【推荐1】For decades, humans have torn up the natural landscape in Asia, cutting down trees to build resorts (旅游胜地) in the most beautiful locations and caging wild animals to attract tourists.

Bangkok-based hotel architect Bill Bensley is saying “_________.”

When a businessman talked with him about _________ a resort that included a zoo in Asia, he came up with a (n) _________: let’s _________ the humans and let the rare and endangered _________ wander free.

Sounds _________? Bensley is known for _________ ideas, so much so that he’s been called the “Willy Wonka of hotel design.”

At his Shinta Mani Wild resort in Cambodia _________ arrive via a 380-meter zip wire (高空滑索) over the wilderness of the South Cardamom National Park and are _________ to join Wildlife Alliance anti-poaching patrols (防盗猎巡逻).

But he’s not doing things __________ for eye-catching. Bensley is a lifelong conservationist who deeply __________ what humans are doing to the planet. That’s why he wanted to do the World Wild Project. 61-year-old Bensley says the first stage of the eight-year project, which will __________ several different top branded hotels, is expected to __________ in 2023.

The cages for __________ will actually be 2,400 hotel rooms, with a budget of generally a million __________ per room. Let’s just say the guests won’t be uncomfortable.

__________, it’s not the rooms the California-native is talking about. Having a __________ with a local official, he has got the permission to relocate abused animals from __________ in Asia, and set them free onto the __________ 2,000-hectare piece of land __________ the human zoo will be located.

Hiking through the mountains of Colorado was never my plan. I wanted to take _____________ at Yale University but I abruptly (意外地) decided to explore the great outdoors of the American West with an adventure program. Before I knew it, Chicago and my comfort zone were being left behind and _____________ mountains and sand dunes (沙丘).

On the morning of June 27, I was _____________ by a burst of sunshine. I ___________slowly but suddenly realized I was not in Chicago anymore. I was in a _____________ in the middle of nowhere in Colorado. I was going to have to _____________ my three tent mates. I tiredly took my clothes and hid behind a large bush to _____________. It was soon time to _____________ ourselves to everyone at camp. Everyone seemed pretty friendly, but why didn’t I feel a little _____________? I was starting to ________________ not having chosen a roommate at Yale.

After a quick ________________, we made our way to the Great Sand Dunes. “________________ it as the Egyptian capital of Colorado,” said my camp leader. Egypt in Colorado? Now things were really starting to become ________________. When we arrived, we were stroked by endless amounts of ________________. Brief thoughts of being ________________ by sand monsters came before me. My ________________ increased when my camp leader told us, “Today, we are going to climb to the top of the Dunes.”

Three hours later, I was out of breath ________________ I made it to the top. Suddenly, I felt the ________________ was worth it.

The next two weeks flew by. I met ________________ that tested my survival skills, but I pushed through every one of them. I was glad that I had somehow developed a new sense of ________________.

【推荐2】Who cares if people assume that the Internet has had more important influences than the washing machine? Why does it matter that people are more impressed by the most recent _______ changes? It would not matter if these misjudgments were just a matter of people’s opinions. However, they have real impacts, as they result in _______ use of scarce resources.

The eager embrace of the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) revolution, represented by the Internet, has made some rich countries wrongly conclude that making things is so “yesterday” that they should try to live on _______. This belief in “post-industrial society” has led those countries to _______ their manufacturing sector, with negative consequences for their economies.

Even more worryingly, the _______ with the Internet by people in rich countries has moved the international community to worry about the “digital _______” between the rich countries and the poor countries. This has led companies and individuals to donate money to developing countries to buy computer equipment and Internet facilities. The question, _______, is whether this is what the developing countries need the most. Perhaps giving money for those less _______ things such as digging wells, extending electricity networks and making more affordable washing machines would have improved people’s lives more than giving every child a laptop computer or setting up Internet centers in rural villages. I am not saying that those things are necessarily more important, but these donors don’t seem to give priority to people’s _______ needs. Rather, they have rushed into fancy programs without carefully assessing the relative long-term costs and benefits of ________ uses of their money.

In yet another example, an obsession with the new has led people to believe that the latest changes in the technologies of communications and transportation are so revolutionary that now we live in a “borderless world”. ________, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back. Believing in such a world, many governments have ________ some of the very necessary regulations on cross-border flows of capital, labor and goods, with poor results.

Understanding technological trends is very important for ________ designing economic policies, both at the national and the international levels, and for making the right career choices at the ________ level. However, our blind faith in the latest, and our ________ of what has already become common, can, and has, led us in all sorts of wrong directions.