1 . YosDive is on the waterfront. Next to it is a village with a beautiful sandy beach, with the house reef 100 meters out. We often ______ there. One time, however, something ______ struck me. While diving the house reef, I was ______ by the garbage and plastic in the water and on the beach.

As I was considering ways to ______ the garbage that month, I suddenly hit upon a(n) ______ then. I decided to ask several children to ______ a plastic bag with garbage from the beach in ______ for cookies. The kids were cooperative, and their bags were full-my plan _______. When the dive boats returned, the village children came aboard and we gave them ______

Days later, more helpers ______ my plan. A young couple took over the distribution of bags for the garbage gathering and the cookie ______ . Plenty of children were soon ______ , with this simple system at place.

Then I realized this project might have a(n)______. Ronnie told me there was a garbage removal group called Garbage Heroes in Bali, whose members are given yellow ______ with a black “Garbage Heroes” on the front.

So we also bought some and ______ them to the children. The T-shirts have gone over in a big way: The beach, once covered with garbage, now looks ______ . It is a small beginning, yet it certainly will grow and ______ . A team of volunteers soon formed ______ . People of all walks of life make their ______ . Even the mayor of our city ______support. Now the project still grows fast. What fun!

2 . I shall never forget the day when the earthquake happened. It was about 5 in the afternoon and I was _________ along the road to my daughter’s school. Our plan was to go_________ together. I stopped at a_________ to get some fresh fruit. We liked to have some fruit to eat after our swim. I was driving along a high_________ on my way to the school. _________ my road was another road which was built like a_________. I was_________ so I put the bag of apples_________ me and started to eat one. Suddenly I saw the cars in front of me start to_________ from side to side. I slowed down. Then my car started to shake! I didn’t know what was happening. Perhaps something had__________ wrong with my car. I drove a little more slowly and then I__________ the car and at the same moment the road__________ onto the cars in front of me. I found myself in the__________. I couldn’t move. My legs and feet were hurt badly and I couldn’t move them. All around me was__________. But below me I could hear shouts and a lot of noises.

Then I realized what had happened. I had been__________ an earthquake. For about two hours nobody came. Luckily I could reach the bag of__________，so at least I had plenty to eat. Then I heard people__________ towards me. A team of people had come to__________ if anyone was under the__________ road. I called out, “I'm here！” I heard a shout. Soon a stranger climbed to my car. “How are you__________？” he asked. “Not too bad,” I said. They didn’t get me out until the next morning.