【推荐1】We've been part of the Lammas project,an eco village in Wales.I was _______ to change my lifestyle after studying environmental science.I wanted to live _______ the land and to provide our own food and _______.We also wanted to live in a community with _______ people around us.It took us 10 years to make it _______

Now I live in a roundhouse made out of straw(柏早）。It is not what I would call low-cost housing.The cost is your_______.You have to have great willpower.We had to _______everything because we had no spare money when we moved here.

I think we've done what I _______to do:grow our own food and provide our own resources.We have hydro(水电）power and solar panels and we feel like we're not _______ the planet's resources.

We________produce such as eggplants,peas and carrots.We have nut trees and apple trees.We have 9.5 acres of land and keep sheep.I earn about20,000 a year.Most of my ________ comes from shearing(修剪）our sheep,and using the ________ to run willow-weaving(纺织）。If we have spare fruit,we ________ them too.But we reinvest(再投资）most of the money in the ________,and animal care.

Organic clothes are very________ but I do choose them when I' can.We might spend about 150 a month on eating out as a family.We always try and shop local-________ it's more expensive.We don't go holiday a lot but when we do we try to travel by train.It takes a long time but for me it's about the ________,not the destination.

Looking back,I'd argue being organic is ________ for anyone.It costs you next to nothing-just time and ________.If people want to be more healthy and ________for themselves,they can do it.

【推荐2】A meadow in bloom（鲜花盛开的草甸）cannot be more appealing for British. The swinging wild flowers at their peak show essence（精髓）of the season and are perfect for recording with your video camera. But that is a thing of the past.

Motorways, new towns, factories—Britain has________much damage to its natural scenery, and every year more land of the countryside is________to tall buildings. While no wildlife habitat has escaped the________of the developer's bulldozer（推土机）, none has________a greater impact than the meadow. Around 95% of Britain's meadows have________in the past 70 years

The blooming meadow was a much-loved________of the English countryside poetry for generations, as________to the summer as white snow to the winter. Nowadays, scenes of a farmer's field full of colorful wild flowers are more________to be seen on greeting cards than on country roads in July.

Although expansion of cities has________England's green land, the primary cause for the loss was the post-war trend of frequent________practice. These wildflower-rich habitats began to decrease during wartime when traditionally managed grassland was________to serve as farmland. The sowing of highly productive crops, such as potato,________the practice after the war. More of the grassland was, therefore, gone forever.

In terms of biodiversity, the________of the habitat cannot be overstated: a common old meadow can support around 150 different plant species. Many of them are________. since they flower for just a few days in midsummer. An uncut meadow is also a________for many of Britain's threatened birds to keep away from enemies.

【推荐3】Zhong Congrong, a successful businessman from Chongqing, China, has become known as the "the millionaire rubbish collector" for his longtime habit of picking up any garbage he finds in the streets of his city.

Zhong began____ the streets of Chongqing three years ago, ____ a family trip to southern China's Hai nan province. There, he_____ a retired (退休的) university professor who had reportedly been picking up rubbish from one of the local beaches every day, for the last four years. He was so______with the woman's dedication (奉献) to rubbish-collecting. Zhong _______ to copy her daily habit in his home city_____ he got back home from his vacation.

Interestingly, in the beginning, Zhong's rubbish- collecting habit received a lot of___ comments both from locals and the media. People just couldn't__ why a millionaire would do this. They thought it was nothing more than a stunt (噱头) to attract_____ , but Zhong didn't let this_____ him.

Even his family was confused by Zhong's____ at first. His wife and children were_____ by the media reports of his strange habit. And they even_____ to be seen with him in public._____, as time went by, people's _____ changed. They noticed that their neighborhood became_____ thanks to Zhong's efforts.

____ , they started to praise and. ____ him. His wife is now an anti-littering activist herself, and ____ anyone throwing rubbish on the street,

The millionaire rubbish collector has been doing his best to. ___ others as well. He wears an orange T-shirt with " anti-littering" words whenever he does his job" on the street." Whether we throw away or pick up rubbish has nothing to do with our academic degree, cultural background, age, or social status," Zhong said.

【推荐1】At age eleven, I was in middle school. As the oldest and my mom’s “grown up” girl, I had to keep my cool. But before Christmas, every chance I got, when I was _________, I checked each present under the tree quietly. I read every tag (标签) and _________ every package, telling which present went to which person without even looking at the tags.

It had been a (n) _________ year for my family. When my mom looked at the simple presents, she sighed and warned us, “There won’t be as much for Christmas this year. Try not to be _________.” Christmas had traditionally been a time for my parents to spoil (溺爱) us. In years past, the presents would pile up and I would hear the phrase “giving is better than receiving”, but thought whoever had said that must have been out of their mind. Getting presents was the whole _________!

On that Christmas morning, we _________ waited in the hallway until Dad told us everything was ready. We rushed into the living room and let the wrapping paper fly. We made weak   _________ to wait and watch other family members opened their presents, but as the time passed we lost our self-control.

“Here’s another one for you,” said Mom as she _________ me a package with my name written on the label in my mother’s handwriting. I looked at it, _________. Having spent so much time examining the presents before Christmas, I __________ this one. It was my mom’s.

“Mom, I can’t...”

I was __________ by my mother’s eager, joyful look—a look I could not really understand. “Let’s see what it is, honey. Hurry and open it.” It was a blow dryer. Though it’s simple, to me it was so much more. Being a little girl, I was amazed. In my world, where receiving __________ giving, my mom’s act of selflessness was incomprehensible. Tears filled my eyes and I thought in disbelief about how much my mom must love me to __________ her Christmas.

I have always remembered that Christmas full of deep __________. It had such an impact on me. As an adult, I can now __________ my mom’s actions—finding an even greater joy in her Christmas, because giving truly is better than receiving. My mom’s simple act meant the world to me.