【推荐1】As though things weren’t strange enough last spring, a wild turkey started showing up on my block. It’s usually one of the _______ crossroads in Minneapolis, but this turkey spends her days relaxing on the sidewalk as if she_______ here. More and more people came out to see her as _______got out about her. A young woman told me that they had _______ her Tina — Tina the Turkey.

Tina must have been _______eggs in front of the neighbor’s house. She spent every day in the_______spot in the yard, from time to time _______ her hips. One day, she crossed the parking lot with five other turkeys and_______ a two-and-a-half-foot-high concrete wall into the _______. I looked at the six wild turkeys ________ ! A wild turkey ________ its feathers; I thought it must have been Tina. This yard was her place now. There were many days when Tina would stand in the parking lot — a ________ place for a slow-moving bird — and ________ to move, blocking cars from coming or going.

This became a show with Tina in the________role until the day when a new character appeared on the stage: a strange-looking man in rags. He looked ________ . He was covered in dirt, his posture stiff. He ________ Tina and began to strike strange poses in a beautiful, dreamy dance. Tina ________ him in this dance. Together, they were the ________ of the movement. I’ll always remember this ________ when I think of the Coronavirus pandemic (冠状病毒大流行). Tina brought a lot of________to a community at a time when people desperately needed an escape.

【推荐2】Yang He, a 64-year-old man from Yichang, Hubei, has observed the changes in finless porpoises (江豚) population with his camera for six years. As a(n) _________ of the finless porpoise, he has taken more than 100,000 photos of them so far.

Every day, Yang wakes up early and drives to the _________ of the Yangtze River. He waits _________ there for hours for finless porpoises to capture (捕捉) their _________ with his camera. Yang _________ finless porpoises very well. They are just like his children. As soon as one of them comes out from the water, he can tell which family it _________ .

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so _________ to the Yangtze River that any change in the health of its living environment can support or _________ its survival. “When I was a teenager, I could see many finless porpoises. I would often observe them _________ boats in the river,” Yang says. “But __________ human activities, finless porpoises became fewer.”

However, the situation has changed as __________ measures have been taken to protect the species. In 2017, Yang was __________ enough to take a photo of a finless porpoise after a long waiting. In 2019, he was able to take more photos, including images of the porpoises __________ fish near the riverbank.

Thanks to his camera, he once discovered and __________ a porpoise whose tail became entangled (缠住) with a rope. “I will make it my life’s work to __________ this amazing creature.” Yang says.

【推荐3】My father collected birds’ eggshells—beautiful blue pieces of robin’s egg. All ten of us children _________, often finding shells beside the path where a bird cleaned her house after her young had hatched (孵化).

We’d _________ a find and carry it to the house on the tip of a finger. Then we’d lay it _________ on the bed of something soft Dad had prepared in a wide, _________ desk drawer (抽屉). Mamma and Dad would examine each shell carefully and help us _________ what kind of bird might have laid the egg. _________, we collected hundreds of shell pieces, so many that we had to prepare another drawer for our _________. Many of us also started our own _________.

My siblings and I loved _________, like seeing which one of us could swim the farthest underwater in the pond by our house. Of course we __________ a competition of who could find the rarest (最稀有的) eggshell. Many birds lay blue eggs, except the hummingbird. A tiny hummingbird’s shell was a sure __________!

When I became a grandmother, my granddaughter and I __________ the beloved family tradition. I value passing down this __________ connection to the natural world, and sharing with my granddaughter my __________ of being out on a summer’s day with my brothers and sisters to __________ for some of nature’s most beautiful creations.

【推荐1】Near the top, Peter and Michael had climbed onto a rock of the pine-covered mountainside to admire the view far below them. While climbing, Peter had _________ awkwardly to the ground, his leg bent at a painful angle beneath him. Unable to _________ , he was forced to wait where he was, wrapped in Michael’s jacket, while Michael _________ down the mountainside to fetch help.

Michael looked down on the mountainside from the window of the helicopter (直升机). He felt increasingly _________ , as it looked totally different from the _________ and the network of tiny paths was mostly _________ from view by the thick covering of pine trees. Worse still, the light was fading fast and a thick _________ of mist was starting to form. Eventually the _________ and the three mountain rescue workers in the helicopter agreed that they would have to go back and continue the search for Michael’s friend, Peter, on foot.

They had left the helicopter in the village and _________ a mountain rescue team of fifteen men. Michael felt scared for his friend’s __________ . Slowly they started searching the numerous paths for Peter. The only __________ were the footsteps and the noise on the walkie-talkies that the rescue workers carried to talk to each other. The mountainside was a __________ place after nightfall and gradually Michael started to __________ that they would never find Peter at all.

Suddenly Michael heard a voice come over one of the walkie-talkies, “We’ve got him. We’re taking him down. ” “I’m sorry,” said Michael to his friend the next day in the warm safety of the __________ , “I didn’t realize it would take so long to __________ you.”

【推荐1】It's unusual now to get into a new neighborhood and find yourself welcomed by the local people. Yet, Katie and Patrick Smith were _________ with truly open arms when they first set foot on Newton. Katie got pregnant before the _________ and within months of settling in, she gave birth to Lisa. _________ tests discovered Lisa was born deaf. The Smiths knew _________ Lisa was going to take some more work and _________.

The neighborhood was still _________ at Lisa's coming, but they realized what a（n） _________ situation it was for her parents. They wanted to make things _________   for the family. Learning sign language to help Lisa learn to _________ as she grew was a great idea. The neighbors agreed to __________ the job of mastering an entirely second language for their youngest member, although it was indeed __________. When 3-month-old Lisa learned at a center for the deaf, the 18 neighbors __________ a sign language learner, which would get all of them to help in Lisa's __________.

Now in the street or the grocery store, Lisa feels included every time a neighbor greeted her in a __________ language-she's a __________ of this community.

【推荐2】Michael J. Weirsky is a 54-year-old man who had been out of work for over a year. Despite the fact that he had been _________ and had failed to even get a(n) _________, Weirsky would buy two lottery tickets (彩票) every week.

One day, Weirsky stopped at a QuickChek gas station to_________ a lottery ticket. However, after Weirsky got the ticket, he _________ received a call and he put the ticket down. After he answered the call, Weirsky left the gas station without _________ that he didn’t have his ticket. When he finally got home, he realized that his lottery ticket was _________. He looked everywhere for it, but he didn’t _________ anything, making him very _________.

Eventually, Weirsky made the _________ to go back to the QuickChek. ____________, the store clerk told Weirsky that someone had actually found and ____________ a ticket. After making sure that Weirsky really was the person who lost the ticket, she ____________ it to him.

“I was very ____________ that there was an honest person out there because I thought it was gone,” Weirsky said. Two days later, Weirsky checked the lottery app on his phone. To his ____________, he actually had the winning lottery ticket. “I ____________ $273 million,” Weirsky told his mother. At that point, Weirsky was still completely in ____________. Then he left his home to scan the ticket at a store nearby.

Sure enough, the scan ____________ that Weirsky had the winning ticket to the $273 million lottery. After careful ____________, Weirsky decided to find the good man that returned his lottery ticket to him instead of taking it. “I’ve got to find him and ____________ him,” Weirsky said. “I am going to give him something, but I will keep that ____________,” he added.