【推荐1】You'd better eat a banana while you still can. British scientists say that the fruit may disappear by 2050.

One ______ is climate change. Scientists from the UK collected data(数据) from 27 countries and regions that produced 86 percent of the world's bananas. They found that climate change has improved growing conditions in 21 of these countries and regions. _______ ,if temperatures keep rising, this advantage will disappear. The perfect temperatures range for growing bananas is between 24℃and 32℃. If temperatures get too high, they will _____ growing.

Diseases are another danger to bananas. Unlike other crops, the bananas come from shoot cuttings rather than seeds. It means that all bananas plants have the _______ genotype(基因型). If a disease is able to kill one plant, it could kill them all.

One serious disease is called Panama Disease. Caused by a fungus(真菌) in the soil, it can easily ______ If one banana plantation suffers from the disease, it will take 30 years before it can grow bananas again. Scientists have yet to find a cure to fight Panama Disease.

The Lantern Festival falls on the 15th day of the Chinese Spring Festival. For the Chinese, it is a day for family togetherness. That’s why children and some people still wait to go to school or return to work after the festival.

·Lighting colorful lanterns

Lighting lanterns is probably the most ______ known tradition for celebrating the Lantern Festival. When ______ falls, people place candles inside lanterns and carry them outside. Every year, lantern exhibitions are held in parks and ______ public places. The entire area is ______ with beautiful lighting.

·Eating Tang Yuan

Tang Yuan, or Yuan Xiao, is a must-eat food for the Lantern Festival. Shaped like a round ball, Tang Yuan symbolizes the ______ moon and people’s desires for happiness and family reunions（团圆）.

·Guessing lantern riddles

In ancient times, single people can attract the attention of their crush（迷恋对象） ______ this guessing game. Right up until today, Chinese people have delightful riddle competitions to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Lantern riddles are popular with people of all ages and all walks of life as many of them are fascinating.

·Enjoying time with ______

______ the Lantern Festival is a part of the Spring Festival, gathering with family and eating Tang Yuan, the Lantern Festival has an important meaning of reunion. In ancient China, young ladies were not allowed to ______ freely except at the time of the Lantern Festival. It was once customary（习俗的）for single people to carry lit lanterns on the streets in the hope of finding their true love.

As time passed, however, the festival no longer had ______ a special meaning on romance（浪漫）.

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Known as kung fu grandma on the Internet, 99-year-old Zhang Hexian has practiced kung fu for 95 years. These days she became famous because of a short ________. In it, she is showing her kung fu moves (动作) at a kung fu match.

As the eighth-generation inheritor (第八代传人), Zhang began to practice kung fu at the age of ________ from her father. “My father would teach me kung fu ________ even when in bed,” she says. Though ________ 100 years old, Zhang is still in good health. Every day, she gets up at 5 a.m., and practices kung fu. She ________ lots of vegetables in the garden and cooks meals all by herself.

‘Kung fu granny’ is always ________ to help others, the villagers say. Every afternoon, she goes ________ the village to see who needs help. A primary school in a neighboring town ________ a kung fu class last year. ________ knowing this, Zhang taught the children kung fu for free. She hopes to ________ the spirit (精神) of kung fu to the young people.

“Kung fu spirit never gets old!” China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian spoke highly of her (高度赞誉).

【推荐2】Karl Marx was born in Germany on May 5th, 1818. _______ he was a child, he was forced to leave his country again and again. He lived in Belgium, England and some other _______.

His mother language was German and at school he learned French and English, but he felt his English was _______. So he made up his _______ to improve his English. He began to work hard _______ it. He made so much progress _______ he could soon read English newspapers and write English articles.

However, there were _______ things that he thought were too difficult for him—the grammar and some of the idioms（习语）. He often _______ himself by saying “If I keep on trying, I’ll make even greater progress.” At the same time, his close friend, Engels, often wrote to _______ him for his hard work in learning English.

In one of Marx’s books, he gave people who were learning a foreign language some ________ on how to learn it well. He said a foreign language was ________ for a person to have a better future. He said a person should translate every word he/she heard into the foreign language he/she was learning. If he/she could do this, it would be ________ for him/her to use the language freely.

In April, 1841, he ________ his doctor’s degree. After that, he began to write articles for a newspaper. He wrote about the housing problems of poor people and their hard life. ________ he tried, he did his best.

During the 1840s, Marx and Engels wrote a book together. These words of theirs became very ________: “Working people of all countries, unite!”

【推荐3】Florence Nightingale was a nurse who saved many lives in the 19th century. She was named after the city of Florence in Italy. Her family was _______ and they had two houses in Britain as well as many servants.

Florence was an _______ young woman during her time. She was different from other women. Wealthy women like Florence weren’t expected to work—their job was to marry and _______ the family. But Florence wanted to be a nurse and help people. Her family didn’t allow her to do that _______ they thought hospitals were dirty places. They _______ her health. In 1851, Florence went to Germany and learned about nursing. It was hard work, but she loved it.

In 1854, lots of British soldiers fought in the Crimean War. Army hospitals were filled with injured soldiers, but there were _______ nurses. For this reason, many soldiers _______. Florence and a team of nurses volunteered to help them.

Florence worked 20 hours a day to take care of the injured soldiers and clean the army hospital. At night, Florence walked around the hospital. She talked to the injured soldiers and helped them _______ to write letters to their families. She always carried a _______ and the soldiers called her “The Lady with the Lamp”.

When Florence returned to England, people called her a heroine（女英雄）because of her amazing work in the Crimean War. She ________ to work hard in Britain to improve hospitals.