【推荐1】I was sitting on a medical table. Beside me was a woman in scrubs (手术服) talking about the ______ weather recently. I ______ all the other people laying back on their medical tables too. Each one of us had a ______ in our arms with a long tube running down from it ______ a plastic bag below. Each one of us had come to ______ blood to help others, make the world a better place, and perhaps even ______ a life.

It was the local blood drive and I had driven 12 miles across ______ roads to get there. I tried never to ______ one even in the wintertime. ______ all the time and effort it took, I felt ______ to be able to give this gift back to others. I had been ______ with so much in this life: a loving family, ______ friends, adorable pets, a comfy home, and enough money to ______ my needs. The gifts I had been given felt wonderful, ______ the one thing that brought me more ______ than anything else was giving something back. The more you ______ , the more you get in ______.

There are so many ______ you can give in this life too: a smile, a few dollars, a caring letter or e-mail, and even a pint of blood. Each one of them is ______ and precious. May you fill your life with giving then. May you fill your life with ______.

【推荐3】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a ________ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew ________ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since--- ________ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my ________.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of ________, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s ________ me why visitors started respecting the place ________ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried ________ trash(垃圾)myself, but the job was too big. I would ________an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so _______ it that I decided something had to change.

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________about organizing any big event. But in 2004, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ________. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made ---the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2007 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others ________ you start with yourself.

【推荐2】It was Jennifer Williams’s mother who got her interested in books. Her mother _______ to her almost every day, until she went to college.

When Williams became an elementary school _______, she wanted her students to fall in love with reading just as she had. But early on, she _______ that some kids had limited access to books.

To Williams, the _______ was simple: give kids books. In 2017, she gave away 900 used children’s books over three days. “I really wanted to do more to help those kids with few _______,” She said.

So she _______ a new goal for herself: give away one million books. It sounds like an _______ number, but as Williams _______ on the Internet: “Don’t complain in the stand if you aren’t willing to work hard out on the field. ”

She got to work, first by persuading her friends to _______ books or money to buy books. Before long, as news of Williams’s project ________, strangers started leaving varieties of books on her front porch. As quickly as the books come in, Williams gives them to local schools — free of ________ — and also ________ books to little free libraries around the city.

Up to now, the Book Lady, as Williams has come to be ________ , has donated more than 78, 000 books! And she’s not going to ________ until she reaches her goal.

“Reading can take you anywhere,” She said________ . “You can travel in time and space. If you can read, you can learn almost anything.”

【推荐3】Mama was calling me.I awoke,realizing it must be nearly midnight.Her expression was ___”Mary,”she said,”where’s your homework?”Then I remembered I had not finished my assignment.”Well,your studies come ___!You’d better finish your work,” she said.I____myself out of bed.As I did so,I could not help feeling __.Why me? Those feelings were nothing new,but I did not give ___to them.I didn’t argue with Mama.I just obeyed.

One day my older sister Ann and I walked barefoot(赤脚地)to school because our shoes had been worn out and Mama couldn’t afford to buy us shoes.The headmaster asked us to go home,for he couldn’t have students attending school barefoot.I suggested to Ann that we spend the day in a nearby cornfield___.Just about the time school was over we went home.There was Mama,waiting for us.I ___a story rather than upset her.Then she started crying.It was clear that she knew everything.She told us never to be __ of being poor.”It’s not what you wear but ___you are,”she said,”that matters.”

Mama’s toughness with me.always left me feeling as if I pleased her___ than her other children.However,the ___that I acquired have guided me for many years.I have come to ___the value of Mama’s demands.Still,one question continued to __ me for more than 30 years.Then one day I asked:”Mama,how come you were always so much __ on me than others?”She looked me straight in the eye and said:”I had to be harder on you because you had more gifts.”“I___,Mama.”At last I did.

【推荐1】When I was in seventh grade, I was a volunteer at a local hospital in my town. Most of the _________ I spent there was with Mr. Gillespie. He never had any visitors and nobody seemed to care about his_________.

I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him, helping with anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, _________he responded with only an occasional squeeze of my hand. Mr. Gillespie was in a coma (昏迷).

I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr. Gillespie was no longer there. I didn’t have the_________to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear that they might tell me he had died.

Several_________later, when I was a senior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I_________who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was_________! I got up the nerve to ask him if his name was Mr. Gillespie. He_________yes. I explained how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever_________.

He began to tell me how, as he lay there comatose (昏迷的), he could hear me talking to him and could feel me holding his hand the whole time. Mr. Gillespie__________believed that it was my voice and touch that had kept him alive.

Although I haven’t seen him since, he fills my heart with joy every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and death.

【推荐3】It was time to start my afternoon run on the school bus. I drove up to the elementary school, parked and opened the doors.

Usually I enjoyed ________ the kids as they climbed aboard. Today I kept my ________ fixed straight ahead. I’d just come from a(n) ________ family counseling (辅导) session with my oldest son, Shayn. He started drinking alcohol at 17. I felt ________. How did we ever get here? I thought. Shayn was intelligent and had been a ________ to raise. The two of us were close.

The kids walked past me onto the bus. One or two said hi. A little girl ________ a small piece of paper on my lap gently. “This is for you!” she said.

I absent-mindedly ________ the folded paper and looked up just in time to see long blonde hair ________ down the aisle (过道).

I’d hoped family counseling would help Shayn quit drinking. ________, at today’s session, Shayn was angry. He said kids his age drank ________ and that his drinking was under control. What hope did we have ________ Shayn couldn’t see that he needed help?

I moved to throw the note in the rubbish can near the driver’s seat, then ________. What if the little girl sees you throw her present away? I thought. So I ________ it. Inside was a four-leaf clover (四叶草), along with a message written in a child’s hand: “This is filled with ________.”

As I read the note, my whole body ________. My thinking changed. I couldn’t control Shayn’s drinking. There was still hope, even when I didn’t know what to do.

I searched my rearview mirror for the child who’d given me the note, but not a single one had long blonde hair.