【推荐1】The music box has been sitting silently on my dresser for years. My husband _________ it at a flea market as a gift to me. The first time I heard its melody (旋律), childhood _________ rushed back to me. I had _________ that song! It was the only Italian song my mother had ever sung. I could always see her _________ the kitchen sink and hear her singing as she washed the dishes.

After receiving Mike’s gift, I _________ brought it to my mother and asked her the _______ of the lyrics (歌词). She said a man is singing about his love for the sea. Her response _________ my curiosity, and I gave it no further thought.

In 2018, my mother’s health started to _________, and most of her memories seemed to have been _________. She had to lie in bed all day and could hardly recognize me.

I took the music box to her apartment, hoping the melody would help her bring back memories. I sat by her __________ as my daughter Rachelle and my grandson, Nicholas, looked on. I held it to her ear and it slowly played its melody. When the melody __________, she said “Again…”

“What is the name of the song?” Rachelle asked. __________, no one knew it. We needed the title. Nicholas __________ the challenge. The song was probably passed down from my grandparents a long time ago. Nicholas __________ the melody from the music box and searched the Internet, hitting many __________ ends.

Then he uploaded a video of the music box to YouTube. Someone __________ it and wrote the title. Nicholas finally __________ the lyrics!

My mother died at age 96. But in her last days, we played her song, __________ with Italian lyrics. She smiled while listening to it. We had never thought such an old music box would bring her great __________. I imagined she must have felt a special kind of __________ to her mother through the music box.

【推荐2】For many people, barbecues are a chance to enjoy a meal with family and friends. For Stan Hays, barbecuing is a passion that he puts to the ______ at weekend competitions.

_______, when disaster strikes, Hays uses his skills to ________ people in need. Since 2011, his non­profit, Operation BBQ Relief, has prepared more than 1.75 million meals for ________..The ________ effort began in May 2011，when a terrible tornado hit Joplin, Missouri, about two­and­a­half hour's drive from Hays' home. His wife urged him to _______.So, he put out the _______ to his barbecue buddies (伙计) and headed down with his portable smoker. “We________we'd be there three to four days, serving maybe 5,000 meals,” Hays said. “But the need was there, and the ______ kept coming in.”

Hays believes that the food they prepare keeps disaster survivors________ both physically and mentally. We not only are giving them something nutritious, but we are giving them a state of being ______.”

“For me, the ________ thing is people coming together. Seeing the people working and ______ the effect the meals are producing — it can't help but bring a smile to your face, maybe a ______ to your eye. At the end of the day, you've done something that's made a ______,” said Hays.

【推荐3】Susie Coodall finally was discovered and rescued. She was a volunteer in the ______ Golden Globe Race accompanying sailors through the ______ every June. On Wednesday morning，Goodall was 2，000 miles west of South America when her boat was like a drunken man in a strong wind and a broken bar knocked her ______ unconscious. But soon after that she ______ and at once rang the alarm through her emergency system and a series of troubling ______which had recorded her happenings during the journey，were ______ on her Facebook at once.

Chile's Maritime Center received her ______ and soon ordered a ship to change its ______ to rescue Goodall. Meanwhile，all Goodall could do was wait-trying to keep her boat ______in the waving South Pacific and pumping out water that was ______ into the damaged cabin（船舱），which made her ______ her present situation

When the Chilean ship finally ______ Goodall，lowering down a small boat to save her seemed   ____because up to 13 feet waves will ______ the boat at any time. ______ ，crew members on board ______ another way-lowered a long thick rope from the ship，and ______ Goodall from her ship to safety. As luck would have it，the chosen method ______ worked.

Goodall arrived at the Chilean port without any delay. On her Facebook，Goodall wrote：“They were the hardest and loneliest days I've ever had. Actually，all I wanted was a break with no ______ to the busy daily life. But I might as well ______ home instead of giving up. "

【推荐1】Oseola McCarty

Late one Sunday afternoon in September 1999, Oseola McCarty, an elderly cleaning lady passed away in the little wooden frame house where she had lived and worked most of her life. It may seem like an ordinary _______ to an ordinary life, but there was something quite _______ about this woman.

