【推荐1】Before I went to Nature High Summer Camp, I didn't have many opinions about the environment-I _______ the environment was for other people to worry about. That _________didn't last long at the camp. I _______ learned about land use and forest management and started to _______ the world around me.

The person who _________ me most was Diane. She had worked in the _________ for twenty years and was by far the most _________ professional there. When she started talking, I hung on her every _________ and thought that everything she said made sense.

Diane _______ me by suggesting that putting out forest fires isn't ______________ a good thing-in fact, the cycle of nature makes it ______________ that fires take place because they clear out dead materials and enrich the ____________. Because the Forest Service put out all the fires in the past, the accumulation（堆积）of dead materials meant that a forest fire would grow bigger and consume______________.

Diane said that ______________ logging（伐木）would actually help the area because it would clear out the ______________ trees and allow new trees to grow. Diane added that luckily, necessary logging consumption had increased, which could ______________ the environment.

I've ______________ a lot from Diane. I ______________ that humans should protect the environment. There are other ______________ for us to do the environment a favor, such as planting trees, ______________Paper and recycling water.

【推荐3】Gone are the days when big businesses were looked upon by environmentalists as enemies in the fight against global warming.

Just two weeks after U. S. President Donald Trump pulled his country out of the Paris Climate Agreement, more than 900 American firms put their _______to a “We Are Still In” open letter to the United Nations. Together, they promise to help reduce America’s carbon emissions by 26 percent by 2025, _______the Paris Climate Agreement.

_______, big businesses have been taking climate change seriously for years now. Alongside energy-efficiency measures, the strongest evidence of their _______has been the number of new wind and solar projects that they have been helping to build around the world. IT firms such as Amazon and Google have been using clean energy to power their servers (服务器). Some environmentalists now believe that big businesses could become strong _______behind the worldwide spread of renewable energy. “There used to be little action,” says Marty Spitzer of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), “Now, I see fundamental _______being made.”

More recently, this enthusiasm for environmental protection has _______from corporate headquarters to branches and suppliers, and from developed countries to emerging markets. Take Walmart, the world’s largest retailer, for example. In March 2016, it said that it would require its own operations and those along its _______chain to reduce carbon-dioxide emissions by one billion tons by 2030. This is _______to taking 211 million passenger cars off America’s roads for a year. The announcement was ________by the WWF and other conservation organizations, which are helping Walmart’s suppliers work towards this goal. Apple, maker of the iPhone, has said that seven of its biggest global manufacturers have promised to power their Apple-related ________with renewable energy by the end of this year.

According to the WWF, in the United States alone, nearly two dozen of the biggest firms have committed themselves to becoming 100 percent renewable in the near future. Hervé Touati of the Rocky Mountain Institute, a clean-energy research firm, explains the ________behind this trend. Going green improves the companies’ public image and helps attract customers, staff and investors.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world’s biggest brewer (啤酒公司), has lots of young people among its many ________. Many of them take environmental issues seriously. Electricity, used ________in the brewing process, amounts to a tenth of its total costs. Last year, the company set out to increase the role of renewables in generating ________to 100 percent by 2025. “My generation often takes energy and clean air for granted,” said Tony Milikin, the firm’s chief sustainability officer. “The generation coming up now looks at it totally differently.”

【推荐1】Our neighbors had a loud party last night. We weren’t invited but this was one of those celebrations that I didn’t ________ . They are a bunch of young, single guys and I would have felt out of place.

What ________ me was the way they behaved. One of the young men came over earlier in the day to “warn” us of the upcoming event and said it would be over at about 11 p.m. That was the first step. Even more ________ was what they did next. “Here’s my cell number,” offered our neighbor ________. “Text me if it’s too noisy. ” That was a level of ________ I had never experienced in all my years of being a neighbor!

And it really worked in their favor. My husband and I were so ________ that even when the event went past the ________ end time, even when the music reached high decibels(分贝)，and even when we couldn’t get through to the cell number, we felt no ________. We knew they would stop and ________ to it eventually.

It takes such little effort to make people feel that they ________ and get people on your side. Everyone needs to ________ every now and then, especially in these uniquely tough times. But people who do it without ________ others are few and far between. I hadn't fully ________ my neighbors until this week. But now I see them in a new light and with greater ________. They didn't just bring the noise to the neighborhood; they showed us a good manner of ________ in life.

