【推荐1】My husband and I are taking a trip back to my childhood home, deep in the Kansas countryside. As far as I knew, no one lived in it after we hurriedly _________ to another city so my father could take a job there.

The old two-storey farmhouse mixes in a cloudy late-autumn sky. After stepping through the old door, I wait for my _________ to adjust(适应) to the darkness . Flowered wallpaper still _________ to the broken walls. Mother loved _________ , inside and out. When there was less _________ to put on the table during hard times, she balanced it out with fresh flowers.

The _________ makes sounds with each step. This is a risky business, but it’s my last chance to say ________to the place my brother and I _________ . It was a happy time. Our _______ worked, played together and loved one another.

In the __________, I recall Mother’s Home Comfort stove (火炉) and the heavy oak table that filled the centre of the room. That’s where we __________ and talked as a family.

________, I jump up at the sound of a car horn（喇叭). My husband is getting ________. “Goodbye, old house. Thanks for staying here and __________me,” I say as I move slowly to the door. I wish I could __________ something with me, but there’s nothing left. Then my foot __________ something in a pile of rubbish. I put my hand into the dirt and my __________ close over a piece of metal.

When I __________ what it is, tears run down my cheeks. Mother __________ a few cents from the egg money each month to save up for a belt buckle(扣环) for my father’s birthday. Father __________ it when we moved. Holding the buckle with words --- My Family’s Love to my chest, I run back down the road with my lost treasure.

【推荐2】Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he _____ the airline to see if anyone had turned it in— but fruitlessly. _______   the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash, etc, he feared the worst.

Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was _____ to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous(匿名的)sender. Inside was his wallet — ______   an additional $40 in cash.

“I found this _______   a flight from Omaha to Denver-row 12, seat F wedged(卡住) between the seat and wall.”   ________   a letter that was enclosed with the package. “Thought you might want it back. All the best. PS: I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the ____ of your wallet. Have fun!”

Hunter’s mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the _______ to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the _______ . All they found out was that the letter was _______ from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender’s initials were signed “T.B”. The sender was later _______   as Todd Brown, who was delighted to   “have a   little   fun”   with   helping out   a hard-working stranger.

“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I _______,‘Well, he’s doing his best to make ends meet.’” said Brown. “Hunter was very ____ . He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the _______ was right,” Brown added, “He______ it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started ______, ‘No way! No way!’”

Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that’s why he didn’t sign his _____ on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on_____ him on social media. “I try to teach my children to help people without consideration of the   __________,” Jeannie wrote on

Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding _____ in people than anything.”

【推荐3】Burdon decided to host an improvised (临时安排的)graduation ceremony (典礼)for his daughter Angela in their backyard. After hers was _________ due to COVID-19 (新冠肺炎), Burdon wanted to make it up to his sorrow-stricken daughter in some way. Best of all, his daughter didn't _________ about it beforehand.

Angela wasn't the only one _________ by the cancellation; her father Burdon could hardly _________ his daughter's sadness. The devoted dad _________ to host his own graduation ceremony for Angela in the _________ in Memphis rather than accept his daughter's dream as forfeit (被没收的东西).Over the course of just six weeks, Burdon     _______ to reserve a photographer and a stage without his daughter's knowledge, which _________ her greatly.

When the _________ day finally came, Angela was shocked to find a full-sized stage waiting for her in her yard. 40 people __________ the ceremony, and it met COVID-19 prevention guidelines, all sitting six feet apart with __________ on—and her father even played sacred (神圣的) music as she walked up to get her __________ .

"Angela never saw anything __________she came out to walk, " Burdon said. " At that moment, I didn't have any worries. I was __________ to see my baby walk across the     _______________ and all her friends, family, neighbors and people that we don't even know __________ in the street to witness (见证) this. I couldn't _________ anything better. "

"My daughter couldn't have her official __________ due to the pandemic (疫情) so I __________ one for her! " "Now I'm __________ that I made it happen! "

【推荐2】Volunteering has been a way of life for me for the past five years since I was fifteen.

In 2020 I ______ with a newly founded social enterprise, which conducted cooking lessons for visually impaired (视障) trainee ______. I absolutely loved it as it involved meaningful ______ with people and I was fully ______ throughout the entire time I was there. This was unlike some other types of volunteering, which may involve mostly behind-the-scenes work that can get ______ after a while.

We called ourselves “sighted assistants” and each of us was ______ with a visually impaired trainee chef. As a volunteer, I would walk with the trainee to the Enabling Village ______, and then ensure their ______ as they learned to cook a new dish. This included helping them ______ the position of the sink, ensuring proper use of electrical appliances, ______ boiling and hot objects, as well as being careful with knives among other things.

Being there with them made me truly ______ how difficult life can be when you are ______or completely blind. Every tiny task ______ massive effort. There are so many people with ______, I realised. While medicine still does not have the power to cure all of these conditions, we are never short of ways to empower these individuals by making life ______ and more meaningful for them.

【推荐3】One of the easiest things in the world is to become a fault-finder. However, life can be __________ when you are not busy finding fault with it.

Several years ago I received a letter from seventeen-year-old Kerry, who described herself as a world-class fault-finder, almost always __________ by things. People were always doing things that annoyed her, and _________ was ever good enough. She was highly self-critical and also found fault with her friends.

Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her __________. Her best friend was seriously hurt in a car crash. The day before the accident, Kerry had visited her friend and had spent the whole time criticizing her __________ of friends, the way she was living, the way she related to her mother, and various ________ things she felt she needed to express. It wasn't until her friend was badly hurt that Kerry became _________ her habit of finding fault. Very quickly, she learned to appreciate life rather than to __________ everything so harshly (刻薄). She was able to transfer her new wisdom to other parts of her life as well.

Perhaps most of us aren’t as extreme at fault-finding, __________ when we’re honest, we can be sharply __________ of the world. I’m not suggesting you __________ problems, or that you pretend things are __________ than they are, but simply that you learn to allow things to be as they are—__________ most of the time, and especially when it’s not are really big __________.

Train yourself to “bite your tongue”, and with a little __________, you’ll get really good at letting things go. And when you do, you’ll get back your enthusiasm and love for life.