【推荐2】Erin suffered a serious concussion (脑震荡) after a car accident. And it left her with motion sickness, difficulty in concentrating, and no ________ to read or watch TV. Erin, a typically very motivated and active person, found all the period of ________ extremely challenging. It was Pippy, a pig she and her husband had ________ a few months before the accident, that saved her life.

Pippy played an important role in Erin’s recovery: “She knew I was in ________ pain, even if I wasn’t crying or acting sadly. She ________ me the whole time when I was stuck at home. If I was on the couch, she wanted to be in my lap or ________ alongside me. Pippy knew I was down. She knew I was ________.”

Once Erin recovered, she and her husband found they ________ Pippy so much that they wanted to adopt another pig. That’s when they learned that there is a huge ________ for pig rescue in the United States. Most people who adopt pigs don’t know what they’re getting into, and fewer than five percent of adopted pigs end up staying with their ________ adopters.

“These poor animals are being ________ abandoned,” says Erin. “We were so ________ and upset by the problem that after we adopted our second pig, Boris, we decided to ________ a pig rescue.”

Erin and her husband have now ________ more than 110 pigs, 86 of which ________ with them at their pig rescue center in Deer Trail, Colorado.

【推荐1】Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ________________ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

【推荐2】Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of ______ others. The little acts of ______ give you chances to provide service for others. They can make you feel how ______ it is to be kind and helpful.

We ______ in a rural (乡村的) area. Most of what we ______ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the ______ is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few ______ of living here is short of ______ public services, such as rubbish collection, which is common in the ______.

A helping behavior that I practice regularly with my daughters is driving around to pick up rubbish in our neighborhood. My daughters often have a ______ to see who can collect the most rubbish. They will often say to me in a(n) ______ voice, “There’s some rubbish, Daddy－ ______ the car!” And if we have time, we will often get out of our car and pick it up. ______ it may seem strange, we do it. In fact, we ______ it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost anywhere. One day, seeing a stranger picking up rubbish or the road, I stopped. He ______ his head and smiled, “I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good ______ to protect our environment.”

There are many other ways to ______ kindness for others. You may share a dinner with a beggar, visit ______ old people in the nursing home, or help the blind ______ the street. You can think of something that can be finished ______ but helpful. It is fun, self-satisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example. Helping others is helping yourself.

【推荐1】When guys try to catch a flying football in school, they may do it to stay fit or because they love the game. They may ________imagine they'd end up using those skills to save a life! That just________when Philip Blanks, a football player in a high school team, caught a child who was________from the third floor of a burning building, CBS reports.

Philip Blanks is now a________after his saving the child's life by catching him in the air. The________video of the July 3 fire shows Blanks’ catch, which quickly________social media. He told CBS he was at the________to meet up with a friend to exercise. That’s when he heard________and then he caught________of the boy, whose mother was going to throw him down from the balcony. Blanks didn't hesitate for even a moment before________to catch the child whom he recalled as “twirling（旋转）like a helicopter” as he________from the third-floor balcony, CBS reports.

Blanks said, “When I caught him I fell on my side.” Blanks cradled the child as he fell and then ran away with the boy in his arms________to safety. In another________, the child's mother, Rachel Long, was________throwing her son over the balcony, Arizona's Family reports. The boy has been________as a 3-year-old named Jameson, according to the radio station. The mother, Rachel, unfortunately, did not________the big fire.

Blanks' heroic action is________but that doesn't mean that we can't take________from it. Sure, we are not all physically________to catch a child falling from a building, but we can respond in situations when our________is needed. Whatever we can do to be someone's here is always going to be good enough.

【推荐2】Have you ever paid attention to your school guards? Would you say “good morning” to the cleaners? For high school student Ding Jiacheng, it is a_________ that many students haven’t realized the importance of jobs done by this non-teaching staff. He wanted to solve it and make a_________.

The boy from Hangzhou Entel Foreign Language School, together with several other students, _________ a project called “The Invisible (隐形的) Are Important”. They hoped more students would respect the “invisible” staff in the school. The project won a prize at China Thinks Big, a competition held by Harvard and Tsinghua University to_________ teenagers to study social matters.

“My team members and I sent questionnaires to 158 students, said Ding.“In one question, 56% of students said they would greet those non-teaching workers, _________ only 17% strongly believe that every student should do so.”

The team also did research on the interaction (互动) between students and workers. “Most students follow the rules of their teachers. However, one-third of students go_________ the rules of the dormitory(宿舍) workers,” said Ding. “It shows that students treat non-teaching staff_________ from teaching staff.”

The main reason, according to Ding, is that students know_________ about the work done by non-teaching staff. They also have few chances to communicate with them. So Ding’s team made videos to show the staff working in the school. They also held a basketball match between students and non-teaching staff to increase_________ interaction.

“The activity helped me understand that we can all have a__________ influence through our creative ideas,” Ding said.

【推荐3】Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to share a meal. They started Project Empathy (共情) four years ago to ________ a meal, listen to their stories and figure out how they could ________ help.

“Just start with a smile and a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a ________ impact on others less fortunate,” Hansen ________ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________. Ward, a homeless person, was ________ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him ________ the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I’m impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son’s ________ have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can’t settle the ________ about the homeless alone. They’re hoping empathy will ________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join and help the homeless,” Chase said.