All of us can give others a hand as long as we are willing to do so. Actually, there are some people doing kind things all the time. Spreading kindness, one good deed at a time, is Karla Gibson's mission. “I wish everyone could join me. There are so many  1  things going on in the world; I mean every day,” said Karla.

       Karla had the  2  and sense of duty in December of 2013. The single mother of three said she tended to get down around the holidays, so she  3  to do something to cheer others up. She started a Facebook page and  4  her good deeds each day, from feeding the homeless to giving Easter gifts to the incarcerated (囚犯). She hoped to  5  others.

     “We have to do something. Our  6   can make a difference in someone's day. You   7  know when someone might be having their worst day, and then something like buying them a coffee can change their whole attitude,” Karla  8  .

Karla's greatest  9 so far had to do with coffee. On September 27th, Karla's birthday, she went to her local Starbucks and gave the 10  $127 to pay for other people's drinks. She sat at the end of the drive-thru holding a  11  that read, “Have a great day.” She ended up  12  about 23 customers. “It was really fun. It was  13 one of the best birthdays ever,” she said. Her kindness that day didn't go  14 . One couple was so grateful that they surprised her with flowers and balloons to show their 15.

Karla's acts of kindness have become a 16 affair. Her two sons are always 17 others. “Sometimes I'll ask Kyle, ‘So, did you do anything extra nice today?' and he's like ‘Somebody 18 something in the hallway and I picked it up' or ‘I held the door for someone', that kind of thing,” said Karla.

      It's because of Mom that the boys think it's  19  to give a hand to others. “I think it's a great idea of hers. It's always nice to help someone out  20  they really need it,” said Karla's 15-year-old son Chad.

    Heaviest snow in half a century hit the south of the country. It snowed continuously for half a month, 1the railways, highways, and runways in the airfields. Ice wrapped and paralyzed（使瘫痪）the power and communication system. Many people were2in railway stations, bus stations and airports, and3in cars, buses and trains. Governments and people did everything they could to fight the snow4, resulting in the good news that no one was killed from5and hunger. Gradually, trapped people all went back home6. While fighting the snow, people forgot their7until a moving story of a swallow couple was widely8on the Internet.

    Being hungry and cold, the swallow couple tried to fly9people's home to warm themselves, but every house was closed10. They jumped and flapped their wings to11the attention of the people inside the house, but failed. The wife's body was12, she could not move any longer. The husband came near and wrapped his wife with his wings. He lost his13soon because of his opened wings. The couple died in the end.

    The next morning, the housemaster went to the balcony to14his flowers because of concern and saw a15swallow outside the window pane. Touching it, he found that they were two16together. Moved to tears, he took them in, giving them some17, but in vain. He found a small cardboard box, laid them in and18them in the back garden.

    In my hometown, in the countryside, a swallow family lives in the19of my house. I wonder if they will come back this spring20they did.

    When my wife and I decided to open our bookstore in 2012, we were a little 1.

    The challenges facing small bookstores were—and remain— 2. Aside from the obvious 3 in online selling, the increase in the popularity of e-books has had a（n）4 effect on independent providers.

    The question is why a new, small-scale（小规模的）provider would 5 enter such a（n）6 market?

    From a personal view, our reasoning was sound: we wanted to 7 our love of great books and reading for pleasure with as many 8 people as possible.

    Having done our homework, one thing became 9. In order for us to succeed, we would have to offer something that none of our larger competitors already provided.

    And so we 10 the Willoughby Book Club. We set up our website in the summer of 2012—and we haven't looked back.

    The idea of 11 is simple. We offer a range of book subscription gift packages, 12 in three-, six- and 12-month options. Our customers 13 a package, tell us a little about the person they're buying it for, and we use this information to 14 the（接收者）a hand-picked, gift-wrapped（包装的）book once a month.

    We also recently decided to 15 one new book to Book Aid International for every gift subscription sold. These books are sent out to sub-Saharan Africa, 16 the educational work there.

