【推荐1】London life for Cathy Hagner and her three children is set to be permanent. Their_________school day and her job as a lawyer’s assistant are busy enough._________Hagner also has to take the two boys to soccer or hockey or basketball while dropping off her_________at piano lessons or Girl Scout Club.

_________, the exhausted family doesn’t get home until 7 pm. There is just time for a quick_________before homework.

In today’s world, middle class American and British parents treat their children_________they were competitors _________for some finishing line.

Parents take their children from activity to activity to make their future_________. It seems that raising a genius has become a more_________goal than raising a happy and well-balanced child.

“__________across the country are reporting a growing number of children__________from stomachaches and headaches__________exhaustion and stress,” says child expert William Doherty of University of Minnesota.

__________are dealing with exhausted children in the classroom. It’s a very serious problem. Many children attend__________clubs by necessity. But competitive pressures also__________an explosion of activities, which__________sports, language, music and maths classes for children as__________as four.

“There is a new parenting trend under way which says you have to tap all your child’s potential at a young age,__________you will let them down,” says Terry Apter, an expert on child problems.

“It isn’t entirely__________: there have always been pushy parents. But what was seen as strange behavior before is now well__________.

【推荐2】Is growth good for biodiversity? To answer the question, it is _________ to define what we mean by growth. Is growth gross domestic product (GDP), the “monetary value of all the finished goods within a country’s borders?” Or does it mean improving the human _________ of living? Today, when people say growth, they mean GDP, a measure that is over 70 years old. Actually GDP demonstrates negative _________ for biodiversity, as this “growth” measures only money inflows while far more important is the balance sheet, which shows _________ and debts. As biodiversity delivers no cash, it has no place in GDP system, but biodiversity provides the asset side of the balance sheet, such as forests, rivers, wetlands and animals — the _________ goes on.

It is argued that growth is good for biodiversity in the long run as there is an environmental Kuznets curve where _________ conditions get worse in the early stages of modern economic growth, but improve once a growth level has been reached. According to some people, once GDP has been high, more resources are to _________ in conservation, and new technologies are used to protect nature. They said people would have more interest in protecting the environment, and some of the forests started to return and many _________ were almost eliminated. Standing in America today it might appear that the environmental Kuznets curve works.

At first sight there appears to be a _________. Today the US GDP is increasing while many precious species populations are also recovering. Such conditions, according to some people, can be explained by greater efficiency in cars or more efficient agricultural production. But __________, the majority of the negative impacts have simply been exported. The high-polluting industries have been outsourced to developing nations. __________, the bitterest punishments are largely felt beyond the borders while we Americans are enjoying high GDP and selfish biodiversity at the same time. This can be seen in the WWF annual Report, where species population __________ are increasing by 7% in high-income countries and declining in middle- and low-income countries by 31% and 60% __________.

It is self-evident that growth, as currently __________, has a major negative impact upon biodiversity. What needs to change is the definition of growth from a GDP-essential concept to a balance-sheet __________. Organizations and world community should work on creating new vision or reform that will help ensure a real balance between an improving standard of human life and a thriving biodiverse landscape.

【推荐3】When you’re shopping at the grocery store, you probably expect that olive oil you see came from olives, and that the organic vegetables were never exposed to poisonous chemicals. Increasingly, however, there is a chance you might be _________. In recent years, there has been an increase in reports of so-called food fraud, or attempts by various entities—to alter products and _________ customers and food companies alike for financial gain (though occasionally the companies are complicit (同伙). Among the more recent _________: “natural?” honey that’s been laced with antibiotics (抗生素) and Italian companies selling “Italian olive oil” from a mixture of oils that did not originate from Italy.

How can this _________? In the U.S., the Pure Food and Drug Act has prevented the “manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or harmful foods” since 1906, and similar laws exist in other countries. But most global food regulators, including the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, aren’t equipped to _________ them effectively. For the most part, they _________ safety standards—ensuring that foods don’t contain bacteria or viruses—and rely on companies to police the quality of their own ingredients, lest they face consumer opposition. But now that food manufacturing has become globalized, supply chains are _________, creating more opportunities for bad actors to mess around. “Anyone who can _________ substituting cheap ingredients for more expensive ones is going to try,” says Marion Nestle, who teaches nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University.

