【推荐3】One little girl in Dayton, Maine, has unknowingly changed the culture of her school when she became the first and only deaf student to attend.

Morey Belanger, 6, was diagnosed(诊断) with a rare disease when she was one year old. The disease is so rare that it doesn’t even have a name. One of the side effects the disease can bring about is _________loss, which Morey has already suffered. Therefore, she has to use sign language (手语) to _________.

When she reached the age to go to school, her parents were _________ about how she could receive education in normal schools. _________, they met with Dayton Consolidated School. The school was_________ to learn sign language and provide the services she needed.

Still, Morey’s mother Shannon only_________that the teachers teaching her daughter would learn sign language. Never did she imagine that all the students would also learn it. “It makes our whole family just_________.” Shannon says.

Apart from her classroom, Morey also goes to the gym class and the library, and people throughout the school are trying their best to_________what’s best to her.

The school made efforts to make Morey feel she was_________and loved. For example, it hung sign language posters in the hallway and held parties at which sign language____________were given.

“We did these things____________they are the right things to do. She is one of our students,” says Kim Sampietro, the school’s headteacher.

But even if these things were simply the right ones to do, nobody at the school could deny(否认) the____________that Morey and the need to learn sign language have had on the school.

“She’s just brought something to our school that wouldn’t have been there. I think it’s a chance for learning and growth when we have a child who has something____________,” says Sampietro, “She’ll be with the same class through the 5th grade, so I imagine all these kids will____________to learn sign language. It just makes her feel like she’s part of the school and she’s____________as she is.”

【推荐1】When I was a boy, I, together with my dog Doobie and parents, lived across a river from the main road. The only way to get to our house was across an old, wooden ________. We also lived right next to Camp Caesar which hosted camps all summer long. And the best thing about it was that it had a public swimming pool. I remember ________ almost every day of my summers at that pool. I would be there when the pool ________ at l pm and swim until it closed at 5 pm. ________ my brothers and a lot of my friends would be there, too. We had so much fun laughing, playing, swimming and splashing (戏水).

One time, ________, I went to the pool only to find it crowded with ________. None of my friends were there but some older parents with little children. I stayed for a while but felt ________. I ________ early and walked home. When I got to the wooden bridge, suddenly I saw my friend who was never ________ at the pool. He stood on the bridge with his face smiling and his ________ wagging (摆动). It was my dog Doobie patiently ________ for me to come home. I ________ across the bridge to hug (拥抱) him and then we both ran down to the ________ below our house to swim. We jumped into the cold, clear water. We swam around each other. We splashed played and chased. Doobie happily ________ my loneliness with his doggie kisses and gentle love.

The summers in my childhood flew by so fast. During all of those ________ spent swimming as a boy I remember that day the most.

【推荐2】I was unbelievably proud of my nine-year-old daughter, Emily. ___to buy a mountain bike, she’d been saving her pocket money all year, as well as doing small jobs to earn extra money. By Thanksgiving, she had collected only $49. I said, “You __ have your pick from my bicycle   __.” “Thanks, Daddy. But your bikes are so old.” She was right. All my girls’ bikes were 1950s models, not the kind a kid today would __ choose.

As Christmas __ near, Emily and I went bike shopping. As we left one store, she __ a Salvation Army(基督教慈善组织) volunteer standing next to a big pot. “Can we give something, Daddy?” she asked. “Sorry, em, I’m out of change.” I said.

Throughout December, Emily continued to___ hard. Then one day, she made a __ announcement. “You know all the money I’ve been saving?” she said hesitantly. “I’m going to give it to the poor people.” So one cold morning before Christmas, Emily handed her total savings of $58 to a volunteer who was really very __ .

___by Emily’s selflessness, I decided to contribute __ of my old bicycles to a car dealer who was collecting used bikes for poor children. __ I selected a shiny model from my collection, however, it seemed as if a second bike took on a glow(发光).Should I contribute two? No, one would be enough. But I couldn’t __ the feeling that I should give a second bike. When I later   __ the bikes, the car dealer said, “You’re making two kids very __, sir. Here are your tickets. For each bicycle contributed, we’re __ away one chance to win a girls’ mountain bike.”

Why wasn’t I surprised when that second ticket proved to be the __ ? I like to think it was God’s way of ___a little girl for a sacrifice __ her years---- while giving her dad a lesson in the   ___

【推荐3】Soon after my arrival in Luanda, I realized that I was going to have some free time available. I decided to _____ it doing something useful and involving with the ______community.

