【推荐1】It was10:15 p.m. when Esposito arrived at the train station. She jumped into her Honda and began her _________ home. Out of nowhere an unexpected car _________ crashed into Esposito’s pushing her backward onto the tracks. She got _________ in her vehicle, shocked by the impact.

As it happened, Dipinto, a volunteer _________ , was going to bed. He was crawling under the _________ when he heard the crash of metal on metal coming from outside. Unhesitatingly, he grabbed a _________ and rushed out the door still in pajamas(睡衣). "Any firefighter would have done so. We're always on _________ ." he explained later.

The first car he _________ , 500 feet from his front yard, was the one that had hit Esposito's. Soon, by the light of his flashlight, he _________ Esposito's car lying messily on the tracks. Then he heard a (n) __________ sound breaking through the sky: the bells signaling a (n) __________ train. "I absolutely could see the headlight of the train." he __________ .

DiPinto, an experienced rescuer, immediately bent to __________ Esposito's side window violently. "Where am I?" Esposito voiced weakly with her __________ unfocused. "You're suffering a car crash and __________ pulling out at once, madam." DiPinto __________ . He struggled against the door handle, but the door was __________ shut. The train loaded with oil, at a speed, which is 65 miles per hour, was __________ near. DiPinto turned to the passenger side and threw open the door. He __________ the airbags, grabbed Esposito's arms, and pulled her toward him across the passenger seat before speed-walking her to __________ . Within six seconds, the train ran over Positive's car.

"It was like a Hollywood movie." the reporter joked.

【推荐1】When I was a little girl, there was the magic of Mercurochrome (红药水). It was good for cuts, scratches (抓痕), or other _______. My brother and I tested and _______ the powers of Mercurochrome many years ago.

It was summer and hot. Mama was not feeling well and had become _______ tired. She told us that she was going to _______ on her bed. Only a few minutes had passed when Ronnie _______ a scratch on his knee that needed immediate _______. We tiptoed (踮脚走) into Mama’s room and asked her if we could put Mercurochrome on Ronnie’s scratch. _______on her back, Mama had fallen into a deep sleep and made no answer.

We stole into the bathroom and took the Mercurochrome and _______ Ronnie’s knee. Undoubtedly, he immediately began to feel better. _______, we tiptoed into Mama’s room to show her that we had taken care of our scratches without _______ her. But she was in sound sleep. Then we whispered that _______ Mama didn’t feel well, perhaps Mercurochrome would make her feel _______.

Twenty minutes _______, we painted every scratch and every freckle (雀斑) of Mama’s skin. She had Mercurochrome ______ her legs, arms and face. At Ronnie’s encouraging, we _________ tried to paint her fingernails and toenails.

When Mama screamed in ______, we knew that she was awake. With all the _______, it didn’t seem at first that she was feeling better, _______ she burst into laughter as she stared at her image in the mirror.

We laughed a lot the next few days. If anyone had asked us, we would have _______ that Mama had been cured by the _______ of Mercurochrome.

【推荐2】I was sitting at the table having breakfast. A little taste of autumn _______ had risen in my soul. The cooling air and _______ leaves means the coming of the autumn. I _______ my meal and carried my _______ bowl over to the sink to clean it. My two cats sat on top of the kitchen counter, staring at something. I saw they were both _______ a spider on a web. Just as the spider came _______, both cats started to catch and eat him. I quickly took a paper towel and _______ the little guy before he became a kitty _______. I walked out of the back door to let him _______. As soon as I set him down he quickly crawled to ________ on the wall. As I shut the door, I noticed something too. I was ________ and my sadness was gone.

Now I know many people would be ________ about how saving the animal could have lifted my spirits so ________. After all, it was just a spider. As I thought about it, I ________ two sentences I had recently read. The first was: “The only true thing is ________.” The second was: “Do everything out of love.” I realized then that no act of love is ________. I had only spared a spider to live another day, but it had ________ my heart, improved my spirit.

Make your life full of love. When you do, you will ________ not only yourself, but others and this world. Your soul will ________ the cheers of other people. ________ people’s eyes every smile you share is a treasure and every kind act you do is a triumph.

【推荐3】Last July I got a job at a theater I admire. I was feeling lucky. But something wasn’t ________. My daughter was going to leave for university in the fall and I wasn't ________ for her to go. Our household is small and tight-knit (关系亲密的). It’s just the two of us. I was excited for my daughter and I felt I had ________ her well. But no one had prepared me for this. I was ________. I felt as though I were drowning.

Somehow, this feeling of drowning was what ________ me. One day as I was walking home, I ________ the university pool. I must have walked past it a million times. Swimming wasn't something I usually did. And yet something ________ me to take it up.

The next morning, I ________ the pool. I headed over to the shallow end, the area reserved for   ________ like me. I walked down the cold steps into the pool and all of a sudden, I was in. I could touch the floor, and that was reassuring (安心的). I looked around to make sure the other people weren’t watching my awkward strokes. “No one is watching,” I ________ to myself. No one cares if you look like a baby elephant swimming for the first time. No one cares if your heart ________ when all of her things are packed up and she ________.

Somehow, in that moment, this was ________. I swam slowly from one end to the other, feeling a ________. I found myself crying. Thankfully, no one could tell my ________ from the water running down my face. Afterward, I headed for the changing rooms, smiling and feeling proud that I faced this ________. When I got home, my daughter said that looked ________.

The next day, I was up early, swimming bag in hand. I was ________ afraid of drowning. I was breathing easier. I was feeling better. Having “an empty nest” is an easy catchphrase (口头禅) for something that is impossible to describe. It is not just an empty room. It is a ________ part of who you are. And for me, swimming ________ a part of that hole.

【推荐2】Last night my husband and I were walking when we saw a man bending over on the ground, crushing (碾碎) something with a rock. He was so _______ his task that he didn’t look up at anyone passing by. We kept _______ him and wondered what he could be doing. I thought he was crushing stones to make something, but why would he do that?

Finally, we decided to go up and ask him, He was crushing pieces of leftover (剩余的) bread that he had collected to _______ food for the birds that come there early in the morning. The large pieces of bread would be difficult for the birds to eat _______ he crushed them into powder (粉末). Every afternoon, after coming home from his _______ as a tailor, he _______ the villas (乡间别墅), collecting leftover bread from all his _______. He then eats a quick meal and comes here, and spends the next 1 to 2 hours _______ crushing each piece and makes a neat pile for the birds. He has been doing this for the last 3 to 4 years, which _______ us a lot. When we told him that we ________ an interest in this, he felt amazed, since for him it wasn’t a big ________.

When we asked him what encouraged him to do this act of ________, he said, “It’s just something small I do, so that the leftover bread doesn’t go into the ________ and the birds get food.” We ________ his story with the hope that it would remind us to be aware of leftovers, too and that it might encourage someone to start something ________ in their own area.