【推荐1】Hundreds of community members poured into the home to express their condolences (哀悼) to Eli's family. I walked in and_________myself, saying I was the headmaster of a school in a neighboring city. I then told the following_________ to the family.

When I was in middle school, I was the troublemaker and always behaved_________in class. One day, when I was bored in class, I_________a paper ball at the teacher. With a bright red_________face, the teacher lifted the ball and said, “I will ask only once for the student who did this to_________and get out of the room. I won't_________class until that student leaves, "The room was_________. I was not going to give myself up. I never_________what would happen next. After 30 long seconds, a boy named Eli, who was always a__________and well-behaved student, stood up and walked out with his__________ down. He had no reason to help me but he__________to anyway.

I wiped my __________ and said, “I want you to know that Eli saved my life. Through that__________act, he conveyed to me how concerned he was about my dignity (尊严). That shook me up. From that __________ on, I took my life more __________. With a lot of work, I stopped being a __________.

When I heard that Eli __________, I had to go to let all know that if I've __________ people's lives through my work as an educator, it's all due to Eli's__________and selflessness.

【推荐2】Scott had always been creative. As he finished university, he _________ to become an inventor. He often designed many new things. His friends thought that he was misguided. “You cannot spend your life as a(n) _________. You will _________ have a steady income.” Luke, his best friend, was _________ his friend’s future. “Why don’t you _________ and get a job in the city?” Luke often asked. “This is my _________,” Scott said to Luke. “I have wanted to be an inventor since I was a small child. I am not going to _________.”

Over several years, Scott developed many ideas that _________ to become a success. His first invention had many _________ and he was unable to sell it. His second idea received little support from people or companies. Scott’s friend Luke __________ to encourage him to find a(n) ________ career (职业). “Scott, you have to think about your __________. I think it is time to __________ something else.” “But I cannot stop now. I am so close to coming up with something huge. __________ I left my designs now, all my life would have been wasted,” he replied. Luke nodded, “I __________, my friend. Just know that I am here to support you.”

Then one day it happened. Scott __________ his design of a new wing for an airplane. He presented it to several companies who all loved his __________. After some competition, a company offered to buy his design.

“I knew that one day I would __________ it!” he said to Luke as they celebrated at his apartment. Luke felt a little guilty (内疚的) for __________ suggesting that Scott should give up. “I don’t know how you kept going all these years,” Luke said. “You certainly deserve every bit of your __________.”

【推荐3】Debra Ferrell got the standard well wishes on Facebook on her 53rd birthday, but she got some __________ messages too. One was about a family in Minnesota who had just lost their four-year-old son to cancer. His older brother, autistic (自闭症) and nonverbal, was especially __________. Could Ferrell help?

That message and the 30 or so others like it were __________ what Ferrell was looking for. She wanted to __________ 53 random acts of kindness by the end of her birth month, and she needed information on people who could   _________ one. When she got the __________ about the Minnesota family, she _________ a wind chime (风铃) with the message “Listen to the wind and know that I am near”. It now hangs in the four-year-old’s bedroom, where his brother can go to listen to it whenever he wants.

This is not the first time that Ferrell has decided to give __________ for her birthday. For her 47th, in 2014, she founded Love with Skin On, an organization devoted to doing good __________ near her home in Roanoke. Virginia, and beyond. Its motto is simple: Be Love, Do Stuff.

Over the years, Ferrell has _________ and touched well over 100 __________, some found via Facebook callouts, others with help from her grandkids. In another act of __________, she shares her favorite inexpensive and creative gift ideas on Pinterest for others to use.

Ferrell __________ for everything herself: gift cards, pay-it-forward purchases at drive-throughs, and care packages, as well as the gas it takes to play fairy godmother. Her family often gives her some __________ birthday cash with a warning not to spend it on anyone else, which she __________ ignores. “I got a couple of Amazon gift cards for my birthday this year.” It’s Ferrell’s party, and she’ll give if she wants to.

【推荐2】Many people spend their New Year's Eve getting dressed up and dancing their way to midnight. My brother and I decided to do things a bit ________.

We each filled a backpack with clothes, shoes and other things and headed out to the train station. The first person we saw was a 15-year-old boy picking up ________ plastic bottles on the train platform (站台). We called him over and started up a(n) ________. We had a look at his hands and noticed he had ________ fingernails (手指甲). We explained that it was ________ to keep short nails and then we began cutting them for him. When we were ________, we offered him some chocolates, which made him look at us ________. We talked to him some more and began ________ some of the chocolates ourselves. Finally, he ________ took the chocolate himself and then began telling us his ________.

His name was Raju. After his mother died, his father remarried. Unable to ________ his stepmother (继母), Raju ran away from home and had been living on the streets for three years, collecting and ________ empty plastic bottles.

When we met Raju, he wasn't wearing any ________. One quick look into our backpacks and we ________ what we were looking for—a pair of Nike shoes. When we dressed him in them, Raju's eyes were full of ________. “These shoes are so great. Nothing will hurt my feet.Thank you so much!” Touched by our actions, he joined us as we walked around and looked for those in need.

【推荐3】Just before New Year, the principal (校长) called me into his office and asked me to read a poem written by me at the New Year party. “Sure,” I said with a smile, my dreams of being a famous ________ floating in my mind.

For weeks, I worked on my poem, ________ bettering the structure, sound, and voice. I reread my Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth for ________. I practiced reciting it aloud. I revised, revised, revised. By December 30th, the day of the event, I was ________.

Well, I was confident until I looked around and realized how many people were there. And how big the hall was, and how ________ I felt about myself. How could I ________ a piece of my poetry to 800 people? My heart was beating so hard I thought everyone around me could ________ it. I was nervous. I could feel cool shakes run down my back. I couldn’t remember why I had said yes to the ________. Then the light darkened, the crowd quieted. It was starting.

Suddenly, I was on stage with the bright white lights blinding my view of the audience and the feeling that my ________ was closing up. I leaned in to the microphone and tried out my ________ as I read the title: “Let There Be Light.” My voice boomed (声音低沉洪亮) from the speakers loudly and sounded much more confident than I felt.

The room was ________ as I began my piece, and I tried to focus on the words and ________ the people. The words somehow ________ in the right order, the lines flowed together properly, and I even remembered which words to ________. I finally came to the last line of the poem and breathed a deep sigh of relief. It was over.

The room was dead silent. Maybe no one liked it. I felt like I was going to faint. Then out of the silence there was ________, cheering, and smiling. I had done it. I had shared a piece of my poetry with the world.