【推荐1】An aged man lived in a nice cottage with a garden in a town. He is seen _____ looking after his flowers all the time.

One day a young painter _____ his garden. He was deeply _______ by the beautiful flowers,_____ how happy he could be if he lived there. Then, ______ he found the old gardener was _______The painter was very surprised to ask, “ Why are you busy __ these flowers which you can't see?”

The blind gardener smiled, answering, “I can tell you four ______. First, I was a gardener whenI was young, and I really like this ______ . Second , ______ I can't see these flowers, I can touch them. Third, I can __ the sweetness of them. As to the last one, that's for _______“Me? But you don't know me.” ______ the painter.

“Yeah, it is true that I don't know you. But I know flowers are ____ angels which everyone knows and would never turn them ______   I know many people who show ___ in life would stop by and the beauty of my garden will get them into a good ___ In the meantime, it also _____ a chance to me to have a word with you here and to enjoy the happiness these flowers have brought us.”

I believe every flower has eyes, with which they can see the kindness of the old man's heart and the sweetness of his soul. He grows flowers in his ___I suppose although failing the _____ of the beauty of blossoming, he surely can hear the voice of it.

【推荐3】Every Sunday morning I take a light jog around a park near my home. There’s a lake _________ in one corner of the park. Each time I jog by this lake, I see the same elderly _________ sitting at the water’s edge (边缘) with a small metal cage _________ beside her.

This past Sunday I stopped jogging and walked over to her. As I got _________, I realized that the metal cage was, in fact, a small trap. There were three turtles, unharmed, _________ walking around the base of the trap. She had a fourth turtle in her lap that she was carefully scrubbing (刷洗) with a soft _________.

“Hello,” I said. “I see you here every Sunday morning. I’d love to _________ what you’re doing with these turtles.”

She _________. “I’m cleaning off their shells,” she replied. “Anything on a turtle’s shell reduces the turtle’s ability to absorb (吸收)_________ and limits its ability to swim.” She went on: “I spend a couple of hours each Sunday morning, helping these little guys out. It’s my own strange __________ of making a difference.”

I scratched my head. “Well then, don’t you think your __________ can be better spent? I mean, think your __________ are kind, but there are fresh water turtles __________ in lakes all around the world. And 99% of these turtles don’t have kind people like you to help them __________ their shells. How exactly are your localized efforts here truly making a difference?”

The woman giggled (咯咯地笑) aloud. She then looked down at the turtle in her lap and said, “Sweetie, if this little guy could __________, he’d tell you I just made all the difference in the world.”

【推荐1】Waste can be seen everywhere in the school. Some students ask for _______food than they can eat and others often forget _______ off the lights when they leave the classroom. They say they can afford these things. But I don’t agree _______ them.

Waste can bring a lot of problems._______China is rich in some resources, we are short of others, for example, fresh water. It is_______ that we will have no coal or oil to use in 100 years. So if we go on _______ our resources, what can we use in the future and _______ can we move? Think about it. I think we should say no to the _______ who waste things every day. Everybody should stop wasting as soon as possible.

In our _______life, we can do many things to prevent waste from happening, for example, turn off the water taps when we finish washing, turn off the lights when we leave the classroom, try not to order more food than we need, and so on. Little by little, everything will be changed. Waste can be stopped one day, if we do ________ best.

【推荐2】Medi Bastoni, a 43-year-old father of four from Indonesia, is walking 800 km from his home on a volcano in East Java to Jakarta. He is doing it _________ in the hope of drawing attention to the archipelago’s (多岛屿的) quickly _________ forests.

He set out on his _________, backward journey in mid-July, with the _________ of reaching the capital by August 16, a day before the Southeast Asian nation’s independence day anniversary. He just took a short break when he was _________. “Of course I’m exhausted, but I’m ___________ to do this to fight for the next generation and I just make my _________ to do it,” Bastoni said. “My home is ___________ all of its trees so I have to do something. I can _________ the pain and tiredness.”

Bastoni says that when he arrives, he hopes to __________ President Joko Widodo and highlight the ____________ of deforestation (滥伐森林) across the archipelago, __________ at his home on Mt Wilis, a dead volcano. Indonesia __________ from one of the high rates of deforestation in the world, according to Greenpeace. Bastoni __________ 20 to 30 km backwards every day under the sun, with a rear-view mirror (后视镜) __________ to his backpack to avoid bumping into objects. Along the way, supporters cheer him on, __________ him meals or a place to stay overnight. But in order to stay ____________, Bastoni always leaves at dawn.

“Walking backwards is meant as a __________ to Indonesians to reflect on the __________ and remember how national heroes __________ for the good of the country,” he said.

【推荐3】Life will be peaceful if you always do kind things. I teach my daughters to develop a habit of _____ others. They can make you feel how _____ it is to be kind and helpful.

We live in a rural (乡村的) area. Most of what we _____ is beautiful nature. One of the exceptions to the _____ is the rubbish that some people throw out of their car windows as they drive along the rural roads. One of the few _____ of living there is short of _____ public services, such as rubbish collection, which is common in the _____ .

My daughters and I regularly _____ rubbish in our neighborhood. They will often say to me in a(n) _____ voice,“There’s some rubbish, Daddy-stop the car!” And we will often get out of our car and pick it up. In fact, we ______   it. We pick up rubbish in parks, on sidewalks, almost everywhere.

