【推荐1】To me, kindness is a chosen lifestyle. In my classroom, I tell my_________that every day they are offered a choice. They can’t choose what happens to them, but they can choose how they_________to it. Kindness is a_________. And it is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that we just choose once in a while---- it is a(n)_______to live our lives.

My father was hospitalized with leukemia(白血病) when I was in college. He didn’t choose the cancer.   _______, he chose how to react to it. To this day, seventeen years later, the nurses _______write my mother letters. The _______? It was because of my father’s kindness to others even when he was _______ against the disease. He made kindness a lifestyle.

And I want to be _______him. Every day as a teacher, I try and teach my students the kindness lifestyle. Just recently, I turned 40 and a friend gave me 40 individual dollar bills. She challenged me to do something________with the money. I gladly accepted the challenge.

I gave 40 of my students one dollar each and challenged them to make a(n)________. What happened? My Twitter and Instagram were ________ with pictures of kids making the world a better place. One girl bought a dollar store stuffed animal(填充玩具). It was ________that kids should have made a difference when they were given the ________.

Living the kindness lifestyle ________ every day, every opportunity. As a high school teacher, I see________everywhere. In the hallways, in the lunchroom, in the locker room, ________words and gossip fill the air. So I started a hashtag (标签) to________positive gossip called “third party compliments(称赞)”. The idea is that you talk about people behind their backs, but do it in a ________way. In that way, the gossip that gets back to students makes their day instead of getting them down.

Our kindness lifestyle leaves a footprint on others, and let us be the movers and kindness-makers who________a better, more beautiful world.

【推荐3】An Unexpected Gift

Twelve-year-old Mathew Flores is different from other kids. He loves junk (垃圾) mail, and these advertisements were the only reading materials _______ to him. Once he asked his mailman if he could offer him some.

The question _______ the mailman. He asked the boy the reason, and then recorded his _______ in his Facebook. “Today while delivering mail, I saw a boy reading ads, and he asked me for extra mail. Actually he wants to go to the library, but his family is very poor and can’t _______ the bus.”

The mailman then asked his Facebook friends if they could _______ some books for the boy. He wrote, “Most kids want electronic products! But what he wants is books. It’s great to see his rare _______, and you may have seen him smile when I said I could help him!” “He is counting on me,” he concluded. “So I am counting on you!”

The mailman thought the Facebook post might _______ 50 to 60 books. But his _______ was passed on quickly. People from around the world, including the UK, Australia and India, have sent books. Hundreds of books have been delivered to the boy’s door, with hundreds more _______ on their way.

When books first started arriving, Flores was shocked by what happened. “I thought they were ________, but they indeed were for me.” He says that he can’t wait to share the books with other kids, and has promised to read every one.

【推荐1】A young English teacher saved the lives of 30 students when he took ______ of a bus after its driver suffered a serious heart attack. Guy Harvold, 24, had ______ the students and three course leaders from Gatwick airport, and they were travelling to Bournemouth to ______ their host families. They were going to take a course at the ABC Language School in Bournemouth where Harvold works as a teacher.

Harvold, who has not ______ his driving test, said, “I realized the bus was out of control when I was speaking to the students.” The bus ran into trees at the side of the road and he ______ the driver was slumped (倒伏)over the wheel (方向盘). The driver didn’t ______ He was unconscious (昏迷的). The bus ______ a lamp post (电线杆) and it broke the glass on the front door before Harvold ______ to bring the bus to a stop. Police ______ the young teacher’s quick thinking. If he hadn’t reacted quickly, there could have been a terrible ______ .

The bus driver died at East Surrey Hospital. He had worked regularly with the school and was very well regarded by the teachers and students. Harvold said, was ______ that no one else was hurt, but I hoped that the driver would ______ .

The head of the language school told the local newspaper that the school is going to send Harvold on a weekend   ______ to Dublin with a friend, thanking him for his ______ . A local driving school has also offered him six ______ driving lessons.

【推荐3】Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio, in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother Leigh Williams, with a(an) _________ story: A little boy fell into a drain and no one can _________ him. Then she made this _________ of her 13-year-old daughter: “Can you help?”

Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s _________ mother and other adults _________ a manhole cover (下水道井盖). Its diameter was _________ wider than a basketball. The boy, aged only two, had _________ the drain and was drowning in the water.

Madison quickly examined the situation. She was the only one who could _________ through the small hole. Without _________, she told the adults to lower her in. Leigh and others held her waist and __________. Madison shook her arms and shoulders __________ she got through the hole into the dark and smelly drain. In the process her left wrist was __________. Rather than tend to her injury, Madison __________ the surface of the water, hoping to __________ the boy. Every once in a while, she could see his little __________ but failed to grasp his foot. Minutes ticked by before she saw the outline of his foot again. Madison shot her good hand out and grabbed the foot __________. Then both of them were lifted out.

But the boy wasn’t out of trouble. He had been short of oxygen that he wasn’t __________. Lying on the ground unconscious, he was in urgent need of first aid. After calling for emergency services, an adult cleared his airway and placed him on his side, and another adult __________ him firmly on his back until the boy coughed up fluids. Then they were rushed to the hospital.

It took Madison longer to recover than the boy, who returned home soon. She __________, stayed there for her injury, experiencing months of physical treatment for her wrist. “Madison’s a heroine,” the boy’s mother said. “What other teenage girls will __________ to go into a drain?”