【推荐2】Massimo Bottura opened a restaurant in Italy in 1995 which is a two-time winner of the world’s best. Today, his cooking empire _________ from Dubai to Los Angeles. And he is one of the stars of a popular Netflix series. However, out of all those _________, Italy’s most celebrated chef says that the peak is Refettorio Ambrosianos.

At Refettorio Ambrosianos, dinner guests are greeted by name and dine on fine china at tables. The menu changes daily,_________what comes in with the morning’s delivery. The delivery may_________ dry vegetables, meat close to sell-by date and too-ugly-to-sold fruits. By dinner, however, the supermarket wastes have been _________into delicious meals. About 100 diners—refugees, the homeless, and the unemployed—enjoy the meal with obvious_________, laughing with the volunteer waiters, praising the volunteer chefs, and forgetting, at least for an hour, the_________ of a life on the streets.

_________, Bottura’s Refettorios are not restaurants, they are soup kitchens. But unlike _________ soup kitchens, the guests do not have to wait in a line to receive food. As Bottura says, the experience can make his guests __________ confidence, forget the hardships and feel__________.

Chefs at Refettorio cook free meals with__________ from local shops. So Refettorio Ambrosianos are __________ as places to focus attention on the growing global food waste problem. “Refettorio Ambrosiano is a movement hoping to __________food waste crisis,” says Bottura, “I never thought leftover foods were a waste. An old carrot, a hard piece of bread, brown bananas…they are just opportunities for us to create something__________.”

【推荐3】In one of my management classes I sit in the same seat in the front every day. Now, I also sit next to a _______ guy that barely speaks English. The most _______ thing I’ve heard this guy say in English is, “Wow, my muffin is really good.” This guy also has a habit of stacking (堆叠) every item he owns in the _______ space I sit.

Every single time I walk into class this guy says, “Ah, Tom. You are here.” And starts _______ clearing my desk of his _______. And gives me a high five. I was annoyed with this guy, “Dude, you know I sit here every day. Why are you always stacking your stuff here?”

But today I came to class and was _______ a few minutes late. As I were standing outside on my phone to send an emergency text, another guy who was also late, walked into the class before me and tried to take my seat _______ it was closest to the door. The guy sitting next to me stopped this dude and said, “I’m sorry. My good friend Tom sits here.”

It was then that I _______ this guy was actually saving me the seat every morning. And this whole time he saw me as a friend, but I was too busy thinking about myself to take him into _______. I was touched.

I ________ going into the class and of course, he cleared the seat and said: “Oh, Tom, you are here.” And I did get a high five. At the end of the class, I asked him if he wanted to go to get a(n) ____________ with me. We did. And we talked for a while. I ________ the broken English.

The guy moved here from the Middle East to ________ a college degree in America. He’s got two kids and a wife, working full time, sending all his leftover money back home. He said he misses his family but it’s ________ to be here. He also said, “Not every person is nice to me like you are, Tom.”

It’s my treat, of course. He deserves it. Never judge a book by its ________. It took me nearly the entire semester to realize this guy was just trying to be my friend.

【推荐3】I never thought that something shared on Facebook would have the power to change my life.

Pictures of what my friends ate for lunch. Pictures of my grandbaby’s latest feats. And maybe a farm game. These were the things that I thought Facebook was. ________ , that was how I spent too much time on it these years.

Then on a March morning, a friend’s post on Facebook caught my ________ , which said, “Let go of anything ________ and all activities that do not mirror your brightest intentions. ”

The post kept returning to my mind throughout the day. I knew my life at that point was not authentic. It was at the ________ of my farm-game obsession. I, along with my friends, played FarmVille. I had five different farms in five different games. All in ________ forms, of course. After a day’s ________ on the words, I decided to write them on a piece of paper and taped it on my laptop.

One afternoon, I glanced down at the words taped on my keyboard. Then I ________ , and saw the empty backyard outside the window. Here I was taping away on the ________ , while a half-acre lot outside the window lay ________ . Suddenly, I was struck by a(n) ________ —it was the time to ________ what the words said to my life.

I ________ all inauthentic activities that I used to be obsessed with. FarmVille and the other four farms were left to wither (凋零) away. ________ , I turned to work in my newly-claimed garden. That ________ I’d copied became a mirror I used to ________ how I spent my time and energy. Thanks to the words, I eventually have a life filled with activities and people that enrich and fulfill me.