【推荐1】Hello, Mr. Wi-Fi. Life without you is next to impossible. We’re happy to sing your name from morning till evening. ________ I know you help me, sometimes you’re making me do things with________ attention. Many times I promise myself that I’ll ________ my feelings towards you, but you’re________ me closer and closer… You’ve entered both my home and my workplace. You’re just a window for our ________ and information. But we people aren’t ________ only with the window. So we open all our doors for you. Is this a(n) ________ or some kind of attachment(依恋)? If this is an illness, is it curable? And if this is an attachment will you ________ me to the lifelong togetherness?

We want you all days. Can’t you take a few days off so that both you and I can ________? You’re a poison-not a slow one but a super fast poison which holds our mind and makes us dance ________ its tune. Nowadays you’re so ________ that anyone can buy and make you our companion. You’ll never be bothered about our health but we’ll ________ be concerned about your “health”. Because you go with us everywhere and never let us be alone.

If you were a ________ person made of flesh and blood, would we love you the same? You ________ us with your many talents and we even can’t get rid of you. We’re all your slaves. Sometimes I wonder how people in the previous generations ________, but if they did why can’t we?

【推荐3】In 2009 a group of parents in an English town started sharing worries about their children’s money management skills. Shopping was done online; the children ____ saw their parents handling cash. They were______online, too. Money had become intangible(无形的). How, then, were children to learn its ______?

The answer they _____ was GoHenry, an app now available in Britain. It is designed to help young people learn good ____ habits through real-world money management. Parents signed up with their own bank account(账户) and paid a monthly ______ of $2.99 for each child aged six or over. Adults and children ______ separate versions. At the end of last year, 379,000 children had active accounts.

Parents can schedule pocket money and _____   tasks. When those tasks are marked as ____ , the child is paid some money back as a reward. Parents can see what child has ____   and where. And children choose ____ to use the card: in shops, online or at ATMs.

Children get debit cards(借记卡) with their name. They can ____ their spending and set savings targets. They can decide to ____ for someone’s birthday or set a goal at 12 to ____ $2,000 to buy a car at age 18. The app tells them how much to save each week to meet their _____.

Some GoHenry customers are rich parents who ____ that their children will grow up financially careless. Others regard the ____ as an investment in their child’s future. Some say that they have been ____ and want their children to avoid that mistake when they grow up; others say that the app is cost-effective because their children______to how to use money. Even though young people no longer touch and hold ____ , they can still be taught to handle it well.

When Billy went outside, he saw a car with no _______ waiting for him. The car said, “Hello, I will be ______ you to school every day. Now would you please _______ your school ID card?” said the car. So Billy showed the car his school ID card and got in. The _______ began to talk to Billy about his school and his schoolwork. After that the car said, “I will _______ your homework today _________ you will have a very, very important lesson to _________ in school today. Please put your homework on the blackboard.” Billy did so.

The car checked Billy’s homework and then said, “You are a(n) ________ student. All of your homework is ________.” When they ________ the school, Billy said to the car, “Goodbye. See you later.” The car said to Billy, “Good luck in your school.” Billy got into the classroom and _______ his seat at the front of the room. Then his teacher came in and said, “Welcome, children! Today we will have a hard but _________ lesson — ‘How do robots help a human being?’...”

【推荐3】When Matthew Shifrin turned 13, he got a life-changing birthday present from his friend, Lilya Finkel.

It was an 843-piece Middle Easten _______ palace. And with it were instructions that Finkel made _______for it. Finkel invented a unique name for every piece in the palace set. Then she spent countless hours typing building _______ in Braille (盲文) that spelled out how to _______ them all together.

His mind was _______. As a blind person, he had never before been able to complete a Lego set on his own, Shifrin knew immediately that he had to help other blind children find the same _______.

Shifrin says, “For blind people, Lego sets act as small 3D_______ for real-life buildings instead of two-dimensional photographs. Lego bricks allow me to see things that are _______ to explore by touch.”

