【推荐1】Two high school students from Canada have invented a magic backpack. It can be turned into a _________ for homeless people.

The two teens worked together for their school’s science fair. They wanted to do something to help homeless people. They were inspired (启发) to make the backpack after Pasha’s uncle died on the street. _________ mental (精神的) illness, he became homeless and started living on the street. She missed her uncle and wanted to _________ a safe place for homeless people.

Pasha, together with her best friend Adrianna, got the idea of building a _________ for the homeless. Their amazing work is a big backpack. It _________ two kilos. When it is folded, it can be carried _________ the shoulder (肩膀) as a backpack. And when it spreads out, the backpack will become a “house”. The space blank (毛毯) in it keeps people _________ during the cold winters. It’s 6℃ to 7℃ warmer inside than outside. During the hot summer months, the backpack can be turned over (翻转) _________ the space blanket is on its top. It will be _________ cooler inside. The girls hope that one day they will see homeless people using their _________ on the street.

What a wonderful thing the girls have done!

In China, most families have only one kid. The kids often feel lonely and ______ when their parents aren’t at home. Don’t worry. Lovet can help them. It is a friendly robot which can make lonely ______ feel the love. It was invented by the Japanese in 2018.

Lovet not only looks like a kid, but also has many ______. It can talk, dance and sing. It can also help kids with ______ such as cleaning the desk and making the bed. When kids ______, Lovet becomes a “teacher”. It tells the kids to read ______ if they are in a low voice. When kids work out a problem correctly, Lovet will ______ them and give them a kiss. Kids like the lovely Lovet because it has human’s feelings. When ______ come for a visit, it will hide behind kids — it seems to be shy. That’s because Lovet doesn’t know the strangers.

Why is Lovet so clever? Because scientists ______ a CPU (中央处理器) in is body. The CPU is so powerful that Lovet has the ______ power of an 8-year-old child. No wonder it can do the same thing as kids do.

Do you know how to study better and make your study more effective (有效率的)? We all know that Chinese students usually study very hard _________ long hours. This is very good. _________, it doesn’t help a lot, because _________ efficient (高效的) student must have enough sleep, enough food and enough rest and exercise. Every day you need to go out for a walk or visit some friends or some places. It’s good for your study.

When you return to your study, your mind will be refreshed and you’ll learn _________ and study better. Psychologists (心理学家) have found that learning takes place this way. _________ English learning for an example. First you make a lot of progress (进步) and you feel _________. Yet your language study seems _________ the same, so you _________ you’re learning nothing and you may give up. This can last for days or even weeks. Of course, you _________ give up. At some points your language study will again take another big jump. You will see that you really have been learning all long. If you get enough sleep, food, rest and exercise, __________ English can be very effective and interesting. Don’t give up along the way. Learn slowly and you’re sure to get a good result.

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Today we had a discussion _____“If you have only one day left”. It seemed that different people had different opinions. Most students____ they would stay at home and help their parents with housework. They wanted to show ____ to their parents. Some students wanted to do ____ different such as helping others. They said they ____ do something meaningful to the world. Only ____students said they would do nothing but just have a rest at home. They had too much homework to do every day. They needed a rest.

____ the class had different ideas, we all knew one point, that was to cherish（珍惜）our life. At last, the teacher summed up（总结） our ____. She said, “I’m glad you all want to use your limited（有限的）life to do something ____. But please remember: try to make the ____ of your time!”

【推荐3】We can see the mobile phone freaks (狂热爱好者) everywhere nowadays. Can you remember when we started to take our mobiles to a dinner table? This happens a lot, _________ when we eat out. When a dish comes, we take out _________ and take photos of the food first instead of eating.

After that, we post the photos on Weibo or WeChat to be “liked”. Then we may check our mobiles from time to time during the meal, to see whether we get “liked” or not. We just _________ leave our mobiles for only a meal.

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If not, how do you feel when _________ people do that?

A recent _________ shows that spending time on photos of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some researchers did an experiment (实验). Some people were asked to take photos _________ they could enjoy food. As a result, it showed that the more photos they took, the _________ the food seemed to them. So, please don’t take photos and just enjoy the food in front of you.

Besides (除了) the result, there are also some other bad _________ of taking photos and posting the photos on the Internet before meals. For example, they will check their mobiles many times. “Does everyone like my photo? I hope a lot of people like them!” It _________ that your mobile secretly calls your name all the time, even when you are ____________ real people.