【推荐1】Two-year-old Nancy is deaf. However, that hasn’t stopped her from being a(n) ________ little girl trying to “chat” to anyone she meets. As soon as she goes out into town with her parents, she starts ________ in the hope that the person she is talking to ________ sign language too.

Normally hearing loss is a social ________ for those who don’t know how to use sign language. Anyone Nancy tried to talk to ________ this and felt so sorry they couldn’t ________.

Then, something amazing happened. Instead of causing a ________, this barrier brought the community together. Determined to ________ sign language so that they could talk to Nancy, her ________ hired an instructor, and took classes together. The teacher ________ that this is really remarkable because, quite often, even the parents of deaf children don’t ________ to learn the language. But here Nancy has a full community that is signing with her, and it is a ________ story.

The teacher also says that this level of inclusion will guarantee that Nancy will be a happier individual in the future. Nancy’s parents are already noticing a ________ in their daughter and how ________ they are to their neighbors.

With a little girl and a lot of love, the neighbors ________ make the neighborhood a community.

【推荐2】Mother’s Day 2016 was the last time that all my three kids would be kids at home. I was_______a Mother’s Day to remember.

That morning, I got up early and left for the_______.The boys and I were going_______,so I expected the break. I entered the office after my class,_______the crowd for their faces. I didn’t find the boys, but wasn’t too worried_______their classes often ran late. I found a bench with plenty of room for all four of us,_______seats for my young men.

The longer I sat there, the more_______and angry I got. How could they_______their mother on this day? I couldn’t_______my work, only on how I’d been wronged.________the last class in the morning ended, I could hardly wait to get home and give them a piece of my mind.

Arriving home, I noticed a pile of roses on the ground. They were the________of a track made of fresh flowers, which led to our house. As I________the flowers, the door got opened and three________ faces greeted me. They let me see what they’d been working on all________.

________the entire floor were the words: “Happy Mother’s Day. We Love You.” They were spelled out with________. The whole house was________with flowers. They’d worked all morning, gathering the fresh flowers and________them into a surprise message.

I immediately realized I’d been much too hurried in my________of the situation. In fact, they’d spent their time sending a________to show how much they really cared.

【推荐3】December 24 arrived along with a heavy snow. It was my first Christmas Eve without mother and the day’s usual _______ had disappeared.

The telephone rang. I _______ it and went to my bedroom to bury the continuous sadness, knowing it must be my friend Rebecca calling. How could I be _______? I wanted to be left alone .

My heart felt as _______ as the falling snow. How can I stop missing my mother?

I _______ the window. Seeing Rebecca’s car parked out front, I went back to bed and drew the covers over my head.

“Lucy!” she shouted. “I know you’re in there. Answer the door!”

“Leave me alone!” I _________ back. I heard paper rustling(沙沙作响) as she slid _________ under the door.

“Merry Christmas,” she called out.

Not answering the _________ made me feel even worse. It wasn’t fair to my best friend. Her father and sister _______ in a car accident when she was eight years old. __________, her mother had to return to __________, and Rebecca was left to look after herself.

When she left, I carried the small package, sat down and __________ it. Inside was a gold pen and a journal. When I opened the journal’s front cover, out fell a bookmark with a(n) __________ written on it:

My words won’t heal(治愈) the __________. But your own words can.

Love,

Rebecca

As I stared(盯着) at the journal’s blank pages, a single tear fell on the page which quickly absorbed it. That night, I __________ the phone and called her. “It looks like the snow is melting(融化),” I said. “Spring is just around the corner.”

【推荐2】A winter storm dropped huge amounts of snow overnight on January 16 in western Pennsylvania. Coach Brian Delallo, who worked on a local high school football team, decided to ________ his players’ weightlifting practice. He texted his players saying, “Due to the expected severe ________, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. ________ an elderly or disabled neighbor and shovel (为……除雪) their driveway. Don’t accept any ________—that’s our Monday workout.”

The players received the message and went out to work on the more than six inches of snow. They said that they removed ________ from dozens of homes. Some players texted their coach afterwards to tell him how ________ it was. “We all feel________ about it,” said team captain Gavin Moul. “It’s not only helping them, but it’s helping us to become a better team.”

Many of the people whom the team members ________ couldn’t believe that the players wouldn’t accept any payment. Sometimes people even refused their help ________ they wouldn’t take money for it.

_______, it was not the first time for the team to have shoveling workout. It was started by a coach more than two decades ago. It was one of the many ________ the team kept.

“It’s about ________.” the coach said. “It is an inspiring way for us to interact with our community and show that it ________. Shoveling snow is just one of those opportunities to show appreciation to the community that supports us. The team got a workout and gave ________ to the community by doing these acts of kindness at the same time. It was a ________ for all.

【推荐1】It was New Year’s Night. An ________ man was standing at a window. He raised his ________ eyes towards the deep blue sky, where the stars were ________ like water lilies on the surface of a clear calm lake. Then he ________ them on the earth, where a few more hopeless people than himself now moved towards their certain goal--the ________. He had already passed sixty of the stages leading to it, and he had brought from his Journey ________ but errors and regrets. Now his health was poor, his mind vacant and his heart sorrowful.

The days of his ________ appeared like dreams before him, and he recalled the serious moment when his father placed him at the ________ of the two roads-one leading to a peaceful, sunny place, the other leading to a deep, dark cave. He looked towards the sky and cried ________, “Oh youth, return! Oh my father, place me once more at the entrance to life, and I will choose the ________ way!” But both his father and the days of his youth had ________.

The clock in the church tower ________ and the sound made him remember his parents’ early love for him. They had taught him and prayed to God for his ________.

But he chose the wrong way. His darkened eyes were full of tears, and with a despairing ________, he burst out a cry, “Come back, my early days!”

And his youth did ________, for all this was only a dream which he had on New Year’s Night.

【推荐2】I was on vacation with my husband, my brother, his wife and daughter. We were not________with the area and jumped onto a________, thinking it would be a nice way to see the downtown’s old town area. Well, until visiting with the bus driver, we________we were on the neighborhood route which picks up school children and delivers to various neighborhood places, with a route of________over about 2 hours. That was a surprise and a concern________we had parked our vehicle in a timed parking area and it was going to end.

We________this with the bus driver only to let her know we were not from the area and________for getting on her bus in error. Then she surprised us________saying, “I get off shift after a few more blocks, and if you don’t mind a tight squeeze in my company car, I’d be________to take you back to your vehicle before the time is over.” The bus driver received________from her manager, so we________said yes to her offer.

She went out of her way to take us back to our vehicle after her________was over and it wasn’t on her route to home either. We were touched and grateful for her________and thoughtfulness. In return because she had shared some of her concerns about the school-age children she sometimes had on the bus route, I shared with her a little________on how to quiet the children. She was so grateful. It was a wonderful________of kindness!