【推荐1】I enjoy feeding birds in my garden. About three years ago, a baby chipmunk (花栗鼠) which I named Chip came to this festive display. Over that summer, I watched it _______ . The next summer, the chipmunk was back, and I wondered whether it would _______ me to feed it by hand or let me pet it. Before Chip would approach, I'd _______ its favorite food, bend down and keep very _______. I'd leave my open hand _______， unmoving, so the animal would know I wouldn't _______it. I continued doing this for a few weeks.

_______，   late in that second summer, Chip did show more trust. One day as I _______a seed with my fingertips, it approached and _______took the seed into its mouth. It never bit my fingers.

I was happy that Chip and I had made a(n) ________of trust.

After about two months of this ________，I went further. With my index finger, I ________ its back once gently. I'm not even sure Chip felt it, but it didn't ________. I then moved my two fingers slowly and gently over it. ________， Chip stayed calm, eating seeds, before running quickly back into the bush.

Today, the chipmunk comes out of hiding when I call its name, and lets me ________its soft, silky body.

A friend once mentioned that after she ________a dog, she noticed that her high blood pressure had approached ________without medication, and she became calmer and could handle stress better. I think I, too, feel ________from my interactions with Chip.

I've also developed a greater ________for nature and its creatures and the opportunity to observe, protect and save wildlife. Most of all, I am amazed by the ________ of a tiny chipmunk to meet me halfway in trust.

【推荐2】Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bent over on the ground, crushing(碾碎) something with a rock. He was so focused on his _________ that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept noticing him and _________ what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make sand, but why would he do that?

_________, we decided to go up and ask him. He was crushing pieces of left-over bread that he had _________ to prepare food for the birds that come there early morning. The large pieces of bread would be _________ for the birds to eat so he crushed them into powder. Every _________, after coming home from his job as a tailor, he goes around the villa(乡间别墅), collecting left-over bread from all his housemates. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1—2 hours _________ crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3—4 years. What _________ us more was that he was _________ that we were even taking an interest in this, since for him it wasn’t a big __________.

When we asked him what encouraged him to do this act of __________, he said, “It’s just something __________ I do, so that the left-over bread doesn’t go into the rubbish and the birds get food.” We __________ his story with the hope that it would __________ us to be aware of leftovers too and that it might __________ someone to start something similar in their own area.

【推荐2】My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summers we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at _______. As for me, I _______ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really _______. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and _______ Dad to go sailing. Out we set soon on the calm lake. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything _______ well with the tiller (舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a _______ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit _______. Dad was always at his best in any danger, but at this moment he _______.

“John! Help!” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any _______.He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. Before I could respond, a ________ of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wave of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull (船壳) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, Dad was a little awkward about his flash of ________. “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now,” I comforted him.

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________ my father.

【推荐3】From the time I was seven, I had a dream of becoming a member of the Students’ Union. I always _______ my school leaders for taking responsibility for all of us. I dreamed of being a leader. Years flew by, and soon I was able to take part in the elections, _______ I would win. But the reality struck that I hadn’t had a chance. Girls across the school _______ knew me. I just did not have what it _______ to win a school election. As I cried in my room that evening, I suddenly took a deep _______ and decided I wouldn’t stop dreaming.

What were the points that would work in my favor? I had good grades, and I was friendly and helpful. I would not allow my plain appearance to _______ me back from putting my best foot forward. That evening, I began my election _______ a whole year in advance.

I loved making friends and I liked being helpful, so I decided that perhaps I could use these _______ to work to my advantage. In order to learn how to _______ a great election speech, I also ________ a course on effective public speaking.

The day after the election, when the principal ________ I won the second highest number of votes, the students ________. Suddenly, I realized that I had ________ much more than I had dreamed of. I had won acceptance and love of my ________ and they knew me as somebody who would stand by them. I was able to put a smile on their faces and ________ their day.

【推荐1】When two sisters found themselves having difficulty finding a way to get to their aunt’s 100th birthday party, they were fortunately ____ by a stranger in a very unexpected way.

Last weekend, sisters Kerry Maggard and Deb Eggers   ____   to fly from Minneapolis to Sioux Falls to go to the party, but their flight was canceled ____ bad weather. They soon found that all other flights to South Dakota were ____,   and there were no taxis available, ____ they had no way to make the 200-mile journey themselves.

