【推荐1】Josette Duran was surprised when her son Dylan, 14, asked her to pack him a(an)_______snack in his school lunch. When she asked him why, his reply was truly touching.

“I asked, ‘why? Are you not getting full? What’s going on? And he said, ‘No, I want to take one for my friend,” Duran remembered.

It turned out that Dylan had a classmate whose family____needed help. The boy’s single mother had recently lost her job and could no longer afford her son’s lunches. After learning this, Duran was even willing to reach out to them.

“I was homeless a few years ago. I know how_____it is to ask for help. You get sad and feel embarrassed(尴尬),” said Duran.

When the young boy’s mother learned of Duran’s warm heart, she called her up and_____to pay her back for everything, but Duran couldn’t accept it. “I don’t think I did anything____,” Duran said, “I just think I did what a human being is_____to do.”

The kindness doesn’t____there. Duran is the coach of the girls’ volleyball team of the local school. Her team raised $ 400 to cover the cost of all the extra lunches Duran had made out of her own pocket. But Duran refused to keep the cash, and____, donated it to the snack bar at her son’s school. “ Now everyone can eat,” Duran said, “ What makes me especially_____is that it all started with my son. Being kind doesn’t have to come in the form of money; just know that if you’re having a good day while someone else is having a bad day, you should______that.”

【推荐2】One day the No. 1 bus going along Louxing Road. Suddenly the _______ saw an old man lying on the side of the road. A woman next to him was shouting for _______.

The bus driver stopped the bus _______ thinking twice. He got off the bus and asked the woman what happened. She said that the man had heart disease and should go to the_______. The driver   knew he had to act _______. He told the passengers that he must take the man to the hospital. He expected most or all of the passengers to _______ and wait for the next bus. But to his surprise, they   all agreed to go with him. Some passengers helped the bus driver to _______ the man onto the bus.

Thanks to the bus driver and the passengers, the doctor _______ the man in time. Now many     people don’t want to help _______ because they don’t want any trouble. But the driver didn’t think   about himself. He only thought about saving a _______.

【推荐3】John Muir was a protector of nature. He set an example that each of us can follow to protect the natural areas _________ us.

The first way we can follow Muir’s example is to discover our local natural areas. Muir was a great _________. He once walked one thousand miles from Indiana to Florida.

Another way to follow Muir is to _________ nature. Muir loved to explore(探索) the outdoors. He learned _________ he could about rocks, plants, and animals. From _________ exploring, he came to realize that the wilderness, places where people do not live or build, is an important gift. Muir made a _________ that his life’s goal was to protect this gift.

Muir’s greatest example for us is his work to protect nature. He _________ its beauty by writing books. He climbed Yosemite’s peaks(山峰) and _________ them as “clothes in light”. In _________, he enjoyed its “pearl-gray belt of snow(珠灰色雪带)” . However, he also saw _________ eating Yosemite’s plants and people cutting down its trees for wood. Muir gave talks _________ wrote books about these dangers. President Theodore Roosevelt was _________ impressed(给……留下深刻印象) after hearing that Muir visited Yosemite that he signed a law making Yosemite a _________ park in 1890. This meant that the US _________ would take care of it.

We can find our own pieces of nature to explore, learn about and protect. We can write to our local newspapers about nature’s beauty and tell people _________ to help care for it. We can all follow John Muir’s footsteps.