3 . Next week, as millions of families gather for their Thanksgiving feasts (大餐), many other Americans will go without. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, more than 12 million households _________ enough food for everyone in their family at some time during the year — including _________.

Hunger is surprisingly widespread in our country — one of the world’s wealthiest — yet the government estimates that we waste almost 100 billion pounds of food each year, more than one-quarter of our total supply.

Reducing this improper distribution of _________ is a goal of America’s Second Harvest, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization. Last year, it _________ nearly 2 billion pounds of food to more than 23 million people in need.

America’s Second Harvest is a network of 214 inter-connected food banks and other organizations that _________ food from growers, processors, grocery stores and restaurants. _________, the network distributes food to some 50,000 soup kitchens (施食处), homeless _________ and old people’s centers in every county of every state.

A great deal of work is involved in distributing tons of food from thousands of _________ to thousands of small, non-profit organizations. Until a few years ago, America’s Second Harvest lacked any _________ way to manage their inventory (存货). Without accurate and timely information, soup kitchens were sometimes empty while food was left to __________ in loading places.

In 2000, America’s Second Harvest began to use a new inventory and financial-management system — Ceres. It is a __________ designed specifically for hunger-relief operations. It is used by more than 100 America’s Second Harvest organizations to __________ food from donation to distribution.

Ceres has helped __________ the spoiling of food and improve distribution. An evaluation found that the software streamlined (精简) food banks’ operations by 23 percent in the first year alone.

With more accurate and timely reports, Ceres saves time, frees staff members to focus on finding new donors, and __________ more efficient use of donations.

Hunger in America remains a(n) __________ social problem. Technology alone cannot solve it. But in the hands of organizations such as America’s Second Harvest, it is a powerful tool that is helping to make a difference — and helping more Americans to join in the feast.

4 . How Facebook Programmed Our Relatives

Three years ago, on his birthday, a law professor watched his e-mail inbox as usual. But it was filled with Facebook notifications (通告) ________ that friends had posted messages on his wall. The messages made him sad. The blocked inbox was ________, but what really upset him was having disclosed his birth date to Facebook in the first place. It’s not necessary for social networking to comply with (遵守) privacy laws, as some people ________ believe. He hadn’t paid much attention when he signed up—as with most electronic contracts, there was no room for negotiation about terms. He ________ Facebook’s instructions, entered the data and clicked a button.

A few days later, the law professor decided to change the birth date on his Facebook profile to ________ the same situation next year. But when the fake date rolled around, his inbox again was flooded with Facebook notifications. Two of the messages were from close relatives, one of whom he had spoken with on the phone on his actual birthday! How could she not realize that the date was ________?

Our hypothesis (假设): she’d been programmed!

That law professor was one of us, and it confirmed his ________ that most people respond ________ to Facebook’s prompts (提示) to provide information or contact a friend without really thinking much about it. That’s because digital networked technologies are engineering humans to behave like simple stimulus-response machines.

Social media plays a tremendous role in modern life. Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become the primary ways of keeping in touch with friends, family, classmates and colleagues. To date, ________, researchers have not fully explored the degree to which these platforms are literally programming human responses. Social media platforms encode a range of social ________: Facebook notifies us when it is time to wish our friends a happy birthday; LinkedIn prompts us to congratulate contacts on their work anniversaries. As a result, social interactions are often ________ to the click of a button.

Facebook may increase the number of people to whom we wish a happy birthday with a few clicks of a button; it’s not as if we remember the birth dates of that high school classmate or distant cousin. But if it becomes ________ behavior, is it even meaningful? As for people who aren’t on Facebook or don’t post their birth dates publicly, the ________ they exact over their data comes at a cost: they don’t receive scores of well-wishes from far-flung contacts. ________, it’s still nice to be thought of, even if just once a year.

Digital platforms are ________ what it means to be human, and we can’t rely on the platforms to police or research ourselves. In the meantime, when your birthday rolls around, enjoy the warm feelings from friends sending their regards—but remember that they don’t know when your birthday really is any more than you do theirs.

5 . The sound that woke Damian Languell at 8:15 in the morning was so loud that he thought it came from inside his house in Wade, Maine. As he _________ to examine, he heard another sound, this one coming most definitely from _________. Looking out of his bedroom window, he saw smoke from a car about 500 yards away, its engine in _________.

