Every morning, my father buys a newspaper on his way to work. Every day, I open my books in class and start my lessons. Every evening, my mother _________ magazines at home. And every night, I look at the photos of David Beckham and Yao Ming on my bedroom wall before I go to sleep. Can we imagine life without paper or printing?

Paper was first _________ about 2,000 years ago in China. After its invention, people started to write on paper to make books. In those days, books were only produced one at a time   _______. As a result, there were not many books, and they were expensive. So _________ people had the chance to learn to read.

Printing was invented in China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Later, developments in printing made it possible to produce books more quickly and cheaply. A _________ in books resulted, and more people learned to read. Knowledge and ideas _________ faster than ever before. In a way, we can compare the invention of paper and printing _________ the introduction of the Internet in the twentieth century.

Although the Internet is still young, it is growing very fast, and many become more powerful than printing. A much larger _________ of information can be stored in more varied _________ on the Internet than in books. Someone with an Internet connection can find information easily. And the machines we use to read it are now small and light.

Computers and the Internet are used in classrooms now, and newspapers and magazines are already read online. So what direction will traditional printing __________ in the future? Will books be replaced by the Internet? Let’s wait and see.

【推荐3】English names and Chinese names are quite different in some ________ ways, but it’s not hard for us to know.

Unlike Chinese, most English people have ________ names. One is their family name, another two names are given names. Their family name is ________ the given name. They use Mr, Mrs or Miss with the ________ name, but they never use ________ first name. For example, a man’s name is James Allan Green, we can ________ him Mr Green, ________ we can’t call him Mr James or Mr Allan. People usually ________ Jim instead of James. Jim is short for James because it’s ________ to remember.

But Chinese names are the opposite（相反的）. A girl with the name Han Limei ______ her family name Han first. Of course, she can be called Ah Mei for short in China if you wish.

【推荐1】Green is no longer just a color. It is a new way of thinking about the world and a _______ of living your life. More and more people decide to “go green” _______ they know that we only have one earth to live on. “Green Living” means: Understanding that your choices affect not just you, but _______ everywhere. Understanding that your choices affect not just today, but the future. Understanding that when we talk about “saving the planet” or “saving the environment”, we are actually talking about saving _______! You may be thinking: Hey, I’m just one person, on a planet with billions. I can’t really _______. Well, have you ever seen a group of people do “the wave (波浪)”? It _______ starts off with one or two people, jumping up and down like crazy. Soon _______ people are joining in. “Going green” is just like that. It starts with _______ actions. It can soon build into a wave _______ will change the whole planet and lead us all to healthier, happier lives. Now it’s your ________ to think about how you can “go green”. Make important choices and take actions to improve the environment right around you and the health of the whole world.

【推荐3】Don’t throw away your old phones. You are actually ____ away real gold! Smartphones have many useful metals, ____ gold, silver and copper (铜). People can ____   them to make new electronics (电子器件).

But many people don’t know this. In Australia alone, there are more than 25 million unused mobile phones lying around, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. The gold in these phones can add up to a ____ of more than $80 million (542 million yuan). There are about 2 billion smartphone users around the world who ____ their phone once every 11 months on average. In China, people throw out 80 million old phones every year, according to New Express Daily.

However, it’s not easy to recycle these metals. Smartphones not only have useful metals, but also ____ materials. Guiyu, a small town in Shantou, Guangdong, is one of the world’s biggest landfills (垃圾填埋厂) for electric waste, Reuters reported. Many recycling centers in Guiyu simply ____ old electronics by hand and don’t think about the ____ it causes. According to a local government report, 81 percent of children in Guiyu are harmed by lead poisoning (铅中毒).

Veena Sahajwalla, a professor at Australia’s University of New South Wales, has made a mini factory. It makes smartphone recycling cleaner and ____. The mini factory is very small and easy to move around. It breaks down phones and automatically (自动地) removes the phone’s useful metals. This ____ people from being poisoned.