【推荐1】I was on jury (陪审团) duty in downtown Pittsburgh and decided to take a walk during our one-hour lunch break. As I was walking, I noticed an elderly lady holding up a(n)_________, which said: “Will work for $, trying to get home.” I_________putting several dollars in her box, but all I had was a twenty-dollar bill I_________to use for groceries on my way home._________, I didn’t want to part with it. So I started to walk away, but eventually I_________.

I started a_______with her. Her name was Katie, and she was_________. She’d been a dishwasher, but lost her job and_________on the street. She wanted to go to Colorado Springs where she had relatives. She wasn’t having much_________with her sign and donations. I really wanted to__________her, but I had only about forty-five minutes to return to the courtroom.

Then I made up my mind. I told her I’d__________her to the Greyhound station, even though it was a fifteen-minute walk. I looked again in my__________, and the twenty-dollar bill stared at me. Then I noticed an old credit card I hadn’t________for over a year. I didn’t think it would work. But I decided to give it a(n)__________when we passed an ATM。To my great__________, the money came out.

On reaching the Greyhound station, I bought Katie a__________and gave her the rest of the money for food. She was so__________that she hugged me tightly before I waved goodbye.

I ran back to the courtroom and felt great__________that I made it just in time. What made me more__________was that the rest of the day went smoothly. Just as a saying goes, “Helping others is__________helping ourselves”.

【推荐2】Trent Johnson just celebrated his graduation from medical school in Ohio with a ceremony at his parents’ home in Florida.            

He _______ a couple weeks before his actual ceremony that the college was canceling it on account of the deadly coronavirus. He was absolutely _______.

His friends helped him to create a website _______ all of his family flying into Columbus originally still could celebrate _______. They made the living room look as special as possible given the _______ of the ceremony. There’s nothing that could have substituted that special _______.

His twitter where the radio immediately went _______ has almost half a million views. He was on the news and was _______ in The New York Times.

“ I remember seeing my face on the newspaper and thinking wow I not only became a doctor, but I motivated people all over the world to _______ their dreams. That was truly a(n) ________ moment.”

Johnson was brought up in an underdeveloped area where people would have the ________   socioeconomic class and it was the type of the community that he wanted to ________. Now as a ________ at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, he ________ has an opportunity to do that.

As Johnson settles into his new surroundings, he will continue to spread his message of hope and ________.

【推荐3】A Game of Light and Shade

It was a sunny day. I had gone up and down the tower when, outside the door at the foot, a blind man came toward me. In a moment, he disappeared up the stairs. I looked at the sign that said “To the Tower”, and decided to _______ him.

I caught up with him in the ticket office. There I was _______ to see the attendant (工作人员) selling him a ticket as if he were any other visitor. Then, with the ticket in one hand and _______ the wall with the fingers of the other, the blind man reached the stairs _________ to the hallway.

“That man is blind. What would a blind man climb up the tower for?” I said to the attendant, expecting him to show some _______, but he didn’t answer.

“Not the _______ certainly,” I said. “Perhaps he wants to _______.”

I bought a ticket and _______ up the stairs. The man hadn’t gone as far as I _______. A third of the way up the tower, I heard his ________. I slowed down and followed him at a little ________. He stopped from time to time. When he got to the balcony, I was a dozen steps ________. As I reached it, I saw him at the corner of the tower.

At last, after ten minutes, I ________ him. “Excuse me,” I said as politely as I could, “but I am curious to know ________ you came up.”

He smiled. “Coming up the stairs, you will notice how not just light but sun ________ into the tower through the narrow windows here and there, so that you can feel the ________ —the cool stairs suddenly become quite warm—and how up here behind the wall there is ________, but as soon as going opposite a window you can find the sun. There is no ________ so good as this for feeling the difference between light and shade. It is not the first time I’ve come up.”

The blind man seemed quite ________ just like a child who was enjoying his favorite games. He told me the truth that blind men can also find the beauty in life ________ they cannot enjoy the sights of the world.

【推荐1】Bending our knees in the sand and protected by only a plastic glove, I put my hand into the cigarette ends, drink bottles and rotten fruit. I ____ to my friends, triumphantly (洋洋得意地) waving a ____ sock at them before dropping it into the rubbish bag.

My friends and I are ____ of the CSF, a high school community service club. On a Sunday morning we came to the Santa Monica Beach as ____ as possible. It was Step. 17. International Coastal Cleanup Day, and people in more than 90 countries were ____ to clean up the beaches. When four of us and the club adviser ____ near the Santa Monica Pier (码头), the beach was nearly empty. We were —____ with plastic gloves, rubbish bags and information ____, which we used to ____ the rubbish we found for later research. In ____ of two or three, we started by collecting the most ____ pieces of rubbish, such as bottles and bags. Soon our backs were hurting from ____ so much. To pass the time, our club adviser invented a ____ called “Balloon Search” — whichever group found the most shreds (碎片) of balloons would ____.

My group found several sickening and ____ items, such as, used underwear, dead birds and toothbrush. Another group ____ found false teeth!

