1 . Joy took Teresa’s hand in its mouth and led her to the living room. Her son, Dominic, 20, lay in a chair with his eyes closed and _________ for breath. Thanks to the dog, the boy was saved again before it was too _________.

Two years ago, when Dominic met Joy, he had no idea how _________ it would become to him. Driving home, he noticed a _________ dog along the road. Without hesitation, he brought it to the vet who said the dog might not _________ the bad condition it was in. The boy left with worry.

One week later, Dominic returned to the vet, only to be _________ to see the dog come closer with all its strength and _________ him like an old friend! The boy laughed. He kept the dog, named it Joy and _________ it back to health.

Soon Joy had the chance to return the _________. Dominic had his first allergy attack four months later. He suddenly fell down at the gate where Joy kept barking hard for ____________ until the mom rushed out in time.

Since then there has been a special ____________ between Dominic and Joy. The dog is gentle, sensitive and ____________, staying close to Dominic day and night. “I can be ____________,” his mother says, “knowing that Joy is watching over Dominic.”

Her son puts it more ____________, “Joy and I ____________ each other.”

2 . Early spring can be a tough time in the Midwest. It can ________ both people and animals with its unexpected snowstorms.

Every spring, migratory(迁徙的) birds camp out in a large pond near my house on the way to their summer ________. This year, besides geese, scaups, a type of diving duck spent days hanging out ________ eats. Then a snowstorm hit, followed by a very ________ night.

The next morning, I was shocked to see that all birds had ________ overnight — except one lone female, who was diving ________ and dynamically in the circle of open water. Her movement and body heat had kept the ________ from coming close as I ________ her from my warm house.

However, as the temperature dropped, the open water got smaller, and her movements slowed. I watched with ________ as she eventually stopped moving, fearing that something might happen.

And then it happened: Two more ducks appeared, ________ next to her still body. More ducks came and the circle of water came alive with their splashing and diving. Slowly, the circle of water ________ in size. Within minutes, the lone female was revived by her friends’ presence.

This little duck wouldn’t have ________ another night without her friends. She, in turn, had kept that area of water ________, so her friends had a place to stop and ________ themselves. Sometimes, a tiny action — even our mere ________ — might brighten one’s day, and even save one’s life.

3 . Many poor children in Africa struggle on tuition for an education. However, a new school has been asking their pupils to pay for classes with _________.

Every week, students _________ the Akshar School are required to line up and “pay” for their classes using grocery bags _________ at least 25 pieces of plastic waste they _________ from around their homes and communities.

Parmita and Mazin, the couple _________ for the new school, were _________ to launch the campaign after witnessing their students being forced to _________ the acrid smell of burning plastic. That’s _________ before the school was opened in 2016, local families and communities _________ burned plastic waste as a means of keeping warm and fueling fires.

Now, the plastic is being collected and recycled at the school’s own recycling center. The school __________ the trash into Ecobricks by compressing (压缩) about 40 pieces of garbage into a(n) __________ plastic bottle.

Furthermore, the school’s older students can work part-time at the center as an additional source of __________.

Now the school owns over 100 students __________ the ages of 4 and 15. Since the school’s __________ curriculum has attracted more and more __________ to enroll, the couple plan on opening another 100 schools over the next five years.

4 . When 15-year-old Amy began working on her family’s farm in the early morning, she was greeted by a rare sight — an extremely large eagle with a broken leg. “He was _________ and trying to fly, which panicked me a little because he was the _________ of my sheepdog,” she said. “I’m seriously not a bird person. I can _________ cows that weigh nearly a ton but won’t go near a bird, I won’t even go near chickens.”

Seeing the bird _________ in trouble, Amy quickly called for help. _________ her own fear of birds, she was sad to see a local eagle hurt. “I rang my mum immediately. I couldn’t _________ him there. I felt really bad for him because he was all wet and cold,” Amy said.

Since the eagle was living in a nest on Amy’s farm, he has _________ the teenager. But _________ the rescuers from Wildlife Rescue South Coast arrived he gathered all of his _________ to give them a good chase, alert (警惕的) to the new people. Rescuer Amara Mohan immediately noticed the eagle had broken his leg, and after three hours of struggling he was finally __________ and eventually taken to Sydney’s Small Animal Specialist Hospital for a (an) __________. A pin and plate were put in his left __________, a delicate operation on such a small bone.

Ms. Mohan said that after the operation, the eagle was __________ well at Raptor Recovery Australia. “He is really bright; he’s using his right leg and putting more __________ on it now,” Ms. Mohan said. Amy hopes all is going well and the eagle can be returned to her family’s farm. “I’ve done a lot of __________ things on the farm—saving the eagle is one of them.” She said.

5 . Leila Taheri used to go to the Welsh Harp wetland as a schoolgirl. At that time, the 160-hectare nature ______ was home to various birds, also Taheri’s perfect playground. She ______ played baseball there, forgetting to go home.

In August, 2020, 37-year-old Taheri ______ the wetland and the kind of dump-like (垃圾场般的) surroundings ______ Taheri. Because of pollution, birds populations had been ______. To make things worse, the nearby residents paid little attention to the wetland.

A strong ______ to do something controlled her. Taheri decided to begin with a litter pick. She ______ her neighbors to join in. In one month, they ______ 70 bags of rubbish. Then, Taheri expanded the work into more general environmental activism. ______ monthly litter picks, they also worked with some bird protection organizations. Currently, they are trying to ______ a planned bridge across the wetland, for it will destroy birds’ habitat despite the advantage of ______ the locals a few minutes’ walk.

Taheri’s efforts ______. More and more locals are now more environmentally ______, more involved, and have come to see the value of her work. She makes a real ______ not only to the Welsh Harp, and but for the wider community. Just as Taheri says,“Don’t stand______, do something about it.”

