【推荐1】I live in Watts in South Central L. A. and I’m fat. There are many fast food stores near my home and my mom _______ buys hamburgers for dinner. I’ve tried to talk her so many times into buying something _______. But she just doesn’t have time to do it. So I had to make better _______ for myself.

To _______ more, I talked to Andres Chopin, a student at Jefferson High School who is part of an after-school program where students learn to _______ and they’re taught ways to eat healthily. Andres said it’s _______ to eat whole foods, like vegetables, fruit and whole grains. Processed foods don’t _______ you as many nutrients. He told me to prepare food for myself, _______ I had never cooked before. I thought, “I may not be a good cook, but I can prevent myself from eating things that are _______ for me.”

I learned from Andres to look more ________ to food labels for ingredients (成分) that I know are bad for me. Now I know ________ about which foods I can eat more of and which I should eat less of. I’ve been eating more fruit and I’m getting better about not going into the ________ to see what there is to eat after I’ve already eaten.

________ a habit that you’ve had since you were young is not easy. I want to lose ________ in the healthy way, something I can control for the rest of my life. With time and self-control I know I can ________ it. I can take two ways looking into the ________ at myself—feeling bad about myself or encouraging myself to ________. I choose to encourage myself.

After a month I ________ 10 pounds. I’m not going to ________ trying to eat better. The changes I’ve made ________ me to keep on going. I can still do better.

【推荐2】Haynes,who still lives in Ladbroke Grove,now runs breakfast clubs and free lunches in Paddington. Every Wednesday, Haynes _______ a full English breakfast for the 50-strong group. On Saturdays, it’s a three-course lunch.

“I do home-made soup,a cooked dinner with meat and two vegs and pudding.” she says. On Thursdays, she offers a food bag with _______ that people can take home and _______ themselves. But if people are _______ or can’t cook,she’ll make them ready-meals and sandwiches. She adds: “My whole life is _______ by food. In north Paddington, people _______ me in their phone book as ‘Jacqui dinner lady’.”

“Demand has only _______. When universsal credit was introduced I had to buy two extra fridges to _______ the demand,” Haynes says. When the pandemic began,she had to purchase an extra freezer because “we needed more _______. Some people were ________to come out of the house,so we had to make extra ________.” She is concerned about the rising ________ of living.

“Food is getting so expensive,” says Haynes. “People are paying ￡7 a day ________ for gas on their meters. And that’s going to go up when it gets ________ .” On average,Haynes ________ about 50 people a day,but she ________ to see that rise come in winter.

Whatever Haynes does. she does it ________. “I believe it is not without any reward. You’ll get back ten times what you ________,” she says. In addition to her work at the food bank,she ________ a support service in North Kensington,offering people help with legal issues,advocacy and school appeals,and she is ________ involved in the post-Grenfell Tower recovery effort.

【推荐1】Some fifteen years ago, when smartphone apps were new and few truly understood their potentials, retailers (零售商) _________knew that consumers could browse in stores while comparing prices and_________from other item providers through certain apps before_________making the purchase online. Ten years ago, brick-and-mortar (实体店) retailers had to acknowledge that showrooming existed and appeared to be a _________. That’s the year when retailers were up in arms as online giant Amazon released an “evil” promotion that encouraged consumers to visit_________stores and use Amazon’s Price Check App at the same time. Any purchase completed through the app was given_________ discounts, which significantly stimulated sales and_________many shop owners to the edge of bankruptcy (破产).

From the point on, retailers began launching strategies to combat showrooming including releasing exclusive items for sale so that no_________prices from other sources are available for comparison.

“Media have reported showrooming as a big threat to physical stores.” says Casey Carl, a retailer. “However, less _________is the fact that it is also the greatest opportunity for us.” Retailers need to accept that the act of showrooming is not_________and any sensible buyer tends to compare prices. As there’s nothing you can do about it, you might as well offer conveniences like in-store internet access to_________these consumers. With caring services combined with good prices, the store might actually improve the likelihood for consumers to close the deal_________.

And a showrooming study indicates that it’s wise for retailers to limit the item price to at most 5 dollars_________than what online stores charge. After all, for the majority of consumers, getting the absolute lowest price is not their_________. Many of them, instead, are willing to pay _________in exchange for favourable shopping experiences, such as the pleasant store atmosphere, agreeable staff attitudes or even the merry music played, with a reasonable price_________, of course.

_________, adopting a strategy of_________channels is also essential. With many sale channels under control, retailers are sure to have access to the lowest price possible for an item. Therefore, when a customer_________a mobile device in store, retailers can be spared the_________that was unavoidable for them some ten years ago.

【推荐2】Many animals move from one place to another at certain times of the year. This _________ movement is called migration. They migrate to find food, _________ , or in search of warmer weather. One of the most _________ migrations in nature is that of the North American monarch butterfly.

Every autumn, millions of these beautiful insects with fine black and orange wings _________ a long and difficult journey. Somehow they manage to travel around 4,000 kilometres south and find their way to California or Mexico. However, until recently no one _________ how they did this.

A team of scientists led by Professor Eli Shlizerman at the University of Washington has now found the answer. They have found out that the monarch is able to _________ the time of day. It uses its eyes to measure the _________ of the sun. These two pieces of _________ — the time of day and the point where the sun is in the sky — allow the butterfly to _________ the way to go. ____________ , it manages to reach the places where it will spend the winter.

The ____________ to the mystery of the monarch’s amazing ability comes at a time when it is in serious trouble. Its population has ____________ by as much as 90 per cent in the last few years. Sadly, human ____________ is the main reason why the number of monarch butterflies is falling. In many of the places where the butterfly can be found, people are ____________ the natural environment. They ____________ trees and use chemicals that kill the plants that monarch caterpillars eat.

The ____________ on the monarch’s behaviour has however led to a greater awareness of this ____________ . People have been working together to ____________ its migration and make sure that there are enough plants for it to ____________ . If this works, there may come a time when the number of monarch butterflies increases once again, The more we know about this lovely creature, the greater the chance it will ____________ and keep its place in the natural world for a long time to come.