【推荐1】Angela never liked seeing plastic waste washing up on the shore near her home. She had been _______to call on her community to clean it up, to change the _______, so she tried to set up an organization called Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea. Her_______ proved quite a success.

Here's how it _______. Volunteers help clean up 300 miles of shoreline. Then, _______only pasties from the beach cleanup, Angela and many other volunteers create sculptures of sea_______. She explains, “ I mean to create sculptures that make people take a look and_______, ‘How can there be this much waste on the beach ?’ _________, these sculptures will make people consider what they have_______in their daily life and realize how so much plastic ends up in the oceans.” So far, about 10, 000__________volunteers have collected 21 tons of waste and helped create more than 70 works of art. Four traveling__________have demonstrated.the art works in 18 places of the country. One of the sculptures, Turtle Ocean, received a__________honor. It was admitted into the National Museum.

The Washed Ashore team is now working on sculptures of a dolphin, with__________for more sculptures. “ Until we __________ plastic on the beach, the work will continue. These sculptures are a(n)__________ for clean oceans.” Angela says seriously.

【推荐2】In this age of environmental crises, perhaps it comes no surprise that Stella Bowles found-one in her own backyard What is unique is her _________ to do something about it.

The 100-kilometre LaHave River passes through Stella’s community of Upper LaHave. Back in 2015, the pretty waterway was considered by many locals _________ to swim in, but Stella wanted to know why. The then 11-year-old was _________ to learn what was causing the pollution: human waste being cast _________ into the water by hundreds of her neighbors.

“I was _________ ,” Stella says, when she found out 600 homes were using straight-pipes to pump waste from toilet to river without any filtration(过滤). She decided to _________ the problem for her Grade 6 science project With the help of a retired local physician, Stella learned how to _________ the water in the LaHave Unfortunately, her results showed contamination(污染)way above Health Canada guidelines.   _________ , locals were boating on the river without knowing they were facing the potential danger of infection.

Stella began to raise _________ about the LaHave’s contamination problem. Soon she was making local headlines and trying to convince politicians. Finally, in spring 2017, all levels of governments __________ to remove all straight-pipes in Nova Scotia by 2023.

The LaHave __________ isn’t safe for swimming, but it should be safe for the sixth graders of Upper LaHave’s future. Stella, now 14, continues to press for more rigid rules to protect the river and this year travelled around her province to teach other kids how to test their local waterways and __________ for better care

In August, thanks to her excellent work, Stella __________ an International Eco-Hero Award, which __________ the efforts of environmental youth activists. “I never thought I’d be where I am today __________ a science project,” says Stella, who is considering a career in environmental law.

【推荐1】I went with some colleagues for dinner in a very popular local restaurant. It was ________ business time and the restaurant was crowded.

As we were waiting for a table, we heard a crash when a cleaning boy________the floor with all the plates he was carrying. There was ________ and no one was saying or doing anything. In a flash I remembered my ________ many years ago. At one time, I ________ when I was on business. I had a high fever but luckily was taken care of by two ________. Then this was my chance to ________ it forward.

I had learned some first-aid lessons before, so I ran to the boy’s side________, turned him on his back and screamed for someone to ________ a hot drink. The boy soon opened his eyes,________ what had happened. And so I ________ him by saying it was OK. I held the warm drink to his mouth till he________ it. At that time the manager arrived, who was kind enough to look after the boy. By the time all this was over, we hadn’t________anything yet, and we decided to go home.

I slowly walked home, not hungry any more, feeling________for the opportunity to pay forward the _______ I had received many years ago.

【推荐3】Madison Williams was studying in her bedroom in Dublin, Ohio, in August 2016 when the door burst open. It was her mother Leigh Williams, with a(an) _________ story: A little boy fell into a drain and no one can _________ him. Then she made this _________ of her 13-year-old daughter: “Can you help?”

Madison and Leigh ran to a neighbor’s yard, where they found the boy’s _________ mother and other adults _________ a manhole cover (下水道井盖). Its diameter was _________ wider than a basketball. The boy, aged only two, had _________ the drain and was drowning in the water.

Madison quickly examined the situation. She was the only one who could _________ through the small hole. Without _________, she told the adults to lower her in. Leigh and others held her waist and __________. Madison shook her arms and shoulders __________ she got through the hole into the dark and smelly drain. In the process her left wrist was __________. Rather than tend to her injury, Madison __________ the surface of the water, hoping to __________ the boy. Every once in a while, she could see his little __________ but failed to grasp his foot. Minutes ticked by before she saw the outline of his foot again. Madison shot her good hand out and grabbed the foot __________. Then both of them were lifted out.

But the boy wasn’t out of trouble. He had been short of oxygen that he wasn’t __________. Lying on the ground unconscious, he was in urgent need of first aid. After calling for emergency services, an adult cleared his airway and placed him on his side, and another adult __________ him firmly on his back until the boy coughed up fluids. Then they were rushed to the hospital.

It took Madison longer to recover than the boy, who returned home soon. She __________, stayed there for her injury, experiencing months of physical treatment for her wrist. “Madison’s a heroine,” the boy’s mother said. “What other teenage girls will __________ to go into a drain?”