【推荐1】Teens in the United States like teens in many countries have more leisure time today than ever before. But over a number of decades, there have been some ________ in how teenagers spend their time after school.

________ school clubs remains a common after-school activity. According to a study, the three most popular are sports clubs, performing arts clubs, and academic clubs—the same as 20 years age. While overall participation in these clubs has gradually ________ over the last two decades, this does not mean that students are less active.

Teens today are more likely to ________ or work with community groups. High school seniors are thinking about ________. They know that academic grades, school activities, and community ________ are all important in making a ________ application for college.

While the kinds of activities that students take part in at school have not changed greatly, high school teens now spend their leisure time out of school in very ________ ways. For example, teens today are less likely to visit a friend ________ than 20 years ago. And perhaps ________, they are far less likely to read a print newspaper or magazine.

One reason is ________ to the Internet, and it has ________ become their main channel for ________ and getting information. Calling and texting are the most popular means of communication among teens. Teens also ________ friends through social media. A study in 2018 showed that 45% teens are online almost constantly and 97% use a social media platform. This trend is likely to ________.

【推荐2】We are all taught that honesty is the best policy. Telling the truth is important and it’s essential not to steal or _______ your way through life. _______ , when you look at honesty box schemes, in some situations, people are not as honest as they’d like to think.

Honesty boxes are sometimes used to _______ products like newspapers at train stations and vegetables at the farmer’s gate. You take what you want and you pay by putting your _______ in a box. So, what _______ how honest people are?

There are two major factors. Firstly, people are more honest if they think someone is _______ them. Some researchers _______ a way to find out whether it is the case. A poster was put above an honesty box for tea and coffee in an office and two _______ posters were tested: one with some flowers and the other with a pair of eyes. The results showed that when the poster was a pair of eyes, people were more _______ than when it was some flowers.

The second factor is loyalty (忠诚). People are more honest when they ________ the seller in some way. To test this ________   in an experiment, shoppers were given too much change. Most people checked their change and ________ knew when they were given too much or too little. The results of the tests showed that in large supermarkets people usually ________ the extra change. In small shops, however, people were more honest and gave it back.

So, what about you? Are you as honest as you’d like to be? Or would you ________ be honest if you cared about the person? Or if somebody was there to ________ you? Come on, be honest.

【推荐3】Is the west falling out of love with the car? For environmentalists it seems a(n) _________ dream, but it is happening. While those with young families may carry on using four wheels, a combination of our ageing societies and a new attitude among the young seems to be _________ our 20th-century car addiction. Somewhere along the road, we reached the high point of the car and are now moving down the other side.

That _________ takes several forms. Sales of new cars have almost halved in the US, down from nearly 11 million in 1985 to about 5.5 million now. We shouldn't _________ that to a great degree, though. Cars last longer these days, and sales go up and down with the economy. But we have hit peak car ownership, too. And, more to the point, peak per-capita travel (人均出行).

The phenomenon was first _________ in The Road ... Less Traveled, a 2008 report by the Brookings Institution in Washington DC, but had been going on largely unnoticed for years. Japan reached it in the 1990s. They talk there of "demotorisation". The west had its _________ point in 2004. That year the US, UK, Germany, France, Australia and Sweden all saw the start of a decline in the number of kilometres and average person travelled in a car that _________ today.

What could be driving us _________? Fuel costs and rising insurance premiums (保险费) may be a factor. And urban congestion, combined with an absence of parking places and congestion charging, makes an increasing number of us look on the car as a(n) _________ way to move around in cities where there are public transport alternatives.

Demographics (人口统计数据) are another possible __________. It is surely no __________ that "peak car" happened first in Japan, which has the world's oldest population. Pensioners do not drive to work, and many don't drive at all. There is also the rise of "virtual commuters" who work from home through the Internet.

Besides these new __________ pattern, leisure lifestyle are also changing. The biggest __________ in car use in the US is among people under 35. The number of American 17-year-olds with a drivers' licence has fallen from about three-quarters to about half since 1998. Twenty-somethings have recently gone from driving more than the average to driving less.

Social scientists detect a new "culture of urbanisms". The stylish way to live these days is in inner-city apartments, not the __________. Richard Florida, an urban studies theorist at the University of Toronto in Canada, points out that the young shop online, telecommute, live in walk-able city neighborhoods near public transport and rely more on social media and less on fact-to-face visiting. Given those changes, they can think of better ways to spend their money than buying a(n) __________.

【推荐2】Camel wrestling is a rarely-known sport that has been held in Turkey since the 1900s. The sport ______ two male camels who are wrestling against each other in a wide field, and whoever is ______ in toppling (推翻) down their competitor wins the match. The current Turkish government______ camel wrestling to be held annually, as they believe that it is part of their ______. However, there have been many animal rights activists who are trying to ______ the sport because of animal cruelty (虐待).______ the protest against camel wrestling, the sport is still played until today.

There are ______more than 25 camel wrestling competitions held in Turkey each year, and most of these tournaments (锦标赛) are ______ to an annual festival. There are about 100 camels ______ in these events every year, and one camel will have to fight ten or more matches in a single event.

The ______ for the events are in football stadiums or an open field where there are fences to ______ the camels from escaping. At the end of the camel wrestling season, which is in the third or fourth week of March, the camels who ______ the most matches will fight against each other,______ to how “All-Star” events for some sports like basketball, baseball, and American football are played.

Camel wrestling has been a big tourist attraction for Turkey since the 1960s, as many tourists believe that ______ a live camel wrestling event will let them be immersed in Turkey’s culture. The sport is also quite ______ among locals and has become a nationwide sport in Turkey alongside oil wrestling and football.