“I grabbed (抓住) buckets of water,” Languell told BBC News. Then he and his girlfriend ran to the crash site. The badly-damaged car looked _________ up close. The car, a 1998 Buick, running into a tree, was broken nearly _________ two. No one should have _________this crash, and, _________ there was 16-year-old Quintin Thompson, whose _________ face was pressed against the driver’s side window, _________. Languell, 35, tried ____________ the fire with his buckets of water with no success. “When the flames got into the front seats, I realized I had to get him out of there,” he told WAGM-TV.

Languell ____________ the Buick’s back door and crawled (爬) in. Thompson was struggling to get ____________, Languell says. “That’s ____________ I noticed how bad his legs were.” Using a pocketknife he’d had brought with him, he ____________ through Thompson’s seat belt.

Now that Thompson was free of the ____________, Languell pulled him out a back window of the vehicle, and then pulled the teen to safely “before the ____________ car was in flames,” the police said.

____________ Thompson hurt his legs, and face, a social media post described him ____________ “looking great, smiling, and joking.” Languell thinks about that day often. “My heart goes out to Thompson. When you are that close to that level of hurt, you feel it so ____________.”

Languell is one of the real-life ____________ changing the world.

6 . One of the biggest complaints in modern society is being over-scheduled. Ask people how they are and the answer usually is “super busy,” “crazy busy” . _______ is just “fine” any more.

When people aren’t super busy at _______, they are crazy busy exercising, entertaining or parenting. And if   there is ever a still moment for thoughts—for example, while waiting _______ at the supermarket or sitting   in traffic—out come the mobile phones. So it’s worth noting a study published last month in Science, which shows how _______ people will go to avoid the examination for our thoughts.

“We had noted   that we   are   so   dependent on   our mobile   phones that   people seem to   find   any _______ they can to keep busy,” said Timothy Wilson, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. In his experiments involving 700 people, the majority found it _______ to be alone with their thoughts for just 6 to 15 minutes.

It could   be because human beings,   as problem solvers and   meaning makers, when _______, tend to       think about what’s wrong in their lives. When we aren’t _______ our Facebook page, the things we haven’t   figured out appear in our minds—_______ relationships, professional failures, health concerns, etc. Unless     there is a solution, these thoughts just ________ themselves in our heads.

But you can’t solve problems ________ you don’t allow yourself time to   think about them. It has        actually been ________ by our culture, which values doing more than thinking and believes answers are in        your hand ________ in your head. “We   all fell that busyness   is ________ but it’s really harmful,”   said        Timothy. “There’s a widespread belief that thinking will only slow you down and get ________, but it’s the opposite.” ________ negative feelings only makes them more powerful, he said. Allowing and ________ the   flow of thoughts is part of the solution itself, such as meditation(冥想).

Negative feelings are sometimes hard, but they are part of everyone’s life, ________ if you are busy. It is those deep   and troubling feelings,   and how you ________ them, that make you who   you are. While       busyness may seem to prevent the flow of sadness, it may also limit your ability to be filled with ________.

7 . I was eleven years old standing outside in just my underwear (内衣) while I saw our house burnt to the ground. A few minutes earlier I had been sound asleep in my bed when a _________ woke me up. My nana’s _________ was just next to my brother’s and mine. A fire had broken out there and awakened her. Hearing her shouting, my older brother _________ quickly. While I was walking difficultly in the _________ and darkness, he ran from room to room _________ everyone in the house. The house, however, was over 50 years old and made of wood. Before we could _________ anything, the fire destroyed it.

I stood there _________ when the fire destroyed my books, clothes, and toys. I watched_________ while my mom cried and my dad sighed (叹息). I _________ what was going to happen to us since we had __________ all of our things. As I looked around, though, I __________ something for the first time: The things that __________ aren’t things. I saw my older brother running to get __________. I saw my nana and dad sitting together and my mom __________ our little dog. I realized at that moment that we were all__________. Everything that was essential (必要的) had survived the fire. Our __________ would continue. We were so __________. We would all be around to love each other for many years to come. And that was all that mattered.

