【推荐1】Lainey finished third grade. She had good grades and could read ______       grade level, but she did not like to read. On a family car trip, her Aunt Dede pulled out a copy of Harry Potter, as a surprise for her     ______. But Lainey took one look at it,       ______   her eyes, and said, “Borrrring！”

Aunt Dede, a teacher, had read the book to her students, and they loved it.     ______     the youngest children in the class were       ______   by the story. They     ______     with great interest, and then     ______     joined in grand conversations about Harry's adventures.

“How can you say it's     ______？Have you read it？” asked Aunt Dede.

“No, it's too long and it doesn't have any     ______，” complained Lainey.

“Oh, that's where you are       ______； there are lots of pictures. Every page is full of pictures; you just have to read the words to       ______     them. It's like magic.”

“Nice try, Aunt Dede，” Lainey replied     ______     from the back seat.

Another ______ was in order. “Well, if you don't want to read it, give it ______. Maybe your mum would ______ hearing the story.” The book sailed through the air to Aunt Dede and she began to read it aloud. By the end of the first chapter，______ were coming from the back seat: “Please read a little ______．”

Lainey is an example of an   ______ reader. As shown here, Lainey can become ______ about reading when ______ with literature on topics that interest her, and when the people around her model involvement in the reading process.

【推荐3】Last year, I attended a class and discussed the topic of "paper books or e-books" with my classmates. The discussion was lively, but was left_________because of several pros and cons（利弊）of both types of books and the personal_________of different students.

According to an article from LA Times, a study discovered that 92% of 300 college students in America and other three countries_________physical paper books. Many participants reported they had headaches for long screen time and are easily_________when sliding colorful pages.

I_________that the 92 percentage is true, not just because it is the result of a study. Paper books can_________another perspective（感受）to your reading experience through the_________smell of the book, the feel of the _________between your fingertips and the sense of progress being made throughout your reading.

However, pleasure comes at a_________. Physical books aren't cheap and__________much room. As a person who moves often and loves written words, it can be a big__________to move my mini library from one place to another, not to mention the money to buy those books.__________, besides taking up less space, e-books are more__________than traditional books. Yet those__________didn't keep my interest for long. Nothing__________the comforting feeling of curling up（蜷缩）with a hot cup of tea and a book.

【推荐1】Raden is a librarian in Indonesia’s Java island. She is ________ books to children in exchange for trash they collect in a(n) ________ way to clean up the environment and get the kids to read more.

Each weekday she rides her three-wheeler with books for children in Muntang village to exchange for plastic cups, bags and other ________ that she carries back.

She is helping inculcate(灌输)________ in the kids and make them ________ of the environment. The moment she ________, little children, many ________ by their mothers, surround her “Trash Library” demanding books ________.

They are all carrying trash bags and Radon’s three-wheeler quickly fills up with them as the books ________ out. She’s ________ the kids are going to spend less time on online games as a result She ________ about 100 kg of waste each week, which is then sorted out by her colleagues and sent for ________ or sold. She has 6, 000 books to lend and wants to take the mobile ________ to neighboring areas too.

Kevin Alamsyah, an 11-year-old reader,________ for waste lying in the village. “When there is too much trash, our environment will become dirty and it’s not healthy. That’s why I look for trash to borrow a book,” he says.

The literacy(读写能力)rate for above-15-year-olds in Indonesia is around 96 percent, but the pandemic(流行病)will ________ more than 80% of 15-year-olds below the minimum reading proficiency(熟练)level.

【推荐2】I am so grateful for the 21-Day Eco challenge hosted by KindSpring. Taking care of our sweet Mother Earth has always been _________ to me in my life and I have taken _________ in my everyday life to recycle, reuse, think about ways to protect our Mother Earth, etc. However, this _________ awoke me even more.

Our Scholars Together community has taken one more than we have before _________ recycling, using our own China cups and metal water bottles when we go out, not buying things in _________ containers and having green lunches more consistently(一贯的), not _________, but the biggest change we made was setting a goal of Zero Waste.

