【推荐1】When still a young child, Morales Casanova saw children harm local trees. And sometimes they   ______harm their own pets. So she formed a group called Humanity United to Nature in Harmony for Beauty, Welfare and Goodness to________the problem. Through small group meetings, she taught friends to grow plants and care for pets, inspiring new________for nature.

A few years later, at age 13, she sent the president of Mexico a________for creating a protected area to train children about________issues and was awarded the prize for National Youth Award for Environmental Protection, which________the expansion of its grassroots________conservation   projects. Several years later, the state capital donated________that let her fulfill a long-held________of opening an environmental education________.

Opening in 2013, Ceiba Pentandra Park provides a free, interactive learning experience for children and teachers on________topics ranging from climate change to wildlife protection. The park’s_____ aspect is the teachers: other children, since Morales Casanova believed children had the________to be leaders.

Park students who show________ability are trained to be peer educators. They learn to speak________, plan activities, and do________to cover the cost of program fee. When kids see other________providing information and making a real difference, they’re________that they can do it, too. The children are gradually________new values -they are already taking action to change not only their own________, but the minds of families and teachers.

【推荐3】Melbourne Girls' College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually_______all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yard, _________1400 students and 140 staff to find their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will _______ daily non- compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste" lunch boxes will be _______. Students using only _______ packaging will receive a token (礼券）to win prizes such as keepcups.

The rubbish that students take home may still go to landfill(废物填埋场）via their home bins, _______the new policy will help persuade_______to buy fewer packaged items and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and mess, can be solved._______tuna （金枪鱼）in a tin, for example, can_______ the school's compost（堆肥）bin and the tin can be __________ before it's taken home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the time or means to avoid   ________ in single-use packaging, “but it's________to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We talk a lot, ________ educators, about the bad problems the world ________, and if we don't start putting some actions ________ that beautiful idea, then it's just empty."

【推荐1】Most people believe they don’t have much imagination. They are _________. Everyone has imagination, but most of us, once we become adults, forget how to _________ it. Creativity isn’t always _________ with great works of art or ideas. People at work and in their free time often _________ creative ways to solve problems. Maybe you have a goal to achieve, a tricky question to answer or you just want to expand your mind! Here are three techniques to help you.

Making connections! This technique involves taking _________ ideas and trying to find links between them. First, think about the problem you have to solve or the job you need to do. Then find an image, word, idea or object, for example, a candle. Write down all the idea or words _________ with candles: light, fire, matches, night, silence, etc. The next stage is to relate the _________ to the job you have to do. So imagine you want to buy a friend an original _________; you could buy him tickets to match or take him out for the night.

NO limits! Imagine that normal limitations don’t _________. You have as much time, space, money, etc. as you want. Think about your goal and the new ____________. If your goal is to learn to ski, ____________, you can now practise skiing every day of your life (because you have the time and the money). Now ____________ this to reality. Maybe you can practise skiing ever day in December, or every Monday in January.

Be someone else! Look at the situation from a ____________ point of view. Good businessmen use this technique in trade, and so do writers. Fiction writers often imagine they are the ____________ in their books. They ask question: What does this character want? Why can’t she get it? What changes must she make to get what she wants? If your goal ____________ other people, put yourself in their positions. The best fishermen think like fish!

【推荐2】Crowdsourcing is an interesting new application of the saying "Many hands make light work". In the same way that classmates might work_________on a task, now dozens, hundreds or thousands of people can collaborate（合作）on projects that would be too_________or complex for a small group of co-workers. At the same time, crowdsourcing follows the old_________that two heads are better than one. When many people collaborate, they not only work faster, but they also work better, by_________their intelligence and experience.

Perhaps one of the most_________examples of crowdsourcing is Wikipedia--an online encyclopedia(百科全书)that is_________，edited and managed by people all over the world. The writers are volunteers who_________their work for free. And_________them, Wikipedia now offers more than 4 million free articles in English, and millions more in almost 300 other_________．That's an amazing achievement for a project that__________started in 2001.

Traditional institutions, such as London's Tate Museum, have also__________Crowdsourcing for projects. In 2010, the museum__________the Tate Movie Project website, where children learned how__________are made. The children also wrote stories, drew their own characters and__________them to the website. After that, professionals worked with the children to__________a collaborative film which was later shown on BBC television.

Finally, crowdsourcing can also be a way for people and companies to make__________．Some businesses organize crowdsourcing websites to get suggestions for new products, services or advertising campaigns. They may also offer__________for the best ideas.__________, the Goldcorp mining company offered a prize for a list of good locations for discovering gold. The__________list won $676, 000 and the company__________$3 billion dollars of gold.