【推荐1】In 1994 I was in the midst of depression(抑郁症). When I was depressed, I_______. One day I was clearing up the rooms and found a CD covered with _______. I wiped it, put it in the_________and started washing dishes. A man's voice, reading poetry, _______my house. The sound of the speaker's voice and the words of the poems reached deep inside me. I stopped and_______.

I began to take poems into my_______, not simply reading them, but developing rich relationships with the_______.I learned many by heart. They became my therapy(疗法) and_______.Those poems made me wiser and healthier.

_______ , in the fall of 2008, poetry ________ me in a way I had never expected. I had put all my ________ in a small, local fund(基金). Two months later, the leader of the fund left me a message: "The financial crisis ________ our fund particularly hard. We've lost everything."

I stood there, __________.

Suddenly I heard a poem, ________, called Kindness in my mind. It felt like the poem had been written for me________, for this exact moment, like the perfect helper________on the scene at the instant of an accident. I read it before going to bed, and at breakfast every morning. It________me that this was not a________, but a path to sympathy, and I was not walking alone. Even now, I________Kindness several times a week to carry me ________ the heart of what really matters to me.

【推荐2】It was pouring outside. We all stood there ____, some patiently, others annoyed____ nature messed up(弄糟) their hurried day. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens ____ away the dirt and dust of the world.

"Mom, let's run through the rain, “a girl's voice ____ me.

"No, honey. We'll wait until it ____ down a bit," Mom replied.

The young girl waited about another minute and ____: "Mom, let's run through the rain."

"We'll get wet if we do,” Mom said.

"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she ____ her Mom's arm.

"This morning? ____ did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?"

"Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, "If God can get us through this, he can get us through ____."

The entire crowd turned ____. Mom paused and thought for a moment about ____ she would say. Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being ____. But then we heard, "Honey, you are ____. Let's run through the rain. If we get wet, maybe we just need washing," Mom said. Then ____ they ran.

We all stood ___, smiling and laughing as they ran past the cars. Yes, they got wet.   But they were ____ by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the ____ to their cars. Circumstances(境况) or people can take away your material possessions, and they can even take away your ____. But no one can ever take away your precious ____. So, don't forget to make time and take the ____ to make memories every day! I hope you still take the time to run through the rain.

【推荐3】I argued with my sixteen-year-old son Anthony again. I rushed out of the house with_______.Shaking my head in disappointment and seeking (寻求) _______, I walked toward Clara, my elderly neighbor. I told her it was for his _______this time. Anthony and I were always _______about his clothes, his messy room, or his loud music.

Clara _______and said, “It’s only a small thing.” Then the smile disappeared from her face, and she became _______. During her hard life, she had _______to say, “But It’s only something, and tomorrow will be _______. Everybody has enough heartaches and _______in their lives, so we shouldn’t waste time and energy on the “it’s only things” that come their way.” she continued.

I walked back with Clara’s words going around in my head and ________in my heart. I prepared a piece of cake, Anthony’s favorite ________.He stared at the plate eagerly, but there was still a hit of ________in his eyes.   He looked at me and ________asked why I had no one word about his hair.

I said it was only hair. He ________a smile as he took the cake and said that was what he had been trying to tell me. Now I realize that he actually didn’t want to fight with me but just wanted me to hear the ________he was making.

【推荐1】One random act of kindness can make someone’s day, but a man in Florida knows a good ________ isn’t a one-time thing.

After spending three months in and out of the hospital with numerous health issues, Donald Austin had his ________ partially cut off. He was relieved to finally be able to go home after just four days recovering from the ________. When he reached his porch, though, the ________ disappeared.

Donald thought he’d be able to ________ up the steps to the front door on crutches(拐杖), but he found he was too weak to keep his ________. He had to sit in the wheelchair, but the wheelchair was too heavy for his wife, Jennifer Austin, to lift up the steps, even when his mom pitched in. Donald ended up on the ground, the family feeling totally ________.

Just then, a car caught the family’s eye. It had driven past ________ was slowly circling back. The stranger, Steven Smith,________ and asked if the could help.________, the family watched Smith lift Donald inside and lay him ________ on a couch.

But the good man knew there was ________ to do.

Smith ________ this wasn’t the only time Donald would need to climb those ________. So the next day, Smith came back and asked if he could build a ramp(坡道) in front of the house. With his dad and a couple more _______, Smith set up a ramp ________ the steps to make the house ________ to the wheelchair. The act of kindness brought the family to ________.

“This stranger has saved the day for us ________within 24 hours. He also ________our spirits that had become increasingly dimmed over the difficult months.” Jennifer wrote on Facebook.

【推荐2】One day I was driven by a rain-storm to take shelter in a little hut by the road-side, which was_______by a shoemaker as his workshop. The man and his son were_______at their work, and_______saying, “Good-day,” we began to talk together.

Before I had been with them long, the old man_______his son out to get something that he_______for his work. The boy was only five minutes_______, but it was too_______for the active old shoemaker to be idle(懒惰的). He became_______, moved about the room, and_______took up a piece of leather and fell to________it, saying, “You know, sir, it will never do to be idle.”

As soon as the rain was over, I went on my way home, ________what I had heard—“It will never do to be idle.” Some people are ________idle; others are idle only now and then I was one of the latter class. I could work only________. So the old man’s words came home to me. They awakened my________, and I began to feel how wrong it was to ________ so much of my life in idleness.

I had often heard and read that________is a very great evil, but now I began to see that it________far more sorrow than people are________. It is the man who is doing nothing that is drawn into disaster, while the busy man is________. It is only the idle that are unhappy. So I made up my mind to________the shoemaker’s rule for the rest of my life.

