【推荐1】“Daily Star, sir” called Jason, carrying some newspapers under his arm. The little boy had been running up and down the street, but there were still twenty ____ left. His voice was almost gone and his heart was ____. The shops would soon close, and all the people would go home. He would have to go home too, carrying the papers _____money. He had hoped to sell more papers tonight to make more money to buy a ____ for his mother and some seeds for his bird. That was why he had bought the papers with all his money. He ____ as he thought of his failure to sell all his papers.

“You don’t know the ____ of selling papers. You must shout, ‘Hot news! Bomb bursting!’”another newsboy Chad told Jason. “____ it’s not in the paper at all,” replied Jason. “Just run away quickly ____ they have time to see, and you’ll ____ out and get your money,” Chad said.

It was a new ____ to Jason. He thought of his bird with no ____ and the cake he wanted to buy for his mother, but was ____ that he would not tell a lie. Though he was___ a poor newsboy, he had been ____ some good things.

The next afternoon Jason went to the office for his papers ____. Several boys were crowding around Chad, who declared with a ____ smile that he sold sixteen dozen the day before. He added that Jason ____ money because he would not tell a lie. The boy

___ at Jason. “You wouldn’t tell a lie yesterday, my boy?” Jason felt hurt. A gentleman at the office came up and patted Jason’s shoulder ____.”You’re just the boy I am looking for.”

A week later Jason started his new ____. He lost sale of twenty papers because he would not tell a lie, but got a well-paid job because he told the truth.

【推荐2】People send gifts to each other quite frequently. But have you ever received a gift that was so clearly not your _________ that you wondered if perhaps it had been handed to you by _________? Still _________, have you ever given a present to a friend and she looked as though she had opened the faulty box? Maybe she would _________ with a polite “Why, thank you”，but you knew you had missed the mark. Why do presents sometimes go wrong? And what do your choices（good and bad）reflect about your personal _________?

Choosing the right gift is an _________, I believe. It calls for empathy---the ability to put yourself into someone else’s head and heart. We’re all able to do this; in fact, we’re born with a kind of _________ empathy. After the earliest period of childhood, however, it needs to be reinforced（加强）by our parents, teachers, and friends. When it isn’t, we’re not able to sense other people’s feelings _________. This can show in the gifts we select, and so can many other emotional qualities.

Think back to the presents you’ve _________ over the past years, the time and ____________ you put into your selection, how much you spent, your thoughts while you were shopping, and your feelings when the ____________ opened the package. Keep in mind that what you choose ____________ your inner world. Of course, you may express yourself ____________ with different friends, relatives and other people you know.

We live in a society where ____________ presents is an important part of communication. ____________ the tradition won’t make it go away. If you really dislike such a tradition, tell your friends ahead of time.

【推荐2】A handsome man can earn a fifth more than a plainer colleague but a beautiful woman is not paid a penny more than her average-looking colleagues, new research has shown.

The study by senior economists found that good-looking _______ male workers could earn 22 percent more than colleagues who looked _______.

Researchers said good looks did not give women a similar _______.

Andrew Leigh, the former economics professor at the Australian National University who co-authored the report, said “_______ can be a double-edged sword for women.”

Some people still _______ good looks and intelligence are incompatible(矛盾的) in women so a good-looking woman can’t be that _______, but it doesn’t _______ men’s pay.

He said that _______ he believed good-looking women may also _______ more, the research did not ________ his theory.

The research found that ________ men in all jobs, from manual labor to highly-paid professional ________, can earn 22 percent more than their colleagues doing a/an ________ role.

Men with below-average looks face a battle in the office, with ugliness ________ a man’s earning by 26 percent ________ an average-looking worker.

Former male model Ian Mitchell, 28, who has a first class ________ in history from University of Edinburgh and now works for a cosmetic company, told The Sunday Times: “It gives you ________, and I suspect people ________ to warm to you more quickly.”

The study, entitled Unpacking the Beauty Premium, was the largest exercise of its kind and repeated a ________ from 1984 to see if the beauty premium had changed.

Leigh said the research showed people in the workplace were “lookist” and he hoped the findings would encourage ________ to reserve their prejudice.

【推荐3】It’s once again been declared the world’s most popular museum. _________, it may not be a _________ thing for the Louvre (卢浮宫) in Paris.

The museum broke its own _________ in 2018, welcoming 10.2 million _________ and claiming the top spot in the world’s most-visited museums.

But the Louvre’s uptick (小幅上升) in visitors _________ too much for many of its workers, causing _________ by reception and security staff over the number of tourists _________ through its doors.

