【推荐1】One day, Howard Kelly, a poor boy who was trying to make his living by selling newspapers door to door ______   suddenly he found that he only had one dollar left on him. He was_______ hungry that he decided to beg for a meal at the next house. However, his face was ______ when a lovely young girl opened the door.   Instead of a meal, he just asked for a drink of water. But the girl knew that he was _____, so she brought him a large glass of   ___. He drank it quickly.

“_____ does it cost?” asked the boy.

“No penny,” answered the girl, “Mother told me never to receive anything for a kindness.”

“Then I am very ____ to you.” said the boy, leaving that house with many thanks. After a while, when he turned back, he was surprised to see the girl still standing there, smiling at him. ______he went, he would never forget her!

_____later, the young woman became seriously ill and she was sent to the hospital where Dr. Howard Kelly works. At the first______of her, he recognized her at once. ________he wish to tell her that he was the boy she gave milk years ago! From that day_______ he was determined to do his best to save her life. Every minute _____, the woman was quickly operated on.

After a long struggle, Dr. Kelly never gave up and in the end he made_______ in the operation. The woman recovered. Dr. Kelly asked to pass the final ____ to him for approval (批准). When the bill arrived at her, she was afraid to open it because she knew it would take the rest of her life to pay it _____. Finally to her_____, she tearfully read these words... “Congratulations______you! No Money! _____in full with a glass of milk!” _____by Dr. Howard Kelly.

【推荐2】Katie Stagliano was 9 years old and she was in the third grade. At the beginning of the new term, she began a gardening project as part of a school _________. Her teacher told her to plant vegetable seeds in her home garden. Katie took this work _________. She carefully planted the seeds and she felt _________ as she found three tiny green cabbage leaves grow to become a huge and 40-pound cabbage.

Later, as a(n) _________, Katie and other students started planting vegetable gardens throughout the community. They donated (捐赠) their _________ to the local soup kitchen. Katie dreamed of one day _________ her hobby into a harvest movement where the vegetable gardens would help support soup kitchens and food shelter organizations. She _________ ending food insecurity (不安全) worldwide by growing one vegetable garden.

In 2010, the only local soup kitchen in Katie’s community _________ because of money. The closure _________ her to turn her dream into a reality when she started Katie’s Krops. Through the non-profit (非营利的) organization, volunteers __________ meals using vegetables donated by the gardens, and anyone in __________ within the community was invited. In the beginning, Katie’s Krops hosted weekly community __________ that provided up to 200 meals at a time.

The student-run gardens __________ with Katie’s Krops now include 100 gardens across the United State. Totally, they have donated 500,000 pounds of fresh vegetables and have served more than 40,000 meals to those __________ with food insecurity.

In addition, the Katie’s Krops outdoor classroom provides gardening classes and hands-on __________ to children, adults and families. The organization hopes to teach children how to become good stewards (管家) of the Earth.

【推荐1】For the past 17 years, Raquel Radford Baker has been a school bus driver for the Dallas Independent School District. Last month, Baker saved the life of a 7-year-old boy who had a _________ moment on his way to school when he accidentally swallowed (吞咽) a coin and began to choke.

The _________, which was caught on tape, took place on September 29. Preston, a first grader, was sitting in his seat on the bus, when he suddenly sat up, _________ that the coin he had been holding above his open mouth had _________ his throat. He got up and walked to Baker at the front of the bus and tapped her for _________.

Initially, Baker thought Preston was sick, but _________, she heard him say something about a coin and she sprang into _________. She grabbed him from behind and carried him off the bus. When she got to a bench in front of the school, she told a nearby parent to call 911 as she started _________ first aid, which she’d _________ during the company’s training sessions. ____________ that moment, Baker, getting teary, said the only ____________ running through her mind was, “I have to save this boy. I have to save him.”

Thanks to her ____________, the coin was removed from Preston’s throat. Before that, however, Preston had gone ____________ and his face was turning blue. Baker continued first aid. That was when Preston said, “Miss Raquel, I’m okay. I can ____________ ” Baker said that moment brought great ____________. She immediately hugged him tight. Preston promised to never put coins in his mouth again.

【推荐3】Once we reach the age of 60 or 65, we all look forward to retirement and living a/an ______life. But that is not the plan for David Flucker from Scotland’s Edinburgh, who is 100-year-old. He______works three days a week at the St. Columba’s Hospice Care shop.

David ______ his 100 birthday this June, but went to work the next day______at the shop. David______ four hours traveling roundtrip to the shop, which he does______the weather. David started working in the ______ shop after he was______ with cancer and it took him two weeks to be cared for by the Hospice. He just wanted to pay it forward for the kindness he ______. “It is a ______feeling to be doing something, ” said the ______, who lives in Balgreen, Edinburgh.

“It is two buses and a 20-minute walk to get to the shop, ______two hours. I work three days a week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, which are the ______days.” The grandfather-of-seven says the shop in Occan Terminal gets a lot of donations such as toys, books, jigsaw puzzles, and he has to ______them all to sce if they’re OK. But what he loves the most is the ______aspect of his work-when people come in just to chat.

On 22 June, when the senior ______100, the store held a window display on his birthday showing a few glimpses of his life. The store______ a post on the official page of the store where David’s workspace ______. The post shows how David has become an/a ______ for many around the world. Shared on Facebook, the post got many likes and______ and left social media users amazed.

【推荐2】One winter, a homeless dog called Shavi was left to die on the streets of south-west Russia after being ________ by a driver. With two broken legs, she was taken to a pet clinic for ________ by a volunteer from One Green Planet. After launching an appeal to find someone who could look after Shavi, the vet found Nina who ________ her and nursed her back to health, working on regaining her confidence and ________.

Due to work commitments, Nina couldn’t keep Shavi and instead found her a new ________ 185 miles away, near the Russian border. However, after just a few days, Shavi ________ from there.

Two weeks later, while walking along the road outside her home, Nina felt something brush up against her leg. Realizing it was Shavi, she was so ________ and excited. The dog had made the almost 200-mile journey back to the woman who had saved her life and legs.

The pair lived together and moved into a bigger apartment so Shavi had plenty of room to play. “Of course, she has now remained with us for good. I would never give this kind of friend away again. ________ are the most loyal and loving companions in the world. For every drop of human love, they ________ give all of theirs in return, and I know that from personal experience. Shavi is just like a ________ to me.” Nina said.