【推荐1】In order to save the environment, everybody has a role to play. The perfect _________ of someone who knows this well enough is a 70-year-old grandmother, Pat Smith. _________with bags, rubber gloves and a rubbish picker, she spent an entire year _________ rubbish and caring for 52 British beaches after she made it her 2018 New Year’s resolution to ___________ one beach each week. She_________spent her Christmas Day picking up plastic bottles on Trevone Beach.

During her year-long cleanup, Smith was often _________ by other volunteers, including her grandchildren, who were determined to help her tidy up beach rubbish. However, some people often _______ Smith for doing community service, and to this, she said: “people don’t understand I’ve been doing this _______. We should all take responsibility for picking up the rubbish as well as _______ we don’t drop rubbish in the first place.”

The environmentally conscious granny has no intention of __________ just because 2018 was over. “Cleaning 52 beaches in 2018 was my New Year’s Resolution and it’s finally __________, ”said Smith. “I won’t stop, as our beaches __________ me. I’m driven to try and protect our ________ for my children and grand children and I will ________ doing everything in my power to achieve that. I hope my efforts will help people be more ________of their plastic consumption and recycling habits.”

【推荐2】It was a sunny weekend. I had planned to go mountain climbing in the suburbs with Daniel. However, a sudden heavy rain that morning disrupted my plan. Looking out of the window, I couldn’t help feeling a little _________ as the rain poured down.

However, Daniel _________ , “Since we can’t go mountain climbing, why don’t we go to an old _________ in the city? I heard there are many interesting shops and delicious food there.” I thought it was a good idea and _________. We braved the heavy rain and arrived at the old neighborhood. Although the sky was still _________, the old buildings and unique atmosphere of the neighborhood attracted us.

We walked through the narrow streets and admired the _________ shops to both sides. In one coffee shop, we tasted the delicious coffee. _________ a strange figure walked into the coffee shop. He looked _________, whose eyes seemed to be looking for something. Out of _________, we took the __________ to talk to him. It turned out that he was a photographer and he had just lost an important memory card which contained his works of many years. He had been searching for it for a long time, but still couldn’t find it. After hearing __________ his troubles, we decided to help him. We searched around, but in vain. Just when we were about to give up, a little kid __________ to us with a memory card and said he had found it by the roadside. We excitedly took the memory card and after checking it was __________, we gave it back to the photographer. The photographer looked at us gratefully with tears in his eyes. We felt happy that we could help him and it added more meaning __________ this unexpected trip.

This experience made me realize that life always has unexpected surprise and twists. Sometimes, __________ your plan is not a bad thing and it may bring you a more wonderful experience.

【推荐3】One day, a kind woman happened to say something that hurt her best friend of many years. She ______ immediately and would do anything to take the words back. What she said hurt the friend so ______ that this good woman herself was hurt for the ______ she caused. In an effort to undo what she had done, she went to an older, wiser woman in the village, explained her ______, and asked for advice.

Listening to her, the older woman sensed the younger woman’s worry and knew she must ______ her. She also knew she could never ______ her pain, but she could teach. She knew the result would only ______ the character of the younger woman. She said, “Tonight, ______ your best feather pillow and put a single feather on the ______ of each house in town before the sun rises.”

The young woman hurried home to prepare for it, ______ the feather pillow was dear to her. ______, she worked alone in the cold. Finally the sky was getting ______. She placed the last feather on the step of the last house. Just as the run rose, she ______ to the older woman.

“Now,” said the wise woman,” go back and ______ your pillow with the feathers you have put on the steps. ______ everything will be as it was before.”

“You know that’s impossible! The wind ______ away each feather as fast as I placed them on the steps!” The young woman was surprised.

“That’s ______,” said the older woman. “Never forget. Each of your ______ is like a feather in the wind. Once spoken, no matter how much of your ______, no matter how heartfelt or sincere, can never return them to your ______. Choose your words well and, most of all, guard them in the presence of those you love.”

【推荐1】After a week-long break, students at Amsterdam High School returned to school. What waited for them made them really _______. On each of the 1,200 students’ lockers was a _______, which brought lots of happiness to them. The first thing that the students _______ was all of the colors and then they started reading them and knew they were_______.

Lori Stachnik, whose 15-year-old son is a student in this school, was the first to come up with the idea. She read a _______ a few years ago about a local teenage schoolgirl who left inspirational notes for her _______ in her class. Then, Stachnik was _______ to do the same at her son’s high school.

Stachnik _______ about 1,200 post-it notes in a grocery store and began the difficult _______ of finding hundreds of quotes. She __________ the quotes on the Internet for several days, which should be something __________, or something in the nature of good suggestions. She believed that those might cheer students up, especially the students who have gone through__________.

She did not want other people to __________ the notes using a photocopier. __________ , she spent seven days writing all 1,200 notes herself. Last Friday, she stuck the notes on the lockers. She __________ thought doing so might influence one or two kids, or even __________ the way they were thinking. Finally, they might be more confident about themselves and more positive about their future.

Some students had __________ the notes they received and put them in their books. Some even had taken them to their __________ and read them to their family. Stachnik __________ there is a snowball effect. And she hopes that people would also do something __________ for students in their own communities.