Tried and exhausted, I came back home from work. I found the front door was_______open and I felt a little scared. Did I carelessly forget to lock it after I left? I looked around_______to see what could be_______Why would someone come into my home only to_______with nothing? After searching every inch, I realized that everything was_______I had left it.                 

No_______cushions, broken lamps, or_______emptied out on the carpet. Feeling much _______I looked out my oversized window of my dinning room at Ms. Sullivan’s house. Jimmy, the little boy next door was visiting her. Jimmy cared a lot about Ms. Sullivan and was very concerned with her health after she became ill. She used to_______Jimmy when he was just a baby.

Forgetting about the________with my front door, I decided to walk over to Ms. Sullivan’s house to see how she was________With a warm hello, she invited me into her home. I noticed twelve beautiful roses delicately presented on the table next to her bed. They looked exactly like the________on my dinning room table in front of my oversized window. With a pleasant smile, she told me Jimmy brought them to her as a “get-well gift”. Suddenly Jimmy________out of his seat in an instant and said that he had to go home for a while to do some homework but he promised to be back to________up on Ms. Sullivan.

Talking for a while, Ms. Sullivan began to get very tired so I gave her my phone number in case she________needed help, and left her home. I thought about how________it was for little Jimmy to be so concerned for Ms. Sullivan. I got home, laughing at how________I was that morning about what had happened over________I walked passed the dinning room and noticed my roses_________ in the vase were missing. Without a second ________, I glanced out the window at Ms. Sullivan’s house and with a smile on my face I turned off the light in the room and went to sleep.

The next morning my door bell rang. I opened the door Jimmy was there…

【推荐2】Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have got something about the _________ to two of her country’s problems: garbage and poverty. It is called the Chip (薯片) Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalist is asking a _________ of local snack lovers: Rather than throw empty chip bags into garbage cans, _________ them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the _________.

Chip eaters _________ their empty bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers _________ them. After they disinfect (消毒) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open, _________ them flat, and iron them together. Then they use cotton and liners (衬层) from old coats to line the insides. It takes about four hours to _________ a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, _________ on whether they’re single-serve or family size.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has __________ 110 sleeping bags. Sure, it would be __________ to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. However, that’s only half the __________ for Oleita. “We aim to make a(n) __________ not only socially, but environmentally,” said Oleita. It is worth __________ chip bags and using them to help the homeless. __________, they would land in the garbage.

【推荐2】To Huang Qin, a caregiver for the elderly, having a mastery of skills is not enough to become a good caregiver—one also needs to have a passion for the job and the ability to _________.

Huang started her_________as a caregiver at the No. 2 Shanghai Social Welfare House in 1992. She _________her second day at work: a resident _________ seizures (癫痫) and hit his head against the corner of a table. “I was so _________that I just froze,” she says. “Our team leader later told me about some of the early warning_________ that led to the occurrence of the seizure. At that moment I understood being a caregiver is also about having _________ skills.”

Her _________ soon led her to invent care­giving _________ that have made the lives of the elderly in her care better. One of the first people she__________was an 89-­year-­old resident. Because of a stroke, she was never able to __________her fingers by herself and therefore, was __________ getting skin infections on her hand whenever the weather was wet.

Inspired by a claw­like weapon she__________ while watching a film, Huang used elastic (有弹性的) cotton cloth to __________a tool, allowing the patient to keep her hands unclenched (松开). These innovations greatly improve the __________ of life for the seniors.

【推荐3】Susannah was a shy but clever girl. She had worn _________ for as long as she could remember. And again, for as long as she could remember, some of her classmates had always made fun of her. The worst thing was that Lewis _________ her “Four Eyes”. She acted like she didn’t _________, but in fact Susannah couldn’t stand it.

One day, the class went on a school outing to _________ some famous caves. The children were walking towards the caves, while Lewis _________. While falling, he got _________ of Susannah, who walked next to him, and both _________ down the hole.

They landed in a dark cave. Susannah and Lewis shouted for _________, but no one came. The next morning they still hadn’t been found and Lewis continued shouting for help, but no_________and he started feeling __________.

It must have been noontime, because Susannah __________ that the ray of light just landed on the floor in front of her. __________, she took a piece of wood that had fallen into the cave, and, using her glasses as a magnifying (放大) glass, she focused the ray of light onto the __________. Now they had a torch (火把). Lewis watched with surprise and __________ and off they went to explore the cave.

It took them some time, and they had to burn quite a few torches, but finally they found a way out. On top of hugs and cries of __________, Lewis gave Susannah his heartfelt thanks.