1 . Andre Bouvier hiked in a snowstorm to reach a trapped woman. The retired ________is being praised as a hero for________the woman and three other cars likewise.

Many have had the same________as Shannon St Onge even when looking at a yellow________of snow—that they have time to________their daily tasks. So she drove to work and she had________left when the snow began to fall. She________a dirt road to provide better________for her tires, so she quickly became lost. She stopped and called 911, with the operator suggesting she________the snowstorm. The operator took her________and told her an officer would call back. Almost 14 hours had passed, and nobody had called her yet to check in.

“What if I fell asleep and the tailpipe was________? Would the gas tank last until morning? What if I didn’t________it home at all?” St Onge wondered. Determined to ensure the________end, she went out in the snowstorm and discovered her location on a road sign. Then she was________enough to find a neighborhood Facebook group for the area she was passing through—informing those it________of her trouble through a Google Maps pin.

That’s when Andre Bouvier, an 80-year-old retired teacher, learned about St Onge’s situation.________his own safety, the 80-year-old went out to find her on foot,________he couldn’t manage to start his tractor. On the way he found three other trapped________, totaling seven people. Walking a quarter mile________, he led the helpless cars one by one to his home. He remarked that everyone would have done the same, and that it took very few thoughts or________to help.

2 . Eating fruits and vegetables is part of keeping a healthy diet. Health experts ______ people should eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. A(n) ______ way to remember this is to try to eat each color of the rainbow (彩虹) ______. This is because different colored fruits and vegetables contain different vitamins and minerals. ______ you eat one of each color each day, you are sure to ______ the necessary nutrition your body needs.

______ fruits and vegetables is good for the heart. There are many delicious ______ in this group. Have an apple with lunch. You can ______ have a red pepper for a hot tasty small meal. ______ some tomatoes and put them on your sandwich. Or ______ you can have strawberries after dinner. When you ______ red, your heart works better.

Orange and yellow fruits and vegetables contain vitamin C. Vitamin C helps the ______ protect itself against disease. In this way it helps your body stay in good health. ______, these wonderful foods are good for your sight. So it is a great ______   to have a glass of orange juice with breakfast. Then put some peaches in your lunchbox. Are you afraid of catching a cold? ______ that from happening by eating a juicy tangerine (a type of small sweet orange).

Green fruits and vegetables have long been widely known as healthy foods. ______, they are especially good for keeping teeth and bones strong. When you eat green, your smile will thank you! Your bones will thank you too!

Blue and purple fruits and vegetables are useful to the ______. They help with memory. Put blueberries in your bowl. You can easily ______ where you put your keys!

Eating the rainbow is an easy way to ______ yourself. So make your eating habits a little more ______!

3 . I looked out of the door of my 100 year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of_________and appreciation.

I_________to look at the things that we usually think of as_________—plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we_________. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the_________of being reused as long as we try to_________it. And I explored the worth of_________. I mean recycling isn't just about_________rubbish like putting glass and paper in_________bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn__________by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn't__________with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new__________with moving boxes and put up a__________saying, ''Dump（倾倒）leaves here". I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors__________the leaves in the new garden and I also watered the leaves__________with rainwater and collected dogs' waste as fertilizer, Then I__________flower seeds. Finally, I had a new__________garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really__________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little__________for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into__________, the world will be a much better place.

4 . In the deepest dive in a manned submersible(潜水器), US explorer Victor Vescovo spotted and video-recorded a plastic bag and a pile of candy wrappers on the seabed.

His _________ of plastic waste 11.2 kilometers below sea level in the Challenger Deep in the Pacific Ocean, the deepest known point in the Earth’s oceans, means there is _________ on this planet plastic waste cannot reach, _________ it has been found on Mount Qomolangma and in both Arctic and Antarctic waters.

Since the patent(专利) for plastics was _________ in 1907, 8.3 billion tons of plastic products have already been produced, of which 6.3 billion have been poured into oceans _________ processing.

Most of the discarded(丢弃) plastic products _________ in the ocean. In the Pacific Ocean, plastic garbage and other waste have already formed a(n) _________ that’s 1.6 million square kilometers in size. That is the size of Mongolia.

Every year, about 8 million tons of plastic waste flow into the ocean. It is _________ that the total weight of plastic waste will reach 12 _________ tons by 2050, more than the total weight of oceanic fish.

This plastic waste __________ life in the oceans and on the land alike by filling in their stomachs so they cannot eat, or __________ around their bodies so they cannot breathe. It pollutes the __________ and prevents plants’ roots from digging deep into the ground. Plastic micro-particles(微粒) also join the water __________ and enter the bodies of animals, including humans. As humans are at the top of the food __________ , plastic micro-particles accumulate inside our bodies.

We must do something to __________ the situation. Don’t get plastic bags at the supermarket and take your own reusable one __________ . Give up fast delivery lunches and instead cook or go to the restaurant. Get into the __________ of sorting your garbage.

But that’s so much __________ said than done. Environmentalists have been __________ behavioral changes for at least three decades, yet we __________ to use a growing amount of plastic products.

5 . Selvidge hopes to attend art or film school after graduation. Being a writer, director, actor and musician, Selvidge admits that his ability to adapt to his _______ environment is his strength. Of course, it is the very _______ that helps him with difficulties. However, he didn't gain it without _______.

At the age of 13, Selvidge _______ his hometown Dickson, Tennessee in _______ of a better life. In the following 4 years, he was just living with his friends and bouncing around wherever he could. That lasted _______ both his parents died off. The police were going to _______him over to a local shelter. However, at his father's funeral, his half-brother in Arizona offered to _______him to start over.

Selvidge saw the move as an opportunity to start a _______ life. The first day he came to Perry High School, he ________ to the Theatre Club and finally gained a role to play. That was the beginning of his ________ career. Last year he directed his own play and ________ in a musical and two comedies. Seeing his wonderful stage performance, debate coach Jim Fountain ________ Selvidge, believing his talents could take him far. ________, Selvidge did it well too. He won the state championship and will represent his state to ________ on the national stage for debate in June.

“He has suffered many that are ________ to kids his ages” his director, Shelley, explains why Selvidge can ________ the audience's eyes so well. “He has a ________ understanding of the human condition, which allows him to interpret emotions of various ________ with ease. In this sense, it is ________ that shaped what he is today.”