【推荐1】Tree hugging (拥抱) may sound a little bit strange. But Israel has been encouraging people to do it _________.

“In this _________ COVID-19 period, people have to stay away from each other,” said Orit Steinfeld, manager of Israel’s Apollonia National Park, “We _________ that people around the world go out to nature, take a deep breath hug a tree, express your love and get love.”

The park is about 15 kilometers north of Tel Aviv. Inside the park, some visitors _________ followed his advice. Barbara Grant was one of them.

“We need physical touch to stay _________. Without it, many become lonely, sad and even sick,” she said, “We are not hugging too many _________ these days. Hugging a tree is quite a _________ thing to do.”

Israel is not the _________ country to ask people to hug trees. Iceland’s Forest Service started a similar _________ in April. They advised everyone in the country to ____________ a tree for at least five minutes every day. The Forest Service even shared a short video showing people in Iceland hugging trees in the ____________. Park workers also ____________ paths in the woods so that visitors could stay away from each other while ____________ their trees.

“There are a lot of trees,” said a forest worker in the video, “no need for everyone to hug the ____________ tree.”

So, if you cannot get a human hug these days, you know something you can safely put your ____________ around: A tree!

【推荐2】Scott Poore is an animal lover. He moves into an animal shelter’s kennel (犬舍) with the ______ of helping unwanted young dogs get adopted (收养). Queen, a 3-year-old dog, has just got the most ______ roommate despite the narrow living room.

Since Poore is a (n) ______ visitor at the animal shelter, he is familiar with all of the ______. However, little Queen has ______ his attention in particular. Poore says that he recently began to notice that Queen seemed to be “losing ______” in finding a forever home. “I have been visiting the shelter every single day for over a year and I can ______ see Queen’s giving up. She used to get so ______ when I would arrive, but now she just lies in her bed.”

So to raise awareness of Queen’s situation, Poore packed a suitcase and moved into the kennel to keep it ______. Poore says it has been ______ managing his work while also living at the shelter, but he is ______ to stay in the kennel until someone adopts Queen. After he ______ the kennel earlier this week, he and his new puppy roommate have been ______ the headlines of a lot of national news, but no possible ______ have stepped forward.

Delightfully, this dog has eventually been given a loving home after his path ______ with that of a woman living on the other side of the country.

【推荐1】Every New Year’s Eve in the past, we had breakfast at Aunt Dot’s house.   My most vivid

_______of the meal was the centerpiece(中心装饰品)that Aunt Dot always _______ on her kitchen table-seven sets of salt and pepper shakers.   It wasn’t until years later that I finally asked Aunt Dot about the unusual centerpiece.

She was then 87 but she_______invited us to the last breakfast of the year. I had _______early that morning to help with the meal_______．Though weak, Aunt Dot was_______stirring(搅拌)pancake batter(糊状物)as she_______my question. “You know I arrange those salt and pepper shakers on the table every single year.”

“I know,” I said,_______plates on the table. “But_______do you always do that on New Year’s Eve morning?”

“It helps to remind me that________the holidays are over, there’s another whole year of them coming,“ Aunt Dot said thoughtfully.

I nodded__________,“1 guess that makes sense. ”

Let me tell you something more,“ she said.“I’ve learned over my many Tears that nothing really________; every ending in life is really just another new________. ” She pointed at me with the batter-covered spoon. “________ that, my dear. ”

“I will,” I told her.

In the spring of that year, after a short illness, Aunt Dot passed away. To my________, I got the holiday salt and pepper shakers which I thought would be given to her own children. I________Aunt Dot wanted to make sure I remembered her philosophy.

I continued Aunt Dot’s breakfast________ at my own apartment with the salt and pepper shakers centerpiece________. The pancakes are never as delicious as Aunt Dot’s,________the center of the table is covered with those old salt and pepper shakers,________us all that every ending is really just another beginning.

【推荐2】Hunter Shamatt lost his wallet while he was on a flight from Omaha to Denver earlier this month. Upon realizing that his wallet was lost, he _______ the airline to see if anyone had turned it in- but fruitlessly.Since the wallet contained his ID, a signed paycheck, $60 in cash, etc, he feared the worst.

