【推荐1】A long walk is not only a scientific and effective way of physical and mental relaxation, but a good way to work up an appetite. But for the _________ student Emma, it’s also a _________ to settle hunger.

Emma aged 6 is taking part in the FareShare Footsteps Challenging, promising to walk 100 km to_________ money to help feed people _________. And her efforts are already paying off. So far she has _________ 19 km and is on the top of the Little FootStep leaderboard, well _________ the way to meeting her fund-raising _________ of $2,000. “Moving makes you feel _________ and helping other people makes you feel happy, too. Every school day I am walking, running or riding 1 km. Then on the _________ I am doing a lot more. I have been going up and down my long driveway—sometimes I__________ stop and feed the cows,” Emma said.

__________ in country Victoria with __________ of fruits and vegetables in her home garden, Emma understands the __________ of nutritious food. “It helps us grow and stay__________. It also helps us stay alive and own lots of energy,” she said.

The FootSteps Challenge is __________ by charity kitchen FareShare and was__________ by its chefs (厨师) who walk about 15 km a day as they turn rescued and donated food into 50,000 nutritious meals to __________ to the needy each week. The charity __________ fresh produce, including from supermarkets, manufacturers, farmers and wholesale business.

A small team of FareShare chefs and 1,500 community volunteers cook home-style meals for hundreds of charities across Australia, including homeless shelters, women’s refuges and community food bank.

The FareShare FootSteps Challenge encourages participants (参加者) to “move for meals” by walking, running, riding or even swimming. The little girl Emma, who__________ up to fight hunger, set a good example to us. Everyone’s act of kindness __________ to the needy.

【推荐2】This supermarket sells only wasted food

Food waste is a big deal: According to the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization, 28 percent of the world’s agriculture area is used to produce food that _________ goes to waste each year. But now, a new supermarket _________ only with wasted food is tackling the problem head-on.

The project is an expansion of British non-profit the Real Junk Food Project. The group has long collected wasted food for pay-as-you-can cafes around the world, but its supermarket takes the concept one step _________. The market takes food that’s donated by local restaurants and grocery stores and puts it on _________ to sell to customers who pay what they can.

As is reported, the store is already serving as a _________ for families who are down on their luck. It’s kind of like food pantry(食品分发处), but has no _________ on who gets the food. And the concept is not a new one: as is written in another report this month, the idea has taken _________ in Denmark, too, due to a government effort to reduce the country’s amount of wasted food.

Last year, the USDA launched its first-ever food waste reduction goal, _________ to reduce the amount of wasted food by 50 percent by 2030. The agency estimates that cutting just 15 percent of this waste in the United States would provide enough food for more than 25 million Americans per year. And hunger isn’t the _________ reason to reduce food waste. Wasted food has a carbon dioxide impact ____________ to the output of one in four cars on the road worldwide and ____________ a quarter of the world’s freshwater and 300 million barrels of oil each year.

So why do grocery stores produce all the wasted food? The USDA notes that damaged packaging products that haven’t been stored properly, holiday specialties that are never purchased, overstocked foods and odd-looking foods____________ for the waste.

Food waste supermarkets aren’t the only ____________ in the fight against waste: From activists working to improve the reputation of ____________ fruits and vegetables to craft beers made of wasted products like no longer fresh bread and grapefruit, there are plenty of creative ways to and eat food that would ____________ be thrown out. Maybe it’s time to bring the food waste supermarket concept to the United States-a delicious addition to the variety of ways not to trash perfectly good meals.

It is perhaps the most ironic symbol of the life on our planet. The Amazon is the world’s largest and most bio-diverse tropical rainforest and a huge trap for carbon dioxide. The harms of _________ in this vital resource are old news. But now, the time on the clock is running out. It seems that the world’s biggest rainforest is about to turn into the world’s biggest environmental _________. “We are about to collapse,” says Luciana Gati at Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research. “We are in a(n) _________, we need action now.”

Gati has spent years _________ the Amazon from the air. She believes we are as little as five years from a point of no return, where rainforest begins to turn into dry land. It is also the point at which billions of tons of carbon would be _________ into the atmosphere. “It’s a nightmare,” she says.

