【推荐2】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passages coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

Repair Café

When things around the house stop working, what do you usually do with them? If you're     1     a lot of people, you probably just throw them away.

This tendency has led to the modern nickname: the throwaway culture. There are many reasons for this trend. In some areas     2     it's difficult to find people who can make repairs, fixing things can be quite expensive. Also, some small appliances are so inexpensive that it's often much     3     (easy) to just buy a new one.

In 2009, Martine Postma from the Netherlands decided there must be a better way. Her solution was Repair Cafés: places where people can take damaged or     4     (tear) items. There they will find tools, resources and volunteer experts who are willing to help with repairs.

Postma's first Repair Café opened on Oct. 18, 2009, in Amsterdam, and was a huge success. News of the café spread, and people began asking     5     they could start their own. In 2011, Postma established the Repair Café Foundation. This nonprofit organization provides guidance to those hoping to begin their own neighborhood repair group.

Today, there are roughly 2,000 Repair Cafés around the world with meetings typically    6     (occur) once a month. Around 25 objects per session are repaired.     7     is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.

Not only do the cafés provide help with repairs, they also strengthen community ties. Neighbors get to know one another as they work together on projects. In addition, valuable knowledge is passed along and preserved. Items are kept     8     thrown away, meaning less trash in landfills.    9     an average broken item weighs a kilo, it's been estimated that 2,000 Repair Cafés prevent 35,000 kilos of trash every month. That    10     (add) up to about 420,000 kilos per year!

【推荐3】阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

Air is of great     1    (important) to everything     2     lives. But     3     air we breathe is getting dirty. People all over the world are looking for ways to make     4     clean again.

Have you ever watched the smoke from chimneys     5    (rise) high in the air? Have you seen the smoke from cars and trucks on roads or the smoke from planes? The smoke is not good     6    (breathe) and is harmful to people, especially to old people and children. If we want to keep fit and strong, we need to breathe fresh air.

    7     more and more     8    (factory), vehicles and planes appearing, it     9    (get) harder and harder to do with the air pollution.

Scientists have already found ways to stop or slow down some of the things that make the air dirty. They will not stop working     10     we have clean air again.