3 . Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of _____ others. They can make you feel how _____ it is to be kind and helpful.

We live in a rural (乡村的) area. Most of what we _____ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the _____ is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few _____ of living there is short of _____ public services, such as rubbish collection, which is common in the _____ .

My daughters and I regularly _____ rubbish in our neighborhood. They will often say to me in a(n) _____ voice,“There’s some rubbish, Daddy-stop the car!” And we will often get out of our car and pick it up. In fact, we ______   it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost everywhere.

One day I saw a stranger picking up rubbish on the road. He ______ his head and smiled, “I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good ______ to protect our environment.”

There are many other ways to ______ kindness for others. You may share dinner with a beggar, visit lonely old people in the nursing home, or help the blind ______ the road. You can think of something that can be finished ______ but helpful. It is fun, self-satisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example.

4 . This is a story of a penguin（企鹅）that swims 5, 000 miles to a ________ in Brazil every year in order to visit the man who saved his life. It sounds like something out of a fairy tale, but it’s true！

Joao Pereira de Souza is a 71-year-old retired worker and part-time ________. He lives in an island village just outside Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He found the small penguin ________ on rocks at his local beach in 2015.

The penguin was starving and covered in oil. Joao ________ the penguin, naming him Din Din,________ the oil off his feathers（羽毛）and fed him a daily diet of fish to rebuild his________.

When Din Din________, Mr. de Souza set him free into the sea,________ expecting to see his new friend again.

The little guy wasn’t gone long, though, and just a few months later, he was back at the same beach. He ________Joao fishing and followed him home, staying with him for the rest of the year.

________, this cycle has ________over the past five years. Each year Din Din stays with Joao for about eight months and is believed to ________ the rest of the time breeding（繁殖）on the Patagonia coasts of Argentina and Chile.

“I love the penguin like he’s my own child and I believe the penguin loves me,” Joao told Globo TV. “No one else is allowed to touch him. He ________ them if they do. But he lies on my lap, lets me give him showers and allows me to feed him ________.”

Professor Krajewski, a biologist who interviewed the fisherman for Globo TV, said: “I have never seen anything like this before. I think the penguin believes Joao is part of his ________ and probably a penguin as well.”

6 . Max’s Best Friend

Max wasn’t feeling well one morning after a snow. So when it was time to walk his three year old dog named Cal, he ______ to a nearby field and let her out.

But then Max found himself short of ______ and decided to walk back to his car. The 58-year-old man was ______ a mild heart attack. After only a few steps, he ______.

For about an hour Max lay face-down in the snow, taking a quick deep breath for ______. His body ______ dropped to 32℃. Although he was almost unconscious(失去知觉的), he was still ______ of Cal running ______ him, barking loudly.

______, about 180 meters away, Cal found Mike, who was removing the ______ from a backyard ice rink (溜冰场) that he had made for his kids. She ______ to him barking.

“She was jumping back and forth (来回) at me,” Mike says, “going one way, ______ the other, as if to say ‘Come on. Let’s go’. But I didn’t know what she was ______ that for.”

The dog wouldn’t stop barking. Looking around, Mike could see ______ in the distance. So he ran with Cal back to where Max ______. Seeing that Max needed ______, Mike ran home to call 911, then returned with a blanket, ______ Max and waited for the medical aid. Max was taken to a local ______ and later sent to St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He ______ eight days later.

“Without the ______ and Mike, I wouldn’t be here,” Max says.

7 . One evening, Catherine was at home as usual. As her____swung between what she was going to do with her life and their dinner plans for the evening, she was unexpectedly ___by an urgent call from her sister “Get over here! Turn on NBC and check these guys out. They are just like you…” One Facebook message and a phone interview later, Catherine____herself on a bus with 8 strangers in the middle of the sweltering desert heat of Utah, picking up trash and ___awareness about zero-waste and climate change.

