【推荐1】Last month, Koch went to make breakfast and found a(n) ________ guest using his pool. A large moose (驼鹿) was swimming in the deep end,________ in the solar cover (太阳能覆盖膜).

“I looked out in the backyard and there’s the moose absolutely scared and ________,” Koch told The Dodo. “She stepped on the solar cover and put her ________ through it and she was ________ trying to get free.”

Koch has noticed more wildlife around his home in Ottawa, but he had ________ seen an animal this impressive before. He rushed outside and ________ the solar cover off the poor moose, who continued swimming around the pool, proving to be a ________ skilled swimmer.

The wild moose seemed to be having trouble finding her way out of the pool, so Koch called the police and wildlife services to see if they could ________ a hand. “She looked so pitifully sad out there that my wife said, ‘I want to give her a ________.’”

Workers from wildlife services intended that they would get her to a safer spot, but they couldn’t ________ it until she was out of the water. “The ________ thing that happened was that after 3.5 hours she climbed out of the shallow end and ________ the fence,” Koch said.

The moose ________ unhurt, but the same can’t be said for Koch’s pool — which now has two hoof-sized (马蹄大小的) holes in the ________.

【推荐1】More and more people around the world are taking a look at urban farming. It can make our food as ________as possible. By growing what we need near where we live, we decrease the “food miles” linked with long-distance ________. We also get the freshest ________.

Growing fruits and vegetables in cities will benefit the community greatly. ________can earn extra income by ________ excessive produce at community events and farmers’ markets. As such markets grow, they may ________ full-time staff from the community. Thus more job opportunities will be provided.

Another benefit of urban farming is that it can make our cities ________. It will add plants, bring fresh air, and ________shading. It can help raise people’s awareness about the environment. With more rooftops and yard gardens, local people would have more peaceful places for ________. What’s more, a greener city will attract tourists.

However, there exist some ________. For example, land in cities is often expensive. If more urban gardens are ________, the rents and house prices will be raised. Urban soils are often loaded with poisons. This requires soil improvement ________planting can be done ________ . Narrow space in cities can ________ the size of a farm. And getting enough water and sunlight can be a(n) ________task. Considering all these problems, it seems that we still have a long way to go.

【推荐2】Afroz Shah, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn’t had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn’t spent this time preparing for _________.

His mission? Saving the world’s oceans from _________ pollution.

It’s a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was_________to see how much it had _________. The sand was no longer _________ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick — most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a_________of plastic,” he said. “It hurt me. The _________ mess.” What Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _________in the world’s oceans each year. It’s predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _________. And the sea species have no choice at all, ” Shah said. “We are ______________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, Shah began ________________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ________________ and with the help from social media, more volunteers got ________________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ________________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ________________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ________________.

He’s now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ________________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what’s been called the world’s biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ________________ clean and Shah’s cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ________________ and do action more, ” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019.“We are a smart species. Well adapt. We’ll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ________________.”

【推荐3】The reusing trend continues to gain steam in countries all over the globe. Now, there is a shopping mall that is full of _______ stores only. ReTuna, a two-story complex in Eskilstuna. Sweden, offers a wide _______ of shops with recycled goods.

ReTuna has been around since 2015, and it was designed to _______ Sweden's problem of rising _______ .This is the first mall in the world to focus on _______ shopping. The company wants to make it   _______   for people to find valuable goods by putting second-hand stores under one roof   _______ consumers having to _______ thrift stores （慈善商店）throughout the city.

"I think it's fun to find something that people have used, and we can use _______ said Cato Limas, a ReTuna customer. "If you look at the things they're selling here, they're almost ______________   . So actually, why ______________ buying new stuff?" During his first ______________ to the mail. Limas ______________ about $7 and came away with a bag full of toys for his newborn baby.

Nearly every item on sale is from public donations, which are______________at the mail's drive-through depot （储藏室）.The mall's 11 stores include a furniture outlet, a bookstore and a bicycle shop. Stores that sign a contract with ReTuna must ______________to zero-waste.

More than 50 people work at the complex, and it has played a role in creating ______________ for immigrants in the area. ReTuna ______________ adult education courses that focus on design-based recycling as well

Sweden has been a longtime ______________ when it comes to sustainability. More than 99 percent of the country's ordinary household ______________ is reused, and separating rubbish for recycling has been a（n） ______________ practice for Swedes since the 1980s.

