【推荐1】Picture a young Chinese woman in a field, dressed in traditional hemp clothing, as she picks flowers to create makeup for her cheeks. ________ the same person making a bamboo sofa, making soy sauce (酱油) and cooking up all sorts of delicious dishes.

It may sound hard to believe, but such a person ________ in modern China, and her name is Li Ziqi. With a fan base of ________ 21 million people on Sina Weibo and 7 million followers on video-sharing site YouTube, Li has made a name for herself in a ________ of videos that show off a pre-industrial Chinese way of life in ________ Sichuan Province. “I want to do my part to let more people know about Chinese ________, ” she said. “Much of the ________ of my videos can be owed to the ________ of Chinese culture.”

Li seems to be a master of all kinds of ________—cooking, painting, designing and farming. She ________ silkworms to sew a quilt and grows plants. Many videos show her ________ seasonal ingredients from the garden and cooking them up with her wood-fired wok (土灶). A ________ bowl of soup for the winter, a lighter plate of noodles for the summer, Li follows the seasons in her cooking, as China’s ________ 24 solar terms also do, and makes food suitable for the particular ________.

________, Li’s simple pleasures amaze people living in big cities. “She leads a life that many dream of, but they don’t dare to ________ their current life in exchange for,” iFeng. com wrote.

Her handmade lifestyle is a ________ for many. “In today’s society, many feel ________,” she said. “When they watch my videos at the end of a busy day, I want them to ________ and experience something nice, to take away some of their ________ and stress.”

【推荐2】Shetara Jones, a struggling single mother, happened to win $100 on the lottery. ________, she made up her mind to donate all the money to the family of a police officer, who had unluckily been shot dead on his job.

Despite her own financial worries, Jones did so without any hesitation. At a time when many Americans facing ________, like many others, she had recently lost her job as well. As a resident said, Jones’ family had only a little money left when she saw a dollar bill at a parking lot and bought a ________ ticket with it, winning $100. Upon knowing that, her daughter suggested they donate it to the family of the ________ officer rather than ________ the money and Jones subscribed to the idea.

The policeman’s family’s difficult situation was a ________ of their own hard experience. One of Jones’ daughters was killed before. “The police were really there for us more than anyone I can ________,” said Jones. “They came to help us a lot. They did a lot. They were fathers, advisers, therapists (治疗专家). They were everything in this world.”

With the purpose of ________ some of the hope these officers offered to her family, Jones called up the police station for her donation. She decided to give away the money without ________ her name or phone number.

Soon after that, news of the ________ donation spread throughout the city. Officers spent days ________ her down, hoping to find her. “It’s really ________ to us,” said a spokesman for the Police Station.

Once they learned her ________, officers launched a campaign for Jones. Thousands of people had ________, wanting to help. Within a few days, it had raised more than $60,000. “It’s kindness from people like Jones that motivates ________ including him to keep serving.” said the spokesman.

【推荐3】Sometime last year, Michael Blonder began giving out reusable fabric bags with each purchase instead of disposable plastic bags at A. L. Goodies General Store, the souvenir shop he ________ on Main Street.

The move, Blonder said, was in anticipation of a ban on plastic bags, ________ the city has not made an effort to do so in more than a decade.

Eight states around the country have already ________ them. And in neighboring Montgomery County and Washington D.C., fees have been levied(征收)to ________ consumers away from using the single-use plastic bags that can ________ their way into nearby waterways, ________ storm drains and getting stuck in tree branches.

On Monday, Annapolis Alderman Rob Savidge introduced a ________ that would prevent any ________ in the city—who owns grocers, convenience stores and others-from ________ plastic bags at the point of sale. The Annapolis bill also ________ a 20-cent fee for each paper bag that’s issued only for ________ businesses—those with a footprint of 20,000 square feet or more.

Savidge hopes the bill will cut off the public’s ________ on plastic bags and help clean up pollution. But a city bill does not become a ________ until more procedures are done.

A ban is a(n) ________ part of environmental protection, said Rick Kissel, the former vice-chair of the Anne Arundel County Sierra Club. He recommended a delay in placing the ban so customers could ________ .

【推荐1】Four years ago Rita Gaviola was a beggar in a small Philippine town. Now she works as a fashion _______， starring on TV shows and _______ many Instagram followers. It all started with a (n)_______ photo.

Back in 2016, she was _______on the streets of Lucban. Her father was a garbage collector and her mother a housewife. The family _______ managed to put food on the table, so Rita often went out to ask for _______ or food donations.

One day a photographer Topher Burgos happened to be attracted by her_______beauty. He changed the girl's _______ completely by posting the photos of her on the Internet, optionally with a single _______ click of the 'upload' button.

One of the photos became a hit immediately, with people praising her ________ of nature. She was nicknamed “Badjao Girl" and ________ several Filipino beauty queens, who did their best to help the girl ________. Then she began to model for various clothing brands and________ small roles in TV series. All the hype (炒作) around Badjao Girl also helped her________ an online audience, including________from abroad, some of whom helped her family financially. In 2018, Rita ________ a YouTube video showcasing her family's new house and thanking a loyal US fan for ________ the construction.

Even though the hype has________ , she remains very popular on Filipino social media through her own efforts. Rita is seen as proof that Cinderella-like stories are________ in real-life. In Rita's case, all it took was a photo and her________ in the right place, at the right time.

【推荐2】Do you think you have what it takes to be a successful scientist? A successful scientist is generally a good observer. He makes full ___ of the facts he observes He doesn't accept ideas which are not ___ on obvious facts, and therefore ___ to accept authority as the only reason for truth. He always checks ideas ___ and makes experiments to prove them.

The rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to ___ as far back as the time of roger Bacon, the wonderful philosopher of Oxford, who lived in the 13th century. He was probably the first in the Middle Ages to ___ that we should learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself ___ many important truths.

Galileo(1564-1642), however, who lived more than 300 years later, was the greatest of several great men in Italy, France, Germany, and England, who began to show how many important ___ could be discovered by observation by degrees. Before Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fell more swiftly towards the earth than small ones, ___ Aristotle said so, Bi Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two ____ stones and proved Aristotle was wrong. It is Galileo's ____ of going direct to nature, and proving our opinions and theories by experiment, that has ____ all the discoveries of modern science.

What ____ those people good scientists？ From the example of Galileo, we know it ____ that successful scientists are those whose observations have ____ better results.

【推荐3】Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous scientists in this century. The disabled writer of A Brief History of Time, was on his second journey to China in Hangzhou of Zhejiang Province. His first ____ was over ten years ago. The great theoretical scientist has been invited to ____ a mathematics research institute at Zhejiang University, Metropolis Newspaper reported. ____ Sunday evening, he made his appearance at a press conference ____ at Shangri-La hotel, Hangzhou. Hawking ____ at about 5: 00 pm with his wife. The elderly man answered a total of nine ____ with the help of his ____. “I find the real universe much more ____ than the one in the film Star Wars,” Hawking joked. “I ____ young people to study theoretical physics first ____ they are interested in it.   But the talented man ____ has produced such rich work suffers from ____ motor neuron disease（运动神经元病）. He is one of the 350,000 sufferers in the world. The disease ____ over 100,000 people every year. “I like life and I love life, my family ,and music give me the ____ happiness,” smiled Hawking, who can ____ move two fingers.

In the speech, Hawking said he was ____ to write a new edition of A Brief History of Time ____ young children. “A Brief History of Time is my first book for ____ people. But I later found that I could write it in a ____ way,” he answered. “So I decided to rewrite it ____ all people can read it easily.” Unfortunately, he left us forever on March 14 this year. We remember his words “My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.”