【推荐2】Black cats may have the reputation for being bad luck. However, Piran helped save his owner's _______.

Piran _______ with an 83-year-old Bodmin woman in a rural area of Cornwall for many years. When the old woman went missing, her neighbors set about _______ the nearby countryside, but she was nowhere to be found until the searchers _______ Piran, meowing (喵喵叫) loudly by a cornfield gate.

"The cat is very _______ to her, and he was going back and forth in the gateway and meowing, so I decided to go and search the _______," searcher Tamar Longmuir said.

With the crop standing seven feet tall, the walking was _______. Carefully, Longmuir searched the field, calling out her neighbor's name. She had just reached the bottom of the field when she _______ heard a faint response. Then she _______ the elderly woman was lying in a stream below the field and couldn't ________.

Longmuir made her way down to ________ the situation, and thankfully, learned her neighbor had no major ________.

After a two-hour effort by almost 25 emergency workers, the woman was sent to a nearby hospital for ________.

Indeed, had Piran not sounded the alarm, the ________ might have been vastly different. ________ for Piran in aid of his owner, the neighbors are coming in to take care of him.

【推荐1】Students in Western Pennsylvania had a snow day on Monday. However, instead of _________ home or meeting for an indoor workout, these teens on a high school football team were _________ by their coach to get outside and help their _________.

Brian DeLallo, a teacher who doubles as the head football coach at Bethel Park High School near Pittsburgh, took to Twitter to _________ that Monday’s weightlifting session in the gym was cancelled, but he had an _________ assignment for the young men.

“Due to the expected _________ weather, Monday’s weightlifting workout has been cancelled. Find an elderly or disabled neighbor and _________ their driveway…that’s our Monday workout.” He also told the boys not to accept any _________.

By mid-morning 27 of the athletes were _________ photos to the coach, with some saying they were on their 6th driveway. One of the students even __________ that his elderly neighbors were not accepting their non-payment requirement, __________ a payment.

“What better __________ than clearing driveways,” said Braedon Del Duca, a junior on the team, who went from house to house offering their __________ with teammate Colton Pfeuffer. “It’s just __________ getting out here, helping out the __________, just helping out others that need help,” Pfeuffer said. “We’d love to do it for everybody that we can,” Del Duca agreed.

【推荐3】The Cajun Navy is a group of volunteer small boat owners who help people during bad storms and floods. The group _________ volunteering during Hurricane Katrina. During that storm alone, they _________ more than 10, 000 people from flooded homes and rooftops! Since then, they have saved more lives around the US! The Cajun Navy has gone to save during many of the worst _________ that hit the US, such as Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Florence.

Using their _________, they always go into places where people and animals are trapped by floodwaters. They bring their small boats and great skills to find those who are _________ and then they _________ them to safety.

Many of the volunteers are fishermen and _________ boat pilots. They, who come from the Southeast United States, are experienced in _________ through a series of swamps (沼泽) and narrow waterways. The skills they have help them find the way around _________ floodwaters.

A reporter __________ his feelings and praised them after the Cajun Navy stepped in to help during bad flooding in Louisiana, “The __________ were volunteers from the Cajun Navy, who had no ranks, no uniforms, no __________ medals awarded to them for acts of bravery. It was a selfless heart, not a commanding officer, that called them into risky __________ to carry endangered citizens to higher and safer ground.”

The Cajun Navy is a great example of character in action. They often put themselves in danger to __________ others. And they do not do it for money or attention, but __________ because they can help and they want to help.