【推荐1】Tim Becker and his neighbors are doing something to make their neighborhood a trouble-free area.

When Tim Becker gets in his car to go shopping, he doesn't _______ drive to a store and back home. He always looks _______ up and down the streets of his neighborhood. He looks for anything _______ such as strange cars, loud noises, _______ windows, or people gathering on street corners.

Tim _______ to a neighborhood watch group in Stoneville, Indiana. USA. The neighborhood watch group _______ on the third Wednesday of every month. That's ____ Tim gets together with about ten of his neighbors to discuss community _______. Members of the neighborhood watch group want to help the police _______ their homes, streets, and families safe.

Tina Stedman, president of _______ neighborhood watch group, agrees with Tim.

"People seem to think that crime (犯罪) happens to other people but not _______ them. Well, it's never happened to me," she said, "but I don't think anyone has the _______ to steal from other people or to make them feel _______ sitting in their own homes."

Alex, a member of the group, said that all the neighbors _______ out for one another. "We _______ each other's homes. We keep watch on the neighborhood at night and on weekends. Usually a _______ of four or five of us goes out together. If something doesn't look right, then we call the _______. For example, if we notice a group of teenagers who seem to be looking for ________, or someone destroying property (财产), we report to the police."

Alex feels the neighborhood watch groups ________ a lot in keeping crime down. Her husband Jim agrees, "Police are good people, but they can't do _______."

【推荐3】It was a cold evening and my daughter and I were walking up Broadway. I didn’t notice a guy sitting inside a cardboard box. But Nora did. She wasn’t even four, but she _______ at my coat and said, “That man’s cold, Daddy, _______ we take him home?”

I don’t remember my reply. But I do remember a sudden _______ feeling inside me. I had always been delighted at how much my daughter noticed in her     _______, whether it was _______   in flight or children playing. But now she was noticing _______ and beggary.

A few days later, I saw an article in the newspaper about volunteers who picked up a food package from a nearby school on a Sunday morning and _______   it to an elderly person. It was quick and easy. I _______ us up. Nora was   _______ about it. She could understand the importance of food, so she could easily see how       ________ our job was. When Sunday came, she was ready, but I had to __________myself to leave the house to fetch the food package. On the way to the school, I fought an urge to turn ________. The Sunday paper and coffee were waiting for me at home. Why do this?   ________, we phoned the elderly person we’d been appointed. She ________ us right over.

The building was in a bad state. Facing us was a silver-haired woman in an old dress. She took the package and asked us to come in. Nora ran inside. I unwillingly followed. __________ inside, I saw that the apartment belonged to someone poor. Our hostess showed us some photos. Nora played and when it came time to say good-bye, we three hugged, I walked home in tears.

Professionals call such a（n）__________ a “volunteer opportunity”. They are opportunities, and I’ve come to see. Where else but as volunteers do you have the opportunity to do something __________ that’s good for others as well as for yourself? Nora and I regularly serve meals to needy people and ________ clothes for the homeless. Yet, as I’ve ________ her grow over these past four years, I still wonder --- which of us has ________ more?

【推荐1】A few months ago, I got a terrible cold which ended in a cough that was hard to get rid of. No matter how many different medicines I tried, I _________ couldn’t get rid of the cough. It made both my teaching and my life _________.

Then one day after class, a student came up to me and ___________ traditional Chinese medicine. From her description, it seemed that Chinese medicine had magic power and could work ___________. I was _________ because I knew so little about it and have never tried it before. _________ my cough got so much worse that I couldn’t sleep at night, so I decided to give it a _________. The Chinese doctor took my pulse (脉搏) and asked to see my _________, both of which were new experience to me because they are both nonexistent in Western medicine, where diagnosis (诊断) depends heavily on _____________. Then the doctor gave me a scraping treatment known as “Gua Sha” in Chinese. I was a little __________ at first because he used a tool to scrape the skin on my neck and shoulders.

A few minutes later, the treatment started to produce a __________ effect and my body and mind began to sink deeper into __________. I didn’t feel much improvement in my __________ in the first few days, but after a few more regular visits to the doctor, my cough started to __________. Then within a matter of weeks, it was completely __________!

【推荐3】When COVID-19 cases were on the rise in Sao Paulo, Brazil, many of the city’s residents decided to take action. Notably, high school student Gabriel Aun Klinger organized a _________ to help people from Favelas _________ themselves against the virus.

Favelas are highly-populated communities where many people live in _________ poverty. There, many residents struggle to _________ themselves and have to live in terrible _________ .“Some people from these communities can’t _________ afford to buy a soap bar,” stated Klinger.

After reading several documents and scientific papers on COVID-19, Klinger found an _________ solution against COVID-19—something he _________ as being the “perfect weapon of self-defense against the virus.”   When he _________ that this solution was also much cheaper and easier to obtain, he __________ launched his project aiming to use it for the __________ of the people in Favelas.

“The __________ of the project has been the information I had regarding a home-made solution for __________ the virus with people,” he explained.

In March, his campaign __________ enough money to purchase hygiene(卫生) products and food __________ for over 500 families in those communities. He then __________ these products to the community, making sure to teach those people how to prepare the __________ with the items they received. Through his project, Klinger learned that small actions like this one can go a __________ way. In times like these, he hopes to remind people that everyone has the power to make an __________ on people’s lives and help   those __________.