For years after that incredible Lego experience, he created similar instructions for about 45 other Lego sets, together with Finkel, all published on a website they created, “Lego for the _______”.

Shifrin began ________ to Lego several years ago to discuss his work, ________ it was in 2017, when Finkel died of cancer, that he finally connected with the right person.

His years-long devotion ________ when the Lego company released its first audio and Braille building instructions. The project is a high-tech version of what Shifrin and Finkel did for their ________.

It couldn’t have been completed without Shifrin’s ________ or without his determination.

He just wished Finkel had been here to see it. “I think she’d be very glad that we came this ________,” Shifrin said.

【推荐2】Door - to - door food delivery service has become increasingly popular in cities due to the fast development of e - commerce and the fast - paced life in China. As food delivery is extremely _______in China, it creates large amounts of waste due to the plastic containers, bags, and chopsticks that come with each _______ . This in turn has _______ great environmental concerns for the waste packaging materials. We have therefore estimated and predicted the volume of food delivery packaging waste in China. The _______ show that the total amount of packaging waste _______ from 0.2 million metric tons in 2015 to 1.5 million metric tons in 2017.

Over packaging is also a(n) _______ . The food delivery packaging is not the _______ , the better. Instead, it is the more environmental friendly, the better. Therefore, it is high time that regulations were _______ to stop restaurants and companies from spending too much on unnecessary packaging and wrapping. Also, smart policy suggestions should be provided to _______ the pressing issues, particularly using the Reduce, Reuse and Recycle environmental friendly practices.

As the largest city in China, Shanghai has an important role in innovating and contributing to a global ________to the problem of waste. With over 24 million people living in Shanghai, materials sustainability (可持续性), particularly that of plastics, is a great issue. ________, delivery companies like Saucepan have begun to ________ the plastic usage of the food delivery in Shanghai by using biodegradable(可降解的)packaging in the delivery process. ________, it encourages consumers to both recycle their plastic bags and stay in the business by rewarding customers for every 10 used bags that they return to the company.

The more delivery services that promote sustainability, the more suppliers will see that there is a market for environmentally - friendly products. The food delivery service plays a ________ in the creation of waste in China, and innovating in this specific context can make a big ________ in the new plastics economy.

Competition for admission to the country’s top private schools has always been tough. This is spreading from Manhattan to the rest of the country. Precise _______ data on private schools are unavailable, but interviews with representatives of independent and religious schools all told the same _______: too many applicants, higher rejection rates. Surveys indicate that Americans’ No. 1 _______ is education. _______ the long economic boom(繁荣) has given parents more income, many are turning to private schools, even at price tags of well over $10,000 a year. “We’re getting applicants from a broader area, _______, than we ever have in the past,” said Besty Haugh of the Latin School of Chicago, which experienced a 20 percent increase in _______ this year.

The problem is that while demand has increased, supply has not. “Every year, there are a few children who do not find places, but this year, for the first time that I know of, there are a(n) _______ number of children who don’t have places,” said Krents, who also heads a private-school admissions group in New York.

So what can parents do to give their 4-year-old a(n) _______? Schools know there is no simple way to pick a class when children are so young. Many schools give preference to boys or girls or alumni(校友) children. Some use lotteries. But most rely on a _______ of subjective and objective measures: tests that at best ________ developmental maturity and learning potential, interviews with parents and observation of applicants in classroom settings. They also want a diverse mix. Children may end up on a waiting list simply because their birthdays ________ at the wrong time year, or because too many applicants were boys.

The worst thing a parent can do is to pressure preschoolers to perform — ________, by pushing them to read or do math exercises ________ they’re ready. Instead, the experts say, parents should take a breath and look for ________. Another year in preschool may be all that’s needed. Parents, meanwhile, may need a more ________ mind about relatively unknown private schools — or about magnet(具有吸引力的) schools in the public system. There’s no sign of the private-school boom letting up.