【推荐3】Flooding was fairly usual for a Queensland summer. This time, however, there had been a lot of rain and flash flooding further north which _________ ran down to the river.

My younger brother was getting _________ and thought we should evacuate. We spent hours trying to _________ him down. The water had never gotten to less than 1 to 2 meters away from our street level. After a few more _________, the water levels were getting much higher than we’d seen before and we thought it best if we moved our cars to the higher _________ just in case it got to the street level. Later, we _________ a lot of furniture and electronics upstairs.

Finally, we decided to _________. The water was getting close to the street level, which only meant another foot from _________ our bottom floor. We left to spend the _________ with my cousin who lived in a neighborhood close by. We heard that the water had __________ further, but had no idea how far as it was dark and we couldn’t see anything from our cousin’s house.

The __________ moment was when we finally got to see our house. There is a high school behind our house, which __________ at the base of this large hill, with an elevated sports oval (高架椭圆形体育场) right behind our house. The water at its __________ was about 2 inches from being level with the oval. We __________ it to survey our house. Seeing water lapping (轻拍) at the windows of our bedroom on the second floor of our house was the most unbelievable __________ I had ever seen.

【推荐1】Kids are going all over the world without ever leaving their school. They are using their computers. A school in_______could be the most wired school in America. They are wired to the Internet through their_______.

Thirty students are able to_______the Internet every day. The kids are_______the grades of kindergarten and fifth grade. The teacher says that it is hard to get them_______from the computers. They do not even want to have a rest.

The Internet has_______the world to many people. Now students can go to any library_______earth. They can get information, and they can visit a child in another country.

Laura Bacon likes to_______other students. She’s going to Peggy’s page. Peggy is a student in London, England. She puts her own home page on the Internet. It_______pictures of Peggy, her school, her mum, her dad and her friends. Laura can________her mails, too.

A scientist helped to wire the schools. He said, “There is a plan to________twelve thousand California schools to the Internet.”

Wiring schools in California will________a lot of money. It needs the________of the volunteers or schools will not be able to________it. They think that it will cost as much as fifty billion dollars.

Some people say that the money should be spent on teachers________computers. Other people say that it would be worth it to wire all of the classrooms

【推荐3】In the 2010s, 34-year-old Miller travelled around the world as a marine biologist. However remote the location, she made the same alarming discovery: amounts of plastic littering the water and _______ marine life. Miller knew she needed to do something.

Her group called A Greener Future estimates that 33 percent of what they _______ comes from food packaging after organizing litter clean-ups across Canada. If food _______ were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases. Miller, determined to tackle the problem at the source, envisioned a shop that _______ plastic bags and quit the bad habit of wasting food itself.

In 2018, Miller opened one of the first zero-waste grocery stores in Canada, with her mission _______ the emphasis on sustainability. She named it Nada, and ensured everything was designed to make the zero-waste shopping experience _______ to practise. For instance, the cafe uses food items _______ their expiry date (失效日期) to make baked goods, soups and more. Miller buys from some 115 small local companies. The suppliers must be _______ of a social or environmental responsibility, and just as importantly, they must be _______ to reducing waste in their own supply chain.

Because food sales were ________ in pandemic, Nada closed its doors to the public for 18 months. ________ as the business was, Miller developed online ordering and delivery in a sustainable way. Carbon-free deliveries are made by e-bike and electric vehicles. Everything from olive oil to fresh eggs comes ________   in upgraded containers, which are collected and reused again with the next deliveries.

Not only do those containers just reduce waste, but they get people thinking big, just as Miller had hoped. “They are labeled with Nada stickers, ________ you can see how many times the container has been used,” she says, with a ________ smile. “If you open someone’s cupboard and see all of these Nada-branded containers, it’s ________ to start a conversation.”

【推荐1】Many years ago, I had an unforgettable experience. As I walked through the farmer’s _______, my eyes were immediately drawn to a basket of strange fruits, almost alien-looking fruits. They were a far cry from the perfectly round, shiny things we were used to seeing in supermarkets. Feeling curious, I _______ the seller and asked about these strange fruits.

With a _______ smile, the seller explained that these _______ were heirloom varieties (传家宝品种), which were _______ through generations. They may not _______ society’s standards (标准) of beauty, but their wonderful taste was _______ by those who enjoy the true nature of food. Because I was _______ about the seller’s enthusiastic explanation, I decided to give them a try.

As we _______ the strange fruits, we felt they were incredibly delicious and made us feel really happy. Each bite was bursting with an intensity of taste we had never ________ before. The fruits were juicy, sweet, and possessed a complexity that stayed on our tongues. It was as if they held the very essence of nature’s presents.

This encounter taught us a(n) ________ lesson about the importance of looking beyond the fruit’s ________ and embracing the beauty of ________. In a world filled with uniformity (一致), we had ________ the true value of uniqueness. These untraditional fruits were a reminder that ________ and quality often exist in the unexpected.

【推荐3】Plenty of couples have been forced to change wedding plans this year because of the ongoing pandemic. That’s not something that Tyler and Melanie Tapajna were going to let get them _______though. They managed to still tie the knot while also doing some good in the world — feeding the _______ at the reception.

The couple was initially _______ to have 150 _______ at their wedding. However, such a big ceremony simply was _______ with everything going on in the world. So, they changed their plans and organized something _______ for just their friends and family. _______canceling 150 people’s worth of _______, they chose to do something special with it. So, they spoke with the nonprofit organization Laura’s Home about _______. Their request was ________, and plans were swiftly put in place for everything to ________ .

After tying the knot in their private and friendly ceremony, the Tapajnas then went straight to Laura’s Home, put on a hairnet and gloves, and joined the work of serving the homeless. They didn’t even change their ________. It wasn’t the reception that the couple had ________, but in a way, it was better. They got to do some good in the world on what was the ________day of their lives.

This pandemic may have forced the Tapanjas to change their wedding plans, but in doing so, it ended up ________ more people than they could have ever imagined.