6 . A Ghanaian man in Africa, who once made glass jewelry (珠宝), is now focusing on more than _________. The glass artist is reducing glass waste and helping his country both economically and _________.

Tetteh got to _________ the art of glass blowing (吹制) during a visit to Europe in 2012, then he became the nation’s only professional glass blower. Later, the beautifully-colored, artistic flower holders or water carriers really _________ him.

Why not _________ more Ghanaian people to make art pieces from glass? With efforts, Tetteh set up his own workplaces in Ghana where, every day, they _________ broken glass from waste centers and turns it into _________ for family use and decoration. Largely _________, after all, Ghana buys about $300 million yearly worth of glass and pottery from other countries.

Tetteh melts the _________ glass from old televisions or bottles and turns the old glass into hot liquid. Using a long pole to remove a ball of melted glass, he starts working to ____________ the glass into colorful items people can use again. Actually, In the past ten years, Tetteh’s ____________ has not only saved the country a lot of money but got the country ____________.

Tetteh, now 44, loves what he is doing. “Glass is my ____________, but Ghana is my heart,” he laughed, ____________ to do something for his country ____________.

7 . During a period of two months, the east coast of Florida was hit by three major hurricanes!

When we ________ on the morning of September 5, my husband and I stood on the balcony (阳台）and watched the still-powerful winds break huge trees. ________, in the midst of these destructive winds, we spotted a flash of color in our ________. No more than ten feet from where we stood, a hummingbird (蜂鸟) ________ and flew in front of us.

This was the first time we had ever ________ a hummingbird in our yard — or in Florida! Because they are rare, the ________ of a hummingbird in Brevard County, Florida, is almost a ________ in itself.

Although I had been trying to plant all the right plants to ________ them, it took a hurricane for me to ________ attract them to my yard and to really observe them closely. Almost every day since the hurricanes, I have had the ________ of observing the visiting hummingbirds. With a feeder right outside my office window, I get a daily bird’s ________.

The hurricane season affected me in a very ________ way. Every time I see the hummingbirds, I am ________ of the many blessings that nature holds for us: messages of beauty, strength, and determination. But perhaps the greatest ________ is that wonders are out there waiting to pay us a visit. We just need to keep ________ seeds of beauty and faith, and we need to keep an eye out for the wonders!

8 . Donnie Wiseman was worn out after work. But his son was_______on going to a reptile show at Scales and Tails Utah. So, after a short rest, he_______ his son to the show.

Inside viewing windows was the show’s star attraction, a huge alligator(短吻鳄). It swam around the pool before_______its head on a two-foot-wide platform. It was feeding time, and the_______alligator was staring expectantly at its trainer, Lindsay Bull.

For the sake of_______, Bull wanted the alligator off the platform before beginning the show. Entering the enclosure, she held out one arm and shouted “Back!”—a(n) _______that usually worked. _______, this time the alligator responded by opening the jaw and_______her into the pool of water.

Outside the enclosure, some_______if this was part of the show. Not Wiseman. Sensing something was________, he threw open the glass door and climbed inside. “Jump on its back and push your fists into the top of its nose!” shouted Bull. Wiseman did as he was________，pressing down with all of his 180-pound body weight. Time seemed to stand ________ for a while. Finally, the alligator eased its ________and Bull was quickly helped out of the enclosure. Meanwhile, Wiseman________a chance to jump off the alligator.

Apart from minor wounds, Wiseman was more________than injured. “One mistake and I’ll be a statistic, but still, I’m just glad I was there,” he said.

9 . At 57, Marley made the decision six years ago to move north from Foster to Lismore. “For years I ________ my parents both with cancer. When they passed away, I ________ and depression (抑郁) took over — it was terrible,” Marley says. “So my ________ Melanie who lives in Lismore, a place I never really liked, ________ me to come for a two-week holiday. I went, and I’ve been here ever since!”

Melanie happened to learn that an organization ________ as Friends of the Koala (考拉) was looking for ________, and she advised her mother to have a try. After just one day at the organization Marley ________ she’d found her life’s calling. Then she took part in many voluntary activities in it, “It was unbelievable — I had an immediate ________ with the koalas,” Marley said.

Last year, a call came in to Friends of the Koala from a local farmer. The farmer ______ a koala from a fire, which had ________ on the feet. Marley and her colleagues rushed her to the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital ________. “We’ve named her Ember,” said Marley. “She’s back with us now and got stronger, and before being put back in the ________, in the coming weeks, she has to learn to become more ________.”

“I have helped hundreds of koalas over the years, but ________, they saved my life and brought me out of a very dark place,” Marley says. “They need us, but we should never ________ that we need them more.”

10 . Most people suffer from what is known as “just-me-ism”. What is that? Well, say you leave the tap ______ while you brush your teeth, or you drop a piece of litter and can’t be bothered to pick it up. You know that all those things are ______, but so what? “What ______ can it possibly make?” you say to yourself. “And anyway, no one will ______.” You are not ______. But this kind of thought would be very ______.

To ______ young people to take action for the environment, Roots&Shoots (根与芽) was established in the early 1990s by Dr. Jane Goodall. The organisation is called Roots&Shoots because roots move slowly under the ground to make a ______ foundation, and shoots seem small and ______, but they can ______ brick walls to reach the light. The roots and shoots are you, your friends and young people all around the world. Dr. Jane Goodall believes that every individual ______.

You get to choose: Do you want to use your life to make the world a ______ place for people, animals and the environment? Do you want to make Roots&Shoots ______ in everyone’s heart? Do you want to be a part of a community for a shared ______? You cannot be ______.