【推荐1】I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a _______ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew _______ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since — _______ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my _______.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of _______, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s _______ me why visitors started respecting the place _______ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried _______ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would _______ an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ________ it that I decided something had to change.

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________ about organizing any big event. But in 2014, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ________. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2016 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others ________ you start with yourself.

【推荐2】With the rise of social media in recent years, young people around the globe have easy access to shocking ______ about how we’re currently ______ to look after the Earth. Websites provide accessible information about ______ matters that quickly have millions of views, and links to new scientific information are easily ______. But, it’s not just online research that uncovers the     ____, and it’s not a ______ threat either. Climate change is happening around us; our oceans are 30 percent more acidic(酸性的) and one and a half acres of forest are cut down every second.

Of course, just because ______ people are now readily armed with such information doesn’t mean all ______ will eagerly listen to them. Many ______ young activists simply due to their age, and others still aren’t willing to see the environmental ______ we face, but that doesn’t mean a ______ can’t be made.

In fact, there are some ______ to being a young environmentalist. A study on participants aged 16-24 in the UN climate negotiations showed that adults thought of younger activists as being ______ due to the lack of financial problems. Young activists not only aren’t ______ by busy schedules being forced on them, but they also have a simple-hearted view of what’s going on and , being ______ from politics, they often say what adults aren’t willing to.

【推荐3】Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of her country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. The 26-year-old student and environmentalists from Detroit are asking for a(n)_______ of local snack lovers: _______ throw your empty chip bags into the trash, _______ them so she can _______ them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip eaters drop off their _______ bags at two locations in Detroit: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers _______ them. After they sanitize (净化) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they _______ them open, lay them flat, and iron them together. They use pad-ding (填料) from old coats to fill the insides.

It takes about four hours to _______ a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, _______ whether they’ re single-serve or family size. The ________ of the sleeping bag is “waterproof (防水的), light weight, and easy to ________ around,” Oleita told The Detroit News.

Since it started in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has collected more than 800,000 chip bags and has ________ 110 sleeping bags. Sure, it would be ________ to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the ________ for Oleita and her fellow volunteers. “We are ________ to making an impact not only socially, but environmentally,” Oleita says.

【推荐2】Shetara Jones, a struggling single mother, happened to win $100 on the lottery. ________, she made up her mind to donate all the money to the family of a police officer, who had unluckily been shot dead on his job.

Despite her own financial worries, Jones did so without any hesitation. At a time when many Americans facing ________, like many others, she had recently lost her job as well. As a resident said, Jones’ family had only a little money left when she saw a dollar bill at a parking lot and bought a ________ ticket with it, winning $100. Upon knowing that, her daughter suggested they donate it to the family of the ________ officer rather than ________ the money and Jones subscribed to the idea.

The policeman’s family’s difficult situation was a ________ of their own hard experience. One of Jones’ daughters was killed before. “The police were really there for us more than anyone I can ________,” said Jones. “They came to help us a lot. They did a lot. They were fathers, advisers, therapists (治疗专家). They were everything in this world.”

With the purpose of ________ some of the hope these officers offered to her family, Jones called up the police station for her donation. She decided to give away the money without ________ her name or phone number.

Soon after that, news of the ________ donation spread throughout the city. Officers spent days ________ her down, hoping to find her. “It’s really ________ to us,” said a spokesman for the Police Station.

Once they learned her ________, officers launched a campaign for Jones. Thousands of people had ________, wanting to help. Within a few days, it had raised more than $60,000. “It’s kindness from people like Jones that motivates ________ including him to keep serving.” said the spokesman.

【推荐1】In our backyard there was a big pond with lots of trees and bushes. Both my grandparents were fond of our so-called garden.

One morning our new neighbor, an aggressively ambitious businessman, saw my grandfather _________ two rare deodar(雪松) tree saplings on both sides of our gate. _________, he said he had planted the same tree saplings in his garden. My grandfather _________ gave his plants adequate amount of water and didn’t give them full _________, while our neighbor interested in better _________looked after them too well. His plants were much _________ and greener. 

Normally in summer, we have fierce thunderstorms._________ the extreme damage, these storms also bring _________ from the terribly hot climate. After a thunderstorm, we came out to _________ the damage to our garden and saw the neighbor in his garden, too, but he looked __________ as his plants had been uprooted. Ours were standing __________ on the ground. Surprised to see this, he came up to us and said with embarrassment,“My trees __________ from the roots while yours didn’t. Why?” 

My grandfather said, “You gave your plants more attention, water and manure(肥料), __________ they didn’t need to work for anything. I gave mine just some, letting their roots do the__________; thus their roots went deeper and became stronger.” Our neighbor nodded in __________. Hearing the words, I realized that anything easily given could be taken away much more easily and we would not understand the hard work it took to earn those things.

【推荐3】Dressed in a kachhad, a traditional Nepalese clothes, Umesh Balal walked into his meetings at the 28th United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) on climate change in Dubai with a sense of determination,

Balal, who has physical disability, was there to publicly ________ inclusion of disability rights in the climate change conference an aspect that he said has long been ________ by organizers of the world’s largest annual meeting on climate issues.

As a student, Balal was ________ about science and involved himself in research on environmental science. Those were his first few interactions that ________ the climate related issues to him. Being from a mountainous region, Balal ________ more about how climate change had ________ people there, which led him to develop climate anxiety.

The more Balan ________ himself to climate science, the more he learned about the impact of climate change. People with more resources have better chances of ________ the climate crisis. But the less developed countries, for the ________ communities, usually don’t have the same opportunities, which will push them further into the ________.

And it is even harder for people with ________. Many people with disabilities in Nepal don’t have ________ to proper education or opportunities for growth. As a result, they aren’t able to advocate for their rights.

In an interview, Balan said, “________, I am honored that I come from a supportive family, where I had a chance of good education which ________ me to grow in life. This is what I ________ for others, to change the way they live their lives.”