【推荐1】Looking out of my window today reminded me of another day just like this one, a day when I was searching for a special blue bird. I thought it had been talking to my_________about me.

One day grandmother_________me to buy some bread. On my way to the_________I gave my bread to a black dog. I really wanted to keep her but I knew my mother would not_________.

An idea_________to me. I got to our back gate, carefully_________a hole under the fence, and left the_________of the bread right at the hole. Then from the front door I went down the drive and through to the backyard. I got there just_________. She was trying to_________the bread at the hole. I held her front paws and pulled her through. She ate up the bread and I was delighted that my idea had__________.

When I go__________, I told my grandmother that my bread was eaten by a stray dog. I was very__________with myself for not having to lie. We suddenly heard__________coming from the back door. Seeing her, grandmother asked me, “Where did that come from?” “She must have come in under the gate.” I__________out the hole under the back gate. Grandmother told me she thought I brought the dog home. I looked at her and asked, “How did you know?” She said, a little blue bird told me. “I reminded her I had not told a__________. She grinned (咧嘴笑) and said, “No, you did not. But the truth you told was not the whole__________either.”

I spent most of that summer making sure the blue birds__________of the yard. I remember watching grandmother giggling (咯咯笑) a little as she watched me.

Years later I__________that grandmother had been looking out of the breakfast room window and watched me dig the hole, run back into the yard and pull the dog through. She and my mother__________about it. Anyway, we kept the dog (even after she delivered 13 puppies) until she__________with snow-white on her snout and around her eyes.

【推荐2】It was a very cold Thursday. When I observed the_______falling onto my car, I really began to wonder if I was going to_______it on time. Of course I must, because I have no_______.

About two weeks ago, what my_______Ellen had talked about was her Christmas concert to be held in her school and some rumors about it. “Mom, Rachel was_______to sing alone, but she’s not! Linda will replace her to do it.” “Mom, you won’t believe it,_______Lexie’s whole family is coming to the concert, even from another_______.” Making a long way out of state to see third graders sing Christmas carols seemed to be a pretty big deal (待遇) for her.

When I sat in traffic, I thought about all the school_______I had attended alone. Ellen never mentioned it, but I wonder_______she felt about me being the only one who ever came to her events. My own family lived out of town, and her father and his family________quite succeeded in fitting those things into their schedules, I________if it bothered her.

At eight o'clock the________was scheduled to begin. With only a few minutes to________, I found myself running: first, through the snow-drifted parking lot, then through the school passage. I entered the________hall and found a vacant seat near the front. From her place onstage, Ellen saw me________for the chair, and she smiled. I was________enough to hear the loud conversation of the children onstage.

“Look, Ellen, there is my uncle and my cousin. They came all the way from West Virginia. I can’t believe my whole family is here!” Ellen________at Lexie and said, “My whole family is here, too! Look, there she is!” Ellen gave me a big smile. I smiled back at her, never once________the melting snow dripping off my head. It________occurred to me that while we tried to teach our children all about________, they actually taught us what life was all about.

【推荐1】When I settled (定居) in Chicago, my new city seemed so big and unfriendly. Then I had a ______ problem and had to go to hospital for a ______examination.

It seemed a small _____ compared to the one I was about to face, but things started to go ______ right from the beginning. Not having a car or______ the city, I was depending on the buses to get me from A to B.   ______I’d left myself plenty of time, soon it was _______ I was going to be late, because I had mistakenly boarded a bus that was taking me in the ______ direction.

I ______ the bus and stood on the road not knowing what to do. I looked into the eyes of a ______ , who was trying to get past me.   ______ , instead of moving on ,she stopped to ask if I was ______ . After I explained my ______to her, she pointed to a bus stop across the street , where a bus would take me back into the city to my ______ . Sitting there waiting, I felt ______that someone had been willing to help. ______ , hearing a horn (喇叭) nearby, I looked up to see a car with my new friend ______ at me to get in. She had returned to offer me a ______ to the hospital.

Such unexpected ______ from a passer-by was a lovely gift to receive. As I climbed out of the car at the hospital and turned to thank her, she smiled and told me not to lose ______, for all things are possible.

【推荐2】One of my fellow volunteers, a girl from Tanzania, seemed a bit desperate, so I asked what the problem was. She told me she had a friend back home, who was, really _______ with her university studies. It was beginning to look like financial difficulties, which would make it _______ for her to complete her course.

So this friend of mine had done something _______: she had sent all her pocket money for the month to Tanzania to _______ her friend! This meant that she didn’t have much food to eat, no money to go anywhere outside the village, no money to buy any clothes, and so on.

I was so _______ that she did this for her friend and I felt I had to do something. So, _______ my next trip to one of the nearby towns I walked into the fair trade shop to buy some food. I didn’t have much money left myself but I thought I’d buy her an extra box of the muesli we both liked and some rice. I started talking to the woman _______ in the shop, who was also a volunteer and _______ told her about my friend.

The woman looked at me, _______. “Does she eat pasta?” she asked. “Yes,” I replied. She immediately started to fill a bag with pasta, cookies, more muesli, sweets and other things until the bag was full. “Give her this for me. It’s my __________!” I couldn’t believe it but cried with __________.

I left the shop to go home with my __________ bag of food. I asked the woman her name. “Just Gloria! God bless both of you!” she said. Imagine my friend’s face when I arranged the gifts on my kitchen table. I have never seen her so happy! A few weeks later, she found Gloria in the shop and thanked her __________.

These two __________ women really showed me what true kindness and compassion is, and the __________ will stay with me for the rest of my life!

【推荐3】Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba, Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown Winnipeg. They saw a man eating out of a garbage can. She asked her mother why he did that, and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry. Hannah was very _________ . She couldn’t understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food. Hannah started to think about how she could help, but of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.

Later, when Hannah attended school, she saw another homeless person. It was a woman, _________ an old shopping trolley (购物车) which was piled with bags. It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them. This made Hannah very sad, and even more _________ to do something. She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people _________ they first saw the homeless man. Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn’t _________ as bad.

Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provinces. She hoped to _________ her message of hope and awareness. She started the Ladybug Foundation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness. She began to _________ “Big Bosses” lunches, where she would try to persuade local business leaders to _________ to the cause. She also organized a fundraising (募捐) drive in “Ladybug Jars” to collect everyone’s spare change during “Make Change” month. More recently, the foundation began another _________ called National Red Scarf Day—a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada’s hungry and homeless.

There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called “Hannah’s Place”, something that Hannah is very __________ of. Hannah’s Place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that sleeping outdoors can mean death. In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of __________. For example, she received the 2007 BRICK Award recognizing the __________ of young people to change the world. But __________ all this, Hannah still has the __________ life of a Winnipeg school girl, except that she pays regular visits to homeless people.

Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a __________ in the world. You can, too!