【推荐1】My father brought home a sailboat when I was ten, and almost each Sunday in summer we would go sailing. Dad was quite skilled in sailing, but not good at ________. As for me, I ________ both before twelve because of living close to Lake Ontario.

The last time Dad and I set sail together is really ________. It was a perfect weekend after I graduated from university. I came home and ________ Dad to go sailing. Dad hadn’t sailed for years, but everything ________well with the tiller(舵柄) in his hands.

When we were in the middle of the lake, a ________ wind came all of a sudden. The boat was hit ________. Dad was always at his best in any ________, but at this moment he froze.

“John! ________!” he shouted in a trembling voice, with the tiller still in his hands.

In my memory he could fix any ________. He was the one I always ________ for strength and security. Before I could respond, a________of water got into the boat. I rushed to the tiller but it was too late. Another huge wall of water ________ the boat in a minute. We were thrown into the water, and Dad was struggling aimlessly. At that moment, I felt fiercely ________ of him.

I swam to Dad quickly and assisted him in climbing onto the hull(船身) of the boat. Upon sitting on the hull, I comforted him, “It’s all right, Dad. We are safe now.”

That was the first time Dad had counted on me in a moment of emergency. More importantly, I found it was my turn to start ________ for my father.

【推荐2】On my third birthday, we moved to this neighborhood. Arlene and her husband, Bill, lived next door, who had no children. There weren't any_______my age nearby, so I mostly played in the yard alone. Arlene and Bill spent a lot of time working in the _______, and I was always talking to them from our yard. They were never tired of listening to me. I think what _______ me to them is that I also think they saw a lot of themselves in me — we were all lonely kids. It was a wonderful _______.

When I was about five, I had an idea _______ I took Bill and Arlene into our family as my grandparents. My parents made the _______ that I should ask them directly and so I did. They started crying and _______ accepted. It is truly wonderful for a child _______ her love and adults being so overjoyed to accept it. Every child in this world _______ enthusiastically repaid love.

From the day I accepted them, I called Bill and Arlene Grandpa and Grandma and my parents called them Mom and Dad. Over the years, Bill and Arlene ________ me in all my dreams. They encouraged me to ________ college, even though I didn't have the money to go. And when I was ________ to a university, they presented me with their savings. They told me they’d been ________ money since the day I called them grandparents. Four years later, I ________ and now work as an official.

Arlene passed away in 2013. Bill told me that Arlene thought the greatest ________ of her life was me, her granddaughter.

【推荐3】I was ready for bed. My eyes fell on the musical _________ on my bedside table. In it was a photo of Dad smiling, and once opened, it would play his _________ song recorded before his death. It was propped(支撑) open just enough so the recording wouldn’t play.

Dad was a _________ man. He was always singing me his little made­up songs to share joy although he was _________ off­key, not hitting every note.

Dad was a man with big heart. When my house burned down a few years ago, Dad _________ my family into his home. When we tried to offer some _________, he said with his characteristic voice, “Don’t be _________!”

With happy _________, I fell asleep.

“Beautiful and marvelous!”

Suddenly, I was awoken hours later by the _________ song. The card! I snapped it shut(啪的一声合上).

How did that card just start playing? I checked the windows, all tightly shut. But why couldn’t I __________ the feeling that something was wrong?

I decided to __________ downstairs. Opening the door to the laundry room, I was hit with a strong smell of __________. The heat lamp had fallen, and the carpet was burning.

The __________ wasn’t too bad. I let out a shaky breath with __________. What could have happened? Perhaps another house fire…But we were safe. All thanks to Dad’s one-of-a-kind __________.

【推荐2】Dad was not only my best friend, but my ______. While he was alive, he ______ me with his actions and advice. He taught me one important ______: “Believe in yourself”. If there was one phrase my dad ______ liked to hear, it was “I can’t”. He never got to finish high school and ______ two jobs to support his large family, but he never ______. Through education and years of hard work, my dad became an excellent journalist.

When I was in high school, I had a ______ time with math. He tried to help me, but I still struggled. So my math teacher suggested I meet with him at 7:00 each morning before school for ______ help. I told Dad, “That’s ______! I’m tired! I can’t do that!” He replied, “You’re doing it. I’ll send you to school.” Every morning at 6:45, we’d leave the ______. Aside from working 12 hours every day, Dad never once ______ driving me to school.

