【推荐1】My best friend Ally and I spare a few hours of our time every week as volunteers for Buddy Ball. We help disabled (残疾的）__________ do sports and make new friends.

So what does a buddy(伙伴) do? At the moment,I am a buddy for __________ eleven-year-old boy Tom. He is in a wheelchair and is a good basketball player, but just like any kid, he is very upset__________ he doesn’t do well in a game. He starts to cry and doesn’t want _________. Sometimes he even gives up playing. So, as his buddy, I encourage him. Now we__________ on our basketball skills together. It’s great to see his improvement and he doesn’t get upset so ___________.

Ally is a buddy for Clara, a kid with very few language skills. She also likes running away. When she is in a game.Ally learns how to work with Clara __________ to get her to join in the games . Now she loves baseball and has ___________ friends than she did before. Next week, she__________ in a team. Her parents are truly happy about Buddy Ball and they say that Clara is more confident (自信的) and sociable.

Buddy Ball is a great chance for everyone! Differences disappear(消失）. We think that we’re all just kids.And we all love sports. I love doing Buddy Ball because I know I’m doing__________for the kids!

Ten-year-old Orion Jean has always known that ________ is important. He often practiced it by volunteering with his family. Last year, after ________ the National Kindness Speech Contest, he became more active in it. Now he works to spread kindness everywhere through projects ________ help others. He calls his action the Race to Kindness.

After a teacher told him about the contest, Orion had only 24 hours to write, memorize ________ record his speech. In it, he talked about the importance of kindness. “Kindness is like ________ hugs around the world to those who need it.” Orion said. He encourages listeners to join him in “the race of kindness” ________ doing small, kind acts for others. Orion’s speech won the contest. He used his $500 prize ________ 619 toys for a local children’s hospital. After that, Orion wanted to make an even ________ influence. In charity he packed meal boxes for people in need including a kind message for each receiver.

Orion says, “If someone ________ kindly, it can make their day brighter and encourage that person to be kind to somebody ________. And then it just grows and makes the world a better place.”

Books have magical power. They contain knowledge and knowledge makes our human become wiser and stronger. Between their pages, readers can be transported to anywhere imaginable and become just about anyone ... or anytime.   ____________ , many children all over the world don’t have access to books.

For several years now, Maria Keller, a teenager from Minneapolis, Minnesota, has been trying to change that fact.

When she was 8 years old, Maria already loved reading. She also noticed that some of her classmates didn’t read as much as she did. When she asked her mother why that was, her mother said that they might not be able to ______books. Maria had never thought of this. She couldn’t believe that some children didn’t have bedtime stories read to them, and she became______to change this.

With her mother’s help. Maria created a non-profit organization which is dedicated（致力于）to collecting and distributing books to children_______

During the early stages of Read Indeed, Maria set the goal of collecting and distributing 1 million books by the time she was 18.

It didn’t take long to reach that goal. Up till now, she has collected over 2.4 million books and has shipped them to many states and countries around the world.

She said, “I cannot live without books. As I continue my mission（使命）. I have learned that the number of kids who have no books is in the hundreds of millions. So I just can’t______. even after reaching my original goal of 1 million books.”

She recently set a new goal:to distribute donations to kids in need in every state in the US, and every country in the world. She keeps records of her_______   on a large map at the warehouse（仓库）where her books are stored and sorted.

【推荐1】As Amy walked past the corner across the hall from her classroom. She ran into a tall boy running in the ______ direction.

“Watch it, girl!” the boy shouted. Then, the boy caught his right leg and ______ the way Amy limped(跛行) when she walked. At the end of the day, Amy was still ______ about the tall boy’s teasing(戏弄). Kids often teased her about her speech or her limping.

Back home that evening Amy was ______. Her mother knew that things were not going well at school. “There’s a Christmas Wish Contest on the radio station,” Amy’s mom announced. “Write a ______ to Father Christmas and you might win a prize.” A smile took hold of Amy ______ the idea first came to her. Amy started to write her letter. Here is Amy’s letter to Father Christmas:

My name is Amy. I am 9 years old. I have a problem at school. Can you help me? Kids laughs at me because of the way I walk and run and talk. I have cerebral palsy(大脑性瘫痪). I just want one ______ when no one laughs at me or makes fun of me.

Love,

Amy

When Amy’s letter arrived at the radio station, Mr. Tobin read it ______. He thought it would be good for the people to hear about this special girl and her unusual wish. Mr. Tobin called the local ______. The next day, a picture of Amy and her letter appeared in the newspaper. The story ______ quickly. Many people thanked Amy for being ______ enough to speak up. Linda, a sixth grader, sent this message:

“I’d like to be your friend.” she wrote, “ ______ would make fun of us, because, if they do, we will not even ______ them.”

Amy did get her wish of a special day ______ teasing. The mayor of the city said that by daring(敢于) to make such a simple ______, Amy taught a common lesson.

“Everyone,” said the mayor, “wants to be treated with respect, dignity and warmth.”

【推荐3】In 1982, when I was coaching the Raiders, the owner of the team talked with me about a possible _________ for Lyle Alzado. After watching him on tape, I didn’t think he was that good, but the owner felt we could make Lyle better by creating the right environment for him. We reached an _________.

That summer at training camp, Lyle was having a hard time. He had that look in his eyes that both young and old players get when things aren’t going well. One morning Lyle came into my office. Here was a huge man, with his head as _________ as it could go. We talked, or rather, I _________. The main point was that Lyle felt his career was over and wanted to retire. He felt _________ for disappointing us since we had just traded for him.

Lyle was always an emotional person. He _________ all that emotional energy with him when playing football. This is one of the reasons that he was a good player. Now he was in front of me, almost crying. I realized we had to keep that talk going. Then I went through my reasons why he should remain at the Raiders. At the end of our talk, I said, “You go out and play your very best, and let us _________ if you still have it. Personally, I think you do.”

In January 1984, Tampa Bay Stadium, Super Bowl XVIII, with less than two minutes remaining, we were _________ 38―9. We were the world champions of professional football. I saw Lyle, crying like a baby. I had to turn away quickly, _________ I would join him.

I remembered that morning in my office. If Lyle hadn’t given his career another shot, neither he nor the Raiders would have this __________. During that moment, I felt one of the greatest satisfactions of my coaching career.