【推荐2】It’s a Friday afternoon. School is over. Joey’s father is still at work _______ he can’t drive Joey home from school. Then Joey plans to walk home with Chris. When the two boys walk and talk, they find an envelope (信封) on the street. “_______ is it?” Joey says. “Oh, there is a _______ on it, Mary Hill. It can be hers.” Then he _______ the envelope.

“There is $3,000 in it!” says Joey. “It’s so _______! Mary must be very worried (着急的) now. What can we do for _______, Chris?”

“We can _______ her here. She will come back to look for it,” Chris _______ for a moment and says. “It’s a _______ idea. Let’s sit down and wait,” Joey says.

Thirty minutes later, but ________ comes.

“What can we do now?” Joey asks again. “We can go to the police station and tell the ________ that we found the money. They can ________ the woman,” says Chris. When they are ready to ________, a woman comes. She searches the street around the boys. “Hey, boys. Do you see an envelope? ” she asks. “Yes. But can you tell us your name?” Joey asks. “I’m Mary Hill,” says the woman. Joey takes out the envelope and says “I think it is ________.” “Yes, it is. Thank you very much. You two are so ________,” says she. “You are welcome,” Joey and Chris say.

【推荐1】Borrowing things is good for the environment. It’s because it uses _________ resources to complete tasks. For example, when you are repairing your car, you find you are short of a certain tool. You can borrow one instead of buying one from the store. Such _________ helps save resources on the earth.

Borrowing things has many other _________. It creates a chance to start a conversation with your new neighbor to show friendliness, etc. And you get a task done more _________. without spending much time shopping.

Sarah Lazarovic, an artist from Toronto, _________ people to borrow things. She considers borrowing has little to do with saving money. It’s more about creating a culture of _________ and communicating with people around us, which in turn creates a much safer and better community.

And Lazarovic writes, “The more you feel _________ borrowing something, the more likely you are to gain the things you want and need out of life.”

I’ve experienced this in my own life. I grew up in a village with many neighbors. They fully showed us their _________. Over the years, they enriched my life in more ways than I could count. We got sugar, butter and other things from neighbors, and we paid back. They _________ baked foods.

But it didn’t stop there. Books, clothes, boats, bicycles. And even my job as a writer can all be linked to connections made with those __________ and warm-hearted neighbors. These mini-connections can make us happier.

In Liaoning Province, a couple spent nearly half a century turning two poor mountains into a home for birds with their own hands. Tian Wangui, 67, and his wife Lu Min, are ________ in Qiantian Village. They have lived in the village for many years.

When spring arrived, they ________ some tree seeds (种子) and planted them on the mountains. However, it didn’t go ________ at the beginning.

They faced a lot of hard situations. It was so ________ to grow trees on the mountains because the trees didn’t adapt to (适合) the soil. ________ the couple didn’t give up. They repeated the same work every year. After ________ many times, they found several kinds of trees that were strong enough to survive well in the poor mountains.

Nowadays the two mountains are ________ by over 50,000 trees. More than 2,000 rare (稀有的) birds live in the mountains every year. It has become ________ with photographers. Last year, Tian and Lu’s mountains were given the name “Lu Ling”. The couple’s job has also ________ from planting trees to patrolling (巡逻) the mountains.

“We hope even as we grow old, our children will continue to protect the mountains and ________ our dream alive.” said Lu. “We love the mountains and trees as much as we love our own home.”