“The Louvre is suffocating (令人窒息的),” the workers union said in a statement. “The public has increased by more than 20% since 2009, but the palace has not grown,” the union _________.

The museum was _________ on Monday and opened later than advertised on Wednesday, due to a __________ with the dissatisfied workers. Visitors have __________ outside the building throughout the week, and those without bookings have been __________.

Although tensions with its workers still __________, the museum’s bottom line is looking __________. The Louvre broke its 2012 __________ record last year, marking a dramatic __________ from a sharp downturn in visits in 2017 that was due to a sudden decrease in __________ in Paris.

The social media that are __________ about Beyoncé and Jay Z’s music __________ filmed at the museum may have contributed to that increase.

But while visitor numbers rose at the Louvre, overall attendance was relatively __________ among the top 20 museums in the world last year. Attendance grew among the top 20 by just 0.1% from 2017 to 2018.

【推荐1】How many people can speak English? Some experts estimate that 1.5 billion people—around one-quarter of the world’s population—can communicate reasonably well in English.

Never in recorded history has a language been as __________ spoken as English is today. The reason why millions are learning it is simple: it is the language of international business and __________, the key to prosperity. It is not just that multinational companies conduct their business in English; it is the language in which Germans speak to Indonesians.

David Gtaddol, the author of English Next, says it is tempting to view the story of English simply as a victory for its native speakers in North America, Britain and Ireland, and Australia— but that would be a __________ . Global English has entered a more complex stage, changing in ways that the English-speaking countries cannot control and might __________ .

An important question one might ask is: whose English will it be in the future? Non-nativespeakers now __________ native English speakers by three to one. The majority of __________ in English today take place between non-native speakers. According to David Graddol, many business meetings held in English appear to run more __________ when there are no native English speakerspresent. This is because native speakers are often ___________ at ensuring that they are understood in international discussions. They tend to think they need to avoid longer Latin-based words, but in fact __________ problems are more often caused by their use of idioms, metaphors, and phrasal verbs. On one occasion, at an international student conference in Amsterdam, conducted in English, the only British representative was asked to be “less __________” so that the others could understand her.

Professor Barbara Seidlhofer, Professor of English at the University of Vienna, records spoken English __________ between speakers of the language around the world. She says her team has noticed that non-native speakers are __________ standard English grammar in several ways. Even the most fluent speakers sometimes omit the "s" in the third person singular. Many omit definite and indefinite articles where they are __________ in standard English, or put them in where standard English does not use them. Nouns that are not plural in native-speaker English are used as plurals by non-native speakers (eg, “informations”, “knowledges”, advices”). Other variations include “make a discussion”, “discuss about something”, or “phone to somebody”.

Many native English speakers will insist that these are not variations, they are mistakes. “Knowledges”and “phone to somebody” are simply __________. Many non-native speakers who teach English around the world would agree. But language changes, and so do ideas of grammatical __________ .

【推荐3】Ecotourism is a combination of ecology (the study of systems of living things) and tourism. It is defined as “responsible travel to natural areas that preserves the environment and improves the welfare of the local people” by the International Ecotourism Society. Actually, ecotourism can mean travel to far-off places of great natural beauty, but not always in a(n) _______ way. It's a big business, and the attraction of money can cause people to think about profits first. While ecotourism offers benefits to people and ecosystems, it leaves ecosystems _______ to negative effects, too.

Costa Rica, once a Spanish colony, and independent since 1821, has an ecotourism industry worth over one billion dollars yearly, and thousands of jobs have been _______. Nearly 21 percent of the land is now protected national parks, _______ thanks to ecotourism. Nevertheless, due to the number of people visiting the country's natural places, some damage to the ecosystem has occurred.

While tourists can have a negative impact on ecosystems, the same areas might have been _______ by industries such as farming, logging, or mining if there were no ecotourism industry. Shelters have been created instead, keeping the ecosystem protected. And, by visiting beautiful rain forests and seeing rare animals, visitors get a sense of their _______, and of gratitude for them. Tour guides can also be educators who train people to love and care for the environment. Visitors can take these lessons with them to their home countries.

Unfortunately, while their effect may not be _______ in the off-season, the constant parade of visitors in the high season can be damaging. At one national park in Costa Rica, wild monkeys now feed on garbage left by the tourists. In addition, ecotourists tend to seek out places with the rarest animals and plants, _______ the most delicate living things.

It is easy to be critical of the ecotourism industry, but it is important to be _______ as well. Ecotourism can never be “pure”. We can't expect zero negative effects on the ecosystem. It is also ________ to suppose that humans won't go anywhere accessible to them. If protection efforts are maintained and increased, those remaining places of undisturbed nature may be stressed, but they won't be destroyed.