【推荐1】Most people who keep animals choose to have dogs, cats or fish. But Recep Mirzan keeps a _________ animal on his farm in Western Turkey. The 63-year-old retired worker has a swan ( 天 鹅 ) which he _________ many years ago. Mirzan was driving in his car when he _________ an injured swan with a _________ wing. Mirzan immediately _________ and took the swan with him to _________ her from predators (捕食者).

“Since I love _________,I said to myself that I should take her home instead of _________ her as prey (猎物),”Mirzan told The Associated Press.

He named the swan Garip. It means “strange” in the Turkish language but is also used to _________ a person who has had difficulties in his/her life. After Garip’s broken wing recovered, she __________ with Mirzan. Mirzan is not married and has no __________, so the swan is like a child to him. Garip has been living on Mirzan’s farm for the past 37 years, __________ Mirzan wherever he goes and never trying to __________ the farm.

According to the group Swan Sanctuary, in Britain, swans live in the __________ for only about 12 years. But thanks to the __________ environment, Garip can live up to nearly 40 years old.

【推荐2】Ann’s neighbour Tracy found a lost dog walking around the local elementary school. She asked Ann if she could keep an eye on it. Ann said that she could _________ it only for the day.

Tracy took photos of the dog and printed off 400 FOUND fliers and put them in mailboxes. _________, Ann bought some pet foods in the dollar store nearby, and _________ her two sons not to fall in love with it. At the time, Ann’s son Thomas was 10 years old, and Jack, who was _________ from a heart operation, was 21 years old.

Four days later Ann was still _________ the dog, whom they had started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog _________ itself against the screen door and barked madly at her. As soon as she opened the door, Riley _________ into the boys’ room where Ann _________ that Jack was suffering a heart attack caused by the operation. Riley ran over to Jack, and as soon as Ann bent over to help him, the dog went _________.

“If it hadn’t come to get me, the __________ said Jack would have died, ” Ann reported to a local newspaper. At this point, no one had called to claim the dog, so Ann decided to __________ it.

The next morning Tracy got a call. A man named Peter __________ his dog and called the number on the flier. Tracy started __________, and told him, “That dog __________ my friend’s son.”

Peter drove to Ann’s house to pick up his dog and saw Thomas and Jack crying in the window. After a few moments Peter said, “Maybe Odie was supposed to __________ you: maybe you should keep it.”

【推荐1】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. The moment she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Radon’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(流行病)will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency(熟练)level.

【推荐2】I come from a _________ family that many would consider dysfunctional (失衡) at the very least: marriage, divorce, etc. After we grew up, my three siblings and I could go years without speaking. And that is where this story_________ .

My sister Jeanne and I were born only 14 months_________, but by the time we were teenagers, we had lost touch. By age 19, I had moved away from our home in Wisconsin to live on my father’s horse farm in Virginia. We lived separate and our connection somehow ended.

Fast-forward about five years, I was 24 and on_________ with my fiance (未婚夫) to New York City, a place I had never been to.

During a day of sightseeing, we were crossing a very busy street_________with people. I had laughed at something my fiance said, and I suddenly heard my name yelled from somewhere around me: “Cheryl!” I_________ in my steps in the middle of the road. Tears_________ in my eyes. I knew without a_________that it was my sister Jeanne. I yelled back before even turning to look, “Jeanne?’’ It was her.

I later asked how she’d known it was me — she _________ saw me! She said it was my__________. I wouldn’t say my laugh is all that unusual, but I guess to a family member it’s infectious. It __________your heart and resonates (共鸣) in your mind.

Since that time, my sister and I have never been __________. We both moved back to Wisconsin. We talk daily. Many years have passed, and we are now in our 50s. But our meeting__________wasn’t just a sign. I see it as more of a__________, a reminder not to lose touch with loved ones. It is too easy to remain lost. After our sister-to-sister __________, I don’t plan to let that happen again.

【推荐3】As a teenager, I was pretty lazy when it came to doing things for my family. I found myself refusing to _______ at home with even the simplest things. 

