【推荐2】Now, U.S. researchers have identified a new way to treat people infected with tuberculosis (肺结核)before they get sick.

Tuberculosis is one of the world’s most ______ health threats.The World Health Organization says tuberculosis kills nearly two million people each year. Another two billion are ______: they are infected, but don’t have symptoms of the disease. Those at highest risk can take medicine, but Vanderbilt University researcher Timothy Sterling says not everyone ______ with the treatment, which is a daily dose of isoniazid(异烟肼，抗结核药)for nine months. So although the medication is highly effective if people take all of their medication, many people do not take all their medication and therefore the effectiveness of the treatment plan is______. As a(n) ______, Sterling and his colleagues ______ isoniazid with another drug, rifapentine(利福喷汀).The combination was taken weekly, not daily, for just three months. And the results of this study showed that the new treatment plan ---- the three months of isoniazid and rifapentine---- was as effective as the nine–month isoniazid treatment plan.______, the short-course, three-month treatment plan had higher treatment completion rates and was also well ______.

There was some other difference. The two-drug, combination treatment was administered as directly ______ therapy. That means the patients took their medicine in the presence of a health care worker, to ensure that they followed the treatment plan. This was a large study, involving 7,500 participants in North America, Spain, and Brazil. Sterling ______ that most of the people in this study were HIV-negative. The results might be ______for HIV-positive people. A recent study in South Africa indicated that the combination therapy works well in people infected with HIV as well as tuberculosis, but the study was too small to be______.

Timothy Sterling’s research, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, has been ______ by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the CDC. The government health agency recommends the 12-dose weekly combination treatment as an equal alternative to the 270–dose daily treatment plan that has been the______therapy. But because of possible ______ issues, the CDC still recommends the daily treatment plan for HIV–positive patients who are taking antiretroviral drugs or women who are pregnant. Also because of a lack of data, the CDC says children under age 12 should stay with the nine-month daily treatment.

【推荐2】Noah Rupp, the Providence High School ninth-grader, is only 15. But he's already started his own charity to help the_______

Noah's Ark Project began last fall when he and his father, Mark Rupp, were on _______in Asheville, Walking back to their hotel, they_______a man who appeared to be homeless and was shaking in the cold. He wanted to do_______to help.

When they returned to Charlotte, Noah_______what types of products could help a person to stay_______. He found a type of bright, orange lightweight sleeping bag, they are waterproof(防水的) and windproof and can be_______ all year-round.

They built website and_______to raise $5,000 for the first 200 sleeping bags, Noah presented his _______to his classmates. Most were very supportive and helped him with his first fundraiser a yard sale. "We sold our own used things and bought 20 bags that winter.

“It seems it will________much longer time to reach the goal,” said Noah, Their next________ is to meet the goal this fall.

Like other teenagers, Noah has homework, plays sports and spends time with friends. But he

________those things well with his charity. He sets aside time each day to work on it.

His mother, Leslie Perez, is________by her son, “What he does is________," said Perez, "Having worked through the project, I________ that no matter what life throws at him, he'll be OK.”

【推荐3】Cruz Genet, 11, and Anthony Skop-ick, 10, couldn’t agree. Were the birds out on the ice ducks or geese? So on a _______January evening last year,the two friends ventured onto the _______ pond near their homes, to get a better look. First they tossed a rock onto the ice to _______ it. Then they stepped on it._______the ice would hold their weight,Anthony took a few steps,then...FOOMP. He crashed through the_______frozen surface.“There was no sound, no crack,” he recalled.“I just fell through instantly.“Cruz_______to help his panicked friend. FOOMP-he_______into the pond too.

The boys were up to their necks in icy water and quickly losing feeling in their limbs. Any chance of their_______themselves was slipping away. Cruz was sure he was going to die. Anthony’s older sister had seen the boys fall through the ice and started screaming for help.

John Lavin, a _______driving nearby on his way to the grocery store, heard her. He quickly ________.Seeing the boys, he grabbed a nearby buoy(救生圈), ________off his shoes, and ran into the slushy(融雪的)water, chopping his way through the ice with his free________.

Lavin made his way to Cruz and Anthony and hauled(拉)them back to land.They were taken to the hospital,where doctors discovered that their five-minute________in the water had lowered their body________nearly ten degrees.

Fortunately, the boys have fully recovered,though they are still a little awestruck by their ________neighbour.“Just to think,”says Cruz,“if he wasn’t there, I could have died.”

【推荐1】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2】I was envious of my friends who got to stay at school for lunch. They ______ the same things as the characters in our favourite TV shows. The meals we ate at home were different. One day, a classmate asked what I ate for lunch. I ______ , feeling like I'd been caught. Like most days, we'd had fried rice. “Sandwiches.” I lied. My face felt hot as I turned away, ______ she wouldn't ask anything more.

Still, there was one day of the year when Mom made an ______ and we were allowed to stay at school for lunch. Every year, there was Chinese Day at the cafeteria to ______ Chinese New Year. “The school is honoring our heritage (遗产) .” Mom would say. The first Chinese Day lunch I can ______ was when I was about six. I had _____   this day for weeks. When the bel rang for lunch, I rushed to the cafeteria. As I stood in line, I imagined the ______ they'd mad waiting for us.

There would be ______ , surely— every Chinese New Year meal included fish. I could explain to my friends what Mom had told us: how the ______ for “fish” in Chinese sounded like another word meaning plenty. There would be chicken, too, probably with the head still on, because a whole chicken for Chinese New Year ______ wholeness.

The line was slowly moving forward until ______ it was my turn. The cafeteria worker passed me my plate and I looked down. I barely ______ anything. All I did was sit there, confused. They called this “Chinese” lunch, so why had I never ______ it before? Those first few bites, I realized later, were my ______ to Chinese-Canadian cuisine.

【推荐3】Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight when a flight attendant asked a(n) ______question over the loudspeaker, “Does anyone on board know American Sign Language?”

Clara, 15 at the time ______ the call button. The flight attendant came by and ______ the situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who’s ______ and deaf.” she said. The passenger seemed to want something, but he couldn’t ______ his message.

Clara ______ to have been studying ASL for the past year and knew she’d be able to finger spell into the man’s palm. So she ______ her seat belt and walked toward the seat of Tim Cook, then 64.

____ taking his hand, she ______, “Are you OK?” Cook asked for some water.

When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat. She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third ______, she stopped and stayed a while.

“He didn’t need anything. He was lonely and wanted to ______.” Clara says.

So for the next hour, that’s what they did. She talked about her plans for the future. Cook told Clara______ he had gradually become blind over time and ______ stories of his days as a traveling salesman. Even though he couldn’t see her, she “looked ______ at his face with such kindness,” a passenger reported, “We can see she smiled with happiness, ______ she made a difference in someone’s life.”

“Clara was amazing.” a flight attendant told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Tim was very ______ to have someone he could speak to, and she was such a(n) ______.”

Cook’s ______, “Best trip I’ve ever had.”

Life is a continuous learning experience. As for Clara, she said, “I’ve also learned a lot. The best thing for ______ is to learn something. Learning is the only thing that never ______.