【推荐1】These days, claw machines (抓娃娃机) are becoming more and more popular in theaters, malls and restaurants in many Chinese cities. A claw machine is a glass box with colorful dolls or toys _______. You toss in a _______ of coins, usually two yuan, and control metal claw to grab a doll. If you are _______, the metal claw will grab the doll and move it to the machine’s delivery slot without dropping it.

These machines were invented in Japan. In China, it used to be a street game to attract _______. But now, more adults are playing it. Young people _______ the 18-38 age group, particularly women, make up about 60 percent of claw game players.

Beijinger Li Ying _______ the machines in 2020. She has spent several thousand yuan on them. She has about 50 dolls at home, including Mickey Mouse and Pikachu.

“Only two yuan for a chance to grab a cute doll—it’s _______ trying.” Li said, “When I finally succeed after several attempts, the sense of _______ filled me with happiness.”

Xu Zixuan, 26, used to study music in Singapore. She is also a big _______ of the game. When she returned to China in March last year, she chose to work at a claw machine store. Her daily work includes cleaning the store, checking the machines and ________ them to get ready for the next day. Working with different kinds of dolls makes her happy, she said.

【推荐2】Mr. Browns are the Smiths’ neighbors (邻居). Mr Brown’s first name is John. But when his neighbors talk about _________, they all call him “Mr Going-to-do”. Do you know _________? Mr Brown always says he is going to do _________, but he never does it.

Every Saturday Mr Brown goes to the Smiths’ back door and _________Mr Smith. “I’m going to _________my house today,” he says, or “I’m going to wash my car tomorrow,” _________ “These trees in front of my house are too big. I’m going to _________ them down next week.”

Mr Smith usually says, “Are you, John?” He knows his neighbor _________ going to clean his house, or wash his car, or cut down any trees. Then he says, “Well, excuse me, John. I’m going to do some work in the house.” And he _________.

Mr and Mrs Smith often say to their only child Dick, “Are you going to do something? Then do it! __________ be another ‘Mr Going-to-do’!”

【推荐1】Can one paper bag bring people hope (希望)? Sarah _______ it can. Sarah is from Massachusetts, the United States. She is 12 years old. She is in Grade 7. She likes to help others and she joins a team to help some old people and children.

Sarah finds two little girls cry sadly because their old grandma doesn’t have _______ for them and they are very hungry (饿的). So Sarah wants to _______ something for them. She draws pictures on lunch bags. Then she gives lunch with the beautiful _______ to them.

She begins to do this in December. Then she buys 100 brown lunch bags, draws pictures and writes some warm _______ on the bags. Her teammates (组员) also come to help her. But that’s not enough (足够的). To let more people _______ the old people and children, Sarah and her teammates go to a library.

Children there can color the bags in the library. They can also _______ them home to finish their work. Sarah brings 200 lunch bags to the children and they do very well. The beautiful bags make the old people and children very _______. All of them say “Thank you very much.” to the team and the children. They think the bags with pictures and words bring hope to them. After this, Sarah and her teammates also make more gifts for them.

Someone asks, “Why do you do that?” Sarah says, “I want to make the world better.” What a kind girl she is!

【推荐2】Even within the terrible darkness of war, the flower of art still blooms(绽放).

Shamsia Hassani is a teacher in Afghanistan. In 2010, she learned ________ to paint large drawings on walls. She became the ________ woman street artist in her country.

Shamsia has grown into a better graffiti (涂鸦）artist over the years. Her country, however, has become an even more ________ place. When she paints ________, she usually starts to feel unsafe after about fifteen minutes. She can only paint something very ________ or leave the work unfinished. “It’s not easy, ________ worth it,” said Shamsia, “Through graffiti, I can change the war-torn(被战争蹂躏的) walls of ________ city into beautiful paintings.”

Over the past ten years, the artist has continued to draw her most famous figure—a woman ________ shut eyes and no mouth. Shamsia has given this figure (形象) different ________ in different paintings. She may be a soldier in one and a refugee(难民) in another.“She closes her eyes, because she doesn’t want to see the darkness of war. She fights for a peaceful and bright future,” said Shamsia. “Sometimes, she also ________ in sadness. But her love for her country will never change.”

