【推荐2】Oliver is a teenager from Australia. He has been sewing（缝制）teddy bears for sick children for several years.

The story began in 2018 ______ Oliver was nine years old. He asked his parents ______ he could give gifts to children in hospitals. But his parents said no, because with nine children of ______ own, buying presents for sick children would just cost too much. The little boy didn’t give up, however. He decided to make their presents by himself.

Oliver made his first teddy bear with his mother’s sewing machine in his bedroom. It was ______ for him as he had never done this before. He c downloaded（下载）patterns from the Internet and beamed how to make a teddy bear by watching videos online. It took him five ______ to finish his first teddy bear. He can now make a teddy bear in ______ hour. He tries to make a teddy bear every day in a project ______ “Project 365 by Oliver” which he started years ago.

Young Oliver uses his pocket money to buy materials for making teddy bears. To make more pocket money, he helps his parents with housework whenever he is free. Sometimes, he also sells his teddy bears online to raise money for sick children. Many people ______ by Oliver’s story and they give away free materials to him.

Oliver ______ away about 1, 300 teddy bears so far. He is now busy with this year’s teddy bears. He plans ______ more sick children. He said that he had never thought of stopping and he would keep putting smiles on people’s faces.

【推荐1】It is said that leaves live for flowers. But when flowers have gone, what do leaves live for? I didn’t know the answer until recently.

One day last month, ________ I got back home from school, I smelt something nice. I saw ________ plant with some red and pink flowers on the tea table.

“________ beautiful they are! ”I said. The flowers which had leaves around them stood in a bottle with some water in it. Mom said, “I ________ them in a flower market just now. ”

I took the plant out. I found it ________ from a tree, so it had no roots（根）. I felt a little sad because I thought the flowers would die ________ a few days.

Over the next few days, the flowers died one by one. Finally only the leaves were left. “They ________ also die soon,” I thought. But the leaves became much ________. I wondered why. One day I took the plant out again. “Wow, ” I was very surprised ________ that there were many little roots at the plant’s end. That was why the leaves didn’t die! I realised that leaves live not only for flowers, but also for themselves. Leaves have ________ own lives.

The plant is still in the bottle on the table with many green leaves. They are more beautiful than the flowers!

We sometimes call the lion “the king of the forest”, because it is stronger and more dangerous than other animals. It can run _______ than many animals and hunt(狩猎) the best. It is the highest animal in the _______ food chain(链).

In the sea, the shark(鲨) is one of the animals at the top of the food chain. It can _______ faster than any other sea animals, and it can use its big teeth to eat them.

What is at the top of the world’s food chain? People are! We are not the biggest or fastest, but we are the _______. We could not run faster than cheetahs(猎豹), so we invented(发明) cars and now we can move the fastest. We could not fight better than lions, so we invented guns(枪). Now we can hunt the _______.

People’s inventions are clever, but they can be _______, too. For example, people built _______, and now they make the air and rivers dirty. This can make terrible changes. Dirty rivers kill(杀) fish, _______ bears cannot eat the fish. If we kill one part of the food chain, other parts also will die. Remember that we are a part of the food chain, so we are in danger, _______! If we protect animals, we are protecting ________! We could and we should do something for the world!

【推荐3】There are a number of animals that glow (发光) in some way—including several kinds of insects and fish. Some kinds of mushrooms glow, too. _____ most plants don’t glow. Now scientists are working to change that.

Now, researchers at _____ Russian company, working with the scientists from _____ countries have come up with a new method of _____ glowing plants. The plants can glow as long as they are alive.

Though mushrooms and plants glow very _____, the scientists focused on an acid (酸) that was found in both plants and mushrooms. They added certain parts of the DNA from glowing mushrooms to ordinary tobacco plants. In this way, the scientists _____ able to create plants that could make their own luciferins (荧光素) using this acid. The glow came from all parts of the plants—leaves, roots, and flowers. The scientists reported that the greenish light was about 10 times _____ than the light in earlier glowing plants. The glow was strong enough _____ easily recorded with an ordinary camera, and it wasn’t bad _____ the health of the plants.

The researchers believe that glowing plants can help scientists learn more about the way plats work. But the researchers don’t think the plants will just be used for science. They think many people may want glowing plants for ______ beauty. The scientists have already shown that several common flowers can be made to glow, such as roses.