【推荐1】I was about to get on a plane after a trip. Honestly speaking, the trip was very ___and exhausting. To make things worse, I had a middle seat in Zone 5, where they __ the baggage because there wasn't much room in the overhead bins (行李架).

I had to ask the flight attendant if I could __ my seat. Trying to be __ , she asked if I was willing to sit in an exit row. “Yes, sure!” I ____responded, full of hope. But a moment later, she told me that row might not be _______. I could only accept the reality.

Suddenly I heard her offer two seats in the exit row ____a young couple next to me. I was filled with __ that I was ready to get up and __ with her. I wondered how she could __ me and then go to help others. I was about to shout at her, ____my good sense won. For that belief moment, I tried to comfort myself. "If you are impatient, you'll make a ____ of yourself." Then though I was still annoyed, I managed to __.

With about 5 minutes to board, when I was worried about how to keep my ____, the attendant handed a new ticket to me. "Is this for the __ seat?" I asked. “No, it isn't," she responded. "Once in a while I'm able to do this and I'm glad it has __ this time.” glanced down—business class, Seat 2F—no charge! I was very   ____ for that and I felt relived that I had __ my anger. I do know even if I shouted at the attendant, she would __ try hard to help me, because she seemed very responsible. Now I realize that it is always important to show __ and understanding for others in life.

【推荐3】A video of a tearful young man bursting with joy, pride and gratitude during his high school graduation recently went popular. Dontrail Spencer was _______ holding his diploma and screaming out the names of his teachers and family members who had _______ him along the way. They had been encouraging him to keep his eyes on the goals and to push through the _______ days. 

None of us can _______ life without encouragement — especially from a parent, best friend, school teacher or spiritual leader. Their _______ keeps us going and believing in ourselves. When someone gives you encouragement, you are given the _______ to do something important. You are made stronger. 

Even volunteers like myself _______ words of encouragement. Back in February, I was in my fifth week as a community volunteer during the pandemics (大流行病). I don’t _______ meeting Grace, a lady who had been very sick and in the hospital. But one morning I _______ an email from her: “Thank you and all involved for keeping our community and life moving forward. It makes me sad that our ________ a relationship has been so limited. I enjoy your Wednesday chorus and ________ find you inspirational. I’m ________ to be part of it. Love, Grace.” 

A few days later I received a call that she had ________. Grace was nearing the end of her life, but she took time to encourage me. Every time I read her email, I’m ________ by her words. When we encourage one another — everybody wins. Be generous in your ________. We all need it. Some now more than ever.

【推荐1】I was driving in my car the other day. The sun was out, the radio was playing, and I was singing along. The song was so _______ that even my weak voice sounded good. Then it _______, however. The sweet sound of the music _______ and there came the unpleasant news. Gas prices _______ again. Fans of two sports teams got into fight. I sighed and wondered about this _______ world we live in. _______, I could take no more and turned off the radio. Silence seemed preferable to listening to anything else about the crazy, _______ society we live in. I slowed down as I entered a town and _______ the people as I drove by. A tall man was _______ an elderly lady out of a car and helping her place her walker so she could go into store in her wheelchair. A smiling woman was ________ food onto the square while a dozen birds flew down to enjoy the food being laid out before them. A young man was walking along, carrying his ________ safely in his arms. When the daughter pulled the hat off his head, they both ________. I laughed too as I looked at all of his ________. The radio may have been off in my car, but in my ________ I was still singing.

In truth, this world could have more kindness and less competitions. Kindness makes us all ________ in this life and our life will be full of love and joy.

【推荐2】It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and ______ to make a real difference. But all that changed when I ______ my good-deed-a-day project.

My daughter, Emily, was my primary ______. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be happy.

The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could ______it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I ______ a blind man in the subway station. He smiled as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a local nursing home... I could only hope I was arousing ______ in others.

Luckily, after just a few days I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a ______.

Every evening at the dinner table, I ______that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began copying what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she marched over to a neighbor’s pot of geraniums(天竺葵), which had toppled(摇晃) in the wind，and set it ______. “That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect ______from our neighbors for the food bank. We dropped off the food and，______we drove away, Emily announced ______that she wanted to work there one day.

By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely ______ that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second ______. I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need, ______ looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.

【推荐3】The earliest memory I have of my father is one of me as a young boy holding his hand by his two last fingers as we walked together.

As I grew older I remember us listening over a transistor radio to high school ballgames together. I would _________ how many points each player would score as the game went on. Too small to stay awake for the _________ game, I always fell asleep _________ the game ended. But the next morning I would find by my pillow the score _________ had been filled out with the _________ score on; it was completed by my father.

In high school I became very interested in athletics. My father would_________all my games. Good performances in my senior year _______ our football team to the state championship game. The night before my father _______ announced he had to _________ the bread to the stores and the site of the games was a three-hour drive from his __________. Back then I wasn’t fully noticing his ________.

The next day as game time approached I couldn’t help thinking about Dad. Suddenly, I saw that blue and white bread truck________ into the stadium. Work fulfilled, he made the long drive in time to at least see __________of my championship game.

Years later I had become a teacher and coach. Early one morning I was awakened by a ring at 5:30 A.M. As I ________to answer the phone I’ll never forget the sound of the sheriff’s voice—my dad had just been killed in an automobile accident on his way to work. It felt as if my heart had been __________.

For long I tried to remain strong ________it and pretended I didn’t care until one day on the playground a little boy walked up to me and grabbed my hand by my last two fingers just as I used to do to my dad. I completely __________ it. It was the first time since the __________ that I just let go and cried. And I felt a sense of __________. Sometimes you just have to __________. It won’t need to hold back anymore.”

【推荐1】A dozen years ago, William Dunn noticed his six-year-old neighbor, Camran, shouted at his mom angrily. He started a (n) _________ with the boy. Camran told him that his _________ wasn’t in his life.

William asked Camran’s mom for _________ to take him fishing. Camran was _________ by the experience from that first trip. The two fished together several times a week, and William saw _________ changes in Camran’s behavior. Soon William was teaching Camran’s friends and other kids in the neighborhood to _________.

On weekends, William and a few other _________ take 20 to 25 kids out fishing on a rented boat. Many have never been fishing or even on a boat, so William starts by teaching the _________. Then come the life _________ that fishing offers: patience, team work and the simple __________ of relaxing outdoors. He and the other volunteers have taken more than 600 fishing trips with almost 2, 000 __________ who don’t have a father in their lives.

William wants to share his __________ of fishing with kids who don’t have a father to take them. He said he just wanted to show the kids that he __________ them and that he was there for them. Because many kids go on several trips, William is able to build __________ with them. He and Camran, now 20, still __________ fish together, and Camran sees Big Willam as a father figure.