【推荐1】This morning. I stopped by a local grocery store to pick up a few items. The small store was almost _________ and only one cashier (收银员) was working. I waited while the guy in front of me was putting all the _________ groceries back into his shopping cart (购物车). He was about to leave when he asked if he could push the cart to his _________ a quarter mile away, unload it and then _________ it. The cashier was new there and was not sure. I said that I’d be happy to give him a _________ back home.

Then, we loaded his groceries into my car and talked on the _________ trip to his living place. He had just moved to the town recently, but like all of us, he was feeling the _________ of the high cost of living. I nodded with a sigh and helped him unload his groceries before _________ back home.

On my way home. I thought to myself. “The cost of living keeps going up, but at least the cost of loving doesn’t _________.”

That is the funny thing about loving. It almost costs us __________. You might think if you spent your love __________ your family, your neighbors, your friends, and even the __________ you meet in the street, sooner or later your love would __________. You might think sooner or later your __________ like your wallet would be empty. __________, love doesn’t work like that. When we share our love, we have even more love.

【推荐1】Lauren Singer has produced almost no waste in the past two years. It proves that a waste-free _________ is possible.

Lauren studied environmental science at NYU, and it was during her student years that she began working towards a zero-waste _________. Today, she has learned to _________ all of her own everyday eco-friendly products, such as toothpaste, shampoo, kitchen cleaner and the like. She also _________ her own eco-friendly company, “The Simple Co”, through which she plans to _________ her homemade products.

Lauren regularly writes about her _________ of a zero-waste life on her blog. She _________ that the past two years haven’t been _________. “I stopped buying _________ products and began __________ my own bags and jars to fill with products at the __________.” she explained. “I stopped buying __________ clothes and shopped only second hand. I said no to plastic or paper bags at stores”. Although the journey has been __________, her zero-waste life has been well worth the __________. She says that she now __________ a lot of money simply because she is __________ when she goes shopping and does not buy things blindly. She also eats healthy food because she __________ fresh organic fruits and vegetables instead of packaged foods.

The girl has become a(n) __________ to many. She’s giving __________ in schools and colleges and also conducting more and more __________ about her zero-waste lifestyle on TV and the radio worldwide.

【推荐2】I’m interested in a career in _______, so I decided to volunteer for service at the local hospital. I thought it would be the best of both worlds: _______ people while getting valuable on the job experience! So I went to the business office. _______, the hospital director was quite willing to let me help out, and he said I could _______ that summer as soon as I finished my finals.

Soon enough, I _______ for my first day at the hospital. The director gave me a brief tour of different departments (科室) _______ we stopped right in front of the maternity ward (产科病房). I was overwhelmed (受不了的) by the sounds. Women shouted and newborns _______. I got nervous and wondered if I had been in a hurry when I _______ to go for such a _______ job.

My ________ must have shown clearly on my face because the director said, “Don’t worry. You are going to help in the nursery. ” ________ that, we walked down a hallway filled with balloons, beautiful flowers and into the ________ room I’ve ever seen. The soft colors provided a quiet backdrop to the sleeping babies. The nurse in charge of the nursery ________ me, thanked me for ________, and asked me to start putting some baby things away in the drawers. The director gave me a ________ look, which I returned with a quiet nod. I got right to work.

【推荐3】I was waiting for the bus when I met the woman.“You look ________．Come and sit here,”she said．“Where are you going?”

“I don’t know. I just want to catch a bus and see what it will be like at the end.”

“I’m afraid you’ll see ________ there. Why don’t you enjoy the sights on the way?”

“How can I do that while my heart’s ________？”I asked sadly. My best friend had left me.

The woman seemed to understand my feeling. “Don’t cry, little girl. I’ve had a similar experience to you. Thirty-five years ago，my husband left our three children and me. I was deadly sad. I decided to kill myself and the children, so I took them to the sea. However, they seemed to know what would happen, so they ________ loudly. Their cry suddenly woke me ________. How could I ________ my hope to live for one of life’s problems? After that, I worked hard to raise the children. Now they all live ________and one of them has his own family.

Then the woman gave me a ________,“We should never wait for the door to ________ before us. We should find the key to the ________or try to find another way.”

The bus came and I got on it with a smile.

【推荐2】Fifteen years ago, an earthquake in Turkey hit the school where William Jefferson studied and he was buried in the ruins

He was ________ after 24 hours, but his legs, severely injured, had to be ________. At first, William was ________ and didn’t want to talk to anyone. Later with his parents’ support, William had the courage to spend the following five months in ________ and learned how to get around with his prosthetic (义肢) legs.

________ his prosthetic legs, William regained the ability to walk. Then he was able to return to school. With ________ grades, he got admitted to Ankara University. Later, he ________ his master’s degree with straight A’s and began to work at an educational organization.

In his spare time, William ________ videos on social media about his life and received many________ from other disabled people. They wondered how he could walk so well. That was when it occurred to William that he could make a contribution by helping those ________ to find suitable prosthetic legs and train them to walk ________ again. So he found a job as a doctor studying in prosthetic recovery. It ________ William to see disabled people unable to get out of their homes because they cannot move freely or fear being looked at. This is what ________ his work with recovery.

“I hope that one day when we walk down the street with prosthetic legs, we are not treated ________,” said William. “I plan to continue helping more people with ________ to be less disabled, to move more freely and enjoy life in the way they want.”

【推荐3】Liam Garner, 17 years old, started out on a 32,000-kilometer bike trip, from Alaska to Argentina.

In 2021, after graduating from high school, Liam was looking for a crazy _______ . He had some experience _______ long distances. His longest trip was from Los Angeles to San Francisco. He made short videos of that trip, and _______ them on the social media. Some of his _______ became quite popular.

That bike trip helped him _______ to go on a much longer trip from the point farthest north in the United States to the most southern point in South America.

At first Liam’s parents weren’t too happy about him taking such a _______ bike trip by himself. But as he carried on, his parents became his strongest _______ .

After _______ the trip for about a month, Liam set out on August 1, 2021. _______ basic life necessities and some spare parts for his bike, he didn’t have much else.

Liam ________ he took the right path. “As long as I was going south. I knew I was going in the right ________ ,” he said.

After about three months, Liam had crossed the US, going ________ along the West Coast. By early December, he had ________ Mexico. In Colombia, he had a bike accident that left him ________ and required surgery. In spite of it, he ________ going.

Liam ________ arrived in Ushuaia, Argentina on January 10, 2023 — 527 days after he started. He had ________ through 14 countries along the way.

Liam hopes his experience will ________ others to start an adventure of their own. “Everyone is ________ of amazing things,” he says. “The hardest part is getting the confidence in yourself to ________ something.”