【推荐1】In order to save the environment, everybody has a role to play. The perfect ________ . of someone who knows this well enough is 70-year -old grandmother, Pat Smith________ with bags, rubber gloves and a rubbish picker, she spent an entire year________ rubbish and caring for 52 British beaches after she made it her 2018 New Year's resolution to________ one beach each week. She________ spent her Christmas day picking up plastic bottles on Trevone Beach.

During her year-long cleanup, Smith was often________ by other volunteers, including her grandchildren, who were determined to help her tidy up beach rubbish. However, some people often________ Smith for doing community service, and to this, she said, "People don't understand I've been doing this________ We should all take responsibility for picking up the rubbish as well as________ we don't drop rubbish in the first place."

The environmentally conscious granny has no intention of________ just because 2018 was over. “Doing 52 beach cleans in 2018 was my New Year's resolution and it's finally________,” said Smith. “I won't stop, as our beaches________ me. I'm driven to try and protect our________ for my children and grandchildren and I will________ doing everything in my power to achieve that. I hope my efforts will help people be more________ of their plastic consumption and recycling habits."

【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 steps in my everyday life to recycle, reuse, think about ways to preserve, etc. However, this ________ awoke me even more.

Our Scholars Together community has ________ more than we have before in terms of recycling, using our own china cups and metal water bottles when we go out, not buying things in plastic and having green lunches more ________, not occasionally, but the biggest change we made was setting a ________ of Zero Waste.

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

The videos offered by KindSpring have been so instructive and ________ for us all. I don't want the Eco challenge to end. We will continue to do our 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 if we can ________ our own containers in, rather than having them put in bags. It is cool to see how the ________ spreads. Thank you KindSpring for providing the community with daily support and great researched videos and information.

【推荐3】When Alex Lin was 11 years old, he read a(an) ________ article in the newspaper, which said that people were ________ old computers in backyards, throwing TVs into streams, and dumping(丢弃) cell phones in the garbage. This was dangerous because e waste contains harmful ________ that can leak into the environment, getting into crops, animals, water supplies—and people.

Alex was really worried and decided to make it next project for WIN—the Westerly Innovations Network. Alex and six of his friends had ________ this organization to help solve community problems two years before.

But what could they do about this project with e-waste? The team spent several weeks gathering information about the harmful chemicals in e waste and their ________ on humans. They learned how to dispose (处置) of e-waste ________ and how it could be recycled. Then, they sent out a survey and found only one in eight knew what e-waste was, let alone how to dispose of it.

Alex and his friends went into ________. They advertised in the local newspaper and ________ notices to students, asking residents to bring their ________ electronics to the school parking lot. The drive lasted two days, and they ________ over 9,500 kilograms of e waste.

The next step was to set up a long-term e-waste drop-off center for the town. After some research, they’d learned that reusing is the best way to ________ electronic devices and it is seven times more ________ than recycling. So, they began learning to refurbish(翻新) computers themselves and distributed them to students who didn’t have their own. In this way, they could help students in the area and protect the environment at the same time.

For a________ solution to e waste, the drop off center wasn’t enough. Laws would have to be passed. In 2016,WIN helped ________ for an e waste bill in their town, which required companies that manufactured or sold electronics to take back e waste. The bill clearly ________ the dumping of e waste.

Because of the work of WIN, more and more people, like Alex and his team, are getting the message about safe disposal of e-waste. As Alex says, “Today’s technology should not become tomorrow’s harmful garbage.

【推荐3】My faith in humanity (人性) was restored last night while working part-time at a local Bed, Bath & Beyond.

I was in the process of ringing out a female customer who had been having a ____ time recently. She had been in the night before and was back again to _____what she could afford to purchase. She was trying to buy   ____for herself and her two young sons.

Finally, she made her   ___one blanket and something else. She   ____all of the cash, but it was only enough for one blanket. She was unable to make the   ____of the purchases.

A gentleman,   ____to make his purchase, watched   ____and signaled to me as I was bagging up the blanket for the woman. He told me he wanted to   ____everything else for her. I asked him if he was sure. He   ___.

I quickly and quietly rang out the rest of the purchases   ____I asked the female customer to wait a moment. The   ____came to over $200. The man provided me with his credit card   ____blinking. He   ____off and he went.

I then told the female customer that all of the things were hers and she was   ____and ready to go. She stared at me with complete   ____on her face. The   ____started. I started crying too.

In ten years of working this particular part-time job, I have never experienced such   ___. There are good and   ____people in this world. And they do not receive the credit they should.

Thanks to this customer for bringing a bit of   ____and relief into that female customer's life and for restoring my faith in humanity.

【推荐2】Diebedo Kere is a young architect from Africa. There was no __ school when Mr. Kere was growing up in Gando, one of the world’s poorest countries. Since childhood he had already had a keen sense of __ . His family sent him away to school when he was seven and he did not __ them. He won a scholarship from the German government and went to study in Germany.

__ still studying for his architecture degree in Berlin, Mr. Kere learned that the school building in his hometown was on the point of __. The school had been built some years previously. __ to share with his village the advantages that __ had given him, Mr. Kere launched the School Bricks for Gando project and __ raising money needed to build a school.

Opened in 2001, the school now __ more than 300 pupils. The school not only __ education for the village children, but is used to pass on new skills and __ to the entire village.

“Africa is full of very bright and __ young people. But only through __ to education will they be able to build themselves a better world. For me, Gando School is a __ because the villagers no longer see it as a waste of time for their children to be in school instead of working in the __ .” Kere said.

【推荐3】One day I took a bus with my girlfriend. It was so ________ that we stood for several stops until a vacant seat was ________ for her.

Then a pretty girl rushed towards me, saying, “Hi, where are you going?” I was so struck by the stranger that I had a hard time trying to ________ her. Clearly she had taken me ________ somebody else. I returned her greeting with politeness, ________ to give explanation to my girlfriend later.

Noticing my dialogue with somebody else, my girlfriend ________ her eyes and found she was pretty. She asked jealously, “Who’s she?” The pretty girl, quite ________ of the situation, spoke out first, “Hi, let me ________ myself. I’m Nancy, used to be ________. Very glad to meet you.” She behaved very ________.

But I was ________ to search in my memory for someone called Nancy among my neighbors. I was worrying how to explain this to my girlfriend ________ the pretty girl again turned to me, “Will you give me your cell phone number so that we ________ keep contacts later?” I had to submit to her ________. Then the girl got off the bus at the next stop.

A minute later I got a short ________ on my phone — from a stranger. My girlfriend ________ my phone and read the note. It was from the girl, who said, “Just now, two thieves tried to ________ your pocket. I had to act as an acquaintance (熟人) to draw your attention. I should have left at the ________ stop but gave up as I noticed these two thieves also ________ to leave at the same stop. Because of the ________ I delayed my departure. Now you’ll understand all I have done to you. Wish you luck.”