【推荐1】Dmitry was an artist. He lost his sketchbook (速写本) while ________ to meet a friend. Containing a decade of his work and being a visual account of the 40 year old artist’s life, the sketchbook was ________ to him.

Dmitry felt a deep sense of loss when he found his sketchbook missing. ________ the sketchbook must have fallen out of his bicycle’s back basket, he ________ set out to find it but had no luck.

Then he decided to ________ social media. He shared a post to a community group on Facebook, detailing his ________. A few other community-oriented Facebook groups reshared the post.

________, as Dmitry was looking for it, a man named Chris found the sketchbook.   As he looked through the pages, he realized the ________ of the artwork. Because he could find no name or address on it, Chris ________ hanging the sketchbook on the tree near where he found it, but feared rain might ruin it. So he took the sketchbook home, hoping to find a way to ________ the owner. Then he saw Dmitry’s Facebook ________. Chris immediately contacted Dmitry.

“And then I lectured him like his elder,” Chris ________. “I told him, ‘Put your name and number in it!’”

Dmitry tried to present Chris with a finder’s ________ but Chris refused, saying he was simply ________ to complete an act of kindness.

“I am left with a deep sense of ________,” said Dmitry.

【推荐2】Years ago, just as I do every winter, I was bagging up the clothing my sons had outgrown. It is always my _________ to re-purpose those things that do nothing more than _________ space.

I found an ugly pair of hand-knitted socks. I had to _________ — garbage or donation? Not being unusable, they were simply _________ to look at. I put them in the garbage, but minutes later, I took them back.

Later that afternoon, _________ up the car with clothes, I drove to a local shelter. As I distributed them, I _________ into the bag and pulled out the last of the donations — the ugly socks. _________, I held them in my hand as the crowd of the homeless went away, each with a _________ smile. Just as I was about to drop the socks back into the empty bag, _________myself for even bringing them along for the __________, a teenage boy walked up to me. “Can I have these socks?” he asked. A little __________ that I hadn’t anything left to give him except for these socks, I replied, “Of course.” “Thank you!” he said__________. “These socks remind me of my grandmother. She used to knit stuff like this for me!”

Not only were his feet __________ that day but so was his heart — and mine. To this day, the socks continue to bring me __________. It’s a proof that there is happiness in life’s simplest things, and we’ll never know how much we get until we’ve __________ those things with others.

【推荐1】Residents of a Wiltshire town have created a vertical living garden to fight pollution. The wall of plants has been_________to the side of a shop in Bridge Yard in the center of Bradford-on-Avon.

Stephanie Edwards_________the idea and brought it to the town council to put into_________. “As a matter of fact, the plants have_________with them insects, and we’ve had a couple of birds sitting up there so it’s_________for sure and we must not forget the_________of health and well being,”she said.

The wall had been in the_________since 2019 and took about five days to construct. The wall is _________seasonal plants, low energy LED lighting, birdhouses and bug hotels.

Alex Kay said the living wall had a number of beneficial_________. “I don’t think that anyone will guarantee that this will solve our air quality situation, but it will__________it,” she said. “It’s not just the traffic and the__________quality, but this is about well being. This is good for the__________.”

James Sullivan-Tail your, who owns the nearby Swan Hotel, said he was really__________with the wall. “I think it’s__________a cleaner town, a nicer town, but also something__________that is going to attract visitors as well,”he added.

【推荐2】Delwyn Collins grew up in the projects of Fort Worth, Texas, considered to have disability in learning. He was sent to a special school for education where his teachers found that Collins was a genius at _______. Today Collins is 52 years old, working as a cafeteria worker at Tampa General Hospital. However, he never stops thinking about how to reward the care and help that he _______ when he was kid in Fort Worth. That’s why he is an angel to hundreds of foster children (养子女) in Florida. These children -many with _______needs and often moved from home to home-_______much at Collins’s heart. This Christmas will mark the 21st year he has set up a Foster Angel’s Giving Tree decorated with paper angels _______the first names, ages, and gender of foster children and the gifts each child would like to receive.

Collins is a man without much income, but each week he will_______ a certain account of his salary to buy gifts to put under the tree. “I just want to show these children there is somebody in the community who _______ them.” His _______ has inspired the doctors, nurses, and administrators he works with to make the Giving Tree a priority. Hospital employees and visitors take an angel off the _______ and buy the present the child has ________ long before the arrival of Christmas.

As Christmas ________, bicycles, dolls, clothes, and video games begin to overflow the cafeteria. In recent years, the ________ has begun to receive presents from ________ throughout the county.

More than 1,000 ________ in foster care in and around Tampa received gifts last year. “We shouldn’t care if we re rich or poor when we ________ others.” says Collins.

【推荐3】About five years ago, I was part of a pilot (试点的) group for my company. The group’s task is to _________ and guide people with disabilities and make them _________ in work.

I led the _________ process and hired a candidate with autism (自闭症). Before that, we only hired physically impaired (有缺陷的) people. Despite the candidate’s _________ for our company, our interview panel felt that this disability would prevent him from _________ skills and succeeding in his position.

I _________ my peers to give him a role. Our HR department didn’t support us to take the _________ so we could only hire him as a temporary employee.

The candidate slowly and surely _________ in the workplace and I gave him a lot of _________. Having experienced many setbacks, the candidate was __________ accepted by his colleagues and his leadership. I __________ to guide him closely, helping him __________ many challenges his disability presented at work and at home. The candidate also won __________ and many friends at the workplace. Five years passed in a flash, and he __________ me last night, telling that he got a formal offer yesterday from his manager as a(n) __________ employee with a job title.

I congratulated him and told him how __________ I was with his success. He said, “Sir, without your __________ all these years, I would not be here.” I told him “Your success is the __________ of your hard work and persistence. You are a(n) __________ to a lot of people with disabilities.”

How wonderful it is for a disabled person to succeed in his work and make his family __________!