Her artworks have inspired thousands of women around the world and have given a new hope to women Afghan artists in the country.

Helping others is fun. It’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things for others. One of my favourite _______ to do this is developing my own helping habits. And you will feel _______ to be kind and helpful to others. We live in the country of the San Francisco Bay. Most of _______ we see is beauty and nature. But we often see some people _______ litter out of their windows as they drive on the roads. People _______ see public services in the country, such as a dustbin. So I often take my two children to _______ litter in our surrounding area. Picking up litter is only one kind of helping habits.

We’ve become so accustomed (习惯的) to doing this that my daughters will often _______ to me excitedly, “There is some litter, Daddy. _______ the car!” And if we have time, we will do it and pick it up. It may seem strange, but we really _______ it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, nearly anywhere. Once I even saw a stranger picking up litter close to where we live. He smiled at me and said, “I saw you doing it, and it ________ like a good idea.”

【推荐1】When you hear the word hero, you may think of someone like Mahatma Gandhi or but they do what they can to help ______ people’s lives as well. Everyday heroes are normal people who are working to make the world a better place. Among them is Robert Lee.

Lee grew up in New York City. As his family was not rich, he learned from a young age the importance of   ______ the waste of food. When in college, he was part of a student group that gave out leftover (剩余的) food to ______ people. This experience make him realize how serious the problem of food wastage actually was.

After he left university, Lee and a friend set up an organization called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC). Its purpose is to ______ unsold food from restaurants and send it for free to shelters (收容所) and food kitchens. Volunteers pick up the food from restaurants around the city and hand it out to those in need.

RLC operates simply. Using an app developed by Lee’s team,    5     report how much leftover food they have each day. Then volunteers are sent to fetch it. The distance is usually short, so volunteers can just do their deliveries (递送) by walking from the restaurants to the shelters. Lee believes this is a quick way of delivery.

So far, Lee and his team have successfully ______ over 150,000 kilograms of food, serving almost 300,000 meals to people who need them, Lee has shown that a ______ action can help people around us greatly. It may have a greater influence than we imagine. When Lee is asked what his next plan is,   he says there is still a lot to do. “It’s just the ______. With more restaurants, who knows how much more we can do?”

We are lucky to live in a rich country where we have many things. However, most of us usually ________ some things.

Electricity is one thing that we waste ________. Lights, TVs, ________ and other things are often kept on even when no one is using them. We should turn them off when we do not need them. It ________ less than a second to do it. Anyhow, not wasting electricity saves money, because we do not have to ________ the electricity we do not use.

The second thing that we often waste is water. Fresh water is precious (宝贵的), ________ it shouldn’t be wasted. It is only a simple matter of turning off a tap. I am sure ________ can do this easily if he wants to.

________ big waste is food. My mother ________ cook so much food that much of it was thrown away. I told her we had wasted so much ________. She thought I was right and now cooks ________ what we can eat.

It is not ________ to be wasteful. I find there is a simple ________ of not wasting things. That is to use only what we ________. Do not touch what we do not need. ________ this way we can stop being wasteful.

【推荐3】A bottle of water may not seem like much to you, but thousands of bottles will be of great help for people who live in drought-hit(遭受旱灾) areas in China.

Last autumn, there was______rain in Southwest China. Some places, especially in Yunnan, Guangxi, Sichuan, Guizhou,______a serious drought. Crops died, the land cracked(裂开), and well and rivers dried up. More than 20 million people are having______in finding safe drinking water.

After learning about the drought, many people around the country______water, money and other things to help. Last week, the Communist Youth League(共青团员) and Young Pioneers______each student to give one bottle of water to the drought-hit areas. Students in primary school and middle schools______joined the activity. In Yuhua Primary School in Xi’an, 900 students bought over 1,000 bottles of water with their pocket money. They also wrote their______on the bottles, “I hope you get more rain there. I hope you are happy.”

A bottle of water isn’t much, but thousands of bottles will be very______. The serious drought has also made students______the importance of saving water. “The children in drought-hit areas won’t have enough drinking water unless we do something to help,” said one student. “I decide to take a______twice a week to save water,” he said.