【推荐1】Many years ago I had a lovely pet dog whom we called Chiku. He was always sensitive to ________. As soon as he heard a little noise, he would start barking. He________playing with his ball and we had trained him to do some ball tricks. When we________the ball, he would rush to bring it back.

He was always very playful, but ________one day in April he did not ________to our call and seemed unwilling to move________we tried to play with him.

He ate little food and seemed sleepy and________most of the time. Seeing his________ , my mom suggested taking him to a vet. We did so and the vet guessed that he had a fever and ________us to do blood tests.

Everything ________to be normal, but he was not himself. On our second visit, the vet could________ a lump (肿块) under the stomach. After a series of tests, it was________as cancer of the stomach. The vet said that dog cancer is________to human cancer and the animal also suffers a lot like humans.

After taking medicine, he did not show any________of healing. The vet had no treatment for him as the cancer had started ________. Seeing our cheerful dog suffer was a________to us. He was so obedient that he would run out for toilet when he was well. ________, a stage had come when it was very________for him to move. The fine morning when we went to his room, he was lying there motionless (不动的).

We thanked God that he ________peacefully without much suffering. We had tried to give him the best comfort and ________during his last days.

【推荐2】I settled into my seat on a plane bound for Cuba feeling annoyed. When I planned the trip， I had______ that my Cuban partners and I would hit the ground， heading to the field straight away to collect samples（ 样 本 ） . That’ s how I’ d done fieldwork in other places. But ______ in Cuba， it seemed. Five days earlier， a Cuban scientist informed me that we’ d only be meeting to ______ our planned project. Sampling would happen during a later trip. That left me feeling ______ . Why did I need to travel there to have a meeting？ But I had something to ______ in Cuba.

At the airport， one of my Cuban partners greeted me with a （ an）______ smile， a strong handshake and a warm hug. Then we drove to the research center. We ______ every lab in the building. I met scientists， secretaries， students， and the cook. I was ______ to each person in their center.

The next day， we met again to brainstorm. Had it not been for the Cubans， I wouldn’ t have been____ that the maps I had were outdated and wrong. It was a big problem and our results would have been ____ . Local involvement（ 参 与 ） and knowledge were ______ — making me wonder what I’ d missed working without such a ______ in Africa， South America， and the Arctic.

Six months later， I flew back to Cuba and— this time— we headed directly into the _______ . We drove around Cuba in bright yellow vans （厢式货车） ， and we made sure that each van had a ______ of Cubans and Americans at all age and position levels. In the field students， scientists and technicians all______ together. At night， we searched for a restaurant that could seat all 14 of us at one ______—because that’ s what teams do， they sit together.

In 26 years as a professor， I’ ve always tried my best to treat my students as ______ partners. But my Cuban partners take teamwork to another ______ entirely. They make it clear— through actions both big and small— that all team members were treated ______ and that true teamwork ______ better science.

【推荐3】Simply saying thank you doesn’t seem enough in certain situations. I was considering this while working as a ________ just a few weeks ago. And it came to me then how much easier it would be if we had a range of words that express different ________ of gratitude (感谢).

My thoughts were soon ________ . We had a woman patient who was ________ from a knee replacement operation.

One afternoon, while attempting to get into bed she collapsed (倒下) from what was ________ discovered to be a heart attack. The collapse was disastrous, ________ the emergency medical team and good teamwork. But she recovered, though ________ , and was ready for discharge (出院) after four weeks.

She was ________ for everything that the medical and nursing team had done for her. On her day of discharge, we shared in her ________ at her recovery. As she was leaving she was eager to say goodbye to each of us in the nursing team. When she ________ one nurse, she tried to press a five-pound note into her hand. My colleague ________ to accept it, saying that we were all just doing our job. The patient looked puzzled, and then ________ : “Oh this isn’t for the care I had. I take that as a ________ . No, this is for setting my hair yesterday.”

And there you have it. To many people, ________ lives is part of the job but styling hair is an ________ and should be rewarded.

【推荐3】On a Monday morning, I parked my car outside my doctor’s clinic. I felt _____ and I carefully practiced what I wanted to tell my doctor.

