【推荐2】On Monday morning around 9:30 a. m, 28-year-old Ben Delahunty’s hiking partner put in a call to report that his friend was _______ under a large stone in the area of Lake Viviane in Washington.

He said his friend’s wrist was stuck by the stone and it was also _______ his legs, but they were not able to immediately move the boulder as it was _______ the size of a refrigerator. They initially felt really _______ on the large stone-but all of a sudden it started to _______ and he ended up underneath it.

The rescue proved _______ for officials. They were nearly on a cliff (悬) side and the stone was also being held in place by a tree. The scene presented a unique challenge of getting _______ capable of moving the stone as well as rescuers on the scene _______ .

The State Emergency Management requested a helicopter to help. Additionally, local fire departments were also _______ . The crews immediately found this rescue had more challenges. The officials needed ropes to safely ________ the hiker’s location as there was a risk of falling while ________ the stone.

However, due to challenging ________ conditions, including heavy winds, the first attempt to lift him into the helicopter was ________ . At 4:45 p. m. there was enough of a ________ in the weather to allow them to attempt another operation. ________ , they were successful and transported Mr. Delahunty to the hospital.

【推荐2】It took a trip around the world for MacKinnon to really appreciate how good her life is. After _________,the 36-year-old nurse decided that she wanted to _________ those she saw suffering in poverty.

“After traveling for a year _________ developing countries, I saw many children and adults didn't have _________ and suffered from a lot of diseases. So after getting home I _________ felt like I needed to do something,” said MacKinnon, who _________ for Ghana in March as part of a Windsor Roseland Rotary Club-affiliated crew of 16.

MacKinnon decided she would _________ shoes for people in Africa and began getting the _________ out among her family and friends. After she collected the shoes, a new problem arose. At first she thought $100 would be a good total. But when she _________ about shipping, she was told it would cost $2,000 or so. She contacted a number of__________ that do aid work in Africa. “No one really can help with shoes,” said MacKinnon.

Just then she had a __________ to meet with a priest from Ghana who heard about MacKinnon and the fact that she was a(n) __________ educator. “He wanted to __________ me just because diabetes rates in Ghana have risen. He __________ me to go to Ghana to provide some __________ at the same time. I told him about my __________ and he said that they would take the shoes,” said MacKinnon. He said his cousin__________ a shipping business and they would be able to take the shoes __________.

__________ she originally believed the shoes would be sent in December, she got a day's notice in October that they would have to be sent in a container almost__________.MacKinnon said she hoped she could set an example for others to get involved in helping the world's poor.

【推荐3】In Istanbul, a city of 15 million people, groups of volunteers build houses for the homeless cats. There, cats can find ___________ food and toys, blankets and boxes by kind people to keep them out of bad weather, and even a new owner if they’re ___________

It all started back in 2018, when an architect named Didem Gokgoz regularly ___________ through a park on her way to work—in which there were always homeless cats trying to find places to keep ___________ in winter. To help the cats, she placed several plastic boxes they could ___________ in around Mistik Park, but officials _______ those boxes.

“My friends and I went to see Mr. Mustafa Sarigul, the mayor. We ___________ him our designs, explained how it would work. Mr. Sarigul listened ___________ and said, ‘OK, do it; if we think it works, we will _______it.’” Gokgoz reported to a local newspaper.

After getting Mr. Sarigul’s ____________ that new houses would not be removed, Gokgoz built two houses in Mistik Park with her friends. The Mistik Park houses were a turning point, which ____________ parks around the city’s 39 districts to follow the ____________.

“It became something normal; individuals make requests for cat houses,” she said. “That was our main ________and we’ve reached it. Today, everybody ____________ that cats must have their own life spaces in the city. ”The cats too, ____________ to the houses in the parks, and moved to them in groups.

【推荐2】Several years ago there was a well-known television circus show. I _______ a Bengal tiger performance. Like the rest of the show, it was performed live before a large audience. One evening, the _______ went into the cage with several tigers to do a(n) _______ performance. The workers _______ the door behind him. The spotlights _______ the cage. the television cameras moved to _______ the performance from a closer place, and the audience watched in suspense (悬念) as the trainer _______ got the tigers to perform different activities. In the middle of the performance, the most _______ thing happened to the show; the lights went out! For twenty or thirty long, dark seconds the trainer was locked in with the tigers. In the darkness they could see him, but he could not see them. A(n)_______ and a small kitchen chair seemed to provide meager (不足的) __________ under the circumstances, but he __________ , and when the lights came on, he calmly __________ the performance.

In a(n) __________ afterward, he was asked by a reporter how he felt __________ that the tigers could see him but he could not see them. He first __________ the great fear of the situation, but __________ the fact that the tigers did not know that he could not see them. He said, “I just kept waving my stick to make a noise and talking to them until the lights came on. And they __________ knew I could not see them as well as they could see me.”

This experience gives us a vivid parable of human life. At some point in our lives, all of us face the __________ task of fighting tigers in the darkness. Some face it __________ or even cope daily with problems that are capable of __________ them. They cannot visualize their problems or understand them, but their problems seem to have begun attacking them. But what we should do is face it calmly.