【推荐1】The hurricane made my father and me homeless. It was lunchtime. However, we had nowhere to cook. Even worse, we were _________ at the moment. Approaching the door of a small restaurant in poor clothes, we _________ to enter it. A diner at the restaurant _________ us and then continued his lunch silently.

After deciding to put the bill to our account, _________ my father and I went in. Our conversation was about the power of a positive mindset, miracles, saving for future dreams and just life in general.

The waiter _________ my attention halfway through our meal and pointed towards the _________ saying something to us, but I didn’t _________ him at first because he was behind the counter which was a fair _________ away so he walked over to us and asked if we knew the guy walking out.

Feeling embarrassed, I said no and his reply was “Oh, he just _________ your table.” Dad and I were completely __________. We tried to __________ who the person was to say thank you but by the time I turned around, he had already gone.

I asked the waiter how it __________ and he said he just asked to put our bill with his, without giving any __________.

There are beautiful souls in the world that spread __________. As my father and I talked, when you __________ miracles, miracles will happen.

【推荐2】We have, like in many more countries, refugees (难民) in our country. Through the years I have tried to _________ without pay by teaching women our country’s language as one of their _________. They have to learn the language, and also our culture, for example, what to say when they have to go to the doctor.

Only by learning the language will they be able to _________ our society. Once a year, just before Christmas break, all the women from different countries make delicious food which are _________ for us all together.

Problems with the kids _________ happen due to being in a _________ country with a different culture and another _________. The women often miss their homes very much and feel _________, because they have to get used to this life as _________ as possible. I have seen the __________ and pain in their eyes. It is so good to give some comfort (安慰) in one way or another, even just to be there for them. And it is really __________ when you make friends.

They and many more new people are trying to __________ up their new homes in this new country. Will we be able to get them out of __________, for every one? And nowadays, though at times their lives look almost broken, I __________ it won’t always. Because wherever we __________, we are together, as we are citizens of the world.

【推荐3】I was said to be the worst student in my class, and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to_______grade six. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia, came to our school. 

One day after class, she_______that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a_______conversation. After that day, she gave me particular_______and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that someone believed me, and my_______started to improve in her subject. 

Months later, she moved into a house near my home. We would walk home together after school. Her constant (不断的 ) support helped me,_______in my studies, as I knew she would_______my grades both in her subject and other subjects. I finally _______second in my class. 

Then, after grade six, she started to drift away(渐渐疏远)_______still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in grade seven, we hardly spoke, but by then I had become the best in my class. When I left my school, I was ________with her, as she never answered the ________when I called her. 

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths(路)________again. I met her at a wedding. I could not________asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?” 

“You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree standing on your own roots, not depending on (依靠)others. Now here you are and I feel________of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to________a shoulder,” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

【推荐1】A tradition for my wife and me is to make Spring Festival sweets and drive around town to deliver them to about 15 friends. We do this over two days and gain a lot of________seeing people and wishing them________. This always makes us happy.

Last night kindness had a strange connection with________.

First, we showed up to________sweets to our 95-year-old neighbor right before she was ready to go to sleep. Next, we delivered to friends who had just finished dinner and were________for something sweet.________after, with a sweet in hand, we________it to a neighbor and her daughter who were coming home from a walk, and they were happy to get it.________, we then were arriving at a friend’s house as she________from visiting someone else. An eighty-five year old neighbor was talking with friends about what________meant and seeing our unexpected appearance, he said that our________as the perfect example.

One friend was not home when we________. And she was very________on the phone when we said we were leaving a small________for her. She told us she was on her way and asked if we would wait.She said that she could________a hug. She had just returned from the emergency room. She said her husband, who had been suffering continuous medical________, had just fallen in their house,________his hip and needed surgery. She got her hugs.

From a perfect________after a good meal to________for our friend worried about her husband, our sweets________a lot to many.

【推荐2】One day last summer, I was waiting for my ride to pick me up at the station. Suddenly I felt the desire to write _______. I opened my bag and found a pen, _______no paper. I sat there helplessly, _______with the sudden desire. Then I went through the bag a little more_______. It_______that I had a dollar bill in my wallet. After I looked at it for a moment, it became_______that there was very little writing surface on the bill. But I could_______write something.

So I took my pen and wrote something like this, “This is a very_______dollar -given to you with love. Do not keep it or_______it. Give it to someone else with love, and watch it________. I then________the bill with hearts, trying to make it________as many good wishes as I could.

Sitting near me was a woman who was also waiting for a________. She seemed a little________. I said to her, “Hi, this is for you. She got a________by my action. But after she took a second________at it, her mood________from worried to warm, and she gave me a big hug and accepted it.

I realized that________this was the reaction from just one stranger, then without doubt this________of warmth would continue on.

My ride came, and we drove off. But I thought this was not the________of the story and that this love wouldn’t stop.

【推荐3】Jenifer now lives in Detroit, USA. She thinks she may have a partial solution for two of the country’s big problems: garbage and ________ . It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student is asking a favour of local snack ________ . Rather than litter your empty chip bags, ________ them so she can turn them into sleeping bags.

Chip-eaters ________ their bags at two locations in Detroit, where Jenifer and her ________ collect them. It takes about four hours to ________ a sleeping bag, each taking around 300 chip bags. The ________ is a sleeping bag that is “lightweight and waterproof,” Jenifer told the media.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected over 800,000 chip bags and, as to last December, ________ 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be ________ to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the ________ for Jenifer and her fellow volunteers. “We are devoted to making a difference not only socially, but ________” she says.

Of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would ________ land in the garbage and using them to help the ________. And it’s surely a(n)________ that environmental injustice and poverty often go hand in hand. As Jenifer told hourdetroit. com: “I think it’s time to ________ connections between all of these issues.”