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There are lots of lovely animal characters in Disney films. No wonder so many people are excited to see their favorite animal friends turn into ______ cartoon characters.

Isa Bredt, an artist from the Netherlands, turns pet photos into Disney-style cartoons. The characters she ______ seem like they could jump right out of a classic Disney film!

Isa calls her project Pet Disneyfication. “I started it ______ I was and still am a big fan of both drawing animals and the old Disney style,” said the 25-year-old girl. Isa has been drawing since she was a child. In the beginning, she offered free drawings to people who would send her pictures of their ______. Now, she draws for people from around the world.

The Dutch artist also works her magic to ______ homeless animals. She turns them into lovely cartoon characters and hopes to increase their ______ of finding loving homes.

Opia is one such animal. The cat was found in the street. She can hardly move because of her hurt back legs. Isa ______ drew a picture of her that showed her charm (魅力). The artist encouraged her followers to help Opia if they could.

It was a ______ process, but Opia finally got her Disney dream come true! And she has found a caring family!

5 . If you can’t see, can you still enjoy movies? The answer is yes. The Guangming Cinema project makes it possible. It provides movies with audio (声音的) descriptions for people who can’t see. Instead of watching, they can enjoy the stories only by listening to them.

What is this kind of movie like? It adds the narration (旁白) between the movie’s dialogue. The narrations let people know what is being shown on the screen, including the background and scenes in the films.

Wang Weili set up the Xinmu Theater in Beijing to serve the blind community. He remembered watching the Hollywood action film The Terminator with a blind friend in 2000 and telling every scene to him patiently. This made his friend feel enjoyable and then inspired him to start the theater project.

Xiao Huanyi is one of the theater’s fans. He has been visiting the theater for 12 years. “I used to listen to stories that told the plots (情节) on the radio,” said Xiao. “But Xinmu Theater is different—it lets me clearly know about the scenes. This is precious to us.”

Since 2005, the theater has organized 1,088 free movie activities. “The government can provide special schools to meet their basic living needs. But life isn’t just made up of basic living needs,” Wang said. “The world is made up of heat, smell, color, sound, and so on. I want to describe all of these for them,” he added.

7 . Stephen Davies was born without the lower part of his left arm. When he was at school, he had to wear a prosthetic limb (假肢). As he grew up, he found that it was gradually hard to wear his prosthetic arm as usual. And the places it could reach couldn’t meet his needs anymore.

It’s OK for adults to buy better and more expensive prosthetic arms as they can use the same one for years. Children, though, need to change their prosthetic arms every few months because they grow so quickly.

Stephen decided to do something. He had read that it was possible to print light, 3D prosthetics and he wondered if he could make them himself. He experimented (做实验) with simple but very colourful arms and legs. He discovered that he could make good prosthetic limbs quite cheaply.

Now he and his business partner (合伙人) produce “cool” limbs. They give prosthetic limbs away to children who need them (they raise money on the Internet to help with the cost of making the prosthetic limbs). One of the first kids to get a “cool” limb was nine-year-old Isabella Jennings. She had been waiting all her life for something like this. Stephen was really glad to help more children like himself.

8 . I’d just finished school and would like to go abroad, but with little savings, I knew it would be difficult. But then a friend of mine _________ me a link (链接) to the SCI （Service Civil International）website and suggested I check it out. Six weeks later, I was _________ with seven other members at a community centre which was helping street kids in Tirana, Albania. It turned out to be one of the best _________ I have made.

Every day, about 20 children turned up at the _________. These were kids whose families lived in _________ buildings on the edge (边缘) of the city, where the houses were old and unsafe, without electricity or _________ water. We played games together, helped them with English, sang songs and one day we even _________ some traditional food from our countries in the kitchen together. The kids were _________. They were so friendly, curious and full of life. It was fun to lean about their lives and share _________.

In the evenings, we were free to __________ the area and see the sights of Tirana. __________ we were often tired from our daily activities, it’s a city which has got plenty to offer. But when I look back, what I liked best was the __________ we had to meet local people and learn about their country. And I’ll never forget the party the local volunteers __________ for us on our last night there.

The two weeks I had volunteering with SCI in Albania gave me the chance to __________ new skills, make new friends and, most __________, make a decision about what I wanted to do with my future.

Fifteen years ago, we decided to set up a free library for our ________. My husband built a little two-floor house for it and I spent several days choosing books ________ from our bookcases. Located on a ________ street, the little library sees hundreds of passers-by each day. We are ________ that thousands of books, as well as DVDs and CDs have been shared through our little library in the past fifteen years.

Many of those who use our library are kind to ________ their love for this neighborhood. One gentleman often stops by to ________ books for a nearby retirement (退休) home and they enjoy the happy reading moment. And sometimes, we have ________ cards and gifts from others.

Like the people who use our library, the books that come and go show the diversity (多样性) of our city. English, French and Russian books are the most popular ________. I’ve even collected favorite books of mine in languages I don’t understand, simply for the joy of adding more books to my collection.

I have heard some complaints (抱怨) that the Little Free Library may influence the business of bookstores nearby. ________, this is not our purpose. We continue to buy more books for our library. The Little Free Library has increased our ________ in reading and has connected us to a community of book lovers in the heart of our busy neighborhood.