【推荐1】I was then in my early twenties. Even though I was armed with a degree in Education, finding a ______ teaching job was not easy. I had to try some temporary ones.

This year, when a golden opportunity ______ to teach 5th grade students in a local school. I ______ it and took things seriously. I ______ myself with lesson plans, taught with enthusiasm, and stayed ______ with the students. I had no hesitation in ______ the kids when they got the answer right, and encouraged them if they didn’t.

One day when the kids were _______, a girl approached and handed me a ______ before she went home. On it was a lovely drawing full of childlike wonder, ______ by the words, “You are the best teacher I have ever had!” It really amazed me that one of my kind comments had ______ that girl’s heart greatly. I took that note home and ______ put it in a folder, looking on it as a ______ because it was very important. Anytime I was feeling down I would look at it and it proved to be a ______ .

That experience showed me the ______ of just a single kind word. It encouraged me to continue to try my best each day to ______ love and kindness through my words and actions. Wish the same for others.

【推荐1】When I think of my childhood, I remember cycling with my friends and buying orange candies, but most of all, going home to see my grandma waiting at the doorstep and asking, “How was your day, bunny?”

Nana (I call my grandma Nana) saw me _________. She left me many great _________. She told me stories of the fairies and princesses but also of the wars and how she _________ those days.

Nana was born during the Second World War with a very different lifestyle and childhood from me. She didn’t get _________. In fact, she had to help with the housework. Even when her siblings (兄弟姐妹) got the opportunity to learn, she would only watch them read and write. But she never _________. That is the most important lesson she had taught me.

She taught me to be _________ whatever things I had in my life. When I _________ to be selected in my school’s cheerleading team, I was very upset, but she made me realize that, if not in the cheerleading team, something else was out there in the world that was going to happen to me, and it did. I _________ a state-level gymnast.

As years went by, Alzheimer’s disease (老年痴呆症) ate her from the inside. The _________ who once refused to call me by any name but her “little bunny”, now didn’t even remember what my name was. Soon, she forgot who I was until l sang Frank Sinatra’s Fly me to the Moon. The tiny spark (火花) of __________ in her eyes was what I __________. The little glimmer (微光) in her eyes meant that I was her “bunny” once again.

One day, the glimmer __________ disappeared from her eyes and that was the day when I knew I had lost my nana. On her last day on this earth, as I sat beside her bed watching her fall in and out of sleep, I heard her hum Fly me to the Moon __________. That was the last time when I heard her __________, but I will keep it in my heart forever.

Nana took a piece of my childhood with her when she __________. She is my world, and I know she is proud of me.

【推荐2】Brave daughter Neve, aged seven, and son Billy, five, saved their mum's life after calling 999 to say "mummy's dead". A proud mum was _________ by her young kids after she fell down the stairs and knocked herself out. Neve found her phone and _________ called 999, while anxious Billy who _________ her a blanket as the mum _________ unconscious was saying, "My mummy is dead." Ambulance service chiefs gave a lot of _________ to the children, describing Neve as "very brave".

The mum said she remembered going upstairs at her home that morning, but after that everything went _________ and she estimated she had been black out for half an hour. Neve told the operator, "I need _________ for my mummy. She's not awake." _________, Neve was able to give the ambulance service her full _________, and counted her mum's breaths for the __________.

Rebecca, who is diabetic (糖尿病患者) and has had four __________ on her back in the last two years, said, "I've always __________ them that if anything happens, this is what they have to do. She listened to everything." Neve even had the presence of __________ to call a friend of Rebecca's and a neighbour as the drama __________. "Billy went to get a blanket, he's a very __________ little boy."

The mother said it __________   the value of being prepared, and said paramedics (急救人员) were full of praise for Neve and Billy for their incredible __________ to the crisis. An ambulance service spokeswoman said, "We'd like to say a very big well done to the little girl for her __________ thinking to help her mum! We would encourage parents and __________ to teach their children about 999 using our __________ campaign called Little Lifesaver."

【推荐3】I realized last year that I had lived here longer than my mom did. That just didn’t seem right to me. If anyone _________ a long life, it was my mom. She was kind, cheerful and filled with love. During her last four years, she fought _________ against cancer and never gave up. I remember calling her every day to tell her I loved her, something I didn’t do that much as a child. I _________ not telling her that more often when I was a child. _________, she passed away at the age of 55.

After her death, my own health broke. I developed double pneumonia (肺炎). Later, although my body _________, my spirit remained burdened with _________. I couldn’t imagine living without my mom, and I wanted my _________ to know her love. One day, while I sat in pain on the couch, my little girl climbed onto my laps to _________ me. Her brother joined her, and I held them both closely. In that moment, I felt Mom’s loving _________ in the room. I knew I had to keep going.

I promised myself that I would __________ stories of Mom’s love and beautiful soul with my children. I believed that her __________ spirit would always live within me. I could hear her laughter in my mind, __________ me to rise up and live again.

Each day is a fresh beginning. Mom lived by this __________. She never wasted a single moment, __________ laughter, love, and kindness to everyone she met. Each day, she made the world a better place for our family. I will strive to follow her example and embrace each day as a new __________ for joy and growth.

【推荐2】When people find out that I competed in the Olympics, they________I’m an accomplished pentathlete (五项全能运动员). But it isn’t true. For me, becoming an Olympian was, actually, an act of ________.

In the summer of 1979, I started intensively training for the Olympic trials to be________in June of 1980. But then in November, I was seriously injured in a car accident. It seemed that I would have to________my dream of the Olympics.

Everyone felt so sorry for me. Everyone but me. It was________, but I never believed this setback would stop me.

But my progress was________, for I was still in pain, unable to move. I knew I had to do something or I would never________. So I started training the only way I could — in my head.

A pentathlon consists of five track and field events. I obtained________of the world-record holders in all five of my events. I watched the films over and over. I trained as hard as I could — without ever moving a________.

________, when I could walk a little, I went to the track. ________I couldn’t practice, I would stand on the track and envision in my mind the complete physical training routine. For months, I repeatedly________myself competing and qualifying at the trials. I firmly believed that I could place in the top three at the Olympic trials. By the time the trials actually rolled around, I had healed just enough to compete.

I moved through my five________as if in a dream. ________, as I walked across the field, I heard a voice on the loudspeaker________my name, “Second place, 1980 Olympic Pentathlon: Marilyn King.”

【推荐3】Since my daughter was unwell，I went to a drugstore (药店）today. As I stood in line _______ some medicine for my daughter, I _______ the conversation of an elderly lady at the counter next to me. This lovely old women appeared to be buying up half the shop and said to the shop assistant “Can I leave half of my items here and I’ll collect the _______when I can as they are far too _______ for me. "

I said to the elderly lady, “I’m_______ happy to carry them for you,I’m happy to give you a _______ or do you drive a car?” It turned out that she drove and her car was _______ near my car. I carried all her _______ to her car and put them in her trunk.

This lovely lady then began_______,obviously because of loneliness and told me how much ________ she was in, and all the operations she had had. She told me her dad had passed away young and that her sister, her best friend, at 17 had passed away as well. How much she missed them with ________in her eyes. I just stood and listened,________tears myself as she opened up ________ talking out her pain to a complete stranger.

My heart sunk and I just wished I could done ________even though she thanked me over and over on such a small act of ________. I was deeply moved by the lady and her ________.

I said to her, "Carrying your bags to the car________ me as much as it helped you and I wish you nothing ________ the best, and I hope that one day we do meet again and I can ________ you to my daughter. I strongly believe your strong will can help her________the drawbacks in her life. ”