1 . People are looking for ways to reduce their carbon footprint. Purchasing property that is environmentally responsible is a good investment for those who are _______ their own health and the well-being of the earth. Based on this trend, eco-communities are being designed with a green _______ in mind. Dockside Green in Victoria, British Columbia is one of them.

If everything goes according to plan, Dockside Green will be a _______ community along the harbor front of British Columbia’s capital city. The community will be home to 2,500 people and will _______ residential, office, and retail space. Builders of Dockside Green have the environment in mind with every choice they make. They ensure proper ventilation (通风), and guarantee residents 100% fresh indoor air. Building materials, such as paints and wood, are _______ and non-poisonous. Eco-conscious builders use bamboo wherever possible because it grows fast and does not require _______ to grow.

Energy efficiency is one of the _______ concerns in eco-communities, such as Dockside Green. Not only do energy-efficient appliances and light fixtures (照明设备) reduce the environmental _______ of heating and hot water, but they also save residents and business owners money. Dockside Green claims that homeowners will use 55% less energy than average residents in Canada. Residents will have individual water metres (水表) _______ studies show that people use around 20% less energy when they are billed for exactly what they use. ________, water is treated at Dockside Green and reused for flushing toilets.

Planners of eco-communities such as Dockside Green must take the ________ into consideration. Dockside Green plans on reusing 90% of its construction waste. They also plan to continue using local suppliers for all of their transport and maintenance needs. This is a great way to reduce ________.

Dockside residents will be encouraged to take advantage of a mini transport system and buy into the community’s car share program. Finally, plans are underway for a high-tech heating system that will use ________ energy instead of fossil fuels.

Dockside residents will ________ excellent local services with high-quality healthcare, shopping and education at the heart of the community, along with excellent leisure facilities and plentiful green open spaces. Eco-communities will prefer the use of locally-sourced goods and services; they will be ________ places to live, promoting a sense of civic pride, responsibility and, as the name suggests, community.

4 . Hansen and his 10-year-old son Chase search the streets of Salt Lake City every weekend for the homeless to take to lunch. They started Project Empathy(共情)four years ago to ________a meal, listen to their stories and figured out how they could ________ help.

“Just start with a smile, a hello. It really just starts with that. If you do it, you can make a connection. A small gesture can have a ________ impact on others less fortunate,” Hansen ________ in an interview.

Some of these shared meals have turned into stronger ________ .Ward, a homeless, was ________ in a flat. He credited the Hansens with helping him ________the difficult process of moving off the streets. “It is great to have friends who make us feel ________ and I’m impressed with the pair,” Ward said.

Father and son’s ________have developed into a passion project that ________ faith and community, which emphasizes the ________ community members can have in uplifting the homeless. They know they can’t settle the homeless ________ alone. They’re hoping empathy will ________.

“My hope for the future is to ________ more connection across our country. We could and we will succeed ________ we have other people join in and help the homeless,” Chase said.

8 . People who listen to indie bands are miserable shaggy-haired layabouts(懒惰的人)while fans of rap music are brave and full of self-confidence.

_________ mere narrow-minded opinions, these are the results of an extensive psychological survey of more than 36,000 music lovers, which confirms, once and for all, that our musical tastes really do_________ our personality. But the study’s most remarkable discovery is that lovers of classical music share a high number of personality traits (特征) with those who prefer rocking out to a heavy metal.

The research asked people worldwide to describe their personality and then to list their favourite styles of music. The results show a distinct _________ between people’s personality traits and the style of music they enjoy.

Fans of indie music, for instance, were found to have low self-respect and little_________ but described themselves as creative. Rap enthusiasts, _________, tend to feel good about themselves and are extremely outgoing. Those who love dance music are_________ outgoing but are more likely to be unfriendly and slightly self-centred.

Professor Adrian North, who led the study, suggested that the results explain why so many people bond over music and also why some of us are very_________ about the music we listen to, since it is likely to be closely linked to the person we are.

According to Professor North, both heavy metal and classical fans are_________ by a shared “love of the grandiose”, which means that a Metallica fan is far more likely to listen to Mahler than an indie kid is to give reggae a try.

“Aside from their age difference, they’re_________ the same kind of person,” he said. “Lots of heavy metal fans will tell you that they also__________ Wagner, because it’s big and loud. There’s also a sense of theatre in both heavy rock and classical music, and I__________ that this is what they’re really looking to experience when they listen.”

John Gregson, 23, a classically-trained musician with a passion for heavy metal, __________. “As an instrumentalist, out of all of the main styles of music, heavy metal and classical are the ones which require the most__________ to play---they’re technically very difficult and involve playing at inhumanly fast speeds,” he said. “You feel like you’re in on a secret---you__________ it personally. It also feels like you know something that other people don’t because you__________ a style of music which is often underestimated.”

9 . My teacher Mr. Bush is the most positive person I’ve ever met. He has the ability to ________ positiveness to young students.

He always smiles and never gets ________ at students. Once I met some ________ because I felt overshadowed by my brother, who seemed to be doing great in every way. Hopelessness ________ me whenever I was in a classroom. But that all ________ when I met my teacher for life, Mr. Bush. Having found out about my problems, he just kept ________ to help me out. Because of Mr. Bush, my world was filled with ________ and power.

A few weeks ago, everyone in my class was feeling a bit ________ because of a bad day at school. But things got ________ after a close of Mr. Bush’s class. He drew a picture on the whiteboard that ________ a half-full glass of water. He then said, “Class, the point of view in which you look at things will ________ your feelings. Like this glass of water: some people see it and think ‘What! Only half a glass of water. How ________ I am.’ Whereas other people think ‘Wow, I’m so thirsty. Great! Half a glass of water for me!’ It all is in the ________ you think.”

Mr. Bush’s ________ way of thinking always makes me feel glad and ________. I will always remember him.

10 . Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been _________ by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the _________ for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are _________ a renaissance (复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national _________. Period dramas have also contributed to the _________ in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty _________ more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no _________ definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are _________ by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. “When we were little, we would drape (披) sheets and blankets to _________ we were wearing beautiful clothes,” Xiao said.

“Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu,” said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been ____________ of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) ____________. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China ____________ a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the “____________ of culture”, said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received ____________ from the Communist Youth League of China. “If we do not even ____________ our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?” she said.