I __________ think of that fire that helped me to become who I am today. It showed me for the very first time what is truly __________ in my life. It helped me to learn that the__________ we share is far more important than the things we own.

8 . Colorado’s grey peak rises 14,278 feet above sea level, high enough that trees can’t grow toward the top. It was in this unforgiving land of the mountain that Jane was ________ enough to break her left knee.

It was August 2018, and Jane, 56, was on her way back ________ the path with three friends. A storm was on the way, and they were ________ to get off the mountain. When they ________ a rocky drop of a couple of feet, Jane decided that instead of slipping down—the safe way to go—she would leap. She ________ on her left leg.

Then she heard the crack.

Every step after that was great ________. Before long, she had to stop. As one friend ran down to get ________, a number of other hikers, all strangers, attempted to help Jane down the narrow path by walking on either side of her to ________ her weight, but that proved slow and ________. One man “was so close to the edge I could see rocks ________ down from where he stepped on them,” Jane says.

________, one hiker, Matt, asked her, “How do you feel about a fireman’s carry?” ________ she knew it, he had lifted her over his shoulder. “Now, I’m not ________,” says Jane, a former college basketball star. Matt ________ couldn’t carry her all the way down by himself. So six hikers and one of her friends ________ carrying her while she tried to make light of a difficult ________: “I told them I wanted to meet a lot of guys, ________ this isn’t the way I wanted to do it.” Three hours later, this human conveyor belt finally met the medics (医学工作者), who took Jane to the hospital ________.

She has mostly recovered from her ill-fated ________, but knows she’ll never shake one thing from that day: the memory of the band of strangers who came to her ________. “I’m still in awe.”

9 . It's once again been declared the world's most popular museum. ______ . it may not be a______ thing for the Louvre (卢浮宫) in Paris.

The museum broke its own______in 2018, welcoming 10.2 million_____and claiming the top spot in an index of the world's most-visited museums.

But the Louvre's uptick (小幅上升) in visitors is_____ too much for many of its workers, _____ by reception and security staff over the number of tourists______ through its doors have hit opening hours throughout the week.

"The Louvre is suffocating (令人窒的)," the workers union said in a statement. "The public has increased by more than 20% since 2009, but the palace has not grown,"it_____.

The museum was_ ___on Monday and opened later than advertised on Wednesday, due to a ____with the dissatisfied workers. visitors have ______outside the building throughout the week, and those without bookings have been________.

Although tensions with its workers_______ , the museum's bottom line is looking _______.The Louvre broke its 2012 _______record last year, marking a dramatic _______ from a sharp downturn in visits in 2017 that was due to a sudden decrease in_______in Paris.

The social media that are_______about Beyoncé and Jay Z's music_______filmed at the museum may have played into that increase.

But while visitor numbers rose at the Louvre, overall attendance was relatively_______among the top 20 museums in the world last year. Attendance grew among the top 20 by just 0.1% from 2017 to 2018.

10 . Mike was 11. As his birthday was coming up，he _____ his father to buy him a bike, so that he could go to school cycling and not by _____ or relying on his father to _____ him at school, which was _____ a mile away from his home.

On his _____ , seeing a set of books wrapped nicely in his father's hand, though _____ , he thanked his father. Mike's father was _____ as he didn't have enough money to buy a bike.

After a week，when Mike was walking home from school, he saw a boy riding a bike. Mike _____ that the bike was too small for the big boy. _____，the boy ran into a post and fell on the street. Mike rushed to him and ______ him who was his schoolmate Sam.

Mike helped him stand up and provided him with water. _____ Sam was riding the bike fast, his left leg and hands were ______ injured. Mike asked him to sit in a corner and took the bike and rushed to a ______ nearby.

An ambulance （救护车）came and carried Sam to hospital. He then rushed to Sam's home and ______ his parents about the accident.

Sam and his parents thanked Mike for the ______ help. Mike in turn said, “It was all ______ just because I rode Sam's bike. ” He added, “The bike is too small for Sam to ride and that's why he was _______” Mike met Sam every day in hospital until he ______.

Sam got a new bike and he came to know that Mike didn't have the ______ to own a bike. He gave his old bike to Mike and with his parents' ______, Mike accepted the gift.