1 . Owura Kwadwo Hottish teaches computer science in a school. It is a normal school except for the fact that it didn’t have______

Owura became famous after he posted photos of him on the Internet. In the picture. people could see he was teaching his students by______ an entire computer on the blackboard.The photos showed the______level of education for children in Ghana. People were______ that Owura made sure each button was drawn correctly. He would come to school half an hour ahead of______every day. He drew the computer on the blackboard, but at the end of his class, it was______off to start the next class, so he had to______it the next day! Owura’s efforts______when Microsoft took______of his act. They first took him to an international educators’ meeting in Singapore. He made a______about his teaching methods at the meeting and ______a standing ovation(欢呼) after the speech.

______,Owura got the thing he always wanted for his students—some companies______computers to the school. Not a single child in the school had seen a real computer in their lives. Thanks to their teacher’s______the world took care and treat them with ______

2 . “Little Annie” Sullivan, as she was called when she was young, was no stranger to hardship. She was _______sightless herself and was, at one time, diagnosed(诊断)as hopelessly insane(精神病的)by the doctors. She was locked in the basement of a _______ institution outside of Boston. At times, Little Annie would violently _______ anyone who came near. Most of the time she generally _________everyone in her presence.

An elderly nurse _______ there was hope, however, and she made up her mind to show love to the child. Every day she visited Little Annie. For the most part, the child did not acknowledge(理会)the nurse’s presence, but she still _______ to visit. The kindly woman left cookies for her and spoke words of love and encouragement. She was sure that Little Annie could _______, if only she were shown love.

Eventually, doctors noticed a _______in the girl. Where they once saw anger and hate, they now noted gentleness and _______.They moved her upstairs where she continued to ________ .Then the day finally came when this seemingly “hopeless”child was set free.

Anne Sullivan ________ into a young woman with a(n) hope to help others as she, herself, was helped by the kindly nurse. It was she who ________the great potential in Helen Keller. She loved her, trained her and played with her. Anne Sullivan worked________in Helen’s life; but it was the loving nurse who first believed in Little Annie and lovingly changed an uncommunicative child into a kind-hearted teacher.

The name of Helen Keller would have ________ unknown if it had not been for Anne Sullivan.   __________would the name of Anne Sullivan if it had not been for the kind and devoted nurse. And so it goes. Just how far back does the chain of love extend(延伸)? And how forward will it lead?

4 . I can well remember the pain. My stomach was sick, my heart hurt, and my eyes were painful from holding back tears.

“You know, Annie,” my friend John said. “Joanna and Andrea were just talking about you.” I immediately got nervous. “They said that the only reason you start on the basketball team is that the coach likes you. It’s not that you’re good.” I thought I might be sick. “They said they’re tired of you always getting what you want.”

I struggled to keep myself from crying, sinking to my knees on the cold floor. After John told me everything my supposed best friends said about me, I was hurt.

Joanna and Andrea came in, acting as if nothing had happened. Joanna was still my deskmate, and Andrea was still my partner for our history project. I was amazed at their abilities to pretend we had perfect friendship, especially since they’d said such hurtful things.

I was a freshman in high school, and I felt like I didn’t have a friend in the world, all because of gossip.

The tongue can be our worst enemy. Gossips harm confidence and separate close friends. They are like sharp knives, cutting one’s self-respect into pieces. When we say unkind things about others, we’re sticking knives into their hearts.

So how was I to act next? When Joanna and Andrea pretended our friendship hadn’t changed, I thought of attacking them back. But instead, I told them directly that they had hurt me. Joanna started crying and Andrea was speechless. I knew they were both sorry for what they had said. They apologized, and I forgave them. Sure, things were a little embarrassing at first, but soon enough everything was back to the way it had been before.

I still deal with gossip, sometimes as a receiver and sometimes as a sharer. But the more I learn about the friendship, the more I realize the importance of tolerating others—something gossip never does.

5 . In the United States, a company is working on a project that could change the way we think about public transportation. Its planned system would move people around in steel tubes. Those passengers would be traveling at speeds of up to 1,200 kilometers per hour.

