Most Americans don’t like to get advice from members of their family. They often get advice from “    1     (strange)”. When they need advice, they don’t usually go to people they know.

    2    , quite a few of them write letters to newspapers and magazines that     3     (give) advice on many different subjects,     4     (include) family problems, the use of language, health, cooking, child care, clothes, and even on how     5     (buy) a house or a car.

Most newspapers regularly print letters from readers     6     problems. Along with the letters     7     are answers written by people who     8     (believe) to know how to solve such problems. Some of these writers are doctors,     9     are teachers or educators. But two of the most famous writers are women without special     10     (train) for this kind of work.

Environmentalists are getting more     1     (worry) about the effects of fast fashion on the environment. Fast fashion is the mass     2     (produce) of clothes at a low cost. They are put in shops and online quickly     3     (create) a high demand. Factories make 100 billion items of clothing every year. The fast fashion business model is having     4     bad effect on the environment. Many of the clothes end up in landfills and are not recycled. Another bad effect on the environment     5     (cause) by the chemicals used to make the clothes. These cause health problems for people     6     (work) in clothes factories. The way people buy clothes is adding to the problem of clothing waste. Many years ago, people went to stores and tried clothes     7    . People took more time and thought more     8     (careful) before they bought clothes. They also wore them for longer. Today, people order cheap clothes on the Internet and if they don’t like     9     (they), they throw them away. Every year in Europe, four million tons of clothing ends up in the trash, less than one percent of     10     is recycled.

The end of the office?

For many white-collar workers around the world, the recent pandemic(流行病) has meant     1     (have) to work from home. Their usual office location has been out of reach. The different working     2     (practice), as we know, have advantages and disadvantages for employees. But the big question is whether they will see their offices again.

Home working has made people realize what tasks they can perform at home. It has given them more time with the family; they've been sleeping     3     (well) and have saved money by not traveling or buying lunches on the go. And recent research suggests the majority of people working from home are just as     4     (product).

For some people, this could be     5     lasting arrangement. In the UK, fifty of the employers     6     (interview) by the BBC, have said they have no plans to return all staff to the office full-time in the near future. Of course, one main reason is     7     firms couldn't see a way of seating large numbers of staff while social distancing rules were still     8     place.

But this isn't great news for everyone. Some employees will be full of     9     (anxious) at home, and there's less opportunity to learn from other people. Shops and cafes rely on the football of office workers, without whom they face closure. The future is still uncertain, which is why it may be too early to say where our desks     10     (place) forever.