【推荐1】The day was Thankful Thursday. Thursday has become my day to go out and do charity (慈善) work with my two _______. On this special Thursday, we had no idea exactly _________ we were going to do. At noon I _______ to a McDonald’s with my daughters because they kept telling me that they didn’t have enough to eat at breakfast. There we saw some homeless (无家可归的) people in the street and we decided to _______ lunch for them.

We ordered fifteen _______ from McDonald's and started to give them out. We were _______ to see those thankful people holding up the lunch bags.

Then we noticed a dirty, old woman _______ at the corner (角落). We handed her our final lunch bag. When we _________ the car and wanted to drive home, she walked to our car and said, “Thank you, lady! No one has ever done _________ like this for me before.” "Well, I’m glad that we were the __________,” I replied. “So, why don’t you eat the lunch now?” I asked.

She just looked at me __________ her tired eyes and said, “I’m not going to eat this lunch. I have a little girl at home ________ she just loves McDonald's, but I can __________ buy it for her because I don't have the money. But tonight she can have McDonald's! ”

I don't know if the kids noticed (注意) the tears ( 眼泪) in my eyes. So many times I questioned (询问) myself whether (是否) our acts of kindness were too __________ to make a difference. However, at that moment, I ________ that we cannot do great things but we can do small things with great love.

【推荐2】Some people work a job all their lives and for them, it is only a way to make money. But Carole Cassidy and Russ Cassidy are _______. They worked as teachers with interest and got lots of _______. Now they are retired（已退休的）and luck is still with _______.

“We just didn’t want to be sitting and do _______,” Carole said, “We tried a few things, _______ they were not for us.” Soon, they found the Princeton Public Library’s Children’s Storytime program（计划）and wanted to join in. “We were lucky. They _______ us and wanted us to come to help,” Rebecca Marrs, Children’s Librarian at the Princeton Public Library said. Marrs said the kids loved the retired _______. Marrs began to _______ the Children’s Storytime program（项目）about eight years ago. The Book Babies program, _______ newborns to 3-year-olds, is held on Thursday and the Preschool program is held on Friday.

The Cassidys and Marrs said that they didn’t ask the children to sit ________ during the story time. They understand that children can listen while ________. “I love kids and love ________ with them. I enjoy watching kids playing together and ________ their imagination（想象力）most,” Carole said. “For example, I asked them ________ they made a robot（机器人）with bricks（积木）and they told their reasons to me. Their imagination is so ________.”

【推荐3】Even within the terrible darkness of war, the flower of art still blooms(绽放).

Shamsia Hassani is a teacher in Afghanistan. In 2010, she learned ________ to paint large drawings on walls. She became the ________ woman street artist in her country.

Shamsia has grown into a better graffiti (涂鸦）artist over the years. Her country, however, has become an even more ________ place. When she paints ________, she usually starts to feel unsafe after about fifteen minutes. She can only paint something very ________ or leave the work unfinished. “It’s not easy, ________ worth it,” said Shamsia, “Through graffiti, I can change the war-torn(被战争蹂躏的) walls of ________ city into beautiful paintings.”

Over the past ten years, the artist has continued to draw her most famous figure—a woman ________ shut eyes and no mouth. Shamsia has given this figure (形象) different ________ in different paintings. She may be a soldier in one and a refugee(难民) in another.“She closes her eyes, because she doesn’t want to see the darkness of war. She fights for a peaceful and bright future,” said Shamsia. “Sometimes, she also ________ in sadness. But her love for her country will never change.”

Her artworks have inspired thousands of women around the world and have given a new hope to women Afghan artists in the country.