【推荐1】These days, you frequently hear “scaremongering（危言耸听）” on social media, but what about “caremongering” ? Even as I write this article my spelling software ______ that I should change caremongering into scaremongering—because there has never been such a（n）______.

Well, that’ s no longer the ______, since Toronto residents Mita Hans and Valentina Harper set up the first Facebook “Caremongering” groups to ______ people in Canada during the coronavirus epidemic. People are joining the groups to either ask for help or offer help—______     to people most at risk of the more ______ symptoms of COVID-19.

“Scaremongering is a big ______,” Harper says. “We wanted to ______ that and get people to ______ with each other on a positive level. ‘Caremongering’ has spread the opposite of ______     in people, brought out community and ______, and allowed us to ______ the needs of those who are ______ all the time—now more than ever.”

On the Toronto Caremongering group, 10,000 members ______ write one of three typical posts（帖子）: ISO, which stands for “in search of”; OFFER posts, where people offer goods or services to people ______ in self-isolation; SHOPS, which gives ______ about shops that are open or stocked.

However, there are also ______ posts like the one that Harper posted about how learning the Cree language can be something that people can do while isolating themselves. “I think there is an international ______ that the majority of Canadians are so nice,” she said. “As our population is small as a country, we ______ to care about each other, ______ there are a few bad apples who buy all the toilet paper!”

【推荐2】15 years ago, Andrew McLindon was riding his bike in Austin, Texas, when he thought about a friend’s son. The boy had ________ known the pleasure of biking because he suffered from a balance disturbance (平衡障碍).

When he got home, McLindon, now 60, went online and ________ a three-wheel recumbent bike, perfect for a child with balance problems. Soon the boy was ________ around the street with his friends, having ________ and getting exercise. But there was more, as McLindon noticed after doing this small act of ________. “I saw him interacting (互动) with other kids,” McLindon says. “I’ll never forget the ________ on his face.”

That smile led to the McLindon Family Foundation. The group works to ________ adaptive (有适应性的) bikes to children with special needs. The bikes are ________ and can cost thousands of dollars, a price out of reach for many families.

McLindon said the happiness of telling families they are getting this ________ is great as he remembered a(n) ________ he had with a mom telling her the foundation was giving her child a bike.

“She said ‘A bike for my child, a bike for my child.’ She couldn’t ________ it. The phone went ________ for two minutes… and when she came back, she was crying.” McLindon said. “After I hung up, I was just shouting. ‘Yes, yes.’ I was so ________ because that’s what I live for.”

For kids lucky enough to get an adaptive bike, it is a ________ changer.

“We worked with a 14-year-old who has spina bifida (脊柱裂),” said McLindon. “She spent most days watching TV. Soon after she ________ her bike, she was training for special-needs triathlons (三项全能运动).”

【推荐2】This wasn’t the way I wanted to see Rome.

I was supposed to go to Rome with my mom back in 2019; however, life had ______ plans. A week before our trip, my mom developed a cough, which later became a ______diagnosis (诊断) of cancer. My mom spent the final months of her life in chemotherapy (化疗), ______ trying to fight a terrible disease so that she wouldn’t let her family down. And she didn’t. ______, she showed us how to never give up on life, even if it was a(n) ________ battle.

So, when she eventually passed away, I booked a trip to Rome. Sure, it wasn’t the trip I had ______ for. But I wanted my mom to live on through me and didn’t want to live a life where the phrases “should have” and “would have” swirled (盘绕) through my head and ______ my happiness.

So, I ______ . I spent two weeks doing all the things my mom and I had wanted to do.

And that’s when it ______ me. Maybe my mom wasn’t ______ there, but I felt her presence every minute of every day. Her presence ______ me that life isn’t about the things we buy or the money that we _______. It’s about making ______with the people we love.

And after my trip to Rome, I finally knew that my mom would _______ be there because she had forever changed my life in the _______ possible way.