【推荐1】Eradajere Oleita, a 26-year-old student in Detroit, launched the Chip Bag Project. She thinks it may be a partial solution to our country’s lasting problems: _________ and poverty. She is asking a favor of local snack lovers: Rather than _________ your empty chip bags, donate them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the_________.

Chip eaters drop off their empty bags at two _________ in Detroit, a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers _________ them. After they sanitize(消毒)the chip bags, they _________ them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use padding(衬料)from old coats to line the insides.

It takes about four hours to _________ a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or _________ size. The result is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and _________, Oleita told the Detroit News.

Sure, it would be __________ to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the __________ for Oleita. “We are __________ to making an impact not only socially, but __________,” she says.

There’s the symbolism of saving bags that would __________ land in the rubbish can and using them to help the homeless. “I think it’s time to show connections between all the __________,” says Oleita.

【推荐2】I had always hoped to travel to Hawaii but couldn’t afford it. By chance, a friend _________ “pet sitting”, a service to help look after pets when owners are away from homes. I quickly began _________ opportunities on a pet sitting website. There were only a couple of sits available, but I tried my luck, sent an _________, waited a few days and _________ landed a three-month job in a beautiful house.

A month into my sit. I had explored the _________ pretty well. Impressed by such a beautiful island, I decided to start a travel blog to share the beautiful beaches. _________, for every photo of a beautiful beach there were 10 photos of rubbish. It was not _________ for me to ignore (忽视) the plastic pollution _________. So I began to share photos of the rubbish I _________ and how much I could __________ on my daily dog walks. The blog was used to raise __________ and highlight plastic-free travel.

I changed my way of living and even my __________ to adapt to more organic foods without plastic packaging. It’s been over three years now and I __________ to do what I can.

This journey has led me to some amazing __________ polluted places, and I have even organized some country-wide beach clean-up activities. My __________ now is to keep ongoing.

【推荐1】Alexis, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad's car. She let her eyes lazily scan the landscape for wildlife. Then a deer came into _________ about 200 yards in front of them. It was a male deer with _________ antlers (角)on each side of its head.

As the car moved closer, Alexis heard a _________ and then saw the deer _________ a woman. Sue had been out for her morning run. The deer followed her and edged _________. “I knew I was in trouble, ” Sue says. She went to pick up a stick for _________, and the deer _________. It lifted her with its antlers and _________ her into the air. Sue could feel blood flew down her leg.

When Alexis and her father _________, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman's __________ eyes, and __________ her father had even stopped the car, the teenager __________ quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. “I was kicking it to get its __________,” she says. Then her father followed and pushed the deer away from the women.

Alexis helped Sue into the car. Then she heard her father shout __________ . He had been knocked to the ground. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car to beat the deer's head and neck, but the blows didn't __________ it away. “I was losing faith,” she says. “A couple more __________, Alexis,” said her father. “You can do it. ”Turning the hammer around, Alexis __________ her eyes and beat the deer's neck with all her __________. When she opened her eyes, the deer was running away. Alexis got in the driver's seat and __________ toward the nearest hospital. After Sue was treated, she __________ thanked her rescuers.

【推荐2】Exploring the peaks of the world’s highest mountains has become almost second nature for Poorna and Kavya. It has ________ Kavya to NASA where her research has included designing space suits, and Poorna to the top of Mount Everest when in 2014, she became the youngest ever woman to ________ the top of the world’s highest mountain at 13.

Now, these two women have channeled their ________ spirit into climbing some of the world’s most difficult mountains as part of their campaign, Project Shakthi, which ________ money to fund girls’ education. At the end of August, they climbed a 6,012m mountain peak in Ladakh, India — one previously unmapped and ________ by human expeditions (探险队).

Never climbed before, the mountain ________ difficult challenges for even an experienced mountaineer like Poorna, for there were neither tracks to follow nor ________ from previous climbers to stick to. “We have to prepare ourselves ________ to accept everything,” Poorna said. “So it’s completely different and it’s given me so much knowledge to ________ others.”

Complex and changeable weather conditions often ________ the difficulties of climbing a mountain peak. The night when they were to set out, it ________, which meant avalanche (雪崩) conditions off the mountain. They had to ________ come back as a team, make a safety call and then prepare for the next day. So it was very challenging.

And for a relatively ________ climber like Kavya, though she had trained hard, the challenges were even greater.

“When we were in the ________ at night, we would talk about: ‘What if, you know, we won’t be able to make it to the peak?” Kavya says. “But then we would always like to ________ each other that, you know, let’s just take it one step at a time.”

【推荐3】Shortly after two officers were killed in the line of duty recently, this little young black man came knocking on my patrol (巡逻) car window with his mother by his side.

Maybe he saw that something was _______ heavily on my mind at the time or maybe he looked at Police Officers as people to _______ I will never know. I _______ my window and smiled and said, “What’s up, little man?” I will never forget the biggest _______ he had and him _______ on his toes in excitement asking. “Can I take a picture with you?”

I _______, “With me?” He again said, “Can I take a picture with you?” I was _______ This little man had just _______ my world from a moment of sadness to a moment of happiness.

I told him, “I would be honored, and I’ll do one _______ I’ll let you wear my patrol sunglasses and we can both be __________ for a moment.” I picked him up, and he wasn’t __________ afraid. The young African American boy was not afraid of the Police __________ he doesn’t look at us with   ________ or disappointment. Because he is too __________ to see hate, racism, or that some police can be bad and __________ their badge (徽章）.

Touched, his mother was __________ while taking pictures for both of us. Not because of what a __________ officer I was, but I would like to think because of the bravery and __________ that her son was showing __________ how many conflicts there were between ordinary black people and the police.

Today, a little man showed sympathy to me after the tragic day we __________ two of my dearest