【推荐1】It is frequently said that one good turn deserves another, which means that when someone _______ you in a much needed situation, you should also give something in return when you get the _______.

Lanre, who had two children, was educated but _______. He went for a number of interviews but ended up getting _______ results. He was always told to leave his contact number and wait for the future _______ position.

One day, Lanre’s children were _______ home for not paying school fees. On their way home, the two kids spotted a man _______ on the ground in pain. “He might be a drunk,” they thought. They were too _______ to approach the man, so they went home _______ and told their parents about that. Lanre and his wife were ________ to the man and seeing the man in such pain, they decided to help him.

Being given first aid, the man felt better and then ________ the sudden heart disease. He only told the couple he was living downtown and went on a trip alone ________, the man was the CEO of Badmus Group of Companies!

Later, the man wanted to ________ Lanre’s home but failed to find his house. One day, he was reading the information of those who had been ________ when he saw the name of Lanre, whom he recognized in no time.

The man was so ________ that he gave Lanre a ________ as the General Manager of his company. Consequently, Lanre became well off. ________ his children rejoined the school.

________ Lanre helped the stranger, he didn’t know he would be ________ so well. It was his ________ that led him to a better situation. So one good turn deserves another.

【推荐2】Tears clouded my eyes as I stood in our washing room, holding Brett’s jeans and shirt full of burn holes.

Tired and defeated, I _______ to the floor. The clothes were just one more thing Brett had_______ . He often got almost everything in the house out of _______ . Many windows in our house needed repair due to his breaking _______ to steal money when he chose to live on the street. Yet none of this could compare to the emotional _______ Brett had done to our once quiet home.

Brett came to live with us when he was 12 years old. During the next few years I had dealt with Brett as _______as possible, but inside I was shouting. “I don’t want him in my house another day, Lord! I just can’t   _______ him!” Having wiped my tears, I continued _______ him as before.

When Brett was nearly 18, he landed again in Juvenile Hall（少管所）. After that, my husband and I had to send Brett to a boarding school for helping _______teens.

At the   ________ ceremony, each graduate held a white rose to give to the person who had ________ the most to him or her.

Brett spoke __________ to his parents and then spoke to me, “You did so much. You were always there, no matter __________ . My mom and dad, I was their kid. But you, ________ troubled enough by me, always ____________ me such love. And I want you to know I love you for it.”

________, I stood as Brett placed the white rose in my hand and hugged me__________.

At that moment, tears__________ in my eyes again, this time not for disappointment but for________. Although I had struggled with silent __________toward my stepson, Brett had seen only my actions. Love is action. We may not always have positive feelings about certain people in our lives, but we can love them.

【推荐3】Face adversity(逆境)with a smile

I told my friend Graham that I often cycle two miles to my company, but unfortunately there is a big hill on my way. He replied, “You mean _______. ”He explained that I should be thankful for the extra exercise that the hill provided.

My _______ to the hill has now changed. I used to _______ as I approached it, but now I think that this hill will exercise my heart and lungs and it will help me to _______ and get fit. This hill is my friend. Finally, I have a smile of _______ as I reach the top of the hill.

Problems are there to be faced and _______. We cannot achieve anything with a(n)_______ life. Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to gain a university degree. She wrote, “Characters cannot be _______ in ease and quiet. Only through _______ of trials and sufferings can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. ”

One of the main ________ of success in life is our attitude towards adversity. At times we all face hardships, problems, accidents and difficulties. ________ we cannot choose the adversity, we can choose our attitude towards it.

Douglas Bader was 21 when in 1931 he had both legs amputated(截肢)following a flying accident. He was ________ to fly again and went on to become one of the leading flying aces (擅长……的人). He was a(n)________ to others during the war. He said, “Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. ________ your mind, and you'll never use crutches(拐杖)or a stick，then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them ________ you that things are too difficult or impossible. ”

【推荐1】Sunshine Community has been taken care of by the volunteers for a long time. Back in the old days, the community _______thousands of old people. For the past twenty years, the _______of selflessness has been passing in the community, whose members fix _______for the elderly every day.

An old resident, Lisa, enjoyed the generosity twice. “When I _______ both my legs, the community volunteers fed me and my husband so much food that with great gratitude I had to say stop. But my husband_______, ‘I hope I’ll break my legs, too, because I love the food,’” Lisa says, breaking out laughing. As they grew older, the volunteers were more_______than she imagined. “When my husband _______, the comfort cards and calls were _______,”she says. They kept helping her know she was _______ alone.

As Lisa grew older, she needed more care. However, it didn’t prevent the volunteers from ________ and helping. They even offered better service and________ to cooking in their own homes. They all enjoyed it, and then they delivered the food to Lisa’s.

