【推荐1】One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited worriedly at their desks for the test to begin. The professor ________ the question papers, with the paper facing down as usual. After he gave them all out, he asked his students to ________ the paper and begin. To everyone’s surprise, there were no ________, just a black dot (小圆点) in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the ________ on everyone’s face, told them the following:

“I want you to write what you ________ there.”

The students got started on the inexplicable (费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor ________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no ________, described the black dot, trying to explain its ________ in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been ________, the classroom was silent, and the professor began to ________: “I’m not going to grade this. I ________ wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the ________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our ________. We have a white paper to observe, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a ________ given to us with love and care, and we always have ________ to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that ________ our livelihood and the miracles (奇迹) we see every day.

________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health problems that worry us, the lack of money, the   ________ relationship with workmates, the ________ with a friend, etc.

The dark spots are very ________ compared to everything we have in our daily life, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.

【推荐2】I believe unexpected friendly conversation with strangers can make an extraordinary ___________ to our lives. I learned this life-changing experience during my second year of college when I worked as a part-time ___________ in Chicago. Growing up, I was used to ___________ such as "Don't talk to strangers" and "Mind your own business". Therefore, I spent most of my time at work engaging(参与) in as ___________ "real" conversation as possible, except taking orders and occasional weather chat. ___________, I never started a chat on a three-hour plane flight or knew the name of the woman that I ___________ the train with every day. But the process finally ended.

One night, a little old man came in and sat in my section. I took his order and went on my way. But then I noticed that he came in week after week and always sat at one of my ___________. Slowly, I began to know my 48. ___________ guest. His name was Mr Rogers, but he insisted that I call him Don. His wife and he had gone to dinner and a movie every Saturday. After his wife died, he ___________ this tradition alone. Gradually, I began to sit and chat with him about anything, from his family to my ____________ : going to college and a bright future.

About four months after meeting him, I received a call from a nurse at Chicago Mercy Hospital telling me that Don was ____________ complications(并发症) from an emergency(突发情况) operation. "Mr Rogers wishes to see you so much," she said. Immediately I drove to the hospital. When I arrived, the first thing he did was thank me for my "great help". I was ____________ to hear what he said ____________. Then I remembered giving him the number of a doctor I knew ____________ his chest pains.

After meeting with Don, I learned that friendship can develop between strangers. My life became ____________ because of the warm conversation with him. I found myself talking long with more and more customers and time spent in the restaurant going faster than before!

【推荐3】Several decades of years ago, I ran a service station and roadhouse on the main road between Melbourne and Adelaide. One very cold, wet night at about 3∶30 a.m., there was a______ on the front door of our house. A young man, wet from______ to toe, explained that he had______ out of petrol about 30 km up the road. He had left his pregnant wife and his two children______ at the car and said that he would hitchhike(搭便车) back.

Once I had_____a can with petrol, I took him back to his car where his two-year-old and four-year-old children were both______, saying that they were cold. Once the car had started, I suggested that he______me back.

Before leaving, I had turned the heater______ in the roadhouse, so that when we went in, it was nice and______.While the little ones played and ran_____ , I prepared bread and butter for the children, and hot chocolate for the______.

It was about 5 a.m. before they______ .The young fellow asked me how much he______ me and I told him that the petrol pump(加油泵)had______ $15.He offered to pay “call-out fee”, but I wouldn’t accept it.

About a month later, I received a______ from Interstate, a large bus company that we had been trying to______to stop off at our roadhouse for a long time. It_____out that the young fellow I had helped was its general manager, the most______person in the company.

In his letter, he thanked me again and_____ me that, from then on, all their buses would stop at my service station. In this______, a little bit of kindness was rewarded with a huge amount of benefits.

【推荐1】“Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you’ll look back and realize they were the big things.” This ________ has stuck with me since the first time I read it. And it just makes so much ________.

Just the other day I caught a cold, the flu made me feel so ________ and sleepy. How I wished it was a ________ already. But it was Monday. I had to go to work.

We have a care taker at work. Her name was Lucy, who usually ________ some nice lunch for us. She asked me with ________ if I was ill. After realizing that I was not okay, she was ________ me.

As this serious illness made me ________, Lucy hurriedly went to the hospital to fetch some medicine to _______ my headache. Her kind gesture and ________ melted my heart. I mean, she didn’t have to do that but she went out of her way to ________ it for me. I felt so good, I felt loved, I felt visible and it was a huge ________.

Life is made up of the ________ things. These little things go ________ most of the time so that we might ignore them. But they’re the biggest things and ________ the best things. If you can collect these little things, you’ll ________ feel alone. These little things give hope and ________ for doing more and doing better.

Therefore, if something ________ makes your soul smile, note it and let it ________ on your mind and be remembered during dull days that life may ________.

【推荐2】A mother and daughter living in my community are two of the most unfriendly people I have ever come across in my life. They are totally separated, mixing with _________. As they drive past neighbours they keep their eyes looking away and make no sign of acknowledgement. The only fame they have is making a nuisance of themselves to the local police station by _________ music played too loud, dogs barking more than once a day and any other pretty _________ gripe(抱怨).   

On moving into this neighbourhood, I was _________ of these two but decided I would make up my own mind. This proved quite a _________ to me as more than once either the mother or the daughter would knock on my door and blast(猛烈抨击) me with some _________ or other.   

I always answered politely and made sure I _________ as they went past my place and also made the effort now and then to make a kind remark(话语) about their garden or pets.   

Time passed and in October, as part of the kindness rock give(送爱心石活动), Maureen and I _________ to place a kindness rock in their garden. Their attitude remained unchanged, however, and I continued to be as friendly as possible. During the Easter eve, we decided once again to _________ these two unhappy ladies to our list and left a packet of cookies on their gate. Imagine my__________when two days later they__________at my gate and jokingly said they were considering hanging their Christmas stocking on their gate, and they __________ me a bunch of flowers!

So, my fellow gifters, do not __________ gifts of kindness. You may never know just what this __________ to others, nor how many broken-hearted or __________ people you may just change with a simple act of kindness.

【推荐3】It was a hot day: the whole group was sitting in the shade reading. Sitting beside me was six-year old Mylea, moving her _______ in time with mine. Then I noticed other students, each _______ a picture book for the first time.

In creating Racquet and Literacy League for Youth (RALLY), I hoped to _______ two of my passions: tennis and reading, with inner-city children. Throughout the year, I had advertised for campers and volunteers.

But on the first day of camp, _______ my careful planning, things did not go smoothly. Two boys _______ over the net, their noses bleeding. During the reading time, no one _______ a book. They would rather watch films at home, Eli told me, than learn _______ tennis and read boring books.

I _______ myself home that afternoon, feeling I had failed. Soon I realized that I should get to _______. That evening, I called my volunteers together for a meeting, and with their help, __________ the entire curriculum; each __________ would pair with a camper to help him / her during reading lime. To emphasize praise and progress, we gave out awards for most __________ reading, tennis and behavior weekly.

Mylea said she had a(n) __________ of taking the book home to read to her mom tonight. Looking at her __________ face, I offered her a hug. Somehow, after the schedule changes, these children, who had been __________ during reading time, began to find joy in reading stories.

I’ve heard the expression, “a mind is a terrible thing to waste.” I witnessed its __________ firsthand at RALLY. Disadvantaged children lack no desire to learn, but the resources to __________ that desire. Solving this issue is a __________ task, but I saw much transformative power at RALLY. RALLY’s progress didn’t follow the straight road. __________, with creativity and efforts, I can overcome the twists and reach my destination, and help others reach theirs, too. I can’t wait to __________ the journey.