【推荐2】One day when I was 12, my mother gave me an order: I was to walk to the public library, and borrow at least one book for the summer. This was one more weapon for her to ______my strange problem—inability to ______. In the library, I found my way into the “Children’s Room.” I sat down on the floor and pulled a few books off the ______ at random. The cover of a book _____ my eye. It ______ a picture of a beagle(小猎兔狗). I had recently had a beagle, the first and only animal companion I ever had as a child. He was my secret sharer, but one morning, he was gone, _____ to someone who had the space and the money to care for him. I never forgot my beagle.

There on the book’s cover was a beagle which looked _____ to my dog. I ran my fingers ______ the picture of the dog on the cover. My eyes ran across the title, Amos, the Beagle with a Plan. ______, I had read the title. Without opening the book, I borrowed it from the library for the summer.

Under the shade of a bush, I started to read about Amos. I read very, very slowly with difficulty. ______ pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been ______ from his family and who finally found his way back home. That dog was my dog, and I was the little boy in the book. At the end of the story, my mind continued the final _____ of reunion, on and on, until my own lost dog and I were, in my mind, running together. My mother’s call returned me to the ______ world. Something ______ me: I had read a book, and I had loved reading that book. Everyone knew I could not read. But I had read it. Books could be incredibly _____ and I was going to read them. I never told my mother about my “miraculous” (奇迹般的) ______ that summer, but she saw a slow but remarkable ______ in my classroom performance during the next year. And years later, she was ______ that her son had read thousands of books, was ______ a PhD in literature, and authored his own books, articles, poetry and fiction. The power of the ______ has held.

【推荐3】Raden is a librarian in Indonesia’s Java island. She is ________ books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a(n)________ way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday she rides her three-wheeler with books for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other ________ that she carries back.

She is helping inculcate（灌输）________in the kids and make them ________ of the environment. As soon as she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Raden’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books ________ out. She’s ________ the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result.

She ________ about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for ________ or sold. She has 6, 000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile ________ to neighboring areas too.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader,________ for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

The literacy（读写能力）rate for above-15-year—olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but the pandemic will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency（熟练）level.

【推荐1】Milo is a rescue dog adopted by 20-year-old Makayla Swift. One morning in November 2021, Swift opened her front door in Silver Spring, Maryland, and Milo _________ running.

Milo ran to the house across the street. He seemed unsatisfied with this house, so he ran to the one next door, Swift on his _________. Milo started scratching on the front door.

Swift was _________, because not everyone wants a strange dog on their property. But as she tried to _________ Milo away, she could hear a sound coming through an open upstairs window.

It was a voice yelling “Help!”

Hours earlier, around 4 a.m., Sherry Starr, 85, had risen from her bed. All of a sudden, standing there between the toilet and the tub, she slipped and fell heavily on the floor. She was _________ between the toilet and the tub and could not move at all. Starr was _________ and thought she was just going to die there.

For the next few hours, Starr practiced yelling: “Help! Help! Hellllp!”

Her voice was very _________ that no one could hear. Luckily, Milo _________ heard Starr the moment Swift opened her own front door.

Swift called the emergency number 911. When the ambulance workers arrived, they thought they’d have to remove the toilet to _________ Starr, but instead, they gave one last pull and out she popped. Though she was black and blue all over, Starr __________ a trip to the hospital.

Swift has known her own share of distress. Two years ago, her mother died. She says that Milo has helped her with her grief. “That dog is a blessing,” she says.

【推荐3】Music is something I could never live without. As a little kid, singing my heart out and trying out for the school play really made me_______. There was nothing that could keep me away from my_______until high school.

Every eighth grader who wanted to be in the high school show choir _______the audition(试唱) for a program. When it was my_______to enter the room, I got very________----my throat was dry and my heart raced. The audition_______1L like this, the introduction, the song of choice and the range check—the choir director played a note on the piano which I had to_______. Before I knew it,   the audition was over.   I felt nothing but_______, for the vibrato(颤音) was amazing and I also hit every_______.

Weeks passed and the list of who had made it into the show choir was posted. When I was ________the show choir list, I found my name.________, this wasn’t what I had expected. “Angelica—alternate(候补者).”

An alternate? Was my audition that________? I thought to myself. After I saw this, my________disappeared.   My outside showed I wasn't________but on the inside my whole world had broken up.   I had no ________of taking the show choir at all.

A year later, one day I was at a restaurant that held karaoke to the customers. My parents begged me to go up and sing. I said no at first but finally I got enough________ to go up. It made me ________ at the beginning, but I started off my song and gained more confidence as I continued. When I hit the high notes in “I know I'm not the only one”, the people eating cheered for me. I________I hadn't got into one program but that did not mean I had to give up all hope, and that I________had that passion. The lesson I learned was if you are ________or do not get the outcome you want, and it is something you're in love with, don't give up.

