【推荐2】I need to get some things to clean the house this weekend so I went to a local store. While walking around, I realized that I wasn’t smiling at anyone. That was usual for me. I almost always smile at strangers with the______ to make their day a little brighter. But in that special moment, I was thinking of what had______ me earlier in the day, not really in the mood(心情) to smile.

When I went to check out my things, I met with a very long line. People were buying Christmas gifts. To make the first line short, a second register(收银台) opened up. I turned to it ______. After a few moments, I began to notice that all the people before me had lots of things to check out. I wasn’t______ any longer, so I turned to the first line. After a short while, all the people in the second line checked out. I was still standing in the first line.

At last, it was my turn to check out. I found that the man behind the resister seemed to happy! He greeted me with a huge smile.

“It’s nice to see a smiling face ______ in this store,” I said to myself.

He replied, “I love to smile, because you never know what people are going through.” At that moment, he made me think of myself.

Something in me changed, and we began talking about kindness—about how it goes a long way. There was no one behind me, so we talked and laughed for a while. What a ______ it is, to be cheered up by this kind young man! I suddenly had all the time in the world.

【推荐3】It was a cold afternoon. Ginny and I were walking home after work when _______ a young man came.

“Do you want a hug (拥抱)? ” the young man asked Ginny. He held a _______ in his hand which read “Free Hugs”. I _______ and found there were other people with him.

They held their handmade signs high. The _______ was the same on all of them—“Free Hugs”.

“Sure!” Ginny was joyful and walked up to him.

She reached up, wrapped (用……围紧) _______ arms around his neck, pulled him down to her level and hugged him with all the love she _______ in her heart.

“Wow!” he cheered _______. “That is the best hug I’ve had all day!”

“I’m a hugger,” Ginny smiled at him.

He looked at me. “How about a _______?”

“You got it!” I _______ his open arms. We held briefly and left.

A young lady walked up and hugged Ginny. She turned ________ me, opened her arms and hugged me too.

I felt warm...the warmth filling my ________. Ginny and I were going through hard times.

We felt stressed and worried, but on that afternoon, for a moment, we ________ all of it. Sometimes, a ________ hug is all we need.

“‘Free Hugs’ was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives,” said the young man.

Ginny and I stepped back ________ watched them work their magic with those people who accepted them. They ________ hugs to anyone and everyone. It took a simple hug to make everything better.

An old man went to a doctor to ask some questions about his wife’s hearing He was ________ that she was going deaf (聋的), as she seemed to have a hard time hearing him speak. The doctor said he could do a ________ to find out how bad her hearing was.

“Stand ________ behind her and ask her a question. If she doesn’t ________, move a little closer and ask again. ________ doing this till (直到) you find out how far away she can hear. If she can’t hear you ntil you are quite close, she may have a ________ problem,” the doctor said.

The old man then went back home. He was quite excited to finally get a solution (解决办法) ________ this problem. He ________ that his wife was cooking dinner. While standing about 15 meters behind her, he asked. “What’s for dinner, dear?”   ________ he got no reply.

He moved closer, standing about 10 meters away from her. He asked her the ________ question, but she ________ did not answer him. He then moved to 5 meters away and asked her the question again--but once again, she said ________. Worrying what would happen next, he moved until he was just 1 meter away from her. He asked her ________ time, “What’s for dinner, dear?”

His wife ________ back at him, “ ________ did you ask me so many times? I’ve already (已经) told you! We’re having pizza for dinner!”

The Winning Team

Peter kept his eyes on the ground. He felt like there was a heavy weight on his shoulders as he walked home alone. It was _______ day of his life. His mind wouldn’t stop thinking about what happened only just an hour ago on the school _______ field. How could he have missed scoring that goal? He had let his whole team down. His fault made him _______. He was worried that his coach might kick him off the team.

As soon as he _______ through the door, his father asked, “What’s wrong, son?” Peter’s feelings were written all over his face. “I lost the game,” Peter replied. Then he went into his room _______ another word. Ten minutes later, Peter heard his father _______ on his bedroom door. He opened the door to let him in.

“Look, Peter. I don’t know what happened. But _______ it was, don’t be too hard on yourself.”

“I lost the game, Dad. I failed my team. They will probably never let me _______ again.”

“Soccer is about team effort. You are not the only _______ your team lost. If you have a good team, you should support each other. ________, winning or losing is only half the game. ________ half is learning how to communicate with your teammates and learning from your mistakes.”

Peter didn’t say ________, but his father’s words made him think carefully. ________, Peter went to soccer practice with courage rather than fear in his heart. “Hey, guys,” he said to his teammates. “I’m really sorry about yesterday. We were so close to winning that game. But I think ________ we continue to pull together, we are going to win the next one.”

To his surprise, his teammates all nodded in agreement. “Yeah,” they said, “don’t worry about it. It is ________ just one person’s fault. We should think about how we can do better next time.” Peter smiled. It made him feel lucky to know that he was on a winning team.