【推荐1】Last summer, Katie pulled off the road on her way to work. She _______ at a traffic light, where a man was sitting with a sign for help. She _______ her window.

“Hey!” she shouted. “I’m driving around giving free _______. If I fetch my_______, do you want one right now?” The man looked to be in his 60s. He was heavyset, balding and missing a few teeth. He paused, but then _______. “Actually,” he said, “I have a funeral to go to this week. I was _______ hoping to get a haircut.”

“I’ll be right back,” Katie said. She drove off, went to the _______ she owns, and _______________ one of her hairdressers to help her load a red chair into her car. Then the two of them drove back. The man took a seat, and they _______ his curly graying hair. He told them about growing up in Mississippi, about moving to Texas to live _______ to his adult children in order to help look after his grandchildren, and how he still phoned his mom every day.

After Katie was done, Edward looked in a mirror. “I look _______!” he said happily. “I’ll have to remember to put my _______ in next time.”

So far, Katie has given 30 or so such haircuts to people around the city. These _______ are all living in poverty, and she is keenly _______ of the power of her clean-up job. “It’s more than a haircut,” she says. “I want it to be a (an) _______, to show value and respect, but also to get to know people. I want to build _______ with them.”

Katie knows that a haircut can _______ one’s life. One changed hers: As a teen, she _______from a severe disease called ulcerative colitis and her hair _______ gradually. Seeing this, her mother arranged for Katie’s first professional haircut. “To sit down and have somebody look at me and talk to me like a person and not just an illness, it _______ me to feel cared about and less alone,” she says.

【推荐2】For Brittany Schiavone, December 4 was a fantastic day. She was named the 2019 Women of Worth National Honoree that night, becoming the first woman with Down Syndrome(唐氏综合征)ever to receive this _______.

Brittany is like any other ordinary woman. She works and loves to _______ pictures of herself out with friends online. But she also knows that giving back is an essential part of her purpose. In 2014, after insistently telling her parents she was _______ about helping families that began just like hers, Brittany’s family gathered supporters for this _______. In 2016, Brittany’s Baskets of Hope, a nonprofit, was _______. Its mission is to _______ resources, guidance, and hope to such families. Till now, it’s sent over 850 baskets of hope to families.

Brittany _______ valuable information for parents dealing with a Down syndrome diagnosis （诊断）for the first time, but it is also about celebration. When a lot of parents _______ the news that their baby will be born with Down syndrome, they hear, “I’m sorry.” Brittany doesn’t say sorry. _______, she says “Congratulations” and uses her own story to give these new parents the ________ that their child can lead a life of joy and purpose — just like hers!

Brittany’s win was a ________. She says the moment she was ________ as the winner, she couldn’t believe her ears. ________ Brittany was the true star of the evening, her win is not ________ a win for her. It’s for everyone with Down syndrome. There are no limits, only a(n)________ journey that will not look like anyone else’s for every child. Brittany, thank you for showing the world what’s possible.

【推荐3】It's unusual now to get into a new neighborhood and find yourself welcomed by the local people. Yet，Katie and Patrick Smith were_________with truly open arms when they first set foot on Newton. Katie got pregnant   before the _________and within months of settling in, she gave birth to Lisa. ________tests discovered Lisa was   born deaf. The Smiths knew _________Lisa was going to take some more work and _________

The neighborhood was still _________at Lisa's coming，but they realized what a(n) _________situation it was for her parents. They wanted to make things _________for the family. Learning sign language to help Lisa learn to _________as the grew was a great idea. The neighbors agreed to__________the job of mastering an entirely second language for their youngest member, although it was indeed__________. When 3-month-old Lisa learned at a center for the deaf, the 18 neighbors__________a sign language learner, which would get all of to help in Lisa's__________

Now in the street or the grocery store，Lisa feels included every time a neighbor greeted her in a __________language--she's a__________of this community.

【推荐2】I had reached the age of twenty-eight. Still, I _________ whether the letter from my past would make it to me, all these years later. It was a _________ writing task from when I was eighteen. The teacher collected our letters to our _________ selves in self-addressed envelope with stamps and promised to _______ them ten years later. But since so much time had passed, would he even _________?

Thinking back on the _________, I recalled giving my future self some advice. When you’re eighteen Years old, twenty-eight seems like a _________ age, but I wasn’t feeling as mature as I believed my younger self had _________ me to be.

When the letter finally reached me, I opened it _________. It began, “How much do you bet this letter will never get to you?” It continued to greet me casually __________ we were having an IM (instant messaging) chat. As a senior in high school, facing the __________SATS and college application, my eighteen-year-old self was so ________! She was apparently not quite happy and hoped I wouldn’t worry so much in the future, and that I wouldn’t forget to be present and __________ my life!

________ to my belief, my eighteen-year-old self did not have any demands of me, or expectations I might have __________ meet. Instead, she wrote, “I’ll __________whatever you do. Even if you are not the one I’m imagining now, I’ll support you, because maybe__________ I’m imagining is someone else, but you’re not someone else, you’re me.

I was __________, and tears welled up in my eyes at this __________ through time. I had put a lot of pressure on myself to be the best version of myself that I could be. ________, I came to realize what I would have accomplished in ten years would pale in comparison(相形之下) to how I’d feel and who I’d be.