【推荐1】Years ago, I began to learn to drive in a driving training center which was a few miles away from where I lived. I had to get on a ________ to get to the center and the fee had to be in small ________ because there was no ticket seller or any automatic paying system available on it.

One day I was very busy ________ I rushed to the bus stop. When I stepped on the bus, at the fee collector which was a box, I began to ________ my pockets to find some change but ________

I searched and searched but it seemed that there was none, and I began to feel ________ At the same time, the bus door was already ________ and it was moving.

Ⅰ ________ to the driver and said I would ________ at the next stop though I should get to the training center. Just at this time, a lady beside me told the driver that she would ________ me. I didn't know the lady.

But before I started to express my ________ the driver said, “In that case, just forget it.” And then he said, “If you met someone who ________ to bring bus fee with them, just pay for it and pay it forward.”

Although I have my own car now, I sometimes prefer to ________ a bus to see if there is anyone who needs any small change and then I remember the ________ I once had. And I hold the belief that a small kind action can be ________ in my heart as long as I live.

【推荐1】Life is not easy for a single parent. The week had been _________ and today was filled with bill paying and household chores.

As I walked down the street, deep in thought, I noticed something unusual in the gutter (水沟). Realizing it was a _________ and picking it up, I immediately _________ my head and looked around for the first time that day.

The street was _________ with only one shop. My first thought was that perhaps someone would come back to   _________ the wallet. But on second thought, I chose to be active.

To find some _________, I opened the wallet and noticed something like $400, all neatly piled in fifty dollar notes! There was nothing but a name. My only _________ was that this man was a senior.

With the _________ in my mind, I walked into the shop. All alone in the corner was an elderly man. As I _________ him, he seemed a bit upset, but still said, “Hello.” I asked about his name __________ and indeed it __________ the name in the wallet! His face __________ and he shook my hand, saying, “Thank you, sweetie! Hope you have a nice day today.”

I did have a happy day. Actually, it was his words that __________ my day. It doesn’t have to   __________ anything to help someone and it allows you to get __________ that aren’t always material.

【推荐3】The first day at a new job can be hard. Especially when it’s your first job ever, and you’re starting________ the Christmas rush.

Stephanie Cole’s first job as a teenager was in retail (零售)________ at a busy department store in 1960s Los Angeles. Her training a had been ________, and the store was now crowded with people trying to________ their shopping. It wasn’t long before a woman walked up to her cash________ with a Christmas tree decoration that she wanted to buy.

“All of a sudden. I can’t ________ anything about the transactions (业务).I am just. absolutely frozen and probably very close to ________,” she said. But the woman looked at her with a kind expression and said, “It’s alright. Take your time. I’m not in a ________.” Cole felt a sense of ________ when she heard those words.

“________, I could breathe. I could wait till somebody else could help me. It was gonna be okay.” The moment was a________ one long ago, but the woman’s kindness affected how Cole has________ with people ever since. “She gave me that gift without ________ that. And it’s lasted all these years,” Cole said.

“You know, you________ somebody who’s having a bad day, and you can say, ‘It’s okay. Take your time.’ And it always makes the________ better. Always, always.”

【推荐1】Timothy Letts, an Uber driver, always believes in helping others. One day, he was ________ north to visit a friend when his phone received a(n) ________ for Sumiel’s ride home. The tout of his way. Still, he ________ it, considering the passenger was coming from a medical facility.

Bills Sumiel, 71, was dealing with kidney (肾) failure for a few years. When Sumiel got into the car, the pair got to ________. He mentioned that in the past he’d ________ volunteering in his community. Now that the enormous treatments left him ________, he was doing less these days. He was ________ a kidney donor (捐献者), but no matches appeared.

As someone who likes to ________ others, donating a kidney ran through Letts’s mind. So when they ________ Sumiel’s house, Letts said. “I’d like to see if I could be a ________.” Sumiel was shocked. Once inside his home, he ________ told his wife the news. They were touched and then wondered if it had just been an emotional moment. But Letts was true to his ________.

After a month’s screening process, the result was in: Letts was a(n) ________ donor. About 14 months after their ________ meeting, they had their surgeries successfully.

Sumiel is ________ from the operation and doing well now. He is grateful to Letts for giving him a second life, saying “Living donors are special people.”

【推荐3】Jim owned a store. A customer once asked him how he managed to stay ______ all the time. His answer was, “When I wake up in the morning, I know that the day will have good and bad ______ for me, but whatever happens, I’m going to choose to be in a good ______.”

Then one day, something ______ happened. Jim was about to leave the store when an armed robber came in, held him up at gunpoint, and made him open the ______. As he was trying to open it, Jim’s hand ______. The robber saw this and probably thought, “He’s about to attack me!” The robber ______ and fired his gun.

Jim was rushed to the hospital. In the ambulance, he felt ______ because the paramedic (医务辅助人员) kept telling him, “I’m sure you’ll be OK.”

But when Jim was in the operating room and he saw the faces of the doctors and nurses, he got the feeling that they thought he was______ dead. He knew he needed to do something to change their ______.

There was a ______ who was asking him lots of questions, very fast. One question was, “Are you ______ to anything?” “Yes!” Jim said loudly and everybody stopped what they were doing. There was total ______. “Bullets!” Jim said, and all the doctors and nurses burst out ______. And then Jim added, “Please operate on me thinking that I’ll live, and not that I’ll die.”

Jim survived, thanks to the skill of the doctors and nurses. But what also helped was that he managed to remain an optimist even in the most ______ moment of his life.