【推荐1】Life can feel terribly unfair. And yet for some people, when life hands them the ________ possible circumstance, they are at their absolute best.

Jessie Joy Rees is just such a ________. Athletic and outgoing, Jessie had her whole world in front of her ________ she was diagnosed with an inoperable brain cancer in 2021.

Three weeks into her ________, Jessie asked an extraordinary mature question for such a young girl. She looked out at the other children who were also ________ cancer treatment and asked her parents, “How can we ________ them?” She wanted to ________ other kids who were suffering treatment. She wanted them to be happy, no matter what. The morning after her diagnoses, Jessie was at the kitchen table ________ bags of toys for other cancer patients. “She was determined to make other cancer kids ________.” her father Erik tenderly remembers.“How could we not help?”

Soon, the bags became plastic jars ________ with toys, crafts and activities to ________ children while they are in the hospital for treatment. ________ named JoyJars using Jessie’s middle name, JoyJars ________ a little bit of fun, but mostly they contain a little bit of Jessie’s ________ that fills the room every time one is opened. One mother sent a tender thank-you note: “JoyJars have helped ________ our spirits during Travis’ ongoing battle with his brain cancer.”

【推荐1】Helen was sitting in the garden one evening when she heard a loud crash. As she walked to the front of the house, she could see a small crowd ________ on the road outside. A 19-year-old boy was ________ in a pool of blood near a crashed motorbike. His leg was bleeding ________.

Helen had ________ a British Red Cross first aid course. She used her training to make a quick judgement of the situation. And then she ________ back inside her home to get lots of thick towels to stop the bleeding.

Helen raced back to the scene, ________ in hand. Someone had called an ________, but the other people were afraid to come forward and ________ her. She used the towel as best as she could to apply pressure to the wounded ________ until help arrived.

Helen successfully managed to ________ the bleeding while waiting for help to arrive. Before long the ambulance crew were at the scene.

________, doctors weren’t able to save the boy’s leg. But they did save his life — and Helen’s ________ played an important role. Without the simple but ________ first aid skills Helen used, the result of this crash could have been far ________.

“I take comfort in the fact that knowing first aid helped me to ________ a stranger’s life,” said Helen proudly.

【推荐3】Nicholas Bostic was on his way to get gas one night when he saw some flames rising from the front of a house in Lafayette, Indiana. He stepped on his_______, turned his car around and pulled into the driveway. Then he,_______he’d left his phone at home and couldn’t dial 911.

The_______man jumped out of his car and tried to_______another driver, but the person just_______him, driving away. He ran to the back of the house alone, found an/a_______door, and rushed inside. All he saw was smoke.

“Anybody here? Get out! Get out! Fire!” Bostic_______.

He didn’t hear any_______and was about to leave when he saw a/an_______at the top of the stairs with some younger kids. Seionna Barrett, 18, was babysitting her three________while their parents were out. Bostic________everyone outside, but then Seinna told him a baby was________. He searched________for the baby in the next few________ . Eventually, when he got to the stairs that led downstairs, he heard some weak________. The staircase was full of smoke, and the heat seemed________, so he hesitated for a moment before rushing down the stairs. Invisibly, he________his breath and followed the crying in the________, until he reached the baby and quickly rushed her out.

________, Bostic had saved four girls in under 15 minutes. There’s only one way to ________his devoted deed: courageous and heroic.

【推荐1】A 7-year-old girl, Bella Smith, had thought all kids had a happy childhood like her. Then one day she was told that a girl of her age had never __ a birthday party because her family couldn’t __ it. Hearing that, she felt, __ to her family for being able to hold birthday parties for her, but she also felt sorry for those who couldn't even had a birthday celebration because of __ issues.

So she went to her mom, Marlana Evans, and they __ an idea. That’s how they decided to start Bella’s Boxes, a(n) __ through which they made birthday boxes for children whose families were badly off.

The boxes were __ with balloons, cake mix, candies, and sprinkles inside. Most of these were donated by the local community. Bella couldn’t be shocked more that the community had joined in her __ .

As the girl’s mother __ , Bella is always ready to reach out to help others in need. Bella, whose birthday is on March 26, only asks for more __ for her project every year.

___, the girl had to stop her project for a while because of the pandemic(流行病), though they had already more than 70 birthday boxes __ . By that day, she had already handed out 300 boxes.

The girl has melted (融化)hearts of millions __ her kindness and she was highly spoken of over the years online “You are so __ !Thank you for what you are doing, ” someone wrote, while someone else commented(评论), “You are a shining light in dark times and you really make a __ to those kids!”

【推荐3】It s funny how a small corner of the earth can have outsized relevance in life. For me, it’s a swing set on a playground.

I decided to take my six year old son Joe on a weekend trip to the University of Virginia, my alma mater (母校). I planned out every detail _________ and wanted my son to become familiar with something dear to me, _________ he did not fully understand. I took Joe to my favorite breakfast spot. I _________ him my dorm and fraternity (兄弟会) house, and then the bar where I’d worked in college. We even went to a lacrosse (长曲棍球) game. All of this registered with my son, but without the _________ I expected. _________, we were running out of things to do. I asked Joe what he wanted to see. I would never _________ his response: “I would not mind finding a swing set.” That’s when it hit me. For a guy who thought he _________ every inch of his college town, the question caught me flat-footed: I had no idea where to look. _________, I remembered the Venable Elementary School, something I’d _________ countless times but never really noticed. We parked in the lot, empty on a Saturday, and I __________ my son and watched him delightedly swing back and forth. It was the joy I had sought for him on my terms, __________ he only found on his.

What did I learn on that trip? First, travel is great fun and often leads to __________. But our world will always assure us greater happiness which is just around the corner. Second, do not rely too much on your __________. Do your best but stay __________, and always remember what John Lennon said: Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. Third, there is always a new way to __________ things, no matter how much you think you know. I’m sure I would have missed the lesson if Joe hadn’t made his old man stop at the swings in Charlottesville. For that, I will always be grateful.