After months of ______, I was facing the final exam. I was so ______. On the day of the final, my dad hugged me and said, “Luke, ______ yourself. You can do it.” His words made me realize I needed to trust in my ______ and in the hours of work I’d ______. When I got my ______ proudly, the first person I called was my father. He cried, “Yes! You deserved it!”

Even now, whenever I ______ that a task is too much for me, I think back to that exam. No matter how ______ something is, if you’re willing to work, you can succeed. I’m forever ______ to Dad for that lesson.

【推荐1】I woke up by my dog barking in the early morning. I went outside to find a koala (考拉) at the yard gate wanting to enter. It was the first time that I had _______ a koala in my neighbourhood. What a welcome _______! 

I was wondering why he was here, as koalas _______ came down from the trees and didn’t like walking, either._______, there was no eucalyptus (桉树) around. Was he hungry or lost? Or maybe the bushfire across Kangaroo Island _______ him here? 

He just sat there, apparently _______, and sort of looked at me with a look, like helping me out of my suffering. At a(n) _______ look, I discovered a long cut at his back with bloods,_______ of attacks or cuts of something sharp in some other way. 

I rushed into my room and came out with some iodophor (碘伏药水). It was not a _______ problems as I was a nurse. This poor soul seemed to quite ________ my kindness when I ________ the cut with the liquid. It ________ me that he came to seek my ________! 

After the treatment, I watched the koala finally ________ in the wild, hoping he was able to ________ the hard time and live his life as he should.

【推荐2】I was ready to pay for my bananas at the grocery one night, when fear seized me. My wallet was gone. I could only have left it on the G9 bus, which was now speeding in the dark to some   ______ station.

The ______ moment was quickly followed by mental math. How much time and money would it cost to replace the ______ of that little wallet? The credit cards, the driver's license, the cash, all lost to the bus.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door. My husband ______ it while I was on the phone in the dining room. “Does Jennifer live here?” I heard a lady say. In my husband's hand was my wallet, with not a penny ______. She left before I could even make it to the door to offer my thanks.

After sharing the story online, I heard from someone, who _____ the lady as Erin Smith. Without _____, I called to thank her. She said she _____ my wallet on a bus seat. She ____that going to a stranger’s house was a _____ move, but she decided to take the chance. “If I were in that _____, I would want someone to try to find me,” she said.

This one stranger responded beautifully to my small ____, but she actually wasn’t the only one. Right after Erin took possession of my wallet on the bus, she posted a picture of my driver’s license to an online forum, trying to see if anyone knew me. No sooner had she left my doorstep than I had emails from two women whose kids go to my son’s nursery and who recognized my face. I’ve never _____ words with those moms beyond small talk, but they wanted to help. I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I _______ tend to act.

Looking back, I feel blessed someone had wanted to help a stranger. Erin had gone beyond what almost anyone would have done, finding my house on a bitterly cold night, and for that I was extremely _______.

【推荐3】It was March 2019. When Sara Cook got a _________ telling her that someone had paid most of her medical debts, she thought it was not _________. “It seemed like one of those e-mails you get that say you have a long-lost _________ and you just inherited (继承) two million dollars,” Cook says._________, she called the number listed on the letter. What she learned was that this was not a _________ . It was 100 percent real.

A nonprofit called RIP Medical Debt had _________ paid $5,000 toward her bills. The organization didn’t _________ all her debts from several back surgeries, but the former nurse was still _________ by the gesture. “I felt really _________,” she says, “knowing that complete strangers just did that out of the __________ of their hearts.”

Antico and Jerry, members of RIP, do have good hearts. They’re also former collection agents who have seen how health-related debt has __________ lives. Antico says. “I never thought about all the hardship of the people who couldn’t pay before. Now I __________ to find the people who need help.”

However, it’s not necessary for you to contact RIP for any __________. Antico says they used to let people reach out to them, __________ it was found that they weren’t able to help __________ who applied. Now, RIP researches those in need of help. For the people who do __________, RIP’s help is life-changing.

“After their letter, I realized that my life really won’t be __________,” says Cook,“ I may never be able to work as a __________ again, but I can sit at the school __________and help kids read or something else to help people. When people do something out of the kindness of their hearts, sometimes they may __________, ‘Does it really make a difference?’ I want people to know that this HAS positive impact.”