【推荐1】The first time my grandma came to visit us in Canada, she was a little upset. She ________ that there was nothing to do.

Before my grandma arrived, I used to tend the flowers in our garden. But while I was at school and my parents were at work, my grandma, feeling ________, came down upon the little piece of land. She pulled out the annuals and ________ those with orderly rows of green onions and other ________. I told her to stop, to keep the flowers. “They’re pretty, but they're ________,” she said matter-of-factly. I was annoyed until I learned something about her past.

Grandma was ________ at the time of a severe famine (饥荒). She lost her parents and did everything on her own. _______, she never cried about it to anyone.

Different times ________ unique characters. My grandma was shaped by the ________ of her family members and the difficulties in China’s recent history. Those who experienced the famine are, ________, unwilling to use valuable land to plant flowers. Her ________, responsibility, diligence and frugality (勤俭), helped her through those difficult years, some of which were laid down by the hands of time, and to change them now would ________ her. She is a (n) ________ link between my family’s past and future—she ________ her times’ challenges to support the next generation. Someday, I will be like my grandma and ________ my small part to human’s moving on.

【推荐2】Tunde was struggling to make her dream of being a nurse come true. However, it seemed that her _________ was just getting worse. With only $5 in her pocket, her car _________ gas on the side of the road. _________, with gas can in hand she started walking to the closest gas _________ to get some gas for her car.

Just then Chris, a total stranger _________ to Tunde, saw her and felt she needed _________. So he gave her a lift, filled her tank and _________ her all the money he had in his pocket. Tunde felt someone in the unseen world had sent her this _________ stranger, but what she didn’t know was that this was just the _________ of her good luck.

Three years later Tunde was working as a nurse aid and was __________ a woman named Judy Wright. Tunde __________ shared the story of the stranger with Judy and her family and was __________ when Judy’s son Chris realized and told that he was the man who had __________ her up. The families knew that fate had. __________ them back together for Tunde to care for Judy in her final __________.

After Judy passed away, the family wanted to __________ Tunde and show her how much she __________ to them. So instead of flowers they asked people to send __________ to help Tunde pay for her nursing school. And when you see her reaction to this very big __________, you’ll be in tears. In the end, Tunde had enough money to __________ her dream.

【推荐3】In a small town in Oklahoma, many people have lost their jobs because of Covid-19. They do not have as much _______ as they used to. Therefore, in some restaurants, customers pay for their meals, and then they add another food item for someone who cannot _______ it.

On the _______ in a restaurant named The Daug House are receipts (收款单) for the _______ meals. Someone who is hungry can come in, choose one from the receipts and have something to eat. This is what the customers are doing now to _______ others. When they pay for their meals, they can_______ another food item.

Jennifer, owner of the restaurant, started the idea of the _______ wall. Her restaurant has eight tables, _______ only a few people can visit at one time. But in six months, customers have bought 600 _________ meals.

Customers who had no money would take down the receipts to eat and then later returned to ________ more meals, so someone else could eat. Jennifer remembered when a poor ________ came in with their children recently. “They sat there to just have a meal ________, not worrying about how much they were having to pay.”

“That says a lot about how ________ our community is,” Jennifer said. “The small town has been hurt by the ________ crisis(危机). But I believe it will soon return to normal activities. We ________ by helping others.”

【推荐1】Nicole Salgado and her family woke up due to a burst of panic knocking at the front door of their home in Avondale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, and she didn’t know it. “We were all ________,” Salgado said. “Then suddenly we heard banging on our door and our doorbell was going off. And we got ________.”

Salgado, a mother of four, ran to check on the kids ________ her husband hurried to the front door. There, he found their neighbor, Carolyn Palisch, ________ the family to leave the house. He opened the door and Carolyn said their house was on fire and told them to leave. Salgado ________ grabbed her kids and escaped from the burning home.

Making sure that everyone was out, they realized the full ________. They were just in ________ as they watched their home burning. Minutes after they escaped, the roof collapsed (坍塌) and ________ filled their home. Firefighters said if the family had still been sleeping, they would have breathed the smoke and immediately ________.

