2 . Carol-Anne O’Callaghan, a 60-year-old retired teacher, has spent more than half of her life time teaching. This time, she wanted to do something much more_________.

One day in 2021, O’Callaghan was walking her dogs when she_________ yellow dots on all the oak trees along Leather Lane. The dots, she learned, indicated the trees’ _________ drew near. The marked trees would make way for a new rail line, which was really a piece of _________ news for her. Planted in the 19th century, they were _________ parts of her childhood. “My family and I used to picnic under them,” she said, “and they meant much.”

Unfortunately, they were to be cut down as part of the HS2 high-speed railway projects. O’Callaghan_________HS2, only to be told the_________couldn’t be changed.

As a teacher, O’Callaghan often told students, “If something is wrong, you can’t _________and let it happen.” So she started a(n) _________to save the trees. O’Callaghan gave out leaflets (传单) from door to door in the neighborhood, __________ local people to fight for the trees.

The locals__________O’Callaghan. “It’s amazing to see someone who shows great__________for giving a voice to those trees,” says her neighbor Victoria.__________, O’Callaghan’s efforts paid off. HS2 __________an alternative overhead design. And O’Callaghan was nominated (提名) for this week’s “Guardian Angel” __________ her attempts to preserve nature in the county.

3 . Some kids dream of being superheroes that can save our planet from evil but believe it or not, even a small kid like YOU can help save our planet.

When I was a _________ , my mom and dad would push me in a baby jogger. We would pick up soda cans while my mom and dad ran. Before I could _________, whenever I saw a can I would point to it. It was fun picking up cans. We ran a lot miles and _________ up many cans.

When I was five, I went _________ with my mom, dad, and a friend at Bastrop State Park. The first night we went for a bike ride. I _________ on my dad's bike. There was so much _________ that the road did not look pretty. The second day, when we went for a _________ along the same road, we picked up all the cans—about one hundred of them. The road looked much _________ when we went home.

I am now too _________ for the baby jogger. But I still pick up cans wherever we go, and my mom and dad still bring back cans from their walks. We ____________ the cans behind and inside our garage. When I was very young, we would ____________ the cans to a can cruncher in a store park. It was fun____________ all the cans crunching(压碎), but it was untidy.

Now we store the cans ____________ we get a lot of them, then we take them on our friend's big truck to the recycling place. One time, I sold 410 pounds ____________.

I have sold over 1, 000 pounds of cans, and I am only nine years old. I ____________ the world by making the roads, the lakes, and the trails prettier, and because all my cans are recycled.