【推荐2】Volunteers in New York call on people to donate their used iPads to help poor patients keep in touch with their families online.

Some people with COVID-19 died alone in hospital physically________from their friends and family, which is a_______situation. This cruel reality________on a group of volunteers. Their________is to virtually connect patients with family members who are unable to be present________hospital restrictions on visitors. They intend to collect used iPads from across the country and donate them to________in communities where the need is extremely_______. Nicolas Heller, a 31-year-old volunteer, said thousands of people had________from the disease in isolation(隔离)without the comforting words or________from a -loved one. Heller is collecting used iPads for patients who do not _____smart phones capable of video chatting.

By Friday morning, the volunteer group had________375 used iPads from donors(捐赠者)nationwide. So far,300 of the iPads have been________donated to Brooklyn's University Hospital of Brooklyn. The volunteers were amazed by the donors'________ . What the volunteers are doing is________people's iPads that are not used anymore to help those patients in hospitals. Besides, the group________to the public how the donated iPads could also________hospital staff with limited personal________equipment, such as masks and gloves. These iPads can________medical staff to communicate with patients from outside of the room, decreasing their________of being exposed to the virus.

No one is an island._______ , we can make the world warmer.

【推荐3】Eleven-year-old Angela suffered from a disease involving her nervous system. She was unable to _________ and her movement was restricted in other ways as well. The doctors did not hold out much _________ of her ever recovering from this illness. They _________ she’d spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair. They said that _________, if any, were able to come back to normal after catching this disease. But the little girl was brave and confident. There, lying in her hospital bed, she would _________ to anyone who’d listen that she was definitely going to be walking again someday.

She was then sent to a specialized rehabilitation hospital in the San Francisco Bay area. Whatever therapies (治疗方法) could be _________ to her case were used. Things didn’t work as the therapists expected. Still they were charmed by her _________ spirit. They taught her about _________—about seeing herself walking. If it would do nothing else, it would _________ give her hope and something __________ to do in the long waking hours in her bed. Angela would work as hard as possible in physical therapy, in whirlpools and in exercise sessions. And she worked just as hard lying there __________ doing her imaging, visualizing herself moving, moving, moving!

One day, as she was twisting with all her __________ to imagine her legs moving again, it seemed as though a __________ thing happened: The bed moved! It began to move around the room! She __________ out, “Look what I’m doing! Look! Look! I __________ it! I moved!”

Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was screaming, too, and running for __________. People were screaming, equipment was __________ and glass was breaking. You see, it was the recent San Francisco earthquake. But don’t tell that to Angela. She’s __________ that she did it. And now only a few years later, she’s back in school.

________ her own two legs. No crutches (拐杖), no wheelchair. You see, anyone who can shake the earth between San Francisco and Oakland can conquer a little disease. You never know what’s around the corner until you take a __________ step.

【推荐1】In the summer of 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife, Vanessa, had just moved to Santa Ana, California. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a homeless man was often ______ on the street corner, sometimes keeping them awake at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to his job as a car designer, but they ______ spoke.

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in ______ when his quiet was ______ by the homeless man. Inspired by the book’s heart-touching ______, Peterson made an ______ decision: He was going to go outside and introduce himself.

In that first conversation, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California from Kentucky to ______ his career in music, but he soon ______ hard times and ended up living on the street for more than a decade.

“I saw beauty on the face of a man who, ______ and worn, hadn’t had a shower in close to a year. But his story, the life inside of him, ______ me.” And even though Peterson, a ______ of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could paint Faris’s portrait. Faris said yes.

Peterson’s ______ with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization ______ befriending and painting portraits of members of the community who are ______. Peterson sells the portrait for a few thousand dollars, splitting the proceeds and putting half into what he calls a “love account” for his model. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, ______ his musical dreams.

【推荐2】My faith in human nature has never been so great as it was last weekend after our family get-together in the town of Vail.

On Saturday, we all went to the market right in the middle of the town. Near the end, we all_________at the fountain near the bridge, and the kids waded（蹚水）around in the fountain until we_________. This is one of the busiest walking streets.

After we returned to the hotel late in the afternoon, my 7-year-old son Ponder_________that nowhere could he find his backpack, which_________his Gameboy and his watch. After a thorough_________we determined that he must have left it at the fountain.

Ponder has never_________anything. So we just take for granted that he needs no supervision（指导）for managing his_________.

He was upset, not about the Gameboy, but about the watch. "But Dad," he said, through massive_________, "they don't make that kind of watch anymore." We were all very_________.

Our dinner reservation was at a restaurant just on the other side of the bridge, so I__________him that we would not only search the area around the fountain when we went back for dinner, but we would also find the police and ask them if the backpack had been__________.

As we exited from the parking garage, we could see the fountain as we walked down the long staircase. I saw something black__________there, but it was right next to a woman standing by the fountain, so I could not__________what it was or if it was hers.

"See it, Dad?" Ponder shouted. "Don't get too__________because that may not be it," I said. But that was it. It had been five or six hours since we left the fountain, and it was__________there. There was no ID in it, and it looked like someone had looked through it and then set it right out where all could__________it.

I literally__________when we reached it and it was his！Everyone in our party was blown away by this "miracle（奇迹）". In my wildest__________, I would never have imagined that this could happen nowadays.

What a charmed life, eh? I believe this was a perfect__________for a child in losing something important…to lose it and feel the full__________of that loss, and then to miraculously get it back.

【推荐3】Every day after school, Dorothea Lange walked through the streets of downtown Manhattan. She moved so _______ that no one really noticed her at all. Dorothea didn’t mind going unnoticed--it gave her a _______ to see the things she wanted to see.

Dorothea had a _______ childhood and she felt different from other people. She had a _______ disability. When she was seven, a disease _______ her with a limp (跛行). Also, when she was twelve, her father _______ the family, leaving her mother to care for the kids. Dorothea spent many hours alone, _______ people around her going about their lives. Over time, she gradually developed a special _______ ---she saw beauty in things that others didn’t even _______. Even before she held a camera in her hands, she could still capture these pictures in her __________.

In 1914, Dorothea, __________ Arnold Genthe, a famous photographer to make her his assistant. She watched __________ he did and soon became an accomplished photographer. In 1919, Dorothea __________ her own studio and became successful. The pictures Dorothea took during the Great Depression captured people’s __________ and their hopelessness. __________ the photos also captured their pride and honor. She saw in these people a determination that nothing could __________. Using her camera, Dorothea kept a __________ of people who would have otherwise been forgotten.

Throughout her life, Dorothea __________ her camera around her neck almost every day. The pictures she made __________ ago are still teaching us to see that __________ can always be found in the determination of human spirit.