【推荐1】On a hot afternoon Rhiannon was driving her old van down the highway. As she ________ her window to let in some fresh air, her car registration paper blew off the sun visor (防晒板) and onto the floor inside. When leaning down to ________ it, she accidentally drifted into oncoming traffic. In panic, she over-corrected and pulled the ________ sharply in the other direction. ________, the van rolled over three times, and Rhiannon was thrown onto the road, lying in the middle of the road and bleeding, nearly ________.

A medical student witnessed the accident and came to her ________. He covered Rhiannon with his coat and gave her emergency first aid, including ________ the wound on her left arm before the ambulance arrived.

________, Rhiannon was rushed to a hospital where an emergency room doctor spent hours ________ all the pieces of windshield (挡风玻璃) from her arm, and gave her three dozen stitches (缝针).

Luckily, Rhiannon was saved. Not for the bandage, she would not have ________long enough for the emergency personnel to arrive. Though Rhiannon didn’t know him, she was grateful to the medical student who saved her life. So she ________ the words online, “It’s a pity that I don’t know your name. If you happen to see or hear this story and recognize yourself, thank you for your kind ________.”

Rhiannon also had a message for the other ________ heroes, “Please consider this a pay-it-forward letter of ________— a letter from the ________ you helped who, for whatever reason, couldn’t thank you themselves.”

【推荐1】In 1985, Vanessa Foster and her husband hopped on a flight to Alaska without any plan. When they _________, they used the last of their money to buy an old _________ and started wandering across the state. A little while into their drive, they saw a hitchhiker (搭便车的人) on the side of the road, and her husband decided to give him a _________. A few hours later, they _________ at a rest stop.

“I hopped out and _________ to the ladies’ room. When I came out a few minutes later, my husband was exiting the men’s room,” Foster remembered. “We _________ around the parking lot, and the hitchhiker and our car were gone. So we _________ the hitchhikers,” Foster said.

As they walked down the _________, none of the cars slowed down to _________ them up. __________, an El Camino stopped. Sitting in the driver’s seat was a middle-aged man with bright __________ eyes. He told them to hop in.

“When he heard we were __________ and lost everything, he offered us summer jobs and a place to stay on his farm near Homer, Alaska,” Foster said.

The __________ impacted them to such a degree that Vanesa Foster wrote about it in a book titled More Than Everything. Looking back on that time in her life, all these years later, she says she’ll never __________ that man with the bright blue eyes.

“I really appreciate his kindness toward a couple of __________ on that Alaskan highway,” she says.

【推荐3】When preparing for a training run in Smyrna, Georgia, 24-year-old amateur (业余的) boxer Bilal Quintyne noticed an older woman sitting in a wheelchair by the side of the road. The chair was ________, and she could not move.

“She kind of had a(n) ________ look,” Quintyne recalled. “I just asked her, ‘Are you okay?’”

The woman, 67-year-old Belinda Whitaker, told him that she had been there for 45 minutes since her wheelchair motor stopped working. But ________ a passerby who had helped her back into her chair after she was thrown to the ground by the initial jolt (颠簸), no one had offered ________.

So she asked Quintyne, “Would you call someone to help?”

“I’ll do you one better,” he said. “I’ll ________ you home.”

Whitaker’s home was a 30-minute walk, and the wheels on the 360-pound chair had seized up(卡住)， making it harder to push for the first part of the ________ . Along the way, Quintyne’s trainer, Tony Willingham saw what was going on and started ________ it.

By the time Quintyne got to Whitaker’s home, he was ________. Whitaker hugged him anyway, and he went on his way.

Then Quintyne ________ Willingham’s video on his Facebook page, and it became a ________ immediately. It gained 3.4 million views, and he got calls from all over the world.

Quintyne said, “I don’t see myself as a superhero. I’m ________ a moral man doing what I can do.”

To Willingham, Quintyne’s act offers a ________ for the whole neighbourhood and the community. “There are still such things as being a good neighbour, there are still such things as sacrifice (牺牲), there are still such things as caring, there are still such things as sending a(n) ________ out saying, ‘I’m not too busy,’” Willingham said, “I thought that message was worth ________ with other people. The world should know that Bilal Quintyne exists, and that might ________ people to pay it forward, to say, ‘Hey, I want to do that for someone else.’”