I was depressed. I had tried to pick myself up, and tried to focus on my art. _____ these efforts, my depression didn’t go away. It kept _____ like a cancer in my inner world. I wanted a normal _____. I wanted to be as healthy as my son, Kai, who was depending on me. I took a few deep breaths and went into the clinic for my appointment.

After I returned to my car, I shut the car door. I started _____ uncontrollably. My doctor said I had severe depression and needed to take medicine. I had to make some big _____ to get better.

Still sobbing, I was _____ to hear a knock on my car door. A slim lady with short fair hair _____ opened it and began to speak kindly to me. “I don’t know what you’re _____ right now. But I wish you well and I believe you will be ______ and what you are going through will pass,” she said. “Can I give you a hug?” There I accepted this kind stranger’s comforting hug. All I ______ to reply in a choked voice was “Thank you”. This was the most significant act of ______ that I had ever experienced from a stranger. It gave me hope. My ______ started right there.

About a year later, I ran across the same kind lady at an art exhibition. She ______ me and smiled. She said she could tell I was doing well. We ______ again, and once more I could express my appreciation for her kind behaviour.

【推荐1】Many years ago, when we were a young couple with two small children, we were practically _______. My parents lived a great distance away, and I was too _______ to let them know about our situation.

My husband was trying to earn a _______ with an old pick-up truck, carrying groceries for local shopkeepers, but it was _______ breaking down. It took almost all the money we had to have it _______.

One evening, I stepped outside to take a bag of trash to the barrel and almost _______ over something. It was nearly dark and I had to _______ down to see what it was. I could _______ believe my eyes. There sat a large basket _______ with food.

It was heavy, so I called my husband to carry it into the house. Once ________ we discovered two loaves of bread, some butter, several cans of vegetables and a large turkey. They were what we needed to fix a wonderful dinner — everything except ________.

Later I took the trash to the barrel. I turned on the yard light and that was when I ________ a small bag of potatoes sitting on the porch.

That dinner was the best I could remember. We weren’t able to thank our ________, though, because we never found out who had been so ________ to help a struggling young family. Whoever it was, we are forever ________.

【推荐2】Colin Coleman was a 16-year-old employee who had been working for 6 months at a Kroger grocery store where Josh York_______does the shopping, so they became_______with each other. Unluckily, Josh York has impaired_______, so he needs some help to see the products at the grocery store.

One day when Josh went to Kroger for his_______grocery shopping, Colin recognized him and immediately began to guide him around the store and help him find what he_______. He didn’t stop until Josh’s_______was entirely checked off. Colin guided the shopping cart around_______that could be obstacles. Throughout this moment of_______, Colin and Josh were overheard making small talk and finding out one another’s lives.

Another customer saw this_______act and took a picture of it, where the two really worked together as a(n)____________to get the shopping done. The picture____________being posted on the social media, where it received 46 thousand likes, and 9.9 thousand shares.

Josh York really____________Colin’s actions, not just because he helped him around the store, but because Colin made sure to____________the experience with respect and kindness. Colin often helps____________out, especially Josh. Even though Colin doesn’t seem impressed with his own kind behavior, lots of other people felt their____________ are lifted because of him.

【推荐3】I was out in my fields, spade (锹) in hand, planting trees this morning. I feel _________ when I do it, knowing that long after I am gone, these trees will stand high above the land, _________ oxygen for humans not yet born.

Each spring, as I am _________, my mind goes back to a (n) _________ I have of my grandfather: walking with him on the land, listening to his _________ and learning about nature. He often told a story which has _________ in my imagination all these years.

It was in the early 1900s, a man lost his wife and daughter to a terrible disease. Filled with _________, he decided to act as a _________ shepherd (牧羊人) in the hills. He was about 55 years of age at that time, and as he _________ his sheep, he looked around and saw the land was ____________. Then the old man felt he needed to do something to help the land ____________, for it had once been a splendid green forest.

He collected some ____________ of oak trees from other places, ____________ watered them and cared for the young trees that sprouted (发芽) the next year. For the rest of his life, he planted every day. No one knew his story until he was 90 years old. Yet he ____________ to plant, perhaps only five trees a day. At that time, the hill had become a green forest, ____________ as far as people could see.