【推荐2】A newborn baby girl survived the terrible Turkey-Syria earthquake in February, 2023. Finally she found a ________ to call her own after leaving the hospital.

The baby’s mother gave birth to her in the rubble (瓦砾) after their apartment building ________ on top of them. ________, the mother didn’t survive and the newborn girl was found hours later, still ________ to her dead mother by the umbilical cord (脐带).

Neighbors rushed to the baby and ________ to free her from the rubble. Then they drove her to a hospital.

________ Associated Press (美联社), the doctor treating the baby, Hani Maarouf, said the baby came in with bruises (瘀伤) ________ was in stable (稳定) condition.

He added that they believed the baby’s mom was ________ when she gave birth, but probably died shortly after it. He also ________ that the baby was born several hours before being found and probably, wouldn’t have survived if she had stayed an hour longer in the ________ rubble.

The Sydney Morning Herald reported that the baby girl had ________ not only her mom during the earthquake but also her four siblings (兄弟姐妹) and father. Thousands of people showed ________ in adopting (收养) the child born in the rubble, but as it turned out, a distant relative heard about her ________ and came forward to adopt her.

The baby’s great-uncle on her father’s side, Salah al-Badran, ________ to take the newborn in. ________, he lost his house and was living with his family of 11 in a tent.

【推荐1】In 1965, 17-year-old high school student Randy Gardner stayed awake for 264 hours to see how to deal with sleeplessness. On the second day, his eyes stopped focusing. Next, he lost the ability to ___________ objects by touch. By day three, Gardner was moody and not controlled. At the end of the experiment, he had problems with short-term memory and started hallucinating (幻觉). Although Gardner recovered without ___________ during the recovery process, for others, sleeplessness can cause hormone (激素) imbalance, illness, and even death. When we lose sleep, mood, and reaction time are affected. It will also cause more diseases.

Why does sleeplessness become such a great pain? Scientists think the answer lies with the gathering of waste products in the brain. During our waking hours, our cells are busy ___________ our day’s energy sources, which get broken down into various by-products, including adenosine (腺苷酸). As adenosine builds up, it increases the strong desire to sleep, also known as sleep pressure. In fact, caffeine works by ___________ adenosine’s chemical pathways. Other waste products also build up in the brain, and if they are not cleared away, they can overload the brain and are thought to lead to the many negative symptoms of sleep loss.

So, what’s happening in our brain when we sleep to prevent this? Scientists found something called the Lymphatic System, a clean-up mechanism (机能) that removes this build up and is much more ________ when we’re asleep. And they may also play a role in ________ the brain’s daily waste products. Scientists are still exploring how to recover form sleeplessness. We can be sure that sleeping is essential if we want to stay mentally and physically healthy.

In the past, Bi Sheng invented printing. But Wang Xuan, a computer scientist, turned a new page in Chinese printing. So he was called the modern pioneer ________.

Wang was born in Jiangsu in 1937. As a son of a farmer, Wang showed his perseverance (毅力). At nine, when hiking with his family, he ________ to stop halfway but went straight to the top of the mountain.

In 1965, Wang’s perseverance made ________ become a computer scientist. In August 1974, the Chinese government started a project to computerize Chinese characters (汉字). Because of his ________ physical condition, Wang had been ill in bed for ten years when his wife told him the news. However, he began to ________ it the next day! But Chinese words were very difficult to type (打字). That was ________ many people didn’t believe him when he first talked about using computers to print. And China’s printing industry was far behind other countries’.

Wang failed many times and his workers were sad. But he never gave up. He told them to try ________.

His passion (激情) for his dream helped him face his difficulties. On Wang’s road to success, he took no holidays and worked over 65 hours a week. Even if on Chinese New Year’s Eve, Wang and his wife were too ________ to buy food and drinks, they just shared some tofu to celebrate. In 1980, Wang’s dream came true ________. In late 1988, a Chinese newspaper first used laser (激光) printing ________.

On February 13, 2006, this tireless man died in Beijing at 69, but his spirits will live in the hearts of Chinese people.

Detective Ashley Jones works at a police department in England. He has recently made an important _________ — loneliness is a serious social problem that can lead to depression（沮丧）and even crimes, but it can be _________ in a clever way. The _________? Chat benches.

Jones got the idea after he had talked with an elderly lady who had been cheated of her _________. The lady would get a call from a stranger every morning who _________ made her believe that he was her friend, and then she lent him about ￡31, 000. Jones was _________ when she said that she didn’t actually mind being cheated. “_________, I would never speak to another person for weeks on end,” she said.

This made Jones know that there are too many _________ people in his community, who are easy targets of cheating. So he _________ to do something about it. He asked the police department to allow him to __________ a couple of “chat benches” in two of their local parks. Then he hung a colorful sign on __________ of the benches that read: “HAPPY TO CHAT”. Just a few days after the signs went up, he found a few people sitting there and having active conversations.

The idea is catching on __________. There are now over 40 chat benches throughout England. More new chat benches have sprung up across the UK and beyond. Jones’ idea has been fully __________ — the “HAPPY TO CHAT” benches help break down the social barrier that keeps people from saying hello.

The effort is not just a beginning of being community minded—it is also a __________way. It stops people who are cut off from society falling victim to cheaters.

The Chat Bench is a fantastic new project that __________ those of all ages to get to know each other in the future.

【推荐2】The Northern Hemisphere（北半球）moves deeper into autumn. The daylight hours get ________ and the weather colder. This means the gardening season is ending, right?

Well, not so fast.

Lee Reich is a gardener and writes for The Gardening Today. He ________ his thoughts on growing plants in and around the home.

In mid-October, Reich was cleaning up his garden in northern New York when he heard a weather report on the radio. It said the cold weather was coming, and this would put a/an ________ to the gardening season.

“The weather reporter may know about weather,” Reich writes, “but he is not a ________.”

To Reich, ________ weather does not mean the end to gardening. He agrees that his more tender（娇嫩的）vegetables and flowering plants will die when temperatures ________ to 1.6℃.

However, in his writing, Reich writes about what is ________ growing in such a cold. “Even with a frost（霜冻）”, he says, “there are still leaves on the trees turning beautiful colors of red, yellow and orange.”

Reich also suggests ________ your garden. Some areas may not be as cold as others. A wall or a tree can stop temperatures from dropping as low as in more open, exposed areas. Reich notes that some flowering plants growing next to the west side of his house still look ________ and strong.

Gardeners tell us that colder weather does not have to mean you finish your gardening, although the ground should look ________ and dead. With some planning, you can enjoy something in your garden even during the cold weather.