【推荐1】A mother and her four young children were asleep when a fire erupted in the home.

Ramon Pasborg was _______ home when he smelled smoke and saw flames (火焰) coming from a window. Pasborg decided to _______ the driveway, where he saw a young girl and two boys leaving the house. They told Pasborg that their mother and 4-year-old little brother were still inside — and without _______ he entered the house. Pasborg could not see anything inside because of heavy smokes, so he crawled (爬行) on his hands and knees on the floor several feet into the kitchen before he found the small child. He immediately _______ the boy around the waist, picked him up and carried him, outside.

With a temperature below zero, Pasborg quickly put all four children in is truck to keep them _______ before entering the burning home a second time, this time crawling through the kitchen _______ into the house in search of the children's missing mother. Moments later, Pasborg found the woman lying on the floor, badly burned and struggling to breathe. After dragging her outside, he noticed that she was _______ and no longer breathing, so he began performing lifesaving measures until she suddenly took a deep breath. Pasborg then drove the family to the end of the driveway near the highway and awaited the _______ of emergency first responders.

The family were touched by the _______ and selflessness Pasborg displayed. The hero's willingness to _______his own life to rescue this family was the difference between life and death for this young mother and her child.

【推荐1】One day, the restaurant owner Chu learned one of his regular customers, an old lady, was losing her battle with cancer. He ________ to drive 6 hours to cook her favorite dish.

After ________ his plan, Chu, together with his two colleagues, made the trip to Vermont. The next morning, they set up a makeshift (临时代替的) ________ in the bed of their truck. When the dish was ________, the team rang the doorbell. The old lady ________ the door. Seeing Chu and the dish, she could ________ believe her eyes. She cried with a(n) ________ expression on her face.

Chu ________ her the moment he saw her. “We’ve seen many ________ come and go. However, she always ________ not only in the way she enjoys the cooking but in always making sure to praise the dishes to the staff.”

Their mission ________, Chu and his colleagues turned down an offer to stay for dinner, also ________ to take any payment. The lady’s daughter knew how much the dish ________ to her mother. She said Chu’s generosity left her and her mother with tears of ________.

“She is a lovely lady. It is an honor to help realize the family’s wish.” Chu said, “It is a ________ experience, and I’m happy that we could make it happen.”

【推荐2】The retirement of Shirley Tilghman as the 19th President of Princeton University at the end of June 2013 provided an opportunity for the Friends of the Princeton University Library to_________the presidency of the University by making a gift to the Library in her honour. The Special Collections curators presented a wide range of_________to identify a suitable purchase. The choice: one of the extremely rare books that can be documented as having_________Jonathan Dickinson(1688-1747), the first President of the College of New Jersey.

At its modest beginning in 1746 in Dickinson’s parsonage in Elizabeth, the college_________the president, one tutor, and eight or ten students. Dickinson’s books were the college library. Tactica Sacra(Sacred Strategies), by John Arrowsmith, Puritan divine of Trinity College, Cambridge, is a manual for the spiritual warrior, part of the armament of clergyman Dickinson. A large quarto of 400 pages in its_________17th-century full calf binding, the book carries an inscription on its title page in Dickinson’s hand: “Jonathan Dickinson’s Book...” The group of Friends who supported the_________are named on a bookplate added to the volume.

The University’s efforts to acquire books with a Princeton association_________in earnest during the second half the 19th century. The extant books belonging to Jonathan Edwards were added,_________some from other early presidents, including Samuel Finley. John Witherspoon’s books had been acquired in the first part of the 19th century_________the efforts of his son-in-law Samuel Stanhope Smith. These__________were purchased not so much because they had belonged to Witherspoon but because, after the Nassau Hall fire of 1802, the college needed books.__________of the associational value of the Witherspoon books came to a(n)__________during the librarianship of Julian Boyd. In the early1940s Boyd__________rare book librarian Julie Hudson to reassemble the Witherspoon library, which had been dispersed throughout the collections. The earliest__________of the college library are on view in the Eighteenth-Century Room, just inside the__________to the Main Exhibition Gallery in Firestone Library.

