【推荐1】World Environment Day is celebrated worldwide on June Fifth. The United Nations ______ this special day in 1972 to get people to think about taking care of the ______.

Public events for World Environment Day ______ from June first through June fifth. The events and conference help teach world leaders and citizens how to______ the environment.

Every year World Environment Day is celebrated in a different ______. In 2005 it was held in San Francisco, California. It was the first time ______ the beginning of World Environment Day that the conference was held in the United States.

The main ______ of World Environment Day that year was “Plan for the Planet”. The events and conferences showed us how to have “Green Cities”. It ______ that people talked about the ways that cities could have ______ environment.

Most people in the world live in cities, ______ makes them especially important areas of environmental ______. Cities use more than seventy-five percentage of the world’s natural ______ such as water and gasoline. World Environment Day will ______ on how people in cities can work together to help save the planet.

San Francisco held public talks to discuss pollution ______, clean energy sources and the importance of healthy parks and gardens. Special experts were among the ______. For example, former vice-president Al Gore talked about climate changes. There were also ______ events such as music concerts, movies, and art shows. Local farmers and restaurant owners served food that had been ______ grown, “green” of course.

The Mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom, ______ city leaders from all over the world to attend this conference and ______ ideas. The United Nations hopes to create an international ______ that countries and citizens will follow to help improve the earth’s environment.

【推荐2】Ryan Hickman is a boy from the USA. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a _______ center in California and found what he wanted to do most. _______ , the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n)_______ , "I'm going to _______ all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I'll start a new _______ myself!

It's never too _______ to start a business, though there were no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the world's _______ garbage man, is the CEO, manager and _______ of Ryan's Recycling Company. Though Ryan says he doesn't remember what made it all start, he remains _______ about what he is doing. When ________ why he did so, he said, "It's because bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die. "Ryan's neighbors have been ________ to the little boy's knocking for their recycled goods. More and more ________ ones call to ask for a pickup or even ________ bags of bottles and cans at Hickman's door. At school, Ryan's favorite activity is helping the dustmen ________ the trash and taking away the recyclable. "My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to ________ , he can, "Damion said." I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him ________ . He has actually ________ five of his friends to join him."

According to Damion, Ryan has ________ over $11,000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be ________ with enough garbage and become a ________ garbage man.

【推荐1】In the United States, the most popular form of folk dancing since the early days has been square dancing. In early times, when men and women worked in groups to _________ a barn(谷仓)for harvest crops, they danced when the work was done. The music _________ from a violin for the most part. But if there was no one to play all instrument, clapping was used to _________ the rhythm(节奏)by which to dance. The early settlers danced in a store, in a barn, or in a farm kitchen.

After some years _________, square dancing became _________ popular in cities and towns, but it _________ popular in the country. Then it became popular in the cities once again. Today in _________ Darts of the United States you will find some school, club or other group that is square dancing for fun.

A square is formed by four couples who stand _________ the center of the square. Each couple stands on one _________ of the square, the boy on the left and the girl on the right.

The “caller” is an important part of the ____________ since he tells the dancers which steps to do.   If the dancers do not know the steps, he teaches them.It ____________ time to learn to be a good caller, and good callers are always in demand.

Large or small groups of people can dance at one time. Sometimes 800 or 1, 000 people may be dancing at the ____________ time. Or there may be only one square of ____________ people.

Costumes are worn by some who square dance. This ____________ the dancing more colorful to watch. The costumes vary from place to place.Women often wear full skirts of various colors with pretty blouse. Men may have colored skirts and western trousers which they wear____________ when square dancing.

【推荐2】I moved to Arizona about two weeks before the start of my junior year of high school. Not only was this a new school for me but also a new state, _________ I did not know anyone.

During lunch on the first day of school, I sat down at a(n)_________ table in the canteen. As I began to eat, I looked around and saw a girl who was also sitting alone. I decided to _________ with her, thinking there was no reason for me to have a whole table to myself, and maybe I could _________ a friend. I walked to her and said, “Excuse me, do you _________ if I sit with you?” She was _________ at first, but then smiled and said, “Sure!”

After that, we became close friends throughout the next two _________. In our senior year, she told me that she'd been _________ to a college and would be moving away after graduation. I was sad, I knew I would _________ her. But at the same time, I was really __________ for her.

She then shared a(n)__________ with me. “Do you __________ the first day of school when you came over and sat down with me during lunch?” she asked.

“I want you to know how special you are and how much of a __________ you made.”

I was very __________ that day and even made detailed plans on how I was going to __________ myself. I was bullied (欺凌) for the whole first half of the day, and it had just __________ me. But when you reached out, it __________ me. If you hadn't done that, I would have probably killed myself when I got home. It might be hard to __________, but you saved my life and all it took was being a friend."

It has been almost 15 years since this incident. I still chat with her occasionally on Facebook. I can't help but __________ every time. It showed me that a simple kind act has the incredible (不可思议的) __________ to change lives.

【推荐3】I moved to Chicago ten years ago. As I was new to the area, I had few _______ and seldom went out to parties. But a month later, I was invited to a party and there I _______ an elderly couple.

The wife and I talked for a long time. She told me how _______ she was about her husband who was _______ a heart operation (手术). At that time I was working as a researcher in the same _______ where the husband would be going for his operation, so I told her to take down my phone number and must _______ me to let me know when he was there.

She phoned a few weeks later as she _______ and told me that her husband was admitted to the hospital and still waiting. I told her that I would go and check on him every day while I was at _______. I thought that if it was my dad, I would do the same, so I decided to give them some company.

Weeks turned into months and it just became my _______ to see them and keep track of how things were going before, during and after the heart operation. Sometimes I’d bring a ________ for him to read, or some food that we would enjoy together. As time went by, it seemed like I became part of the ________. Even after the husband returned from the hospital, we still often ________ each other on holidays.

Now, ten years later, I ________ my own family. Since our parents don’t ________ close by, this couple has become my son’s “local” grandparents. My wife and I often feel truly ________ to have this couple as our “local” parents! Sometimes family comes out of the most unexpected place.