【推荐1】The moment happened 30 years ago but it was still fresh in my memory. I was a college freshman and had ______ up most of the night before, laughing and talking with friends. Now just before my first ______ of the day my eyelids were feeling heavier and heavier and my head was drifting down to my desk to make my textbook a ______. A few minutes’ nap (小睡) time before class couldn’t ______ , I thought.

BOOM! I lifted my head suddenly and my eyes opened wider than saucers. I looked around with my heart beating ______ trying to find the cause of the ______. My young professor was looking at me with a boyish smile on his face. He had dropped the textbooks he was carrying onto his desk ______. “Good morning!” he said still______. “I am glad to see everyone is______. Now let’s get started.”

For the next hour I wasn’t sleepy at all. It wasn’t from the ______ of my professor’s textbook alarm clock. It was instead from the ______ discussion he led. With knowledge and good ______ he made the material come ______. His insight was full of both wisdom and loving-kindness. And the enthusiasm and joy that he   ______ with were contagious (有感染力的). I ______ the classroom not only wide awake, but a little livelier and a little ______.

I learned something far more important than not ______ in class that day too. I learned that if you are going to do something in this life, do it well, and do it with ______. What a wonderful place it would be if all of us did our work joyously and well. Don’t sleepwalk your way through ______ then. Wake up! Let your love fill your work and study. Life is too ______ not to live it well.

【推荐2】There was once a boy in India who was sent by his parents to a boarding school(寄宿学校). Before being sent away this boy was the brightest student in his class.

But the boy_________after leaving home and attending the boarding school. His grades started _______. He hated being in a group and he was _________all the time. And there were especially dark times when he felt like _______himself. All of this happened because he felt worthless and no one loved him.

His _______ started worrying about the boy. But they even didn’t know what was wrong with him. _________ his dad decided to travel to the boarding school and talk with him.

They sat _______ the bank of the lake near the school. The father started asking him casual questions about his classes, teachers and _______. After some time his dad said, “Do you know, son, _______ I am here today?”

The boy answered back, “To check my grades?”

“No, no,” his dad __________, “I am here to tell you that you are the most important person for me. I want to see you happy. I don’t __________ grades. I care about __________. I care about your happiness. YOU ARE MY WORLD.”

Those words caused the boy’s eyes to fill with tears. He __________ his dad. They didn’t say __________ to each other for a long time.

Now the boy had everything he wanted. He knew there was someone on this earth who cared for him deeply. He meant the __________ to someone. And today this young man is in college at the top of his class and no one has ever seen him sad!

【推荐1】Recently a Russian friend came to visit me. It was one of her lifelong dreams to visit London. She arrive at lunchtime and we _______ a tiring afternoon going round the Tower of London. However, by 5 o'clock I couldn't help _______ that she didn't seem as enthusiastic as she had been earlier. I asked if _______was wrong and she said, “This is all very interesting but where is the _______ and where are the men in bowler hats (圆顶礼帽)? Why did everyone _______ to get on the bus at the bus stop instead of making a queue? It's very _______ from the books I've read about England.”

Her _______ made me think. It's true that people don't _______ much any more: nowadays you often find that everyone just jumps on the bus. Or maybe this is only in London. Also the idea of a man standing up and offering his _______ to a woman on a train or bus is ________ these days, although my father still does it!

Speaking of the pollution: well, we all know that a hundred years ago there used to be fog all year round in London, but we ________ have much fog; nowadays we have pollution from all the cars! Over the last few years in ________ London had been one of the hottest places in Europe, although we still get more than enough rain in the season.

What about the city men in their working “uniform”? Well, you can still see some city gentlemen in their smart ________, but men hardly ever ________ bowler hats. A few things don't ________, though. If you try to start a conversation with an English person on the underground in London, she or he will probably look at you as if you were mad!

【推荐1】Man has______ways of showing his love to nature. He says he loves it, although he often______its beauty. While walking through the woods, how many times have we picked flowers, planted roots and all? Then later, as the______wither(枯萎), we throw them away. That’s one of the reasons ____many kinds of plants and flowers have become rare. Or have you______wondered where all the thousands of New Year trees come from and_____ happens to them once the______are over?

Man destroys nature by polluting the air. That’s probably the greatest danger_____our lives. The smoke from factories and______from cars and trucks do not harm only the surrounding vegetation(植被), it ____our health, too.Man pollutes rivers, seas and oceans. Just think of the______fish that die by the thousands because of polluted waters.

