When you hear the word hero, you may think of someone like Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. But there are also "everyday" heroes—they may not be 【小题1】 to the public, but they do what they can to help improve people's lives as well. Everyday heroes are normal people who are working to make the world a better place. 【小题2】 them is Robert Lee.

Lee grew up in New York City. 【小题3】 his family was not rich, he learned the importance of not wasting food from a young age. When in college, he was part of a student group that gave out leftover（剩余的） food to homeless people. This experience made him realize how 【小题4】 the problem of food waste actually was.

After he left university, Lee gave up a well-paid job and 【小题5】 his own business called Rescuing Leftover Cuisine(RLC). RLC runs simply. Just using an app developed by Lee's team, restaurants report how much leftover food they have each day. Then volunteers are sent to get it. They never drive or use other public transportation as the distance is usually short. 【小题6】 they can just do their deliveries（递送）by walking from the restaurants to the shelters. Lee believes it is a quick way of delivery.

So far, Lee and his team have successfully saved over 150,000 kilograms of food, serving almost 300,000 meals to people who need them. Lee has shown that a small action can make a big difference to our life than we imagine. When Lee is 【小题7】 what his next plan is, he replies there's still a long way to go. This is just the 【小题8】. With more restaurants, who knows how much more we can do.

Wu Pinxian is an 89-year-old granny (奶奶) in Panyu District (番禺区), Guangzhou, Guangdong province. She 【小题1】 (volunteer) to play the piano at the Guangzhou Panyu Central Hospital since September 2023. She 【小题2】 (call) the “Piano Granny”.

Wu learned to play the piano when she was a school student and she kept her interest in music after 【小题3】 (graduate). In 2023, when she heard that the hospital was looking for volunteers to play the piano, she 【小题4】 (be) interested in it, and got chosen. Since then, she has played the piano for at least 【小题5】 hour every Thursday morning.

The hospital wants the piano performance 【小题6】 (create) a relaxing atmosphere (气氛) and make patients there less worried. And Wu’s music works: many patients would sing along with her piano music, and some of them have become her loyal (忠诚的) listeners. Even children love it.

But it isn’t an easy thing for Wu. She has difficulty reading sheet music (活页乐谱) and seeing the key s because of visual impairments (视力障碍) in her right eye, but she doesn’t let that stop her. “I remember the scores (乐谱) when I can’t see 【小题7】 (clear),” she said.

Wu 【小题8】 (live) in an apartment in Panyu District. According to the workers there, she spends three to four hours 【小题9】 (practice) the piano every day. “After picking up the piano as a hobby, she wants to realize her dream even if she is already 89. That is a very positive influence on the other people in the whole apartment,” the workers said.

“I think playing the piano allows the patients to listen to music, which gives them 【小题10】 physical and mental (精神健康的) pleasure. Although I had not played the piano for along time, it is good to play for others. I think we should do good acts, and I will do my best,” Wu wrote down in her diary.

Chinese delivery (快递) driver, Gao Zhixiao, whose photo was put on the cover of Time magazine in March because he 【小题1】 (choose) by the magazines as one of the heroes.

Ever since COVID-19 broke out, many restaurants shut down or only provided takeout service. Millions of people stayed at home to prevent 【小题2】 (them) getting ill. People chose to order food online instead 【小题3】 going out. As a result, delivery orders 【小题4】 (great) increased.

Gao was born into a poor family in Ningxia. He 【小题5】 (leave) for Beijing after graduating from middle school. After 【小题6】 (try) his hand as a dishwasher, an assistant cook, and many other jobs, he worked as a deliveryman in 2012. When the novel corona virus broke out, Gao gave up his train ticket to go back home during the Spring Festival and continued working 【小题7】 he thought customers might be in need.

【小题8】 (late) this February, Gao received a special order that asked him to buy medicine for corona virus patients. He thought for a moment and picked up the order. Besides delivering goods, Gao once cooked for 【小题9】 elderly customer who was living alone at her home. Gao said, “I just do what I am supposed to.”

On March 19, Time magazine published six covers for its corona virus issue under the theme “When the world stops”. If not for riders like Gao, many 【小题10】 (family) would be infected(感染) while shopping or buying food.