【推荐1】Kim Stemple was a special-education teacher. In 2012, she found herself in a Boston hospital being______for one of several diseases she had been diagnosed (诊断) with. The normally energetic Stemple was naturally getting very______. And then a friend gave her a medal.

Before she got too______to exercise, Stemple had been a marathon runner. The medal came from a______partner who had just______a half marathon in Las Vegas and hoped the medal would act as a kind of____. It worked like magic.After Stemple hung the medal on the wall, other____said they wanted medals too. That got Stemple______.“A medal is a simple way to give a_______message,” she told others. And so was born her charity, We Finish Together, which______medals from strangers — runners, dancers, swimmers, singers, and even spelling bee winners — and gives them to all sorts of people______.

People who have received the medals have______hospital patients, people from homeless shelters, etc. Part of the process involves the______owner writing a personalized note on the ribbon (绶带).“This helps them______with someone,”says Stemple.“If they receive a medal, they know someone______.”

Can a simple medal______make a difference? Yes, says Joan Musarra, who suffers from a serious lung disease.“When I______my package containing my new______and the notes of positive, warm thoughts, I was very______,”she wrote to Stemple. “At that moment, I was sitting on my sofa breathing through an oxygen cannula (氧气管) because my lungs were so weak. It______so much to me to feel that I am not alone.”

【推荐2】We’ve all seen ambulances come speeding down the road, prepared to help when disaster _________. But sometimes even an ambulance can’t _________ fast enough to save someone’s life. In _________ like that, Eli Beer hopes to save the day.

Beer is the founder of United Hatzalah, a volunteer-run organization in Israel, _________ to saving lives. Every year many people die waiting for an ambulance to arrive because the ambulance got _________ in traffic or was simply too far away. Trying to solve this problem by using motorcycles, Beer _________ a team of volunteers from all _________ and stages of life and trained them to respond to emergencies. He then gave each of them a motorcycle equipped with medical _________. Then the volunteer went _________ to their daily lives.

United Hatzalah has a call center staffed __________ by volunteers. When someone calls to tell them of an emergency, they answer it in three __________ or less. Then Beer’s technology calculates which volunteer is closest to the __________. As soon as that volunteer is notified, he or she __________ everything and rushes over.

When a volunteer arrives, he or she __________ CPR(心肺复苏) if necessary, and uses the medical equipment in the motorcycle to help the __________. The goal is __________: Keep the patient alive until the regular ambulance arrives. According to Beer, an ambulance’s average response time is 12 to 15 minutes, while United Hatzalah volunteers __________ in three.

United Hatzalah’s medical care is __________ for patients because it’s run mostly by volunteers, and donations cover the __________ of supplies and staff. It clearly shows the __________ of individuals willing to use their abilities to help others.

【推荐1】The other day I shared knowledge on several aspects of Hindi (印地) culture with you. Today I'm hoping to paint a better picture of _______ it means to give in Hindi and how their generosity (慷慨) differs from _________ of Western culture.

I was _________ when we learned the word “thank you” doesn't really exist in Hindi. In the mountains, it is _________ used, and people often seemed _______ when we tried to thank them. They _________ either turn their heads, or shake their hands at us.

When we asked our Indian friends why this is so, they ___________ that giving and generosity are vital parts of their culture. Giving is more of a _________ of “changing hands “than an act of generosity. In their eyes, the foods they would give us were _________ really “theirs”. They see them as something passed along to them and now they are __________ passing them along to us.

The villagers were eager to __________ their best cucumbers to a passing stranger. __________, people in the U. S. tend to ____________ old, used, or unwanted things __________ their treasured ones.

__________, during a coffee break, a friend told me about how he donated his __________ clothes and shoes -just for the __________ of giving up the possessions he likes most. Giving is ____________ Westerners can certainly do. We can practice __________ giving away the things we value most-not only actual physical possessions, but also perhaps even more __________,our time and attention.

【推荐3】Masks that helped save lives during the Covid-19 are proving a deadly_________ for wildlife, with birds and marine creatures captured in the _________ number of abandoned facial coverings littering animal habitats.

_________ surgical masks have been found scattered around pavements, waterways and beaches worldwide since countries began _________their use in public places.

Worn once, the thin protective materials can take hundreds of years to_________.

Monkeys have been _________chewing the masks in Malaysia. And in an incident that captured headlines in Britain, a gull was rescued by the RSPCA (英国防止虐待动物协会) after its legs became _________in the straps (带子) of a disposable mask for up to a week.

The biggest impact may be in the water. More than 1.5 billion masks _________ into the world's oceans last year, according to environmental group Oceans Asia. (亚洲海洋组织)

Already there are _________ that masks are worsening threats to marine life. Conservationists in Brazil found one inside the__________ of a penguin after its body was__________on a beach, while French campaigners Operation Mer Proper found a dead crab caught in a mask in a saltwater lake near the Mediterranean.

Masks and gloves are ''particularly problematic” for sea creatures, says George Leonard, chief scientist from Ocean Conservancy. “When those__________ break down in the environment, they form smaller and smaller particles (颗粒), ” he told AFP. “Those particles then enter the food __________and impact entire ecosystems, ” he added.

__________, campaigners have urged us to dispose single-use masks properly __________ we cut the straps to reduce the risk of animals becoming captured. OceanAsia has also called on governments to encourage the use of washable masks.