【推荐3】This is a story about the Bloom family. This family has Mom, Dad, three ________ and a bird.

One day, Mom gets hurt. Sadly, she can’t walk. Then, one of the boys ________ a baby magpie（喜鹊）. It is hurt, too. The boy brings it home. This little cute bird is black and white, ________ they call her “Penguin（企鹅）”. The Blooms help Penguin get ________. Soon, she can fly!

Penguin helps the Blooms, too. In the ________ she flies into the bedroom and the boys get up. ________ she sits together with Mom in the afternoon, Mom doesn’t feel sad any more. At three o’clock, Penguin goes to the garden and waits ________ there. When the boys come home from school, they can have fun ________ with each other in the garden. With Penguin, the Blooms are happy again.

One day, Penguin ________. The Blooms love Penguin very much, but ________ are not sad because she can stay with other birds. She will also have a happy family.

【推荐1】Three years ago, I got to know a poor lady named Rose. She had no children and lived alone. When I went to visit her, I always took her_________coffee and food. One day she invited me to have lunch at a restaurant near her home.

_________the way, I began to worry: I knew that she had no money, but if I offered to _________the lunch, I was afraid I would hurt her.

There were many people in the _________and all of them were happy. Rose told me to sit and drink coffee by the window. Then she went into the_________. I was surprised. After about 20 minutes, she came out with some food. Then we started to enjoy the delicious food together. She told me that the restaurant let people work for a meal_________ they had no money, or would give them a free meal if they were not _________to work,especially for the disabled (残疾人).

I _________ remember the beautiful afternoon I shared with Rose. We had a meal, and Rose paid for it by her work. The weather was _________and bright, and everyone’s smile was warm and bright as well.

I’m still thinking that life cannot be easy to us, but we can still do something for our friends and neighbours. The word will be ________________if everybody would like to share happiness with others.

【推荐3】A little boy named Harry became very ill. He had to lie in bed all day, unable to move. There wasn’t much he could do except look out of the _______. Time passed, and his illness frustrated (感到灰心) him. Until one day he saw a strange shape in the window. It was a penguin(企鹅) eating a sandwich. The penguin got in _______ the open window, and said “good afternoon” to Harry, turned around, and left quickly.

Of course, Harry was very _______. He was still trying to find out what had happened. Outside his window he saw a monkey busy blowing up a balloon. After a while, as more and more crazy- looking _______ appeared outside the window, he couldn’t stop _______ and found it hard to stop.

An elephant jumped on a stone, or a dog wore a pair of glasses and acted in a _______ way. The little boy didn’t tell anyone about this. Those strange characters ended up putting joy back in his heart, and in his body. Before long, his health _______ so much that he was able to go back to school again.

There he told his classmates all that he had _______. While he was talking to his best friend, he saw _______ coming out of his friend’s school bag. Harry asked his friend what it was, and he was so insistent(坚持) that his friend had to ________ him what was in the bag. There, inside, were all the things that his best friend had been using to try to cheer up the little boy!

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Feeling quite hopeless, Jack walked down the streets, knowing he came to the end of life. In his fifties, Jack had never been married, experienced the happiness of having children or spent holidays with his family. On this sad rainy night, he felt that there was ________ in the whole world cared whether he lived or died.

At that time I was sitting in my room watching the rain ________ my window. When I heard the doorbell ring, I jumped from my chair and ran out. But my mother was already at the ________. Opening it, she saw a very dirty-looking man with tears falling down his face. My mother was always ________ and warm-hearted, invited the man inside, and he sat with my parents in our living room.

Wondering what the man looked like, I walked ________ secretly. The man holding his head in his hands and crying, made my heart ache. I ran back upstairs and took out my only half-dollar coin. Then I walked right into the living room. The three ________ looked at me in surprise as I quickly made my way over the stranger. I put the half-dollar coin in his hand and gave him a ________. Running back upstairs, I felt excited but happy.

Downstairs, Jack sat quietly with tears falling down his face as he tightly held that coin. Finally ________ my parents, he said, “I thought nobody cared. For the last twenty years, I have been so ________. That is the first hug I have ever got. It’s hard to believe that somebody ________.” Jack’s life changed that night. When he left our house, he didn’t want to die but to ________. We never saw Jack again, ________ we received letters from him from time to time, letting us know that he was doing fine.

My life changed that night too, as I ________ the power of giving a hug, although it’s only a gift of fifty cents. ________ Jack left, my parents asked him why he had knocked on our door. Jack said that when he’d walked along the streets that rainy night, ________ and ready to die, he had noticed a sticker on the car. It read: SOMEBODY LOVES YOU.

A dragon boat race will be held in our city tomorrow. No matter what the result is, we are excited about the ________.

I was lucky enough to be chosen for the team of our university last year. Each of us had different levels of fitness (体质) at the beginning. When I could only lift 5 kilos for the ________ time, others could lift 30 already. We cheered ourselves up and always trained together because we were all in the same boat. We took ________ in our progress. Sometimes, we ________ each other with just eye contact (接触).

One day, after five hours of training, I was so ________ that I couldn’t go on. ________, I saw the teammates beside and in front still trying their best to row (划). I realized that if I stopped, it would be harder for our boat to go forward. So I had to keep going ________ we reached the end. Pulling together is the most treasured thing we have when we are in the dragon boat.

Tin loves the ________ of our team. As our coach, he strongly believes that everyone has their own talent. All their ability can be brought out as long as it is ________ in the right place. Actually, we could not afford to lose anyone of our team, or we won’t win. When we are rowing, we are a big ________.

Now we are ready for the coming dragon boat race.

【推荐3】I’m Cathy. This summer I went to Vietnam to do some volunteer work. I volunteered in an orphanage (孤儿院). There were about 220 children there. I ________ some babies and some younger children.

I liked helping out in the baby rooms. Those babies were so small and so lovely. At first I felt very sad to see those babies ________ they didn’t have a home. But after I saw that they were cared for well, I felt better. One of the babies was very special. She was only three months old and she was ________. She laughed as soon as she saw me.

The younger children were lovely, too. They liked to play with ________ and wanted more attention (关注). I ________ a five-year-old girl on the first day. She had nobody to talk or play with and seemed very ________ I tried to cheer her up and encourage (鼓励) her to ________ other children in different activities. By the end of my time there she had made some ________ and looked happier than before.

I loved to see the look of joy ________ all children’s faces and loved every minute there. All the children were so sad when I left, but I thought I was much sadder. I told them I would ________ them every summer.