【推荐1】One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit desperate, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home, who was, really _________ with her university studies. It was beginning to look like financial difficulties, which would make it _________ for her to complete her course.

So this friend of mine had done something_________: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to _________her friend! This meant that she didn’t have much food to eat, no money to go _________outside the village, no money to buy any clothes, and so on.

I was so_________ that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. So, _________my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into the fair trade shop to buy some food. I didn’t have much money _________ myself but I thought I’d buy her an extra box of the muesli we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman _________in the shop, who was also a volunteer and __________told her about my friend.

The woman looked at me, __________“Does she eat pasta? she asked. “Yes,” I replied. She immediately started __________a bag with pasta, cookies, more muesli, sweets and other things until the bag was full. “Give her this for me. It’ s my __________!” I couldn’t believe it but cried with __________.

I left the shop to go home with my__________ bag of food, I asked the woman her name. “Just Gloria! God __________ both of you!” she said.

Imagine my friend’s face when I __________ the gifts on my kitchen table. I have never seen her so happy! A few weeks later, she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her__________.

These two __________women really showed me what true kindness and compassion is, and the __________ will stay with me for the rest of my life!

【推荐2】Bill used to be a sailor and oil field engineer. His hands were rough and had ugly _________ left by pulling on ropes as a sailor off the coast of Maine. Bill enjoyed watching baseball games and he found more time for it after he retired.

In Bill’s eyes, baseball was a game _________ details, mental sharpness, and patience, and instructing young men needed the same abilities. There were boys in the neighborhood who played on the high school baseball team and he was their _________ visitor. Whether on summer evenings under the lights or in the mid-afternoon sun. Bill was always the one to _________ on time. In the beginning, he simply sat and _________ them. After a good play, Bill would give a thumbs-up sign. A(n) _________ would earn a smile that meant, “You’ll get another chance!” He communicated with the boys in such silent language.

Gradually, the boys got used to Bill’s _________ and became acquainted (相识的) with him. They were curious about his scarred (有疤痕的) hands and began to _________ his past. He talked about his _________ of floating on the sea and in search of new oil fields. They were long and __________ stories, all about friendship, helping each other, and remaining hopeful despite hardship, and also about how a boy __________ a man. If need be, Bill would take time to demonstrate some basic skills to some slow learners. Over and over again, Bill took the trouble to __________ each detail until the players were skillful.

Time flew. What Bill taught was deeply rooted in the boys, hearts and they could play wonderfully in the races. Bill thought he was too old and had nothing to teach them. It was time for him to __________. However, the boys saw it __________. They told Bill that he and his fighting spirit had long been part of their team. Nearly everyone on the team learned to expect a little more from themselves __________ Bill was there.

【推荐1】One spring morning many years ago. I had been exploring for gold along Coho Creek on southeastern Alaska when I spotted a huge gray wolf no more than 20 paces away-- _________ in a trap. Confused and frightened at my approach, the wolf _________ straining(用力拉)at the trap chain. Then I notice it was a female. Somewhere there might be hungry little wolves waiting for their _________ From her appearance, I _________ that she had been trapped only a few days. That meant her babies were probably still _________, surely no more than a few miles away. But I suspected that if I tried to free the wolf, she would turn _________ and try to tear me to pieces. So I decided to _________ her babies instead. After several moments, I finally _________ the little wolves. I began imitating the sound of a mother wolf _________ her young. No response. A few moments later, after I tried another call, four tiny wolves __________. They couldn’t have been more than a few weeks old. I __________ my hands, and they tentatively(试探性地)sucked my __________. Then, one by one. I placed them in a bag and headed __________. When the mother wolf spotted me, she stood straight. When I __________ the tiny wolves, they raced to their mother and without __________,they were slurping(吸食)at her belly.

I realized that I must find her something to __________.Therefore, I hiked toward Coho Creek and spotted the leg of a dead deer sticking out of a snowbank. I __________ a leg and returned to the wolf. If I could only win her confidence, I thought, it was her only hope of being __________. Over the next few days. I delivered her dinner and played with her babies to win the wolf’s __________. Finally, I saw a slight wagging of her tail. I moved within the length of her chain. applied pressure and __________ the trap. The wolf pulled free.

【推荐2】The Turnaround

Anxiously, I looked through the roster (花名册) posted on the wall. My body _____ as I saw all my friends’ names but did not find mine. I could feel the tears building in my eyes. I felt _____ inside, like nothing mattered.

When I got back home, my father noticed my sullen walk and gloomy face, and asked me what was wrong.

