【推荐1】I received a letter from a woman who lives in New York. She _______ that her 22-year-old electrician son went to Manhattan a few days after the September 11. 2001 terrorist attack. He wanted to _______ his services, but discovered that his _______ were not needed.

Joe may have _______ in a way he never expected. ON the train home, he sat across from a tired firefighter_______ with what appeared to be _______ and debris(碎片). Though he could see bits of rock in the man’s_______ and noticed that his hands were bloody, what_______the young man most was the look in the firefighter’s eyes. They appeared lifeless and _______.

Then the man began to talk and Joe listened. He talked about finding a shoe with a ________ inside, Joe listened. He talked about ________ debris from a face, then discovering this person’s body was gone. Joe listened. And as he listened, he didn’t ________ with disgust. He didn’t judge. He didn’t interrupt. He ________listened.

He listened as the firefighter talked about shoes… there were so many shoes, he said. Everywhere…shoes.

Through it all Joe ________ held the man’s attention and listened, which is exactly what the rescue worker ________ at that moment. And because he listened, the man ________ to speak. He talked his ________ out as much as possible. And Joe helped him carry his unbelievably heavy burden. That day Joe didn’t give blood, nor did he use his ________ skills to help . But he did one of the most ________ things a human can do for another .He gave a disheartened man his whole ________ , and thereby immeasurably assisted in the work of setting the world right.

【推荐2】As Ryan Lee Cox was waiting to pay for his coffee order at an Indiana, US fast food drive-through, he decided to try something he^’d seen on a TV news show - he paid for the coffee order of the driver in the car behind. The small _______ made the young businessperson feel _______, so he shared his experience on Facebook. An old friend suggested that _______ paying for people’s coffee, Ryan put that money towards helping school students pay off their delinquent(拖欠税款的) school lunch accounts. Sometimes because of _______ hardship, the accounts fall into _______ balance and the kids suffer. She got the idea after hearing that a Utah student was _______ lunch.

So the following week Ryan visited his nephew’s school _______ and asked if he could give some help, and _______ $100. Impressed by his _______, the supervisor began ________ fines before Ryan asked what the entire school’s balance for lunches was. It was $1261.98. “I’ll see you next Friday,^” he told the supervisor.

When he got home, Ryan shared what he had done on social ________, and that he ________ to help Lakeside Elementary have no lunch accounts in the negative. He set up a bank account and encouraged people to ________. Their target was ________ in a matter of days. With more than enough money to pay for Lakeside, Ryan ________ another school.

Within two weeks they had ________ $4142.82 and were able to help four schools. Inspired by people’s ________, Ryan organized a non-profit called Feed the Kids, Inc., which ________ a website, www.kidslunches.org, for people to start ________ for specific schools or to set up repeated payments to ________ a student. Today, this “paying it forward” organization is onto its fifth school.

【推荐3】There’s being a good neighbor，and then there’s going the extra mile.And in one Massachusetts neighborhood，the neighbors are pulling out all the stops.

Two years ago，about a ____ after Samantha was born，Glenda and Raphael Savitz learned their daughter was ____.“She was the first deaf person my husband and I had known，”Glenda，33，told the Boston Globe.“So it’s a surprise.____ .But I think I'm someone who’s ___ :OK.What do we do? She’s a week old.We’re going to be learning sign language.There was no ____ that it was going to be important to her development and her   __ .”

But the Savitz family weren’t the only ones who learned how to sign.Over 20 residents of their neighborhood in the town of Newton are   __   learning sign language.The residents   ___ an instructor on their own and ___   gather together in a living room to learn the language.The neighbors’desire to learn to ____ with Samantha is something that the Savitz family finds extremely ____ .

“One of the most emotional   __   having her is that I really learned about how much support and how much love there is here，”Glenda said.“People are ___   so much time and energy to learn a(n) ____ language because they’re dying to ____ my little girl.I don’t have   __   for that.”

Baby Sam already has friends all over the neighborhood.Henry Marshall，a 19-year-old Harvard freshman，told the Globe that Sam ___   with her child-size basketball hoop ____ he shoots hoops on his adult-size one.While he plays，she copies his movements and ____ the words for“play”and“friend.”

“It’s a special neighborhood，”Raphael Savitz told the Globe.”It’s just a really ____place.”

【推荐1】I'm a geologist. I have been researching changes in the Antarctic ice sheets to help governments plan for floods and other _________ of a changing climate.

