【推荐1】When I was a young girl，my mother made the same dish for supper five nights a week. She boiled potatoes，carrots, and________small amounts of the roast beef. She called it stew(炖菜).

I would often hear other children at school________about the delicious meals they had for________. Many of them ate in fast food restaurants, which were popular and expensive at the time. They got hamburgers and fries. I________we could eat like that once in a while，but my parents couldn’t________it. We only had takeout(外卖)food once or twice a year.

My mom took the________to cut up and prepare those________every single night. Her recipes were right-focusing on the vegetables but not on the________.

I had________head colds and flus than my classmates. If I did get________, I’d be home for a day or two, not a whole week like many of them.

When I was in my thirties, I became ill and was diagnosed with high blood pressure. I have to________I had been eating a lot of fast food,________not getting it as a child. But when went back to preparing home-made meals, I started to feel________.

Today I often find myself________a bowl of my mother’s stew. That stew was made with love and it has left me with a(n)________that will warm me forever.

【推荐2】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.

【推荐3】As a child, I was always told to “eat my greens”. These were the unappealing vegetables that sat on the edge of my plate. Peas, and green beans, all looked and tasted ___________. At that time, all I thought was that “when there were so many other delicious treats to_________, why should I eat boring vegetables?”

Since then my taste buds have___________and I'm also fully aware of the health benefits of eating fresh vegetables. But we still need___________ of the amazing goodness these green super foods give us. In the UK, a campaign has been___________for several years to encourage us to eat our “5A Day”—five portions of fruit and vegetables. That's___________evidence has shown there are significant health___________to getting at least five 80g portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day.

But I struggle trying to fit these five portions into my daily___________, partly because I have a sweet_________and vegetables are, well, tasteless. Researchers have been________________ how to make eating vegetables more____________. They analyzed the psychology behind our food ____________ and found that most of us are____________by taste. Brad Turnwald from Stanford University says that “studies show that people ____________ to think of healthier options as less tasty for some reason.”

In Europe, a project called Veggie EAT has also been trying to find ways to get people to ____________more vegetables. Project leader, Professor Heather Hartwell believes in ______________ encouraging people into eating the right things. One idea is to put a ____________of a tasty looking fruit on a supermarket trolley as a ____________ about buying something from the fruit section. She says, “Choice is a really____________thing. But making vegetables look attractive will increase their sales.”

Certainly, eating “twisted citrus-glazed carrots” does sound tempting, even if it just ______________like a carrot, but if it makes us eat more vegetables then that can only be a good thing for our health.

【推荐1】After graduation, I decided to take the gym seriously. Accompanied by a friend, I______a routine of walking on the treadmill (跑步机). I was______with our routine in the gym. My friend, however, became bored.

One day, he suggested that we______an outdoor sport. I was an uncoordinated (动作不协调的) person, so I______his idea.

But several weeks later, he managed to______me to step onto an outdoor racquetball (美式壁球) court. When I hit the ball, I sent it flying in every direction except the direction that I had______. Still, somehow, I tried hard to learn it and became______after constantly practicing.

“We’re not getting enough______on the treadmill. Why not play tennis to build up our body?”suggested my friend.

“Tennis? I can’t play tennis! That______real skills!” I firmly resisted (抵制) his new______.

However, weeks later, I started playing tennis. After several months of painful practice, one day, as the ball came flying towards me, my racket and the ball met in what tennis players______as the “sweet spot”. I had______learned how to play tennis properly!

I learned a valuable______from these experiences: I can do whatever I set my mind on. I just need to put in efforts, and the results will______. And I become quite______about trying new things and I’m always filled with a sense of excitement.

【推荐2】I never really enjoyed running. But my _________ with running has changed. I’m a _________ living in London. When my mom became ill with cancer and there was no _________ of her living much longer, I decided to move back to Harrogate. My work as a musician didn’t _________ and I just wanted to be with my mother.

I have been _________ psychotherapy(心理疗法) for more than three years, which has helped with my anxiety, but back in Harrogate, I _________ to do something else positive for myself, as looking after my mother _________ me. I wanted to do something physical and running _________ that need.

Getting up before six was _________ for me. But I made myself go running three times a week. After starting last summer, I would run with __________ members and talk about my mom with those I’d known better. It helped me put my __________ in the right place to face another day. And it helped me process my feelings after my mom __________ in October.

Although therapy has been the __________ for all the positive things in my life, running has added to that. Together, they have changed my __________ to life and I’m now less anxious than I was. While running, I feel grounded and I live in the __________.

【推荐2】Reading good books is one of the greatest pleasures in life. It ________ our happiness when we are cheerful, and lessens our ________ when we are sad. A good book may absorb our attention so ________ that for the time being we forget our ________.

Whatever may be our main purpose in reading, good books should never fail to give us ________. With a good book in our hands we will never be ________. Whether the characters in the book are taken from real life or are purely________, they may become our companions and make us laugh. The people we meet in books may ________ us either because they are similar to our close friends or because they present ________ types whom we are glad to welcome as new acquaintances. Our human friends sometimes ________ us, but the friends we make in books will always respect us. By turning the pages we can ________ them without any fear of hurting their feeling. When our human friends ________ us, good books are always there to give us sympathy and encouragement.

One of the most valuable gifts from books is ________. Few of us can travel far from home. ________ all of us can lead varied lives through the pages of books. When we wish to ________ from the dull realities of everyday life, a book will help us when ________ else can. To travel by book we don’t have to ________ and save a lot of money. Through books we may get the thrill of adventure without________. We can climb high mountains or cross the hot sands of the desert. ________, through books the whole world is ours for the asking. The ________ of our literary experiences are almost unlimited.