【推荐2】Why did the orangutan（猩猩）cross the road? That’s not the start of a joke, but a question being asked by scientists studying these brilliant apes.

Brent Loken, who runs a group called Integrated Conservation, used camera traps to research into orangutans. That group protects ________ animals in Borneo, the largest island in Asia. Camera traps work by taking a quick photo, when something moves in front of them. In Borneo, scientists use the photos to ________ what the rare orangutans do when people aren’t ________?

Scientists have been studying orangutans in the rainforests for decades. And their data had suggested that the animals almost always traveled through the ________. They were ________ seen walking on the forest floor. Yet when Loken looked at the photos from his team’s camera traps, he got surprised that the apes were walking on the ground, ________ using logging roads（运材道路）and paths built by people.

Were these animals simply ________ to walk on the ground because logging had left too many ________? Or did they ________ down logging roads as convenient shortcut? “More ________ is needed,”

People are removing trees for logging, plantations and the building of the cities. The new findings suggest orangutans might be able to learn to ________ with some of these changes in their ________. It doesn’t mean the animals can survive ________ forests. But it does suggest there might be ways to log forests in a way that won’t greatly ________ these apes.

Stephanie Spehar, primatologist at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, agrees. “The new study doesn’t mean they’re fine in areas with no trees,” she says. “Orangutans clearly need the forest to ________.

【推荐1】Acts of kindness are wonderful in so many ways. They_______the recipient and they're also a great reminder of all the_______acts that are taking place in the world. With the media full of COVID-19-related_______, these selfless acts are increasingly important. This was just the case when Steve Farmer shared a recent uplifting event on his Facebook page that_______him.

Farmer posted how he'd gone to work after the quarantine（隔离）was lifted and had forgotten his work pass._______, he had to lock his bike just outside an underground station next to his office. When he returned for his_________in the evening, he found just his lock that had been cut and the bike was missing.

The London worker thought he'd never_______ his bike again. However, as he went to ask at the station about any potential_______ that had filmed the robbery, a rail worker, Abdul Muneeb, rushed over to him and asked him to unlock the_______bike lock to prove he was the________. Farmer then explained how Muneeb said "I have your bike" with a________ he would never forget.

With the lock undone, Muneeb told Farmer how he'd________someone cutting the bike lock earlier on during his shift. He stopped the man from________the bike and then wheeled it to a safe place. Muneeb__________four hours after his shift had ended so he could see the bike returned to its rightful owner.

As Farmer quite rightly posted, "The world needs more Abduls, who is a legend（传奇）of a man and a________to his employer."

【推荐2】Emily Bhatnagar has always loved reading. “Growing up, I was really shy, so I always turned to _______,” she said. “They sort of became my best friends when I didn’t have one.”

In 2019, when Emily was in her second year of high school, her dad was diagnosed with cancer. The news was difficult for the family. Books became an even bigger _______ and she started thinking about kids in _______ situations.

When her father recovered, she came up with a plan to _______ others. “The idea came from just great thankfulness that the doctors were able to perform such a(n) _______,” she says. “But also a little _______ that there were kids who were fighting the same battle.”

Emily started a book drive (书籍捐赠活动) in her hometown. The goal was to _______ books and give them to _______ being treated for cancer in local hospitals. Since the start of the book drive, which she calls For Love & Buttercup, Emily has collected more than 10,000 books.

Emily had no idea how much _______ her work would get. She started by posting on social media, asking people in her area to ________. “I was expecting maybe two or three ________from neighbors,” she says. “But it ended up ________,” especially when news stations began reporting it.

Emily hopes to expand the project to ________ more kids one day. The ________ of the first time she visited children who’d ________ her books sticks with her. “It was the best day of my life,” she says. “I realized I wanted to do this type of work forever.”

【推荐3】I was always a reader. As a kid, I walked to the library several times a week and _________up late reading with a flashlight. I checked out so many books and returned them so _________ that the librarian once roared, “Don’t take home so many books _________ you’re not going to read them all.”

“But I did read them all,” I said.

I was an English major at university and went on to get a masters in literature When I created my online dating _________, I made my screen name(网名) – “missbibiliophile59595. Filling out the “favorite books” section, I let my taste in literature _________ for me: One Hundred Years of Solitude, A Moveable Feast, White Teeth, How to Read the Air.

_________, I realized it had been more than two years since I had read most of those _________. I had stopped reading gradually. I tried to _________my bookish persona (人设) .I joined book clubs that I never attended. I requested a library book everyone was reading, only to return it _________.

I still __________ the idea of reading. __________ I found a bookstore, I would linger__________   the shelves for hours as if __________ up with old friends, picking out books I had read and buying new ones. But it was __________ to me: I was becoming a person I did not know.

David was my first online __________. His profile (简介) said he liked to read, so I asked him about his last book. His face __________ and his fingers danced. David read much more than I did, about a book or two a week. We seemed a (n) __________ couple: me, a five-foot-three black woman__________   to a Caribbean mother, and him, a six foot-four white guy from Ohio. But as we got to know each other, our __________ faith and mutual love of books __________ our gaps.

【推荐3】Every day I take a walk along the road near my house. A few weeks ago I happened to________a nickel (镍币) on the road. I stepped on the________and kept walking. After a while I started thinking of my daughter who________stopped to pick up loose change. If she saw the nickel, she wouldn’t________it. I wanted to go back for it, but I thought it would be________if someone saw me picking up a nickel.

Later that day I told my daughter about the________. She didn’t say, “Don’t worry about it. It is only a nickel.”________she said, “I would have picked it up. When added up, they became something important.” She had forever taken advantage of________small opportunities.

Deep into the night, I was wondering that it didn’t take long for me to change my________from that nickel to those small opportunities that I had stepped on________passed by. How many opportunities had I lost because I thought they were not important?

The next morning I walked along the________road. I was determined to pick up that nickel if I saw it again. But it was________. Someone else usually takes advantage of the opportunities that others________to pass by. When we decided to take advantage of them, the opportunities were no longer there.

Since the day I walked past that nickel, I have paid much attention to small opportunities around me. I began to understand that a small opportunity can serve as the________of something bigger. What a great life________! And it only cost me a nickel.