The futuristic transportation system is called Hyperloop. Workers plan to test the system next year in a specially built community called Quay valley. The town will be powered entirely by energy from the sun.

The Hyperloop transport system is the idea of businessman Elon Musk. Dirk Ahlborn is head of Hyperloop Transportation Technologies. He says his company has taken Mr. Musk's idea and is developing a system that will be safe, environmentally friendly and fast.

It’s 100 percent solar-powered... we’re not going to get up to 760 miles per hour, but we believe we can actually break the records that are exiting right now.”

This means that a four-hour drive from Los Angeles, California to Las Vegas, Nevada, could someday take only 30 minutes by Hyperloop.

The system involves a series of capsules that float inside a long tube. These containers wouldn’t need to travel along a pathway or track. The system has been designed to operate above or below ground.

Inside the tube there is a low-pressure environment very similar to an airplane that’s at high altitudes. So now the capsule travelling inside the tube doesn’t meet with as much resistance, and therefore can travel really fast with very little energy.

Dick Ahlborn and his company will use an eight-kilometer track in Quay Valley to find the best way to set up passenger traffic and repair capsules. A larger system will cost an estimated 6 — 10 billion dollars to build.

If Mr. Ahlborn and his company succeed, we may one day see these very fast Hyperloop capsules speeding through tubes around the world.

7 . Three years ago, a group of researchers at Cornell University’s Food and Brand Lab had a guess. They knew that many apples being _______ to kids as part of the National School Lunch Program were ending up in the trash, almost untouched. But unlike others, they wondered if the reason was more complicated than simply that the kids didn’t want the _______.

They thought the fact that the apples were being served _______, rather than sliced (切成片的), was doing the fruit no favor. And they wanted to _______ this idea.

They carried out a pilot study (初步研究) at eight _______ and found that fruit consumption _______ by more than 60 percent when apples were served sliced. They _______ made a follow-up study at six other schools, which not only showed the same result, but further _______ it. Both the overall apple consumption and the percentage of students who ate more than half of the apple served to them were more than 70 percent higher at schools that served _______ apples.

Based on these ________, it seems that even the simplest forms of ________ can influence us. Sliced apples just make more sense for kids. The hardest part is getting kids to start eating fruit, and that’s exactly why sliced apples are the way to go. A child holding a whole apple has to break the skin, eat around the core (果核), and ________ the inconvenience of holding a large fruit. These ________ might seem silly or unimportant, but they’re important when you’re ________ teeth or have braces (牙箍), as so many kids do.

It’s one of those situations where what seems like a really ________ inconvenience actually makes a huge difference.

10 . Germany is the leader of the world’s waste-recycling race. The country has quite a detailed way of sorting their waste – down to the color of glass waste, the type of paper, the separate bin for metals, etc.

Here below are what you should know about Germany’s waste sorting system:

● You are expected to gather your waste in your apartment/housing area’s local public garbage bins.

● There are commonly several types of public garbage bins available in the German’s apartment/housing area:

● Blue bin –– for paper and cardboard

● Green and white bin –– for glass, different bins for differently colored glass, not available for holiday decorations and lights

● Yellow/orange bin –– for plastic and metals

● Brown bin –– for goods that can be changed naturally by bacteria into substances that don’t harm the environment, like leftovers, fruit and vegetables

● Gray/black bin –– for everything else that can’t be recycled such as used cat litter and animal waste

● Some items don’t belong in these public garbage bins. Items like used batteries, electronics, unused paints, and lights must be returned to the special agents/locations so they can be properly recycled. Other items such as clothes, shoes, and oversized rubbish and furniture are advised to be donated or sold.

● There’s this thing called Pfand in Germany, a certain part of the price for a bottled drink that you get back if you send back the bottle to certified shops. German law requires shops over a certain size selling bottled drinks have a Pfandruckgabestelle, or place for bottles with deposits. These bottles usually made of glass or plastic will be refilled. Of course, there’re strict health regulations.