Biologists have______that all kinds of wild life are______in the areas where they live. Even the wolf, which we______dangerous and “bad”, plays an important role in nature. Here is an interesting example. There is a large______in one of the Great Lakes between Canada and the US. Early in this century many wild deer invaded(涌入) the island. Nobody knows how they______there.

The deer multiplied(繁殖) until there were as many as 40,000 on the island. They destroyed ____of the vegetation on it. Finally as they couldn’t find enough______they began to starve and die. Then came the wolf:_______knows how wolves got to the island, but they______. The wolves killed those deer that were easiest to catch—the sick, the weak and the old. So only the strong and the healthy animals were left. The island become green once again and there was enough food for the deer that were left.

【推荐2】Lawmakers in New Jersey recently advanced a bill that would ban businesses from going cashless—a move that would put the state at odds with the global trend toward electronic payments but would ________ resistance from local officials who see no-cash policies as unfair.

Almost 1 out of 3 Americans in 2018 say they don't use cash during a typical week of purchases, according to the Pew study released this week. The findings reveal that Americans are becoming less reliant on paper currency, mirroring ________ in Sweden, India and China. But state and local officials say that restaurants and shops that adopt cashless policies have left some members of the community behind— individuals without the ________ to open a bank account or who lack access to the mobile apps that power digital payments.

The New Jersey measure, which would apply only to face-to-face sales and would________Internet and phone purchases, comes as officials push ________ efforts to bar no-cash rules in New York and Philadelphia. ________ cashless policies offer consumers the promise of convenience and provide businesses greater protection against theft, they also can exclude low-income consumers or undocumented immigrants,critics say. "Cash-free businesses are discriminatory by design and pose ________ to low-income communities that may not have access to credit," New York Council member Torres said on Twitter when he introduced a bill that would ban the practice.

According to the Pew study, the decline in the use of ________ currency is uneven among the population when race, age and income are accounted for. Pew found a significant ________ in cashless adoption tied to annual household income, with adults making at least $75,000 more than twice as likely to make all their purchases without using cash in a typical week, ________ with people who make less than $30,000. The Pew findings suggest that the ________ of going cashless may come with a cost that only some groups of people will bear. Americans with lower incomes are roughly four times as likely as higher earners to make almost all of their purchases with cash, according to the study.

As has been noted, business leaders have ________ cashless policies by referring to higher security and ________ customer service and efficiency. Some advocates have focused on providing people who are underserved by the ________ banking system with more affordable options, attacking the root cause behind the ________ of cashless payments.

【推荐3】When buying a smartphone, I keep my criteria simple. If the device can handle WeChat, phone calls, and _________ the Internet, I purchase it. If it’s too expensive, I _________ it. This approach to acquiring smartphones _________ for me as I keep my needs basic. Aside from saving myself money, I may have also saved myself from some wounds or burns which I might get if I chose a flawed phone. A few years ago, things _________ for Samsung — literally.

One of Samsung’s innovation was called the Note7. Sadly, it was discontinued (停产) only 38 days after being made available for consumption. At first, a few customers complained that their phones caught fire while being _________. Samsung, being responsible, launched an investigation to _________ the cases. They issued a global _________ on 1 September, but it was taken merely as a suggestion and not seen as _________. Then the tech giant gave a stronger message to worldwide customers, saying all owners must stop using their Note7s immediately.

Commercial forces encourage tech companies to push the envelopes and produce new products every few months. Sometimes, a conflict of interests can occur. The greed for innovation has a funny way of causing _________ for the basics — like safety — and the Note7’s situation is just one example of this. The device __________ all kinds of cool features, including a super-high-resolution camera, an iris scanner and an especially powerful __________. Ideally, manufacturers should consider all relevant aspects when creating new commodities. Samsung has both the money and technical know-how to prevent such negligence. The Note7’s __________ was most likely rushed in order to make more profit, which __________ having the opposite effect. Time will tell how much this oversight will cost with respect to Samsung’s fame and future.

__________, many people assumed that Samsung could eventually come back over the horizon and restore its reputation as a manufacturer of excellent smartphones if its new models had no major flaw. In the smartphone industry, intense competition will only bring more benefit to consumers. If there were only one __________ company, we would be left with no options for top-of-the-line phones.