【推荐1】The last complete ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed (倒塌). The Milne Ice Shelf is _______ Ellesmere Island, Canada. The shelf lost _______ 40 percent of its area in just two days at the end of July, 2020. 

Above normal air temperatures, offshore winds and open water in front of the shelf are all parts of the _______ for its break-up.The shelf area shrank (缩小) by about 80 square kilometers. By comparison, the island of Manhattan in New York _______ about 60 square kilometers.Temperatures in the polar area have been _______ intense (强烈的). Summer in the Canadian Arctic in 2020 has been 5 degrees Celsius _______ the 30-year average. That has _______ smaller ice caps, _______ can melt quickly. As a glacier disappears, more bedrock is left _______. This then speeds up the melting ________. A research camp, including instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf, was lost when the shelf at Ellesmere Island collapsed. 

“It was only a ________ of time,” said Mark Serreze, director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. His study showed the ice caps were ________ to disappear within five years. Their disappearance was ________ last year, when NASA satellite images of the area showed a complete lack of snow and ice. Serreze’s ________ trip to the Arctic was many years ago. “When I was there in the 1980s, I knew every square inch of those ice caps,” Serreze said. “You have the good ________. It’s like your first girlfriend. I want her back.”

【推荐1】Last month, Dongxiang County in Gansu Province was officially removed from the “List of Poorest Counties in China”.

Landlocked in China’s northwest, Dongxiang County is_______to 256,828 Dongxiang people, one of China’s 55 ethnic (民族的) minorities. In 2013, nearly a third of its _______ was still living under the absolute poverty line.

So, how did they do it?

Most of Dongxiang people are _______who grow wheat and potatoes. Then it is _______that anti-poverty projects the county often _______ food.

The potatoes here are_______. Dongxiang people have many ways of _______ potatoes for the table, including spicy potato slices, sour potato rolls, whole potatoes _______ under a bed of hot rocks, and even potato noodles. Now these potato _______are sold all over China.

Fan Chenyang, who works in the Dongxiang potato industry, said that one of the ________ways potatoes helped lift the area out of poverty was through education and ________.   It includes topics like latest planting methods and disease________. “These sessions have helped a lot in ________ both the quality and quantity of the potatoes being produced here,” he said.

Dongxiang County is also famous for its ________. Five years ago, Mada Wude, who left at the age of 17 in order to raise sheep in other areas of northwest China, was encouraged to ________ to his county to set up company, which is now taking care of around 1,800 sheep owned by 25 families in his village. Over the five years, he has helped the villagers raise more and better lambs. The profit is distributed to the participating families. The sheep there are given organic food and monitored continuously by AI systems. Therefore, consumers all over China can eat with peace of mind.

【推荐2】After Aida’s parents fled war-torn Bosnia for Sweden in the early 1990s, they put their five-year-old daughter in a school full of native Swedes and made sure she studied hard to get ahead. It ______. Today she is Sweden’s minister for upper secondary education. Like her fellow across Europe, she faces a new ______ -making sure that a fresh wave of refugee children can integrate (融入) as successfully as she did.

In the countries accepting the most refugees-Sweden and Germany-lack of ______ is not a problem. Before the migrant poured, both countries faced ______ numbers of pupils because of low birth rates.

The biggest problem for the education ______ is that refugee children tend to be concentrated together. Many ______ schools near refugee centers or in immigrant neighborhoods. This means they are partially separated and less ______ to learn the local language.

Moreover, immigrants ______ find housing in poor areas with lower education standard. Schools where more than a quarter of students are immigrants usually ______ worse than those with no immigrants. From 2002 to 2012 Sweden’s ______ in the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) fell more than ______ country’s.

The German system has its ______. In some German states, school days are being ______, and the ______ has made a big investment in preschool education. In Sweden, meanwhile older refugees are being trained as teaching ______ to speed integration. But far more could be done.

Most importantly, European governments need to treat refugee children as an ______ rather than a problem.______ by a desperate desire for a better life, they and their parents tend to be hard-working and ______. Europeans who worried about migrants studying together ______ their children should lake ______ because about half of the refugees (难民) reaching Europe from Syria have university degrees, according to UNHCR.