【推荐1】The mission of Faces of Santa Ana is to lovingly engage the homeless through art. In July 2015, Brian Peterson and his wife had just moved to Santa Ana, California with a burning desire in their hearts to love their neighbors. Outside the couple’s fourth-floor apartment, a(n)____ man was often yelling on the street corner, sometimes keeping them ______ at night. Peterson, 28, would pass the guy on his way to work as a car designer, but they never _____ .

One day, Peterson was relaxing in his living room, reading the book Love Does, about the power of love in action, when his ____ disturbed by the homeless man. _____ by the book’s compassionate (有同情心的) message, Peterson made a(n)_____ decision: He was going outside to introduce himself.

In that first _____, Peterson learned that the man’s name was Matt Faris. He’d moved to Southern California to pursue a career _____, but he soon fell on hard times and _____ living on the street for more than a decade.

“It was a strange thing to me,” Peterson recalled later. “I saw ______ on the face of a man who hadn’t shaved in probably a year. And the ______ inside of him inspired me. ”______ Peterson, a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, hadn’t picked up a paintbrush in about eight years, he found himself asking if he could ______ Faris’s portrait. And Faris said yes.

Peterson’s _____ with Faris led him to form Faces of Santa Ana, a nonprofit organization focused on _____ and painting portraits of members of the community who are unhoused. Peterson sells the 30-by-40-inch canvas(画布) — signed by both subject and artist—for a few thousand dollars, and put half into what he calls a “love account” for his _____.

Many of Peterson’s new friends use the donations to secure immediate ____ — medical care, hotel rooms, food. Faris used the funds from his portrait to record an album, realizing his ____ dreams.

Peterson has painted 41 of these portraits himself. He’s discovered that the buyers tend to connect to the story of the person in the painting, finding ______ and often friendship with someone they might have otherwise overlooked. “People often tell me, ‘I was the one that would cross the street. But I see homeless people ____ now,” Peterson says. “I didn’t know that would happen. ”

【推荐3】In the days when an ice cream cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a hotel coffee shop and _________ at a table. A waitress _________ him a glass of water. “How much is an ice cream?” “50 cents,” _________ the waitress. The little boy pulled his hand out of his pocket, asking “_________ is a dish of plain ice cream?” Some people were now waiting for a _________ and the waitress was a bit _________. “35 cents,” she said quickly. The little boy again counted the _________. “I’ll have the plain ice cream,” he said. The waitress brought the ice cream, put the _________ on the table and walked away.

The boy finished the ice cream, paid the cashier and left. When the waitress came back, she began _________ the table and then was moved to tears at what she saw. There, on the table, placed neatly beside the empty __________, were 15 cents — her tip.

【推荐1】It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and _______ to make a real difference. But all that changed when I _______ my good-deed-a-day project.

My daughter, Emily, was my primary _______. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be happy.

The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could _______it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I _______   a blind man in the subway station. He smiled as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a local nursing home... I could only hope I was arousing _______ in others.

Luckily, after just a few days I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a/an _______.

Every evening at the dinner table, I _______ that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began copying what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she _______ to a neighbor’s pot of geraniums (天竺葵), which had toppled (摇晃) in the wind, and set it right. “That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect ________ from our neighbors for the food bank. We dropped off the food and, ________ we drove away, Emily announced ________ that she wanted to work there one day.

By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely ________ that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second ________ . I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need, ________ looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.

【推荐2】North Carolina mom Hannah Jarvis is thanking the kind stranger. The stranger saved her 7-month-old daughter, Calli, from _________ while her family was eating dinner at Golden Corral. According to Hannah’s post, a woman named Debra acted fast when she saw Calli choking on a bite of potato.

“I immediately _________ my daughter out of her high chair and started pounding(反复击打) on her _________, but I wasn’t doing it right and so I started to _________,” Hannah told POPSUGAR. “My mother started to do the same: holding her upside down, hitting her back, but _________. At that time, we were all in a panic. Then, Debra _________ and did the Heimlich manoeuvre(海姆立克急救法) properly.”

_________ that her daughter survived the incident, Hannah shared on the social media just how grateful she is.

“If it weren’t for Debra Rouse, my daughter probably would have been _________ away in an ambulance(救护车) today,” Hannah wrote. “My family and I can’t thank you enough for helping. My daughter has been seen to the ER and is perfectly _________ now. I will never forget the tears that were shed today at Golden Corral as this __________ stepped in. Most importantly, thank you for hearing our __________ cries for Calli this evening.”

Thanks to the power of social media, the post eventually __________ it onto Debra’s screen, and she left a sweet reply in the __________ section. “Good evening Mrs. Hannah, I saw the news article and I messaged you my number! I’m __________ that Calli is doing well, you all have been on my mind since yesterday! Love you all and take care.”

Hannah and Debra have been keeping speaking with each other regularly since then. “We actually met up in Asheville the day after the incident. I’m just so thankful for __________ Debra to us that day!”