【推荐3】An elderly woman's cry led to this beautiful act of kindness and experience.

As I was_________some rooms in the nursing home this afternoon. I heard a lot of shouting and_________coming from one of them. I had actually tried to talk with this little lady with dementia（痴呆）a few weeks before but she can't speak English and we have difficulty in_________. A caregiver was in with her and speaking but the lady wasn't_________.

I took the lady into the_________and she was still crying and looking in the mirror. 'To calm her down I started to_________her hair, for it was wet through. Because there were many olds there, the caregiver_________to help another person. Then I_________a small towel, and dried her hair, gently feeling her head. She just kept crying and was terribly_________. So I wrapped my arms around her, rubbed her back and__________her close. At the same time, I was talking very__________to her and shaking her.

She cried in my arms. After a while, she__________stopped crying. When she__________finally, I sat with her and then, as she was Italian, I__________both her cheeks（面颊） and hands. She then__________that action to me. I said goodbye in__________though I knew only a few words and she was growing peaceful. Her suffering had been__________. All she really needed was love and encouragement. Like her, there are many people out there who just need to be__________and given a hug to. It must be__________to live in a world that is so strange to her. I left feeling her love and I knew she felt mine. Though there was almost no language communication, this is one of the most beautiful__________I have ever had.

【推荐1】A 69-year-old American soldier who served in Vietnam is living the American dream by starting his retirement early thanks to a considerate gesture by his boss of over 13 years.

Albert Brigas was a ______ car mechanic who 's worked for Rudy Quinones since 2006. He was planning to ____ after paying off his mortgage(贷款) next year. But thanks to Quinones’ big ______ Brigas can now retire and live in his long-time house, with his long-time wife, but without his long-time mortgage payment. “Rudy Quinones ______ his people and what happens,” Brigas said.

Rudy Quinones, the owner of Renown Auto Restoration, said, “He would come to work everyday even when he was _____   Just that level of loyalty, the ______ you just don't find anymore.” Quinones has known about Brigas’ ______ to retire for a while. Quinones said, “Albert has been complaining about that for the past year. His final ______ was to retire and have the mortgage on his house ______ off.” Last month he ______ Brigas into his office. Quinones added, “I asked Albert to come into my office. ______, when an employee has to come to his boss's office, there's always some ______ for him to come in.” Then Quinones ______ out a check for about USS5,000. Brigas said, “He gave me the ______ mortgage on the house. We went to the ______ and paid it off.”

“Not enough good news is out there and this is one of those things that I think should be ______, so people know there are people out there who do ______ things for other people,” said Joseph Winkler, another employee of Quinones.

Now Brigas has more ______ to spend with his family. “We ______ up our 12-year-old granddaughter and she's doing great, and now we've got a nice little grandson.” Brigas said. Quinones added, “To give them something they've been ______ for their whole lives, it's fantastic.”

【推荐2】One day, a young man was taking a walk with a professor. As they went along, they saw lying in the path a pair of old shoes, which they supposed to _________ a poor man who was employed in a field close by.

The student turned to the professor, saying, “Let us play the man a _________ : we will hide his shoes, and hide _________ behind those bushes and wait to see his reaction _________ he cannot find them.”

“My young friend,” answered the professor, “we should never _________ ourselves at the expense of the poor. But you are _________ and may give yourself a much greater pleasure _________ helping the poor man. Put a coin into each shoe, and then watch how the discovery _________ him.”

The student did so. The poor man soon finished his work, and came across the field to the path where he had left his _________. While he slipped his foot into one of his shoes, he felt something     __________. He bent down only to find the coin.

__________ was seen upon his face. He gazed upon the coin, and then __________ him on all sides, but no person was to be seen. He went on to put on the other shoe: but his surprise was __________ on finding the other coin.

__________ he fell upon his knees, looked up to heaven and uttered (说) aloud __________, in which he spoke of his wife, sick and __________, and his children without bread. Without the timely help, she would die.

The student stood there deeply __________, and his eyes filled with tears. “Now,” said the professor, “are you not much more __________ than if you had played your __________ trick?”

The youth replied, “You have taught me a __________ I will never forget: ‘One is happier to give than to receive.’”

【推荐3】It was almost 10 p.m. Stephen, a 14-year-old boy, was seen _______ on the road.

He had a fight with his mother in the afternoon. She scolded him for being so _______ in the recent exam. He had words with her and the fight ended up _______ badly that Stephen _______ out of the house.

He walked for almost more than 6 hours. He was _______ by a nice smell and felt very hungry.

It was a small noodle shop and he stopped by the shop. The shop owner saw him and asked him to have some _______.

Stephen told he had no _______. The owner smiled, saying “It’s OK. I don’t ask you for any money.” He asked him to eat some food _______ he looked very hungry.

The owner _______ a hot bowl of delicious noodles. Stephen thanked the owner from his heart. He felt that he owed something to the owner and ________ him that he would return the money.

Stephen was in ________ when he ate the noodles.

The owner asked ________ he cried when he was eating. Stephen told him about the ________ with his mother. The owner asked Stephen, “Do you feel you ________ me something?” Stephen said, “Yes!”

The owner smiled, “Now think about your mom. She was there with you from the moment you were born. She cooked for you. She played with you. She helped you with all her ________ in your difficult times. What did she expect? ________! Don’t you think you owe her something?”

Stephen ________ his mistake, thanked the owner and rushed home. He saw his mother standing ________ on the street.

His mother said, “Where did you go? I was ________ you everywhere. I cooked your favorite meal. Come and have it now. You must be so ________!”