One day last November, when Delores, the 1 , returned from a market, she found Hank didn't come in for his lunch. As it got 2 , she began to look for him around the house. Then she heard the meow of a cat, looked 3 and saw Hank in her neighbor's tree. He must have climbed onto the tree while some dogs were running after him and became too 4 to climb down.
Delores, now very 5 , called the firemen immediately. But it was not easy, for they didn't have a ladder tall enough to 6 the cat. She asked a tree company for help, again they 7 for safety reasons.
The poor owner could do 8 but sit under the tree and call to Hank. A kind neighbor 9 her some cat food, expecting it would make the hungry cat come down. Nearby dog owners took their pets for walks instead of letting them out in their yards so that Hank would not climb even 10 with fear.
Nothing had 11 until it came to day five. Luckily, Lydia, another neighbor, 12 a clever way of getting the cat down from a tree. Delores decided to give it a 13 at once. Together, they produced a system of pulleys（滑轮）and 14 a basket with some of Hank's favorite things up to him. To their 15 , Hank jumped into it.
Delores was really thankful. "I feel good living in such a friendly neighborhood. It gave me hope when Hank was in trouble," she said.
Match your interest with volunteering Kajal moved to the United States from India in February 2017. Having volunteered for two years as a yoga (瑜伽) teacher in her home country, Kajal was excited about volunteering and began looking for volunteer opportunities that match her interests on Volunteer Match. "A new country brings in a lot of new experiences and volunteering helped me to settle into a new environment," says Kajal. |
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____ Volunteering in another country with animals has changed Karen Daly's life. As a volunteer with CIWY, a group to protect wild animals in Bolivia, Karen first planned to stay for a month but she ended up staying for six. She has gone back, and keeps going back to CIWY, and in total she has been volunteering with the charity for 8 years now! |
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Volunteer work sees 78. 1b trees planted in China Chinese people have planted 78 billion trees since China carried out its nationwide voluntary tree planting action 40 years ago. It has greatly enriched China's forest resources (资源). Now cloud tree planting is a new way for those who can collect "green energy" online with low-carbon behaviors (低碳行为) so that charity organizations will plant trees for them. |
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Village doctors, dubbed "guardians of health", have played an important role in treating hundreds of millions of farmers. Xu Qiusheng, 81, often looks out of the window of his clinic when he is not with a patient, as he feels relief（轻松）when looking up at an old camphor tree that stays green all year round.
Over half a century has passed since Xu graduated from medical school and started working as a village doctor in Yangfang village, in East China's Jiangxi province.
"Three generations of my family, my parents, and my grandchildren all come to Uncle Xu for treatment," says Chen Donggen, who took his feverish granddaughter to Xu's clinic. After briefly inquiring（询问）about the little girl's condition, Xu took out a very thin needle and gently inserted the needle into the skin of both her hands and head.
The kind of treatment is the most commonly used way to treat pain in traditional Chinese medicine. Xu has used the set of silver needles for decades to help villagers relieve discomfort.
Xu says that treatment and medicine are usually free for villagers facing financial difficulties. He allows them to pay later though living a frugal（节俭的）life himself.
Ahead of this Spring Festival, Xu together with his daughter, who returned to the village and followed in his footsteps, went door to door visiting the elderly. The health of more than 1,400 villagers in Yangfang has become the responsibility for rural doctors like Xu and his daughter.
"I see my patients as my family members, and I hope the next generations of doctors in rural areas can continue to be the guardians of villagers," Xu says.
The snow leopard（雪豹）is one of the world's most secretive animals. They have been officially protected since 1975, but many continue to be killed for their fur and body parts, worth a large amount of money. In recent years, though, conflict（冲突）with local herders（牧民）has also led to a number of snow leopard deaths. This is because the big cats kill the herders ‘animals, and drag the bodies away high up in the mountains to eat. As a result, the population has dropped. The only way to stop it and bring these cats back is to make them more valuable alive than dead.
The organization Snow Leopard Conservancy India Trust has started Himalayan Homestays, a program that sends visitors to herders' houses. For a clean room and bed, meals with the family, and an introduction to their culture, visitors pay about ten U. S. dollars a night. In addition, the organization helps herders build walls that keep out snow leopards. In exchange, the herders agree not to kill snow leopards.
In Mongolia, a project called Snow LeopardEnterprises（SLE）helps herder communities（社区）earn extra money in exchange for their promise to protect the endangered cat. SLE buys animal products from herding families and sells them abroad. Herders must agree to protect the snow leopards and to encourage neighbors to do the same. If no one in the community kills the protected animals over the course of a year, the program members are rewarded with a 20 percent bonus in addition to the money they've already made. An independent review found no snow leopard killings in areas where SLE operates. Today, the organization continues to add more communities.
Projects like the Homestays program in India and SLE's business in Mongolia are doing well. Though they cover only a small part of the snow leopard's homeland, they make the leopards more valuable to more people each year. If these programs continue to do well, the snow leopard may just have a fighting chance.
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Can women wrestle (摔跤)? Many people may say "No". , the Indian wrestler Mahavir Phogat taught his daughters to be the (great) wrestlers in the world.
The father first wanted to have a son, so he could be a wrestler like him. But his wife gave birth to four daughters. He was not happy because in people's m, girls could only do housework at home. He almost gave up the h for his children to win gold medals. Suddenly one day, he heard that his older daughters Geeta and Babita beat up two boys by wrestling them. Phogat was very (surprise) to hear that. He then realized that his girls were able to become excellent wrestlers because they, like himself, were b wrestlers.
Then he began to train his daughters in the small village. The two girls even had their long hair cut and the villagers l at them. Day after day, they had to get up early in the morning to do exercise. The t was so cruel that the girls hated it at first. But later they understood their father's love. Only in this way could they have a bright fin India. After that, they took the training (serious) and step by step, they made great progress. The daughters even beat up other men wrestlers in all kinds of competitions. They successfully made their way to the national winners. Will the two girls be the pride of their father and the whole country? Find out more in the Indian movie Dangal(《摔跤吧！爸爸》).
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Hello, everyone! I am a book lover. I like reading and I have read many kinds of books. But my favorite one is Journey to the West.