【推荐1】It’s a sad reality that many of us find ourselves just too busy to contribute to our communities. For a long time, I, too, believed it cost too much in time, money and________to make a real difference. But all that changed when I________my good-deed-a-day project.

My daughter, Emily, was my primary________. I wanted to show her we could do little things to help others, and be happy.

The first week, I wasn’t sure if I could ________it. I surfed the Internet for ideas. One day, I guided a________man in the subway station. He smiled as he thanked me. Another day, I brought flowers from my garden to a local nursing home. .. I could only hope I was arousing ________ in others.

Luckily, after just a few days I found it easier than I’d expected. I knew I was making a(n)________.

Every evening at the dinner table, I________that day’s good deed to Emily. Emily began copying what I’d started. On a walk home from school, she marched over toa neighbor’s pot of geraniums(天竺葵)，which had toppled(摇晃)in the wind，and set it________．“That was my good deed for the day!” she yelled. Another day, she helped me collect________from our neighbors for the food bank. We________off the food and, as we drove away, Emily announced________that she wanted to work there one day.

By the last week, I knew I’d changed. At first, I hadn’t been entirely________that I could do a good deed every day. Now it was practically second________. I felt a greater responsibility to take action when I saw a need,________looking the other way. I felt as though I’d awakened, somehow.

【推荐2】“Don't drive across the Kalahari Desert alone”, my friends said. “You might meet Bushmen who have no _________on travelers. "When a traveler lost his way in the desert, a Bushman often waited for him to die and took away the travelers belongings. However, as across the Kalahari Desert was 1, 000 miles shorter than any other，I decided to_________ it. Everything went well until my car broke down.

The noon sun was terribly hot, and I felt _________ and lonely. Remembering my friends'_________, I was a little afraid, too. Then I saw a Bushman walk toward me and smile. I did not_________back. Later, he began to talk but I still didn't _________ him. However, when evening came, I was_________ that there was another human being with me. As he waved his hand every few minutes, I felt less afraid and at last_______

I woke in the early morning and_________found he had a small leather bag, full of __________. I opened the door of the car and in sign language I__________ him that I needed water for the car. He__________ and gave me the bag. I poured the water into the radiator(水箱) and it was not__________. The Bushman ran to the tall grass ,found a long hollow(空心的)stick and pushed one end of the stick into the sand. Then he put his__________around the other end of the stick, and water came out. The Bushman's mouth worked to__________ my bottle .When it was full, he gave it to me. I took the bottle back to the car, poured the water into the radiator, and then__________to the Bushman. Finally, no water came out and we walked back to the car.

I__________ to give him my watch but he turned it down. I decided to give him back a bottle of water taken from the radiator. At my insistence, he__________. I waved him good-bye and continued my__________. That evening I stopped at a small village. I was taking my bags out of the car when I saw my__________. It was on the floor of the car, where the Bushman had put it .

【推荐3】Generous billionaires are not hard to come by, but it is definitely a challenge to find a billionaire who spends all his fortune on charity just to end up broke. This is ________ what happened to “former” American billionaire Charles Feeney.

Feeney, who grew up in a poor neighborhood of New Jersey, is a ________ at finding business opportunities. Since childhood, he would take any job to make a few cents for his family—jobs like ________ umbrellas in summer and selling Christmas cards in winter. In his college years at Cornell University, he sold home-made sandwiches to other students and is still ________ there as the Sandwich Man. Then, in the 1960s, Feeney ________ airport retailer Duty Free Shoppers (DFS), which helped him reach his billionaire ________ by the 1980s. However, Feeney never felt ________ with the lifestyle of the wealthy. He lived modestly, and often thought of what to do with all the money he made.

Influenced by his own experience, Feeney decided to ________ all his money to those in need in his lifetime. In 1984, the then 53-year-old Feeney signed over everything—his DFS shares and the various businesses and ________ he had acquired worldwide—to Atlantic Philanthropies, a charity ________ he established. In the following decades, Feeney donated through the organization more than $8 billion anonymously, to charities, universities, human rights ________, and foundations worldwide. Such incredible secret generosity ________ him the title “James Bond of Philanthropy” from Forbes magazine.

________ the idea of “Giving while Living,” Feeney is a ________ model for many famous billionaires today, including Bill Gates and Warren Buffet. He encourages people to donate at least half their fortunes before death. In September 2020, Feeney’s go-for-broke mission was ________, and he now lives happily with his wife on a pension in a modest apartment in San Francisco.