【推荐1】Josette Duran was surprised when her son Dylan, 14, asked her to pack him a(an)_______snack in his school lunch. When she asked him why, his reply was truly touching.

“I asked, ‘why? Are you not getting full? What’s going on? And he said, ‘No, I want to take one for my friend,” Duran remembered.

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 lunches. After learning this, Duran was even willing to reach out to them.

“I was homeless a few years ago. I know how_____it is to ask for help. You get sad and feel embarrassed(尴尬),” said Duran.

When the young boy’s mother learned of Duran’s warm heart, she called her up and_____to pay her back for everything, but Duran couldn’t accept 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 team raised $ 400 to cover the cost of all the extra lunches Duran had made out of her own pocket. But Duran refused to keep the cash, and____, donated it to the snack bar at her son’s school. “ Now everyone can eat,” Duran said, “ What makes me especially_____is that it all started with my son. Being kind doesn’t have to come in the form of money; just know that if you’re having a good day while someone else is having a bad day, you should______that.”

【推荐2】Yolanda’s neighbor, Stacey, knocked on her door one morning. Stacey asked if Yolanda could keep an eye on a lost ________ she found walking around the local school. Yolanda agreed to watch the little poor animal. ________ she told Stacey it would only be for the day. The two women took photos of it and printed 4, 000 FOUND leaflets. They also placed a（n） ________ on the local newspaper.

In the meantime, Yolanda went to a store and ________ some pet food, warning her two sons not to fall in love with the dog. At the time Yolanda’s son Azaiah was 10 years old, and Christian was 21 years old and had diseases. Recently he had ________.

Four days later, Yolanda was ________ looking after RaeLee — that poor little dog. When she arrived home from work, the dog rushed against the screen door and barked ________ at her. As soon as she opened the door, RaeLee rushed into the boys' room where Yolanda found Christian out of control. When Yolanda bent over to help him, the dog went calm and silent.

“________ he hadn’t come to get me, the doctor said Christian would have choked（窒息） on his own blood and died,” Yolanda reported to the local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim（认领）the dog so Yolanda   ________ to keep him.

The next morning Stacey got a call from a man named Randy. He recognized his lost pet and called the number on the leaflet. Stacey started crying, and told him, “That dog saved my friend’s son.”

Randy drove to Yolanda’s house to ________ his dog, and saw Azaiah crying on the porch（门廊） and Christian by the window. After a few moments Randy said, “Maybe the dog was supposed to find you, maybe you should keep him.”

【推荐3】Once there was a very helpful and kind-hearted man. He would help anyone_________wanting anything in return.

One day. While walking along a dusty road, the man saw a wallet, so he________ the wallet. But then he found it was________ . Suddenly a woman and a policeman turned up and caught him.

The woman kept on asking where her_________ was, but the man answered, "It was empty________ I found it." The woman shouted at him, "Please give it back to me, and it's my son's tuition(学费)." The man saw that the woman really felt sad so he handed over all his money. He could see the woman was a single mother. The woman left and the policeman asked the man more ________ .

One day while the woman was going to her son's school, she noticed that________was walking behind her. She thought that he________ rob her, so she walked to a policeman. He was the same policeman that she had taken along to take back her money. The woman told him the man following her. They ran to him, and saw that he was the same man that they had caught a few days ago.

He looked very weak and the woman was _________.The policeman said to the woman, “He wasn't the thief that day, but having heard about your situation he gave you his money.”

Then the man told the woman, "Please go ahead and pay your son's tuition. I saw you and followed you to make sure that no one would steal your money again." The woman was too moved to say anything.

Life may give you a strange experience: sometimes it shocks you,_________ sometimes it may also surprise you. Be kind and generous. Learn to appreciate what you are given.

【推荐2】Little Mary’s grandparents have a farm (农场). On the farm there are many kinds of ______, such as cows, dogs and cats. She likes to play with them because they can make her ______.

