【推荐2】Growing up in England with a British father and a Chinese mother, I’ve enjoyed food from both countries ever since I was able to hold a knife and fork——and chopsticks!

Mum has sweet memories of the _________ from her home town in Sichuan, and often _________ spicy dishes. Thanks to this, Dad has come to _________ hot pot! But there are still some dishes that _________ dare not try even after many years of _________ to my mother. He once told me he was _________ by what he saw on the table when he first _________ my mother’s parents in China. He was even_________ at their wedding when he saw how the Chinese ate almost every part of a(n) _________. Even today, he still does not easily __________ eating things like chicken feet.

__________ I enjoy that sort of food myself. Last week, I went to the butcher’s and __________, “Do you have pigs’ ears?” “No,” the __________ said, pulling at his own ears, “just these __________ ones.” He must have thought I was __________.

Dad can cook a super “full __________ breakfast” of bacon, eggs, sausages and toast with butter — Mum and I just have to __________ a way to get him into the kitchen!

People say that one man’s meat is another man’s __________, but I feel at home with food from both my cultures. To me, there’s nothing __________ than a cross-cultural afternoon tea of English biscuits and a cup of Chinese oolong __________ in a fine china cup!

Recently I was invited to a friend’s house for supper — and had a meal I have never had before.

All the friends invited were a little _______ It’s not that Ben is unsociable, or a bad cook, but it’s just that he never _______ more than he has to. So how come he was inviting us round for a meal? Had he bought something _______ for his friends? He greeted us at the door and showed us into his dinning room where a _______ table was waiting for us. “Nothing but the _______ for my friends!” said Ben. We all sat down and looked _______ at each other — what did he _______ to?

Ben returned with four bowls of hot soup. “It’s a _______ of carrots, potatoes and tomatoes,” said Ben. The next _______ was also a little strange in that we didn’t quite know what it was again. It’s just ____________ mixture of vegetables.

As we ate we chatted and finally the ____________ turned back to what we were eating. “Was there a recipe (食谱) for this,” asked Marina , “or did you ____________ it up?” Ben put his fork down. “What I cooked ____________ what I could find.” Marina was surprised. “But you can find anything in supermarkets these days.” “But there’s ____________ choice in what you can find ____________ supermarkets,” he replied.

____________ that we had all finished the food, Ben decided to tell the truth. He had read recently that supermarkets usually ____________ away 5 percent of their food every day. So Ben decided to look inside his local supermarket bins. There he found food that was slightly out of ____________ , boxes of throw-away vegetables and fruit.

So Ben had ____________ provided a decent (不错的) meal for his friends, and made us aware of the fact that there are many poor people who need the food, but the amount of food thrown away is enough to ____________ millions of people.

【推荐1】Which is the most famous sheep in the world? A sheep called Dolly. But why is Dolly _______?

That is because unlike other sheep, Dolly was not _______ in the usual manner. She is actually a ____ of her mother, like an identical twin.

We all have fathers and mothers. In fact, all the animals we know of have them too. A clone, _______, does not need to have both the parents.

Our body is made up of cells which have information to _______ their work in the form of DNA. This is called the genetic code. Every organism gets half of this _______ from the father and the other half from the mother.

We all have grown from a single cell which _______ these two parts of the DNA. It _______ millions of times to give rise to millions of cells which form our body. And each cell has a copy of all the genetic information needed by the _______. This means that each cell of our body has enough information to ________ other human beings like us.

In the ________ of cloning, the scientists extract（提取）the DNA from an animal cell and implant it into an egg cell taken from another animal. Before ________ it, the DNA of the recipient’s cell is ________.

This is how Dolly’s ________ began—from a single cell taken from the udder of her mother. The DNA in her mother’s cell was removed and ________ into the egg cell of another sheep. A few months later, Dolly was born and remained a ________ lamb, a clone of her mother— ________ a biological father.

It is ________ possible to clone humans as well. We might have clones of supermodels and great scientists. What if someone creates a clone of Hitler? Since it is ________, someone, somewhere must have attempted it already.

_____ we have learnt from the story of Jurassic Park, we might lose control over the situation after a point. Is there a disaster waiting to happen?

