Do you know how rice first came to China? There is an old Chinese story. It is about a little girl _______ went out to fish. There was a famine (饥荒) and everybody was very _______.

The little girl felt her net growing heavy and was very happy. _______, it was the King of Frogs that she caught. When the frog knew the girl wanted _______ to eat, the frog promised her that he could help her. The frog let her hold out her fishing net to the sun’s rays and he would sing a magic song. The little girl _______ his instructions. She was greatly surprised to see the sunshine falling through the net. And it was changed into golden grains (谷粒) of rice. The first rice was thought to arrive _______ this way.

We do not know _______ this story is true or not, but it tells us that rice has the _______ value as gold to the Chinese. Rice is always the main food for the Chinese. For _______, much land has been devoted (奉献) to rice-planting and many Chinese people are ________. They work very hard for each grain.

【推荐2】In China, a lot of food is wasted every year and the waste food is enough for 200 million people.

In restaurants or at home, people often order or cook _______ food. But they can’t eat it up. In schools, we can often see a lot of students throw food away after meals and they only eat the food they like.

Everyone is supposed to have enough food to eat. However, in some places, the food is _______ little that a lot of people died from hunger. Although China has tried hard to solve the _______ of hunger over the past thirty years, the job is not finished yet. Food is important to us all. We can’t live _______ food. So it is necessary for us to love food and try to eat up everything on our plates.

When we eat in restaurants, we should pack up the leftovers (剩菜剩饭). We also need to tell _______ people to stop wasting food.

【推荐3】How did we help to save our earth this week? Let me tell you.

First, my family tried to save electricity. We _______ the lights on when leaving the room. We _______ the TV when nobody was watching it. Mum only used cold water in the washing machine.

Second, we started recycling this week. We tried to write on _______ of our paper, not just on one side. We also divided our rubbish into _______ bags for bottles, paper and food. Mum kept the plastic shopping bags from the supermarket to use them again as rubbish bags.

Third, my family started to save _______. We stopped _______ long baths. We had short showers instead. We washed toilet with _______ water. Mum and dad used less water to do the washing. My sister and I didn’t leave the tap running when we brushed our teeth.

At last, mum and dad began to save gas. Mum used to _______ us to school, but now my sister and I started riding our bikes to school. It’s hard _______ but good exercise.

This week dad and some of the people in his company also started to go to work in one car and share the __________.

These are great ways to help protect our environment.