【推荐2】When Alex Walker was four, she had to stay in the hospital to get some tests for her epilepsy (癫痫). Her dad had given her a stuffed animal, Sky Bear, which kept her ________. But when she saw other kids in the hospital without stuffed animals, she felt ________.

Alex had ________ up some money that she had ________ to use at Chuck E. Cheese. ________, she used it to buy stuffed animals for the other ________ on her hospital floor. They were so happy to receive the gifts that Alex decided to ________ even more. She called her project Alex’s Fluffy (绒毛的) Buddies and began ________ money by growing and selling tomato plants and flowers. “I love growing things,” she says. “And I know people love to eat tomatoes because they’re really good.”

As people heard about Alex’s Fluffy Buddies, they wanted to ________. They sent her stuffed animals and money to buy more. In the last six years, Alex has ________ almost 8,000 Fluffy Buddies to hospitals, shelters, and other programs. “People are ________ to help so that I can make kids happy,” she explains.

Alex also raises ________ for Canine Assistants, the organization that recently provided her with a service dog. “I want other kids to have a friend to help them through ________ times too,” Alex says. “I still give away Fluffy Buddies and donate to Canine Assistants. I want to help as much as I can! If you want to help others, look for something people ________ but they don’t have, or look for a way to ________ someone’s day. See how you can help.”

【推荐1】It’s not every day that someone goes out of their way to help a total stranger.

Dee Harkrider recently dropped by a _________. After loading her purchases into the car, she _________ left her wallet in the shopping cart and drove away. She wasn’t even _________ that she’d left the wallet behind.

It was her friend, Elaine Keown, that rang her up, _________ if she knew a young man named Delivontae Johnson. “I’ve never heard that _________,” Dee recalled.

It turned out that 19-year-old Delivontae visited the same supermarket and _________ her wallet in the shopping cart. He opened the wallet and found Dee’s driver’s license, but with no phone number to _________ her, so he turned to social platform. Once he _________ her profile picture with the one on her driver’s license, he sent her a message.

Dee didn’t reply, so Delivontae reached out to Elaine, who’d recently _________ with Dee on the platform. It certainly took some detective work to __________ the wallet’s owner!

Dee and Delivontae arranged to meet at a restaurant, where Delivontae returned the wallet and Dee pulled $ 20 to give him as a(n) __________. “He was like a hero,”   said the __________ grandmother.

Delivontae says it felt “great” to help someone in need, and urged others to perform random acts of __________ to brighten someone’s day. “You’ve just got to be __________,” said Delivontae, “There’s no telling what the __________ might be. If you do good things, good things will follow.”

【推荐3】Several years ago, I was driving down a busy freeway in Portland, Oregon, when my tire blew out. I pulled over and made a (n) _________ that said I needed help.

Three hours later, a car finally _________. Out came a family of three. They were Latino, and their young daughter acted as a (n) _________ between her parents’ Spanish and my English, so that we could work together to _________ the car. The father found a _________ on the side of the road, and using it to lift the car to _________ the tire. An hour later, we finished.

I thanked them and tried to give them money as a (n) _________. Though I only had a $20 bill, and I thought it was the _________ I could do. They just wouldn’t _________ it. I insisted, and __________ put the money in the mom’s hand, and walked away.

Then I heard their small daughter call out, to ask if I was __________. Indeed I was, and she came over with a sealed (密封的) paper bag. We __________ thank-yous and she went back. As they were trying to get into traffic, I __________ the bag and found a hamburger with my money under it. I immediately __________ the car, which was leaving, to get the father’s __________. He rolled down his window and just __________ his head. With a big smile, he said, “Today you, tomorrow me.” They drove away.

I know the __________ is common in Mexico, where I __________ the family was from. But its value is __________. It just shows that everyone can be in __________ in a given situation, and that everyone needs help.

【推荐2】A missing woman Emma was found after three days stuck in the mud and her parents are calling it a miracle (奇迹).

The 31-year-old was reported ________ on June 26 by her parents, who said she left her cell-phone behind when she left home on Sunday night. When she didn’t return, they ________ the alarm. “So many times this type of story ends ________ and I didn’t have much hope at all,” the missing woman’s father said.

Local authorities were called to Borderland State Park in Easton, Massachusetts. Emma was ________ found when people hiking reported ________ coming from a swamp (沼泽地). Easton police officers entered the swamp and ________ to pull Emma from the swamp — she was then carried to ________.

Emma’s mom, Barbara Zinaman, said, “She ________ for help. She said ‘I need help.’ I’m still ________ after a week that she could even do that because she didn’t have ________ and she was also pretty dehydrated(脱水的).” “It was awful to be ________ in the swamp for as long as she was,” Zinaman continued. “It’s miraculous that they ________ her.”

Emma’s mother went on to ________: “I want to thank everybody that has texted, called, emailed, showed love and ________. The search and rescue teams and the county.”

Police say Emma will recover. While she is still ________, her injuries are not life-threatening.

【推荐3】It began in November 2016,when Hinton, then 17, got a text message from an ________number inviting him to Thanks giving. When he asked who it was, the person responded:“Your grandma.”

“Grandma? Can I have your________?” the teenager replied. He received a photo of a woman he had never seen before. It was Dench, now 64.

Hinton wrote back,“You’re not my grandma,”________a laughing face. Still playing along, he jokingly asked:“Can I still get a________though?”

Dench replied:“Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do. Feed everyone.”Hinton soon realized her________invitation had turned ________, and he decided to take Dench up on her   ________. He went to her home in Mesa, Ariz., about a 25-minute drive from his house south of Phoenix, for a Thanks giving meal with her family,including her actual grandson, whom she________intended to text instead of Hinton.

Every year since then, the two friends and their families have gathered together for an annual Thanksgiving meal, and this year will be no________,despite the virus. Hinton, who shares regular________on social media about his Internet-famous friendship with Dench,________that the Thanksgiving tradition will ________this year, as well.

Although Dench was________about the misdirected text in 2016 at first, she said, both she and Hinton feel very________that it happened.“Family is more than________ ,” Dench said.“It’s the people you want to be with.”