【推荐1】A lot of people fear getting old, because ageing is often connected with loneliness. But Terry, 75, in Green Bay, knows _________ what to do to keep sadness from seeping (浸入) into his _________.

Terry, an animal lover whose heart has a very _________ spot for cats, frequently visits the animal shelter in Green Bay to hold the _________ cats close and take a short sleep with them!

The charming _________ of the old man taking a short sleep while surrounded with cats _________ the workers. It was such a _________ picture that the workers always found themselves taking _________ of Terry and all the cats and posted them on the Facebook page.

_________, one photo with the cat, Lois, appealed to the followers of the page and ____________ over 47,000 likes and about 25,000 shares! In fact, in less than a day, Lois was ____________ by a new family!

Terry has become popular on the Internet. But more than the ____________, the old man is very happy to know that his love for cats is bringing a lot of help to the animal shelter by ____________ a lot of people to donate to the shelter.

Terry is happy, the ____________ behind which is not difficult to understand. His story just goes to show how a small deed can make a big ____________.

【推荐2】When my friends volunteered to help with a service project in my town, I had no idea what it was about. I was always ____ to be a volunteer and because of that I had been greatly honored. I ____ my friends thinking that I would also win honor through the volunteer work. _____, after knowing that there wouldn’t be any kind of honor and they might gather to help ____one family’s garden on Saturdays for more than 10 hours. I felt bored.

When I arrived at the house, I was ____ to see that many people were there, working happily to make the garden more beautiful. The house was ____ by an elderly lady, Mrs. Johnson, who was very thankful for our help and tried to do anything to ____ us.

I was getting ready to plant flowers in the garden ____ I heard the house owner, Johnson, said, “Honey, could I help you with it?” I nodded gratefully and we _____ together for a while. During the ____, I sat on a stone to rest and looked around, seeing the volunteers chatting ____ with their faces covered with sweat. I was deeply ____ and cried, feeling sorry for what I had ____ about helping before. Mrs. Johnson saw my ____ and asked. “Are you OK? I know there are ____ things you could do on a Saturday.”

I ____ her the reasons why I had come were to stay together with my ____ and win honor. After watching all these generous volunteers, I learned that every one of them was ready to ____ without thinking what they could get. I came to realize that receiving isn’t ____ but helping someone out is always a ____ thing!

【推荐1】Since the age of four, Jacquelyn Hill had dreamed of becoming a dancer. However, a car accident put the high school senior in the hospital for 5 days and left her paralyzed from the waist down and ________ to sitting in the wheelchair the whole life. For most people, that would have ________ any hope of a dancing career. For Hill, it was the beginning. ________ being a barrier, her wheelchair brought her bravery and encouraged her to think a lot of her life and she wanted to prove that she was still ________. Actually, Hill made it, rolling her wheelchair right alongside her non-disabled high school dance team. “It feels as if half of my body were ________ from me, and I have to move it with my hands,” Hill said. “ It ________ took a lot of learning and ________.”

After graduation, she wanted to expand her dancing network to include women like her. She began to ________ people online who had suffered similar injuries and shared her determination. Then in 2014, Hill moved to Los Angeles and formed a team of dancers with disabilities she calls the Rollettes. “I want to ________ the false belief of wheelchair users and show dance is dance, whether you’re walking or you’re ________.”

Dancing on wheels can be just as fast-paced, artful and ________ as the foot-based variety. In disabled dance competitions around the country, her team danced to the popular ________, rocking their ________ bodies, shaking their heads to the special beats, and ________ their wheelchairs in well-timed, dynamic, highly designed routines. The cheers, whistles and applause of the audience suggested that the fun was ________.

【推荐3】At just 21 years old, Nija Charles is one of today’s most popular songwriters.

She has been _______ with Beyonce, Jay Z, Cardi B, and many other today’s popular music artists. Their works have been _______ . And she was even _______ in three Grammy nominations (提名).

But just a few years ago, Charles was only a(n) _______ in the crowd. Growing up in New Jersey, she was _______ in a musical family. “My dad is a DJ. My mom is a dancer,” Charles _______ . “So growing up in this family, I was always _______ by music and crazily chased after musicians.”

Charles said she first _______ music at age 13, when she asked her mom for a mini keyboard because she was _______ to produce. “So she got one for me, and right then and there. I started tapping on the ________ ,” she said.

Charles continued to learn ________ at New York University, where she’d make songs in her dormitory and post them online. Soon she was ________ in flying across the country on weekends, performing on stage and then studying at school.

“It was ________ for me. There were some classes I ________ had to skip. But yeah, it was just ________ management and I had to ________ and finish my homework before I got on the plane or I’d finish the ________ on the plane. I wrote songs during the weekend. I made sure I studied hard so I could finish ________ that year,” she said.

Talking about her success, Charles said, “It’s ________ that my favourite artists are now the people I cooperate with. Several years ago, I was at their ________ but now I’m in the studio with them.”

【推荐2】One spring morning many years ago, I had been searching for gold along Coho Creek in southeastern Alaska. Suddenly, no more than 20 paces away was a huge Alaskan timber wolf —caught in a(n) ______ .

From her appearance, I guessed she had been in the trap for several days, because her toe was swollen (肿了). “She needed ______ ”, I thought. But if I tried to free her immediately at that time, shed would turn ______ to me. Each time I moved closer, she would make a ______ growl (咆哮). How I wish I could ______ her trust.

Over the next few days, I talked ______ with her, throwing her some meat. Gradually, I kept walking closer, but beyond the ______ of her trap chain.

At dusk on the fifth day, I ______ her dinner. Suddenly, I saw a slight wagging(摆动)of her tail. When I moved within the length of her chain, she remained ______ .

The next morning, I slowly ______ my hand on the wolf’s injured leg. ______, she made no threatening move. I knew it was the ______ and I opened the trap, and the wolf pulled herself free.

My experience told me the wolf would ______ into the woods quickly. Instead, she crept toward me and sniffed my hands and arms. This went ______ everything I’d ever heard about timber wolves. Yet, strangely, it all seemed so ______ .