【推荐1】My teacher Mr Bush is the most positive (积极乐观的) person I’ve ever met. He has the ability to ________positiveness to young students.

He always smiles and never gets ________at students. Once I met some ________because I felt overshadowed (显得逊色) by my brother, who seemed to be doing great in every way. Hopelessness ________me whenever I was in a classroom. But that all ________when I met my teacher for life, Mr. Bush. Having found out about my problems, he just kept ________me. Because of Mr. Bush, my world was filled with ________and power.

A few weeks ago, everyone in my class was feeling a bit ________because of a bad day at school. But things got ________after a close of Mr. Bush’s class. He drew a picture on the whiteboard that ________a half­full glass of water. He then said, “Class, the point of view in which you look at things will ________your feelings. Like this glass of water, some people see it and think ‘What! Only half a glass of water. How ________I am.’ Whereas other people think ‘Wow, I’m so thirsty. Great! Half a glass of water for me!’ It all depends on the ________you think. ”

Mr. Bush’s ________way of thinking always makes me feel glad and ________. I will always remember him.

【推荐2】8-year-old Jiang Tianjian was eating his regular breakfast of rice noodles with his mother on a Sunday. There’s nothing unusual about that ________ the way the boy was holding his chopsticks－in between his ________.

Jiang was born in 2009 without any arms. When his mother, Li Hongmei, was pregnant (怀孕), all of the five prenatal ultrasounds (超声检查) she had ________ that nothing was wrong. Soon after Jiang was born, ________, a nurse came into the room with a ________ look on her face, informing Li that her son didn’t have any arms. Despite the fact that some of her family suggested it be best to ________ the boy, Li determined that she would ________ herself to helping her son. From the time he was 18 months old, Jiang has been ________ how to do everything with his feet and now he has the ________ to write Chinese characters, solve math problems, draw pictures, play games on his cell phone and ________ do jigsaw puzzles using just his feet.

According to the class monitor, Jiang was sometimes laughed at because of his ________, but she said the majority of the classmates had ________ on him, playing with him and helping him go to the toilet. Chen Xiuhua, Jiang’s head teacher, said he ________ on top. The 52-year-old said she had never seen ________ severely disabled student and ________ that she was worried when she learned that Jiang would be joining her class. But the boy __________ himself from the moment the two met, bowing and greeting Chen with a confident “hello, teacher”. He was excellent ________, scoring full marks in Chinese and math in the midterm exams－the ________ student in his class to do so.

Unavoidably, life throws a lemon to us which makes us sour and heartbroken. Don’t let it ________ you down. All the hard work will ________, and Li hopes he will continue to develop his talent in other aspects.

【推荐3】About one year ago, a couple with three children moved into the apartment next door to me. I never heard any noise from the children. Instead, I often heard he parents yelling angrily at the kids, not in a nice tone, but in a ________ one.

We often ________ in the hallway. I always greeted them, but the only ________ I ever got was a “hello” from the eight-year-old girl. I usually went out to see my doctor and one day when-I returned, they were just ________ their apartment and the little girl was ________ the outside door open for the others. I remained in the car doing ________ things because I wasn’t eager to be snubbed(冷落) again. Finally, I got out of my car and walked towards the door. The parents were telling their daughter to hurry and get into the car, but the little girl was holding the door, ________ me! I hurried although I was still in pain from my injury.

I forgot to tell her how grateful I was for her kindness. Later I wrote a note saying how much her act of kindness had ________ an old man’s heart.

The next day there was a/an ________ on my door and it was the little girl and her father. She said she was grateful to me for my note. Then I ________ her mother standing there, too. Her parents ________ me. From then on when we met in the hallway we always greeted each other, in a friendly ________.

Last night there was a heavy snow. I looked out at my car and ________ how I was going to keep my doctor’s appointment because I could not walk for a short time. This morning when I opened the front door, all the snow was ________. Isn’t it ________ that the small kind act of an 8-year-old girl can change so many things for the better? It is said that good things come from small acts.

【推荐1】I was looking at some photo albums(相册) today. That is where we old folks used to______our pictures before smart phones were invented. Anyway as I was______them I found a worn and dusty one at the bottom of a pile and opened it______. Slowly turning the pages, I suddenly saw a(n)______of my beautiful daughter Beth, which immediately grabbed my heart and______me back in time.

It was 25______ago at Christmas. The little children were all waiting for Santa to_______ My daughter was only two and a half years old and this was her first time to______Saint Nick. Most of the other young children seemed frightened and______when he first walked into the room but my daughter’s eyes______. She clapped her hands and laughed. She______up and down. She sparkled(闪耀) with______. Maybe it was that she was______to beards because one of her grandpas had one. Maybe it was that it was her uncle under the red, Santa suit.______the reason at just that moment, we took the picture and______seized that moment of simple joy, sweet innocence, and   ____love.

Whenever the problems of the holiday start to upset me, I think back to that______with my baby daughter and remember again the ______of the season. It is that fearless love that a(n)______so long ago came here to teach us. It is that fearless love that we can______in our hearts not only at Christmas but all the year long.

