【推荐2】When the TV station reported a coming cold storm in southeast Idaho, farmers immediately took_________. Most of the farmers had to work 16-18 hours a day to get their potatoes, before the cold air fell deep into the soil. Snow was_________hard and fast. However, one farmer in Hamer, Idaho, about 32 miles north of Idaho Falls, was_________to gather all of his crop in time.

Realizing his_________, his neighbors, working unitedly with their fellow farmers, sent their workers to_________his crop. With trucks loaded with equipment, _________workers and farmers didn’t think twice about reaching out to a farmer_________.

Dozens of members of the_________also joined in the help. They all showed up just in time as temperatures hit 2_________ overnight. Jason Larson, a farmer who lived nearby, sent 25 workers to__________in the emergency operations. With the crisis averted (避免), it is__________that the community worked hand in hand to save several hundred thousand dollars__________of potatoes.

Larson witnessed (见证) all this and said, “It was just kind of neat to see everyone help. It was pretty__________to help someone in need. What people do is that they help their neigh-bor. There__________wasn’t a second thought about it. This kind of thing__________every day.”

【推荐1】A child survived, from an unexpected accident thanks to a man named John. The man is being ________ as a hero after risking his life to ________ a child who fell onto train tracks at the Gatwick station in Bournemouth, England, as an oncoming train moved very fast into the ________, according to England’s Ministry of Railways.

The ministry ________ the video that shows John running at full ________ down a set of train tracks to save a child who had fallen off the ________ and onto the tracks as a train ________. The video, captured by security cameras at the station, shows that the child was ________ walking alongside an unidentified person. ________, they slipped off the edge of the platform and onto the tracks ________. The video shows the child was ________ to get back onto the platform and the unidentified person was grasping at the air, trying to pull themselves to ________.

As the oncoming train quickly got close, John could be seen ________ toward the child and throwing them onto the platform just seconds before a train blew past them, swooping (俯冲) in to save their lives with just moments to spare. Police thought highly of John’s quick thinking. If he hadn’t ________ quickly, there could have been a ________ accident.

【推荐2】The community at Forrest County Agricultural High School in Brooklyn recently suffered a tragic loss. Walters, a mother working as a secretary at the _________, passed away after battling against cancer. One of her final _________ was that her daughter Brittany wouldn’t _________ the homecoming party. The devoted mother was always _________ at school events to support her daughter, except for this one.

“She _________ she couldn’t make it out here,” said Sean, Walters’ husband. “She made me _________ to come here with Brittany because she didn’t want to _________ her homecoming day.” She said that was something she would _________ for the rest of her life. The mom _________ that morning, but her family kept their promise. Sean __________ Brittany to the party, where they stood among the __________. Then something extraordinary happened!

Senior Nyla was voted the homecoming queen. __________, after being crowned (加冕), she made a big decision. After asking __________ from school officials, Nyla walked over to Brittany beside her father and put the crown on her. __________, Brittany tried to refuse the crown at first. I told her it belonged to her, and then she was __________, Nyla recalled. “I said, ‘No, come here and get it. You’re your mom’s queen.’ I wanted her to know that. And then I __________ her.” Brittany burst into tears, and there wasn’t a dry __________ on the spot. What a heartwarming scene! What Nyla did shined a light on the __________ family.

While this kind act was surprising, people who __________ Nyla say she is just the sort of person. “She’s always been warmhearted,” Principal Holder said. A person’s real beauty shouldn’t come from appearance. Instead, it should be that of inner self, the unfading beauty of a __________ spirit.

【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.”