Will you eat everything in your lunch box today? If not, will you save it for another time or just throw it away?

A recent study     1     (find) that 17% of all the food     2     (produce) around the world gets wasted each year,     3     reaches about 931 million tons. Believe it     4     not, 61% of the waste happens in our houses!

Food waste in homes     5     (happen) in rich countries like the US and the UK as well as in poor countries for different reasons.

Cultural habits could also lead to waste at home,       6     (include) massive packaging and “buy one, get one free” deals. ‘Use by’ or ‘best by’ dates       7     products could also cause people to throw away food. People could throw out food because they think it is     8     (safe) to eat, when in fact the date only shows when quality might go down.

Food was     9     (much) valued even in richer countries just a few generations ago, because people often couldn’t afford to waste it.     10     (throw) away food is for sure a great waste and we should try to make people know the importance of saving food.

Over half of adults in China or more than half a billion people are now overweight, an official report has found. The figures have increased     1     (large) since 2002 when 29% of adults were overweight.

The country’s rapid economic(经济)    2     (grow) in recent years has led to major changes to lifestyle, diet and exercise habits. In October, Chinese government announced plans to deal with rising levels of obesity(肥胖). A higher obesity     3    (increase)the risk for a number of diseases including heart disease.

The obesity has come under renewed focus during the pandemic(流行病)as     4    (study) have showed that overweight or obese people are more likely     5    (suffer)trouble or death from Covid-19. The report blamed decreasing levels of physical activity for the country’s obesity,    6     less than a quarter of the adult population exercising at least once a week.

A growing love for meat and a low consumption(消耗)of fruit were also thought of as factors behind the rise. Wang Dan,    7     nutritionist in the city of Harbin, told the AFP news that many adults in the country now “exercise too little, are under too much pressure, and have a (n)     8    (healthy) work schedule”.

China is one of the countries     9     have seen an increase in the number of overweight people in recent years. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that levels of obesity across the world     10    (rise) greatly since 1975, including in low and middle-income countries.

According to the Shaanxi Online News, a pavement along the Yanta Road in Xi'an has now got     1     (it) a special lane (通道) for “phubbers” -people who stare at their phones and ignore everything else around them. The lane     2     (paint) red, green and blue, and is 80 cm wide and 100 m long. Pictures of smartphones along the route distinguish it     3     an ordinary pedestrian lane.

The pavement is a busy channel and cars often come onto it. As     4     result, a large shopping mall,     5     looks onto the street, pushes to have the lane for pedestrians who might not be paying attention to their     6     (surround).

The news website Shaanxi Online News interviewed locals. Some welcomed the introduction of the lane. One said it was the first time he     7     (see) such a thing and that he thought it was “pretty good”. Another local said, “Young people's lives nowadays are fast and they're always looking at their phones. The lane, which will improve the     8     (safe) of phubbers, is a form of protection for them.”

However, others' view about the lane is     9     (complete) different. One said that the lane wouldn't work, and phubbers     10     (use) the lane might still risk hitting each other.

Some high school students do some jobs in order to train themselves as well as earn some money. As far as I'm concerned, I am     1    （absolute）in favor of such practice for reasons as follows.

First of all, in my opinion,     2     what we have learned in class is important, equal concentration should     3    （put）on our practical abilities which matters a lot to our future career. And doing odd jobs in vacations just     4    （satisfy）such needs. Secondly, some students spend money like water, which indicates they are     5    （conscious）how hard their parents make a living. Therefore, to arouse students' attention,     6     seems to be the best way for students to experience the hardship,     7     offers a golden chance for them to appreciate their parents' great efforts. And lastly, doing odd jobs enables students     8    （expose）to the real     9    （social）and meet people from all walks of life.

In conclusion, doing odd jobs in the vacation does     10    （much）good than harm to students, and they should find as many chances as they can to develop various abilities by this means.

Family drama “A Love for Dilemma”, focusing     1     China's education system and parent-child relationship, started airing on iQIYI on April 11, and     2    (cause) a wide public concern among netizens ever since.

    3    (base)on a novel, the drama centers around several     4    (family) whose children are about to enter middle school. Different generations of people hold different attitudes toward the children's education,     5     leads to conflicts, misunderstandings and relationship crises.

The director of the drama,     6     mother of two herself, admits she used to be anxious about her children's education like most mothers in China.     7     she wanted to give her children sweet memories and a happy childhood, she was worried their studies would fall behind without taking extra lessons. “I hope to remind the audience     8     (give) children more time and patience, and set aside the anxiety and confusion," Zhou said, "Let nature take     9     (it) course and everything that happens in life has its own meaning.”

A netizen commented that the drama encourages her to cherish every moment in life, even the ordinary ones. "The meaning of life is not to compete, but to experience, explore and fulfill one's     10     (responsible) for the world," she said.

The water is sitting in around 1000 tanks at the former nuclear power station, but the amount is growing    1    (day) as rainfall and groundwater    2    (enter) the site continue to be polluted. With an average of 160 tonnes a day being added last year, the International Atomic Energy Agency expects existing capacity will be full by mid-2022.

That is     3     the Japanese government is reportedly going to approve a strategy    4    discharging the water to the ocean, as    5     (recommend) by scientific advisers. The release would start in around 2022 and continue for decades.

The news sparked immediate     6     (complain) from Japanese fishing groups and covering warnings that China    7    (ban) Japanese seafood imports. But are people right to be worried about the    8     (environment) and health effects of releasing such a large amount of contaminated water?

Much of the existing water     9     (filter) already by a process designed to remove more than 62 radioactive contaminants. The Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the firm    10    runs the site, have emphasized that the main radionuclide(放射性核) remaining is tritium(氚). Francis Livens at the University of Manchester, UK, says this is very hard to separate because it is a radioactive isotope(同位素) of hydrogen, and so part of the water molecules themselves.

China’s poverty-relief achievements    1    (contribute) more than 70 percent to global poverty alleviation (脱贫)in the past four decades-a great achievement    2    (acknowledge) by the United Nations and the World Bank.

China lifted 740 million people in rural areas out of poverty between 1978 and 2017,    3    19 million people each year, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. The country had another 30 million people to lift out of poverty.

In 2018, official data showed that 13.86 million people    4    (lift) out of poverty. The government aims    5    (help)another 20 million people in the next two years, in order to get rid of poverty in the country.

No other country in the world has managed to improve the living conditions of so many people over such a relatively short period. The    6    (grade) opening-up of the economy to external investments for export    7    (produce) provided vast numbers of jobs for people from rural villages.

    8    easing poverty in rural areas, China has an ongoing parallel policy to build a moderately prosperous society by 2020, a crucial aspect of    9    is setting up a basic social security system. This has been done    10    (progress) since the 1980s.