【推荐1】After a whole day’s football practice with her three kids, Brittany felt worn out and decided to grab dinner from McDonald’s.

Wyatt was a teenager working at McDonald’s who took Brittany’s ______. As Brittany pulled up to the drive-through window to ______, her 4-year-old son began crying and the other two soon ______, almost driving Brittany mad. And that was when it ______ Brittany that she’d left her purse at home.

“I wanted to cry,” Brittany recalled. “I looked at the young man with ______ eyes and said, ‘I’m so sorry but I have to ______ the order.”

______, Wyatt pulled out his wallet, swiped (刷) his card and paid for the ______ mom’s meal.

Wyatt probably couldn’t make much money from his job. Yet, he firmly ______ Brittany’s promises to pay him back later, ______ saying that it was no big deal.

Brittany was so grateful that she was determined to ______ Wyatt’s kindness in a big way! She discovered that Wyatt was saving up for a vehicle, so she shared the story on social media and started a ______ campaign to help him realize his dream.

Strangers from all over the country were inspired by the young man and ______ poured in. Before long, Brittany collected over $ 40,000! She was shocked. “I honestly didn’t expect such an incredible _______! Wyatt will now have enough money to buy a car and even start saving for college. So when you put ______ out in the world, it comes back to you more than you expect.”

【推荐2】I grew up in a small town in Ohio, where everyone knew a man called Tom. Uneducated, he couldn’t talk plainly. And because he was _______ and not very smart, everyone teased him. I _______ he was an easy mark.

One day, he came walking by. I was about 12 and thought it would make me feel grown-up to _______ him like the adults did.

He asked how I was doing. I told him my father was _______, and that we lacked money. I could hear my friends _______ in the background so I went on with the lie. I had him   _______ so completely that every time he inquired about the _______, I would make it seem increasingly worrying.

I knew he made a _______ by doing odd jobs (打零工), so it seemed _______ when he asked me if we needed anything. I told him that we didn’t know if we would __________. He responded, “You poor thing. I will   __________ for you.”

That night I heard the __________ rattle (作响) softly. Thinking it was the wind beating against it, I __________ it. Later when I opened the door to go outside, I found a box of __________. I knew who had given the food. I __________ the small box of canned food with tears in my eyes. I felt __________, and wanted to return the groceries.

My father would not let me take the box __________. He said it would hurt Tom. Each day when we were to have dinner, my father would ask, “What side dish are we having from the   __________ box today?

It was __________ for me to eat the food. I knew Tom had given   __________. He gave the best he had, but I did not deserve the gift.

【推荐3】In August last year, my parents and I visited our relatives in Princeton Junction, New Jersey. Every day I enjoyed walking a circular way starting from their house. One evening I decided to be _________ and changed from my _________ way-I was looking forward to a longer walk, confident that I would be able to find my way back.

My walk took me _________ the living area and into a beautiful place with an expanse of fields on both sides of the road. With the sun beginning to _________, it was really a wonderful sight. After about thirty minutes, I noticed that I was not _________ back in the direction I had come. I searched for my mobile phone to get help, but it turned out to be left at home.

However, I remained _________. Although there weren’t any people about, there was some _________ and I was sure that someone would stop and point me in the right direction. As each car or truck came, I stopped and _______, but time after time each one passed me by. No one seemed to feel any sympathy for me. About forty minutes, I was beginning to feel _________. There was no one ____________ and my family was completely in the dark as to my position.

When I just gave up all hope, a black SUV ____________ me and stopped. A mother and daughter were willing to help. I told them I was lost and gave them my address. The mother pointed to a turning a little further down the road and ____________ me I was pretty close to home. Expressing my thanks, I started off at a fast ____________.

I had been walking for about five minutes when I heard a car drive up behind me and stop. It was the mother and daughter again. They realized that they had not given me the correct direction.

They offered to give me a(n) __________ home, and I was so grateful for their help. During our brief conversation I sensed that the teenage daughter was going to a school party and would now arrive late. We didn’t ____________ names but I will never forget their act of kindness.

【推荐2】It was March 2019. When Sara Cook got a _________ telling her that someone had paid most of her medical debts, she thought it was not _________. “It seemed like one of those e-mails you get that say you have a long-lost _________ and you just inherited (继承) two million dollars,” Cook says._________, she called the number listed on the letter. What she learned was that this was not a _________ . It was 100 percent real.

A nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt had _________ paid $5,000 toward her bills. The organization didn’t _________ all her debts from several back surgeries, but the former nurse was still _________ by the gesture. “I felt really _________,” she says, “knowing that complete strangers just did that out of the __________ of their hearts.”

Antico and Jerry, members of RIP, do have good hearts. They’re also former collection agents who have seen how health-related debt has __________ lives. Antico says. “I never thought about all the hardship of the people who couldn’t pay before. Now I __________ to find the people who need help.”

However, it’s not necessary for you to contact RIP for any __________. Antico says they used to let people reach out to them, __________ it was found that they weren’t able to help __________ who applied. Now, RIP researches those in need of help. For the people who do __________, RIP’s help is life-changing.

“After their letter, I realized that my life really won’t be __________,” says Cook,“ I may never be able to work as a __________ again, but I can sit at the school __________and help kids read or something else to help people. When people do something out of the kindness of their hearts, sometimes they may __________, ‘Does it really make a difference?’ I want people to know that this HAS positive impact.”