【推荐1】“If mum finds out that I’m going to the beach, I’ll be in great ______ .” I said to myself softly.

I crept slowly down the stairs and tried to walk _____ into the kitchen. As I was Walking towards the back door, mum asked, “Where are you going? I answered, “I’m going to the garden to play.” After I got out of the kitchen, I breathed a sigh of ______. I climbed over the fence, jumped onto the muddy field and started ______ towards the bus-stop at top speed.

After half an hour, I was at the beach scanning the crowd ______ my friends, Jimmy and Bobby. After a while, I ______ them near a coconut tree and we began to play volleyball happily.

Suddenly, Bobby ______ the ball too hard and the ball fell into the sea. The ______ came in and carried the ball further and further away from the shore. I wanted to ______ my swimming skills so I decided to get the ball for them. I ______ the water and started swimming. Ten minutes later, I became tired but when I saw that the ball was only a few feet away from me, I put in an extra burst of speed. ______, just as I was going to grab the ball, a very strong current swept the ball further away from me. At that moment, a string of ______ tangled up with my feet and I could not swim properly. I struggled to keep ______ but it was no use. “If I had listened to mum and dad, this would never have happened, ” I thought silently. Finally, after struggling for a minute or two, I had ______ energy and got pulled underwater. I pulled the weed hard which finally ______. I swam back to the surface, gasping for breath. I was exhausted but I shouted for help. By the time, a lifeguard who was holding a life buoy reached me, I had already felt ______.

When I woke up, I was in an empty room lying on a bed. It was not until a doctor came into the room ______ I realized I was in a   _____. After a few minutes, my parents with half angry and half worried faces walked in. My parents ______ me for creeping out of the house but were also glad that I was not seriously injured.

I will never forget that terrifying experience. ______ will I ever want to show off again.

【推荐2】Matthew Warwick, then a 20-year-old college student suffered schizo-affective disorder（精神分裂症. He had to leave his university and stayed in a mental hospital. On a freezing December morning, Matthew_________from the hospital. He_________straight to Waterloo Bridge in London and climbed on the edge of bridge…_________he was informed that his disease was a life sentence.

Hundreds of people passed by. Only one man called Alex Owen, then 25, _________and quietly walked to Matthew's side.

“You're alright, man? Why are you_________on a bridge?”

At first Matthew wanted Alex to_________him alone, but something in Alex's

calm-down-to-earth manner touched his heart. Matthew felt_________, like he could talk to him.

"It's cold here. Why not have some coffee in a warm cafe? Everything will be OK." For the first time after the_________Matthew felt perhaps it really might. He_________back.

The police, having received__________from passers-by, were waiting there. They quickly put him into a police car, __________he was to panic and jump. He lost sight of Alex, the person who'd brought him__________.

Matthew ended up back in hospital.__________,he was well enough to return to the__________and finish his degree. Over the next six years. Matthew often__________the stranger who had__________him round. Eager to thank him in person, he posted a Facebook__________nicknaming（化名）the good man Mike. His Find Mike post was__________millions of times around the world.

Matthew was overexcited when Alex called him two weeks after his__________.They had a reunion, finally having that coffee they had first planned all those years ago.

"Many people walked past, but because of Alex's__________and sympathy, I've lived a good life." Matthew said.

【推荐3】After my doctor’s appointment (约定), I took a seat in the hallway, waiting for my mom to pick me up. Sitting beside me was a _________ gray-haired woman. And as I _________ my library book to read, I could feel her eyes carefully looking in my direction. My thoughts kept moving from the beautiful woman to thoughts of _________. My classmates had been _________ presents to buy for each other upon graduation. I had never _________ that kids bought presents for graduation. I had no money. And I couldn’t ask my parents: they had no money either.

I was still in thought when _________ I heard some noise at the entrance. There was an elderly woman in a wheelchair and another older woman trying to _________ her along. People coming into the lobby were too busy to help them, _________them struggle alone. I jumped to help them. I helped them by opening both sets of doors and rode with them in the _________. Then I made sure they found the right office. They thanked me. I told them it was my __________ I was on my way down in the elevator when I realized that I had left my backpack on the lobby chair. There was nothing of value in it. But then I __________ that my library book was also on the chair.

Luckily they were both safely on the chair, just as I had left them. As I sat down, I could feel the beautiful gray-haired woman’s __________ eyes on me. She seemed proud for some reason. Then her taxi arrived, and, without a word, she was __________. I opened my backpack. To my surprise, __________ inside it was a fifty-dollar bill!

The beautiful with the __________ look in her eyes suddenly came into my mind. I had been kind to a stranger, and in turn, a stranger had been kind to me.

【推荐1】I was doing well as a department head in a Mumbai firm, but my relationship with the boss had become strained (紧张的). Not wanting to ________ this, I resigned rather impulsively (冲动地). But with no other job offer in hand, I soon became ________.

Then, one morning, a Situations Vacant ad I spotted ________ a person like me. So, carrying my ________ typed CV (简历) in an envelope on which I had written both “To and From” ________, I took a train on a Monday morning to get to the post office, where I could have it weighed, stamped and ________. Getting off the train, I ________ the crowd of office-goers out of the station and on to the street. Suddenly, I noticed my envelope was ________!

I rushed back to the ________. The train was still there. A ________ of the compartment in which I travelled ended up with nothing. I waited ________ for the train to pull away. It hadn’t fallen on the tracks either.

The ________ thing to do was to go home, sit at my typewriter, make a new CV and covering letter and mail it. But losing the envelope was like a bad ________, so I gave up.

Three weeks passed. I ________ a letter that referred to my “lost” job application and inviting me for a ________ with the company’s managing director, I was ________.

I soon got the job, and ________ there as deputy general manager until I took voluntary retirement.

I still think about my application ________ its addressee (收信人). I imagine someone found it. He or she might have asked others on the train. Realizing it would be ________ to a fellow citizen, the finder took it to a post office, stuck the stamps and mailed it. To that ________ friend, I want to say: Thank you for a little act that proved to be so big for me.

【推荐2】“Dolls have a power we don't completely understand,” Amy Jandrisevit said. Working as a pediatric oncology (儿科肿瘤学) social worker，she used _________ to help young patients adapt to their changing _________ situations. For the kids _________ a leg or having lost their hair, they could relate to none and were confused. So when a friend _________ that her child was amputated (截肢), Jandrisevit knew what might help the youth through this _________ period． “It’s hard to help kids build self-esteem (自尊) just by telling them they are abnormal”, she says.

Jandrisevit went about _________ that. She made a doll by hand like her friend's child and _________ it off. After the friend received it and _________ a photo online of the happy child and doll, another woman asked Jandrisevits for a doll _________ her daughter, who lost her hair. __________ spread, and soon Jandrisevits was making dolls for children, which share their characteristics. She started a nonprofit, A Doll Like Me.

Working at home, Jandrisevits spends __________ seven hours on each doll. She hasn't __________ for a doll since she began her nonprofit. The waiting list is long, but Jandrisevits keeps __________ . As she explains,“Every kid, __________ gender, age, or medical issue, should look into the __________ face of a doll and see their own. ”