“All my friends _____ the school team. Everyone! Except me…” I stammered.

“Well, what are you going to do about it? Are you just going to sit there?” he asked.

I didn’t know what to say, just shaking my head. I thought hard for thirty minutes about what my dad said, and it started making _____. Nobody was going to give me a _____ on that team. I would have to earn it.

_____, there was a gym near my school, so as soon as school was over, I biked to the gym and trained hard. I ran, dribbled, and shot until I _____ on the floor every single day. There were moments when I didn’t think I could keep on going, but I _____ through it. After all, I thought, hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.

After almost a year, I tried out for my seventh-grade team with great confidence. Regardless of the outcome, I knew that I had worked hard and learned something about mental _____. The next day, seeing my name printed in large bold letters, I realized I made it. The greater the effort, the ______ the reward, and I officially made a turnaround.

【推荐1】Anna Devolld likes insects. That’s because she is ________ about pollinators (传粉者).

She worried about these little things that keep our world beautiful and our trees producing food. Her first ________ was creating activities and coloring books for kids to help them understand how ________ pollinators are to our planet. Next, she created Pollinator Packs: plants that ________ bees and other pollinators to your garden. It wasn’t long before she was part of community boards ________ the planting of pollinator-friendly plants in communities and roadside corridors (走廊). She now ________ in her local government’s environmental department and is a key member.

“One out of every three bites of food we take is ________ on pollinators,” Anna tells us. “Butterflies, ladybugs, even bats. ________, every one of these creatures is declining at an alarming rate.” Anna’s ________ is to increase habitats that attract pollinators. And at the same time we should ________ the next generation about the importance of creating pollinator-friendly ________.

So, the next time you eat an apple or a delicious peach, think about all the little ________ that make it happen. Then think about Anna and how one teenage girl is ________ happy and productive pollinators.

We all can make a ________. As Anna says, “Find something you are passionate about, no matter how small, and ________ how you can change the world.”

【推荐2】I’ve been into voluntary work since childhood. As a girl, I volunteered at animal _________ , played music at nursing homes, and _________ with community clean-up after tornadoes. In college, I volunteered _________ at a large conference every year for young adults, which is where I _________ my husband-to-be, who was on my team of co-volunteers. Since getting married in 2013, we’ve been _________ in Beirut, Lebanon.

Volunteering has been a way of life for me for a very long time, and I wouldn’t do it if I didn’t _________it. I can tell stories about special moments when I really _________ I was making a difference. Back when I was a junior in _________ , a group of friends and I volunteered to _________ to a distant nursing home which had only a few elderly members on a weekend. The building was in disrepair and the yard __________ attention. We stayed in the home of one of these old ladies that   __________ so we could clean and repair the nursing home. I’ll never forget how new life shone in her eyes as she ________ her house for us and brought a steady stream of frozen peach smoothies. She couldn’t   __________ broken doors or pull weeds, but she loved us like nothing else. It __________ my heart to remember this old lady smiling with joy for such small efforts that we __________ . Sometimes, volunteer work is __________ not because of the actual job you get done, but because of how your presence __________ the people around you.

Volunteering makes me a better person because it gets me __________ of myself. It puts my   __________ on others. It makes me   __________ for what I have.

【推荐3】Kaycee, Wyoming, was the exit we took to seek help for our leaking back left tire on our rental car. Traveling from northern Wyoming down to Denver, we were only an hour into our six-hour _______.   The exits are few on this part of highway. At the end of the _______ was a Sinclair gas station. When we _______the woman at the register who might be able to help us, she _______Tom and gave us his number. She was so _______, even offering to call him herself,_______there was a large stream of customers.

When my husband _______ Tom, he was just pulling off the Kaycee exit himself, returning from a four-hour delivery of a vehicle to Sheridan, Wyoming. What were the chances that his timing (时间的选择) would be _______ for ours? The man within 100 miles who could _______ us was there for us.

During our visit to his __________ in the heart of Kaycee, the tire was__________

From start to finish, what could have been a several-hour__________ took just 45 minutes. At that time, we __________the workings of a small Wyoming town where everyone knew each other and where we were helped by a man named Tom, who had spent his entire life in Kaycee and __________ told us about his school days, and his children.

When something like our __________ time in Kaycee happens, I imagine what if it had been __________ ？What if we had been there for hours? What if we had __________ our appointment later that day? It gives me an even deeper appreciation for the way it __________, for the people we met, for the town we came upon and for the __________ of others and the skill of Tom, whose life is far different from ours,__________ surely a very happy and content one.