【推荐1】A store owner fixing a sign above his door that reads “Puppies For Sale.” Signs like that have a way of attracting small _______ and sure enough, a little boy _______ under the store owner’s sign. “How much are you going to sell the puppies for?” he asked. The store owner replied, “ _______ from $30 to $50.”   The little boy reached in his pocket and pulled out only $2.37, he said. “Can I please _______ at them?” The store owner smiled and whistled and out of the doghouse came Lady, _______ by five tiny balls of fur. One puppy was walking considerably slowly _______ .

Immediately the little boy singled out (挑出) the lagging (落后的), limping puppy and said, “That’s the little puppy that I want to buy” The store owner said,“No, you don’t want to buy that little dog. If you really want him, I’ll just _______ him to you.” The little boy got quite _______ . He said. “I don’t want you to do so. That little dog is worth every bit as _______ as all the other dogs and I’ll pay ________ price. In fact, I’ll give you $2.37 now, and 50 cents a month until I have him ________ for. The store owner countered (反驳), “You really don’t want to buy this little dog. He is never going to be able to ________   and play with you like the other puppies.”

To this, the little boy reached down and rolled__________his pant leg to expose a badly twisted, crippled (瘸的) left leg ________ by a big metal brace (支架). He looked up at the store owner and ________ replied, “Well, I don’t run so well myself, and the little puppy will need someone who understands!”

【推荐3】At first, Rhonda Tormaschy thought her 16-year-old daughter, Cassidy, was joking about opening up an ice cream truck. “We were sitting around one night with her and one of her friends, and this is what she _______ us with and we kind of thought she wasn’t _______ at first,” Rhonda said.

But last fall, her husband, Chad, started looking for some type of truck, and they found an old school bus in Lincoln, Oregon.

The family spent the winter fixing the bus, painting it and _______ it into Ice Cream Express. In order to turn the small, old school bus into an ice cream truck, the family _________ a freezer, fridge and sink.

“Getting it together was kind of an _______ for all of us,” Rhonda said. “We had to _______ the health inspector and get _________ from the police department and the fire department.”

“The community needed something to _________ their day and make their day better,” Cassidy said. “I thought that this would be a good way to help everybody _________ their day.”

She visits local business at a __________ time every Thursday and plans to ________neighborhoods and parks in the evening, as well as serving ice cream at other summer ________.

Ice Cream Express serves Schwan’s products. “It’s quite a(n) ________.” Cassidy said. “We have everything from the sundae cones to the sandwiches and Italian ice – just about __________.”

Now that the truck is up and __________, Cassidy hopes her younger sisters will take it over when she __________ for college.

“We have a daughter that’s going to be 13 here and that would be a perfect time for her to take it over in the next __________ of years – if she wants to,” Rhonda said. “If she doesn’t want to, I think I would probably __________ it if it’s still a want and a need in Dickinson.”

So far, the reception to Ice Cream Express has been __________, Rhonda said.

“We haven’t had an ice cream bus in this town for years,” Rhonda. “I think it’s gone over way better than we __________ it to, which is great.”

【推荐2】Years ago I was hiking in the Himalayas and had made the mistake of changing a large amount of money into the local currency (货币). As I walked through the villages of the Annapurna, it soon became________ that the people were too poor to________even the simplest goods. They had nothing. This meant that it was no use carrying the wad (捆) of________in my pack and I was a virtual (虚拟的) walking________compared to the local people. I grew to dislike the money and it was________to have it in my bag. This led to a remarkable experience that ________me deeply and its________has never left me.

On this particular day, I was left behind by my fellow hikers and found myself in a valley. As I made myself down, I noticed a young girl of around 13________some sheep. Like so many of the children of the amazing Nepalese people, she was very beautiful. I couldn’t help looking at her and she looked at me. As I approached her she suddenly rushed________to me, and without a

________, handed me a flower. She________at me for a tiny moment and then she ran away. The spirit in this lovely child had responded to something she saw in me and her first idea was to find something to________. Because of her________, there was nothing she had________a single flower. The weight of my bag was never heavier than at this moment and I had just received one of the most valuable________I had ever had in my life.