Estee Lauder (July 1, 1906-April 24, 2004) was an American businesswoman. Along with her husband, Joseph Lauder, she set up Estee Lauder Companies (公司), the world-famous company.

Lauder was the only woman on TIME magazine’s 1998 list of the 20 greatest business(生意) people of the 20th century. She was even listed in the U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1988.

Her childhood dream was to become an actress. She met Joseph Lauter when she was in her early 20s. On January 15, 1930, they married. The last name was later changed from Lauter to Lauder. The Estee Lauder Company was created in 1935. Then one day, when Estee Lauder was doing her hair, she was asked about her perfect skin(皮肤). Soon, Lauder came back and handed out four of her uncle’s creams and showed how to use them to others. Over the next fifteen years, they made their business bigger and continued to sell their products(产品) in the United States.

As of 2010, Estee Lauder sells its products in large shopping malls across the world. It has a total of 27 kinds of products, among which Estee Lauder and Clinique are the best known.

She once said, “Beauty is about the way you think. There’s no secret. Why are all brides (新娘) beautiful? Because on the day they get married, they care about how they look. There are no ugly women—only women who don’t care or who don’t believe they’re amazing.”

Aged 97, Lauder died at her home in Manhattan.

A Japanese company has found a way to turn unwanted rice into plastic (塑料的) things.

One company is working with farmers in the town of Namie. Nearby is the Fukushima nuclear (原子核)center, closed since a nuclear accident there in March 2011.

Jinichi Abe is a local rice farmer. He says people do not want to buy his rice because they worry it is radioactive (有辐射的). Now, he has a new way to sell his rice. Biomass Resin, a company from Tokyo, opened a factory in Namie in November. It turns the rice there into all kinds of things, like plastic tools and shopping bags. “Without growing rice, this town can’t get back or its feet,” the 85-year-old Abe said. Since the accident, he has tried selling rice as animal feed. “Even now, we can’t sell it as Fukushima rice,” Abe said. “So having Biomass come was a huge help.”

The government ordered people in the area to leave when the nuclear accident happened and then allowed some people to return to their lives in Namie after a big cleanup in 2017. Now about 80 percent of the town’s land still has no plants and only about 2,000 people live there. There were 1,9000 more people in Namie before the accident. Since 2017, eight companies have come back and they created about 200 jobs. But things are still difficult for people in the area.

Takemitsu Imazu is the head of Biomass Resin. He says, “By building our factory here, we want to bring jobs and invite people back.” Imazu also introduces the plastic things made from rice are not biodegradable (可降解的), meaning they cannot be broken down into other things through natural processes (过程). However, mixing rice and plastic cuts down on the carbon (碳)needed during the making process, he added.

In addition, nuclear experts say rice naturally takes in few radioactive things.

You probably will have to face peer(同伴) pressure. It’s such a common part of life, so you must have a plan to say no.

    16     Be polite and calm. Let your peer know that your mind is made up and no one can easily change it. You should believe that you are strong enough to make your own decision.

    17     Explain why you won’t do what the person says. You might point out that the behavior(行为) is against a rule or a law. You might say that you have promised your parents or teachers not to do things like that.

    18     Make sure your face shows you are serious. Do not smile and try to look at the listener when you’re speaking. This will send the message that you mean what you say.

    19     If your peer keeps putting pressure on you and you really don’t know what to do, it is OK to just go away. Do not feel sorry about it.

    20     When you meet a person who continues to make you change your idea or behavior, you can also try to turn to a trusted adult for help. The adult may have some good suggestions for other ways to work out the problem.

An old man pointed at the land filled with weeds (杂草) and asked his students, “Look, what’s growing on the land?”

“_______,” the students answered without thinking twice.

“Tell me, how should you _______ these?”

His students were _______: this question was too simple.

A student first said, “_______ I have a hoe (锄头), the weeds will be killed off.”

The second student followed, “It would be _______ to burn them with fire.” The third student argued, “Only _______ deep can it never be born again.”

After his students finished, the old man stood up and said, “Well, when you go back, you act on your own way and come back here again in one year.”

A year later, his students came, but they were so _______. Because whatever they did, the weeds were still there, even more somewhere. The students wanted to go to the old man for _______ very much.

_______, the old man had died, only leaving one book to his students. One paragraph in the book wrote, “________ way is impossible to kill all the weeds because they are too strong. The best way is to plant crops (庄稼) on the land. Have you ever thought the mind of people is also ________ the land?”

This world is colorful and then our hearts would ________ many wishes for different things in the world. Some of the wishes are “weeds”. Without water and food, they will also grow ________. So if we don’t keep our eyes open, we will make our ________ poor. These “weeds” are called “Evil (邪恶)”. Some of the wishes are “crops”. They need planting and taking care of.

The more “crops” there are, the less space the “weeds” ________; the stronger the “crops” are, the weaker the “weeds” will be. These “crops” are called “Virtue (美德)”

Yellowstone National Park is     36     US national park which was built in 1872. It covers about 9065 square kilometers and is one of     37     (large) parks in America.

Yellowstone is widely seen as the first national park in the world and it is famous     38     its wildlife. Native (土著的) Americans     39     (live) in the Yellowstone for at least 11000 years. There were some visits by mountain men during the early-to-mid-19th century. Later, the U.S. Army began to protect the park and tried hard to make it     40     (peace). In 1917, the National Park Service (国家公园管理) built     41     (hundred) of buildings there. Now, these buildings are     42     (real) important for the study about American history.

Some people don’t know     43     to do in the Yellowstone when they pay their first visit. Actually, there are many fun activities in the park, such as hiking,     44     (camp) and sightseeing. Everybody could find something interesting to do there. So it is really a good choice for us     45     (take) a trip to the Yellowstone National Park.

56. 杭州市亚运组委会组织了一次英语征文比赛，比赛主题为给来杭州的外国人提一些建议，让他们在杭州有更好的体验。请根据下表提示完成英语征文。

Hangzhou is an excellent city to travel around and I’d like to give you some advice to help you have a wonderful stay here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________