【推荐2】Sometimes, animals act just as humans do. Officer Burgess found a mother duck pecking (啄) on his car. He figured she just wanted ________. But the pecking continued.

Officer Burgess grew ________when the duck ignored the food he threw out of the window. Instead, the duck________away just a bit, then stopped, looked back, and returned to the ________for some more pecking and screaming.

After the duck’s doing so for a second time, Officer Burgess ________got out of his car to follow the duck. But he wasn’t prepared for what he was about to ________!

“She led me about 100 yards away to this grassy________near a lake where I saw one of her ________all tangled up (缠住) in some string. His little feet were ________” the officer explained. “She led me straight to him.”

Officer Burgess thought the mother duck might ________him if he tried to touch her baby, so he________the animal rescue center for help. The rescue group didn’t have any staff readily_______to assist, but a policewoman, Officer Cecilia Charron, decided she’d lend a ________.

When Officer Charron arrived, she went straight to work on carefully ________the little one. “The mother duck just________，like she knew. It was amazing,” Officer Burgess recalled. Once freed, the baby ran to its mama, and they safely________away.

It was an unbelievable ________for the shocked officers, and Officer Charron ________ teared up a bit.

Officer Burgess said, “I honestly don’t know why I decided to _______her, but I did. It makes me wonder-do they know to ________humans when they need help?”

【推荐1】A Ghanaian man in Africa, who once made glass jewelry (珠宝), is now focusing on more than _________. The glass artist is reducing glass waste and helping his country both economically and _________.

Tetteh got to _________ the art of glass blowing (吹制) during a visit to Europe in 2012, then he became the nation’s only professional glass blower. Later, the beautifully-colored, artistic flower holders or water carriers really _________ him.

Why not _________ more Ghanaian people to make art pieces from glass? With efforts, Tetteh set up his own workplaces in Ghana where, every day, they _________ broken glass from waste centers and turns it into _________ for family use and decoration. Largely _________, after all, Ghana buys about $300 million yearly worth of glass and pottery from other countries.

Tetteh melts the _________ glass from old televisions or bottles and turns the old glass into hot liquid. Using a long pole to remove a ball of melted glass, he starts working to ____________ the glass into colorful items people can use again. Actually, In the past ten years, Tetteh’s ____________ has not only saved the country a lot of money but got the country ____________.

Tetteh, now 44, loves what he is doing. “Glass is my ____________, but Ghana is my heart,” he laughed, ____________ to do something for his country ____________.

【推荐2】On June 14, 2022, Mia Samolinski was driving a Subaru Outback in the parking lot when she stepped on the gas pedal (油门) instead of the brake (刹车) and drove into the water. It _______ just after 10 pm at Patchogue Bay A brave boy, Anthony Zhongor, _______ the incident and dove into the water after making an emergency call.

Samolinski was at risk of _______. The 18-year-old high schooler was desperately banging (猛敲) on the door and window with all the _______ trying to break the window.

“_______ that got me nervous, scared for her,” said Zhongor, “so I just dove into the water.” He swam to the car, but with no time to spare, he had to _______ how to get Samolinski out of the vehicle. They both tried to unlock the door, but with no _______, they had to find another way. That was when Zhongor realized he could use his own _______. His body successfully made the _______ of the car go deeper into the water, which helped ________ the back end. Samolinski opened the back door and managed to ________. They swam to shore together. Samolinski was so ________ that she couldn’t help crying, but luckily, they both weren’t injured.

“It doesn’t matter who it was, they were in an ________ situation,” said the 17-year-old hero. “I couldn’t watch anybody ________ in front of me.”

________, it turned out they both attended Patchogue-Medford High School, but they had no idea they were schoolmates.

【推荐2】Broken Bones Don’t Get in the Way of a Big Break

Matt Shilcock lives to dance-and he will break his bones to prove it.

Shilcock, 33, was born with osteogenesis imperfect (成骨不全症). It is effectively inevitable that bones in his body will break. Shilcock was in a wheelchair as he grew up in Adelaide, until the determined teenager _________ it when he turned 15.

He said, “I just felt like being in a wheelchair was stopping me from being able to participate in things, so if I don’t take it to school, that’s going to be the start of some kind of _________.”

He admits the decision led to “complications”. “I definitely lost _________ of how many bones I’ve broken,” he said. “If you experience something enough it becomes your norm.”

Having a regular day job was never going to happen _________ dance occupied Shilcock’s mind.

“I _________ took up dancing because it was just cheaper than physiotherapy. As I started to gain more confidence and competence moving my body, _________ injuries and coming back from injuries and learning my physical potential, just the _________ that came with that was really addictive,” he said.

And so he began a career on the stage, with an 18-month acting course progressing to his first dance show in 2010 with the Restless Dance Company. He had gone from project to project for a decade before _________ the big one, a mentorship (顾问) with the acclaimed Australian Dance Theatre (ADT) last year.

Shilcock has turned his hand to choreography (编舞). He said he has given himself permission both to _________ or be great, when audiences judge his choreographic work.

It is the start of a gradual transition out of dancing that he admits will be __________ for his body to take.

【推荐3】Luke Fortune parked his car in a garage (车库) overnight. The next morning, he _________ the car’s window was broken, and his _________ was nowhere to be found.

“The computer was very _________to me,” said Fortune, 21, who was studying to become a _________ “Every paper I wrote for my medical tests and letters for job _________ were in that computer.”

Two days after the _________, Almazrouei was _________by a man who said he had a computer for sale. Almazrouei was a 29-year-old man, a(an) _________student who had been in the United States for only three months. Since he _________ a computer at that time, he __________the computer. After turning it on, he saw files and photos. He said, “I __________it could be stolen.”

Almazrouei found the __________ cell phone number in the computer and called it.

Fortune said, “I thought it was a __________ at first. So I told him if he really had the computer, he should take it to the __________.”

Soon, a police officer called Fortune, saying that a man had brought a computer. Fortune thanked and insisted on paying him a reward. Almazrouei __________. He said it was his __________ to buy the computer from someone he didn’t know. More importantly, Almazrouei said, “I know he is a good man. I should help him out of __________.”

The experience brought its own rewards. When the story got into the local __________, Almazrouei received a call. It was from the __________of the university where Almazrouei was studying. Impressed with his student’s honesty, the president gave Almazrouei a new computer. We thought we should give you one __________,” the president said. “We’re very proud of you.”