    Within four months of starting out, we won the Young Bookseller of the Year award at the 2013 Bookseller awards.

    Our brief 17 from new booksellers to award receivers has been challenging and 18. The biggest thing we've learned is that, despite the 19 facing independent providers, there is a 20 for then in the UK market. It's just a question of finding it.

    It is a blue, cotton shirt. The shirt belonged to my1David. On his birthday before he left college, his mother bought him the shirt.2I gave him free use of my bike, he let me wear the shirt, occasionally.

    We shared the shirt, and as days3, we shared more of our stories. David was in school by scholarships and grants (助学金). He4to keep his scholarships, because without even one of them, he would have to5and back on the farm. And in David's home, there was always only enough money to6the expense. His father died when he was twelve.

    7, David also talked about his father Usually it was late at night, in the dorm just before bed, and the 8always ended with tears that flowed from a river of memories and9: memories of a father suffering from 10when his son was just a teenager, longings for opportunities to cure his father's disease missed, because disease does not understand about the11between father and son. Nor do(es).12care.

    Time passed and we had to say13to each other. After lots of hugging, and words of thanks, we eventually 14. It was on my15trip upstairs to our dorm that I saw a package on my bed. I16the wrapping paper. It was the blue cotton shirt in a box with a card17to it, reading: Thomas, I can't thank you enough for your 18. This has been tough years and you have been19a friend. Thank you for listening. Thanks for everything. -- David

    I put aside the note, with20tears dropping on the shirt, I still have the shirt today, though it has faded and wrinkled with age.

    I began to do volunteer work in grade seven. I experienced many meaningful moments, and the most1ones were when I was volunteering as a swimming2at the YMCA in Brockton, Massachusetts. At first, I was a teacher's3."What are we going to do next? "When is the play time? These were just two of the questions I was often4there. On the day of my first class, I thought it was going to be a(n) 5 job. I 6that since I had taken swimming lessons from the age of five, I knew the7about swimming. After all, I was good at all8of swimming! 9, I soon found out there was more about teaching swimming than just knowing how to swim.

    During my first class, I assisted the swimming teacher in teaching a group of five-year-old kids. From that moment on, my10of teaching changed. Teaching is communicating. To instruct children, one has to make the lessons11 and interesting for them to learn. I had to learn many games that would help the children to 12as swimmers. Such as "Red Light, Green Light" and "Blast-Off." I must devote myself to teaching them and set a(n)13example to them.

    I expected to teach a group of children, but it14my students were the ones who taught me how to be a(n)15teacher. Not only was it challenging to learn the children's names, but it was also challenging to16to their many personalities and moods. There were many 17that went along with helping these children, among which was seeing a child18a task that he or she could not do before they met me.19, through the volunteer work, I learned that there would always be rewards by giving, and there would be20by making efforts.

Karen Loewe has been teaching seventh and eighth grade students for 22 years, 1 her most recent day was apparently the most 2 day of her educational career — she tried a new activity with her students in her class.

3establishing that her classroom was a safe space for 4, she asked her students to write about some emotional problems. Since they weren't required to put their names on the paper, they could describe their issues as 5as they wanted. The youngsters were then asked to take turns 6 what their classmates wrote, and all of them were given the opportunity to identify (表明）themselves as the person 7 for the writing. "Things like being left by their parents, death and  8 pets were written down. The kids who heard the. stories would cry because what they were hearing was 9 It was a difficult day, but I believe my kids will judge a little less, 10 a little more, and forgive a little faster," Loewe said.

Since she wrote about her 11 on social media, her post has been shared more than 500,000 times. 12 from all over the world have reached out to her about using similar activities in their own classrooms and her students have learned to 13 other people. "They don't casually 14 or talk down to each other anymore," she said. "They're not rude. It has completely 15 how they treat each other. I wish I would have done this years ago."