【推荐1】A wave of anxiety rushed over Sebastian. The following morning, he would have art class. It was his favorite class, but there was a(n) _______. Sebastian saw the world differently from everybody else, so his pictures always made the whole class stare at him in _______. When he drew, butterflies had different-sized wings, and buildings had wavy sides.

The next day, the school bell rang and Sebastian’s heart pounding. What would the art teacher _______ the class to paint today?

“Good morning,” smiled Mr. Stevenson. “Today, we’re going to paint ...”

Sebastian _______, wondering what the next _______ would be. Please, he thought, nothing that has straight lines.

“We’re going to paint happiness!” said Mr. Stevenson.

“Yes!” said Sebastian _______.

“Happiness? You can’t paint happiness!” _______ Matilda from the other side of the classroom.

“Sure, you can,” replied Mr. Stevenson _______. “Think about it, Matilda. What _______ you happy?”

“Umm ... swimming, sunshine and ... chocolate!” said Matilda.

“Well, there you go. That’s ________ you paint happiness. Start working!” said Mr. Stevenson.

Sebastian was already ________. He splashed(泼) large amounts of paint all over the white sheet of paper. Next, he painted wavy lines ...

“Three minutes to go,” said Mr. Stevenson. Sebastian added the finishing touches to his painting. It was beautiful! There were shapes that didn’t ________ in the real world and colors so ________ that you almost wanted to half-close your eyes to look at them. The whole class ________.

From that day on, Sebastian was never ________ about art class.

【推荐2】Thanks to a local writer, deliverymen dropped off many hot pizzas to warming centers across Vancouver. The story happened in winter. As temperatures dropped in Vancouver, homeless guests ______ into warming centers across the city. These emergency centers provided temporary ______ for the guests. However, they ______ offered meals to them. In this ______ weather, everyone gathered together there and instantly became warm.

On Wednesday, Gabrielle Peters, a ______ writer in Vancouver, posted on the website, asking for ______ from pizza shops to help feed the homeless staying in warming centers. “I knew that there was nothing there for people to ______,” said Gabrielle. “I thought what if we ______ pizzas?” As a talented and ______ lady, she had great determination ______ her disability. Her action ______ many people.

Soon the website received a ______ from Mo Amir, host of This is Vancolour, which brought in a steady stream of the ______. Actually, Mo Amir often supported people in ______. Gabrielle not only received free pizzas but also raised much money which was ______ to supply more pizzas to 15 different warming centers across the city. ______, adequate pizzas were delivered that night to the right places according to TV news.

Since free pizzas from community residents continued to ______ the next day, including some cash. Gabrielle felt pleased to have enough pizzas delivered to more locations. She said she could not have been ______ with how the week unfolded.

“Community is a verb, not just a noun,” she said. “It is acting. It makes things ______ in some way.” Most often food is really helpful to some people, which will let them feel ______ in the world.

【推荐3】In 2001, Tropical Storm Allison hit Houston. As a result, more than 70,000 houses were _________, including the home of Sarah Feldman and her family.

At the time, they were in Connecticut on vacation, so they didn’t know what kind of _________ they were going to face when they got home to Texas. But then Feldman’s grandparents called with _________ news: all of her books had been destroyed in the flooding. Feldman was 14 at the time and loved _________.

To cheer her up, Feldman’s father _________ her to the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. When they arrived, she met Bill Carver, an elderly _________.

“I asked him a bunch of questions like, ‘How do you _________ all these rare books in the library? What’s the oldest book you have?’” Feldman remembers.

Carver _________ answered all of Feldman’s questions. When she told him about her books being _________, he told her that he would send her a book in the mail, so she could __________ her collection. After returning to Houston, she __________ his gift, titled “The Medieval(中世纪的) Book” by Barbara A. Shailor.

Feldman is in her 30s now. But Carver’s __________ has made a lifelong impact. Feldman has tried to __________ Carver, with no success. “I actually sent the library a __________ during the pandemic(大流行病), but I never heard back,” she said. “I’m not sure if he’s __________ still, but I just would love to tell Bill Carver that he changed my life.”

【推荐1】Jack was a strong boy and could complete any task in physics class. One day I asked the kids to integrate art and physics into a ____________ using pulleys (滑轮). They should solve a problem of their own design, drawing it on paper, yet with absolutely physical ____________. “Mr. Lampert,” Jack said, “I can’t ____________.” I was very ____________ with his reaction but assured him he could do the ____________.

The day the assignment was due, Jack invited me to his barn (谷仓). As we ____________, I saw a whiteboard with Jack’s simple drawings of pulleys, ropes and various mathematical calculations. We walked further and I was ____________ to see what Jack had been working on. ____________ from a high girder (大梁) was a strong rope winding through several pulleys; at the end was a platform ____________ with at least four hundred pounds of hay (干草) and old tractor parts. Jack said to me, “Mr. Lampert, jump on!” He explained to me how he had ____________ the exact lifting force needed and then Jack smiled as he pulled the entire weight and me up and down ____________. “What do you say? Is that an A?” he asked. “Jack, that’s an A-plus!” I said ____________ as he let me down.

While I had ____________ whether Jack would solve his shortcomings, Jack had clearly stepped up to the challenge. He created a masterpiece and ____________ that students can and will solve pretty much anything you present them. Jack was strong physically, but more importantly, he was ____________.

【推荐3】As a single father, I succeeded in keeping my two children quiet that night. Then I rose slowly and carefully, trying to _________making even the least sound which might make them awake. If they were awake, they would _________more songs and more stories. I tiptoed (蹑手蹑脚地走) out of the room and went downstairs.

Sitting at the dinning room table, I sat down heavily in my chair, _________that this was the first time since I came home from work. I was so busy that I had no time to myself. I had cooked some food and _________ them, encouraging two little ones to eat. I had done the dishes while _________to their many requests for attention. I had helped with their homework and their bath. I had told them stories before they went to bed. The _________was a relief (轻松) for the moment.

Then suddenly it all crowded in on me; the extreme tiredness, the _________of the responsibility, the worry about bills. I felt as though I were at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness. I sat there, _________sobbing (吸泣) not to let them know it.

Just then, a pair of little arms went around my middle and a little face looked up at me.I was _________to be seen crying by my son. “I’m sorry, Ethan, I don’t know you were still awake. I don’t __________ to cry. I’m sorry. I’m just a little sad tonight.”

“It doesn’t matter. It’s okay to cry, you’re my __________and also an ordinary person.” I can’t __________how happy he made me, and this innocent (天真无邪的) little boy, gave me __________to cry. He seemed to be saying that I didn’t have to always be __________, and that it was occasionally possible to allow myself to let out my __________and feel weak.