Two days after the flight, however, Hunter was _________ to receive a package in the mail from an anonymous(匿名的) sender. Inside was his wallet—along with an additional $40 in cash.

“I found this _______ a flight from Omaha to Denver-row 12, seat F wedged(卡住) between the seat and wall.” read a letter that was enclosed with the package. “Thought you might want it back. All the best. PS: I rounded your cash up to an even $100 so you could celebrate the _________ of your wallet. Have fun!”

Hunter’s mother, Jeannie, posted a photo of the _________ to social media in hopes that they would be able to track down the _______. All they found out was that the letter was _________ from Applied Underwriters in Omaha and the sender’s initials were signed “T.B”. The sender was later identified as Todd Brown, who was delighted to “have a little fun” with helping out a hard-working stranger.

“I saw he was just a kid, 20 years old. He had a paycheck in there, so I _______,‘Well, he’s doing his best to make ends meet.’” said Brown. “Hunter was very _______. He told me he has some student loans to pay within two days so the timing was right,” Brown added, “He________it was gone forever. So when he opened it, he just started ________, ‘No way! No way!’”

Brown says that he often tries to do good things without any recognition; that’s why he didn’t sign his __________on the letter, but Jeannie later insisted on________him on social media. “I try to teach my children to help people without consideration of the ________,” Jeannie wrote on Facebook, “This story is more about rebuilding ________ in people than anything.”

【推荐3】One Sunday, Nicholas, a teenager, went skiing at Sugarloaf Mountain in Maine. In the early afternoon,when he was planning to go home, a______snowstorm swept into the area. Unable to see far, he ______turned off the path.______he knew it, Nicholas was lost, all alone! He didn’t have food, water, a phone, or other______. He was getting colder by the minute.

Nicholas had no idea where he was. He tried not to ______ . He thought about all the______shows he had watched on TV. It was time to put the______he had learned to use.

He decided to stop______. There was a better chance of someone finding him if he stayed where he was. The first thing he did was to find______from the freezing wind and snow. If he didn’t, his body temperature would get very low, which could quickly kill him.

Using his skis, Nicholas built a snow______. He______a huge mass of snow and dug out a hole in the middle. Then he piled branches on top of himself, like a blanket, to stay as warm as he could. By that evening, Nicholas was really______. He ate snow and drank water from a nearby stream so that his body wouldn’t lose too much______. Not knowing how much longer he could______, Nicholas did the only thing he could--- he huddled in his cave and slept.

The next day, Nicholas went out to look for help, but he couldn’t find anyone. He______his tracks and returned to the snow cave, because______shelter, he could die that night. On Tuesday, Nicholas went out to find help. He had walked for about a mile when a volunteer searcher found him. After two days_____ in the snow, Nicholas was saved.

Nicholas might not have survived this snowstorm______TV. He had often watched Grylls’ survival show Man Vs. Wild. That’s______he learned the tips that saved his life. In each episode of Man Vs. Wild, Grylls is abandoned in a wild area and has to find his way out.

When Grylls heard about Nicholas’ amazing deeds, he was super______that Nicholas had made it since he knew better than anyone how hard Nicholas had to work to stay alive.

【推荐1】An English man is being praised for his act of kindness. He________an expensive bike for only £80 so that he could return it to its ________owner.

26-year-old Burke was about to leave the ________after finishing his routine physical exercises when three men ________ him asking if he wanted to buy a bike. Burke was immediately ________of its origin since they were trying to sell the £1,350 bike for £80. Besides, he ________there was a bike lock still ________to the rear wheel (后轮).

After Burke got the bike, he ________ a photo of it on social media in the hope of ________ its owner. With a bike lock on it, it had ________been stolen from the nearby area. Within hours, Burke received a ________ from the bike’s owner. It had belonged to a man whose house had been burgled (遭入室行窃) ________ that week. The man’s ________for the return of the bike was beyond words. He tried to ________the money to Burke, but Burke refused, telling________that he didn’t feel right taking money from a man whose house had been ________.”

Burke has been reported by social media for his good deed. He ________that he did not return the bike for media attention. ________, Burke was delighted to receive the online ________to his honesty, and a local bicycle club has even offered Burke a free bike as a ________for his honesty.