1 . In India, there are many ironing vendors (商贩) who _________ people’s clothes for a living. Their main tool is an iron box _________ by charcoal (木炭).

India’s science and technology department _________ that there are about 10 million ironing carts in the county. Each of them uses more than 5 kilograms of charcoal each day on average, Reuters reported.

After seeing her _________ ironing vendors throw the _________ charcoal away on the street side, Vinisha Umashankar, 15, told NPR that she started to “think about the amount of charcoal burned every day and the damage it does to the _________”. Burning charcoal releases greenhouse _________ such as carbon dioxide, which leads to climate change.

Vinisha, a student from Tamil Nadu, India, had the idea of creating a renewable energy source to _________ charcoal.

She spent six months designing a wheeled cant. The cant has solar panels which _________ sunlight to provide electricity that fuels the iron. Surplus energy can be __________ in a battery for use on cloudy days, according to Time magazine. Five hours of bright sunshine is enough to operate the iron for six hours.

To complete the invention, Vinisha devoted herself to reading college-level physics textbooks to __________ how solar panels work. Then, she submitted her concept to the National Innovation Foundation, run by the Indian government. __________ there helped her build a full-scale working prototype (原型) and apply for a patent, NPR reported.

Now, her innovation is getting __________ recognition. In this September, Vinisha was invited by Prince William to __________ a speech at the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 26) in Glasgow, UK, in November.

“I am not just a girl from India. I am a girl from Earth,” Vinisha said in her speech. “All of us should understand that environmental issues are real and can’t be __________ at a later date,” Vinish a continued. “There is no stop button. There is no magic fix.”

2 . Born in May 1987, Djatougbe Akouvi Aziaka is a girl from Togo, a country in West Africa. Working as a (n) _________, she has seven years of experience of writing about social, environmental, gender (性别) and cultural problems.

She also has other _________. She is president of a youth association (社团) known as Welfare Togo, as well as the owner of a media company in the West African country of Togo.

These two associations are working on sustainable (可持续性的) development challenges and have strong working relationships with many UN organizations. Welfare Togo has been _________ by many UN organizations. Its work _________ many areas, including climate change, gender equality (平等) and human _________.

For example, the _________ is now working with the UN and Togo’s government to _________desertification (荒漠化) . Togo has very little forest coverage. _________ the use of wood for fuel, as well as the practice of slash and burn (刀耕火种) agriculture, the country’s forest coverage dropped by nearly 10 percent from 1992 to 2018.

One of the Welfare Togo’s recent projects is the Signature Tree Project, which encourages students to leave their mark by _________ trees. It also promotes (促进) the __________ of energy-saving stoves (火炉) in rural areas in order to use less forest resource.

The association now has 4,090 young __________ working in five different areas in Togo. “As the leader of these young people from __________ educational and cultural backgrounds, I have learned the importance of having good leadership skills,” Aziaka said.

__________, Aziaka’s media company is trying to encourage the public to pay more attention to environmental challenges. Many people in Togo don’t know the importance of __________ the environment through their everyday practices and habits. To educate __________, the company makes documentaries (纪录片) on sustainable development problems.

4 . I looked out of the door of my 100 year-old house and saw my newly built garden. I realized nothing is rubbish. I was full of_________and appreciation.

I_________to look at the things that we usually think of as_________—plastic bags, polluted water, rubber bands, and newspapers, clothes and furniture we_________. I also began to think, act and live according to a belief that all things have the_________of being reused as long as we try to_________it. And I explored the worth of_________. I mean recycling isn't just about_________rubbish like putting glass and paper in_________bins. It also requires creativity, commitment and even love.

My neighbors would put the autumn__________by the roadside to be picked up by the garbage truck. This didn't__________with my newfound concept of recycling trash, so I made a new__________with moving boxes and put up a__________saying, ''Dump（倾倒）leaves here". I watched carefully through the autumn as my neighbors__________the leaves in the new garden and I also watered the leaves__________with rainwater and collected dogs' waste as fertilizer, Then I__________flower seeds. Finally, I had a new__________garden, full of colorful flowers.

Nothing has to be really__________. If you try hard enough, everything can be recycled. I even used my bath water to water my garden, though it might be a little__________for my friends. But I think if we all can turn waste, sometimes a little dirty, into__________, the world will be a much better place.

5 . A tornado is a rotating _________of air from a thunderstorm to the ground.The most _________has winds of more than 400 kilometres per hour.

Tornadoes can _________ cars，trains and even houses and put them down in the next street or _________ in the next town.They can take the fur_________the back of a cat.They destroy houses，but _________the furniture inside exactly where it was.

_________，there are 800 tornadoes in the US each year，_________ about 80 deaths and 1,500 injuries.The worst tornado of all time occurred in 1925，_________ three US states.By the time it ended，more than 700 people had been killed and 2,700 had been __________.

__________ are strong tropical storms.They cause huge waves，heavy rain and__________ and usually hit the east coast of the US from Texas to Maine.The__________ hurricane of all time occurred in 1,900.The disaster killed 6,000 people in a __________of 37,000 and destroyed 3,600 buildings.

Charles Coghlan，an Irish actor，__________to New York and became famous there.Then he moved to Galveston，__________ he died in 1899，a year before the hurricane__________.The cemetery where he was __________was destroyed by the hurricane and his coffin__________ in the sea.Eight years later，the coffin was found by fishermen in the east of Canada.The Gulf Stream had __________it 3,000 kilometers up the eastern US coast to Canada.Coghlan traveled to Canada after he had been buried in Texas!

8 . After a lifetime of bringing nature back. Sir David Attenborough wants us to get out of our comfort zones and help save the natural world. "I think it's terrible that children should _________without knowing what a tadpole（蝌蚪）is. It is very _________ . “ he says. He sees a very different world: Arctic sea ice has _________ and some of the reefs where he dived are lifeless. His latest film, A life On Our Planet, highlights the large scale of humanity's impact on _________ , He says, the earth is heating up and could possibly _________ it into sudden, catastrophic disaster. Probably no one else alive has _________ as much o£ the Earth's surface as Attenborough. He warned if we don't mind our ways, we will _________ life as we know it. including ourselves.

For so many years, he travelled with just a leather suitcase. His wife would see him off at the airport, never knowing _________ when he would return. In 1997・ when he was filming a _________ about birdlife, his wife suffered a serious illness. He flew to her bedside just in time for her to squeeze his __________ before she died. Afterwards, he __________ himself into his work again. These days» more often he is in a recording studio so he stresses it's film crews who spend months capturing footage（镜头），not he that should take the __________

Despite his __________ , he remains modest.   The future is at stake not for him but for the next __________,“he says, “We are representatives of a very __________ damaging species.

So just be modest. Don't waste.”