1 . Angela never liked seeing plastic waste washed up on the shore near her home. She had been_______ to call on her community to clean it up, to change the _______, so she tried to set up an organization called Washed Ashore: Art to Save the Sea. Her_______ proved quite a success.

Here's how it _______.Volunteers help clean up 300 miles of shoreline. Then, _______ only plastics from the beach cleanup, Angela and many other volunteers create sculptures of sea _______·She explains, "I mean to create sculptures that make people take a look and _______: 'How can there be this much waste on the beach?' _______ these sculptures will make people consider what they have _______ in their daily life and realize how so much plastic ends up in the oceans." So far, about 10,000 ________volunteers have collected 21 tons of waste and helped create more than 70 works of art. Four traveling ________ have demonstrated the art works in 18 places of the country. One of the sculptures, Turtle Ocean, received a ________ honor. It was admitted into the National Museum.

The Washed Ashore team is now working on sculpture of a dolphin, with ________ for more sculptures.“Until we ________ plastic on the beach, the work will continue. These sculptures are a(n)________for clean oceans. ” Angela says seriously.

2 . Since it was uploaded to Internet in June, the video of Nigerian ballet dancer Madu dancing in the rain has been _______ hundreds of thousands of times over. In a moment when social media channels have been filled with upsetting _______, the scene of the 11-year-old pirouetting (单脚旋转) over puddles (水坑) is especially _______.

Madu is one of a dozen students at Daniel Owoseni’s Leap Academy(学院) of Dance. Owoseni _______ the ballet school three years ago. He _______ himself after watching Save the Last Dance at 13. “I basically learned all the fundamental _______ of ballet through Internet,” says Owoseni. A _______ later, Owoseni was outstanding enough to _______ the best in the country. _______, his hopes for an international career were quickly ruined, for he was told an African was not qualified. It was then that Owoseni decided to ________ a ballet school in his hometown for kids like himself who couldn’t ________ ballet classes. Owoseni started teaching at his home before a local businesswoman offered him a free ________ where he now holds weekly lessons.

Beyond the ________ that the academy has received from all over the world, he’s most impressed by the ________ of his own pupils. “Nothing makes a teacher ________ than a student who wants to learn,” he says. “Even though it rains cats and dogs outside they’re getting ready for class. Who wouldn’t be proud of these children?”

3 . Nougat and Clarence became best friends almost as soon as Nougat moved into the retirement home. Nougat likes to rest his head on the back of Clarence as often as he gets the ____. The dogs live at Vintage Pet Rescue, a non-profit organization that ____ elder animals from local shelters (收容所) that are ____ to find a new home. The organization aims to give dogs a comfortable, loving environment at the ____ of their lives.

Kristen Peralta, the founder of Vintage Pet Rescue, takes care of 27 mostly senior dogs. While she and her husband have unofficially been ____ older dogs for some time, Peralta turned her passion into a full-time job in 2017.

In some ways, elder dogs may be less ____ to care for because they prefer sitting still than little ones. But their futures aren’t always so ____. There are many organizations, like Peralta’s, ____ on rescuing elderly pets and giving them protection outside of animal shelters, in part because senior dogs in shelters have a(n) ____ rate of just 25 percent, while younger dogs have a 60 percent rate.

A life spent ____ two dozen older dogs can be very busy. Peralta ____ vet appointments at least once a week, gives out individual medications and does a lot of bathing and petting. But the work is rewarding, and she thinks it’s helping to show more and more people are beginning to ____ just how special senior dogs are. “You can just tell how much they ____ it when they’re helped in trouble,” Peralta said. “They’re ____ that they’re with you and you love them. It’s so special to know that you saved a dog’s life and that you’re going to make a ____to the rest of its life.”

4 . Tree hugging (拥抱) may sound a little bit strange. But Israel has been encouraging people to do it _________.

“In this _________ COVID-19 period, people have to stay away from each other,” said Orit Steinfeld, manager of Israel’s Apollonia National Park, “We _________ that people around the world go out to nature, take a deep breath hug a tree, express your love and get love.”