After three hours of collecting rubbish, we ____ ourselves to lunch, I washed my ____ with a soap four times in the bathroom, but the smell of ____ fish stayed. Although we were tired, we all ____ that the work was definitely worth it.

【推荐2】Last Sunday afternoon, a truck rolled into the Animal League on Long Island, carrying more than four dozen homeless cats and dogs that lost their homes in the hurricane hit on South Carolina. These animals were ________ new homes to be offered.

After communicating ________ the Rescue Center in South Carolina, the truck from Long Island ________ for South Carolina on Tuesday. It was full of ________ dog and cat food, toys and clean-up supplies. An Animal League member, Ted Moriates said. “We ________ this truck with donations from the warm-hearted people on the island. Thanks to them for donating these supplies ________.”

Moriates and another member ________ to four shelters (避难所) along the coast in South Carolina after Hurricane Dorian hit. They ________ up the animals and delivered the supplies — creating ________ for creatures moved by the storm. “We must ________ the homeless animals,” said Moriates. “These animals would have been killed if we had ________ them,” he said.

The return trip with 53 cats, kittens, dogs and puppies, ________ stops for dog walking. Some of the animals needed extra ________ on the trip because they were ________ or not used to human touch. “With a little bit of love these animals can make a ________ change and become the loving pets that everyone ________.” Moriates said.

Hours before the truck ________, the Animal League on Long Island had been full of people hoping to ________ pets. However, the animals from South Carolinas won’t be ________ for adoption for a few days because they still have to go through medical ________.

【推荐3】As a teenager in the 1990s, Melissa Blake was interested in fashion. ______, fashion wasn’t much interested in her.

Blake, who has a genetic bone and muscle disorder and ______ a little under four feet tall, couldn’t find jeans or dresses in her size. Having had 26 surgeries before age 17 to ______ her freeman-Sheldon syndrome (综合症), she couldn’t walk long distances. ______ through fashion magazines,   she didn’t see a single person who looked like her, and she felt ______.

Blake, 39, has devoted her adult life to trying to ______ that. She is a disability-rights activist as well as a freelance ______ whose work has appeared in the New York Times and Glamour. And Blake ______ a new selfie every day online, where she talked about her happy moments or how she dealt with not-so-good days.

Her fans went ______, calling Blake a powerful woman. Among her fans is Mindy Schcier, the founder and CEO of   Runway of Dreams, which shows ______ for people with disabilities. Last fall,   one of Blake’s friend   asked Blake to be one of the ______ in New York Fashion Week.

“It was a little frightening,” Blake says of modeling. “But I take the ______. After my repeated practice, I won countless applause.” Often, when we think of ______ for people with disabilities, we think of home buildings and employment market. But it is also important to have access to what’s fun and ______.

“Fashion isn’t going to solve all the world’s problems,’’ says Blake. “When disabled people included, it sends a message that everyone can do something ______   in all aspects of life.”

【推荐1】Last year, I had a hard time: I was ______ by all the colleges I applied to. It’s not that I was a bad ______. So when I got turned down, I got into a______. I thought there was only one path to ______, and I wasn’t on it. While all my friends have many choices, I was left ______ what future I could have.

When my panic ______, I signed in community college. I wasn’t ______. I thought the incompetent teachers would ______ their students’ sleep in class. I was so wrong. The ______ of my professors were so poetic, and my classmates were ______, who could figure out kinds of difficult things.

I decided to give myself a year of ______. Aside from general education, I ______ a range of classes. I know it seems like some ______ classes, but it allowed me to ______ what I want. I used to have this idea that I had to rush to ______ a certain level of success by a certain age. But a year of community college has taught me to ______, and to recognize that things take time to ______. I still hope to transfer to a four-year ______ next year, but when I am a more mature person.

Being around the ______ has made me realize that I’m not late ______. There’s more than one way to get where you want to be.

【推荐3】At the age of nine, I was taking swimming lessons at a pool. The day had arrived when I was to be tested to see if I could ______ to a higher level class.

Fifteen of us were to ______ swimming from one side of the pool to the other and back. I watched as my ______ , one by one, tried and failed. Then it was my turn to swim, I mean, my turn to attempt to pass the test. I was about halfway when I got ______ , so I immediately stopped and ______ the side of the pool, ending my test. Our instructor, a college student, was standing ______ me. “Why did you stop?” he yelled, in a less than ______ voice. “I got water in my nose,” I explained.

That’s when this college student ______ me one of life’s great lessons, ______ he probably never realized that. Bending down, he shouted, “So?”

“So?” The question shocked me. It had just seemed reasonable to me that the answer to pain was to remove the thing causing the ______ . My nine-year-old brain had not understood the fact that a valuable ______ is worth achieving, however difficult to get there. Recognizing that, I was ______ nothing would keep me from completing the test. In fact, I did it rather easily on my next attempt. Seeing me ______ the test, almost all the others did so as well.

Life is a journey, and the road won’t ______ be easy. We have to focus on the final destination, not the ______ along the road.