【推荐3】Brooke Ochoa was going to enter a restaurant for lunch when she saw an elderly lady approaching. The thirty-year-old woman _______to keep the door open for her. She thought   she was just doing something _______. She didn’t know, however, that a remark that a lady would make a few seconds later would _______a chain of events that would cause her to get countless likes on her post and _______on social media suddenly. As Brooke entered the restaurant, she _______the elderly lady asking for “a table for one”. Then she decided to do one more act of _______. Brooke walked up to the lady’s _______and asked, “I also_______alone, would you like to have lunch together?”

The lady, named Dolores, not only accepted Brooke’s_______, but she was very pleased to have________. The two________up an instant friendship during their meal.

Dolores told Brooke that she’d been having a ________time. “She spent the last decade living with her mom, who recently passed away,” Brooke wrote in a late post about the encounter. “She just kept smiling and saying ‘thank you for listening to me’, which made me ________too!” Brooke and Dolores enjoyed their conversation so much that they ________to have lunch with each other every Thursday from that point on. In a later________, not long after their first meeting, Brooke was________that Dolores had passed away.

If nothing else, this chance ________is evidence that the smallest ________of good will can quite exactly change a life. Neither of the two women knew that Dolores’s days on earth were so ________, but they found ________in each other, and that’s what matters.

【推荐1】As a waitress I have met and seen all types of people. I think it is _____ that brings us all together. I was about to _____ my job one afternoon and go home when a family came in.

As they sat down, they _____ that they were on their way home. And they added they just had enough money to buy their children only a _____ snack and that all they needed was _____ I showed them a few things on the menu and _____ them what they would like.

As I walked away to _____ their order, I just couldn’t _____ to see this family leaving,_____ with just a snack and some water!______ , I asked some of the other waitresses to ______ me in helping this family. They ______ because they knew I was kind when it came to ______ others. It made them feel good too. So I ______ to the table and told them that they could order what they wanted because it would be paid by some ______ strangers. At first, they didn’t know what to say, but then they looked at the ______ to see what was on offer. They then ______ accepted the meal and said “Thanks” with smiles.

When they left, all I could see was the ______ on their faces. With tears in my eyes, I wished them a ______ trip. I learnt that with every kind ______ , you can get to know a person, and the feeling it gives flows both ways.

【推荐2】A US bus driver is being praised for the way she helped a passenger get some needed assistance(帮助). In October, bus driver Natalie Barnes started ______ with a passenger named Riohard. He told her he had been ______ for a week, since his house was burned down.

When he asked if he could ______ along for the night to stay out of the ______, she agreed.“At some point in our lives, everybody needs ______,” Barnes said. At one point during her shift, she ______ to get her passenger something to eat. Richard was ______.“Now I don’t know what to say but to say thank you,” he said to Barnes and promised to ______ her back somehow.

However, she ______, saying, “I want to help you.” Barnes and Richard became ______ during that six-hour bus ride. Now he has her cellphone number, and they keep in ______.

Helping others comes second nature for Barnes, who has received lots of praise for excellent service. She ______ takes peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on the bus to share with people in ______. In fact, Barnes did what we all need to do to ______ homelessness: to look out for each other, to ______ each other and to work together.

【推荐3】High school graduations are one of the most important ceremonies in a teenager’s life. So imagine Daverius Peters’ _________ when on May, as he headed into the graduation to receive his diploma (毕业证书), he was _________ at the door by the doorkeeper. Peters learned his sneakers were in violation (违反) of the school’s dress code and he was denied _________ .

It looked as if Peters was about to _________ his chance to walk across the stage with his classmates when he caught sight of a _________ face. John Butler, a teacher at Louisiana’s Hahnville High School, was on hand for the _________ as a parent, not a staff member. But once he learned the details of Peters’ _________ , he accompanied the young man to see if he could _________ the gatekeeper’s mind.

“I was _________ that if she saw me with him, maybe she would let it go, but she __________ not letting this young man in,” Butler said. Without missing a beat, Butler simply __________ his size-1l loafers (平底便鞋) for Peters’ size-9 athletic shoes. With seconds to spare, Peters __________ it inside the venue just as the doors closed and was able to __________ his place in the graduation line.

“I wasn’t __________ because Mr. Butler is that type of person,” __________ Peters said. “At school, if you’re having a bad day, he’ll be the one to take you out of class, walk around the school with you and talk to you.”