May our hearts always be free of fear and full of love.

【推荐2】I went to India for a 2-week vacation to visit my relatives. We stopped on a red light, and as always, there were a lot of activities outside the cars near the _______ . People walked in between the cars_________ newspaper, water and a number of kids looked for a bit of charity from the car owners. It' s a familiar       ___________in most poor developing countries.

While we were_______for the red light to turn green, I noticed a man outside a couple of ___________   in front of ours trying to sell bottles of water. It's   _________   unusual at first. He was a man in his 40s with relatively ___________clothes. But he walked around in a strange way. He kind of     _________ his way around the spaces. He was blind.

Carrying a couple of water bottles on one hand, he _________   got to the outside of our car. Out of____________, my mum decided to buy one water bottle. As she gave the man the money, the light turned green. The cars behind sounded loudly and ____________   , trying to get ahead of traffic. Seeing this, my mum kindly told the man to     ____________the change. However, with his superior sense of touch, he quickly ______________ his shirt pocket and threw the money at my mum's__________________ . It was the exact change. The cars behind us were really getting out of control ____________we decided to go on our way.

I____________and even cried when I got home. Here's a blind man, born in____________trying to sell water bottles on the streets to make ends meet. He ____________ our sympathy. Life hasn't been       ______________ to him, yet he's giving it his best shot. I think that is what   ______________ is all about, facing life bravely.

【推荐3】A little boy invited his mother to attend his school’s first teacher-parent meeting. To the little boy’s   __ , she said she would go. This _____be the first time that his classmates and teacher______his mother and he felt _____of her appearance. Although she was a beautiful woman, there was a severe scar（疤痕）that ______ nearly the entire right side of her face. The boy never wanted to _____why or how she got the scar.

At the meeting, the people were_____ by the kindness and natural beauty of his mother ____the scar, but the little boy was still embarrassed（尴尬）and _____ himself from everyone. He, however,_____ a conversation between his mother and his teacher.

The teacher asked ______,“How did you get the scar on your face?”

The mother replied,“______ my son was a baby, he was in a room that caught fire. Everyone was______   afraid to go in because the fire was______ ，so I went in. As I was running toward his bed, I saw a piece of wood coming down and I placed myself over him trying to protect him. I was knocked _____ but fortunately, a fireman came in and saved both of us.” She ______ the burned side of her face. “This scar will be _____ ,but to this day, I have never_______what I did.”

At this point, the little boy came out running toward his mother with tears in his eyes. He held her in his arms and felt a great______ of the sacrifice（牺牲）that his mother had made for him. He held her hand _______for the rest of the day.

【推荐1】I was said to be the worst student in my class and my family thought I was hopeless. I had to repeat sixth grade. At that time a new teacher, Miss Sadia came to our school.

One day after class, she_________that I was staying alone during the lunch break. She came to me and began to talk to me. It was just a_________conversation. After that day, she gave me particular_________and it made me feel special. I started to work hard because she gave me the feeling that someone believed me. So my_________started to improve in her subject.

Months later, she moved into a house near my_________. We would walk home together after school. Her constant support helped me,_________in my studies. I knew she would_________my grades both in her subject and the other subjects. So I tried my best and finally came second in my class.

Then, after sixth grade, she started to drift apart (逐渐疏远)_________still kept a constant check on me. By the time I was in seventh grade, we hardly spoke. But by then I had become the_________in my class. When I left school, I lost__________with her, as she never answered the phone when I called her.

Then I graduated and went to a good university. One fine day, our paths__________again. I met her at a wedding. I could not__________asking her, “Why did you stop talking to me?”

“You are a clever boy. I wanted you to be a tree__________on your own roots, not depending on others. Now here you are and I feel__________of you. You are your inspiration and do not need to__________a shoulder.” she said. I could not say anything, but I smiled. I’ll always thank her.

【推荐2】Every month, Mary Davis throws a big rooftop birthday party on Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles, home of some of the worst poverty in the nation.

Mary and her husband Ari Kadin started Morthy of Love, a charity organization that _________ children without a home still deserve a birthday party. “So many children in Skid Row needed to feel _________ and loved,” Davis said. “We didn’t realize how much _______ they were going to bring us, and that was so _________ for me to step out of my troubled past.”

The Randell family is _________ Worthy of Love for the second time. Their daughter, Briana _________ 12 this month. Without Worthy of Love, her birthday would be just another _________ day.

When Davis started the monthly birthday party, there were 15 kids at the shelter. Many of them never had a birthday party before, and they were so excited to have one that they made their own _________—singing, clapping and laughing. Since then, the couple have thrown a party each month and the _______ attracts 250 kids and their parents. Six years later, it has __________ to have over 200 kids.

“This rooftop provides a beautiful __________. You’re above everything. But if you look down, you see homeless people on the street, and this reminds you that these kids don’t get to leave this area after the __________,” Davis said.

After watching more than 6,000 kids blow out __________ at their parties, Davis and Kadin finally had one of their own—their little girl, who will __________ her first birthday in the same place.

“I want her to grow up knowing that she has to __________ happiness and joy to those in need,” Davis said.