【推荐1】When we're young， we always dream of love and fulfillment，and we think perhaps of beautiful nights or walks along the beach at sunset. No one tells us that the greatest________ of a lifetime are flying， unplanned and nearly always catch us off guard.

Not long ago， as I was reading a bedtime story to my seven﹣year﹣old daughter，Annie，I became aware of her________ gaze（凝视）. She was________at me with a fascinated expression. ________ ， completing The Tale of Samuel Whiskers was not as________ as we first thought. I wondered what she was thinking about.

"Mommy，" she________，"I just can't stop looking at your pretty face." I was almost deeply moved by her words. Little did she know how many________moments the glow of her sincerely loving statement would carry me through over the following years.

Not long after，I took my four﹣year﹣old son to an elegant________， where the sweet notes of a classic love song________us toward a musician playing the piano. Sam and I sat down on a marble bench nearby， enjoying the________ quietly.

I didn't realize that Sam had stood up next to me until he turned，took my face in his little hands and said，"________with me."

If only those women________　under the moonlight knew the joy of such an________ made by a round﹣cheeked boy with baby teeth. Although shoppers________ chuckled， and pointed at us as we moved around the open space， I would not have________a dance with such a charming young gentleman if I'd been offered the universe.

【推荐2】My son Sam is autistic (患自闭症的), and even on a good day he can be easily ______.

It was his first day at high school. We’d set up a plan for how he’d get home: I’d ______him up outside the ______ near his school at 3:30 pm and I believed this was a ______ plan. Unknown to me, very bad weather was ______ its way and I was ______ to tell him to take shelter.

Because my car broke down and he didn’t take his mobile phone, I was running late and couldn’t communicate that to him. ______, he was left alone and extremely ______, ______ where I’d told him to ______. This was when a beautiful older lady not only went to check on him, but took him ______ her shop, ______ him down, got my phone number from him and called me.

Five years later he ______ to go into her shop every afternoon, buy a drink, have a chat and she sends him home with enough bread to feed a small nation.

Sam graduates this year, and I’m ______ feeling the need to drop by the shop to let this wonderful lady know that she saved Sam, and that she saved me. I’m not sure ______ I can communicate all of this, but at least I will ______ her. And believe me, if you’re ______ if this world is a complete mess (混乱) right now, I’m here to say that it is not.

So I guess this is a love letter to those of you who have helped a ______ out of the goodness of your heart. Please know you are appreciated, and that, ______ unknowingly, you have made a great ______ in someone’s life.

【推荐3】There is such a thing as a free lunch, as a New Mexico schoolboy and his mom can proudly say.

Josette Duran was _____ when her son Dylan, 14, asked her to pack him a (n) _____ snack in his school lunch. When she asked him why, his _____ was truly touching.

“I asked, ‘Why? Are you not getting full? What’s going on?’ And he says, ‘No. I want to _____ one for my friend,’” Duran recalled.

It turned out that Dylan had a classmate whose family _____ needed help. The boy’s single mother had recently lost her job and could no longer afford her son’s _____. After learning this, Duran was even more eager to _____.

“I was homeless a few years ago. I know how _____ it is to ask for help. You get ashamed and feel embarrassed,” said Duran.

When the young boy’s mother learned of Duran’s generosity, she called her up and _____ to pay her back for everything, but Duran couldn’t ______ it. “I don’t think I did anything ______,” Duran said. “I just think I did what a human being is ______ to do.”

The kindness doesn’t ______ there. Duran is the coach of the girls’ volleyball team of the local school. Her ______ raised $400 to cover the cost of all the extra lunches Duran had made out of her own ______. But Duran refused to keep the cash, and ______, she donated it to the cafeteria at her son’s school. “Now everyone can ______,” Duran said, “What makes me particularly ______ is that it all started with my son. Being kind doesn’t have to come in the form of ______. Just know that if you’re having a good day — someone else is having a bad day and you should ______ that.”

【推荐1】My family moved into a newly constructed home in Calgary 10 years ago. That year was full of promise. We _______ at the stream of incoming families during their move-in days. Hands were shaken. Couches were pulled up steps. But we saw _______ of each other as winter approached. Names were forgotten.

As the snow _______, many of the neighborhood’s kids began to learn how to ride a bike. Their mothers would be nearby, chatting. Dad wanted a place for children to play, a quiet place for parents to sit and relax, but more importantly, a _______ for everyone to leave the house and join the community. He began _______ benches.

He started knocking on doors and _______ hands. He chatted with Eric, a builder and then met with a designer. _______ began with me and my father. Within minutes there was a flock of young neighbors _______, each claiming they could help. _______ of us knew each other well, but all hands were on deck (全员出动). After a few hours, three benches formed a semi-circle on the avenue.

That afternoon marked the first of many weekend Neighbor Days. Kids ________ each other around while parents brought out food. ________ would carry on into the night. We often ________ there the following afternoon, as well as ________ afternoons and evenings in the years since.

