【推荐2】NANNING - Every Monday morning in Mentun village, locals gather in their rural library to share books and they are often ______ by book lovers from nearby villages. The tennis court-sized library is now the place many locals ______ in the village.

The village's library was previously a small office, where about 3,000 books were ______, according to village official Tao Hanshan.

"There wasn't enough room in the library for visitors to read or ______ books, and villagers didn't want to come," says Tao.

The village was once stuck in ______, and most villagers were trying to make a living back then. They ______ had any interest in reading, according to Tao.

"The village had no extra ______ for the library project," he recalls, adding that, at the time, some of the library's books were also outdated.

As Chinese authorities urged efforts to provide better services and facilities in ______ libraries, these improved libraries have seen ______ numbers of visitors in recent years.

In April last year, a local bookstore donated 30,000 new books and supporting facilities to the library in Mentun village, which allowed the library to be significantly ______.

Ruan Wencheng, a villager in his 50s, has since become a regular library visitor.

"Last year, my family tried to raise silkworms, but we ______ due to a lack of silkworm knowledge," says Ruan. "Experts are not always in the village, so I now often come to the library to read and borrow books related to silkworm ______. I have learned a lot."

Tao says that the library now continuously adjusts its books according to the needs of villagers, and it is gaining ______. More and more people are coming.

To make libraries in the countryside more attractive, authorities have taken various measures in villages across the country. Take the library of the Nanzhan residential community in the Sanjiang Dong autonomous county of Guangxi as ______. All residents were relocated from poor and remote areas of the county, so more books for younger readers have been included in the library's collection.

The past few years have also witnessed the ______ of digitized rural libraries. Provincial and regional authorities across the country have been promoting digital reading in rural areas, using TV sets, mobile applications and online libraries.

"Many books are now available in digital libraries and I can read them on my TV," says Ruan. "My life has been enriched."

【推荐1】Our son, Andrew, was always very active and loved playing sports. When he turned 10, I noticed he couldn’t run like he_________ . I took him to the doctor but she could not find anything physically_________.

Since then, we began a seven-year_________ for answers. We saw 13 different doctors, but were still left without _________. At the same time, Andrew’s situation was getting_________. He had to_________ the idea of ever playing sports again. Attending high school was even a_________ for him.

One day, we were referred to Dr. Delgado, a neurologist (神经学家), who gave Andrew a few different tests.

A week later, we_________ waited in the exam room, praying for an answer. Dr. Delgado walked in and said he _________ what was going on with Andrew—— I could hardly__________ those words! Andrew had a rare neurological disorder that could be easily__________. Andrew took his first pill that Friday and within 24 hours he was able to stand, walk and run like he had been able to eight years ago. He went to__________ the next Monday—— no one could believe the miraculous (不可思议的) __________ in Andrew!

Because of everything Dr. Delgado did for Andrew, I began volunteering in his clinic. I like to share Andrew’s__________ with the patients, telling them they are in an__________ place and are seeing the best doctor in the world.

【推荐3】Yuri has spent the last few years dressing up as comic book characters to bring joy and comfort to those need it most. And in doing so, he’s found ________.

In 2009, Yuri lost his beloved mother, Lynda Hubbard, to cancer. He called it the worst year of his life, but his ________ inspired him to help those ________ in his community.

“It took me five years to recover from losing the person who ________ me everything,” Yuri wrote. “I came up with an idea to________ the elderly, children, and the homeless, and also visit ill children dressed as Spider-man.”

“I just tell them to ________ as hard as they can and not give up,” he said. “They’re dealing with so much ________ and medication. They’re sad every day. I just want to come in and ________ them for a couple of moments that I’m there.”

With the pandemic (流行病) making close contact ________, Yuri has switched to video calls for the time being, but these sweet communications are just as ________. To kids facing the hardest times of their lives, a ________ from Spider-man means the world.

What’s more, Yuri ________ free food and clothing to families ________ as well as homeless camps! Spider-man may be loved by many, but we all know who the true ________ is. Thank you Yuri, for taking the time to ________ so many people’s days.

【推荐2】Nicole Salgado and and her family woke up on New Year’s Day to panic knocking at the front door of their home in Avodale, Arizona. Her house was on fire, but she didn’t know it. “We were all ________,” Salgado said. “Then all of a sudden around 7:30 in the morning, we heard banging on our door and our doorbell was ________. And we kind of got ________.”

Salgado, a mother of four, ran to ________ the kids while her husband hurried to the front door. There, they found their next-door neighbour, Carolyn Palisch, urging the family to leave the house. He opened the door and their neighbour Carolyn said their house was on fire and told them to leave. Salgado ________ grabbed her kids and ________ from the burning home. No one was wearing socks or shoes ________ her oldest child.

Making sure that everyone was out, they realized the full extent of it. They were just in ________ as they watched their home burn. According to Salgado, minutes after they escaped, the ________ collapsed and smoke filled the inside of their home. ________ said if the family had still been sleeping when the roof fell down, they would have breathed the smoke and immediately ________.

“We are so grateful to just be ________,” Salgado wrote in a post to social media. The doorbell camera caught the moment when Palisch saved their lives. Salgado said the family decided to post the video to share with the world what Palisch did for them. The video has now been ________ almost 7 million times on Tiktok.

In the footage (一段镜头), Palisch is seen yelling outside the Salgado family’s door, surrounded by smoke and ________. She ________ to knock at the door loudly and repeatedly until she is able to help the family escape. “If it weren’t for her, it would be a totally different story,” said Salgado. “We feel so thankful to her. She saved all of us.”

【推荐3】Tina had looked very serious since we left the hospital. She held her Elvis teddy bear _______ and was deep in thought. The teddy bear did not look anything like Elvis, _______ Tina loved anything about Elvis, so her teddy’s _______ was Elvis, too. And if there was anything Tina loved to do, it was to _______ a teddy bear.

We had been visiting her cousin Mike who had _______ his leg in an accident. He was so _______ in hospital, knowing his whole summer was _______.

Tina had _______ been to a hospital before. She was curious about things and had walked away before I _______. When I did, I found her in a room full of much ________ children than Mike was. My little girl was always so ________, and when I found her she had given Elvis to a little boy to hold.

When we arrived home that day, Tina began ________ by her table. She said she was drawing a teddy bear for the sick children. I ________.

From then on, she began to teach the children in our neighbourhood to draw teddy bears.

And we ________ taking teddy bear drawings to hospitals to the children and when there were extra ones, we ________ them for charities (慈善).

If you really want to ________, even the smallest idea can make ________ things happen — even if it just ________ you draw a teddy bear. Why don’t you do it? Draw a teddy bear and see how it can ________ someone’s day. Seeing the ________ it brings to someone else will bring you a lot of pleasure as well.