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Be pleased to do anything even though it is very tiny. In fact, there’s no single thing that is not     1     (值得的) doing or you are not able to do. So     2     (live) a happy life with a light heart is the most important. Then how can you live a happy life?

Make each day meaningful by helping someone or just making someone smile. The feeling     3     makes you want to help others stays at the bottom of your heart. Happiness depends     4     your feelings in your heart. Helping others is helping     5     (you).

    6     (face) difficulties bravely in your life. Everyone may meet with difficulties. No one can     7     (避免) them. The difficulties can teach you a lot. They will help you to be closer to     8     (successful).

Never worry about the things you can’t change. Worrying can     9     change the situation nor solve any problem. Perhaps, not every dream will be realized. Never mind, and take it easy.

Come on, everybody! Let’s live a happy life with a light     10     and enjoy the beautiful sunshine every day.

【推荐2】Success never comes easy. How many of you have heard of successful people who haven’t made any effort? People often have to overcome failures     1     they can accomplish something great. They usually don’t find success from the very beginning.

Van Gogh sold only one painting during his lifetime, but this didn’t stop him from completing over 800 painting. Thomas Edison     2     (fire) from his first two jobs for lack of competence. Later, as an inventor, he tried 1,000 times     3     (create) the light bulb, without success. He was confident in     4     (he), and    5     (eventual) he did success. When     6     (ask), “How did it feel to fail 1,000 times?” Edison replied, “I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was     7     invention with 1,000 steps.

These successful people have set good     8     (example) to us. They wouldn’t have achieved their success if they     9     (abandon) their dreams. Believe in yourself and try your best, and success will not be far     10     you.

【推荐1】阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

The heat wave that broke high temperature records in five European countries a week ago is now over Greenland,     1     (cause) the surface of the islands vast ice sheet to melt at near-record levels and a huge     2     (lose) of ice in the Arctic. On Wednesday alone, more than 10 billion tons of ice was lost to the oceans by surface melt, which is equal     3     about 4,000,000 Olympic-sized swimming pools, said Ruth Mottram, a climate scientist with the Danish Meteorological Institute.

Melting     4     (increase) in recent decades because of climate change and has been decreasing accumulation from snow. Previously, during the 1970s and the 1980s, Greenland lost     5     average of 50 billion tons of ice each year. From 2010 to 2018, that figure shot up to 290 billion tons     6     (annual). This summer, the extent of the melt could surpass (超过) the record set in 2012,     7     about 97% of the ice sheets surface began to melt. NASA-JPL Caltech reported at the time.

Greenland, the worlds largest island,     8     (lie) between the Atlantic and Arctic oceans, with 82 per cent of its surface     9     (cover) in ice. A June 2019 study by scientists in the U. S. and Denmark said melting ice in Greenland alone will add between 5 and 33 centimeters to the rising     10     (globe) sea levels by the year 2100. If all the ice in Greenland melted, which would take centuries, the world’s oceans would rise by 7.2 meters.

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More than 70 percent of king penguins could     1     (wipe) out by rising ocean temperatures, according to a recent survey.

Their total population of 1.6 million today could be reduced by more than 1.1 million by 2100.     2    , many people are optimistic because these statistics show that the birds are not endangered at present.     3    (rate）as “of least concern”, they occupy the lowest category of extinction risk.

But that could change as their fish     4     (supply) move further into the Southern Ocean, where there is only a     5     (hand) of islands to provide a home for the birds.

King penguins require remote islands     6     are not too cold, have no winter sea ice and no fierce animals. If they have to swim more than 435 miles on a round trip to hunt for fish, their waiting children can starve to death as their fat reserves become steadily     7     (few). It can take a parent three months     8     (deliver) fish to its young.

The scientists, from the University of Strasbourg in France, whose study     9     (publish) in the journal Nature Climate Change so far, warn that the effects of fish population moving further south could give rise     10     a large population crash of the penguins.

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Does City Living Hurt Mental Health?

People often move to cities    1    better jobs and more cultural activities. But are they putting    2    at risk? Maybe.

Experts at the American Psychiatry Association say that “natural environments or green spaces” do much for good our mental health and    3    (experience) nature helps people recover from the mental tiredness that comes from day-to-day work.

On the other hand,    4    they cannot say exactly why, mental health experts say some research suggests that city living might hurt our mental health.

Andrea Mechelli is a doctor with the Institute of Psychiatry at Kings College, London. “There have been studies    5    people weretaken out of an urban environment into a rural environment, and theirsymptomswould improve. And we also see that the greater the city the greater the risk.”

Kings College researchers, along with city planners and land and building designers hoped    6    (learn) more about city living and mental illness. So, they created asmartphone appcalled Urban Mind. They say they wanted to understand    7    different parts of the urban environment affect mental wellbeing.

The Urban Mind app    8    your experience of city living in the moment. Researchers collected real time information from 108 people, who answered just over 3,000 questions during a one-week period.

The researchers found that being outdoors, seeing trees, hearing birdsong, seeing the sky, and feeling in contact with nature    9    (associate)with higher levels of mental well-being.They also found that these seeming effects of nature were especially strong in those individuals at greater risk of mental health problems.

The Urban Mind Project team says it hopes “the results will inform future urban planning and social policy    10    (intend) to improve design and health.”