’s ________ .

When the big day ________ came, Pierce was shocked to find a full-sized stage ________ her in her front yard. There were 40 people in ________ , all sitting six feet apart with masks on -- and her father even ________ the music as she walked up to ________ her diploma.

She ________ saw anything until she came out to walk," Burson told CNN. "To ________ my baby walk across the stage and all her friends, family, neighbors and people that we don’t even know ________ in the street and witness this, I couldn’t ask for anything better.

Burson’s next-door neighbor Todd ________ the father for the heartwarming initiative in a series of Facebook photos which have since been ________ hundreds of times across social media.

【推荐2】Daniel Gill has been helping to open young minds as a teacher. He has always been a champion for civil rights because he grew up ______ the ugly effects of segregation (种族隔离) and prejudice.

In the 1950s, 9-year-old Daniel was ______ to a birthday party. He and Archie, who was black, ______ at the party with presents, excited to see their ______ , but the birthday boy’s mother met them at the door. She told Daniel that he could ______ , but that there “weren’t enough ______ ” for Archie to attend.

Daniel ______ to sit on the floor so they both could celebrate their friend’s birthday, but she ______ . The boys broke down when they realized that what the boy’s mother said ______ meant that a black child was not ______ in her home. They both left in tears, and the ______ stuck with Daniel for his whole life.

Since he became a teacher, he has been keeping a (n) ______ chair in his classroom. Every year when he ______ his lesson around Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, he tells his students the ______.

Daniel says that students tend to ______ through symbols, so he keeps the chair there to remind them that everyone can enter his ______.

At a recent festival he mentioned a book idea called “No More Chairs” to publishers, hoping to take his ______ of inclusion and acceptance to an even ______ audience.

Daniel’s story is powerful, and it is a (n) ______ that we are all responsible for making the people around us feel comfortable, and ______.

【推荐3】The Christmas of 2020 was not a time of celebration but just tough for many. It was ________ by COVID-19. Anthony, Sara’s brother, put up some ________ in the yard to make the holidays special. ________, right after Christmas, Anthony was seriously infected and ________. For Sara, the pain was almost too much to ________. But when she pulled up to her house at the end of a ________ day, the shining Christmas lights ________ her a little joy. They were the last mementos (纪念品) Sara had of her brother when he was still alive and ________. Taking them down felt like a final act of closure she wasn’t ready to take. So she ________ them up.

In February, Sara ________ a typed note in the mail. “Take your Christmas lights down!” the unsigned letter read. Sara looked at the paper ________ and got angry. She could have bottled up that ________, but she wrote about it instead. “I wanted to ________ people that we all had a tough year and people should be a little more ________ toward each other.” She shared it on Facebook. Sara’s inbox quickly filled with messages of ________. People started sending Sara messages about how they had ________ loved ones around Christmas. Then something strange happened. One evening, she ________ that Christmas lights were appearing — or reappearing — on houses in her neighbourhood.

The mystery had a ________ explanation: her neighbours had got together and ________, collectively, to hang their lights back up in honor of Anthony.

Sara never learned who sent the ________. But for her, that one mean-spirited deed was far outweighed by so many more acts of kindness.