2 . Eradajere Oleita thinks she may have a partial solution for two of their country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. It’s called the Chip Bag Project. As a student and_________she is asking local snack lovers a_________: Rather than throw empty chip bags_________into the trash,_________them! Then she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip_________drop off their empty bags at two_________: a print shop and a clothing store, where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they sanitize (清洁) the chip bags in soapy hot water, they slice them open,_________them flat, and iron them together. They_________fillings to line the insides.

It takes about four hours to_________a sleeping bag, and each takes around 150 to 300 chip bags, depending on whether they’re single-serve or family__________. The__________is a sleeping bag that is “waterproof, lightweight, and easy to carry around,” Oleita told theNews.

Since its start in 2020, the Chip Bag Project has__________more than 800, 000 chip bags and,__________last December, created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be__________to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But the project is only half the__________for Oleita whose family moved to the United States from Nigeria a decade ago with the hope of attaining a better life — and her fellow volunteers. “We are dedicated to making an impact not only__________but environmentally,” she says.

And, of course, there’s the symbolism of recycling bags that would__________land in the trash and using them to help the homeless. It’s a powerful__________that environmental__________and poverty often go hand in hand. As Oleita toldlocalnews. com,“I think it’s time to show__________between all of these issues.”

4 . My mom is an environmentalist. We've always composted (制堆肥） and she's always had some sort of garden. She also never threw anything away because she could see the second __ in it.

I grew into a __ lifestyle. And I started __ my carbon footprint and consumption.

I decided to __ my car for one month in May of 2017. If I needed a car, I was going to borrow someone's to prove that I had the community to __ this decision. I only ended up __ a car once, and I realized it didn't make sense to own a car, __ it and pay for gas. So in September, I fully __ and sold my car.

I also fly a lot for work, and on my __ from the travel agency, it will include how many tons of __ you're emitting (排放） from just your single __, which is like a punch in the gut.

As a result, it has become a __ for me to offset (抵消） my carbon emissions. I __ my carbon emissions, and go onto carbon footprint. com and purchase an offset in the __ of a donation. If we're going to __ the environment this much, we have to be doing something that's going to offset the carbon __ until there's a carbon tax, which I truly hope is __ we will go next.

It’s also really important to talk about what we could see the __ as, because it gets so dark so fast when people talk about __ change.

I don't know what the __ is of me not having a car, but I hope it's something positive that I can't necessarily see.

5 . From Teen Activist to TIME’s Person of the Year

With her selection, Greta Thunberg, the famous 16-year-old Swedish climate activist, has become the ______________individual ever to be named Time’s Person of the Year.

While the magazine has a long record of   ____________the power of young people, the ____________have never before selected a   _____________. The _____________individual to hold the record for youngest person of the Year was 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

Thunberg gained international attention for   ____________world leaders for their inaction in the   ____________crisis in a viral speech she made at the U.N. Climate Action Summit in September. She criticized world leaders again at the COP25 (联合国气候变化大会)conference last week.

“Thunberg has become the   ___________   voice on the biggest issue facing the planet,” Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal wrote.

At the age of eight, when Thunberg first learned about climate change, she was   ___________that adults did not appear to take the issue   ____________. It was   _________       for her to take_______   in her own life; she stops herself   ____________flying, eats no meat or dairy and she has a shop stop, meaning that she doesn’t buy new things.

On August 20, 2018, Thunberg decided that it was time for her to take her ________ to the next level and_______________. She _____others to launch climate-change strikes around the world last year. She ________school and sat down _____________Sweden’s parliament (议会) with a self-made banner “school strike for climate.” She also invited more than two million students across 135 countries to join her _____________   “Fridays for Future” _______by staging walkouts at their own schools. This past March, Thunberg was nominated(提名) for the Nobel Peace Prize.

6 . Afroz Shall, a lawyer in Mumbai, hasn't had a weekend off in four years. But he hasn't spent this time preparing for _______.

His mission? Saving the world's oceans from _______   pollution.

It's a calling he found in 2015 after moving to a community in Mumbai called Versova Beach. He had played there as a child and was _______to see how much it had _______. The sand was no longer _______ because it was covered by a layer of garbage more than five feet thick - most of it plastic waste.

“The whole beach was like a _________of plastic,” he said, “It hurt me. The _______ mess.” Shah had seen is part of a global environmental crisis. More than 8 million tons of plastic _______in the world’s oceans each year. It's predicted that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. “Plastic in the ocean is a _______. And the sea-species have no choice at all,” Shah said, “We are ____________ their habitats.”

In October 2015, shall began ____________ up plastic waste from the beach every Sunday morning. At first, it was just him and a neighbor, and then he began calling on others to join in. Word ____________ and with help from social media, more volunteers got ____________.

For Shah, the work has always been a ____________ journey, but it has earned global attention. After he was ____________ as a Champion of the Earth by the United Nations in 2016, Shah now devotes nearly all of his free time to this ______________.

He's now spent 209 weekends on this mission, ____________ more than 200,000 volunteers, some of whom are young students, to join him in what's been called the world's biggest beach cleanup. By October 2018, Versova Beach was ____________ clean and Shah's cleanups expanded to another beach as well as a stretch of the Mithi River and other regions of India.

“This world talks too much. I think we must talk ____________   and do action more,” he said when interviewed by CNN in October 2019. “We are a smart species. Well adapt. We'll learn. And with these youngsters rising up, I see ____________.”

7 . On June 8th, much of the world observes United Nations World Oceans Day. The idea is to remind people how _______the world’s oceans are to all life on Earth, to celebrate their beauty, and to bring attention to the _______human activity has on the oceans. This year, the _______is “Our Oceans, Our Future”, with _______emphasis on finding solutions to plastic pollution, and _______marine(海洋) litter for a healthier ocean and a better future.

The world’s oceans produce over half of our _______for breath, help regulate our climate, absorb carbon dioxide, and support the greatest _______of life on our planet. Nearly half of all species on Earth _______on the oceans for survival, and for many of the rest, including for people, the oceans _______the quality of life.

The oceans are ________vital to the world’s economy, because they are key to transportation and recreation. And ________over 95 percent of the underwater kingdom remains unexplored, it is nearly a certainty that their ________may hold the cure to many a disease, the resolution to many problem.

And yet, as much as 40 per cent of the world’s oceans are heavily ________by human activities that result in pollution, over-fishing, and loss of coastal habitats. Of particular ________is plastic litter. Some of it comes from ________that use our rivers, lakes and seas, and ________makes its way into the ocean. But ________washes off land into the ocean each year.

We must remember the health and safety of our oceans is our ________responsibility, one that we cannot afford to ignore. ________through good administration can we safeguard the health of our oceans, and ________that the oceans continue to meet the needs of future generations.