If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it’s helpful to do kind, peaceful things. One of my
16 ways to do this is by developing my own
17 actions. These little acts of kindness are
18 to be of service and reminders of how good it feels to be
19 and helpful.
We live in a rural area of the San Francisco Bay Area. Most of what we see is beauty and
20 .One of the exceptions to the beauty is the
21 that some people throw out of their windows as they are
22 on the rural roads. One of the few drawbacks to
23 the mountainous area is that public services, such as litter collection, are less
24 than those are closer to the city.
A helping action that I practice
25 with my two children is picking up litter in our surrounding area. We' ve become so
26 to doing this that my daughters will often say to me in exciting
27 , "There' s some litter, Daddy, stop the
28 !" And if we have time, we will often pull over and pick it up. It may seem
29 , but we actually enjoy it. We pick up litter in parks, on sidewalks, practically
30 . Once I even saw a complete stranger picking up litter close to
31 we live. He smiled at me and said, "I saw you doing it, and it seemed like a good
32 ."
Picking up litter is only one of an
33 supply of possible helping actions. You might like holding a door open for people,
34 lonely elderly people in nursing homes, or removing snow off someone else' s driveway. Perhaps you might
35 something that seems effortless yet helpful. It' s fun, personally rewarding, and setting a good example. Everyone wins.
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| 小题2: | | A．taking | B．placing | C．passing | D．helping |
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| 小题3: | | A．customs | B．ceremonies | C．opportunities | D．occasions |
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| 小题4: | | A．cruel | B．kind | C．proud | D．brave |
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| 小题5: | | A．science | B．weather | C．universe | D．nature |
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| 小题6: | | A．list | B．guidebook | C．litter | D．check |
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| 小题7: | | A．driving | B．directing | C．floating | D．flying |
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| 小题8: | | A．search for | B．live in | C．look at | D．march into |
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| 小题9: | | A．acceptable | B．available | C．horrible | D．honorable |
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| 小题10: | | A．regularly | B．completely | C．calmly | D．roughly |
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| 小题11: | | A．opposed | B．reduced | C．devoted | D．accustomed |
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| 小题12: | | A．lungs | B．voices | C．sounds | D．noises |
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| 小题13: | | A．horse | B．carriage | C．bike | D．car |
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| 小题14: | | A．strange | B．sensitive | C．imaginable | D．necessary |
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| 小题15: | | A．nowhere | B．anywhere | C．somewhere | D．everywhere |
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| 小题16: | | A．why | B．when | C．which | D．where |
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| 小题17: | | A．idea | B．plan | C．excuse | D．feel |
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| 小题18: | | A．empty | B．endless | C．immediate | D．attractive |
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| 小题19: | | A．describing | B．developing | C．visiting | D．valuing |
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| 小题20: | | A．ask for | B．look into | C．carry out | D．think of |
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