【推荐1】When Tal Golesworthy was told he needed _________ heart surgery in 1993, he said no. Golesworthy has Marfan syndrome (马凡氏综合症), a genetic condition _________ the strength and elasticity of connective body tissues, including blood vessels. Back in 1993, when he was living in Cheltenham, in the west of England, his doctor told him that the aorta (主动脉) in his heart was so enlarged that it would unavoidably _________ unless he underwent major surgery.

“They _________ the surgical options,” says Golesworthy, “and I was not interested. The operation really didn’t look attractive.” _________ he particularly didn’t like was having to be on blood thinners after the operation, something that would prevent blood clots(血栓) but _________ its own risks: “I was riding motorbikes then; and skiing, so my whole lifestyle _________.” By 2000, however, his condition _________. Realizing something had to be done, Golesworthy put his years of _________ as research-and-development engineer with the United Kingdom’s National Coal Board to good use. He decided he would __________ himself. “Learning new stuff and developing new ideas, that was my job,” Golesworthy says.

A bulging aorta, he thought, was much like bulging hydraulic hose (凸起的液压软管)—it needed __________ support. And wrapping something around the outside of the aorta would require a less invasive __________. So Golesworthy subjected himself to 30 hours of an MRI scanner; used 3D printing to create a physical copy of the faulty part of his heart (the aortic root); and then used soft, porous textile mesh (网眼织物) to make a sleeve to fit around it. “Luckily, I’d done a lot of work with technical textiles, looking at filters (过滤器) for flue gases (烟气) in coal-fire processes,” he says.

Sheer determination combined with a(n) __________ yet practical solution won him the support of two leading cardiothoratic (心胸的) surgeons and helped him raise the money to __________ his idea. In May 2004, at the age of 47, he became the guinea pig for his own invention, the Exo Vasc Personalised External Aortic Root Support. The operation was __________.

【推荐2】Rwanda is a small country in East Africa with about more than 13 million people. The landlocked country is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa. _________, almost half of the population still live in poverty.

Many people live in _________ where there is no doctor. Medical supplies such as _________, vaccines (疫苗) or even blood are _________ to reach these areas.

Zipline, an American start-up company, now helps people in remote areas to get better _________. A multinational team of engineers has been _________ to build a drone (无人机) that can deliver medicine to where it is most needed.

Rwanda is where their plans have been met with _________ from the government and the country’s civil aviation (民用航空) authority.

“Rwanda is the first country to _________ us through the design process of the drone to figure out how to do this,” said Keenan Wyrobek, a _________ of Zipline.

If a hospital or a __________ is in an area that is difficult to __________, the Zipline drone can deliver the medical supplies easily and much quicker than via road transport.

Doctors or healthcare workers just need to send a __________ to the base station and the delivery will be dispatched (派遣) via drone quickly and __________. So the vital supplies are dropped off by the drone where the items are __________. Now it only takes 30 minutes from the time the __________ is placed to the delivery.

“I used to see the drones fly and think they must be __________ until the same drone came to me and saved my __________. They are amazing,” said Alice Mutimutuje, a mother who fell seriously ill once.

The drones have already successfully completed more than 12,000 __________in the last years. In January 2019, the company__________ their project in Africa and the 29 million people in the West Africa Ghana will soon benefit from this new__________, too.

【推荐2】Color Can greatly Affect Human Emotion and Behavior

There’s been a lot written about color psychology but what we do know is that color can greatly affect human emotion and behavior. A lot of us already know that colors can suggest a mood or attitude, but do you know that color is a_________that can persuade us to buy things? According to some research, color can be up to 85 percent of the reason why we_________to purchase something. Smart marketers know: Color_________!

Yes, you know, right colors make products better. Colors_________how we feel about the food we eat. _________, orange juice with enhanced orange color was preferred over naturally colored orange juice and was thought to be sweeter.

In the case of_________, color also plays a role. Have you ever noticed that pink is often used as the color of face creams? That’s for a good reason. In a research study, some women were given pink and white face creams, which were_________except for their color. One hundred percent of the women said that the pink face creams were more effective and milder on sensitive skin.

_________, “more colorful, more personalized” is also accepted by most producers. It’s true that we need not only good quality products, but personalized ones. This urges manufacturers to make their products more and more “colorful”.

Take M&M’s Milk Chocolate Candies for example. Having a packet of M&M’s candies in_________, choosing which one to eat first according to the colors-- many of us probably have had such experience. A variety of colors is the__________of the classic candies. Now they have come with even more custom colors that will be sure to “__________in your mouth, not in your hand!” Gold, silver, pink and many other colors are available to choose from. Eating such candies must be__________“sweet” experience.

Another successful color marketing example is Apple’s iPhone. Does Apple have__________communication technology? Maybe, but that’s not the point, marketing experts say. What makes the iPhone so__________is “the system that makes it easy for people to express themselves through color choices.” The newest model of iPhone features several colors- pink, red, blue, green, and so on. Color, as a personal statement, adds a touch of__________to the smartphone.

【推荐3】Lexie Alford is a 21-year-old girl. She is recognized as the _________ person ever to visit every country in the world. Her experiences around the world have _________ her an impressive 260 thousand Instagram followers by May 2019. Lexie _________ North Korea, which _________her 196^th country visited. Just take a second to think about how impressive visiting 196 _________ in 21 years is, more than half of which were visited in the last three years. Here’s how she_________it.

Lexie Alford says she started _________ for her goal at the age of 12—she put away her pocket money in the bank. The goal was to visit all 196 completely independent countries, and on her blog she writes that she _________ the earlier Guinness World Record for Youngest Person to Travel to Every Country by over three years.

Lexie’s family owns a travel company in California that they’ve _________ run for over 30 years, which encouraged her love of __________.

Lexie’s biggest __________ for completing this record was that she __________ to show that “every culture harbors(怀有) kindness although there are all kinds of problems” according to her blog. She also __________ that she wanted to break down __________ misunderstandings about woman traveling alone. __________ is a great problem for many young women who want to travel long term. __________, Alford wanted to show that women can travel to the Middle East or travel to countries in Africa that are __________ considered to be unsafe for women.

Lexie is __________ to have the chance to travel around the world. __________ only for a few short days, she got to get a better knowledge of many __________ countries and ways of living.