【推荐1】Last week after a long day of traveling, I found myself delayed at a bus station. The bus was running two hours late! I was a little_________and had to wait there reading a book. Just then a woman_________and asked me if I had any spare change to help her_________a bus ticket.

“Oh, sure,”I said.

With the words, I reached into my bag for some_________.As I handed her five dollars I_________her stomach rumble (发出辘辘声) and I knew she was very_________.

I then reached back into my_________and brought out a Danish pastry (酥皮糕点) I had bought earlier and_________it to her with a smile.

She took the pastry and gave me a bus ticket to Milwaukee to show her_________. I don't live in Milwaukee and the ticket will probably __________be used. but I took it. A look of__________spread over her face. Then she went to get her__________and I went back to my__________.

She came back a few__________later, apologized, and told me there were five dollars__________. I gave her the money and slipped (悄悄地塞) a twenty__________. She thanked me and went back to the counter.__________I went back to my book.

Five minutes later she came back again and__________to return my twenty.__________I said it was for her so she could get something else to eat and that I wasn't taking it back, she__________crying and hugged me.

From then on, I always help others in trouble, because I believe I am really making a difference to them!

【推荐2】It began in November 2016, when Hinton, then 17, got a text message from an ___________number inviting him to Thanksgiving. When he asked who it was, the person responded: “Your grandma.”

“Grandma? Can I have your___________?” the teenager replied. He received a photo of a woman he had never seen before. It was Dench, now 64.

Hinton wrote back, “You’re not my grandma,”___________a laughing face. Still playing along, he jokingly asked: “Can I still get a___________though?”

Dench replied: “Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do. Feed everyone.” Hinton soon realized her___________invitation had turned ___________, and he decided to take Dench up on her  ___________. He went to her home in Mesa, Ariz., about a 25-minute drive from his house south of Phoenix, for a Thanksgiving meal with her family, including her actual grandson, whom she___________intended to text instead of Hinton.

Every year since then, the two friends and their families have gathered together for an annual Thanksgiving meal, and this year will be no___________, despite the virus. Hinton, who shares regular____________on social media about his Internet-famous friendship with Dench,____________that the Thanksgiving tradition will ____________this year, as well.

Although Dench was____________about the misdirected text in 2016 at first, she said, both she and Hinton feel very____________that it happened. “Family is more than____________,” Dench said. “It’s the people you want to be with.”

【推荐3】My mother used to ask me, “What is the most important part of the body?” Through the years I would _______ the correct answer. When I was younger, I thought _______ was very important to us as humans, so I said, “My ears, Mummy.” She said, “No. Many people are _______ . But you keep thinking about it and I will ask you again soon.”

Several years passed before she asked me again. Since making my first _______ , I had often thought over the question. So this time I told her, “Mummy, it must be our eyes.” She looked at me and said, “You are _______ fast, but the answer is not correct because there are many people who are blind.”

_______ the years, mother asked me a couple more _______ and always her response to my answers was, “No, but you are getting _______ every year, my child.” Then last year, my Grandpa _______ .Everybody was heartbroken. Everybody was crying. My mother looked at me when it was our ________ to say our final good-bye to Grandpa. She asked me, “Do you know the most important body part yet, my dear?”

I was ________ when she was asking me this now. I always thought this was a ________ between her and me. She saw the ________ on my face and told me, “This question is very important. It shows that you have really ________ your life.” I saw her eyes well up with tears. She said, “My dear, the most important body part is your ________ .” I asked, “Is it because they hold up your head?” She replied, “No, it is ________ on them a crying friend or loved one can rest their head. I only hope that you have enough ________ and friends that you will have a shoulder to cry ________ when you need it.” Then and there I understood the most important body part is not a ________ one. It is ________ to the pain of others.

【推荐1】Sandra was driving her white Mazda down the main road with her daughter and son in the back. Suddenly, a green van ________ from the side road. Sandra turned the steering wheel ________ to the right, causing the car to run off the road and down an embankment (路堤) after sliding about 50 feet. If the car hadn’t stopped, it would have soared into the air and ________ on the road 20 feet below. Fortunately, as the car raced toward the embankment, its undercarriage got ________ on the road edge. The car came to a stop but actually on the edge of disaster. The people inside were far from ________. A sudden ________ by anyone inside could send the car over.

Patrick ________ the scene from the truck — parts company where he worked. Whispering prayers, he ran to the car along with four others. They jumped onto the trunk of the Mazda to balance the weight as the ________ kids in the back seat watched. Meanwhile, Alex, the owner of a shop nearby, rushed to the swinging car with a ________ belt. He tied the Mazda to a heavy truck that had been driven over by one of the other ________. With the car ________, the group carefully opened the back door and got the children out. But their ________ shifted the weight of the car, causing it to incline forward. The men, still on the trunk, asked Sandra to step into the back to ________ the weight. She did so and ________ out the back door. Finally, all the men carefully got off the car. Everyone was safe.

“If the car had run another ________,” Patrick told the local media, “this would have been a different story.”

【推荐2】On a corner in Crown Point, Indiana, sits a cafe at the heart of the community. Every day at Cafe Fresco a small staff are busy behind the counter________coffee and inspiration with handwritten________on its cup sleeves.

“Believe there is kindness in the world. Be the_________,” is owner Breanne Zolfo’s favorite. The 31-year-old former babysitter opened the coffee house six years ago, and started ________the uplifting messages for_________

“Well, I just hoped that it would add some positive light to their day.” Customer reaction was great, so she took it further by challenging them to________good deeds for a free cup of coffee. Some of those________include putting money in a donation box, paying for someone else’s coffee, and giving food to the homeless. Zolfo says she’s________thousands of free cups of coffee. “We had a person who was ________and we had bought a________for him. And he came back two years later and said, ‘You don’t know how much you’ve________my life. Because you bought me a bike, I got a ________, and I got an apartment. And see, even talking about him makes me________ ,” Zolfo said with tears in her eyes.

“I hope that it’s spread ________throughout not just this community, but other communities that are around us. For us, to play a small part in a lot of people’s lives is the most________feeling,” Zolfo said.

【推荐3】It was 1:30 at night in an Alaskan village. Ida Nelson was staying in bed with her sister when she heard the sound of a small airplane _________ the nearby airport. Nelson and her sister jumped to their feet, ran to the window, and_________ the problem : The airport's runway lights were out.

Nelson_________ some clothes, jumped into her ATV, and never _________ to speed it to the airport, where she found a local pilot _________ to turn on the lights, but in vain. Meanwhile she and the pilot learned of the plane's_________: It was a medevac (救伤直升机) there to _________ a seriously ill local girl to the nearest hospital, 280 miles away in Anchorage.

Nelson had a good_________. Driving her ATV to the end of the runway. she shone her headlights on the runway for the plane to_________. Great idea, but it wasn't enough. More light was needed, so a __________ neighbor called nearly every home in the village---32 of them.

Within 20 minutes, 20 vehicles __________ on one side of the runway. The medevac, guided by the headlights landed __________. The young patient was loaded onto the aircraft, and the plane__________ took off again. Her illness was never publicly__________ but she has been released from the hospital.

In a world filled with uncertainty, as Nelson told CNN, coming together is kind of________