That nightmare situation is the well-known Amazon _________ point, where the ecosystem can no longer cope with the damage of the forest cutting. Like a domino game, one brick falling will _________ the whole tower to collapse in a heap.

Warnings that this is approaching have now taken on extreme urgency. The rate of deforestation has increased sharply and is fast approaching the theoretical _________. In September, a group of more than 200 experts, including Gatti, released an assessment of the situation. The conclusion: we are on the _________ of disaster.

Scientists first began to seriously worry about a potential Amazon tipping point in about 2000, when some studies warned that a combination of climate change and deforestation could cause the rainforest to __________.

A few years later, a team of Brazilian scientists put numbers on it. They __________ that in central, southern and eastern parts of the Amazon, a loss of 40% of the forest cover from pre-industrial levels, or 3°C warming would reduce rainfall so much that the rest of the forest would die of __________ and turn into a dry land in less than a decade.

The scientists have since __________ that prediction, partly due to the global warming that has happened since 2000. The Amazon is already 1.2°C warmer than it was in pre-industrial times and is warming three times faster than the global __________. At that rate of warming, between 20 and 25% deforestation would be enough to dry up the land and destroy the Amazon completely.

“Either way, we would be wise not to exceed 20%”, says a scientist, “for the commonsense reason that there is no point in __________   the precise point of limit by tipping it.”

【推荐1】Savanna Lorpu Karmue, 11, is a student, author, activist, and possibly one of our next great cardiologists (心脏病学家). Her inspiring story started with her favourite Sunday school teacher who was about to have a (n) _________ because of a serious heart attack. After she _________ the teacher in the hospital, Savanna’s curiosity led her towards a deep _________of the heart and its importance to the human body._________ by her supporting parents to research related matters of the heart, Savanna learned that one in three of teenagers were_________ from childhood obesity (肥胖), which can lead to heart disease.

She _________ making videos, named Happy Heart Advice, sharing with the world _________ to have a better health and create a healthy heart. Until 2016, Happy Heart Advice had provided over 300,000 children with _________ for healthy living. In June 2017, she was invited as a_________ at an international conference, where she shared __________ information on how to __________ healthy eating to everyday adolescent lifestyles. She was __________ by the American Heart Association for her __________ in the health community at such an early age. She’s currently__________ an app that will make it easier for moms and families to make conscious efforts to __________ “Happy Heart-approved food” instead of grabbing whatever catches their eye in a grocery store.

【推荐2】I entered this world with Poland syndrome, a disease that prevented the formation of my right arm and muscles. My parents believed playing with Lego could enhance my_______and gifted me my first kit when I was five. Initially I _______to piece the the components together but finally I crafted my first Lego work – a car. By the age of nine, I had _______my first prosthetic arm (义肢) using Lego– a simple box that perfectly accommodated my right arm.

This early creation sparked my drive for further _______. Years later, I developed another prosthetic arm called the MK-1, which had fingers, a motor, a pressure sensor, and a grabber capable of _______things. Before constructing it, I was against traditional prosthetics as they were too _______. My parents had looked into getting one years earlier, only to be discouraged by the prohibitive price. So, I concluded that I might not need one because I was managing well without.

As the years passed, my _______evolved from MK-1 to the more advanced and comfortable MK-V. One day, a couple with their eight-year-old son, who lost both_______in an accident, reached out to me after learning about my story. Short of money, they couldn’t afford well-functioning prosthetics. “Daniel,” the father_______asked, “we were wondering if you could help build a set of prosthetics for our son.”

It would be a _______task, but I responded with a “yes”. Without any delay, I _______ the task. The subsequent days witnessed how I carefully selected the Lego piece and intricately integrated practical components to enhance its dexterity(灵巧). Days _______into weeks, and the boy-customized prosthetics finally took shape. It’s time for them to fulfill their intended purpose.

I rushed to the boy’s home and _______the prosthetics onto him. They worked! The room erupted with cheers! The boy expressed his gratitude and sprinted to his parents to _______them in the biggest hug. Never had I imagined that my creations, born out of mere _______, would someday make such a difference.