【推荐1】As I stood in line waiting to cash out at a supermarket, I studied the customer in front of me, who kept looking at the magazine to our left. She________ an old torn coat. The items in her cart(购物车)included the________daily necessities.

“Next,” the cashier called and she moved forward. When the cashier________everything up and told her the cost, the woman’s face________. It was obvious she didn’t have enough money. She scanned her groceries to see what she could________.

One by one, she removed things, but she still came up________. The man right behind me complained loudly. The young woman’s cheeks reddened with________. I wanted desperately to pay for her groceries outright, which, however, would mortify(使难堪)her even more. ________ ,I turned around angrily and glared at the man.

“I would be________if you’ve never had to do that! ” I said to him in a low voice. He looked   ________and changed the checkout line.

The woman finally decided on her groceries, paid and________them. By then, I had rearranged my own purchases and put several items the woman had taken out, including the magazine she had been________ ,into my cart. I moved forward and whispered to the cashier, “ ________bags, the same bill, please.”

I________the extra things into her shopping cart without being noticed, as she was busy________the accidentally scattered(散落的)apples she’d bought. I left that store and realized I was by no means rich, but I had enough to get by.

【推荐2】I was just out of college and dragging a heavy backpack and suitcase through the underground that day. I was also crying _________. As I struggled to get the _________ up another flight of steps, I was struggling to understand how my _________ had been such a mess.

The day before, I had a fierce quarrel with my uncle for a certain reason. My uncle had _________ me that I would never speak to him, his wife, or my two _________ again. I spent the evening in my room, weeping as I _________ one of my friends.

In the morning, I wrote a note of _________ and left it in my uncle’s bedroom, then I dragged my bags for a mile to the train station. When I got off the train, I had to take the _________ to my friend’s house.

I was familiar with the subway, but at the time, it was a subway of _________ white tiles (瓷砖). I was __________. Worst of all, no __________ were working. Crying yet again, I tried to lift my suitcase up the stairs.

Suddenly in my difficulty there were __________. No one said anything, but each time I __________ another set of steps, a hand would grasp the suitcase handle and __________ it. At the tops of the steps, the hand would __________ and I’d pull the suitcase to the next set. And just as I was about to struggle again, another hand would appear suddenly.

It happened several times. I never looked up, because I could not stop __________. I do remember thinking through the haze of sorrow that each hand looked __________ and that many different people helped me, without asking or saying anything. They just __________, right up to the top of the __________ flight of stairs that exited the station. I couldn’t look up. I wasn’t able to __________ appreciation.

I think of them as I ride the subway today, and I watch the commuters and tourists surge by (从身边通过), just in case someone needs a hand.

【推荐3】Year 2020 has witnessed the nation’s battle with the novel coronavirus pneumonia (肺炎). To prevent the _________ from spreading further, people from all over China have been making changes to their everyday lives.

Most people take their _________, wear masks, wash their hands often and don’t go out _________ it’s necessary. One of the most _________ changes was that many Chinese people didn’t _________ to celebrate the Spring Festival, a tradition that _________ over 4,000 years ago.

Indeed, people have _________ chosen to stay home to prevent further human-to-human spread.

The situation is quite unusual. Many schools and places of work have _________ their return date, although that didn’t stop _________ and students from working and studying at home.

February 17 was planned to be the first day of the new term. On that day, many teachers began __________ online lessons. Bored at home, some people began to learn new things to __________ their newfound time, such as baking a cake or knitting a sweater.

The film Contagion (2011) showed the worst-case scenario (可能的情况) after a worldwide epidemic. Fortunately, the situation in China couldn’t be more __________ than the movie. Rather than __________ and food storage, everything has worked out rather well in China so far. More than 30,000 healthcare workers in over 100 medical teams gathered and thousands of __________ workers came to build hospitals in Wuhan, Hubei province. Thousands of volunteers are working nonstop to help deliver supplies and ________ the affected regions.

It’s not the first time people have come together during a natural __________. When Hurricane Katrina hit the US in 2005, over 60,000 people, from both the affected communities and outside it, __________. These helpers brought food and water, removed waste and searched for __________ victims on rooftops.

“It’s a popular myth (谬见) that when disasters strike, people fall into __________. In reality, we’re more likely to rush in to help others than run past them to __________ ourselves,” wrote American psychologist Kelly Caldwell in Pacific Standard. “It’s an exercise in mass healing (集体治疗).”

【推荐3】Dr. Smith of New York works at a center for children who can’t learn well. One day a father brought his son to him for________ at his office.

The father told Dr. Smith about his son. “My son has ________ in learning and can’t even play baseball. He isn’t doing well because he doesn’t try. I have done everything for him. I have even shouted at him. But nothing ________. ”

After Dr. Smith tested the boy, he ________ his father. He asked the father to sit in front of a ________ and then gave him a pencil and a piece of paper. There was a ________ on the paper. He asked the father to look only in the mirror and ________ the lines of the star with the pencil. The father made the same ________ anyone makes. Every time he ________ the pencil, it went the wrong way. The father’s face became red.

At this ________ the doctor shouted at him, “Hurry up! Why are you ________ so long? You can’t do such an ________ thing! You don’t know left from right!” These ________ made the father very angry.

“Now you can ________, can’t you?” The doctor said to him. “Your son has felt just like that all the time. You scolded (训斥) him too often, so he didn't try any more. He was afraid of making mistakes. ”

________ the father understood everything. He put his face down. Now he felt so sorry.