【推荐2】There is an older homeless woman who sometimes is sitting near where I am living, begging for money. Unfortunately, the inner city places are often being strongly _______ by younger men and women who try to _______ the space.

Whenever I see her, I make sure to give her something, and at least to talk to her for a few seconds if I have a tight _______. When young people _______ around, I often make sure to drop a few coins into her cup while passing her a note without anybody seeing it in the _______ that they will leave her alone.

Today I was again _______ her, giving her some money and some food. I _______ before her and then kept down to ask her how she was. She _______ me by saying that she wanted to thank me not just for the _______ but for always talking to her.

She ________ how hard it was for her to have so little money that she had to ________ and that she often felt ashamed. She now has ________ for several days to talk to me and to thank me for ________ her like a human being. People walking by, sometimes dropping some money, but ________ making eye contact or talking to her make her feel even more ________. And she said she was looking forward to me ________ by, because she knew I would look at her and have a ________ with her. I had tears in my eyes when thinking of this. Such a small ________ would mean so much to her.

I still don’t know why she is on the street, and maybe one day she will ________, but I will not ask her right away. But I will be even more on the ________ for her, making sure to talk to her as often as possible!

【推荐3】Lots of kids set up lemonade stands in the summer. For many, it’s a first step toward learning what it means to_________ your own money. For 11-year-old Cartier Carey, it was a _________ to do a lot more. That’s because Carey isn’t using his _________ to open a first savings account. Instead, he’s _________   it back into his community. His goal is to help single mothers in need. With all the stress and_________ uncertainty brought on by the pandemic, Carey decided to focus on the basics: diapers and wipes. 

The idea for the project_________ while Carey was visiting his grandmother who lives in one of the area’s more economically depressed neighborhoods. Carey, who is keenly observant for his age, was_________ by how many women he observed raising children on their own. By the end of July, Carey had raised close to $5,000 via the lemonade stand and from donations, and _________ about 6,500 diapers. As of September, at 22,000 diapers, he’s_________ to achieving his total goal of 25,000. 

But the generous 11-year-old is no__________ to worthy causes. Before becoming a “lemonade mogul”, Carey launched another community__________ titled “Carti packs”— provide care packages for the homeless that__________ such essentials as deodorant, soap, tissues, and even handwarmers for when the weather got __________. 

Carey says his greatest__________ comes from knowing he’s made a difference and seeing how much his efforts have meant to the people he tries to__________.

【推荐1】The lions and leopards of a national park in India normally do not get along. They ______ each other for space and food. But about a year ago, a young lioness in the park ______ a baby leopard.

The 2-month-old baby with brown ears and blue eyes was ______, and the lioness spent weeks nursing, ______ and caring for him until he died. She treated him as if he were one of her own two sons, who were about the same age. This was a ______ case of cross-species adoption in the wild, and the only documented example involving animals that are normally ______.

______, the park workers thought the association would be brief, but this went on. The family were ______ to tour the park. The lioness took care of the baby, and ______ meat she hunted. The new brothers played with him and occasionally followed him up trees. This unlikely ______ was surely amazing.

Although this adoption was puizzling, it highlighted the ______ between the two species. Until they reached young adulthood, when social differences ______, the lions and the leopard played and begged for milk in similar ways. For this mother lioness, she may have ______ the baby’s more leopard-like features—his smell, size and spotted appearance. She just jumped in.

The ______ of the inter-species adoption in the wild would be sweet enough for a children’s book, yet ______ enough to draw scientists.

【推荐2】Do you know one bird whose name is crow (乌鸦)?Here is a story about one of them. There was once a lazy crow who thought it was too much trouble to _________ food. “Caw! Caw!” he said “If someone brought me my food every day, I’d be very _________!”

One day he saw a(n) _________ pigeon flying by. “How happy and well-fed it looks ” the crow said to himself. So the crow _________ the pigeon until they came to a _________. There were some other _________ there too. Before long an old man came along and brought them a large bag of food. When the man had gone ,the crow flew over to the pigeons. “Caw!Caw!” said he. “Can I _________ you?”

“No, you can’t!” _________ the pigeons angrily. “We don’t know you.”

The crow went home feeling _________. But he suddenly had a(n) __________. “I’ll paint my __________ grey,” he said, “and then the pigeons will __________ I am one of them.” After he finished the painting, he flew off to the park and was __________ by the pigeons. The crow was so hungry that he got very excited at the food. “Caw! Caw! Give food to me!” he said loudly. __________ the pigeons found he was a crow. They flew after him and made him __________.

Sadly the crow flew to his own forest. But when his old friends, the other crows saw him they asked him to __________. They did not __________ him because of his grey-painted feathers. So the crow felt __________ than before. His own __________ did not want him, __________ the pigeons wouldn’t let him into their group.

“What looks easier isn’t always so,” the crow said to himself. “I wish I had never painted my feathers grey!”

【推荐3】January 15, 2016, I awoke at 2:30 a. m. I had a dry mouth and went downstairs needing water. I was walking back upstairs from the _______ when I heard my American bulldog, Rock, barking.

Whatever Rock was doing down there, it made enough _______ for me to go to him. When I _______ it to the bottom of the stairs I saw a light on, but I didn't _______ leaving one on. It was then that I saw the _______ . I immediately shouted to my wife to wake up and get our three kids. I grabbed a knife and cut out the plastic that covered the window to the porch roof. I then broke the window and _______ out the screen（纱窗）. I got everybody out on the roof and threw a blanket out there so we wouldn't slip off. Then I started _______ for help. But help never came.

I'm scared of _______ but I couldn't let my family _______ . So I jumped off the roof. I was out of breath when I ________ .

I found our ladder, placed it ________ the house, and climbed back up to the roof. I wrapped my arms around one of my daughters and carried my nine-month-old son with my teeth, by his little sleeping bag. Then I climbed down the ladder. ________ we got to the ground, I had my little girl hold her brother, and I went back up to the roof to get another daughter and then, my wife. I tried to get my dog, but he was just ________ by the black smoke. I never saw him alive again.

I'm no ________ , but Rock was! He lived to ________ us just as I live to help my family.