The park is about 15 kilometers north of Tel Aviv. Inside the park, some visitors _________ followed his advice. Barbara Grant was one of them.

“We need physical touch to stay _________. Without it, many become lonely, sad and even sick,” she said, “We are not hugging too many _________ these days. Hugging a tree is quite a _________ thing to do.”

Israel is not the _________ country to ask people to hug trees. Iceland’s Forest Service started a similar _________ in April. They advised everyone in the country to ____________ a tree for at least five minutes every day. The Forest Service even shared a short video showing people in Iceland hugging trees in the ____________. Park workers also ____________ paths in the woods so that visitors could stay away from each other while ____________ their trees.

“There are a lot of trees,” said a forest worker in the video, “no need for everyone to hug the ____________ tree.”

So, if you cannot get a human hug these days, you know something you can safely put your ____________ around: A tree!

5 . Flo Meiler was a Senior Olympics tennis player. She_________track and field at age 60. At 65,she tried the pole vault (撑杆跳高) for the first time. Now, over a decade later, Meiler has_________in the Nation Senior Games 13 times and holds 15 world records: one- hundred meter, the high jump, the long jump, the pole vault and so on. Meiler's_________of accomplishments goes on. Meiler is proud of it. How many_______ does your great grandma hold? Maybe none yet._________,Meiler will tell her there's still plenty of_________.

In Bernice Bates' yoga class, there is a motto: “I can do that.”You will feel_________when watching Bates twist and flatten her body into_________most healthy young people can't even do. Bates began_________herself yoga in 1980. Now, at 92, she__________a spot in the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest yogi on Earth. While teaching free lessons to residents of her Florida retirement home, Bates__________those who're decades younger than her by__________one simple philosophy: As long as you're alive, it's never too late to love your________This article must 　______　 with my own great grandmother who celebrated her 100th birth-day last year by bringing the whole family to a party on Orcas Island. Century old smiles are truly_______ a thing.

6 . When she was 16, Joanne learned that she was adopted (收养的) and that her birth mother was a woman named Lillian and that she had died days after giving birth to her. Feeling hurt and confused, Joanne spent many nights crying, ________what her birth mother had been like. And yet, some part of her believed her mother was still ________.

The doubts ________ Joanne for years. In 2017, when Joanne was already 79 years old, her daughter-in-law, Shelley, suggested her taking a DNA ________. Shelley thought learning something about her ________ family might give Joanne some ________ .

So Joanne took the test, and about a year later Shelley received a(n) message on ancestry.com from a man named Sam, whose genetic report had ________ him with Joanne.

Shelley immediately wrote back to Sam, asking ________ he knew a Lillian. Yes, Sam said, that was his mother’s name. Almost ________, an even bigger shock came that Lillian was alive, at age 100.

The families quickly planned a(n) ________ where Lillian lived. A month later, Joanne found herself sitting across from the mother she had ________ in her whole life, looking at Lillian, who suffered from dementia (痴呆症) and used a wheelchair.

“I don’t know if she recognizes me,” Joanne said.

She   told Lillian   that she   had been ________ in 1940 and that she’d been told   her birth   mother   had ________. No response. Joanne started to cry. At that point, her mother ________, as if she had started to understand. Joanne excitedly continued telling Lillian all about her children and grandchildren. Lillian smiled. Then she said the words Joanne had waited more than 60 years to hear: “This is my ________ .”

7 . Many schools today have gardens. School gardens are planted by students and teachers and are filled with _______, often roses, sunflowers and vegetables. Whether the _______ is large or small, the students and school community (社区) who _______ the plants benefit (获益) from it a lot. Teachers can find creative ways to use school gardens as part of their _______. For example, science teachers can _______ a school garden to help students learn how plants grow. _______ teachers can ask students to draw plants. The _______ possibilities are endless.

