【推荐2】In February 1970, a group of activists gathered in Vancouver, Canada to discuss a planned nuclear test on the Alaskan island of Amchitka. They eventually agreed to sail to the test site and _________ against the explosion in person. At the end of the meeting, the chairman raised two fingers to the room and shouted “Peace!”. After a brief pause, one young attendee _________ with a monumental line: “Let’s make that a green peace”. The group were so _________ the phrase that they named their first boat the Green Peace.

Over the last 50 years, the _________ movement has become so closely associated with the colour green that it’s almost impossible to see a green poster, label or recycling bag without thinking about our planet’s future. But though that connection is the product of a very recent crisis, its _________ go back some way. We have _________ green with nature and its processes for thousands of years. Indeed, the very word “green” comes from the ancient Proto-Indo-European word ghre, meaning “grow”.

The human species, which emerged in the green forests and grasslands of Africa about 300, 000 years ago, has a special _________ link with green. Our eyes might even have _________ specifically to see the green in plants. Unlike most animals, who are red-green colour blind, we humans developed a third cone cell, an additional photoreceptor enabling our _________ to spot ripe red and yellow fruits against a backdrop of green leaf, and to distinguish different green leaves from each other. In daylight conditions, human eyes are more ____________ to green than any other colour.

With the rise of farming, we started to use green as a(n) ____________ for nature and its processes. Archaeologists have recently found an extraordinary store of green jewels in the Levant, ____________ some 10, 000 years. The researchers believe that these objects, many of which had come from hundreds of miles away at great cost, were chosen because they ____________ young leaves and might have been used by early farmers to pray for rainfall or fertilise crops.

The ancient Egyptians, who were farming the banks of the Nile from about 8000 B.C., ____________ use green as identification for their crops. Egyptian painters often represented their god of ____________, Osiris — who was responsible for flooding the Nile’s banks, filling the soil with nutrients and pushing the first green shoots up through the fields — as a bright green being.

【推荐3】The market is ruled by supply and demand, and as a consumer you can have a huge impact on the ________ side of the equation (等式). If all of us make individual changes in what we buy and use, it can ________ up to a lot.

But reducing your own carbon emissions isn’t the most powerful thing you can do. You can also send a signal to the market that people are ________ to pay for zero-carbon alternatives. When you pay more for an electric car, a heat pump, or a plant-based burger, you’re saying, “There’s a market for this stuff. We’ll buy it.” If enough people send the same ________, companies will respond — in my experience, quite ________. They’ll put more money and time into making low-emissions products, which will ________ the prices of those products. It will make investors more confident about funding new companies that are making the ________. Without that demand signal, the innovations that governments and businesses invest in will stay on the ________. Or they won’t get developed in the first place, because there’s no ________ incentive (刺激) to make them.

Here are some specific steps you can take:

Reduce your home’s emissions. Depending on how much money and time you can spare, you can ________ your incandescent lightbulbs (白炽灯泡) with LEDs, insulate (使隔热) your windows, or replace your heating and cooling system with a heat ________.

Buy an electric vehicle. Although EVs are not suitable for lots of long-distance road trips, and ________ at home isn’t convenient for everyone, they’re becoming more affordable. This is one of the places where consumer behavior can have a huge impact: If people buy lots of them, companies will make lots of them.

________ a plant-based burger. I’ll admit vegetarian burgers haven’t always tasted ________, but the new generation of plant-based protein alternatives is closer to the taste of meat than before. Buying these products sends a message that making them is a wise investment. ________, eating a meat substitute just once or twice a week will cut down on the emissions you’re responsible for.

【推荐1】There is a saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery (奉承).” This may be true, but in the art world fakes are unaccepted, to say the least. _______, selling fake art can be a criminal offense. When a painting is discovered that might have been painted by one of the great masters, it causes a sensation in the art world. However, for every great work, there are many fakes. There are also _______ imitations, paintings that were created in the style of a master painter and later _______ attributed to the master himself. Scientists are working on new technology that may aid art _______ in answering the question: Masterpiece or masterful imitation?

Most master painters have had their works imitated over the years, and even the experts have been _______ by some of these imitations. The National Gallery of Scotland once reportedly had an exhibit of five paintings of the same subject, all attributed to Leonardo. It turned out that at least three of the works were _______. Today, by some estimates, 15 percent of the art sold at auction houses may not be authentic.

Art historians, with their knowledge of the works of a particular artist, are often asked to authenticate art. _______ their knowledge of the subject, these scholars use science and technology to _______ if a work of art was created by a particular artist. The materials used in the painting are often _______ and X-rayed. Now, art historians may have another technological tool to help their process.

Scientists have developed a new authentications technique that analyzes and classifies paintings based on a digital analysis of the artist’s style. The process works by finding the consistency and ________ in an artist’s work. In an experiment, the model automatically identified the authenticated works by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, ________ them from five imitations. Stuart Fleming, author of Authenticity in Art, thinks the technology could “revolutionize ________ of many sincere imitations.”

Nonetheless, some art historians are ________ about the new technique. “It’s an interesting idea. But before curators and art historians will jump in and use this, I think a much larger sample of work has to be tested,” said the curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

For now, museum curators and auction houses don’t seem as interested in the technology as the scientists are. There may be a(n) ________ reason for that. “If you spent 80 million dollars to buy a painting, I don’t think you’d be eager to know that it’s a fake,” Farid said. “It’s a dirty little secret that a lot of paintings are not ________.”

【推荐3】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.