【推荐1】Can you imagine that we could build a beautiful city with rubbish? Maybe you will think it is _________. However, it can be true! Nothing is a waste if we have a creative mind. Let me show you something about _________ rubbish.   

Sometimes we can see tons of rubbish in the streets, on the roads, near the buildings, here and there. Many large cities became so ugly _________ it. Nobody likes rubbish, but in fact, some rubbish can be used again. All of us want to solve the problem. We must do something to _________ rubbish. We should take action from now on. _________, some good things will not be wasted.   

Do you often throw away things you don’t need any more? Have you ever thought about how these things can actually be put to good use? For example, when a car gets too old, it may not run any more. But we can use the metal of the car to make something else. When a bottle is empty, it_________ as a waste. You don’t know bottle glass can be made into sand and used to build streets. Rubbish _________ food can be changed into fertilizer (肥料) to make plants grow better. It is cheap and safe. And other rubbish can also be used to make building blocks. Now, _________ machines are designed for that.   

_________, people will watch films in a beautiful cinema which is built out of rubbish. Besides buildings and roads, cities may be made from rubbish. But so far, building beautiful cities made from rubbish is only a __________.

【推荐3】When Julia was 16, she left school and work at a restaurant. For many years, she was only _______ in making money. One day, she had a terrible car accident. It took her ten months to get _______. During that time, this girl decided to do some more _______ things for this world.

As soon as Julia left the hospital, she gave up the job at the _______. Then she moved to California. One day, she _______ that a big company planned to cut down part of a forest. _______ the forest, there were lots of redwood trees. _______ of the trees was more than 1, 000 years old.

A group called Our Earth was trying to _______ the redwood forest. They wanted to find _______ to live around the oldest redwood tree. They hoped this could stop the company from ________ the trees. Julia got this job.

Julia and her partners lived in the ________ for over two years. It was cold and wet. There were ________ terrible winter storms.

In the end, the company ________ not to cut down the oldest tree. And they also ________ never to cut down redwood trees in the forest. When Julia stepped out of the forest, she began to cry. But she didn’t relax. She would go on doing some other things to protect our ________.

【推荐1】Seniors (年长者) dancing on a public square (公共广场) is popular in China. I learned that on the newspaper before.

Walking through the_________park, the trees stand cold and bare (光秃秃的). When I keep walking, a_________from the background (背景) is getting louder (响的) and clearer. Now, 100 meters_________me, lots of women are gathering (聚集) in the square. In the cold wind of December, they're moving their arms and legs to the_________. They are, of course, the dancing seniors.

It seems that if you go to any_________place around China, you may see these dancing women._________I first came to China, I saw a lot of seniors dancing on a public square. It really_________me. Because in UK, dancing outside is not a common (普遍的)_________. You can't see any age group moving their arms and legs in a park. Usually people just_________a walk for exercise.

Some people__________dancing seniors because they make too much noise. But others__________the dancing seniors. There is no more work, and their kids work in other cities. They finally (最终) have some__________time to do what they like.

For me, I like seeing these women enjoying__________. They show us the__________of exercise when we get older. And most of them raised (养育) the whole families. Now it's their time to live__________.

【推荐3】The teachers are worried that young children are becoming “addicted(沉溺)” to tablets(平板电脑). They can’t make easy things ______ hands as they use computers. They can’t make toys themselves or help ______ dinner with mum.

“Many children can play with tablets or phones ______ they can’t make things. Many children can’t talk with other children but _____ parents are proud of(以……自豪)them because they are good at using a tablet or a ______,” said Colin Kinney, a teacher.

Many children spend too much time ______ at home and quietly play on a tablet. If children do not learn to stay with others, it can become ______ for them to learn how to make friends when they get together.

It is important to know ______ to use tablets or telephones in today’s world, but it is still very important for children to learn to make ______ with others. If they do, they can live ______ when they grow up. Teachers should help their students know how to live happily.