【推荐1】Boyan Slat is 26. If you saw him walking down the street, you might think he was just a student at a local technical university. And so he was, seven years ago, right before he ________ out of college.

Slat’s life began to ________ after a holiday trip to Greece with his family when he was 16. Before taking a diving course, he had ________ to see beautiful sea animals. However, what he ________ saw in the ocean was an awful lot of plastic waste. From that moment on, Slat dived into a ________ to find a solution to this alarming problem. ________ by the idea for a floating barrier that could collect plastic in the ocean, he ________ his company at the age of 18. The idea was named one of the best ________ of 2015 by Time magazine.

After five and a half years’ hard work, he launched the world’s first ocean plastic clean-up system: System 001. The U-shaped pipe, about 609 metres in ________, snakes its way out under the Golden Gate Bridge into the Pacific Ocean. These floating barriers will capture (捕获) plastic as the ocean water flows past. Ships will collect the waste and bring it to land for ________ every few months. According to Slat, if all goes according to plan, only 60 systems could ________ the amount of plastic there by as much as 50 per cent by 2025.

________, there remains a problem: What will happen to the plastic brought back to shore from Slat’s systems? It’s likely that lots of the waste will ________ be recycled into more single-use plastics that end up back in the

________. That doesn’t mean Slat will ________. “Big problems require big solutions,” he says. “If anyone has any better ideas, I’d love to know.”

【推荐2】Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of _______ others. The little acts of _______ give you chances to provide service for others. They can make you feel how _______ it is to be kind and helpful.

We _______ in a rural (乡村的) area. Most of what we _______ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the _______ is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few _______ of living there is short of _______ public services，such as rubbish collection, which is common in the _______.

A helping behavior that I practice regularly with my daughters is ________ rubbish in our neighborhood. My daughters often have a match to see who can collect the most rubbish. They will often say to me in a(n) ________ voice, “There’s some rubbish, Daddy —________ the car!” And if we have time, we will often get out of our car and pick it up. ________ it may seem strange, we do it. In fact, we ________it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost anywhere.

One day I saw a stranger picking up rubbish on the road. I stopped. He ________ his head and smiled, “I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good ________ to protect our environment.”

There are many other ways to ________ kindness for others. You may share a dinner with a beggar, visit ________ old people in the nursing home, or help the blind ________ the street. You can thinkof something that can be finished ________ but helpful. It is fun, self­satisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example. Helping others is helping yourself.

【推荐3】Few people knew about online food delivery apps ten years ago, but today, many would find it hard to live without them. In China alone, over 400 million people use such apps. ________ online food delivery services have changed the way we eat, and they are also having a huge impact on our society.

These services have ________ brought us many benefits. They provide jobs for millions of people and help restaurants find more customers. Since the apps are very convenient, they also benefit consumers: we can now have meals delivered at any time of a day, ________ bad weather or busy schedules. This is especially true for people who work long hours, since they might not have time to cook. Not only do these apps _________ time, they also provide us with a wide variety of restaurants to choose from. They have proved to be useful for retired people as well: ________ who live far away from restaurants and supermarkets can now get hold of meals and groceries more easily.

However, we must not forget the ________ of online food delivery services. For one thing, they make it even easier to order unhealthy food, ________ in sugar, fat and salt. Food safety is another problem: it can be hard to ________ where the food actually comes from, and whether the owner is legally permitted to run a restaurant. As couriers (外卖员) need to deliver the orders as quickly as possible, some ________ traffic rules. In recent years, there have been a number of terrible traffic accidents because of this. ________, the industry is creating unbelievable amounts of packaging waste: over a million tonnes of online food delivery boxes are thrown away every year. Experts assume that this number will continue to ________ in the future, and this will have an increasingly negative impact on the environment.

There are many advantages of these services, but we need to make sure that we make the right choices ________. We should do our best to limit waste, especially when it comes to ________, so as to contribute to sustainable development. We also need to think about what we eat and the impact on our health. Next time you are thinking about ________, you should ask yourself whether you really need to. In most cases, it's better to walk over to the supermarket, buy the ________ you need, and then cook them yourself.