Chelsea Phaire is changing the world, one art kit (美术套件) at a time. The high-energy 14-year-old girl is the founder of Chelsea’s Charity (慈善). Its ________ is to give art kits to kids in all states in the US and, in the future, to kids in other countries. So far, Chelsea’s Charity has ________ thousands of kits.

Chelsea was only 8 years old when she ________ to start the charity. “My mother and I had a conversation about the fact that not everyone had chances ________ art materials,” Chelsea says, “and that made me so ________.” But it took her parents some time to agree with her about the charity. They wanted her to wait ________ she was a little older.

In 2019, Chelsea could ________ start her charity. She told her friends not to buy her presents for her 10th birthday. ________, she asked them to give her art kits for her charity. The girl also ________ money by helping out at her dad’s barbershop (理发店) to buy art kits. The art kits Chelsea puts together often go to ________ kids.

Art is an important part of Chelsea’s life. “Art has helped me ________ hard times,” she says. “I use it to express ________ and make myself feel better when bad things happen.” This is why she feels it’s so important to make sure everyone has ________ to learn art.

Chelsea says ________ is also a great way to release (释放) bad feelings. “If everyone knows how to change bad feelings and thoughts into art, then we can solve problems in a(n) ________ way,” she adds. “You never know unless you try.”

【推荐2】Harper is a kind woman. She has a 4-year-old ________. One day when Harper was ________ home at 8:30 pm, she saw something on fire by the road. So she stopped her car.

As Harper got ________, she found a black car that had an accident. Black smoke(烟) was ________ and she couldn’t see what was going on inside the car. As it was ________ and there was nobody else around, Harper was a little afraid. And her little daughter was waiting for her at home. So she decided to ________. At that moment, she remembered people who helped her. Then she walked back to the car again, called 911 and checked ________ if anyone was in the car. Soon, Harper ________ a man under the airbag(安全气囊). He was badly hurt. Without thinking twice, Harper pulled the man out of the car. Before the fire got ________, Harper moved him to a safe place. After doing that, Harper felt so ________ and couldn’t move. Ten minutes later, the police and doctors came.

“There was blood all over his body. He looked at me closely, trying to pass his ________ of living on to me. So I held ________ in my arms all the time,” Harper said to the police.

A few days later, the man got better. He wrote a ________ to Harper. It read, “Thank you! I felt lucky ________ you didn’t leave me alone. You’re a real hero(英雄).”

A hero is not just someone who does great things but that who ________ a hand to others in need. Heroes live not only in movies, but also in our everyday life.

【推荐3】Last year, I worked in a middle school near my ______ house, and I stayed with her for a month. During that time, I helped her do some housework and ______ some food.

After the first week, I noticed that the food was eaten up very ______. Then I began keeping a(n)______ on my mum. To my surprise, I found that she would put some of the food into a paper ______ and go out with it at about nine every morning. And finally, I decided to _____her. I saw her taking the food to the street ______. She would also spend a lot of time talking and playing with them.

One day, I talked to a neighbor and ______ that my mum was popular in the area. The children were very friendly to her and even thought of her as their own ______. Then it hit me; why wouldn't she want to tell me about it? Was she ______ that I would stop buying food if I found out?

______ my mum got home, I gave her a big hug(拥抱). I told her she didn't need to keep it ______ from me. And she told me something about the children. Some of ______ lived with an old lady in a small house, ______ slept on the street. For years, she was helping the poor street children by giving them food. After she told me everything, I was so moved by how selfless(无私的)she was. She helped people in need. As her son, I was so ______ my mum.

But I always added one more bag for her other children.

【推荐1】Jeffery loves outdoor games like basketball. He is a good sports player but he is not very interested ____ studies. He never does homework. “Too ____,” he says. His teachers always tell him, “Jeffery! Do your homework, or you can’t learn anything.” But what can he do? He _____ homework.

One day, he found his cat playing with a little doll (洋娃娃) and he took it away. ____ he looked at it closely, he found that it wasn’t a doll at all but a man of the smallest size. It was a little elf (精灵)!

The elf shouted, “Save me! Don’t give me back to the ____. Make a wish. I can make your wish come true if you save me.”

“How ____ I am!” Jeffery thought. Here was the answer to all of his problems. So he said, “Please do all ____ homework till (直到) the end of this term and make sure I can get A’s. If you make my wish come true, I’ll let you go then.” The little elf said ____.

And true to his word, the little elf began to do Jeffery’s homework. But there was one   problem―the elf didn’t always know ____ to do the homework and needed help. When doing reading, the elf asked Jeffery to look up new words in the ____. When doing history, the elf needed Jeffery to go to the library to ____ books and read to him.

Jeffery was much more ____! He got up early in the morning and stayed up late at night. That little elf made him crazy (抓狂的)! He never felt so ____. Then the last day of school arrived and Jeffery had to let the elf ____. As for homework, Jeffery didn’t hate (厌恶) to do it anymore.

He got his A’s. His classmates and teachers were all ____. They wondered what had happened to Jeffery. Do you know who really helped Jeffery?

Zhang Jie was a 13-year-old student. He was on his way home last Monday evening. When he was in his lift (电梯), it suddenly stopped. Zhang decided to help himself out although he felt a little ________. He tried to open the lift door, but he gave up the idea later and stood against the wall because he thought the ________ might fall down suddenly. He then pressed all the buttons (按钮), hoping it would make the lift ________ again, but it didn’t. Zhang then pressed the “stop” button to lock the lift to ________ it would not fall. Without a phone, Zhang tried shouting ________ to get the attention of people outside, but nobody answered. ________, the young boy didn’t give up. He sent out a note to look for help through the door and hoped someone would pick it up and help him out. He knew it might ________ a long time before someone saved him. So he decided to do his ________ after doing all these. When he almost finished his homework, he was ________ at last. On Weibo, many people praised the boy, because he could be so calm (冷静的).

No matter how ________ the situation is, we should face it and try to solve the problem.