Lily, ____1____ fifteen-year-old girl, manages a program at school—the Buddy Bench (同伴长椅). Students ____2____ feel lonely at school can go and sit on the “buddy bench”. It makes other kids know that someone needs a friend and that they should invite him or her ____3____ (play). Lily knows there is nothing ____4___ (bad) than feeling lonely. With the help of the bench, she ____5____ (bring) kids together and helps many shy kids make new friends.

In 2017, she got the idea at a summer camp. When she ____6____ (go) back to school, she shared the idea with the headteacher, “I want to do it for our school because I’ve been lonely ____7____ (I). It’s not a good feeling and I don’t want anyone else to feel that way.”

Instead of ____8____ (use) wood, she decided to make the bench out of bottle caps, which is good for the environment. News of the program quickly got out in different ____9____ (place), and Lily collected many caps from people around.

____10____ (recent), Lily has given away more than 200 benches to schools and parks all over the country. And there are plenty more to come.

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解析：选a。题型：冠词填空 解析：fifteen-year-old 是以辅音音素开头的复合形容词，修饰 girl，表示 “一个 15 岁女孩”，用不定冠词 a。

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解析：选who。题型：定语从句关系词 解析：先行词是 Students（人），关系词在从句中作主语，可用 who 或者 that。

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解析：选to play。题型：非谓语动词 解析：固定搭配 invite sb. to do sth. 邀请某人做某事，填 to play。

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解析：选worse。题型：形容词比较级 解析：后面有 than（比），bad 的比较级是 worse，nothing worse than… 没有比…… 更糟的。

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解析：选brings。题型：动词时态 解析：主语 she 是第三人称单数，全文为一般现在时，bring 变 brings，和 helps 并列。

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解析：选went。题型：动词时态 解析：时间 In 2017，讲述过去发生的事，用一般过去时，go 过去式 went。

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解析：选myself。题型：反身代词 解析：句意：我自己也曾孤单。反身代词 myself 我自己。

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解析：选using。题型：非谓语动词 解析：介词 of 后面接动名词，use 变动名词 using；instead of doing sth. 而不是做某事。

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解析：选places。题型：名词复数 解析：different（不同的）后接可数名词复数，place→places。

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解析：选Recently。题型：副词 解析：放在句首修饰整个句子，要用副词，recent（形容词）→Recently（副词，最近），首字母大写。