【推荐1】As an only child, Hazel often felt lonely in her youth. But that all _______ when she turned 10. For her birthday, Hazel’s grandmother surprised her with a lovely puppy, Chloe. From the very start, the two had been _______. But when Hazel was 14, her father got a new job so that he’d be working from home, along with a cruel _______: The house needed to be _______ of any disturbance (干扰) .

With no easier _______, the family sent Chloe to a humane society. Though they expected that the dog would be lucky enough to find a _______ new home, they couldn’t know for sure. She regularly _______ the humane society, trying to find out if Chloe had got used to her new life. However, there was no _______.

In time, Hazel grew up, got married, and had a child of her own. One day, she _______ to see a post online about a senior dog that was in need of a new home. She looked ________ like Chloe — she was even named Chloe. Hazel decided to ________ to adopt (领养) the dog at once.

When Hazel met Chloe in person, an unbelievable feeling ________ her. The dog seemed so familiar (熟悉的) to Hazel, and she appeared to feel the same way about Hazel. She ran up to Hazel and started licking (舔) her face. Seeing Chloe, Hazel remembered so much of her previous Chloe that she can’t ________ crying. Anyway, Hazel was ________ to have the new Chloe back. As for Chloe, Hazel said, “I know that I’ll keep her ________ for her rest life this time.”

【推荐1】The reusing trend continues to gain steam in countries all over the globe. Now, there is a shopping mall that is full of _______ stores only. ReTuna, a two-story complex in Eskilstuna. Sweden, offers a wide _______ of shops with recycled goods.

ReTuna has been around since 2015, and it was designed to _______ Sweden's problem of rising _______ .This is the first mall in the world to focus on _______ shopping. The company wants to make it   _______   for people to find valuable goods by putting second-hand stores under one roof   _______ consumers having to _______ thrift stores （慈善商店）throughout the city.

"I think it's fun to find something that people have used, and we can use _______ said Cato Limas, a ReTuna customer. "If you look at the things they're selling here, they're almost ______________   . So actually, why ______________ buying new stuff?" During his first ______________ to the mail. Limas ______________ about $7 and came away with a bag full of toys for his newborn baby.

Nearly every item on sale is from public donations, which are______________at the mail's drive-through depot （储藏室）.The mall's 11 stores include a furniture outlet, a bookstore and a bicycle shop. Stores that sign a contract with ReTuna must ______________to zero-waste.

More than 50 people work at the complex, and it has played a role in creating ______________ for immigrants in the area. ReTuna ______________ adult education courses that focus on design-based recycling as well

Sweden has been a longtime ______________ when it comes to sustainability. More than 99 percent of the country's ordinary household ______________ is reused, and separating rubbish for recycling has been a（n） ______________ practice for Swedes since the 1980s.

【推荐2】In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _________   is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _________ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we become a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to_________ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. Thanks to modern manufacturing (制造业) and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _________.

Another cause is our_________ of disposable (一次性的) products. As _________ people, we are always looking for ways to save time and make our lives easier. Companies _________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Our appetite for new products also_________ to the problem. We are addicted to buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that _________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we __________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the__________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To __________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the __________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. __________, this is not enough to solve our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions instead of throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about__________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.

【推荐1】It was just after sunrise on a June morning. “Nicolo,” whose real name cannot be _______ to the public because of Italy’s privacy laws, _______ working the whole night at a factory in Turin. As he often did, he stopped by the “after work auction(拍卖)” _______ by the Italian police where things _______ on the trains were sold to the highest bidder. There, among many other things, Nicolo spotted two paintings he thought would look _______above his dining room table. Nicolo and another bidder _______ until Nicolo finally won the paintings for $32.

When Nicolo retired and went to live in Sicily, he _______ the paintings with him. He hung them above the same table he had _______ from Turin. His son, age 15, who had _______ an art appreciation class, thought that there was something ________ about the one with a young girl sitting on a garden chair. It was signed(签名) “Bonnato” or so he thought, but when he ________ it, he only found “Bonnard,” a French ________ he had never heard of. He bought a book and was ________ to find a picture of the artist Pierre Bonnard sitting on the same chair in the same ________ as his father’s painting.

“That’s the garden in our picture,”Nicolo’s son told his father. They ________ learned that the painting they ________was called “The Girl with Two Chairs.” They ________ the other painting and learned that it was ________ Paul Gauguin’s “Still Life of Fruit on a Table with a Small Dog.” The ________ called the Italian Culture Ministry; the official confirmed that the paintings were ________ and worth as much as $50 million.

【推荐2】I got aboard and sat down in my seat. It was going to be a long flight.

Around me were some _______. "Where are you headed?" I asked.

"Lakes Air Base. We'll be there for special training, and then to the front."

After about an hour, an announcement was made that box lunches were _____ for five dollars. The journey would be several hours, and I decided to buy one.

As I ______ for my wallet, I heard a soldier ask his buddy if he would buy lunch. "No, that seems a lot of money for just a box lunch." I looked around at the other soldiers. ________ were buying lunch. I walked to the back of the plane and ______ the flight attendant a fifty-dollar bill. "Take box lunches to all those soldiers." I said. She seized my arms tightly. Her eyes wet with tears, she ______ me, " My son is a soldier in the front...it's almost like you are doing it for him."

Picking up ten boxes, she headed to the soldiers.

After eating, on my way to the restroom I was _______ by a man. "I saw what you did and I want to be ________ of it." With this, he handed me twenty-five dollars.

Soon after I returned to my seat, I saw the Flight Captain coming, looking at the seat numbers ______ he walked. When he got to my row he stopped, smiled, ______ his hand, and said, "I want to ______ your hand." I stood and took his hand. With a loud voice he said, "I was a soldier. ______, someone bought me a lunch. It was such an act of ____     that I never forgot." I was a little bit ______ when applause rang out from all of the passengers. These soldiers were giving their all for our country. I could only give them a couple of meals.

Later, when I walked to the front of the plane to stretch my legs, a man______ another twenty-five dollars in my hand.

When we _____ , I gathered my belongings and started to leave. A man stopped me, put something in my pocket, and walked away ______ a word. Another twenty-five dollars!

Seeing the soldiers ______ at the terminal(终点站), I walked over to them and handed them seventy-five dollars. As I walked ______ to my car, I prayed for their safe ______.