【推荐2】I used to travel to make myself relaxed. Two years ago, I was rather busy with my business and under a lot of _____, so I went to Las Vegas for a holiday. I just wanted to get away and _____ for a while.

When I was on holiday, a(n) _____ suddenly came to me. I had long wished to pay a visit to the Greek island of Santorini. Therefore, the idea of a two-week European _____ alone was born.

I’d driven _____ across the US before, but traveling to other countries whose languages aren’t the same as mine frightened me. I was worried I wouldn’t be able to _____ with anyone.

But I soon _____ that if I wanted to follow my dreams, I had to _____ out of my comfort area. If I let _____ take control of me, I’d get nowhere.

As I was in search of more places to visit on my trip, I found Mykonos, Greece, which I ______ just as much as I liked Santorini. When I arrived in Europe, it was like I was in a dream.

What I appreciated best was the bus ride to Venice. As I rode the bus and enjoyed every new thing I saw, I was completely ______ from the pressure of my work. How ______ it was to see people riding their bikes to the ______they’d like to go to!

Some people might say, “It’s not a big ______; it’s just Venice. Thousands of people go there every day.” But it was more than that to me. It was about having a ______ and when it was time for it to come true, don’t let it go.

【推荐1】You never know how far a kind act can go. When Gloria Porter and Jeff Reick began ______ , they had no idea how much it would encourage others to ______ people with kindness.

89-year-old Gloria Porter was lying in hospital. She couldn't leave her ward (病房) . So to escape ______ , she would often stare outside her window to watch construction (建筑) workers ______ the new front entrance to the hospital. She wasn't expecting one of the workers to wave at her. She couldn't help waving back at the kind ______ . This was only the start of a special ______ between the two.

Jeff Reick knew Porter was ______ , so he decided to send a kind______to her by finding some chalk and writing “Get Well” on one of the beams (梁) facing her ______ . “I just thought that was ______ ” Porter said. “So I should do something to ______ that.”

She wrote “Stay Safe” on a piece of paper, which she then ______ on the window for the workers to see. “When I saw ‘Stay Safe’ on the window, I ______ around and said to my coworkers, Did you see that?” Reick said.

The hospital staff took photos about that and ______ them on social media. The simple acts of kindness ______ and many people were employed in similar acts.

【推荐3】On the weekend, I went to the beach nearby for some quality time with myself. After a ________ week, I wanted a place to be alone, ________ on what I did in the past. A few hours later, I noticed a girl of 8 or 9 building a little sandcastle with a moat (护城河) around it and trying to ________ the moat with water.

There being no container ________, she would go to the waves, ________ her hands and then walk back to her little castle. Sadly not much water was making to the moat. But she kept trying ________. I so wished I could help her out, ________, I didn’t have a container with me.

As watching her, suddenly I ________ that I had a bottle of water in my bag. I quickly ________ in, took it out, and walked over to hand it to her.

________ at first, she smiled but shook her head shyly. I reassured her that it would make getting the water much faster. She finally took it from my hands after I ________. Not wanting her to feel ________, I walked off the beach right away.

In the larger scheme of things, it was a tiny ________. But in my heart, I also know that when she notices someone needs help in her life, maybe, she would recall this little random ________ of kindness by a stranger, which would make her more likely to ________ and give a hand.

【推荐1】Marcus is a handsome and athletic kid. He plays tennis and ______ the state tournament every year. Marcus's neighbor, Conrad, is also ______ to compete, but he has rheumatoid arthritis（类风湿性关节炎）. Although it pains him just to walk, he ______ painful days at school walking to the sports field. He loves watching his school compete so he doesn't ______ a game.

Marcus has known Conrad since primary school. They've always been ______ . He sees Conrad in pain and his ______ at not being able to play sports. So, every day after school, Marcus ______ his classmates to go to Conrad's for a moment of discussion about the game competition. The discussion is as ______ as a real high school game, which makes Conrad forget the hurt.

Finally, the doctors found a new ______ to reduce the pain. Conrad walks without much pain, and then begins running, but he still has to learn the ______ of running. After a childhood of walking carefully and taking ______ steps, Conrad has to train his walking like a kid again and stay in shape. He pushes himself every day, building his lungs and doing leg lifts repeatedly for his leg ______ . He knows what pain feels like, but running for Conrad is no longer     ____ .

To Conrad's delight, he gets the chance to join the cross-country team. Conrad doesn't win, not once, but Marcus is there, ______ for him who always finishes in the middle of the competitors, breathing in wind and waving his hands ______ .

【推荐3】I was nine when I arrived at the Children’s Home in Nashua, New Hampshire, in 1965. I _______ the third grade test that year, only just made it through a second time, and had managed to get through the fourth grade test by the time I _______ Pauline Jambard’s fifth-grade class at Charlotte Avenue Elementary School.

I was _______ that I wasn’t “intelligent” like the other kids, _______ I hoped I could make it through the fifth grade. Ms. Jambard took an immediate liking to me. Of all the _______ in school, reading was my favorite. She would tell me, “Terry, _______ reading until you can understand what you’re reading, and then you’ll be _______ than most kids.”

That December, the children _______ a Christmas party for family and community members, but my brother and I had no family to _______. I still remember looking up and seeing Ms. Jambard walk through the front doors of the children’s home and ________ she was there to see me. That was the best ________ of my life.

After I graduated from Ms. Jambard’s class in 1969, my brother and I ________, and I lost all touch with my ________. In 1983, I was on a business trip and had to drive through Nashua. I took a chance and ________ Charlotte Avenue Elementary. I was________toward her classroom when she came out in the hallway and said, “Terry!” It was as if I had ________ left.

We have stayed in touch, and I call Pauline at least once a year.________the confidence she taught me, I went on to have a successful________in engineering and law. I don’t know if Pauline realizes how much she was________, however, I’ll never forget her________and her faith in me.