There are many benefits for the students who work in the school gardens. One of the most _______ things they learn is responsibility. By caring for their _______, they learn the importance of responsibility. Gardens also provide lots of chances for __________. Students work together to plant, and care for the plants as they grow. They see a whole course that depends on the class working together as a team. A school garden not only benefits the whole __________; it also benefits the whole community! By __________ community members to help take care of the garden, students can get to __________ the people in their community. The food grown in the garden can be __________ to the local poor people, which will make students feel __________ about helping their neighbors.

On the whole, starting a school garden can be a wise choice for a school.

8 . When Jim Grant spotted black smoke coming out of a building on his way to work, he_________his car to call 911. Then he_________a U-turn, circling back to take another look.

Pulling up to the building, Grant saw flames（火焰）shooting out of a second-floor window. Not seeing or hearing any fire engines_________, Grant rushed to a side_________and ran up the stairs.

On the second floor, he_________every apartment door. "Get out!" Grant shouted, No one_________and he assumed that people had already_________. Reaching the end of the hallway, though, Grant_________a half-open door. He kicked it wide open, finding a_________woman in a wheelchair with a little boy and a tiny baby. "Let's__________!" he screamed. The woman looked at him in confusion and said something about changing her clothes. Grant didn't wait, clutching（抓牢）the baby to his chest and__________the boy alongside, Grant ran down the hallway. When he was__________outside, the only__________in sight was a policeman. Grant told him about the__________and they rushed into the smoky building.

Thanks to them, a family was saved from the fire. Grant and the policeman were honored for their__________.

9 . The whole school was talking about the coming trip at a winter camp. And everyone was ______ , except me.

“I’ll hate it,’’ I told my parents. “I’ll get homesick. I’ll look stupid at winter sports, and everyone will ______ me.”

“You might be surprised, Bree,” said Mom. “The only way to find out is to ______ .”

“It，s what growing up is all about,” Dad added.

When ______ the camp, we were asked to share one ______ .

“I’m afraid I'll be homesick,” someone said.

I wasn’t the only one?! I began to ______ . After lunch,

we were asked to ski (滑雪）down to the field. I skied   ______ , but I still hit a piece of ice and ______ .

“Ha! Ha! ” Behind me, somebody started laughing. I ______ to see who was making fun of me. To my _______, I saw a girl in the same awkward position as I was in. “I thought I’d be bad at this, ______ I’m worse than I expected!” she said.

______ , I started laughing too. After being so ______ of falling, it was a comfort not to fear it anymore.

At dinner time, I was so happy to be talking about interesting things that I ______ to feel homesick.

The next day, I was ______ to try ski jumping first, even though I didn't want to. But when my feet left the ground, I felt I was ______ and it was wonderful.

Maybe Dad was right when he said, “You might ______ it if you give it a chance!’’

Maybe the kind of ______ Mom and Dad were talking about had more to do with my outlook than my looks. We all ______ not fitting in and failing when we try ______ things. Sometimes you’ve got to fall on your face to discover how much you’ve got in common.

10 . My family lived about a mile from the Bertram Woods Library. Throughout my childhood, my mother drove me there several times a week.

Our visits were never_______enough for me. I loved wandering around the_______ scanning the spines（书脊）of the books until something happened to_______my eye.

I might have spent the rest of my life_______libraries the way I viewed, say, the amusement park I went to as a kid. But then the_______feeling came back into my life_______. One day after we moved to Los Angeles in 2011, my son wanted to interview a_______ for his school assignment. So we went to the_______library.

As we drove over to meet the librarian, I_________________ a memory of this similar journey in my past—another parent and child on their way to the library. The__________ didn't look anything like the Bertram Woods, but when we____________ inside, a shock of recognition______________ me. Decades had passed, but I really felt as if I had returned to that time and place, walking into the library with my mother.________ had changed. There was the same soft sound of pencil on paper, and the murmuring of people__________ at the tables in the center of the room. The wooden checkout counters, the librarians' desks, the bulletin board, were all the same.

It wasn't that time__________ in the library. It was as if it had been captured here, or collected. A library, for me, is a gathering pool of stories and of the people who come to find them.