【推荐1】It was New Year time. We were travelling in a small truck ________ toys to the homeless. When we ________ the spot, something caught my eyes. Something or someone was moving in the rubbish. Soon I realized that it was the home of a poor family. There were two ________，both about my age at the time, and a lady I supposed to be their mother. They sat there ________.

As a little girl myself I was especially interested in the little girl. How ________ our lives were. She lived for the day, ________ through the rubbish for something to fill her stomach. I on the other hand was well looked after and never had to worry about food. I had a good education and a ________ future. I looked at the little girl. The only________ she had was the worn-out dress that she was wearing.

Seeing this little girl I made the decision to ________ her a doll that had belonged to me for a while. When the truck came to a stop, I stepped out, called the girl over and ________ the doll in her hand. At first she looked at me with ________ and wasn’t certain what to do, but then she smiled and I saw ________ in her eyes. I went back into the truck and we started to ________ off, and that’s when we realized the little girl was running ________. We stopped again and opened the door. The girl had ________ with us. She looked directly at me and said two simple words “Thank You”.

【推荐3】Nobody can inspire us like great teachers. They show us things about ourselves we can’t see. They see ________ in us that others, including ourselves can’t or won’t see. ________ they give us the courage to find our own way and enough ________ to show us that what we feel ________ is anything but that.

When Bill Gates ________ Seattle’s View Ridge Elementary School, he was a really unattractive and shy fourth grader. ________ a kindly librarian named Blanche Caffiere, he was ________ to come into his own in a way that would one day ________ the world forever. Gates sets the stage for this tale like this:

“When I first met Mrs Caffiere, she was the elegant and engaging school ________, and I was a shy fourth grader. I was ________ trying to go unnoticed, because I had some big shortcomings, like terrible handwriting…and I was trying to hide the ________ that I liked to read - something that was cool for girls but not for boys… Mrs Caffiere took me under her wing.”

He was grateful to Mrs Caffiere for helping him become less ________, which resulted from the true spirit of ________ teaching. First she encouraged Gates’ enthusiasm for ________ by helping him explore it through the use of introspective (内省的) questions, ________ what he liked to read and why. Next, she would go out of her ________ to source books that were ________ more interesting and challenging for him. Finally, ________ he’d read them, she would sit down with him and ask him if he liked what he had read, and more ________ what he’d learned and why. “She basically ________ what I had to say.” Gates recalled.

【推荐1】Today the kids and I went to the grocery store before the storm came in. When we made it outside to load our groceries, the hurricane alarms_________.

We loaded our things and got on our way home. We passed a man_________ so hard to get his wheelchair off the main road. We_________ and asked him if he needed help. He said yes and that he lived about a block away.

Without a second_________ , my son Seth Robert Phillips jumped out of the car and _________ the man who was a double amputee (截肢者) up a hill about a block and a half. _________ , the hurricane alarms were sounding.

The man was so_________ and he kept saying that I’m_________ good kids. There and then I explained to him that my grandfather was a double amputee and that I was raised to_________ out if I could. He said he could have been__________ in a terrible storm and thanks to this young man, he went home dry and safe.

Seth got into the car and as we drove off. His exact words were, “Mom, I__________ that we live in a world where people would fly by and honk (摁喇叭) at a__________ person rather than voluntarily lend a hand.” I told him that’s why it’s so important that we do what we can to always help. Every little bit truly does__________. He is truly my __________ and joy. I’m proud of you, Seth Robert Phillips, for your__________ to be a good human.

【推荐2】When 15-year-old Amy began working on her family’s farm in the early morning, she was greeted by a rare sight - an extremely large eagle with a broken leg. “He was ________ and trying to fly, which panicked (惊慌) me a little because he was the ________ of my sheepdog,” she said. “I’m seriously not a bird person. I can ________ cows that weigh nearly a ton but won’t go near a bird, I won’t even go near chickens.”

Seeing the bird ________ in trouble, Amy quickly called for help. ________ her own fear of birds, she was sad to see a local eagle hurt. “I rang my mum immediately. I couldn’t ________ him there. I felt really bad for him because he was all wet and cold,” Amy said.

Since the eagle was living in a nest on Amy’s farm, it has ________ the teenager. But ________ the rescuers from Wildlife Rescue South Coast arrived it gathered all of his ________ to give them a good chase, alert (警惕的) to the new people. Rescuer Amara Mohan immediately noticed the eagle had broken his leg, and after three hours of struggling it was finally ________ and eventually taken to Sydney’s Small Animal Specialist Hospital for a (an) ________. A pin and plate were put in his left ________, a delicate operation on such a small bone.

Ms. Mohan said that after the operation, the eagle was ________ well at Raptor Recovery Australia. “It is really bright; it’s using his right leg and putting more ________ on it now,” Ms. Mohan said. Amy hopes all is going well and the eagle can be returned to her family’s farm. “I’ve done a lot of ________ things on the farm—saving the eagle is one of them.” She said.

【推荐3】Jimmy is an automotive mechanic, but he lost his job a few months ago. He has good _________, but always feared applying for a new job.

One day, he gathered up all his _________ and decided to attend a job interview. His _________ was at 10 am and it was already 8:30. While waiting for a bus to the office where he was supposed to be interviewed, he saw an _________ man wildly kicking the tire of his car. _________ there was something wrong with the car. Jimmy immediately went up to lend him a hand. When Jimmy finished _________ the car, the old man asked him how much he should pay for the _________. Jimmy said there was no need to pay him; he just helped someone _________, and he had to _________ for an interview. Then the old man said, “Well, I could take you to the office for your interview. It’s the __________ I could do. Please. I insist.” Jimmy __________.

Upon arrival, Jimmy found a long line of __________ waiting to be interviewed. Jimmy still had some grease (油垢) on him after the car __________, but he did not have much time to wash it off or have a change of shirt. One by one, the applicants left the interviewer’s office with __________ look on their faces. Finally, his name was called. The interviewer was sitting on a large chair facing the office window. __________ the chair back and forth, he asked, “Do you really need to be interviewed?” Jimmy’s heart __________. “With the way I look now, how could I __________ pass this interview?” he thought to himself.

Then the interviewer __________ the chair and to Jimmy’s surprise, it was the old man he helped earlier in the morning. It turned out he was the General Manager of the company.

“Sorry I had to keep you waiting, but I was pretty sure I made the right decision to have you as part of our workforce __________ you even stepped into the office. I just know you’d be a trustworthy worker. __________!” Jimmy sat down and they shared a cup of well-deserved coffee as he landed himself a new job.