【推荐2】Mattew Shifrin has been building with Legos (乐高积木) since he was 5 with the help of his friends. When he turned 13, he got a _______ birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel. It was an 843-piece Middle Eastern Lego palace. And with it were_______that Finkel made specially for it. Finkel_______a unique name for every one of the more than 800 pieces in the   palace set. Then she spent countless hours_______ building instructions in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to_______ them all together.

His mind was blown. As a_______person, Shifrin had never before been able to complete a Lego set_______. Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same_______ . Shifrin says, ''For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_______for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks ________ me to see things that are ________ to explore by touch.'' For years after that incredible Lego________ , he together with Finkel created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, all ________ on a website they created, ''Lego for the Blind.''

Shifrin began________the Lego company several years ago to discuss his work, but it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the________person. His years-long efforts________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their________. It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin's________ – or without his determination.

He just ________ Finkel had been here to see it. ''I think she'd be very glad that we came this ________,'' Shifrin said.

【推荐3】I stood in my office, surrounded by hundreds of books! I hadn’t expected my book drive (捐书活动) to be of so much ______. Surely, with my kind and helpful coworkers, I shouldn’t have been so ______.

One morning a year ago, I suddenly lost consciousness (意识) and ______ myself in hospital after coming to myself. Cancer ran into my life. Considering I must be very ______, my friends offered support, especially Kathy. She would take meals to me. We grew ______. During one chat, I learned Kathy’s mom died of cancer when she was young and Kathy still ______ her every day. I wished to do something to ______ Kathy’s kindness. But I didn’t have the ______ to do so.

After 13 rounds of ______,my health returned. Before getting sick, I loved organizing activities for some free libraries, where people could _____   books to those in need. Now that I ______, I would do it again. That was how the book drive ______. I encouraged my coworkers to bring me children’s books. They responded so ______. My office was crowded with books soon.

I knew Kathy’s son was a(n) ______ of the Harry Potter series. ______, after finding a copy, I gave it to Kathy. When opening it, her eyes were full of excitement. Her son told me, “You won’t ______ it! This is exactly the book my mother bought me! There are the words written by her: ‘To Kathy, Happy Birthday!’” Her son added that he ______ it. But it had been lost ______ several times of moving house, which was really a(n) _____ . But somehow, here it was. Out of hundreds of books from countless families, this long -lost treasure had made it back into the ______ hands.

【推荐1】Natalie and Callie, both 13 years old, started raising monarch butterflies(帝王蝶) for fun in2020.

But after realizing the monarchs were an endangered species, their_______soon turned into a serious mission.

They learned that the population of monarch butterflies had_______since the early 1990s, due to habitat _______and widespread use of chemicals(化学药物), which made the milkweeds(马利筋草) the butterflies_______ for their main diet dangerous to eat.

So the girls teamed up with a national nonprofit group to plant a native garden_______for the monarchs. The garden grew organic milkweeds that_______and kept the butterflies. To help_______the locals to sustain(维持) the monarch population, they created an exhibition about the monarchs in the local library. They also wanted to put up an educational sign in town, but it_______a lot. To cover the expense, they set up a stand at the Farmers Market to sell their_______milkweeds for people to plant. Although the fundraising days were long, they finally________in earning enough money with their hard work and people’s support.

The team has won the Silver Award for their________of taking care of butterflies, but they are not________with their work. ” Our next step is to cut down on the use of________to guarantee a safe environment for the monarchs,“ said Natalie. In the award ceremony, their teacher Brian________, ‘‘I am so proud of them for their constant________’’.

【推荐2】It was a rainy day. It had stopped raining but the ground was still wet. I was in the ______ with my friend, and ahead of us was a（n）______ old man, with a walking stick in his hand. It seemed that he was having a hard time standing up. I have always had a ______ with old people; they break my heart, ______ the ones begging on the streets, or ______ flowers or gum. I feel sad for them, who have to be on the streets ______ being taken care of by their families or the ______ . There was a car in front of us before we reached him, and I had prepared some money to give him. I was looking at the car in front of us. The driver ______ a dollar bill out of the window, and it fell on the ______ in a wet spot.

The old man looked at the bill with a sad look； it would take him a（n） _______   effort to pick it up because he could _______ stand, so I opened the car door and ran to him as he was _______ to pick it up. I took it, _______ it on my jeans, gave it to him and gave him the money I had prepared for him. The look in his eyes _______ he saw me doing this was the most _______ look anyone had ever given me; clearly people had _______ him badly. He started to thank me for what I had done. I couldn't look him in the _______ how can someone so _______ be left on the streets？ I can't really explain how overwhelmed （难以承受） I felt.

Helping him out really made his day, but what he didn't know was that he had _______ me in a way he could never imagine. I still think about him very often, and I just _______ that everyone will look at old people the way I do.