We set up more boxes and bins for paper that we could _________ again, recycled every sheet of use-on-both-sides paper, plastics, cans, etc. We also _________ all of our food we cooked or bought, instead of throwing some away. We really _________ it a challenge. Each day we all saw how little __________ could be in our dustbins. I realized that I had been throwing paper away that could be used on the other __________ or could be recycled, and now I am looking everywhere for __________ that can be used more __________ until recycling time.

The videos offered by KindSpring have been so __________ and useful to us all that I don’t want the Eco challenge to __________. We will continue to do part and __________ the news to our family and friends. Next week we are trying some __________ in our local sandwich and sub shops where the kids like to go to see that we can bring our own __________ in, rather than having them put in bags. It is cool to see how the __________ spreads. Thank you KindSpring for __________ the community with daily support and great researched videos and information.

【推荐1】The loss of a job can have a very serious impact on the individual. The ________ effect, of course, is a sharp drop in income. Unemployment benefits (救济金) ________ offer less than half the individual’s previous earnings (收入), and many people are not even entitled to these benefits-for example, the self-employed, recent ________ who have not held a steady job in the previous year, and people who have been unemployed for a long period. The economic pressure on the jobless is very severe, particularly for those who have young children or ________ expenses for houses and education.

________, the effects of unemployment are not merely financial (经济的); they are also social and ________. As one out-of-work teacher puts it, “It’s difficult when you are robbed of all the things that supposedly ________ you together in terms of an identity — your work, your money, whatever is power to you, whatever is responsibility, whatever ________ freedom and choice. I had to ask myself, ‘Who am I now? What will I do now?’” All too ________, long-term unemployment may thrust the individual into boredom, despair, ill-temper, and perhaps, conflict with other family members. Even those who keep their jobs are affected by ________ of unemployment, for they begin to fear for their own future. ________ the confidence that workers have in times of full employment, ________ negotiate less aggressively for improvements in pay or working ________, for they and the employers know that if they do not like the job as it is, others will gladly take it. Unemployment is always accompanied, ________, by underemployment — the situation in which people are working either for extremely low wages or at jobs ________ their level of skill.

【推荐2】Around 13000 years ago North America had a wider variety of mammals（哺乳动物）than modern Africa. There were multiple horse species，camels and some now-extinct animals. And such_________creatures were not just found in North America. On every continent mammals on average were a lot larger from around 2.5 million until about 11700 years ago.

Scientists have long debated what caused all these large creatures to go extinct while many of the smaller ones_________.A team of researchers led by biologist Felisa Smith analyzed evidence from millions of years’ worth of mammalian extinctions and found that on each continent large mammals started to_________around the same time humans first showed up.

If the extinction trend continues, many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have_________from overhunting to indirect processes such as habitat loss. In their new study Smith and her team analyzed a database of all land mammals that lived from 65 million years ago until today. “We found_________no effect of climate on mammalian extinction over 65 million years,” she says. But starting around 125000 years ago and continuing until today, large mammals have been more likely to go extinct than smaller ones, the researchers found. The average_________of surviving mammals has decreased as a result. And those large-mammal extinctions are tightly coupled with the_________of humans. For most of mammalian_________history, an animal’s size was not predictive of its extinction risk. That_________only appeared once humans began to live alongside large mammals.

This finding does not mean climate-related changes could not have__________some wildlife populations, enabling humans to more easily bring about their eventual downfall.__________, it suggests the greater likelihood of large mammals going extinct is tied to human activities. The animals that evolved without the risk of hunting from humans were suddenly faced with a new__________. They simply could not__________fast enough to survive the invasion of humans.

Smith says the lesson to be learned from the new findings is that our ancestors prepared us to be extremely skillful killers. “What’s__________now,” she says, “is that some of us are comfortable enough, have a high enough standard of living, that we can start thinking about our use of the Earth,” Rather than simply behaving as__________, many of us are now in a position to become environmental protectors.