【推荐1】When I was three, I was inseparable from my parents. Where they went I went, always reaching out for their hands to ensure their________.

As we________ my preschool   for   the first   time, my hands tightly________ my parents’. We walked past the ________ sign out front which read “Welcome to the Lakeschool!”, up the stairs and through the front door. I was happy and________– what   could this new place be? Soon enough, however, I was introduced to my teachers and as they warmly________ me, they separated   my hands from my parents’ hands. As we   progressed across the room, my parents________ broke away   from our little group and went a________ way. They   seemed,   in fact,   to be heading toward   the door. When I realized what was happening, I________ to run after them, only to be held back by my teachers. My small face contorted（变形）and tears began to flood my cheeks. My mouth opened and a desperate________ escaped, loud enough for my parents, who were now     outside, to________. I stared at them, pressed up against the________. But soon another   little girl________. She wrapped her________ around me until I stopped crying. Then she took my hand and led me away from the window. My parents breathed a sigh of________.

The girl was Helen, and from that moment on we were best friends.

【推荐2】Martin shook his money box again. Nothing! He carefully counted the_______that lay on the bed. 32 dollars was all that he had. The_______ he wanted was at least 100 dollars! How on earth was he going to get the_______of the money?

He knew that his friends all had bicycles. It was_______to hang around with people when you were the only one without wheels. He _______what he could do. There was no_______asking his parents, for he knew they had no money to spare.

There was only one way to get money, and that was to _______it. He would have to find a job. But who would give him the _______ and what could he do? He decided to ask Mr. Allen for_______, who usually had experience on most things.

That was the beginning of Martin's odd-job(零工) business. For3 months he ________every day after finishing his homework. He________dogs and babies for walks, cleared out cupboards, and mended books. He couldn't ________ how many cars he washed and how many windows he________, but the money increased and he knew that he would soon have ________for the bicycle.

The day________came when Martin counted his money and found $104. 32. He wasted no time and went down to the ________to pick up the bicycle he wanted. He rode________home. He looked forward to showing his new bicycle________ his friends. It had been hard working for the money, ________Martin knew it was a valuable experience. He had ________what he thought was impossible, and that was worth even more than the bicycle.

【推荐1】We live in a small town of Toronto. Our ______has a way of assisting those who have financial ______without making the receiver feel embarrassed. Money is______into an offering box with only the name of the receiver on the envelope. The receivers are then given the envelope without knowing the name of the ______.

There came a time when my husband and I were ______those in need. We did not talk about our financial difficulty with anyone. The only reason our children knew was that we had to ______many things. Still, we hoped they were not aware of how much we ______because of it, nor burdened them with a problem they could do nothing to solve.

Our situation didn’t ______, and we knew that we had to look for ______help. Just as we reached the point of ______, our community gave us a gift envelope. We were overjoyed to receive the money, enough to bring us through that desperate time. We couldn’t help but wonder who had given the gift. We were enormously relieved and ______.

A year later, our seventeen-year-old son ______a student loan so he could attend university. It was then that we discovered that his savings account was almost ______. At first he wouldn’t tell me, which made me even angrier. I asked him repeatedly to tell me where the money had gone.

Finally, my son ______that he had dropped his savings into the box. I stood there speechless, tears filling my eyes. He had given it to us ______- without telling us what he had done.

【推荐2】Anna lived on the side of a valley. One summer, there was a very big ___ , and a lot of houses down below Anna’ s were washed away. Anna’ house was   ___ enough to escape the flood, so when the water had ___ and the other houses were ___there with no roof and no walls and all covered with mud (泥), her house was just all right．

Her house was quite small, her husband was dead, and she had four children, ___Anna took in one of the families that had lost ___ in the flood and she ___her home with them until it was ___ for them to rebuild their house．

Anna’ s friends were ___　when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give ____ so much more work and trouble when she already had quite a few children to ____．

 “Well,” Anna  ___  her friends, “at the end of the First World War, a woman in the town where I then lived found herself very  ____ , because her husband had been killed in the ___  and she had a lot of children, ___  I have now. The day before Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas this year, so I’m going to ___ only one present to all of us. Now I’ll go and get it.” She came back with a  ___  who was even poorer than they, and who had no parents. “Here’s our ___ ”, she said to her children．

The children were ___ and happy to get such a present. They ___ the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. Such was that Christmas present.”

【推荐1】It was a bitter winter morning in Kennewick, Washington. John Lunceford saw a crying child along his bus ________ to school. Tears rolled down the young boy’s cheeks as his bare hands and ears were ________ red because of the bitter cold. Lunceford took his ________ off, which he gave to the child, and said, “It’ll be OK.” “I’m a grandfather. No one wants a kid to ________ like that,” Lunceford said. His heart ________ because of the poor child, knowing the ________ winter was still lying ahead.

After ________ the kids off at school, the three-year bus driver and former U.S. Army soldier went to the ________ to buy ten sets of gloves and hats. He returned to the ________ and determined to find the boy. A school worker ________ Lunceford to the library, where the boy was studying with his class. There Lunceford ________ the boy with a new pair of gloves and a hat.

But the little boy was just the ________. Many other students would receive the ________ of their familiar bus driver. He announced to the students in the library that any child found without a hat or gloves along his bus route would be given a set.

One little girl ________ said she didn’t have a hat. As Lunceford ________ her a comfortable hat, he smiled and said, “I’ll take care of you, sweetie.”

【推荐3】The COVID-19 pandemic（大流行病）prevented a lot of celebrations from being held. During what seemed like an end to the pandemic, Dawn planned a birthday party ______ for her son Jack at a park with plenty of space to keep social   ______ . For one reason or another, kids and their parents ______ to stay at home. No guests ______ on the celebration.

After the birthday party at the park for her son that ______ went to, this mom ______ her heartbreak online. All parents just want ______ for their kids. Imagine watching your young kid’s excitement ______ sadness when none of his friends go to his ______ .

Dawn’s video quickly ______ hundreds of thousands of views. Other moms talked about their ______ and wished Jack a happy birthday with a lot of other viewers. ______ people offered to send gifts to the birthday boy to make his ______ day a little bit better.

Dawn even took it one step further for her boy. She ______ a virtual（很接近的）birthday party for Jack by going live online, and almost 30. 000 viewers ______ in the party. Hundreds of thousands of ______ getting together just to make the kid feel happy on his birthday!

Jack’s mom posted a follow-up video. ______ that both she and her son were unbelievably ______ for those who wished him a happy birthday and wanted to send toys. She said that Jack didn’t want or need toys, but he just wanted to have fun with his ______ . Jack even ______ that people send toys to their closest Children’s Hospital instead of to him.