【推荐1】I am so grateful for the 21-Day Eco challenge hosted by KindSpring. Taking care of our sweet Mother Earth has always been _________ to me in my life and I have taken _________ in my everyday life to recycle, reuse, think about ways to protect our Mother Earth, etc. However, this _________ awoke me even more.

Our Scholars Together community has taken one more than we have before _________ recycling, using our own China cups and metal water bottles when we go out, not buying things in _________ containers and having green lunches more consistently(一贯的), not _________, but the biggest change we made was setting a goal of Zero Waste.

We set up more boxes and bins for paper that we could _________ again, recycled every sheet of use-on-both-sides paper, plastics, cans, etc. We also _________ all of our food we cooked or bought, instead of throwing some away. We really _________ it a challenge. Each day we all saw how little __________ could be in our dustbins. I realized that I had been throwing paper away that could be used on the other __________ or could be recycled, and now I am looking everywhere for __________ that can be used more __________ until recycling time.

The videos offered by KindSpring have been so __________ and useful to us all that I don’t want the Eco challenge to __________. We will continue to do part and __________ the news to our family and friends. Next week we are trying some __________ in our local sandwich and sub shops where the kids like to go to see that we can bring our own __________ in, rather than having them put in bags. It is cool to see how the __________ spreads. Thank you KindSpring for __________ the community with daily support and great researched videos and information.

【推荐3】Natalie and Callie, both 13 years old, started raising monarch butterflies(帝王蝶) for fun in2020.

But after realizing the monarchs were an endangered species, their_______soon turned into a serious mission.

They learned that the population of monarch butterflies had_______since the early 1990s, due to habitat _______and widespread use of chemicals(化学药物), which made the milkweeds(马利筋草) the butterflies_______ for their main diet dangerous to eat.

So the girls teamed up with a national nonprofit group to plant a native garden_______for the monarchs. The garden grew organic milkweeds that_______and kept the butterflies. To help_______the locals to sustain(维持) the monarch population, they created an exhibition about the monarchs in the local library. They also wanted to put up an educational sign in town, but it_______a lot. To cover the expense, they set up a stand at the Farmers Market to sell their_______milkweeds for people to plant. Although the fundraising days were long, they finally________in earning enough money with their hard work and people’s support.

The team has won the Silver Award for their________of taking care of butterflies, but they are not________with their work. ” Our next step is to cut down on the use of________to guarantee a safe environment for the monarchs,“ said Natalie. In the award ceremony, their teacher Brian________, ‘‘I am so proud of them for their constant________’’.

【推荐1】What is your favorite color? Do you like yellow, orange, or red? If you do, you must be an optimist, a _____ and an active person who enjoys life, people and excitement. Do you prefer greys and blues? Then you are _____ quiet, shy, and you would rather follow than lead. You _____ to be a pessimist. At least, this is what psychologists tell us, and they should know, because they have been seriously _____ the meaning of color preference, _____ the effect that colors have on human beings. They tell us, among other facts, that we do not _____ our favorite color as we grow up—we are born with our preference. If you happen to love brown, you did so, as soon as you opened your eyes, or _____ as soon as you could see clearly.

Colors do _____ our moods—there is no doubt about it. A yellow room makes most people feel more _____ and more relaxed than a dark green one; and a red dress brings warmth and cheer to the saddest winter day. ______ , black is depressing. A black bridge over the Thames River, near London, used to be the ______ of more suicides（killing oneself）than any other bridge in the area—until it was ______ green. The number of suicide attempts immediately fell sharply; perhaps it would have fallen even more if the bridge had been done in ______ or baby blue.

Light and bright colors make people not only happier but more active. It is a（n）______ fact that factory workers work better, harder, and have fewer accidents when their machines are painted orange ______ black or grey.

【推荐2】Throughout history, people have been interested in ______ how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. ______, we do know a lot about ______, the languages of today and also the languages of ______ times. There are several thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language ______ the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. ______, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

There are several important ______ of languages in the world. For example, most of the languages of ______ are in one large family ______ the Indo-European language family. The original language of this family was spoken about 450 years ______. Many of the present languages of Europe and India are modern ______ of the language of 450 years ago.

Languages are ______ changing. The English of today is very different ______ the English of 500 years ago. In time some even ______ completely. About 1,000 years ago English was a little-known relative of German ______ on one of the borders (边界) of Europe.

If a language has ______ speakers or if it is very old, there may be ______ in the way it is spoken in different areas. ______,the language may have several dialects. Chinese is a good example of dialect differences. Chinese has been spoken for thousands of years by millions of speakers. The differences among the dialects of Chinese are so great ______ speakers of Chinese from some parts of China ______ understand speakers from other parts.

【推荐3】Most shoplifters (商店扒手) agree that the January sales offer wonderful opportunities for the hard-working thief.

_____ the shops so crowded and the staff so busy, it does not require any extraordinary talent to help you to take one or two little things and escape________. It is known, in the business, as “hoisting”.

But the hoisting game is not________it used to be. Even at the height of the sales, shoplifters today never know___________ they are being watched by one of those evil little balls that hang from the ceilings of so many department stores above the most desirable goods.

As if that was not trouble enough for them, they can now be filmed______and obliged to attend a showing of their performance in court.

Selfridges was the first big London store to install closed-circuit videotape equipment to watch its sales floors. In October last year the store won its first court______for shoplifting using an evidence of a videotape clearly showing a couple______ dresses. It was an important test case which______ other stores to install similar equipment.

When the balls, called sputniks, first make a(n)______ in shops, it was widely believed that their only function was to______shoplifters. Their______ridiculous appearances, the curious holes and red lights going on and off, certainly make the theory believable.

It did not take long, _______, for serious shoplifters to start showing suitable______.Soon after the equipment was ______ at Selfridges, store detective Brian Chadwick was sitting in the control room watching a woman _____ putting bottles of perfume into her bag.

“As she turned to go,” Chadwick______, “she suddenly looked up at the ‘sputnik’ and stopped. She could not______have seen that the camera was trained on her because it is completely hidden, but she ______ have had a feeling that I was looking at her.”

“For a moment she paused, but then she ______to the counter and started putting everything ______ . When she had finished, she opened her bag towards the camera to show it was empty and hurried out of the store.”