【推荐1】I cleared the dishes from the kitchen table, with Mama following close behind to carry our tableware to the kitchen. There was no stopping her. Despite everything, she still wants to _______ , I thought.

My mama had _______ in moving around and had lost much of her speech to Parkinson’s disease. After a recent fall that left her with a broken arm, the _______ suggested she use a wheelchair. It was _______ to see her like this. From the time I was a kid, Mama had always been an active person with a positive _______ . I could still see her in my mind, cooking and cleaning in the house I grew up in, sometimes humming (哼唱) while _______ .

Now I did my best to _______ her like she’d done for me. I made the long drive as often as possible to _______ her and help around the house. Independent as ever, she never _______ working. “You’ve done ________ , Mama,” I said when she took the towel to clean the table. Where does she get the ________ ？

I turned on the tap to wash our dishes and noticed a ________ coming from Mama’s direction. I turned off the running water. Mama was humming! I ________ as she moved around the table, her happy song filling the room. “What’s it that you’re humming, Mama?” “Count Your Blessings (常怀感恩),” she ________ with a smile on her face.

________ , it was where Mama’s strength came from. There was no stopping her from being thankful, always.

【推荐2】In search of a little quiet, I have spent some time wandering through the Australian town, Walhalla. If I had arrived about 150 years earlier, I would have found a(an) _______ goldfield town. “Around 1890, the main mine was the _______ gold producer in Victoria, ”explains the Walhalla Star Hotel’s owner, Michael Leaney. As we walk along the main road, green high hills rise on either side. We feel _______ .

When the gold ran out, most people _______ , and today only about twenty _______ residents are left in Walhalla. As the residents left, many buildings were _______ . When the 70s came, the town began to be transformed into a tourist _______ and some historic buildings have been rebuilt.

That night we have great dinner at Walhalla’s pub. We walk back in the dark. There are no street lights in the town so the stars _______ brightly against the night sky. Walhalla was the last town in Australia to get electricity. Leaney says _______ more development is to come：the Internet and mobile ________ will improve.

After a quick breakfast at the hotel the next morning, I walk down what was once a high street lined with ________ to the edge of the little town. Holiday homes and historic signs are ________   in the town. The walk takes me onto the tram (矿车) line. Alongside the mountain, it's the ________ where wood from the valley was once transported up to the mine. These days it’s ideal for views into the valley below. The mountain’s trees were ________ and now they are green again.

Leaney has invited me to ride an old-fashioned train that runs on the rebuilt train line from Walhalla to a nearby town. The views are ________ . Back in town, I leave Leaney for my next stop.

【推荐1】Massimo Bottura opened a restaurant in Italy in 1995 which is a two-time winner of the world’s best. Today, his cooking empire _________ from Dubai to Los Angeles. And he is one of the stars of a popular Netflix series. However, out of all those _________, Italy’s most celebrated chef says that the peak is Refettorio Ambrosianos.

At Refettorio Ambrosianos, dinner guests are greeted by name and dine on fine china at tables. The menu changes daily,_________what comes in with the morning’s delivery. The delivery may_________ dry vegetables, meat close to sell-by date and too-ugly-to-sold fruits. By dinner, however, the supermarket wastes have been _________into delicious meals. About 100 diners—refugees, the homeless, and the unemployed—enjoy the meal with obvious_________, laughing with the volunteer waiters, praising the volunteer chefs, and forgetting, at least for an hour, the_________ of a life on the streets.

_________, Bottura’s Refettorios are not restaurants, they are soup kitchens. But unlike _________ soup kitchens, the guests do not have to wait in a line to receive food. As Bottura says, the experience can make his guests __________ confidence, forget the hardships and feel__________.

Chefs at Refettorio cook free meals with__________ from local shops. So Refettorio Ambrosianos are __________ as places to focus attention on the growing global food waste problem. “Refettorio Ambrosiano is a movement hoping to __________food waste crisis,” says Bottura, “I never thought leftover foods were a waste. An old carrot, a hard piece of bread, brown bananas…they are just opportunities for us to create something__________.”

【推荐2】Esbon Kamau had a normal Tuesday afternoon picking up passengers in Hoover.

On this particular day, he had the pleasure of driving Alex Tisdale, a 16-year-old who eagerly _______ the exciting news of receiving an $8,000 Christmas gift from his proud father to _______ a new motorcycle.

During the 15-minute _______ to John Hawkins Parkway, Tisdale left Kamau with a heart-warming impression. However, the _______ took place when Kamau noticed a blue bag at the back of his seat after _______ Tisdale to pick up another passenger.

Upon examining the bag, Kamau _______ a large amount of money. Rather than keeping it, he decided to hold onto the money until he could report the _______ to the company. Meanwhile, Tisdale, unaware of the missing money then and there, _______ went back, wondering where he could have _______ it.

Unable to find each other, they both used the company’s app to report the ________ article. Thanks to the company’s communication, they were ________ over the phone. Without hesitation, Kamau made the admirable ________ to drive back to Tisdale.

Tisdale, ________ by Kamau’s honesty, expressed his thanks by tipping him $10. This act of kindness left a lasting ________ on Tisdale, who advised others to be grateful for what they have. At the same time, Kamau shared a piece of advice for fellow taxi drivers, ________ the importance of doing the right thing at the right time.

【推荐3】A classroom of kindergartners listened attentively as their teacher, Robin Hughes, read them a book about snow. But as Hughes turned pages and _______ them photos of children making snow angels, she noticed some students looked _______. Hughes was shocked to know that only a couple of kids had seen snow. So she _______ her sister Amber Estes for help. “Could you make a snowman for me?” Hughes texted Estes. That text led Estes to build “Lucky”, a tiny _______.

Days later, Estes _______ her the snowman—completed with blueberries as eyes, a carrot as a nose and two branches as arms-on a nearly 800-mile journey in a _______ filled with ice bags. Hughes opened the box eagerly. To her surprise, the snowman had arrived almost _______.

The kids _______ saw the snowman in the classroom. “I was so excited just to see their joy,” said Hughes. Ever since, at least twice a day, Hughes brought “Lucky” out from the cafeteria _______ and put it on a silver plate so students could ________ the snowman and asked questions. Cheers and wows filled the classroom every time the snowman was ________. Whenever the snowman started to ________, she took it back to the fridge.

“In a time when things are not ________ for kids in the classroom, this little snowman has created ________,” Hughes said. She planned to melt the snowman before Earth Day and use the ________ while planting a flower at the school.