【推荐1】Every Saturday, my mom and dad picked me up from school in a yellow car. What happened last time stayed ________ in my mind.

As I slid into the back seat as usual, my dad tried to ________the car. It gave several dry ________, and then the engine stopped turning over. My dad sat in ________, and my mom turned around, asking me what we should do. Eight years old, I, without ________, told her that we had to wait for a yellow butterfly to touch the car ________ it would work again. She only smiled, and then she ________ with my dad what to do next. Finally, dad attempted to go to the nearest ________ for help. I remember him carrying a container of gas, ________ up the car and ________ the car wouldn’t start. My mom then got out of the car, waving to stop a taxi. ________ taking us home, the driver squirted (喷洒)some gas on the engine, which seemed to do the ________ -- our car started right away.

Along the way, I fell into a sound sleep. Suddenly, mom ________ me all excited and let out a cry, her voice full of ________. Opening my eyes, I turned to where she was ________.

Fluttering around the rearview mirror (后视镜)was a tiny yellow butterfly.

【推荐2】On December 20, in Newdale, a series of huge waves caused by an undersea Earthquake raced across the ocean near Goldshore. Worse still, it _______ thousands of deaths. Goldshore Beach was the only local beach to _______ the disaster without any loss of life. A 10-year-old girl, Sabrina Andron, helped around 100 people escape danger with her _______ of tsunamis.

The day began like any other on Goldshore Beach. People were walking, running or simply sitting on the sandy beach, _______ the warm sea air and enjoying the soft _______ that brushed their hair. Sabrina was one of the happy tourists until she noticed something _______ . “The water was like the bubbles (气泡) on the top of a beer,” she later explained. “It wasn’t _______. I mean it wasn’t going in and then out as usual. It just kept coming in and in and in.” It struck her that these were the _______ of an upcoming tsunami, which Sabrina had just learnt about in a geography lesson.

Sabrina was _______, but she soon calmed herself down. She warned her parents of the ________, though at first they thought she was just ________. However, Sabrina was certain that a terrible disaster was ________ and kept asking her parents to talk to a safety officer. To her great relief, the officer ________ realized the coming danger. Soon, all the people on the beach was rapidly ________ just before the huge waves ________ into the coast.

【推荐2】One day, the sewer line (污水管道) under our house burst. My first _______ was to call the plumber (水管工)．I expected the man to _______ of such a miserable job._______, he simply asked, “The address?”

An hour later, Steve arrived in his truck. I _______ anxiously as he walked down into the damp depths. A few moments later he_______, saying, “It’s broken.”

“Can you fix it?” I asked with a mixture of doubt and _______.

Steve looked at me as if scolding me for my lack of   _______ saying, “Sure.” Then he told me that he had to get a backhoe (挖土机) and   _______the street to the main sewer line and that it wouldn’t be done until evening.

I felt somewhat_______upon driving off in my clean vehicle, leaving Steve to such a(n) ________task. I went into town and visited a few friends.________, around 6 p.m., my curiosity got the better of me. I went home and saw a sweeter________: the newly-paved street and a covered-up excavation across my front garden.

I sat down, lost in________. I was taken by the very idea that, sometimes terrible things might happen to an unlucky homeowner, ________ there is always somebody who is ________in its solution.

【推荐3】Postman Billy heard about Alfie Whitehouse’s heartbreak after the extremely sad 11-year-old boy wrote a letter to Heaven because of his parrot’s death. The postman then wrote a(n) _________ on social media in an effort to raise funds in order to help Alfie.

Alfie was _________ with ADHD (儿童多动症) three years ago. He was heartbroken when his parrot _________. After losing his _________ friend, Alfie, who lives in Sheerness, an island in Kent, wrote a letter _________ to Heaven. Then he _________ it in his nearest post-box. Billy found the letter on his collection round and shared it with his _________, Graham, after reading the address. The two postmen decided to share the _________ on the Internet to find Alfie and get the islanders to come together and _________ him.

After __________ Alfie’s mum, Mrs Springate, Billy set up a fundraising (募捐) page in the __________ of raising enough money to replace the youngster’s pet bird. Soon after a local man, Stephen Platt, asked if Alfie would like to have his late mother’s parrot, Stanley. He even bought a new __________ for Stanley.

Mr Platt, __________ the cage with Stanley, met Alfie in person earlier this month for the first time. Alfie understood that the __________ was given to him but he didn’t quite understand why. He was just really __________ that he had got him. He spends all his time with Stanley now. He sits with him for about an hour each night, __________ him a bedtime story. He’s got a friend __________. It’s not the friend he had but he’s now got another friend.

Mrs Springate said, “I want to say a __________ ‘thank you’, although that doesn’t seem like enough to show our __________. We just want to thank every single person who has helped make this happen. It’s more heart-warming than anything else. There are some really __________ people on this Island.”