【推荐1】TJ Lawlor never expected to appear in a news story. So reading an article in the local newspaper about his _________ with Riley Dehne who has Down syndrome （唐氏综合征）, he was _________. The author, Riley's mom Ande Dehne, says Riley has become more _________ after he got to know TJ.

One day 6 years ago, TJ was _________ in the frozen section of the Whole Foods in Redwood City, California, when he _________ Riley in the aisle （过道）. Riley was _________ into the Disney movie "Frozen” at the time, which was why he chose that _________ aisle. When Riley came close to TJ, the _________ offered a cheerful greeting and _________ himself. After knowing something about TJ, Riley found him __________ Then TJ asked if the teen was __________ to help him fill the freezers, and Riley __________ agreed as he thought staying with him was interesting.

Since the __________, they've become great friends! Now Riley still comes into the __________ to help TJ with duties once a week as his mum's shopping here.

" It's hard to __________ someone with a disability. However, TJ didn't __________ Riley but took the time to get to know him and find out his __________, making him believe in himself more, " Ande said.

When Ande __________ TJ in the article, TJ said it's a win-win situation. "As a man who has to work all day to support my family. I __________ sometimes myself. Every time this guy comes in, nothing but smiles! "TJ ___________ "He cheers me up and I cheer him up. That's what I look for in a friend. "

【推荐2】Last week, my friends and I got together to eat delicious Asian chicken wings in our college town in the evening. We hadn't __ each other for a long time, so it was good having a __ and sharing summer plans with each other.

Such __, however, does not allow for deep conversations, especially if someone is uncomfortable when___ personal troubles in a large crowd. After __, I prepared to go but I __ that my friend, Jack, was uncertain about what to do. He didn't___ to leave as if he needed our __ with him at that time.

During dinner, he had also said that his second year at college was __ difficult, so I asked him about his __ again. This time the flood gates of feelings __, and he shared with us problems of mental（精神的）health that he had been __ throughout the year with his studies and his nervous __   with his classmates.

My best friend said he was ready to __, but I asked my friend if he could stay and __ to Jack with me. We spent another 30 minutes listening to Jack's story of __ mental health, pressure, worry and sadness.

After our talk, Jack sent both of us __ on his mobile phone later that night. In the text messages, he expressed his thanks for our spending time with him and lending a(n) __. This experience showed me that __ a friend doesn't mean giving him a(n) __ gift. Time to listen and care may sometimes be the best gift of all that is not about money.

【推荐1】A miserable day on U. S. Interstate 95 took a turn for the better through a positive sort of highway robbery.

With some cars containing babies, pets, and elderly people, a _________ of opportunities to eat provided as much discomfort as the cold to the motorists who got _________ when a winter storm dropped around a foot of snow in Virginia.

A couple, Casey Holihan and her husband John Noe, hadn’t _________ for 37 hours while waiting for the snow to clear when they _________ a Schmidt Baking Company truck.

Not thinking it would work, the _________ couple called the company’s customer service line asking if they could have some of the _________. “We didn’t think it would actually work, but less than 20 minutes later we got an incredible _______,” said Casey. “We received a(n) _________ call from the owner of the company, Chuck Paterakis, who _________ the driver.”

“It was an easy __________,”said Chuck, who owns Schmidt. His words to the driver were “__________ all the bread” adding that he was “very grateful that we could help”.

The driver __________ the back of the truck, and with Casey and John’s help __________ 300 packages of bread and rolls to more than 50 stranded motorists.

“We just kept giving it out until we couldn’t __________ anymore because it was so freezing,” Casey said. “It is a __________ to see people just so relieved to finally have food in their car.”

【推荐3】It’s 6:15 a.m. on a school day, and Jocelyn Murzycki has two kids and she needs to get out the door in an hour. As the sky begins to _________, Murzycki doesn’t manage a few more minutes of sleep. _________, she’s heading out in the freezing cold on her daily plog—a run to_________ litter.

First, the _________ are: a litter grabber and a reusable shopping bag, one side for landfill and the other for _________. Covering herself up, Murzycki jogs _________ down Main Street, stopping briefly to pick up a plastic cup. She usually needs to stop halfway through her 20-minute run to _________ her bag. Within a few hours the street will look littered again. But she isn’t_________—it just adds fuel to her plogging fire.

The word “plogging” comes from plogga, a _________ of two Swedish words that mean to pick up and to jog. The activity was ____________ by Erik Ahlstrom. When he moved to Stockholm, he felt ____________ at the amount of litter in the streets and began gathering friends to clean up the neighborhood while out for runs. Now Mr. Ahlstrom is traveling the world, publicizing the ____________ of plogging. In the U.S., social media and running groups are ____________ people to get out and plog: the “plogging” tag (标签) alone has more than 40,000 posts.

Murzycki has been doing this for a few years even before the trend hit the U.S. “It really is super ____________ if you go out every single day and just pick up litter,” she says. But she’s figured out how to make it fun by jogging with friends and adding the ____________ finding a tiny glass bottle adds one push-up (俯卧撑).

【推荐2】I still remember the first time I told my then-six-year-old son, Lev, that a clam(蚌) makes calls with its “shell phone”. The laugh of _______ when he first got the joke was a moment I won’t ever forget. When I told it a second time in front of his friends Henry and Amir, I could see how _______ he was that I had made his friends laugh.

By Lev’s ninth birthday party, things had begun to change. After the seventh or eighth time I asked him “What do you call some with no body and no _______?” he simply _______ his eyes. “I get it, Dad…”

“…Nobody knows!”

“Stop it, Dad!”

I’m pretty sure I heard him say “Sorry about my dad” to his friends as they all ran _______ to play on their phones together.

I used to be the life of every party. When I was only an uncle, all the kids loved my jokes. Sure, there were other dads with theirs, but I felt as if _______ ever stole my honour. My wife long ago turned a blind eye to me, but she knew that my never-ending _______ for laughter from kids, no matter how _______ , was in my blood.

I tell you all this because after a lot of soul-searching, I’ve come to realize that I’ll never be able to _______ my past success. I need our relationship to grow. I need to be able to talk to my children, about topics ________ how a witch’s car goes “broom, broom”.

Thus, I’m offering my entire ________ of jokes for sale on the open market. I’m ________ with them all and it feels like the right time to sell my legacy(遗产) to some ________ new dad. As with all great works of art, my jokes are ________. But I can tell you that the first time you get your kid to laugh at the line “l don’t trust lifts because they always ________ you down, you’ll feel its worth any price.”

【推荐3】Joey Acuña from California, the US had been undergoing dialysis (接受透析). Every_________lasted up to 10 hours, but he_________the situation wouldn’t go to the point where he needed a kidney transplant (肾移植). However, last year he reached this_________.

Joey_________to find himself a donor. He wasn’t fighting just for his own_________, but also for his wife and children. He posted a_________through his account on social media, seeking a donor (捐赠者) willing to save him.

It was then that Joey received a (n)_________message on social media: “How can I help? ” from Julia, one of his_________. You may wonder why Julia chose to be so_________. The reason was simple. Many years ago, her aunt__________a kidney donor for another of her aunts. They both __________to live happily. Although she’s an ordinary colleague (同事) and there were__________she wished Joey to have a happy life with his family. So Julia__________and chose to be a donor. She underwent medical tests and was confirmed as a__________for Joey. Finally they underwent a transplant surgery (手术).

Donating a kidney is no small act, representing the spirit of love and__________. The story shows that there are unbelievably kind people in the world.