【推荐1】It was a very cold Friday. When I observed the _______falling onto my car, I really began to wonder if I was going to _______ it on time. Of course I must, because I have no _______.

About two weeks ago, what my _______ Ellen had talked about was her Christmas concert to be held in her school and some rumors about it. “Mom, Rachel was _______ to sing alone, but she’s not! Linda will replace her to do it.” “Mom, you won’t believe it, _______Lexie’s whole family is coming to the concert, even from another _______!” Making a long way out of state to see third graders sing Christmas carol seemed to be a pretty big deal（待遇）for her.

When I sat in traffic, I thought about all the school _______ I had attended alone. Ellen never mentioned it, but I wonder _______ she felt about me being the only one who ever came to her events. My own family lived out of town, and her father and his family ________ quite succeeded in filling those things into their schedules. I ________ if it bothered her.

At eight o'clock the ________ was scheduled to begin. With only a few minute to ________, I found myself running: first, though the snow-drifted parking lot, then through the school passage. I entered the ________ hall and found a vacant seat near the front. From her place on stage, Ellen saw me ________ for the chair, and she smiled. I was ________ enough to hear the loud conversation of the children on stage.

“Look, Ellen, there is my uncle mad my cousin. They came all the way from West Virginia. I can’t believe my whole family is her!" Ellen ________ at Lexie and said, “My whole family is here, too! Look, there she is!” Ellen gave me a big smile. I smiled back at her, never once ________ the melting snow dripping off my head. It ________occurred to me that while we tried to teach our children all about ________, they actually taught us what life was all about.

【推荐2】Like any parent, Belle, the mother of a six-year-old boy, wanted her son to grow up and fulfill all his dreams. That was not _________ any longer now. Her son was _________ of a serious disease. But she still wanted her son’s dream to come true. She took her son’s hand and asked, “Bopsy, have you ever _________ what you want to be when you grow up?” “Mommy, I always want to be a _________.”

Later that day, she went to the local _________ department (部门). She _________ her son’s final wish and asked if they could do her a favor to give her son a _________ on a fire truck. Fireman Bob said, “Perhaps we can do _________ that.”

Three days later, fireman Bob came to _________ Bopsy on a fire truck. __________ he even brought the boy a small-sized fire __________. Then Bopsy got dressed and got on the truck back to the fire station. There were three fire __________ that day and Bopsy joined them in performing the tasks. With his dream coming true, the boy __________ three months longer than doctors had expected.

Yet one night all of his vital (生命的) signs began to weaken __________. The mother called the fire station again and asked if the firefighters could come to the hospital to be with Bopsy. About five minutes later, the fire truck arrived. The firemen held the boy’s hands, telling him he was a real fireman. In the touching moment, Bopsy smiled and __________ his eyes.

【推荐3】It’s fortunate for children to have siblings (兄弟姐妹) accompanying them. And the kids would be luckier to have a brother as________as Christian Hamerter. The 1l-year-old boy, attended a father-daughter dance with his 7-year-old sister Skylar after finding Skylar was________by their dad.

In the days leading up to the________in March, it was all Skylar was________for, talking about it all day. On the other hand, her mom Trelysia felt more and more________. At this time of year, their father is always fully________in official duties. He didn’t attend last year’s dance due to a conference,_______having made a promise. Then, she was right to be worried. On the big day,________, their father was sent abroad for business. “It was________that he failed to go there for a second year. Skylar________because she had her heart set on going.” Trelysia wrote in a________. “I felt so bad and also cried uncontrollably.”

That’s when Christian________! The big brother wanted his sister to feel loved and special. And he picked out a suit and gold tie, a perfect________for Skylar’s gold dress. “The action filled me with________,” the mother wrote, “for I just know that I’m________a kind man—and an amazing father one day. He has________that he can be.” Skylar had a great time with Christian there without her dad’s________. Even better, now she knows her brother would always come to her________.

The post warmed hearts of the people it________and picked up more than 110,000 reactions________the sweet gesture.

【推荐3】During the coronavirus lockdown, a fifth-grade teacher contacted me asking for help. She was ________ with students not attending online class but her students all loved the story in my book. So she asked if I had any ________.

My immediate ________ was for me to do a weekly book club where I would read to the students. The idea was ________ by Mrs. Sandberg, my first teacher in America.

When I moved to America from Iran in 1972, I spoke seven words of English. Despite the language ________, I immediately loved school. My favorite part of the day was ________ lunch, when Mrs. Sandberg read to us. Her kind voice ________ me to magical places where animals could talk and where kids had grand adventures.

With this joyful ________, I started the club. At the first session, five kids ________. I read to them and tried to ________ a conversation. Whenever I asked a question, I was met with complete ________. The following week, a few more kids came; they ________ started responding, but with one-word answers. The next session, they gave ________ answers and more students participated in the conversations.

This club has quickly become the ________ of my week. I have gotten to know the students and grown fond of every single one of them. Reading out loud forces me to forget everything else for an hour. I recently wondered if our post-lunch reading hour had given Mrs. Sandberg a chance to forget her ________, too.

【推荐2】I was somewhere in Utah, trying to take a ride. It was getting dark and beginning to_________. I didn't have many clothes to protect me from the snowstorm. I'd_________in Vietnam and come home to see my dad in Minnesota. Vietnam had left me bad_________. I was in an artillery unit (炮兵部队）. Once, we accidentally hit a South Vietnamese militiaman. He died alongside his pregnant wife. I tried to_________the horrible memories with alcohol.

I'd been walking all day without_________anything. It was getting colder and I was starving to death. _______, a truck stopped before me and a voice said, "Hi! Where're you heading?” The driver was rough-looking. _______, his voice put me right at ease.

“Minnesota,” I said.

“No_________. I can take you 50 miles and then I have to turn south," he said.

After I got on the truck, he said, "I used to be in your_________. I once served in South Korea. One day I was driving drunk and__________someone. The guy lived, but he was disabled. That horrible__________made me take a long, hard look at myself." His story__________me. It seemed as if he had lived my life and was telling me I could__________.   

The driver's__________was in a small town. He__________me to take some money for a bus ticket to Minnesota. I got off and watched the truck run away until it__________into the snowy darkness.

That__________was the turning point for me. I ________drinking, went to college, found work and got married. Through the years, anytime I've felt__________, I think of that trucker. His words__________me and made me believe that great things can happen if we have a try.

【推荐3】While waiting for my train, I saw a young man sitting on the station’s floor, head down. I thought he was______I looked around and nobody____, so I just shrugged and went on my way. After a few steps I_______and found he was drunk. I asked him if he was OK and if he needed any _______ He told me he was OK. He said his ______ was one station further and that he would only need to take the train home. I_______his hand to help him stand.

He wanted to take the stairs but I_______he would hurt himself since he seemed too________to walk. So I asked him to take the elevator. He_______taking the stairs. I told him I would________the elevator with him, even though my mind was trying to ____ me not to go into an elevator alone with a drunken man. I put this____out of my mind and accompanied him on the elevator. We arrived on the_____without incident.

The man couldn't ____well, so I asked him to walk a little more with me to ____on a bench. While sitting there he____me, telling me that I saved him.

Finally, we got on the train. At the next____,as we said our goodbyes, I asked him to walk_____ Before I knew it, he left $ 20 next to me on the seat and____out of the train. There was no way to give him back his money.

Now, my______is——what act of kindness shall I do with these $ 20?