1 . Melbourne Girls' College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually_______all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yard, _________1400 students and 140 staff to find their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will _______ daily non- compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste" lunch boxes will be _______. Students using only _______ packaging will receive a token (礼券）to win prizes such as keepcups.

The rubbish that students take home may still go to landfill(废物填埋场）via their home bins, _______the new policy will help persuade_______to buy fewer packaged items and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and mess, can be solved._______tuna （金枪鱼）in a tin, for example, can_______ the school's compost（堆肥）bin and the tin can be __________ before it's taken home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the time or means to avoid   ________ in single-use packaging, “but it's________to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We talk a lot, ________ educators, about the bad problems the world ________, and if we don't start putting some actions ________ that beautiful idea, then it's just empty."

4 . In 1994, The Brazilian photographer Salgado went back to his homeland in Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was__________ to see the land run by his family. The thick forest there was once a paradise   ( 乐园 ) for him and his friends, bringing them___ memories.

To his horror, he saw a totally different____. Only 0.5% of the land was covered with trees. “The land was as sick as a serious patient — everything was______ due to deforestation (砍伐森林),” Salgado said___ during a meeting on climate change in Paris.

Salgado ______that he should do something about it. Then he ______the bold idea of replanting trees on the land, which beyond his expectations, received___ from his wife and relatives. Soon the whole family _______   and the results are remarkable. _______, the land is changing: It is carpeted with green trees again and some of the insects, birds and animals living in the land before____. The land has been brought back to life. The___ family’s hard work also impressed people around them. They___ cutting down trees and began to protect the environment.

“The work over the years is quite difficult but well worth the_____ and I think every   little bit of work_____,” said Salgado. Therefore, everyone should play a part in protecting   the environment.

7 . The last complete ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has collapsed(倒塌).The Milne Ice Shelf is _______ Ellesmere Island,Canada.The shelf lost _______ 40 percent of its area in just two days at the end of July.

Above normal air temperatures,offshore winds and open water in front of the shelf are all parts of the _______ for its break-up.The shelf area shrank(缩小）by about 80 square kilometers.By comparison,the island of Manhattan in New York _______ about 60 square kilometers.Temperatures in the polar area have been _______ intense(强烈的).Summer in the Canadian Arctic this year has been 5 degrees Celsius_______ the 30-year average.That has _______ smaller ice caps,_______ can melt quickly.As a glacier disappears,more bedrock is left _______.This then speeds up the melting__________. A research camp,including instruments for measuring water flow through the ice shelf,was lost when the shelf at Ellesmere Island collapsed.

＂It was only a __________ of time,"said Mark Serreze,director of the National Snow and Ice Data Center. His study showed the ice caps were__________ to disappear within five years.Their disappearance was __________ last month,when NASA satellite images of the area showed a complete lack of snow and ice.Serreze's __________ trip to the Arctic was many years ago."When I was there in the 1980s,I knew every square inch of those ice caps,"Serreze said."You have the good __________.It's like your first girlfriend.I want her back."

8 . People in the world sometimes are affected by natural disasters．When Hurricane Harvey hit Texas，Reader’s Digest wrote about impressive rescues．The spirit of serving can be incredibly ____．Here is a story from Annalysa Longworth，a survivor of Hurricane Maria，in her own ___ ．

“The total 36 hours of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico was ____ the scariest event we’ve ever gone through．Our house sits on the north-west coast of Rinc6n．In the ____ ，over 100 mph winds changed direction causing a great amount of water flooding our ___ ．The only place left dry and safe was our kitchen floor，where we were ____ to ride out the rest of the storm．It has been 50 days since the   ___ ，and we are still without power and water．During our regular afternoon showers，we are glad to ____ rainwater but are quickly reminded of the people living without roofs，and how ____ it must be for them．Our emotions are consistently in a state of ____．

Recently，our good friends told us about a video interview they were doing with Watts of Love，a solar light company．The company generously gave us a headlamp for our personal   ___ and a box with 50 headlamps to distribute throughout our town．Rincón was completely blacked out，so making a simple walk through a parking lot to our car is ___ ．We used to rush to get things done before ___   ，but now I continue daily chores in the dark．What ____ our lives most was being able to share this gift with others．We ____ the lamps house by house to the people in the mountains who needed them most，as even batteries and candles are ____there．Even though ____ have come slowly，people have been out of work and can’t afford to ____ their electric bill．I’11 always be ____ to Watts of Love for allowing us to pay it forward and be witnesses to the smiles that ____ can bring．”

9 . When the Hurricane Laura _________ the city of Lake Charles, an evacuation was ordered. But for the 19 newly-born babies, leaving was pretty much _________. Members at the hospital were _________ that they’d remain with them until the danger passed.

With the strong wind through the town, Dr. Juan Bossano with 14 nurses, and some other _________ stayed behind in the NICU(新生儿加护病房), _________ their little babies in turn. Later, for their safety, they _________ the babies to their main campus (主院区) across the city in under two hours. The whole hospital went all out to make sure the babies and everything necessary safely made the _________.

Unfortunately, during the night the air conditioning was _________ and water was cut off in the hospital. Throughout the hurricane, Dr. Bonssano kept anxious parents calm by frequent _________ to his Facebook page.

The storm over, the babies were sent to other NICUs where necessary services hadn’t been__________ by the hurricane. This morning, the babies were __________. “Thank Goodness, I finally got a couple of hours of __________.” said Bossano. It’s important to know the devotion of all the nurses and doctors to keep taking care of the babies when they don’t even know the __________ of their own homes. “In a small town like this, people have to __________. I’m proud of them.” Bossano __________.

10 . The world itself us becoming much smaller by using modern traffic and modern communication means (通讯设备). _________ today is much easier than it was hundreds of years ago, but it has brought new _________. One of the biggest is pollution. To pollute means to make things dirty. Pollution comes in many ways. We see it, _________ it, drink it and even hear it.

Man has been polluting the earth. The _________ people, the more pollution. Many years ago, the pollution was not so serious _________ there were not so many people. When the land was used up or the river was dirty in one place, man _________ to another place. But this is no longer true. Man is now slowly polluting the whole world.

Air pollution is now the most serious. It’s _________ for all living things in the world, but it is not the only one kind of pollution. Water pollution _________ our fish and pollutes our drinking water. Noise pollution makes us become _________ more easily.

Many countries are making rules to fight pollution. They __________ people from burning coal (煤) in houses and factories in the city, and from putting dirty __________ into the air.

Pollution by SO2 is now the most __________ kind of air pollution. It is caused by heavy traffic. It is true that if there are fewer people __________, there will be less air pollution.

The earth is our home. We must take care of it. That means __________ the land, water and air clean. And we must take care of the __________ in population at the same time.