【推荐2】Where are the Bees?

Bees are essential to the production of food we eat. Bees make honey, but they also pollinate (授粉) large areas of _______ such as strawberries, apples and onions. About a third of the food we eat is a(n) _______ of pollination of the bees. _______, bees have been disappearing at a(n) _______ rate.

In 2006, beekeepers started reporting about something called Colony Collapse Disaster (CCD). The main sign of CCD is the _______ of adult honey bees from a hive. In October of 2006, some beekeepers reported that they had lost between 30 and 90 percent of their hives.

There were many _______ for the disappearance of the bees. But the most convincing one has been _______to pesticides (杀虫剂) and lifestyles of bees today. Nowadays beekeepers get most of their income not from _______ honey but from renting bees to pollinate plants. This means that the life of the typical bee now _______ travelling all around the country to pollinate crops as the ________ change. That means a lot of traveling on trucks, which is very ________ to bees. It is not ________ for up to 30% of the hive to die during ________ due to stress. In addition, bees that spend most of their time locked up on trucks are not ________ what they usually live on. ________, they live on a sweet liquid from corn, usually polluted with pesticides.

The ________ reason for the disappearance of bees is not sure, but losing bees is very ________ to the economy. The bee pollination services are ________ over 8 billion a year. With no bees, pollination will have to be done ________, which would have effects on the quality of food and increase food prices. We hear a lot about big environmental disasters almost every day. ________ one of the biggest may well be the loss of that tiny flying insect.

【推荐2】Ryan Hickman was born in an American family. When he was three years old, Ryan Hickman visited a _________ center in California and found what he wanted to do most. Amazingly, the next day as he greeted his dad, Damion, he made a(n) _________, “I’m going to pick up all the bottles and cans from everyone in the neighborhood. I’ll start a new _________ myself!”

It’s never too _________ to start a business, though there were no other staff but himself when the company was started. Today, Ryan, aged seven, the worlds _________ garbage man, is the CEO, manager and _________ of Ryan’s Recycling Company. Though Ryan says he doesn’t remember what made it all start, he remains _________ about what he is doing. When questioned why he did so, he said, “It’s _________ bottles get to the ocean, and then animals get sick and die.” Ryan’s neighbors have been _________ to the little boy’s knocking for their recycled goods. More and more __________ ones call to ask for a pickup or even lay down bags of bottles and cans at Hickman’s door. At school, Ryan’s favorite activity is helping the dustmen __________ the trash and taking away the recyclable. “My wife and I support him and we told him that whenever he wants to __________, he can,” Damion said. “I want to see him with friends, but the recycling just makes him delighted. He has actually __________ five of his friends to join him.”

According to Damion, Ryan has __________ over $11,000 through recycling bottles and cans. Ryan says he wants to buy a large trash truck to be __________ with enough garbage and become a true garbage man.

【推荐1】The best way of leaning a language is always using it. The best way of leaning spoken English is_______ in English as much as possible. Sometimes you'll get your words_______ up and people will not_______ you. Sometimes people will_______ things too quickly and you can't understand them.But _______ you keep your sense of humor, you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you_______ . Don't be unhappy if people seem to be laughing_______ your mistakes. It's_______ for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you,_______ they don't understand what you were saying. The most important thing for leaning English is: Don't be________ of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.

【推荐2】When Meredith Bastian was 8, she talked to the manager of primates (灵长目动物) and asked about wild gorillas. This summer an 11-year-old girl, Addy Barrett，_______Bastian who is the present manager of primates at the National Zoo---something Bastian did as a child,_______her love for gorillas.

Addy, a _______visitor to the zoo, never gets tired of watching the gorillas. She told Bastian, “I learned gorillas are being_______. I needed to do something to save my_______animals."” She sold homemade cookies for her_______. Recently, she was named a winner of the 2019 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes_______her hard work to raise $7,000 for_______groups aiming at protecting the animals in danger. Bastian said the_______ that gorillas face is a combination of habitat loss, climate change and spread of disease. But there's also the problem of mining that ________gorilla's living conditions. Coltan is a mineral used to make cell-phones.“One of the strongest messages you can send to people is to ________their cell- phones," Bastian told Addy.

Addy ________the Gorilla Heroes project and meanwhile she held social media discussion to raise   ________in the hope of more participation in protecting gorillas. ________Addy hopes to get close to gorillas in the wild, ________a person needs to be at least 15 years old to visit where the gorillas live. Bastian said every animal has a________, just like every human does. They can be friendly or________. So she offered words of________for Addy's future visit: Never stare at gorillas because they take that as a__________Bastian said,“You just need to________ and have your body language tell them 'yes, this is your forest, not mine.'”

【推荐3】Throughout history, people have been interested in ________ how language first began, but no one knows exactly where or how this happened. ________, we do know a lot about ________, the languages of today and also the languages of ________ times. There are several thousand languages in the world today. Chinese is the language ________ the most speakers. English, Russian and Spanish are also spoken by millions of people. ________, some languages in the world have less than one hundred speakers.

There are several important ________ of languages in the world For example, most of the languages of Europe are in one large family ________ the Indo-European language family. The ________ language of this family was spoken about 450 years ________. Many of the present languages of Europe and India are modern ________ of the language of 450 years ago.

Languages are ________ changing. The English of today is very different ________ the English of 500years ago. In time some even ________ completely. About 1,000 years ago English was a little-known relative of German ________ on one of the borders(边界) of Europe.