【推荐1】In Tennessee, you will find a “small society” of 9 women who call themselves “The 9 Nanas.” The task of this group is _______ —to spread happiness to those in need. The work that 9 women do has been a _______ for over 30 years. Even their husbands had no idea what the ladies were busy with!

The 9 women _______ themselves sisters, and have been together since childhood. Several of them were raise by MaMaw and PaPaw, a couple that were always doing good for the _______.

One day when the ladies got together for a card game, they started missing about the “old days” with Malaw and PaPaw. They remembered how MaMaw made and sent cakes to families who _______ lost someone. She didn’t have to know them. If Malaw read about a death in the newspaper, she would at once go to the kitchen.

So the sisters _______ that they should start doing good for their community too. They knew they needed money. And that’s when they planned to wash their own clothes instead of paying for that in order to save the money for the good things.

“So among the nine of us, we saved about $400 a month and our husbands didn’t _______ anything unusual. Their shirts looked just fine,” said one of the sisters.

And so, the “small society” of the 9 Nanas was born. _______ they heard of someone in need, they’d try their best to help paying a bill for a woman who lost her husband or buying new clothes for the children of a _______ mom. A package (包裹) would be sent, and would include one of MaMaw’s cakes and a note that _______ “Somebody loves you.” These 9 women prove that a small plan can make a big difference.

【推荐3】It’s about 250 miles from the hills of west-central Lowa to Ehlers’ home in Minnesota. During the long trip home, Ehlers thought about the small dog he had seen and it was _________ in the cold along the road. He tried to coax（哄）the dog to him, but frightened, it _________.

Back home, Ehlers was _________ by that poor dog. So, four days later, he drove _________ with his friend Greg. After a long and careful _________, Greg saw the dog moving _________ away. Ehlers finally succeeded in coaxing the animal to him. It looked _________ and just started licking（舔）Ehlers’ hand.

A local farmer told them the dog sounded like the _________ one that was reported in the local newspaper. The report had a phone number for a town in southern Michigan. Ehlers _________ the number of Jeff and Lisa to tell them he had __________ their lost dog.

Jeff lived in Lowa before Thanksgiving day with his dog, Rosie. But a loud noise scared the dog off. Jeff searched without any __________ for Roise in the next four days.

Ehlers returned to Minnesota, and then drove miles to put Rosie on a plane to Michigan. “It’s good to know there’s still someone out there and he __________ enough to go to that kind of trouble,” says Jeff about Ehlers.

“I thought whoever lost the dogs, they were just as __________ to it as I am to my dogs,” says Ehlers. __________ it had been my dog, I’d hope that somebody would like to go that extra（额外的） __________. ”