Now they are serving almost ten times as much food to the elderly. And many ingredients in those meals are ________. In spring, the volunteers supply all kinds of usual vegetable seed-lings to the residents to plant in the gardens. The ________then gladly bring their ________back to share with other residents. The whole community is full of ________when enjoying the food.

【推荐3】The coronavirus pandemic and the threat of a national lockdown have caused some people to buy essential supplies ________ until there’s ________ on grocery store shelves for anyone else. Not only is it ________ and inconsiderate, it also affects the age group that is most sensitive to the virus: the elderly. But there are plenty of people who’ve been helping the elderly with their ________, and also by offering them ________.

Helena Ellis ________ a Facebook post, saying that she saw an old man standing with an empty trolley (手推车) staring at empty shelves of bread. ________, she gave him one of the last two ________ that she had taken. She ________ other people to help out the elderly and spare them something that people could do ________. “In a time of madness and ________, please don’t forget those aged people,” Ellis wrote.

Liam Elkind, junior at Yale University enlisted (征募) over 1,300 volunteers to help deliver food and medicine to seniors. ________ themselves Invisible Hands, the group offers the elderly the ________ of filling out a delivery request form and having their shopping done.

Jayde Powell, another college student, ________ started a network of Shopping Angels to deliver groceries to the elderly in her area. “We’re doing this to try and ________ to people who are completely alone in this situation,” Powell told CNN.

Tonka, a ________ dog, is used to visiting his senior friends to give some “feel-good” at the nursing home in Texas. But when the nursing home ________ all visitors in an effort to protect its ________ from the spread of coronavirus, Tonka’s owner, Courtney Leigh, decided to ________ Tonka’s visits, just from outside the nursing home’s windows, holding a sign that ________ “We Miss You.”

【推荐1】Rwanda is a small country in East Africa with about more than 13 million people. The landlocked country is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. _________, almost half of the population still live in poverty.

Many people live in _________ where there is no doctor. Medical supplies such as _________, vaccines (疫苗) or even blood are _________ to reach these areas.

Zipline, an American start-up company, now helps people in remote areas to get better _________. A multinational team of engineers has been _________ to build a drone (无人机) that can deliver medicine to where it is most needed.

Rwanda is where their plans have been met with _________ from the government and the country’s civil aviation (民用航空) authority.

“Rwanda is the first country to _________ us through the design process of the drone to figure out how to do this,” said Keenan Wyrobek, a _________ of Zipline.

If a hospital or a __________ is in an area that is difficult to __________, the Zipline drone can deliver the medical supplies easily and much quicker than via road transport.

Doctors or healthcare workers just need to send a __________ to the base station and the delivery will be dispatched (派遣) via drone quickly and __________. So the vital supplies are dropped off by the drone where the items are __________. Now it only takes 30 minutes from the time the __________ is placed to the delivery.

“I used to see the drones fly and think they must be __________ until the same drone came to me and saved my __________. They are amazing,” said Alice Mutimutuje, a mother who fell seriously ill once.

The drones have already successfully completed more than 12,000 __________in the last years. In January 2019, the company__________ their project in Africa and the 29 million people in the West Africa Ghana will soon benefit from this new__________, too.

【推荐3】I always do voluntary work in the hospital. As a patient visitor, my important ______ is to deliver quality services to patients and families. By ______ companionship (陪伴) for patients in a sometimes ______ environment, I try my best to serve them and help to reduce the loneliness and frustration patients may feel after ______ in a hospital for weeks or even months.

Every Saturday afternoon for three to four hours, with a list of patients who ______ a patient visitor service, I head up to the 5th, 6th or 7th floor to first visit my priority (优先) patients. At the nurse’s station, I ______ ask the nurses or the medical staff about the condition of the patients in that unit and ______ that the patients would like a visitor. After receiving an update from the nurse, I gently ______ the door of the patients and enter with a friendly “Hello”. Then, I introduce myself and again politely ask if they would like a patient visitor. I usually try to prepare a few starting conversation ______ such as the current news, sports scores and fun facts. However, the patients usually engage (使加入) me first in an interesting conversation.

When volunteering as a patient visitor, I spent a lot of time communicating one-on-one with patients. Individual patients had individual needs and had extraordinary personal stories. ______,I found every visit ______. From generous and kind patients I have learned about their diseases and their course of ______. Additionally, I learned about literature, life during the Great Depression and wilderness of Northern Minnesota. On the whole, not only did I learn about the hospital settings and system, but I learned about the different ______ of others.

Many of the patients I have visited were truly inspiring and I always ______ them for their strength. Although their situations were somewhat difficult, they were often willing to share their stories of pain, suffering, hopes and optimism. I realize that I am truly grateful and ______ that they would share their personal stories with just a volunteer like me.