【推荐1】Jake and Max Klein are twin brothers, whose family have always done community services. They all have a____for volunteering. At a young age, they chose to give up family’s gifts at their birthday parties, but asked them to____money to a charity. When they were seven, Jake and Max were interested in____with a family friend at the local homeless shelter to help cook.__, he turned them down____they were too young and they had to be fourteen to cook. This led them on an endless task to____a way to help other kids who were also facing a____challenging:wanting to help but____because of their age.

So, Kids That Do Good was____to show ways to kids or adults, at any age, they could join the community and make a____. The small____has grown into a large website that brings thousands of____visitors each year. Jake and Max say that their website brings 35,000 unique viewers, of those viewers, Kids That Do Good has____kids to 16,000 organizations.

Jake and Max are____with school and after-class activities and other community service promises. Kids That Do Good also has blog posts that advise kids on____their own charitable event.

【推荐3】As a ski instructor for children, I work with all sorts of behavior challenges. Kids seem to mask _________ less effectively than adults, so it’s _________ to see when they are cold, scared, or just not having fun. On one occasion, I was working with a group of _________ when one of them started to act out. He began spitting rude remarks and _________ instructions. After five years of working in this environment, I recognized that his _________ were not being met. Did he deserve _________ if he was not being kind himself? Maybe. So, I took him aside and tried a(n)_________.

I showered him with every ounce of _________ I could. I reassured (使安心)him and smiled when his skis responded effectively to his movements. I _________ him when he fell. As the class weaved through trees, I saw his __________ grow. By the bottom, he was smiling as well. He quietly apologized for being __________ and thanked me for being his teacher.

Although this is an oversimplified example of kindness and behavioral psychology I know little about, I learned something that day: Kindness __________. I often think that we are still like kids as adults. We’re just better at __________ our unpleasant feelings. But our inner child needs healing and security. And when someone offers a hug after a long day, souls can be __________. So, whether they __________ it or not, be kind.

【推荐1】Obocho Peters may only be 11 years old, but he’s already a role model to his community.

The boy _________ giving low-income families a better life, especially when it comes to _________. And he’s making it happen through a _________ he started two years ago.

The wheels began turning in Obocho’s head after he saw “Avengers: Infinity War” in 2018. He enjoyed the movie and asked his mom Sasha to buy him toys of the _________, but as a single parent she couldn’t _________ them. So Obocho decided to _________ his old clothes so he could buy the toys himself.

He also began wondering how he could make a difference in his community.

“When my mom _________ her hardship with me, I realized that other families must face the _________ problems when taking care of their _________,” Obocho wrote. “That idea turned into the __________ I have today—to help the community grow.”

He set up Obocho’s Closet, a shop that sells donated pieces of clothing for $10 and under. His main __________ is to provide families with affordable choices so they can __________ money for college funds, but he also uses some money he has earned to __________ local financial literacy classes (金融知识课) where parents can __________ enough financial knowledge.

In June 2019, Obocho was presented with a “Heroes of the Month” award for his great __________ to his community. What a smart caring kid! He’s already made his mark on the world.

【推荐2】Recently I invited a homeless man to have lunch so that he could eat as much as he wanted to fill his stomach. I _______ him over the phone by accident when I was supposed to call Father Benno’s, a soup kitchen. He muttered in a weak voice, “I am starving, sir!” before I said sorry and hung up. Something _______ me stirred to invite him to lunch.

_______ he did not have a car, I offered to pick him up. We had a(an) _______ four-hour lunch. I learned a lot about his struggles but more importantly, I let lunch feeling a greater _______ for a roof over my head, warm shower, comfortable bed, and food on the table, all of which we may not _______ twice about. He, too, _______ the connection, his lunch, and a rest from spending his afternoon on the streets.

I learned long ago that one person alone cannot _______ the homeless epidemic(流行病)in California or the US: however, each person can make an effort to humanize the homeless in their own way. Did you know that 40% of the US population lives paycheck to paycheck? Should _______ emergencies occur, any one of those 40% can ________ homeless on the streets.

For this holiday season, perhaps you may want to try something ________ . Buy a meal for the person asking for money instead of giving him spare ________ . If you can make the time and find courage, ________ them to share a meal with you. Jesse Jackson once said, “Never look down on anybody unless you are ________ them out,” and Rumi reminds us, “When we practice ________ and love, we are making the world a better place.”