Feeling like they had no other   ____ , Kerry made a last-ditch(孤注一掷的) attempt to get to the party by calling Uber, and their ride was ____   by a man named Jesus Florentino.

“I was shocked that someone picked it up. It was kind of a last resort(最后一招)to ____   if anyone would consider it, ”Kerry recalled. “It was picked up at once and of course I got the   ____   on the phone which said ‘Jesus is 7 minutes away, ’which was quite a   ____ .”

Kerry called Jesus to make sure that he was   ____ to make the 400-mile round ____ , and much to her surprise, he said he was game for it! Jesus   ____ to get the sisters to their aunt’s house in time for her 6 pm party, and he quickly turned back around to make the four-hour trip back to Minneapolis.

Kerry said afterward that she____ Jesus $50 for the $216 trip, which is a(n) ____ price to pay for the quality time that she got to spend with her aunt. As for Jesus, he was just   ____ that the women got to be there for their aunt.

"I felt that they needed to ____ the birthday party and I enjoy ____ , so it worked out well, ” Jesus said. “It's a(n) ____ occasion, and if I was in their place I would ____ very much someone bringing me there when there was no other way.”

【推荐2】I was travelling on an overnight bus from Kolhapur to Aurangabad in Maharashtra for my high school graduation travel. The bus — an ordinary, non-air-conditioned one — was more than _______; all 55 seats were _______ and there were some 20 people standing in the aisle (过道). The hot day added to the _______ of the 10-hour journey.

The bus started its journey a little later than scheduled. After around two very long hours, I was beyond tired. I kept trying to _______ myself, shifting from my body weight from one leg to the other to manage the discomfort. Suddenly, I _______ a soft hand tapping my elbow, asking for _______. Turning around, I found a middle-aged man with a kind smile _______ me. He suddenly stood up and said I could take his seat for some time. I was pleasantly surprised and _______ his offer. A man, who was sitting by the window on the other side of the bus, had _______ our exchange.

Just then, something ________ happened. Our observer spontangeously (自发地) ________ and offered his seat to another standing man. Instantly, we had ________ a chain reaction: This game of seat-sharing ________ through the bus like wildfire and, before long, almost all the standees got a chance to be seated. People even started chatting with each other while exchanging positions. Needless to say, the rest of the journey was quite enjoyable.

This extraodinary experience has stayed with me even after all these years. It revealed to me an important fact — that we can all ________ what we have, including our burdens, and help our co-passengers in his ________ called life.

【推荐3】I was out of work, doing nothing but passing the time when I came across an advertisement where you could apply to be a(n) ________ in a blood donation camp. When I was in college, I tried to donate blood for several times, but I ________ because I was underweight. After that it never ________ me to donate again, so the ad caught my attention. I ________ the number and volunteered for it.

It was fun volunteering for it. The blood donation camp was set up every three months, so I used to go out and meet new and old ________. It was a sort of picnic for me till one day a teenage girl came up to the ________.

“Hello! Um, I’m suffering from hemolytic anemia (溶血性贫血), so I just want to know if there is an ________ in the camp for plasma (血浆) donors?” she asked.

To be frank, I could not even ________ what she was suffering from, but I was sure I heard “anemia”. Despite a nonprofessional in ________, at least I knew “anemia” had ________ to do with a deficiency (缺乏) of blood in a person. I ________ all the key points of my biology classes just not to make a fool of myself there but still said, “I’m sorry I didn’t get your ________. What are you suffering from?”

“I’m suffering from hemolytic anemia. It is a disorder where the red blood cells are destroyed before their normal life span. In every 120 days, I ________ a blood transfusion (输血),” she replied.

“Oh, I’m sorry, but clearly you need blood in your body. Then why do you...”

She smiled and ________ me, “I just want to donate the plasma. You know, it is because of people like you that I’m able to stand here. Everything I do is a gift from people who donate blood. I’m so ________ to all of you and I also want to participate in saving lives. I want to donate plasma ________ there is someone who needs a transfusion of plasma.”

I was ________. I had never taken blood donation ________. For me, it was just a day of ________ laughing with others and eating free ice cream. Here I was standing before a person who was sick but still willing to help others. So I ________ everyone to donate blood as much as they can. It saves lives! It truly does!