On the farm there is also a little ______. It has no mother. And it never plays with other animals. It often walks around by itself. Mary thinks this is why she ______ it so much.

Many times, Mary ______ the elephant how sorry she is for the death (死亡) of its mother. She loves talking with it and the elephant becomes ______ to Mary. When it sees Mary on the farm, it runs up to her ______ a little dog. Sometimes it follows her into a wood (树林). There Mary sits on the ground and ______ a book; the little elephant stands by Mary.

Her grandfather often asks her, “______ does the elephant like you so much?” “Oh, because I love it, Grandpa.” Mary answers.

Grandpa thinks Mary is ______. Animals are our friends. We should love them.

When I was eight years old, my mother told me to put my coat on because we were going to go somewhere_______. Usually, that meant we were going to see someone important. I would at least get a new toy. I asked which one it would be that day, and she told me that I would get something _________than a toy. She said I would get “access（通道）to a world of toys.”I had no real idea what she meant. Did that mean we were buying a toy _______?

But we did not end up at any toy store. Neither did we finally see anyone we knew.

_______, mother pulled her car into a parking lot in front of a building that looked like something out of the past. It didn’t have a modern_________at all.

We took stone steps up to the entrance. Only then I found out what this place was, because there was a sign that _______“Marcy Public Library”. We pushed the door open, and my mother led me to the front desk. “I’d like to get my daughter a library card”, she told the man_________the desk. He asked her to fill out a form. “What kind of books do you like to read?” he asked. I was too shy to _________. I only smiled. “Well, you’ll find it out in time,” he said. I do not remember_________I picked out that day, but I know that in the years that followed I read through books on history, books of poetry, and books about art. The library opened up a world that I __________knew that day.

So my mother was right. Getting a library card was like getting the access to a world of toys.

【推荐2】My six-year-old granddaughter, Cindy, and I stopped at a food shop for some bread. Cindy had _______ it for several days. As we were going out of the door, a young teenage boy was coming in.

The boy had no hair on sides of his head but a set of blue spiked(竖起的) hair on top of it. His nose was ________, and a ring ran through the hole. A chain went across his face and it was connected to his earring. He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other.

Cindy, who was walking ahead of me, ________ stopped when she saw the boy. I thought he had ________ my granddaughter. But I was wrong. My granddaughter backed up against the door and opened it as wide as it would go. Now I came face to face with the young man. I stepped aside and let him ________. He replied very _______, “Thank you very much.”

On our way to the car, I _______ Cindy for holding open the door for the boy. To my surprise, she didn’t seem to be troubled by the young boy’s _______. But I wanted to make sure. I wanted to be ready to talk about freedom of expressing themselves and allowing people’s ________.

As it turned out, the person ________ needed the talk was me. The only thing Cindy noticed about the boy was the fact that his arms were ________. “He held a skateboard under one arm and a basketball under the other. He would have a ________ time to open the door,” said Cindy.

I just paid attention to the partially shaved(部分剃光的) head, the set of spiked hair, the piercing and the chain. She saw a person carrying _______ under each arm and heading toward a(n) _______ door.

What my granddaughter said reminded me that I should change my ways of judging people and ________ my granddaughter to be open-minded and warm-hearted.

Did you feel worried because you didn’t achieve (实现) your goal (目标)? If so, please remember, achieving what you expect is not the most _________ thing.

One day, after watching a science program, a little boy _________ to dig a hole behind his house. As he was working, a few boys arrived. “What are you doing?” asked one of _________. “I want to dig a hole all the way through the earth!” the boy answered _________. The older boys laughed and told him that it was _________ to do it. Then they left.

The boy didn’t _________ digging. Suddenly, a few small colorful stones caught his _________. He collected them and put them into a box. The box was filled _________ stones soon. Then the boy said proudly, “Maybe I can’t finish digging all the way through the _________, but look at what I found in the process (过程) of digging!”

Sometimes you can’t achieve your goal, but many good things have been into your life because you try to do something! In fact, the happiness during the process is _________.