1 . Everyone admires heroes. When we are asked ________ are our heroes, someone well-known like Yang Liwei or Zhong Nanshan may come into mind. They make a big difference to the world. ________ , there are “everyday” heroes in our daily life. They may not be so ________ to the public, but these common people are also working hard to build a better world. ________ them is Sun Jun.

Sun Jun comes from a poor village. The villagers used to have no enough food. He knew much about the ________ . He learned to ________ food at his early age. When he was a college student, he found that the problem of food waste was more and more ________ . He started to ________ unsold food from restaurants and stores for homeless people.

After graduating, Sun Jun joined a volunteer ________ called Green Food Bank, which was set up in Shanghai in 2014. The purpose of the organization is to build a bridge between people who are ready to help others and those who are ________. It works by collecting and ________ free food for the poor, the disabled and so on.

Sun’s team developed a phone app. It can show how much food restaurants remain each day. Usually, the workplaces of volunteers are not far from the restaurants, ________ they can just walk there to get the food for free. Then it can be given out in just a few ________ .

So far, Sun and his team have done something ________ to the society. On the one hand, they’ve saved a lot of food. On the other hand, they’ve helped some people ________ . More volunteers and restaurants join them now. The small actions of these heroes can make a ________ influence than we imagine.

Why does Sun do ________ these things? He says, “Thanks to Grandpa Yuan Longping, we are almost no longer short of food. We need to think about how to ________ wasting. There’s a long way to go, but I won’t ________ halfway. It’s just the beginning. We still have ________ to do.”