【推荐2】Sammie Vance knows it feels bad to be left out. ________ she has been helping kids who feel lonely make friends.
Sammie is 14. When she was in the third grade, she started the Buddy Bench (友谊长凳) program. That was at her school, in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Anyone ________ felt lonely could sit on the “buddy bench”. It showed others that someone needed a friend.
The bench ________ kids together. “There was one little boy at school, younger than me,” Sammie told TIME for Kids. “He would see me in the hallway and give ________ a thumbs-up (翘大拇指). That told me that what I was doing helped him.”
It costs ________ to build benches. Sammie decided to make them out of recycled material. This lowered the cost.
Sammie rallied (召集) her community. They collected 1,200 pounds of bottle caps (瓶盖). A company called Green Tree Plastics made three benches ________ the bottle caps.
Sammie has helped communities all over the country set up buddy benches. And she is spreading ________ around the world. “We ________ got a bench in Ghana, Africa,” she says. “That was cool. ”
Sammie reminds us that kids can help their community. Even small acts of kindness can be ________. “You don’t have to be an adult to make a difference,” she says.
Sammie wrote a book called Inspire the World: A Kid’s Journey to Making a Difference. It ________ the story of her buddy benches. Sammie hopes her example will inspire (激励) others. “I used to be really shy,” she says. “I’m more outgoing now. ”
1. 2. A.when | B.where | C.who | D.which |
3. A.mixed | B.brought | C.refused | D.threw |
4. 5. A.time | B.money | C.energy | D.gold |
6. 7. A.pain | B.lies | C.kindness | D.unhappiness |
8. A.recently | B.mostly | C.strangely | D.clearly |
9. A.direct | B.smooth | C.awful | D.powerful |
10. A.chooses | B.reviews | C.tells | D.repeats |