Every Wednesday afternoon, for example, my mother _______ me to another town for a piano lesson. During my two-hour lesson, she’d rush to the nearby store and buy a week’s worth of _______. Given the fact that my mom had driven me twelve miles there, twelve miles back, and _______ for my lesson, you’d think I’d be very _______ to help her bring the groceries into the house. But I wasn’t. I generally just brought in an armload and left the rest for Mom as I ran to my room and shut the door. 

Don’t get me wrong. Back in my room, I felt _______ about not helping my mother more. Deep inside, I wanted to change my _______. But I also realized that once I took on more responsibility, my parents would start _______ more from me. At age 15, I sensed that this one small change would mark something much bigger: my personal change from a spoiled (宠坏的) child to a more _______ young man. 

I’ll never forget the Wednesday when I made a(n) ________ to try and see what would happen. Returning home from the lesson I disappeared into my room, as usual. But once inside, I felt that deep and burning ________. Throwing my school books on the bed, I suddenly opened my door and ________ back to the garage to help my mother. How happy I felt that day! Surely, over time, I continued to help out with more housework. The more I helped out, the ________ I felt about myself. As Mom and Dad realized they could ________ me more, our trips became far less stressful, too.  

Sometimes the little things we put off doing for the longest time ________ out to be the simplest things to complete. Feeling happy beats feeling guilty any day.

【推荐1】In the August sun, it was unbearably hot in my car. I was in Vancouver, __________ the Knight Street Bridge as I tried to get home after work. __________ was already slowing down and then it came to a full stop. I was __________ even before getting on the bridge.

Ahead of me was a heavily jammed road. I stared at the endless rows of __________, depressed. But I stayed __________. When the cars did move, I moved carefully, making sure not to crash into other cars. Finally, I __________it onto the bridge. The traffic was still moving forward at a snail’s pace. Tired and hungry, I became very __________.

Just then, I heard a faint sound __________. The sound gradually became louder, until I could __________ it as an ambulance drawing near from behind. What did we do? The bridge was __________. There was no room for us to move.

But I was wrong. Every single car quickly, yet carefully, moved to the side. Without thinking, I __________. The lane remained open for a few seconds during which the ambulance __________ through.

Afterwards, every car moved back into formation (队形), and we continued our patient __________. I forgot my exhaustion and hunger. My anxiety was gone.

How did we do that? Despite our exhaustion, we collectively decided to help the stranger who needed the time more __________ than we did. We drew on our sympathy and intelligence, requiring no __________. Together we could make the impossible possible.

【推荐3】Life is often marked by unexpected twists and tums. As Alice and Mike watched their son Allan ______ Cambridge University Law School last month, they thought back to the moment he was born. “I’m so sorry your baby is blind,” a nurse had said.

Even though Allan’s family were middle class and they lived a ______ life, as a blind child, Allan Hennessy’s future was poor. The local hospitals could not offer Allan hope of giving him ______ because there weren’t enough eye specialists. But when Allan was 6 months old, an opportunity came and Allan’s father ______ it. “My dad sold his car, belongings and some of his land to pay for my ______. We left our home country with very little.”

The opportunity was an operation in London which ______ the sight in Allan’s left eye. “My mom remembers the first time I looked at her; the first time we made eye ______. She burst into tears. But for the operation, I wouldn’t have ______ anything in life,” he. explained.

For Allan, life as an immigrant (移民) was ______. When he was ___into Cambridge University, Allan realized there were so many differences between him and his peers (同龄人) at Cambridge. “I felt ______ different,” he said. “When you’re a half-blind guy climbing the greasy pole, everyone can see that and they judge you, even though they are ______ it too.”

But spending three years in Cambridge was ______. Allan said, “I met the most amazing people from all over the world.” What would his life be like if he had stayed in his home country? “I wouldn’t have a Cambridge law ______; I wouldn’t even be sighted. My family there have faced terrible events. Perhaps I wouldn’t be alive.”

After graduating this summer, Allan is taking up a scholarship and ready for being a graduate school student. “If you’ve got a first-class law degree from Cambridge University, that should set you up for life,” he said. “But when you’re a half-blind immigrant living in Britain today, there is so much more you have to do. The ______ has only just begun.”