【推荐1】Imagine an area 34 times the size of Manhattan. Now imagine it covered ankle-deep in plastic waste.That’s a total of about 19 billion pounds of_______. And according to one of the best estimates available, that’s how much plastic waste_______in our oceans every year.

"We're being_______by our waste,”   said Jenna Jam beck, an/a _______engineer who led the 2015 study that announced this shocking number. According to Jambeck’s research, this_______will double by 2025 unless something is done,_______and at a global scale, to stop the tide of garbage.

Plastic has in many ways been a good help to humanity, used in all walks of _______from medical equipment to parts of airplanes. _______some of the very traits (特性)that have made plastics so popular have also made them a_______ problem in our landfills and oceans. Today， plastics are the No. 1 type of trash found in the sea. Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit environmental advocacy group that organizes a yearly________cleanup event in more than 150 countries worldwide, said plastic pieces ________around 85 percent of all the garbage collected from beaches waterways and oceans — and that’s just the stuff we can ________.

Ocean Conservancy says plastics are believed to ________at least 600 different wildlife ________. One in three leatherback turtles, which often ________plastic bags for edible(可吃的) jellyfish, have been found with plastic in their bellies. In 2017, a ________ whale beached on Norway’s coast had 30 plastic bags in its________. Ninety percent of seabirds are now eating ________on a regular basis. By 2050, that figure is expected to rise to 100 percent.

And it’s not ________ wildlife that’s threatened by the plastics in our seas. A growing body of evidence suggests humans are consuming plastics through the seafood we eat.

With this in mind，experts say that all of us have a ________role to play in relieving the issue — in ways both big and small.

【推荐2】When British musician Paul Barton performs in central Thailand these days, his energetic listeners react wildly. Some _________ his hair or jump on his piano. Others steal his music papers. The behavior is _________, however, because these crowds are truly _______________- monkeys, to be exact.

Barton often plays to the animals in Lopburi, an area known for its populations of wild monkeys. The pianist hopes the music shows will bring ___________ to the animals.

The monkeys are _________ because fewer people come to see and _________ them due to restrictions on tourism. "We feed to make an effort to ___________ that they eat properly. And when they eat properly, they will be calmer and will not be _________,” said Barton, 59, a long-time Thailand resident.

Barton has played at four sites in Lopburi, including at an ancient Hindu temple, a store and an old movie theater. The monkeys quickly _________ Barton when he plays Greensleeves, and Michael Nyman’s Diary of Love. Some of the __________ sit on his chair, while others climb up his body and touch his head.

"It is a wonderful __________ to see the wild animals just being themselves," said Barton, from Yorkshire in northern England.

"I was __________ to play the piano and find that they were actually eating the music papers as I was __________ it." But, he added, I wasn’t going to let those things disturb the project, which is to play music for these wonderful monkeys."

Barton hopes to raise awareness of the monkeys' hunger. At the same time, he hopes to study their behavior as they __________ to classical music. "It's possible that the __________ can play a part in the treatment process of the monkeys." he said.

【推荐3】A children’s choir (合唱团) from the snowy highlands of Tibet recently ________ their beautiful singing to the capital, Beijing.

The Qomolangma Children’s Choir was ______ in 2020. They recently paid a week-long trip to Beijing to _____________ their music skills and show their______ to national audiences.

When journalists met the choir on Saturday, the children were ________ the recording of a music program at CCTV in Beijing. Before ________ the program, they received professional _________ from teachers at the Central Conservatory of Music (CCOM). _________, they also visited scenic _________ in Beijing such as the Temple of Heaven, the Forbidden City and so on. Tenzin Dunyu, a 10-year-old member of the choir, told the journalists that he has been playing the zhanian for five years. The zhanian, a beautiful __________, is widely used in songs and dances in Tibet. For him, coming to Beijing and _________ in Tiananmen Square was both a nervous and _________ experience, marking his first journey outside Lhasa. Another 10-year-old member, Tsering Lhamo, has been singing for a year. Her trip to Beijing _________ her horizons, and when it came to what______ her most, she said she __________ enjoyed the cheerful songs of the choir performed at CCTV.

Geng Muyao was the choir’s ________ from CCOM to help the children with training. She ________ that the choir was set up by the Tibetan government and __________ by CCOM. “Many members were __________ of vocal (声乐的) training due to poor condition, so this choir experience means a lot to them. ”she said.

Including children from all over Tibet, the choir primarily shows Tibetan folk culture. Though the members are __________, the choir has performed at important events, achieving amazing success in a short time.