I moved out for university four years ago, having learned to ________ value community. But I’ve never lived somewhere as social as my family neighborhood since.

There’s a saying: you must be a good neighbor to have good neighbors. My dad wasn’t thinking much about building those benches. He just wanted a place to sit on a Saturday afternoon. A place to bring the ________ together.

【推荐2】We were a group of people who took a bus to work every day. One of the _____ was a small old man who took the bus to the health centre every morning. He always _____ behind the driver. No one ever paid much _____ to him.

But one July morning he said good morning to the driver and smiled at others. The driver nodded. The rest of us were _____ as usual.

The next day, the old man got on the bus and said in a loud voice, “A very good _____ to you all!” Some of us looked up, _____, and said, “Good morning.” From then on he said good morning to us every day and we began to _____ to each other.

One morning he had some flowers in his hand. The driver turned around _____ and asked, “Are these for me, Charlie?” We never got to know if his name was really “Charlie”, _____ he waved the flowers and said yes. People laughed. Every morning after that Charlie always ______ a flower.

Until one morning Charlie wasn’t ______ at his usual stop. And he wasn’t there the next day and the day after that. What might have happened to him? When we came nearer to the health centre, a woman ______ the driver to wait a moment. We all held our ______ when she went to the door.

She said she knew who we were talking about. The elderly gentleman was sick. We ______ him back on Monday.

The next Monday when Charlie got on the bus, all of us who he had brought happiness to in that summer sat with a ______ in our hands.

【推荐1】I once stopped behind several cars, waiting at the red light. The wind blew fiercely. Ahead of me stood a young woman alongside the street rubbing her bare hands together and dancing to keep ______. Beside her rested a sign that read, “I have a baby and no food.”

Homeless and unemployed people are a ______ sight in many of our large cities, and most people drive by without ______ assistance. No doubt they have been taught that giving them money develops a dependent ______, or that the cash may be used to buy alcohol ______ the food it was intended for. Like me, they may have been taught that one should give money to a local charity, as these organizations can ______ those in need far more effectively

As I waited for the light to turn green, I felt ______ about that woman. She was obviously in need. And whether or not she actually had a baby really didn’t ______. What should I do?

Should I give her money?As I ______, the window of the car in front of me was ______ down and a hand reached out holding a pair of warm gloves. The driver ______ her own gloves and gave them to the woman. I saw the young woman ______ the words “Thank you” and a broad smile lit up her face.

As I was wondering, somebody else ______. As I tried to decide the best way to help, somebody else just did what she could. I made myself a(n) ______ that day to always do something. Whether it is big or small, just do something.

Something is almost always better than nothing!Too often we underestimate(低估)the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the ______ to turn a life around.

【推荐2】On the last day of college before graduation, our professor walked up on stage to give us a ____ lesson, which she called “a life lesson on the ____ of mindsets（思维模式）”. As she raised a glass of water over her head, everyone ____ her to mention the typical “glass half empty or glass half full” question. _________, with a smile on. her face, the professor asked, “How ______ is this glass of water Pm holding?” Students shouted out answers ______ from eight ounces（盎司）to a couple pounds.

After a few moments of reasonable answers, she replied, “In my opinion, the ________weight of this glass doesn’t matter. It all _______ how long I hold it. If I hold it for a minute or two, it’s fairly ________. If I hold it for an hour ______, my arm might feel painful. If I hold it for the whole day, my arm will feel completely numb, _____ me to drop the glass to the floor. In each ____, the weight of the glass doesn’t change, _____ the longer I hold it, the heavier it _______ to me.”

As the class nodded their heads in ______, she continued, “Your worries,disappointments, and _____ thoughts are like this glass of water. Think about them for a while and ____ happens. Think about them a bit longer and you begin to feel _______Think about them all day long, and you will feel completely numb, _____ to do anything else until you ______ them.”

【推荐3】My mom is an awesome human being just like all other moms. She knowingly and unknowingly __   me   a   whole   lot of things about the world. The __ which I'm going to share today determined the way I __ everybody.

I was four years old. One fine afternoon , my mom and I were __ outdoors, she reading and I watching a line of   __ . I was never a naughty kid: __ I was known for keeping quiet even when things were not going my way. So I don't remember why I did this but I broke off the lines of ants and I liked it when they looked so ___ .I even went ahead and stepped on a couple of them! My mom saw this and she wasn't __ with me but she said something I still __ today. She said, "Ybu should never be __ to anybody however little they are. Everybody is different and we shouldn't treat them ___

I got upset when I heard this because I thought I had __ my mom. __ my little heart started thinking about the family of ants I had killed. It has been more than 25 years now and I've __ so many things that have happened in my life:___, I still do my best to be kind to everybody.

We should teach our young kids never to be mean to anybody. It makes a     _____when people praise other people for their efforts __ being envious, we're proud of people achieving their goals however __ they may be. When you're kind to other people, it's a __ that goes on.     It's the kind of chain reaction that uplifts the whole world— one heart at a time. I believe in the magic of.____ !