1 . After my graduation from college, I was always worried about my financial (财务的) situation. Things changed when I got a job at a library and also accepted a part-time job. I became ________ about future. But how was I going to ________ two jobs at the same time? I thought, looking out of the window.

A squirrel (松鼠) was making his way down a tree. It was ________ for him to climb up and down easily like other squirrels with a piece of bread in his mouth. How was he going to manage that? I held my breath and cheered him on in my ________. He moved down with ________, holding onto the tree. When he finally ________ the ground, he pulled the bread behind him. His journey was not ________ yet, so he kept trying! It was ________ that this squirrel and I had a lot in common. I had my own bread to ________ and my own trees to climb. I moved from one ________ to another to follow the ________ of the squirrel’s action. Slowly but surely, he ________ it to the roadside and stopped to check on the traffic. Finally, the squirrel crossed the road ________ with his meal. When he entered the bushes (灌木丛). I cheered ________ I couldn’t watch his next move. Then I went upstairs to get ready for the ________ before me. “You can do it,” I told myself.

2 . Years ago, in a small fishing village in Holland, a young boy taught the world about the rewards of unselfish service.

Because the entire village lived on fishing, a volunteer rescue team was needed in _______ of emergency. One night, the winds _______ hard, the clouds burst and a strong storm overturned a fishing boat at sea. The crew were in trouble and they _______ the SOS. The captain of the rescue rowboat team sounded the alarm and the villagers quickly _______ in the town square, overlooking the sea. When the team started their rowboat and fought their way through the _______ waves, the villagers waited nervously on the beach, _______ lamps to light the way back.

An hour later, the rescue boat reappeared through the fog and the hoping villagers ran to _______ the volunteers. Falling on the sand, _______, the volunteers reported that the rescue boat could not hold any more _______ and they had to leave one man behind. Even one more passenger would have surely overturned the rescue boat and all would have been ________.

Anxiously, the captain called for another volunteer team to ________ the survivor. Sixteen-year-old Hans stepped forward. His mother grabbed his arm, ________, “Please don’t go. Your father ________ in a shipwreck (海难) 10 years ago and your older brother, Paul, has been lost ________ for three weeks. Hans, you are all I have left.”

Hans replied, “Mother, I have to go. ________ everyone said ‘I can’t go, let someone else do it’, there will be ________ going to help. Mother, this time I have to do my duty.” Hans kissed his mother, joined the team and ________ into the night.

Another hour passed, which seemed to Hans’ mother like a century. ________, the rescue boat dashed through the fog with Hans standing up in the bow (船首). Cupping his hands, the captain ________, “Did you find the lost man?” Hardly able to control himself, Hans ________ cried back, “Yes, we found him. Tell my mother it’s my older brother, Paul!”

8 . Raden is a librarian in Indonesia’s Java island. She is ________ books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a(n) ________ way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday she rides her three-wheeler with books for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other ________ that she carries back.

She is helping inculcate(灌输)________ in the kids and make them ________ of the environment. The moment she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Radon’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books ________ out. She’s ________ the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result She ________ about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for ________ or sold. She has 6, 000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile ________ to neighboring areas too.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader,________ for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

The literacy(读写能力)rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but the pandemic(流行病)will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency(熟练)level.

9 . The first time ever I realized that plastic was a serious matter for our planet was during a road trip in Western Australia, almost 12 years ago.

We________at a supermarket along the Coral Bay coast to buy some groceries and the lady at the counter told us they didn’t sell any shopping bags in order to prevent plastic in the________and to help preserving the endangered turtles living in that area. After a first reaction of surprise, we________all our shopping in our arms and left.

This was just one of the many experiences I’ve lived that made me more________about my impact and pushed me to adopt different habits to live and________more sustainably.

Our trip to Borneo was another life-changing________that has strengthened my resolution to a zero-waste lifestyle. While traveling in some Asian countries, we came to know that________drinkable water was always a challenge. So we had to travel with our water bottle, and we________to avoid using plastic during our trip.

Besides, we were also________impressed by our stay on Libaran Island. A sustainable turtle conservation________and the community had made big efforts to________ the beaches and creatively re-use plastic for ten years. Despite that, the shore is________daily with tons of plastic coming from the tides.

Facing this global issue________, raised in me a feeling of sadness and anger that soon turned into________: to do as much as possible to reduce plastic in our life. Small changes can________a difference!

10 . Jack Little was road testing his mountain bike outside of Columbus, when his riding partner, Chris Dixon, ________ suddenly. Something in the distance moving among the trees had caught her attention. It   _________ to be a sandy-colored dog.

“He was really ________ and skinny, and had a broken leg,” Little told CBS News. The ________ fed the friendly dog and shared their water. The moment they moved on, they quickly ________ that the dog was coming with them. They were seven miles from town and riding bikes. “We couldn’t ________ him,” Little told   CBS News. “Out there next to the Oxbow Meadows, he was going to be eaten by a crocodile (鳄鱼).”

Little came up with an idea. He carefully _________ his new friend and slipped the dog’s back legs into his backpack. Then he put the dog’s front paws over his ________. With his new friend on his back, he set off.

“He was ________ , so he wasn’t trying to fight even in this uncomfortable position,” Little says. “He was also ________ that we were there, touching him, and hadn’t left him.”

The 30-minute ________ into town ended at a bike store, where they got more water and food for the dog. That was when Ann Shaw, a lawyer from Maine in town on business, happened by.

The dog ________ her, licking her. After learning what had happened, Shaw was touched and decided to ________ the dog.

Shaw called him Columbo after that day and ________ an operation on his leg soon. Today, Columbo is living a happy life on a farm with a horse, a six-year-old boy, and two sheep to keep him company. As Dixon told CBS News, “He is exactly the _________ dog alive.”