【推荐3】Every weekend, my father would go to the park to feed the homeless with other volunteers. I really didn’t understand my father’s _____   into it. But I was glad I didn’t have to _____   him, because I knew how much trouble my father had just getting everything ready.

Then, one Friday night I was   _____ a whole wonderful weekend by myself again when my dad came in.

“I need your help tomorrow. Some _____ won’t make it.”

“Dad, I can’t.” I protested (抗议), but _____.

When we arrived, people were already there _____us. I was _____   that my dad knew most of them by name and even what each one needed. While my father was feeding them, I started handing out some _____. It was at that time that I _____a girl about my age was barefoot (光脚). I looked into her clear eyes for a moment, ______   believing someone of my age could live like this. It was lucky that we took some ______. “Thank you!” she cried happily when I ______her the shoes. I felt very ______inside as I watched her leave.

Now I ______why my father did so much to help the homeless. I could ______   he loved seeing their smiles of happiness. I did too.

【推荐1】I’m an ocean lover. Living in Montreal, far away from the ocean, makes it even more a dream land for me. And I _________ to visit the ocean at least once a year and I’ve been doing it for at least twenty _________.

When I was younger, I would _________ shells and rocks and bring them back home and ended up having tons of them on my shelves, floors, desks, etc. But as I _________ the ocean more and more, I started picking up the _________ left by careless people, picking up less and less _________ treasure. I was beginning to question my habits and one day, in California, I just had this idea.

I realised that a stone you find in the ocean has a(n) _________ colour that makes you pick it up but then, when it _________, you won’t find it as lovely anymore, so why pick it up in the first place? Anyway, I just realised then that natural things are nice in their natural _________ and that if everybody picked up every shell from the ocean, and __________ the wastes out there, the beach would become something not so nice very __________.

So I decided that day, when I was probably 28 or 29, that I would just “borrow” things from the ocean, and bring them back after a while, since that __________ of shells does so much good for me.

I __________ the quantity and keep it to the smallest amount. So if you’ve seen a strange lady picking up rubbish and __________ shells back into the ocean, from a box or a bag, on a beautiful sunny day, it was __________ me.

【推荐2】It was rush hour in San Angelo. Heather Santé was driving her Mazda with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back. Suddenly, a red pickup truck ________ them off. Santé turned the wheel hard to the right, sending the Mazda ________ off the road and down an embankment (筑堤) that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet. If the car didn’t ________, it would fall onto the road some 20 feet below. Then a bit of ________: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got ________ on the concrete lip of the embankment, stopping it ________.

The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a wall, literally (确实地) on the edge of ________. One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over.

Jacob Rodriguez watched the ________ unfold from the company where he works. Then he and four other men ran to the car. They ________ onto the trunk to balance the weight as the ________ kids in the back seat watched.

_____, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs nearby. Julio jumped out of the car to help ________ Marco went to the shop, ________ a heavy-duty belt, and returned to the ________ car. He tied the Mazda to a truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers. With the car ________, the group carefully opened the ________ doors and helped the children out.

But their departure changed the car’s ________, causing it to tip forward. The men, still on the trunk, ________ Santé to jump into the back seat to re-balance the weight. She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully ________ the car. Everyone was safe. Another foot, Rodriguez told USA Today, “and this would be a different ________.”

【推荐3】One Saturday morning, I did things smoothly. By 10 am I'd already taken a shower, made breakfast for my kid with a special diet, been to the bank and ________ produce at the farmer's market. Before heading to the laundromat (自助洗衣店), I decided to ________ the living room.

I ________ my way steadily around the ________ until I got to the window. As I wiped the window frame (窗框) I noticed, with some ________, that the window was not locked. I had ________ my son to re-lock the window, telling him that the one point of ________ for robbery in NYC is through open windows.

I ________ waking him from his teen-deep Saturday morning sleep to make him lock the window. Before I did so I noted I was also ________ to have discovered the unlocked window before a robber did. ________ mixed feelings, I chose to ________ first on thanking God for the terrible ________ prevented from happening, and to speak to my son when I was less ________. So I did my ________ and considered what to say to my son, and how, and when. By the time I was done, I had a plan that ________ me to talk to my son calmly, so he could hear my words instead of reacting to my ________.

Giving myself ________ turned out to be a good choice. Over the years I've learned that anger is ________ an effective lesson plan for teaching responsibility. I was far more thankful for my unlocked-window discovery than angered by it. So as I moved on to the next ________ on my to-do list,   I, in a heated moment, ________ and prayed over a situation of gratitude.