In the summer of 1995, McCarty gave$150,000, most of the money she had saved throughout her life, to the University of Southey Mississippi in her hometown. The _______ was to help other African Americans _______ university.

She had _______ school in the sixth grade to go to work, never married, never had children and never learned to drive because there was never any place in _______she wanted to go. All she ever had was the work which she saw as a _______. Too many other black people in the countryside of Mississippi did not have even that. She had started her savings habit as a young child when she would return from school to clean and iron _______ money which she would then save.

When she retired, she decided that she wanted to use the money to give children of limited means the _______ to go to university. She had wanted to become a nurse, but had to leave school to look afire sick relatives and work. When asked why she had given her life ________ away, she replied, "I'm giving it away so that children won't have to work so hard, like l did. " After news of her donation ________ the media, over 600 donations were ________ to the scholarship fund. One was given by a media senior manager, Ted Turner, who gave a billion dollars.

She didn't want any fuss made over her ________, but the news ________ and she was invited all over the United States to talk to people. ________ she went, people would come up to her to say a few words or to ________ touch her. She met the ordinary and the ________, President Clinton included. In the last few years of her life, before she died of cancer, McCarty was given over 300 awards. She was honored by the United Nations and __________ the Presidential Citizen's Medal. ________ having no real education, she found herself with two honorary doctorates: one from the University of Southern Mississippi and the other from Harvard University. Her generosity was clearly an inspiration to many and proof that true ________ does exist.

【推荐2】It was Mother’s Day and I was shopping at the local supermarket with my five-year-old son, Tenyson. As we were _______, we realized that only minutes earlier an _______ woman had fallen over at the entrance and hit her head on the ground. _______ was with her, but there was blood everywhere and the woman was embarrassed and clearly in shock. _______ a lot of people stopped to help out.

While we were walking towards the scene, Tenyson became very _______ about what had happened to the elderly couple. He _______ to me, “Mom, it’s not much fun falling over in front of _______.” Seeing that there was a flower stall (摊位) at the front of the supermarket, he added, “Why shouldn’t we _______ the lady a flower? It will make her feel better.” I was _______ that he’d come up with this wise idea. So we went over and told the flower seller ________ we wanted. “Just take it,” she replied. “I can’t take your money for such a wonderful ________.”

By now medical staff (医疗团队) had arrived, and were ________ the injured woman. We gave the flower to the woman’s husband and I told him it was ________ my son. At that, the old man started crying and said, “Thank you very much.” He then turned to me, “You have a ________ son. Happy Mother’s Day to you.”

The man bent down and gave his wife the flower, the old lady looked up at Tenyson with love in her eyes and gave him a little ________.

【推荐2】Night fell. Loug Falter came back home, teary-eyed and _________. The 33-year-old professional photographer had just run from one end of Hawaii’s Waimea Bay to the other scanning the water _________his “baby”, a custom-made (定制的) blue surfboard.

On arriving home, Falter _________ his search online. “Was surfing tonight and _________ my baby.” he wrote on Facebook. He hoped it would wash ashore in the coming days and that whoever _________ it would have also seen his Facebook post. But instead of pushing Falter’s surfboard to _________, the currents of Waimea Bay swept it out to sea, _________ Hawaiian Island.

Weeks passed with no _________ of the surfboard. Then _________. Lyle Carlson, who had made the board for Falter, comforted him with the possible reunion but nobody knew when.

But Falter never completely __________ about the board. It __________ on the remote island of Sarangani in the southern Philippines—six months after and over 5,000 miles away. The local fisherman sold the unusual __________ to Giovanne Branzuela, a 36-year-old elementary school teacher for $ 40. For Branzuela, riding the big waves had been his dream.

The once-blue board had __________ to a pale straw color during its journey, but its __________ markings were still there: two elephants and the words “Lyle Carlson Surfboards, Hawaii.”

On realizing how far the surfboard had travelled, Branzuela __________ Carlson online, who, in turn, contacted Falter. Falter __________ the board was his and was __________ to learn his “baby” had floated across the world’s largest ocean and __________.

He was thrilled, but not only for himself. Knowing someone an ocean away shared the same interest with him __________ a lot to Falter. He couldn’t imagine a better __________ to the story.