【推荐2】Yang He, a 64-year-old man from Yichang, Hubei, has observed the changes in finless porpoises (江豚) population with his camera for six years. As a(n) _________ of the finless porpoise, he has taken more than 100,000 photos of them so far.

Every day, Yang wakes up early and drives to the _________ of the Yangtze River. He waits _________ there for hours for finless porpoises to capture (捕捉) their _________ with his camera. Yang _________ finless porpoises very well. They are just like his children. As soon as one of them comes out from the water, he can tell which family it _________ .

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so _________ to the Yangtze River that any change in the health of its living environment can support or _________ its survival. “When I was a teenager, I could see many finless porpoises. I would often observe them _________ boats in the river,” Yang says. “But __________ human activities, finless porpoises became fewer.”

However, the situation has changed as __________ measures have been taken to protect the species. In 2017, Yang was __________ enough to take a photo of a finless porpoise after a long waiting. In 2019, he was able to take more photos, including images of the porpoises __________ fish near the riverbank.

Thanks to his camera, he once discovered and __________ a porpoise whose tail became entangled (缠住) with a rope. “I will make it my life’s work to __________ this amazing creature.” Yang says.

【推荐3】In the 2010s, 34-year-old Miller travelled around the world as a marine biologist. However remote the location, she made the same alarming discovery: amounts of plastic littering the water and _______ marine life. Miller knew she needed to do something.

Her group called A Greener Future estimates that 33 percent of what they _______ comes from food packaging after organizing litter clean-ups across Canada. If food _______ were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gases. Miller, determined to tackle the problem at the source, envisioned a shop that _______ plastic bags and quit the bad habit of wasting food itself.

In 2018, Miller opened one of the first zero-waste grocery stores in Canada, with her mission _______ the emphasis on sustainability. She named it Nada, and ensured everything was designed to make the zero-waste shopping experience _______ to practise. For instance, the cafe uses food items _______ their expiry date (失效日期) to make baked goods, soups and more. Miller buys from some 115 small local companies. The suppliers must be _______ of a social or environmental responsibility, and just as importantly, they must be _______ to reducing waste in their own supply chain.

Because food sales were ________ in pandemic, Nada closed its doors to the public for 18 months. ________ as the business was, Miller developed online ordering and delivery in a sustainable way. Carbon-free deliveries are made by e-bike and electric vehicles. Everything from olive oil to fresh eggs comes ________   in upgraded containers, which are collected and reused again with the next deliveries.

Not only do those containers just reduce waste, but they get people thinking big, just as Miller had hoped. “They are labeled with Nada stickers, ________ you can see how many times the container has been used,” she says, with a ________ smile. “If you open someone’s cupboard and see all of these Nada-branded containers, it’s ________ to start a conversation.”

【推荐1】Cartoonist Charles Schulz, the man who brought us Charlie Brown, Snoopy (史努比) and the whole Peanuts gang (花生漫画) and happiness, would be turning 100 on Nov, 26, 2022.

But the_________he created and developed over the course of five decades still exist in the form of reruns (重播),_________ TV specials, a movie and a museum dedicated to Schulz’s work. So does the_________they provide.

Schulz’s widow, Jeannie Schulz and the director of the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Gina Huntsinger, spoke to Morning Edition about Schulz’s life and_________, which Huntsinger calls “pervasive” (无处不在). Huntsinger says Schulz has had a(n)_________influence, from_________the term “security blanket” to inspiring Peanuts fans from around the world to visit the _________. The most common_________she gets from its website is that people feel comforted by revisiting something nostalgic (怀旧的) that still makes them_________.

Jeannie Schulz offers another__________for the comic’s lasting and widespread__________. “He wrote about __________ emotions that kids are feeling, and it’s always__________with a little bit of humor,” she says. “Anybody can read that comic strip in four seconds and get comfort from it, because it talks about humanity.”

Aesthetically (美学上地), Schulz’s lines were simple, using only what was necessary to tell the story. And __________, Huntsinger says, he was a__________.

【推荐2】For the hearing-impaired swimmer Peng Huidi, participating in the Chengdu FISU World University Games, has been a life-changing experience and a ______ journey for the young student who has overcome all the difficulties to ______ her sporting dreams.

When she was 2 years old, her ______ was damaged due to a high fever. She became ______ and dared not speak to others. Hoping to ______ her out of her shell, Peng’s father took his daughter to learn swimming. It was there that Peng discovered her passion and her ______ was spotted by a coach.

“I love being in the pool. When I’m in the water, I hear no ______ . There’s just me charging forward, and me alone. The blue pool in my eyes is peaceful, and it also ______ strength,” Peng said. ______ she cannot hear the starting order during competitions, she uses a light next to the pool as her ______ to start. This means there is usually a(n) ______ of between 0. 2 and 0. 5 seconds in Peng’s dive. In order to ______ the gap, she has to train extra hard.

Years of effort finally ______ . She was invited to the swimming team for the Olympics. “The World University Games ______ me with a very rare and important chance. It has broadened my horizons and allowed me to compete on a much bigger ______ . I prepared for these games for a very long time,” Peng said excitedly.

【推荐3】A pencil drawing of a broken old man, head in hands, looking extremely exhausted, has been identified as a newly-discovered work by Vincent Van Gogh.

The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam said yesterday that it had _______ the authenticity (真实性) of the drawing. Senior researcher Teio Meedendorp described it as a(an) “_______” discovery, shining light on van Gogh’s early career as an artist in the Hague, a time less well-known than his years in Paris or the south of France.

The drawing has been titled Study for _______. It was drawn in late 1882s when the 29-year-old van Gogh was two years into his career as an artist. He was drawing as many studies of _______ as he could. He often recruited models from an almshouse for the elderly run by the Dutch Reformed church, _______ them a modest fee and gave them coffee.

He called these models his “orphan men” and “orphan women”. A favourite was the man in the newly discovered drawing, Adrianus Jacobus Zuyderland, the only one of these models whose name is known.

Van Gogh used a thick carpenter’s pencil on rough watercolour paper. The sheet _______ 48.8 cm by 30 cm.

Experts have _______ the drawing back to the end of November 1882, linking it to several other works made at the time.

Van Gogh talked about the two drawings in a letter to his brother, Theo. “Today and yesterday I drew two _______ of an old man with his elbows on his knees and his head in his hands.... Perhaps I’ll do a lithograph (平版印刷画) of it. What a fine _______ an old working man makes, in his patched bombazine (斜纹布) suit with his bald head.”

At the time Van Gogh was ________ to work as a magazine illustrator, so he could earn money in his own right and be less dependent on his brother.

The drawing, which has been in a ________ collection in the Netherlands since about 1910, goes on display at the Amsterdam museum from 17 September, 2021, until 2 January, 2022, after which it will be returned to the owner.

Meedendorp recalled his ________ on making the discovery: “I’ve worked with Van Gogh for a substantial part of my life, especially the drawings, and it is always a delight to have them in your hand and looking at them up close. These drawings from the Hague are ________ delightful to look at — you can follow the working process of Vincent so well... the way he ________ the pencil.”

“Whenever you have a ________ at drawings like this, you want to pick up a pencil yourself and start drawing.”