【推荐2】When I was in college, my grandpa was diagnosed with cancer. My grandma has always_________stuff as a hobby, which she did more often, after grandpa’s diagnosis, to help relieve_________. After a year of near-constant knitting, she had mountains of scarves, hats, socks, mittens, small blankets, and other items_________up in the house.

My mom and her siblings convinced grandma to start_________items to help raise funds for grandpa’s_________. It was decided that everyone would be responsible for some stuff, with co-workers, friends, and neighbors as the_________, and then pass the money back to grandma. I took some to college and_________pictures and prices on social media, along with the story about my grandpa. A few of my close friends shared it_________on their social media, and within a week, I had people from all over campus_________me looking to buy gifts for themselves or their significant others. I sold out everything within a month and still had people messaging to ask for trade.

Out of__________, everyone showed their sincere support. Even though it was a stressful time when I was trying to__________family needs and my school work, the messages from buyers were a huge encouragement that helped me__________the year.

My grandpa__________the cancer and is still with us today. My grandma has continued to knit though at a__________pace than she used to, and two or three times a year. Still, we all carry stuff wherever we are, which we give away, instead of sale, to show that we are__________for the kindness we’ve received.

【推荐1】Last year at Christmas time my wife and I were in France. For five wretched (恶劣的) days everything had gone _________. On Christmas Eve, there was no Christmas _________ in our hearts.

It was raining and cold when we went out to eat. Only five tables in the restaurant were _________.There were two German couples, two French families, and an American sailor, by himself. In the comer a piano player _________ played Christmas music.

I looked around and noticed that the other customers were eating in stony _________.The only person who seemed happy was the American sailor, who was writing a letter, and a half-smile lighted his face.

Then came an old flower woman. Carrying her basket of flowers, she went from one table to the other. But no one bought any.

Before the young sailor left, he walked over to the flower woman.

"Happy Christmas," he said, smiling and picking out two flowers. Pressing the smaller flower flat, he put it into the _________ he had written, then handed the woman a twenty franc note.

"I don't have change." she said.

"No, ma'am," said the sailor, leaning over and kissing the _________ cheek. "This is my Christmas present to you."

_________ the other flower in front of him, he came to our table. In one quick motion he gave my wife the flower, wished us a Merry Christmas, and departed.

Everyone had been watching the sailor. A few seconds later, Christmas _________ throughout the restaurant like a bomb.

The miserable evening __________ being the very best Christmas Eve we had ever experienced just because of a young sailor who had Christmas spirit in his soul. He gave us Christmas.

【推荐2】I got a volunteer job to teach computer skills in a library after many failures in applications and interviews. It’s an ideal opportunity to try something new and break away from the feeling of _______ .

Pretty soon after I entered the main library, I was _______ to work. There were too many learners and not enough teachers.

I was led to Jenna, who had been out of work for seven months. She was _______ back tears of frustration while trying to attach her CV(简历) to an e-mail. When we had finally sent out three _______ , she sat back. Ray, an _______ gentleman, did not know how to open and watch the video of his grandson _______ in an e-mail. A few quick clicks of the mouse and Ray was _______ playing and replaying the video.

When I left the library I had a new sense of purpose and a different way of _______ . Later that evening, I thought a lot about the persons I _______ today. But what I thought about most was how ________ we all were—just people ________ together in taking those first steps to make a ________ to our lives. That day, through ________ , I had realized the fact that to struggle ________ through life’s challenges is a lonely process, but to make that journey with others can make facing even the hardest challenges ________ .

【推荐1】A cinema-goer who suffered a heart attack while watching the latest Bond movie was saved by fellow film fans who performed CPR on him. The film’s title? No Time to Die.

81-year-old Malcolm Clarke had been revisiting childhood haunts(常去之处) in and around Chesterfield where he grew up as a_________for his birthdays. Then he had gone to_________the new Bond film with his wife on Saturday night to make the latest_________more impressive.

_________, Malcolm had a sudden heart attack at the Odeon cinema in Sheffield, South Yorkshire while watching the new film._________of the audience, believed to have included a doctor and a nurse,_________came to Malcolm’s_________and helped keep him alive. Thankfully, their_________were successful and the ambulance soon_________and took Malcolm to Northern General Hospital. And now Malcolm is in a(n)__________condition.

Malcolm’s son-in-law, Andrew Wileman, said, “Four__________people among the audience worked on him for about 15 minutes because he had__________consciousness(意识). The ‘rescue team’,__________two ladies and two gentlemen, just__________shortly after they did the good deed. There is no__________that they saved Malcolm’s life in the cinema.”

“The consultant at the hospital said the quick CPR had saved his life in the__________before the ambulance got there. He would have__________, but he was lucky,” Andrew added.

Andrew said he was “completely unconscious” while the kind people__________to save his life using the on-site defibrillator(除颤器) in the cinema.

The family has been reunited with three of the four__________and they were__________to meet the fourth to say thanks.

【推荐2】No two snowflakes are alike?Wilson A.Bentley, a farmer and amateur meteorologist, sought to answer that question, dedicating himself to________flakes of snow for 50 years.

Bentley was born in 1865 and_________on a farm.On his 15th birthday,Bentley’s mother gave him an old_______.It was snowing that day, and the boy________getting a glimpse of a six-sided snowflake with the_______. When he was 17, Bentley asked his parents to buy him a new, better microscope and a camera.His father argued that it was a waste of time. Finally, his father gave in. Bentley built a wooden frame to________the new equipment and then spent 2 years figuring out how to take a picture of a snowflake_________a microscope. On January 15,1885,he did it,creating the world’s first photo of snowflake. Every winter for the rest of his life, Bentley studied snowflakes in a(n)_______room in the back of the house. The process was difficult and cold. (Outdoors, he collected snowflakes on a wooden tray that was painted_______to observe it. Whenever it snowed, Bentley caught and captured flakes, sometimes working all night. He found that most snowflakes had six sides, ______others looked like triangles, or columns—no two were alike.

Bentley_______his snowflakes with anyone who was interested. He wrote articles for scientists and for_______such as National Geographic. Occasionally, he felt_________that few people seemed to care about his work.Still,he________stopped.In 1920,Bentley was elected as one of the first members of the American Meteorological Society, which later________him its first research grant in 1924.