I started my research for volunteering opportunities here and a blog post ______ my eye. It was Ashima's _____ on how she started her _____ journey in Luanda. Ashima has been volunteering at the Foundation for Art and Culture for more than a year. I decided to _____ with them and soon after I got a very warm and welcoming _____ inviting me to the foundation. The next day as I _____ into the foundation little did I know it would become such a(n) ______ part of my life in Luanda.

I was a bit hesitant ______as I had never worked with children before and my Portuguese then was much ______than now. But as I slowly started doing some activities with children, there were not any ______ . All that you ______ was a heart full of love and everyone ______ the language of love.

I found plenty of _____ to do with kids, keeping them busy and having fun. Together we played, sang, learned new things, ______ new games and reinvented the old.

The children coming to the Foundation are wonderful, and full of _____ and energy. It is a beautiful place with wonderful projects. Without doubt it is the best _______ I could have found in Luanda, and I am very ______ to go there as often as I can. The staff _______there really make you feel welcome and at home.

【推荐2】When I was ten, I was crazy about candy. Whenever in our small-town _______with my mom, I would run my fingers through my favorite candy on the shelf.

Once there, thinking about all things sweet I noticed a man a few feet away pushing buttons on the ATM machine. Dressed in a suit, he seemed to be late for something, _______ waiting for his cash to appear. The machine made a noise, and he immediately seized a pile of bills and headed out. Curiously, I walked over to the ATM, where I started pressing the buttons as if knowing the _______. Then I looked into the bottom of the machine. There I saw it: a beautiful, crisp $20 bill! _______ I wanted to believe my magic made the cash appear, I knew the man in the suit must have left it behind.

I held the money in my hand, staring at the number “20” and feeling _______ than I ever had. I thought about slipping the money into my pocket. No one would know, but it didn’t feel _______ I knew it didn’t belong to me. I had to find its owner and give it back! So I told my mom what had happened. “We’ll look for him,” she said kindly. We rushed out and found him stepping into his car in the parking lot! We approached (接近) him and asked whether he had left money at the cash machine.

“Let me _______,” he said, pulling out his wallet and bills. “Twenty, forty, eighty... Oh! You’re right,” he said with surprise, “I’m _______ a $20 bill.”

“Here you go,” I said, smiling with pride, as if I was a detective (侦探) who had solved a mystery (奥秘). “Thank you so much,” he said, bending down and shaking my hand. My heart swelled. Before saying goodbye, he asked my mom for my name and _______. “I want to send your daughter a thank-you card,” he said.

On my way home, my ________ was racing. Twenty dollars. What could I have done with it? I bet I could have bought a puppy or every single candy bar in town! But now ________ of that would happen. Yet I knew I had done the right thing.

A few weeks later, I got a box with a note. I ripped (撕破) it open to find packages of candy.

“Dear Felice, Thank you very much for ________ my $20. You are a great girl, and I appreciate your ________, I hope you enjoy this candy. Best Wishes, Tom.” Tom included his business card. It turned out he was vice-president for the candy company. The candy tasted sweet each bite reminding me that what I had done mattered. Although my honesty wouldn’t always be ________ with candy, it would make a difference to someone. And that was the ________ part of all.

【推荐3】My parents ran a small restaurant in Seattle. It was open twenty-four hours a day, six days a week. And my first real job, when I was six years old, was _________ the diners’ shoes. My father had done it when he was young, so he taught me _________ to do it well, telling me to _________ to shine the shoes again if the customer wasn’t _________.

I was proud of working in the restaurant_________ I was also working for the good of the family. But my father_________ said that I had to meet certain standards(标准)to be part of the team. I _________ to be on time, hard-working, and polite to the _________ I was_________ paid for the work I did at the restaurant. One day I made the mistake of suggesting to Dad that he__________ give me ＄10 a week. He said, “OK. How about you paying me for three meals a day you have here? And for the times you bring in your friends__________ free soft drinks?” He __________ the amount of money I owed him, about ＄40 a week.

I remember returning to Seattle after being__________ in the US Army for about two years. I had just been promoted(升职) to Captain at that time. And full of pride, I walked into my parents’ restaurant, but the __________ thing Dad said was, “How about your__________ up tonight?” I couldn’t__________ my ears! I am an officer in the Army! But__________ didn’t matter. As far as Dad was concerned, I was just__________ member of the team. I reached for the mop. Working for Dad has taught me that the devotion to a__________ is above all. It has nothing to do with__________ that team is for a family restaurant or the US Army.