Governments are starting _________. In 2014, the UK. created a food-crime unit that collects reports of food fraud. The Institute for Global Food Security lab in Belfast tests __________ sent in by people worried about fraud—a process that’s easier than ever, thanks to advances in technology. And there are efforts in the U.K., the U.S. and China, among other nations, to increase the punishments for companies that get caught selling shady foods.

But in order to __________ fraud in the first place, the food industry needs to get better at safeguarding its own production network. So the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI)—a trade group consisting of officials from more than 300 food manufacturers—will this year start __________ its members’ supply chains, from field to table, to identify fraud. Meanwhile, dozens of other food-industry experts recently teamed up with academics from Michigan State University to launch the Food Fraud Initiative (FFI), a group that studies fraudsters—__________, how they avoid safeguards—and then advises food companies on how to keep them away. “There are plenty of __________ out there who are going to wake up and look for some opportunity for fraud,” says John Spink, director of the FFI. “We just need to make ourselves a harder __________.”

【推荐2】Whenever I am in a group of people, I feel like everyone knows what to say and I have no idea. When I do try to join in, I get anxious. I struggle _________ words. This happens at parties or meetings. I feel judged- _________ I were being interviewed for a job. People think I am a loner. Maybe I am.

Individuals experiencing this type of social _________ often avoid eye contact, because it makes them feel _________ and judged. The feelings of awkwardness and not fitting in with others are often disarming, preventing these individuals from _________ themselves and sticking up for themselves in social environments, though they may be _________ at asserting themselves in environments that are focused on a task rather than _________

To _________ into a group, you need to be interested in the topics that others in the group are interested in and talk about them the way they do. Becoming a part of these groups requires that you _________some of your individuality in order to accept others’ __________ and values.

Some individuals are chameleon (变色龙)-like in that they __________ pick up the patterns of relating to different groups and __________ themselves accordingly. For them, this is automatic and they don’t even come to the __________ that they are changing themselves to fit into groups. If you are one of those people who feel __________ in most social group settings, it may be because you __________ changing the way you think in order to feel part of a group. Maybe you are better off.

【推荐3】A teacher teaching Maths to seven-year-old Laiq asked him, “If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Within a few seconds, Laiq _______ confidently, “Four!”

The confused teacher was expecting a(n) _______ correct answer, three. She was disappointed. “Maybe the child did not listen _______” she thought. She _______ , “Laiq, listen carefully. If I give you one apple and one apple and one apple, how many apples will you have?”

Laiq had seen the _______ on his teacher’s face. He _______ again on his fingers. But within him he was also _______ the answer that would make the teacher happy. This time hesitatingly he replied, “Four.”

The disappointment stayed on the teacher’s face. Suddenly she _______ that Laiq like strawberries. She thought maybe he didn’t like apples and that was why he couldn’t answer the question. This time with an excitement in her _______ she asked, “If I give you one strawberry and one strawberry and one strawberry, then how many you will have?”

Seeing the teacher ________ , young Laiq calculate on his fingers again. There was no pressure on him, but a little on the teacher. She wanted her new ________ to succeed. ________ a hesitating smile young Laiq replied, “Three?”

The teacher now had a ________ smile. Her approach had succeeded. She wanted to ________ herself. But one last thing remained. ________ she asked him, “Now if I give you one apple and one apple and one more apple how many will you have?”

Confidently Laiq answered, “Four!” The teacher was ________ . “How Laiq, How?” she demanded in a little annoyed voice.

In a voice that was ________ and hesitating young Laiq replied, “Because I already have one ________ in my bag.”

The story tells us: ________ someone gives you an answer that is ________ from what you expect, don’t think they are wrong. There shall be an angle that you may not have thought about yet.