One day I saw a stranger picking up rubbish on the road. He ______ his head and smiled, “I saw you doing this with your family. It’s a good ______ to protect our environment.”

There are many other ways to ______ kindness for others. You may share dinner with a beggar, visit lonely old people in the nursing home, or help the blind ______ the road. You can think of something that can be finished ______ but helpful. It is fun, self-satisfying, and what’s more, it can set a good example.

【推荐1】NASA scientists have found evidence of flowing water on Mars. This opens up the possibility of___ and wonders we can’t begin to imagine. The____undoubtedly is an astonishing achievement.

We may be excited by the thought of living things on another ______, but we seem to have lost _______in our own. In the past four decades, the world has____50% of its vertebrate( 脊 椎 )wildlife. But across the latter half of this period, there has been a steep___ in media coverage (报道)of the subject.

Think of what would change if we valued_____ on the earth as much as we value the possibility water   on Mars._____ 3% of the water on this planet is fresh and of that, two-thirds is frozen. Yet we lay waste to   the ___part. Sixty percent of the water used in farming is____by careless irrigation. Rivers, lakes and aquifers ( 地 下 蓄 水 层 )are sucked dry, while what remains is often so bad that it____the lives of those who drink it. As for salty water, which so______us   when apparently detected on Mars, however,   on Earth,   we express our___ by destroying it. A new report suggests fish numbers have   halved since   1970. Coral   reefs are under such___ that most could be gone by 2050.

A couple of weeks ago, I launched a column focusing on extreme consumption, and___ suggestions. They have flooded in. Here are just a few of the _____:wigs(假发)for babies, to allow “baby girls with little or no ___at all the opportunity to have a beautifully realistic hair style”; The iPotty, which _____little   children to keep playing while toilet training; a smartphone for dogs to take pictures of themselves....

As clever new ways of wasting stuff are continually___ , we become more and more used to the___ consumption of the world’s precious resources. Isn’t it time for us to have second thoughts about our lifestyle?

【推荐2】Remains of ancient civilization are places which were designed and built as a lasting tribute (致敬) to some individuals or events. By visiting these _______ monuments, you are sure to be amazed by how _______the ancient civilization that existed centuries before you was. Some of the facilities which could be dated back hundreds of years ago are still in use today. Besides, you will also _______ at the mysterious stories behind it. The Great Wall, _______, is probably the best-known monument of China, which consists of a network of walls and towers through which the attack warnings could be received within minutes._______ then had enough time to prepare. Estimates (估算) of the total length of the monument _______, depending on which sections are included and how they are measured. One of the _______ mysteries is that, although some of the wall is _______ in special radar images taken by satellites, astronauts have confirmed that the existing wall is not several thousand years old, nor is it, as many people had _______ visible to the human eye form outer space.

Even older than the Great Wall of China is the Great Pyramid (金字塔) of Giza. Over a 20-year period, thousands of workers made the vision become ________ with numerous blocks, each weighing more than two tons. It’s still a(n) ________ to modern people how ancient men handled________ of these giant stones in a time when cars or boats never existed some 4500 years ago. The pyramid served not only as a tomb for King Khufu, but also a place of ________ activity. The number of the God’s servants at that time showed the importance of such activities. After Khufu died, his body was carefully treated with various medicines and materials and was wrapped in order to be ________ for long. According to ancient Egyptian belief, the pyramid, where the mummy was placed, provided a place for the king to pass into the afterlife. Then his servants performed rituals (仪式) to bring ________ to the dead king’s soul, removing all the unrest and pain from his next life.

【推荐3】Have you ever monitored something about yourself? Perhaps you’ve tracked how many kilometers you’ve run, how many hours you’ve slept or how many calories you’ve_________in a day.

If so, you’ve _________a movement called the “Quantified Self Movement.” Individuals gather information about their daily activities in this _________movement, also called self-tracking. This may sound _________, but technology is making the process easier. Perhaps you’ve wanted to_________a bad habit and couldn’t. Self-tracking may be our answer. The idea is to take information about your everyday activities and analyze it to help get a _________lifestyle.

Recently, tools such as smartphones, journals and apps, along with newly _________wearable gadgets, are making self-tracking_________easy. Today, one can use Fitbit, the Jawbone UP, Google Glass or a smart watch to_________personal data including hours slept, stress levels, heart rate and mood.

So why does a person self-track? Someone may be trying to lose weight or improve their sleep patterns. Another person feels tired after eating. Self-tracking could help him to__________what foods make him sleepy and modify his diet accordingly.

Monitoring daily activities isn’t a new__________. In years past, athletes and their coaches kept notes detailing nutrition, training and sleep patterns in order to achieve an athletic goal.__________, doctors have also helped patients to document parts of their lifestyles and eating habits to help fight allergies, headaches and other health issues. __________, it wasn’t until 2007 that Wired magazine editors Gary Wolf and Kim Kelly, who started tracking every move they made, coined the__________“Quantified Self.” “, Dennis Nash, president of Data Speaks Health Solutions, says, “Although self-tracking has many advantages, self-tracking has its__________. Once people start tracking their daily activities, it can become an __________. Also, they might begin to worry too much about their health.”

While self-tracking doesn’t__________that one’s quality of life will improve, it can __________the importance of eating well and exercising daily.__________, the quantified Self Movements’ primary focus is__________people to employ enough energy to make healthier choices.