【推荐1】AN UNLIKELY HERO

Miep Gies was a recently married young office worker living in Amsterdam in 1942. As German occupiers tightened their grip on the city, Gies’s boss, Otto Frank, asked her to hide him and his family from the Nazis, who were sending Jews to concentration camps. For the next two years, Gies ________ her life daily to smuggle food to the Franks and four others concealed in secret rooms above Otto’s business.

When she could no longer protect the family-when the Nazis finally came and took them away in 1944—Gies kept their story alive by saving Anne Frank’s ________. She’s the reason the world has The Diary of a Young Girl.

Later in Gies’s life, people called her heroic. Believing she simply did what she could in evil times, she is said to have made this ________: “Even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.”

A Small Light tells Gies’s story in an eight-part mini-series shot in Amsterdam and Prague. In interviews on location, its creators and actors ________ on why Gies remains an inspiration.

“________ most of us are familiar with the diary, what was going on outside the annex...is the mystery,” says Tony Phelan, who with wife Joan Rater headed the project. Rater adds to that idea: “What does hiding people mean on a day-to-day ________? Miep said yes to Otto Frank, and then you have to say yes every day afterwards, even when it’s hard, even when you’re sick, even when you don’t want to. And that, to me the everyday drudgery of it all, is quite dramatic.”

Phelan and Rater, married for 30 years, created, executive produced, and wrote the miniseries after six years of research. It was a 1995 ________, Anne Frank Remembered, that initially ________ their interest, and they visited the Anne Frank House, the museum established where the Franks once hid. After descending its ________, narrow stairs—as Ann had—Rater noticed a girl doing cartwheels(侧手翻) outside.

For A Small Light, Rater turned that memory of a girl’s carefree spirit into a flashback scene: Anne in 1941, on Miep and Jan Gies’s wedding day. She’s skipping, excited over the romantic ceremony. Then within a year, her life would be ________ but fear.

One bright spot for Anne was visits from Gies, who ________ supplies by bicycle. Actress Bel Powley plays Gies and, to get into her character’s mindset, retraced those journeys. “Tony and Joan gave me all these cool maps so that I could cycle Miep’s ________,” she says. Powley, who is Jewish, felt the ________ of telling this story, especially as the shoot neared its end.

The girl who wanted to be a famous writer became one, of course. Still, no one would ever read________ that began “Dear Kitty” had Gies not gathered the scattered papers and the diary with the red-checkered cover and later given them to Otto, the family’s sole survivor. The Miep Gieses of the world—the small lights, the extraordinary ordinary people who did something, who pushed back against tyranny, who pushed back against authoritarians, who pushed back against fascists—remembering what they accomplished, I think, gives us some ________ on what we can accomplish.”

【推荐2】Have you heard the line, “Treat other people the way you would like to be treated yourself”? A youth _______that principle and_______his parents with teaching him this fundamental rule. Now he’s being _______worldwide for his_______to a stranger in his store.

Christian is an 18- year- old student_______part time as a “Stock Assistant” at the grocery store Aldi in Horwich, in the United Kingdom. This day was really no_______any other, but it sure ended differently.

Christian was_______by a 95-year-old customer with an unusual_______. Due to the high winds outside, this gentleman asked him if he could walk him home so he wouldn’t fall. Christian really had a_______heart. Without hesitation, he asked his manager if that would be OK and of course, the two________that it was the right thing to do. Christian walked with the elderly man ever so________and slowly chatted with him along the way and carried his bag for him.

A Facebook post about this has________on social media. A picture of Christian holding this gentleman’s hand has been shared more than 75,000 times! “I________want this boy to get some kind of recognition from his workplace so if this gave you a little more ________in mankind, PLEASE share! Good people still exist!” The photo and post were from Samantha-Jayne Brady after she________the two and was so________by Christian’s kind and selfless gesture!

Christian had no idea how much________all positive——that he would receive from such a________act of kindness. He said his parents taught him how to________others. “All this attention was very________because this is just something I would normally do; my mom and dad raised me to treat other people like you want to be treated yourself,” Christian simply said.