【推荐1】It was 1933. I had been laid off my part-time job and could no longer make my_______to the family larder(食品贮藏柜). Our only income was what Mother could make by doing dressmaking for others.

Then Mother was_______for a few weeks and unable to work. The electric company cut off the power_______we couldn’t pay the bill. Then the gas company cut off the gas. Then the_______ company. But the Health Department made them_______the water back on for reasons of sanitation(卫生设备) The cupboard got very bare. _______we had vegetable garden and were able to cook some of its_______in a campfire in the backyard.

Then one day my younger sister came tripping_______ from school, saying: "We’re supposed to _______something to school tomorrow to give to the poor."

Mother started to blurt out, "I don’t know of anyone who is________poorer than we are," when her mother, who was living with us at the time, shushed (嘘) her with hand on her arm and

________

“Eva,” she said, "if you________that child the idea that she is one of the poor folks’________ her age, she will be one of the poor folks’ for the rest of her________. There is one jar of that homemade jelly________. She can take that.

Grandmother________our last jar of jelly with some tissue paper and a little bit of pink ribbon, and Sis________to school the next day________ carrying her" gift to the poor”.

And, ________if there was a problem in the community, Sis just naturally assumed that she was supposed to be part of the________.

【推荐2】My father passed away last year , leaving us a legacy (遗产). My wife and I had thought to spend the ________ on our children’s and grandchildren’s education and our future homes. ________, my kids said, “No, just give it away.”

My wife and I work in community service. And our kids often ________ us in public welfare (福利) activities to ________ money for the poor. We’ve tried to raise the kids with generous and warm-hearted ________.

“Let’s ________ Naima’s college debt (债务),” our kids suggested. Naima is a black, immigrant friend who has been a part of our big family since middle school. I ________ arguing we need the government to take relevant measures to cancel her college debt. My daughter’s eyes rolled, ________ about it. “Naima and her family are financially stressed every day,” she replied. “We have the ________ to zero out their debt now.”

So we decided to take a chance. We settled Naima’s ________ and donated most of the remaining legacy in a public way that might ________ others. We ________ that we did the right thing. Although the kids are in their early 20s, we believe our kids understand what it ________ to have no legacy. The kids’ hearts, fed by their grandfathers love, ________ us a way to handle problems. Their ________ is my dad’s real legacy —not his money.

【推荐3】The books in David’s schoolbag felt like bricks as he ran down the street. What he wanted to do was to play basketball with Eric, ________ his mother told him he would have to return his sister’s books to the library first.

He had never set foot in a library and he wasn’t about to do so today. He would just ______ the books in the outside return box. But there was a ________: it was locked.

He went into the building, only a few minutes ______ closing time. He put the books into the return box. And after a brief ________ in the toilet, he would be on his way to the playground to ________ Eric.

David stepped out of the toilet and stopped in ______— the library lights were off. The place was empty. The doors had been shut. They ________ be opened from the inside; he was trapped — in a library!

He tried to__________a telephone call, but was unable to ________. What’s more, the pay phones were on the outside of the building. As the sun began to set, he searched for a light and found it.

________ he could see. David wrote on a piece of paper: “_________! I’m TRAPPED inside!” and stuck it to the glass door. Surely, someone passing by would see it.

He was surprised to discover that this place was not so unpleasant, __________. Rows and rows of shelves held books, videos and music. He saw a book about Michael Jordan and took it off the shelf. He settled into a chair and started to __________.

He knew he had to wait, but now, that didn’t seem to be such a __________ thing.

【推荐1】When our restaurant business failed, we headed north in a camping truck to Texas, hoping to have a “fresh start”. At the entrance of Palo Canyon State Park, I _______ a job advertisement hiring park hosts. The position offered a _______ permanent campsite in the park, and in return, the hosts served as a link between the park’s guests and the rangers (护林人). It was the perfect _______ for the hopeless me: a rent-free place to _______ our lives.

The park was crowded, so it took us some time to find a (n) _______ site. That evening, my wife saw two skunks (臭鼬) walking toward our table. We immediately climbed onto the table and, for the next four hours, waited for them to _______ our camp.

Having _______ that night, we were confident that everything else would be _______. The next day we met with the people who ran the park. They explained our _______ and gave us a beautiful campsite. ________, that evening, we learned about the canyon ________. They were strong and cold, rocking our little camping truck ________ and we lay shaking in the dark until the winds ________ away.

During the weeks that followed, we learned to survive in our truck. There we sat closer together reading and talking. For a time after our business ________ I thought I might lose my family as well. Now I found myself thankful for all the ________.We had walked the trails and climbed the canyon walls. And we had become a family!

【推荐3】As I sat motionless in a wheelchair by the pool, watching everyone else swim back and forth, I realized that I had spent most of my life watching others enjoy themselves. It was then that I noticed a little girl staring at me with a look of confusion. I smiled at her, hoping to ________ the ice by talking to her. Unfortunately, my ________ failed and she just kept on staring. My ________ increased as a little boy swam up to me and said, “I feel sorry for you.”

After the ________, a thought struck me — I had to change how the world ________ me. Because it was children who stared at me the most, I decided to write a children’s book that taught them about disabilities in a/an ________ way. This is when KatGirl, a superhero in a flying wheelchair, came into my mind.

I quickly wheeled inside my apartment and began creating the ________. As I wrote each word, I could ________ my future as a world-famous author and public speaker. Over the next two years, the story went through many changes before it ________ the world in the spring of 2011. My insistence eventually ________.

One day I was invited to speak to the students at a neighboring school. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked them. The ________ bravely responded, “I feel ________ for you.”

I opened my book and started reading. Immediately I noticed the children’s stares turned to ________. “How do you feel when you see me?” I asked again. Without hesitation they replied, “You are so cool! Does your ________ fly too?” I just smiled, “No, not yet, but maybe someday.” I knew in my heart that this was ________.