【推荐1】A mother battling breast cancer is feeling grateful for the kindness she received by a complete stranger. Amy Pettenato was _________ breakfast with her family at the Metropolis Diner when she noticed another family kept looking at her and smiling. Pettenato _________ they were looking at her because of her shaved head.

“I got _________ , and teared up. I went into self-conscious mode about my _________ . It was the first time I’d been out since I’d shaved my head,” she said. “But then came the moment that changed the meaning of those glances _________ . The mom _________ and sits next to us and told me she was a 13 year breast cancer survivor. So we _________ for a bit and she wished me luck with everything I’m going through and _________ me to stay positive.”

Pettenato and her family finished _________ and asked for the check, but learned it had been paid by the kind ________ . They all looked at the waitress __________ and she said the woman next to them had paid their bill. The __________ woman who took five minutes out of her time to __________ Pettenato and share her experience.

After the __________ had been shared in the Sachem moms’ Facebook group, a friend called and said he found her __________ . The woman wrote Pettenato and said __________ they might not know each other, they were “bonded as pink sisters” and she’d paid it forward because she knew how __________ the struggle is for Pettenato right now.

Pettenato says she __________ her story so others would know they are not facing the __________ alone. “My journey,” she said, “is going to be somebody else’s support system. And positivity is __________ .”

【推荐2】Life can throw us something difficult, but, every now and then, a ray of sunshine breaks through the clouds. It’s often the _________ things, like a genuine smile or a heartfelt “How are you?” that can _________ someone’s day around.

There’s an elderly lady in Boston who has her own heartwarming _________ . She is Marilyn. She happened to meet her own kind people during her _________ trip to the nearby supermarket on Saturdays.

Marilyn, who always had her husband by her side during previous _________ to the supermarket, gathered the strength to head to the supermarket in Auburndale after the loss of her _________ .   

She felt lucky that all was going well. _________ , at the checkout, she was _________ by the news that her credit card was _________ , As it turned out, her card had been __________ a couple of days earlier because it was in her late husband’s name.

Marilyn was in a mix of shock and __________ as she stood at the register. A gentleman behind her, without hesitation, __________ to pay the bill. It wasn’t a small grocery bill!

Marilyn, with a deep sense of gratitude, __________ his help, then tried to get his __________ , hoping to pay him back. But all he said was, “No. Just wish me a happy life. ”Marilyn didn’t want to __________ though.

Her family turned to social media, __________ to find the mystery man and showed him with thanks. Marilyn __________ her viewpoints, saying, “Even if he doesn’t want to come forward, I’m hoping that he’ll know that I’m __________ grateful. ” And to keep the kindness rolling, she promised to help fellow __________ whenever she could.

Stories like these __________ us of the boundless warmth and compassion humans are capable of.

【推荐3】Alwan, owner of a Bronx corner store named Lucky Candy, aims to help kids in the neighborhood from needy families—and keep their math skills sharp too. The ________ is simple; answer a math question-say, what’s 8 x 8 + 50?——and get five seconds to ________ as much as you can from the shelves of Lucky Candy, all ________ . Lucky Candy is located on a.busy street in the Bronx, which is what’s known as a food ________ ,where affordable,healthy food is often in short supply.

For Alwan, ________ is as essential as breakfast. So he thought up this clever way to brighten his young neighbors’ days.

“I think about questions I used to get ________ at school when I was in elementary school,” Alwan says of how he ________ questions for the kids.

When a young math genius gets an answer ________ , one of two things usually happens. Some kids rush for the candies, and who could ________ them? Others grab things like rice and   ________,clearly thinking of family at home.

Alwan ________ the sprees(玩乐)with his paycheck. But his boss， also his father，Aobad, doesn’t mind ________ too. A Yemeni immigrant, Aobad knows that in one of the ________ , most competitive places in the U. S., a bit of help goes a long way.

At present, Alwan’s story is ________ quickly on social media not only because of the emotional reactions of the participants but also Alwan’s connection to his ________.