【推荐3】A TikToker (抖音用户) and his mystery neighbor have taken us all on a beautiful journey of music, love, longing, and loss.

One of the main _________ of this story is Lo Porto, an Italian living in the UK. On February 6, he _________ a video of his new neighbor playing piano on TikTok. The music is muffled (压低声音) behind their shared wall, but _________ enough to hear. Lo Porto started their fated friendship by writing a _________ to his neighbor, saying he loved the music.

Lo Porto left another note _________ that they play a duet (二重奏) together, each in their own _________. He started playing at 2 pm, and as soon as he stopped, the neighbor _________.

Their duets became a weekend “meet up”. Then it came time for them to meet face to face and “it was better than _________,” shared Lo Porto. The mystery pianist was a 78-year-old Polish man named Emil, who was living in _________ accommodation while he waits for his house to be sold.

“He lost his wife in December __________ COVID and all he has __________ is the piano, shared Lo Porto.

__________ Emil didn’t want to appear on any of the videos, he did share his gratitude with Lo Porto for keeping him motivated and less __________.

Although this is __________ in itself, the story has a heartbreaking ending: Lo Porto received word that Emil had __________ in his sleep. “Dear Emil,” he wrote. “You’ll be in my heart. I’ll keep playing, thinking of how powerful music can be. You said I was your light, but you’ve been mine too. Bye, Emil.”

【推荐1】Being alone in outer space can be frightening—that is one reason why astronauts on solo space flight were given plenty of work to keep them_________. They were also in constant communication with people on the earth._________, being with people from whom you cannot get away might be even harder than being alone. This is what happens on long submarine(潜水艇)voyages. It will also happen on_________space flights in the future. Will there be special problems of adjustment under such conditions?

Scientists have studied the reactions of men to one another during long submarine voyages. They have found that the longer the voyage lasts, the more serious the problem of_________is. When men are_________together for a long period, they begin to feel uneasy. Everyone has little habits of speaking and behaving that are ordinarily acceptable. In the limited space over a long period of time, however, these little habits may become very_________.

Apparently, although no one wants to be_________all the time, everyone needs some degree of privacy. When people are enclosed together, they are in what is called a stress situation. That means that they are under an unusual amount of _________or stress.

People who are well-adjusted are able to_________stress situations better than others. That is one reason why so much care is taken in__________our astronauts. These men undergo a long period of testing and training. One of the things tested is their behavior under stress.

【推荐2】I’m Lovin’It

Food would undoubtedly be our best friend, if it wasn’t for our love-and-hate relationship with calories. And the _______ fact that so many tasty things actually contain so many of them often catches us off guard. Calories quietly hide in our favorite foods, ready to slide into our bodies uninvited, often without _______, where they will stay for an extended vacation, until we can find the motivation to do some physical exercise (which, let’s face it, is never) in the hope of losing some weight.

Calories _______ practically everything that you can put in your mouth, which makes them impossible to avoid. So, rather than totally _______ delicious treats, it’s time to embrace them. So, starting with everyone’s favourite fast food restaurant, we’ve ranked some of the food on the McDonald’s menu_______ calories, so that you can indulge (纵情享受) with full disclosure.

But a word of _______: There is an extremely high chance that once reading this, you will desire everything on the McDonald’s menu-regardless of the calories.

Despite the knowledge that a quick trip to McDonald’s will burn through virtually your whole daily allowance of food ________, we have no shame in admitting that it is our favourite place on Earth. We are certainly “Lovin’ It”!

【推荐1】My past students are starting to organize a scientific conference for my 60th birthday to be held about a year from now. Their gesture reminded me of Rabbi Hanina’s words: “I have learned much from my teachers, more from my colleagues and the most from my students.”

We all started as students. Just as kids bump into things as they’re learning to _________ the world, many of us have scars from early encounters with our mentors._________ arise when those mentors attempt to establish their authority by trying to make us respect traditional thinking. Memories of these events should encourage us to do better as we_________ roles and mentor others later in life.

For example, the first advice I received from my postdoctoral mentor was to develop specialized skills and focus them on a _________ field, where I would establish myself as the world expert._________ , I decided not to follow this advice as soon as I recognized by drilling down narrowly, one often fails to make further progress. In these situations, the potential for a _________improves with a broader and more flexible perspective, which enables “out of the box” opportunities for drilling deeper around it.

Keeping this in mind, I encourage my students to think broadly and _________ about the most exciting problems in astronomy, such as: “What happened before the big bang?”; “What will happen in our distant cosmic future?”; “What is the nature of dark matter?”; or “When did life start in the universe?”

It is customary to consider a student’s raw potential as a stand-alone commodity whose value can be_________ through examinations. But my experience taught me that young scientists do not blossom into exceptional researchers _________ they are supported by encouraging words and inspiration; these ingredients are as __________ as nutrition and water are for seeds of flowers.__________ the initial belief in the potential of a student to become a successful scientist, this outcome may not come true.

As chair of the Harvard astronomy department for almost a decade, I witnessed many examples of students who were initially very slow to make progress but blossomed academically as soon as they selected a different advisor and a new topic for their Ph. D. A good mentor__________ the strengths of the mentee. As a result, a successful mentoring experience often reflects a good __________ between a fledgling(新手的) scientist and an advisor. They should both be congratulated for their shared academic DNA.

On the one hand, mentors get a kick from Oscar Wilde’s insight: “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery...” But on the other hand, they should allow students to break free from the __________ path with creativity. The rule of thumb is to give young scholars just enough space to explore freely and learn from their __________ without damaging the direction of their future careers. The learning curves could be steep; some of my 50 students over the past few decades started slow but eventually rose to the greatest heights. Patience is key.

【推荐3】As the major habitat of wild Asian elephants, Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture (自治州) in Yunnan province has seen a growth in its population of elephants in recent decades.

On the one hand, the prefecture has made more than 20 rules and laws to further ________its environment and wildlife, which has contributed to the ________ population of wild animals.

On the other hand, business ________ are now not allowed in all of the prefecture’s nature reserves.

All of the Asian elephants in Yunnan ________ in the southern part of the province, which covers Xishuangbanna, and the cities of Pu’er and Lincang. To protect the Asian elephant, the prefecture ________ the area of its nature reserves, which has ________doubled from 24,000 hectares (公顷) in the 1980s to 41,466 hectares now.

In 1996, a Wild Asian Elephant Valley was built as the prefecture’s biggest wild animal ________ center. So far, more than 1,200 animals have been saved at the ________ In 2008, China’s first Asian elephant breeding (繁殖) base was also ________in the valley.

An increase in the ________of elephants is from decades-long ________protection. According to Dong Yonghua, the growing number of elephants means there is a ________need for living space for the species. “About 25 years ago, elephants could be seen only in Xishuangbanna and Lincang. Now, Pu’er has also become one of their ________” he said.

________, the prefecture has built several areas to provide ________ food resources for elephants in recent years.