A composting (堆肥) program at The Wesley School in Los Angeles is helping students get hands-on experience and ways     1     (handle) human-driven climate change. For the past year, all the leftover food waste from the school has gone into composting containers rather than a landfill     2     it would be buried and would produce planet-warming gases.

The school’s composting program     3     (come) into being in 2022, and this year, the school held a     4    （celebrate) to reveal what happened inside a series of five-foot-tall containers. Steven Wynbrandt, a local farmer     5     composting consultant who has helped the school with its program, broke the ties that held the container closed. Rich black compost spilled out from the container.

The school will use the compost on plants around campus. Some will     6     (offer) to families that want to use it at home, and whatever is left will be donated.

It takes two hours for the container to be emptied and prepared to receive     7     next day’s lunch leftovers. The other containers remain full of food waste that is in the process of     8     (break) down. Decorated     9     (poster) on the outside of each container indicate when they can be opened so that the next generation of plants on campus can benefit     10     the rich soil.

“The Chinese Bridge contest was an important experience in my life,” said Aya Ibrahim,     1     Egyptian girl. She was awarded the top prize in the Chinese language final contest in Cairo     2     (conclude) in May 31th. “Through the stage of the     3     (compete), I gained knowledge and improved my capabilities,” said Ibrahim from Cairo University,     4     she was studying Chinese.

The girl with seven other contest winners     5    (receive) by the Chinese ambassador to Egypt and shared their stories of learning Chinese. Ibrahim said she joined in diverse Chinese activities at the Confucius Institute at Cairo University, such as     6     (recite) Chinese poetry, singing Chinese songs and dancing Chinese dances. She added that most     7     (important), learning the Chinese language had changed her     8     a confident and socialized person with a far     9     (broad) vision. The Egyptian girl’s wish is     10     she will have the opportunity to complete her post-graduate studies in China.

Latin American music is one of the most popular music in the world. Sometimes it     1    (call) Latin music, which includes the music of many countries and comes in many varieties. Some critics have defined Latin music as a    2     (combine) of four elements: music style, geography, cultural background of artist and language, the first of which contains all music styles generated from Latin countries, such as salsa, merengue, bachata as well as others     3       (gain)   from more mainstream styles, such as Latin pop, rock, jazz and hip- hop. Latin music     4     (influence)   American popular music, jazz, rhythm and blues and even country music for long.

The Argentine tango was     5    worldwide success in the 1930's,     6     it was common in dance halls for a Latin orchestra to alternate with a big band. Latin music was    7       (extreme） popular with dancers.

    8     (start)   in the mid-1980's, Billboard introduced the Top Latin Albums and Hot Latin Tracks charts for Latin music albums and singles. During the next decade, Latini music gained interest into the mainstream. Ricky Martin’ s performance of Spanglish (含有西班牙语及英文的) version The Cup of Life at the 41st Grammy Awards in 1999 was     9    made him well-known and earned him much press attention. Today most mainstream artists and producers tend to feature more on songs     10    Latin artists.