【推荐2】A friend of mine was sitting in the living room one day when his cat dragged in a little “gift” in its mouth — a dead animal of some sort. Taking a closer look, he was surprised to _______ it as the bunny that _______ Mary, the young daughter of the family next door. My friend felt _______, believing his cat had killed Mary’s bunny.

My quick-thinking friend came up with a plan. _______   from the cat’s mouth the dead animal, which by now was a _______   mess, he put it in the kitchen sink. With a little warm water and some shampoo, he tried to _______ the dead bunny as best he could. Then he took a hair dryer and blow-dried the bunny _______ it looked pretty good.

Finally, under the cover of darkness, he crept into the next-door garden and placed it _______   in the cage. He managed to make the bunny look very _______   there in his little box.

The next morning, my friend looked out of the window and noticed a crowd of people ________ around the rabbit hutch. Everyone seemed to be talking and pointing. My friend ________ to go over and act like any normal ________ neighbor and find out what was going on.

When he got there, Mary’s mother said to my friend, “You won’t believe this! It’s a(n) ________ thing! Mary’s bunny ________   a few days ago, and we buried that little bunny right over there...”

Have you ever tried to cover up one wrongdoing with another? Covering up only makes matters ________ .

When we get caught doing something ________ , for example, we may ________ to cover it up with a lie. But just like Mary’s bunny, the result is ________ what we expected. We ________ looking foolish. We would have been better off admitting we were wrong and accepting the ________ . What do you think of it?

【推荐3】In recent weeks, customers have been queuing at Donut City, starting at 4:30 am. to buy dozens of doughnuts (甜甜圈). Customers say the doughnuts are _________. But the taste is not the _________ why they have been waiting _________ to buy them.

It started a few weeks ago when customers started noticing that something was _________. Every day for the past 28 years, the friendly husband-and-wife _________ of Donut City — Stella and John Chhan — have stood behind the _________ selling doughnuts. But then one day, Stella wasn’t there.

When _________, John, 62, told them Stella had fallen ill and was _________ in a nursing home. He would visit his wife once all the doughnuts were _________.

Dawn Caviola, a __________ of Donut City, thought if enough people would buy a dozen doughnuts every morning, John could close early and go to __________ his wife.

After Caviola __________ the idea on the neighborhood message board, neighbors and fans __________ in a positive way. They started __________ in the dark, ordering dozens of doughnuts.

Jenee Rogers saw a local news story about the __________ to help the Chhans, which included trying to set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to help the Chhans, but they __________ the offer. Rogers said she and all of her friends started to spread the __________ to go to the shop early and buy doughnuts.

__________ in a phone interview, John expressed how thankful he was to his __________ customers.

“I __________ it,” he said. “I just can’t say enough thank you and thank you.”