With a deep____of the environment and a desire to make a __ , Catherine, Davey, and a group of self ___“environmental pick-up artists” went on a coast to coast road side trash pick-up. As they walked, sometimes only______0.9 miles in an entire day, they ____ and steadily made their way across the United States for three years, picking up a total of 201,678 pounds of trash.

Catherine and Davey____with us wonderful stories of hope and inspiration that fueled their___to continue their journey. After spending weeks silently______how she would have enough _____to fly home for their two-week spring break, Catherine found a blank, unidentified envelope____with $850 cash in the desert. Just enough to get her home and back. After their bus____outside of Denver, they unexpectedly got ____ and arrived in Yosemite National Park three weeks later, just in time for the “Yosemite Facelift” where____ from all over the state came together with a______of cleaning up trash all over the park.

Being at the right place at the right time became almost normal, and they realized that much of what they ____was more than just a coincidence. Together, their team learned to simply ____themselves to their task, and surrender to the journey.

8 . There’s an event that changed my life many years ago. It is a memory that _____comes and goes, but it is one of the most________memories that my wife and I_________

Once we were driving home and decided to ______at a local gas station to get coffee and something to eat. When we got back into our car, we noticed a man       __________outside in front of the building. You could tell that he was a_________man. His clothes were__________ He must have not had enough money to get something to eat.___________what he did moved all of us.

The next thing I remember is a dog that__________the front of the building. I could tell she was a she, because you could tell that she had been__________puppies (小狗). She was terribly in need of something to eat and I felt so__________for her. I knew if she didn’t eat soon, she and her puppies would not__________it.

My wife and I sat there and looked at her. We__________that people walked by and didn’t even have a look at her. She might not have been as pretty and__________as most, but she still deserved better. Before my wife and I did anything,__________did. The homeless man, who I thought was hungry himself, went into the store. And what he did brought_________to me and my wife. He has gone into the store and with perhaps all the_________he may have had, bought a can of dog food and fed that dog.

I know that this story isn’t as__________as most stories, but it plays a great part in our lives. That was Mother’s Day weekend. And many people__________that some animals are parents too. And animals are God’s________like us.

9 . In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _______ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _______ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we _______ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _______ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _______ modern manufacturing (制造业)and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _______.

Another cause is our _______of disposable (一次性的) products. As _______ people, we are always looking for _______ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies ________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Our appetite for new products also ________ to the problem. We are ________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that ________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we ________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the ________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To ________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the ________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. ________, this is not enough to solve (解决) our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions ________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about ________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

10 . I fell in love with Yosemite National Park the first time I saw it, when I was 13. My parents took us there for camping. On the way out, I asked them to wait while I ran up to E1 Capitan, a _______ rock of 3,300 feet straight up. I touched that giant rock and knew _______ I wanted to climb it. That has been my life’s passion (钟爱) ever since — _______ the rocks and mountains of Yosemite. I’ve long made Yosemite my _______.

About 15 years ago I started seeing a lot of _______, like toilet paper, beer cans, and empty boxes, around the area. It’s _______ me why visitors started respecting the place _______ and treated such a beautiful home-like place this way.

I tried _______ trash (垃圾) myself, but the job was too big. I would _______ an hour or two on the job, only to find the area trashed all over again weeks later. Finally, I got so ________ it that I decided something had to change.

As a rock-climbing guide, I knew ________ about organizing any big event. But in 2014, together with some climbers, I set a date for a ________. On that day, more than 300 people ________. Over three days we collected about 6,000 pounds of trash. It was amazing how much we were able to ________. I couldn’t believe the ________ we made — the park looked clean!

Each year volunteers come for the cleanup from everywhere. In 2016 alone, 2,945 people picked up 42,330 pounds of trash and ________ 132 miles of roadway.

I often hear people ________ about their surroundings. If you are one of them, I would say the only way to change things is by ________ rather than complaining. We need to teach by ________. You can’t blame others ________ you start with yourself.