【推荐1】For The Flying Classroom’s second project, 11 of us from Tehran went to Tokhme-Baloot, a rural village in Ilam, one of the poorest provinces in the country. ____ by the government, Ilam has a high rate of unemployment, ____ and drug use. People there used to make their living by farming, but now this way of life is ____ by constant famine (饥荒). The situation for children there is ____. Boys who don’t do well in school must start work after eighth grade and girls who don’t do well in school stay at home doing ____ or get married.

Because our research before the trip made us believe there were large ____ around the village, we planned our project concept around oak (橡树) trees and squirrels to make the children ____ the beauty of the environment.

____, when we arrived at the village, we saw that there were only flat, ____ grass fields. Tokhme-Baloot was far less ____ than we had expected. The village had only gotten gas and electricity four years earlier, and it was sometimes ____ in the winter. After we saw the village and the surrounding area, the best concept for the project that we could think of focused on the respect for ____.

We began working with the students. Children started ____ the school equipment in bright colors. My colleague Zoya and I cut a dead branch into pieces and painted it to recreate a tree inside the school, as a symbol of nature ____ by children, and on it we hung the squirrels and cranes. We left the school in bright colors with objects to ____ the children’s imaginations.

Projects like ours are viewed ____ by Iran’s government, and during our trip we were ____ twice, once by the army and once by Basij, a paramilitary (准军事的) militia (民兵组织). They came to the school and talked to our group’s founder about the project, questioning him about is ____, who supported it, who our members were, etc. After the tip, we ____ that The Flying Classroom might be stopped, but ____, it wasn’t.

【推荐2】Corporate scandals (丑闻), like political scandals, start with shocking revelation and then move inevitably into who-knew-what stage. This is where executives can start reestablishing their ________ —or deepen the damage.

Since they were forced to ________ one of the biggest frauds (欺诈行为) in auto industry history last month, the executives at Volkswagen have offered ________ and promised to fix the cheating devices wired into eleven millions of their diesel cars (柴油车). But they haven’t explained who ordered, ________ and designed the software that enabled the cars to cheat on emissions tests while emitting ________ on the road. Nor has Volkswagen said how and when it plans to fix the cars, which many customers bought in the belief that they were fuel ________ and clean.

On October 8, German prosecutors broke into the corporate offices as part of their investigation. Meanwhile, Matthias Muller, the ________ appointed chief executive, continued to insist that the former executive, Martin Winterkorn, who resigned shortly after the scandal, knew ________. “Do you really think that a chief executive had time for the inner functioning of engine software?” he said in a recent interview, as if the problem was some

________ shortcoming and not an elaborate effort to ________ regulators and customers around the world.

If Mr. Winterkorn was not responsible, who was? Nobody believes that the handful of senior managers could have ________ this scheme without any support. Hans-Dieter Potsch, a supervisory board chairman, issued a statement earlier this month, saying it would take time before Volkswagen could make ________ the findings of its internal investigations. “We must overcome the crisis,” he explained, “but we must also ensure that Volkswagen continues to grow.” That seems to miss the point that Volkswagen will neither overcome the crisis nor grow unless it can instantly produce some _______ answers and explanations.

Even if they manage to fix millions of cars, Volkswagen executives will still face an enormous ________ from lawsuits, lost sales and the ________ to Volkswagen’s reputation. There is no device to block the angry and urgent questions that they face. Apologizing is just the easy part.

【推荐2】“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” This old saying is useful when you are making ________ in high school.

Now look around you and carefully ________. See the quiet, “strange” girl who sits next to you? See the “________”boy with his head down who sits at the lunch table all by himself?

Did you ________ think they could be your new best friends? Why not? All you’ve   _______ about them is what others are telling you, but it might not even be the ________. This is where the whole “Don’t judge a book by its cover” thing _____ .

To judge is to ______ an opinion or evaluation. In school, the act of judging another person or being judged yourself is   ______.

Here’s some _____   before you get into judging another person: Get to know people ______ you totally ______ them or keep away from them. And, whatever you do, do not   ___ anything others say about people unless they are ______ to them.

Are you being judged? If you are being judged,   _____ to the person who is doing it. This will give the person no ______ but to get to know who you really are. After you have done that, their ______ about you will change as time goes by, for better or worse. ______ it’s for the better, great. You met someone new.

If it’s for the worse, don’t get ______. It’s only one person’s opinion. Be yourself, and try not to be   ______ by other people.

【推荐3】With the sudden urge for social engagements in the modern world, many events and activities are being promoted to attract teens and adults. While adults feel out of place in a space filled with younger aged teens, teens often find themselves having to _________ between two extremes being presented by society: either teens decide to attend these events and are heavily pressured to”take just one sip ,” or _________ the popular act of drinking. The legal drinking age is currently eighteen, but the illegal drinking age is as low as zero. Most people have their first drink by the time they’re 13. Unbelievably, that first drink can be the _________ of a troubled life.

A few reasons for teens drinking are peer pressure, enjoyment, _________, sadness, boredom, rebellion and insomnia. But the main reason for doing so is “to _________ the law.” Teenagers become _________ with alcoholic beverages from the moment they enter high school. That means that a large quantity of teens under the age of eighteen have used alcohol before. Teens feel as though drinking before the legal age is a big deal, so they all try to _________ the rest of the “legal ”society. Being a _________ and not following the rules is an important role of a teen’s life, though no one wants to face the consequences of being an adult.

Despite the fact that it is illegal for young teens to purchase alcohol, they are able to get it through their parents’ liquor cabinets, _________ store clerks, or older friends who purchase it for them. As we all see, it is not hard for teens to obtain alcohol. Since there seems to be no __________ of under age teen drinking in society, why then not just lower then drinking age? Drinking can make teens “feel good,” but this feeling lasts only for a short time. Teenagers on shows like Gossip Girl get drunk regularly, but those shows rarely __________ the problems alcohol can cause. Teenagers often think that drinking will give them more energy, but __________ isn’t an energy drink; it’s a depressant. Alcohol __________ damages the brain and body, and for this to happen at a very young age, is saddening. Drinking stimulates poorly made decisions by teens, and __________, many teens end up pregnant or dropping out of school. They may even get hurt or __________ in severe accidents caused by their being drunk.