【推荐1】While doing shopping one day, I realized I’d spent nearly 30 minutes just choosing vegetables that were good-looking without spots（斑点）. I’m sure I’m not alone. How did we become so?

I also saw how my actions influenced others. When I prepared lunches for my _________, I made sure I included everything perfect. But one day when she refused to eat an apple that was turning a little brown, I knew I had to _________.

Then one night, I _________ a dinner party. The host Josh Treuhaft wanted to draw public attention to the food waste _________. At the party, the cook prepared a six-dish meal with food bought from Imperfect Store that sells “ugly” food. The food can be bought there for 30-50% of the _________.

Everyone was amazed at Perlsweig’s creative, delicious dishes. He offered guests advice on how to _________ food waste before each dish. _________, if you cut off the end of a limp（蔫的）carrot and place it in water, it will become fresh again.

After that night, I began to rethink the way I shopped for food, and to _________ the imperfect food. _________ looking ugly, the food contains no less nutrition（营养）than normal food. Furthermore, it’s ____________. My actions encouraged my daughter to think differently as well. One morning, while she was helping prepare her school lunch, I noticed her choosing cherry tomatoes with spots. “They’re special,” she said.

It’s Sunday morning. Rachel looks at the holes in her shoes. Then she goes to a shoe ________. She wants to buy a pair of new shoes because she can’t play ________ in her old shoes.

Next to the store, Rachel sees a new computer game. She ________ to play computer games! But she ________ enough(足够的) money to buy shoes and the game.

Rachel goes to the soccer shoe section first. Mr Jackson, her P.E. teacher, asks her to ________ soccer shoes for soccer games. She sees a pair of black shoes. She is not happy when she looks at the ________ of the shoes. “If (如果) I buy these shoes, I can’t buy the game,” she thinks.

Next to the black shoes, Rachel sees a blue pair. ________ not as nice as the black ones. She knows they will not last (耐用) very long. After looking at the price, she thinks, “If I buy these shoes, I can buy the ________, too.” She is not sure what to do.

At last, Rachel buys the ________ shoes. She thinks the new computer is ________, but the good shoes are more useful!

If you were Rachel, which shoes would you take?

Mrs. Black works in a big city hospital, she is a popular _________. Every day there are so many patients who need her to treat (治疗). She is so _________ that she has no time to do some shopping. But she often needs to buy many things _________ her family. She has to buy everything online. Sometimes she buys something to cook in the _________.

_________ she gets home from work, she usually _________ the computer and begins to do something online. Today is November 11^th, she is sitting before the _________ now. There are all kinds of _________ on the screen of the computer. She wants to choose a right shirt for her _________, Lucy. She is a seven-grade student. She thinks it’s not safe to shop online, so she often asks her mother not to __________ anything online. Mrs. Black still does the online shopping. She enjoys it and she thinks it’s convenient (方便的).

She usually __________ about an hour on the online shopping on the Internet. She says she can __________ the different prices of the same product, __________ then she can buy the cheapest one.

__________, she didn’t do the online shopping this morning. That was because __________ computer didn’t work.