【推荐1】Myrtle is a small sleepy town in Missouri. There’s no bank or restaurant here, but a small stone_______right next to the state highway. Half of it is a post office. The other half is a one-room_______.Rachel Luster took over this library four months ago with the_______of connecting the community to the outside world and creating a _______center for the kids.

Her first task was_______the books she felt every library must have: The Odyssey. “I looked and looked. But we didn’t have. No library in our system had one,” Luster said. So she started to use social media to_______money from people around the state and has already _______about 1, 000 new books to the library.

“While the Myrtle library_______taxpayer money, it gets only $200a month for books and supplies,” she explained. “But the library is a _______for the community because many people here do not have ________to the Internet at home and the library is the only place that people can connect to the outside world. I want to bring a sense of ________to the community.”

Luster’s library is open only three days a week. One of her ________visitors is 10-year-old Blake Brooks.

“Before________this library, my favorite activity was watching TV,” he said. “Now, as soon as I step off the school bus, I come here to________.I like to________.I’m in the books I read.”

【推荐3】I grew up on a university campus in eastern Nigeria.I was a(n) _________reader, and what I read were British and American children’s books.I began to write when I was seven.I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my _________ were white and blue-eyed. They played in the snow. They ate apples, and they talked a lot about the _________，how lovely it was that the sun had _________.

What this demonstrates is how _________we can be influenced by what we read, particularly as children. Because all I had read were foreign books, I had become _________ that books had to have _________ in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.

Things _________ when I discovered African books. There weren’t many of them available, and they weren’t quite as easy to _________ as the foreign books.

But __________ writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye I went through a mental __________in my view of literature.I __________ that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate,could also __________ in literature. I started to write about things I recognized. What the __________ of African writers did for me was this: It saved me from having a __________ story of what books are.

【推荐1】Randy happened to be watching the news on TV months ago. The reporter was interviewing a man, whose ______ appeared on the screen. Randy noticed they ______ the same last name Waites—a rather unusual one.

Randy found that ______ , wondering if there could be any ______. When Randy’s daughter took a closer look, she ______   a likeness between them. She did some sleuthing (调查) online and ______ Randy and Eddie have the same biological father!

It wasn’t long before Randy ______ Eddie, who lived over 500 kilometers away. Eddie was ______ that the unlikely story was true the moment he saw Randy’s pictures, noticing how much Randy looked like their father.

Randy never knew his father, who ______ his mother and him when he was a baby. Eddie, however, was ______ by his dad and enjoyed a great relationship with him. That fact could have caused problems for the two long-lost brothers, but it did not! They reunited after 50 years of ______.

Eddie ______ to Randy on behalf of their dead father, but Randy held no resentment (怨恨). He said, “I don’t ______ anyone. Eddie and I are both extremely grateful to have made this unexpected ______ and to have the years ahead to be brothers!” The two brothers have really provided a beautiful example of love and ______ for us.

【推荐3】There are good stories to be found in nearly every volunteer experience. But Laurie Scott is positive that_________an exchange student produces some of the greatest.

As a long-time volunteer with an agency that helps_________students connect with warm and caring_________during their time in the US, Scot sees first-hand both the humor and the very deeply meaningful outcomes. Scott_________Christine, for example, a student from Norway._________at a restaurant one day, Christine was asked if she wanted a soup or salad. The girl turned to Scott with_______, “Why would I want a super salad?” Trying not to laugh too hard, Scott_________that what the waiter had asked was whether she wanted “soup or salad”.

Scott and her husband_________volunteered to be a host family in August 2003. They had just moved to Las Vegas, and she was looking for a way to get connected in the community. “The concept of helping_________world peace through understanding is what makes me__________. Through the agency I have found the best part of my community in our great families and have been able to share the__________side of the US with our students.”

Time and again, her__________to service has opened hearts. In fact, she says, one of their amazing experiences came from__________one hosted student, a young man from Germany named Jens, about how Americans volunteer. In Germany, where young people are__________to spend a year serving in the army, volunteer service is__________. Therefore, Jens was so__________by the concept of giving that he__________the agency to help promote exchanges, and became very involved with local schools.

__________all stories that come out of international exchange, there’s a (an)__________in this one: Opening our hearts and__________is something we can all do.

【推荐1】My best friend Frannie is a dog. It is _________ now, and I still well up if I think about her a bit too long. She was a _________ soul, and I believe she _________ me as much as I rescued (拯救) her.

About a decade ago, I became very close to the German exchange student I hosted. The day he left for home, I was thinking about it all, and this _________ with a happy face and shaking tail _________ and greeted me as though she’d been waiting to find me—just the bit of _________ I needed at that moment. After that first meeting, this happy dog visited me _________, and of course we became fast friends. I _________ that Frannie lived three doors down, and she’d run for my house whenever she got _________! This went on for about two years, and sometimes she stayed overnight with me—by then, the neighbors didn’t __________ to look for her because they knew where she was.

One day, Frannie’s __________ said she was going to take Frannie to a __________ unless I wanted her. I hadn’t planned to have a dog, but her going to a shelter (收容所) was __________. So, that very day, Frannie __________ into my house forever. We had nine good years together before she got sick. And I know I will remember her __________ to my last day. She was such a gift.

【推荐2】More than a decade ago, while pursuing a hotel management degree in Switzerland, I had to move to Zurich for a six-month internship(实习). The hotel didn’t offer _________ to its staff, so I had to find my own.

It was a difficult task, as Zurich is a(n) _________ city to live in, but I found a tiny room that suited my tight budget. I soon became familiar with the building _________ , among them a father and son singing group from Lahore, Pakistan. Their warm _________ made me feel as if I had known them for ages. When I _________ them I was from Amritsar, India, they seemed more delighted still. “We are from different _________ , but the same highland. If you _________ anything, we are there for you,” they said. True to their word, they _________ food, cheered me when I got homesick and gave me discount cards to help _________ money.

__________ , my internship was extended by 15 days. My rental __________ , however, was up and once again I had nowhere to __________ . My Lahore neighbors invited me to move in with then the moment they __________ my troubles. A manager at the hotel was able to arrange a(n) __________ for me that day, but just the way this family opened up their home to me left my heart so full of __________ and respect.