“We are so ________ to be alive,” Salgado said. The doorbell camera ________ the moment Palisch saved their lives. Salgado decided to post the video to ________ with the world what Palisch did for them. In the footage (摄像头), Palisch is seen yelling outside the Salgado family’s door, surrounded by smoke and flames. She ________ to pound at the door until she is able to help the family escape. “If it weren’t for her, it’d be a totally ________ story. We feel so thankful to her. Her ________ and commitment saved our whole family.”

【推荐2】On a cold afternoon in January 2015, Yesenia Diosdado, 11, got off a school bus in Lenexa, Kansas, near the apartment building where she lives with her family. When the _________ pulled away, Yesenia saw police and emergency workers attending to _________ of a three-car accident that had happened at a busy crossroads nearby. Yesenia _________ a small crowd of onlookers across the street.

She noticed that a(n) _________ woman was trying to _________ with an Emergency Medical Service worker using sign language, but he couldn’t understand her. “I heard him _________ an interpreter (翻译员),” Yesenia says.

She ran over to the paramedic (护理人员) to _________— her mother, a former sign language interpreter, had _________ her and her sisters how to _________ (no one in the family is hearing-impaired).

“She said, ‘I sign. Can I help?’” says EMS captain Chris Winger. “I was __________.”

Yesenia was able to __________ to the emergency worker that the woman’s neck was injured and tell them the name of the local hospital she preferred. “She looked really __________,” says Yesenia. “I’m proud that I got to do something to help.”

When her mother, Susan Milidore, 36, heard about Yesenia’s brave actions, she wasn’t surprised. “It’s in her __________ to help,” says Susan. “I was impressed that she recognized the __________ of the situation and took charge. Most adults wouldn’t have done that.”

A few weeks later, paramedics __________ Yesenia with a gold coin and a certificate (证书) of appreciation at her elementary school.

“My mom always says that you never know when sign language might come in handy,” says Yesenia. “That day, it did.”

【推荐3】Chicago was hit with a snowstorm over the weekend. and Jahmal Cole’s _________ blew up with messages from early neighbors: They need _________ shoveling (铲雪) in front of their homes. So Cole sent out a(n) _________ online Friday night asking for 10 volunteers to come to his neighborhood, Chatham, to shovel the snow that was _________.

When he went to the train station Saturday morning to see whether anyone had _________ to assist, he couldn’t believe what he saw. About 120 people stood on the platform, many with shovels, _________ to work. Many volunteers were from outside Chicago. One man had _________ taken a bus from Indiana. He sent them out to dozens of addresses where snow needed to be _________.

“When you’re getting such emails, you don’t want to _________ people,” said Cole. “This was literally me trying to help out the neighbors. I wanted to make a campaign next time __________ more people to take action.”

After shoveling dozens of sidewalks and walkways, a __________ that lasted until 3p.m. that afternoon. Cole and the volunteers went out together to have lunch at a neighborhood restaurant. To their __________ , an unknown customer paid the bill for their nice __________.

“I’m __________ of our city,” Cole said, “People could have been home with families or making snowmen, but they came out to help, which __________ the spirit rooted in the city.”

【推荐3】It was hard not to notice the 8-year-old boy across the street who stormed in and out of his own house. He did it often enough that a neighbor, William Dunn,_____ what was going on in his life. So Dunn asked him. “He told me that he didn’t have a father,” says Dunn, now 58, “and I____ there might be something I could do for him.” That something was fishing, a hobby Dunn’s father had_____ him. “Fishing always brought me peace and it taught me how to be____. When you’re on the ____, you can forget about your_____just appreciate the moment.” Dunn got permission from the boy’s mother to take him______.

One Saturday afternoon on the water led to another, and soon he was_____other kids in their Lakeland, Florida, neighborhood how to fish. Most didn’t have______ figures in their lives and had never fished before. Some were foster_____who had moved from one home to the next. They had been through a lot and their lives were______. But when they were fishing, all unhappiness_____. Out on the boat, they’d be_____and making new friends.

“I’ m able to forget about the past when I’ m fishing and concentrate on something fun and _____,” says Smith, a foster kid. “I’ve learned that I deserve a better life than what I had______ fishing. Whenever I feel down, I know it’s time to go fishing.”