I first met Tom on the tip of Antarctica. He is a professional mountaineer who _________ geologists with their research. We were _________ here together, hundreds of miles from anyone else, for a two-month _________. My task was simple: to collect rock _________ from as many peaks as possible. It is physically exhausting work, and not without _________，as some of the crevasse (裂缝)fields we crossed left me shaking. I relied on Tom for my _________ : my life was in his hands.

【推荐2】 I was driving on the freeway when I saw the sign. It ______drivers that chains would be required to cross the mountain. It took me quite some time to get the chains on. When I got to a spot where it was no longer snowing, I took the chains off so I could drive at a(n) ______ speed.

Suddenly, I ______ another snowy, icy patch of road. My car spun out into a snowdrift. I thought of ______ some tree branches and placing them under my tires, but it was so cold outside that my hands weren’t working ______ I got inside the car and called American Automobile Association (AAA).

A Russian man came up to my window and said hello. Before I could say too much, he and his three sons were already ______ to push my car. I got out of my car and ______them.

It was past midnight and they easily could have decided that AAA would ______ the situation after our initial ______ failed. Yet, they stayed with me for nearly 45 minutes as we kept trying ______ things to get the car out of the snow, insistent that they wouldn’t leave until I was ______.

At first, I was a little ______about being stuck in the freezing weather at such a late hour, but their cheerful attitude changed the whole ______ of the situation and lifted my spirits.

After nearly one hour of hard work when my car was finally free, they didn’t even ______ around long enough for me to get their names. They just ran toward their truck, ______ a bit on the ice, and yelled back “Drive slowly”, like true smile heroes!

【推荐3】I first become aware of the power of the mind over 40 years ago at a lecture by Konosuke Matsushita, who was regarded by many people as the “god of management".

During his lecture, Matsushita _______ his famous "dam management" theory, whose concepts are as follows. A river without a dam _______ during heavy rain and dries to a small river during droughts. _______ if we dam the river and store its water, we can gain _______ over the river so that we are no longer _______ the weather or the environment. The same _______ , he claimed, can be _______ to management He _______ that companies create reserves during times of plenty to ensure stable growth _______ scarcity（缺乏）.

________ in the back of the room, I could almost see a wave of dissent（异议）spread across the audience. "We can't do that. That's ________ we have to struggle night and day. If we had enough money to do that, things wouldn't be such a（n） __________. We already know we need to __________ . What we dorn't   we know is how to make ________ people whispered.

During the question and answer ________ at the end of Matsushita's talk, a man stood up voiced his frustration, "__________ dam-style management would be ideal if it were ________.   But it's not. If you aren't going to tell us howbuild a dam, what's the ________?"

Matsushita said simply, "To be ________, I don't know how either. I don't how but I still have to want to make one?¹ Although most of the people were clearly ________, I was shocked by his words. He had revealed a profound truth.

【推荐3】When I think of my childhood, I remember cycling with my friends and buying orange candies, but most of all, going home to see my grandma waiting at the doorstep and asking, “How was your day, bunny?”

Nana (I call my grandma Nana) saw me ________. She left me many great ________. She told me stories of the fairies and princesses but also of the wars and how she ________ those days.

Nana was born during the Second World War with a very different lifestyle and childhood from me. She didn’t get ________. In fact, she had to help with the housework. Even when her siblings (兄弟姐妹) got the ________ to learn, she would only watch them read and write. But she never ________. That is the most important lesson she had taught me.

She taught me to be ________ whatever things I had in my life. When I ________ to be selected in my school’s cheerleading team, I was very upset, but she made me realize that, if not in the cheerleading team, something else was out there in the world that was going to happen to ________, and it did. I ________ a state-level gymnast.

As years went by, Alzheimer’s disease (老年痴呆症) ate her from the ________. The ________ who once refused to call me by any name but her “little bunny”, now didn’t even remember what my ________ was. Soon, she forgot who I was until I sang Frank Sinatra’s Fly me to the Moon. The tiny spark (火花) of ________ in her eyes was what I ________. The little glimmer (微光) in her eyes meant that I was her “bunny” once again.

One day, the glimmer ________ disappeared from her eyes and that was the day when I knew I had lost my nana. On her last day on this earth, as I sat beside her bed watching her fall in and out of ________, I heard her hum Fly me to the Moon ________. That was the last time when I heard her ________, but I will keep it in my heart forever.

Nana took a piece of my childhood with her when she ________. She is my world, and I know she is proud of me.