【推荐2】Not long ago, Linda was sitting by a hospital bed, feeling anxious. Beside her lay her 88-year-old father. His heart was ________ and he needed an operation.

What ________ her almost as much as his health was the fact that all day the two of them had engaged in nothing but ________ small talks. She and her father had always had good ________, but now all he talked about was the awful hospital food and the ________ outcomes of his illness. His once wide-ranging interests seemed to have ________ to the size of the room.

That day in the hospital, Linda’s eye fell on the ________ that people had brought as gifts and left on the table. Her father had always been a passionate reader, but lately he didn’t have the ________ or focus. She ________ a book, and started to read it out loud.

It ________ changed the mood and atmosphere. It was a ________ and a pleasure for both of them. Reading gave the daughter a way to connect with her father and help him in a situation that was ________ out of her hands. ________ allowed the father to travel on the sound of his daughter’s voice, up and out of the bed and back into the world of mature, intelligent engagement, where he ________ himself again.

In fact, almost any kind of reading to another person can be ________ to both parties, providing a joyful shared experience.

【推荐3】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】My daddy was a do-as-I-do kind of guy. In his book, ________ training was much preferred to mere verbal explanation. He was into ________ whenever and wherever possible.

Take tire (轮胎) changing, for instance. When I was a teenager, Daddy taught me how to change a flat tire on the family car. A few years later, when I was able to drive, Daddy _______ flattened a tire when he knew I was planning to _______ the house and challenged me to change it out for the ______. Alone. Quickly. I did.

A big man, Daddy had the ______ of a best-selling novelist. He put it to good use at those times when ______ his baby girl for life had to extend beyond demonstration.

In our house, T.F. ______ a little wood nymph (仙女), who was described to me by Daddy as wise and particularly fond of green trees. Daddy and I ______ her whenever a problem arose that I could not solve.

At the age of 13, I asked Daddy how to ______ T.F.’s “real” name. Daddy answered with a sort of riddle, “It’s pronounced ‘Fear-a-lie’ but spelled any way you wish.” A few years later I _______ a message in my father’s elegant handwriting that mentioned “Fear-A-Lie.” Only then, with a flash of insight, did the pieces ________.

_______, I left home to launch a career as an investigative reporter, often speaking truth to power.

Looking back, I understand that Daddy’s life lessons－about doing the _______ thing even when faced with high risk一took root just as he _______.

【推荐2】One of Max's favorite daily activities is helping his mom carry in any _________ that arrive on their doorstep. But when his _________ received a new hommock (吊床), the hobby gave Max an unusual _________.

Not _________ the trouble Max had gotten himself into, Traci, Max's mother, was upstairs with her 2-year-old daughter when she heard some _________ coming from the front porch. The 40-pound little boy had _________ to lift the large and heavy package and _________ found himself pinned (被压制) by it.

“I was _________ I was going to fall down the stairs.” Max said later. “I was saying ‘Help!’ and then the package man just came back and _________ the box.”

That “package man” is a delivery truck driver and Chicago-area dad named Marco Angel. In a video ____________ by the family's ring doorbell camera, it's ____________ that Marco is an everyday hero!

“He didn't think twice.” Max's dad said. “He came rushing. It was pretty cool.” Marco was quick to attribute (把……归因于) his swift action to his years of ____________ as a father.

“I pictured my boys in his situation,” Marco explained. “____________, I will go into full dad mode to make sure the kid is ____________.”

____________ Max, other than some temporary aches and a bit of a scare, he's back in tip-top shape!

【推荐3】This week I saw a video of a mountain climber lying on the back of the Sherpa guide who helped rescue him.

Gelje says he was_______a client toward the summit ofEverest last month when he noticed another climber_______a rope, alone, in what's called Everest's“death_______”.These are the highest_______, where temperatures can drop below minus 30 degrees Celsius, where human cells begin to________without oxygen.

Gelje stopped the climb of his own client. Then he rescued the________stranger, left hanging for his life,and________him for about six hours, to an area called theSouth Col, where another guide joined in the_______.

“We________the climber in a sleeping mat,”Gelje said,“dragged him on the snow, or carried him in______ on our backs to Camp Three, which is still more than 7,000 meters high.”

A helicopter met them to lift the________climber down to the base camp. He was taken to a hospital, and has since returned home to Malaysia.

We don't know how the Malaysian climber_______himself in danger. But the two guides who grow up in and know those________saw a stranger in danger, and risked their own lives to________him. As Gelje said,“Saving one life is more________than praying at the church.”