【推荐1】In 1970, a cyclone（旋风）hit the southern coast of Bangladesh（孟加拉国）. So severe and deadly were its effects that it's _______ listed as the world's worst-ever reported natural disaster. The _______ had a big impact on two Swedish men from Mission Aviation Fellowship（MAF）. They traveled immediately to Bangladesh for the purpose of seeing what they could do to help. They journeyed south by boat for several days, throughout the country's vast _______ network to reach the worst-affected area and began to envision（想象）MAF using an aircraft that would _______ direct access to large areas of the country that were almost out of _______.

Throughout the 1980s, MAF Australia, along with other MAF groups, sent staff to _______ assistance and their patience and dedication _______ since they built trust in the countries that had been _______.

In 1997, MAF could finally start a flight program within Bangladesh. At that time, besides transporting doctors to hospitals located in _______ parts of the country, MAF also ________ an on-call emergency medevac（前线急救直升机）service in Bangladesh.

On November 15, 2007, Cyclone Sidr hit southern Bangladesh. MAF's rapid response and emergency procedures were seriously ________ as the office received over 200 phone calls in one day from aid agency personnel in urgent need of ________ to and from the disaster zone. For the next two months, MAF flew solidly, seven days a week. The float plane became known by ________ locals as "The Sea Angel（天使）"-the only aircraft in the country of its type having such a（n）________.

In 2009, "The Sea Angel" was sent again for rapid assistance, ________ Cyclone Alla struck. Today, in Bangladesh, MAF makes over 750 flights and transports around 2,500 passengers annually.

【推荐2】I’ve heard such a story. On a Friday _________, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the subway station, playing his violin. The music was _________, and many people who hurried to go home _________ and put some money into the hat of the young man.

The next night, the young artist took out a large piece of _________ and laid it on the ground. Then he began _________. The music sounded more pleasant. Some people gathered and they found the _________ on that paper, ”Last night, a gentleman put a (n) _________ thing into my hat. Please come to get it back.“ When the people saw that, they felt very curious and _________ what it could be. After about half an hour, a man _________ there in a hurry and said, ”It can’t be true! You... you...“

The young violinist asked, ”Did you __________ something?“ ”A lottery ticket (彩票),“ the man answered __________.

The violinist took out a lottery ticket. “Is it?” he asked.

The man was too __________ to say a word. He __________ a lottery ticket a few days ago. The awards (奖) opened yesterday and he won $ 500, 000. So lucky and excited did he feel that he __________ 50 dollars and put it into the hat when hearing the music. However, the lottery ticket was also thrown into the hat without being __________. After the violinist finished his performance, he found the lottery ticket in his hat. Thinking that the owner would probably return to look for it, he came back to where he was given the lottery ticket.

Someone asked the violinist why he returned the lottery ticket to the man. He said, ”Although I don’t have much money, I live happily; but if I lose honesty, I won’t be happy forever."

【推荐3】To me, kindness is a chosen lifestyle. In my classroom, I tell my_________that every day they are offered a choice. They can’t choose what happens to them, but they can choose how they_________to it. Kindness is a _________ . And it is a lifestyle. It isn’t something that we just choose once in a while---it is a(n) _________to live our lives.

My father was hospitalized with leukemia(白血病) when I was in college. He didn’t choose the cancer. _________, he chose how to react to it. To this day, seventeen years later, the nurses _________write my mother letters. The _________? It was because of my father’s kindness to others even when he was _________against the disease. He made kindness a lifestyle. And I want to be _________ him. Every day as a teacher, I try and teach my students the kindness lifestyle. Just recently, I turned 40 and a friend gave me 40 individual dollar bills. She challenged me to do something __________with the money. I gladly accepted the challenge. I gave 40 of my students one dollar each and challenged them to make a(n)__________. What happened? My Twitter and Instagram were __________ with pictures of kids making the world a better place. One girl bought a dollar store stuffed animal（毛绒玩具）. It was __________that kids should have made a difference when they were given the __________ .

Living the kindness lifestyle __________ every day, every opportunity. As a high school teacher, I see __________ everywhere. In the hallways, in the lunchroom, in the locker room, __________ words and gossip fill the air. So I started a positive gossip __________is called “third party compliments(赞美)”. The idea is that you talk about people behind their backs, but do it in a__________way. In that way, the gossip that gets back to students makes their day instead of getting them down.

Our kindness lifestyle leaves a footprint on others, and let us be the movers and kindness-makers who __________ a better, more beautiful world.

【推荐1】Colin Coleman was a 16-year-old employee who had been working for 6 months at a Kroger grocery store where Josh York ______ does shopping, so they became ______ with each other.

Unluckily, Josh York has impaired ______, so he needs some help to see the products at the grocery store.

One day when Josh went to Kroger for his ______ grocery shopping, Colin recognized him and immediately began to guide him around the store and help him find what he ______.

He didn’t stop until Josh’s ______ was entirely checked off. Colin guided the shopping cart around ______ that could be obstacles. Throughout this moment of ______, Colin and Josh were overheard making small talk and finding out one another’s lives.

Another customer saw this ______ act and took a picture of it, where the two really worked together as a(n) ______ to get the shopping done. The picture ______ being posted on the social media, where it received 46 thousand likes, and 9.9 thousand shares.

Josh York really ______ Colin’s actions, and not just because he helped him around the store, but because Colin made sure to ______ the experience with respect and kindness.

Colin often helps out ______, and specifically Josh. Even though Colin doesn’t seem impressed with his own kind behavior, lots of other people felt their ______ lift because of him.

On a cold winter morning, an old man sat awkwardly (笨拙地) against a wall at Sydney’s Circular Quay station. I glanced for a moment but _______ him and walked on to my office as I _______ he was a derelict (流浪汉).

On my way back that afternoon, in the _______ place I saw an ambulance and the man was being _______ by two nurses. He wasn’t a derelict but a worker, who _______ fell ill on his way to work.

Shame shocked me when I realized that sick, old man had put up with the _______ of the entire day. He probably reached out to passers-by for _______. No one stopped. No one _______ .

A different season and I again _______ an old man half lying on the footpath. Caught up in the ________ rush of people commuting (乘车上下班), I would have ________ him quickly as I had done before. However, the ________ of the old Winter Man forced me to walk to the man on the ground, who was dressed in smart clothes but lifeless, and ________ down to ask if he was OK. He ________ consciousness again, and told me he was diabetic (糖尿病) and ________ me to call an ambulance for him, which I did.

Very weak, he said to me, in a ________, “Nobody stopped. Thank you.” I looked into his eyes for a moment in ________, but much was spoken without a word being said.

As the ________ ambulance siren (警笛声) announced the arrival of help, a number of ________ rushed at me: sadness for the Winter Man and ________ that I didn’t walk past another person in need. I was amazed that it had been so easy to be helpful.

【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, but today I kept my ________ fixed straight ahead. I’d just come from a(n) ________ family counseling (家庭咨询) session with my oldest son, Shayn. He started consuming 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 at 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 me 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 (后视镜) for the child who’d given me the note, but not a single one had long blonde hair.