1 . Melbourne Girls’ College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually ____________ all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yard, ____________ 1,400 students and 140 staff to find their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will ____________ daily non-compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste” lunch boxes will be ____________. Students using only ____________ packaging will receive a token (礼券) to win prizes.

The rubbish that students take home may still go to landfill (废物填埋场) via their home bins, ____________ the new policy will help persuade ____________ to buy fewer packaged items and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and mess, can be solved. ____________ tuna (金枪鱼) in a tin, for example, can ____________ the school’s compost (堆肥) bin and the tin can be ____________ before it’s taken home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the time or means to avoid ____________ in single-use packaging, “But we are ____________ to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We talk a lot, ____________ educators, about the bad problems the world ____________, and if we don’t start putting some actions ____________ that beautiful idea, then it’s just empty.”

3 . At the beginning of high school I couldn’t get along with the new life. Besides studying harder, I also had to _________ field hockey (曲棍球).

In fact, doing field hockey was my mother’s _________. She thought I should join in field hockey at high school to make my school life full. I wanted to do volleyball — I had played it for six years, and wasn’t _______. But my mother said I was too short. She bought me a field hockey stick and _________ me on the field the night after my first day of high school.

So I _________ up to a group of girls who were talking and smiling on the field. I gathered all my courage to say _______ to them. Then we introduced ourselves.

_________, all of them accepted me into their group. We continued _________ until the coach showed up and asked me to practise with them. I tried to do well but it was so difficult! Being _______ at it, I almost wanted to give it up.

But the girls kept me ____________. They were so easy to talk to. So I continued to __________ to play it. ____________, the real turning point was when my coach taught how to play it. It truly did __________. I found out the same strategies as soccer players used. I ____________ the girl and tried to “jab” (猛击) at the ball, which was a field hockey technique. I __________ the ball several times, but a little while later it was much easier to actually push the ball away.

From then on, I played it regularly and had a little ____________. That gave me high spirits. I had achieved what I consider a(n) ____________ success, and soon the rest of my high school problems ____________ themselves. And thanks, Mom, for forcing me out of the car onto the ____________, making me face my cowardice (懦弱), and __________ me to live to my fullest potential.

4 . Today I am known for my voice. Perhaps the greatest ________ came when I was asked to read The New Testament（《新约全书》）on tape.

But it took a long time to believe such ________ things could happen to me. When I was a child, I stuttered（结巴）so badly that I was completely unable to speak in ________.

Then when I was 14, Professor Donald Crouch came to my ________. He was a retired college professor. English was his favorite subject and ________ was his deepest love. When he learned that I not only loved poetry but was ________ it, we became closer. There was, however, one ________ —Professor Crouch could not stand the fact that I ________ to read my poems to my ________.

Then one day he ________ me.

After handing in a poem, I ________ for his comment（评价）. It didn’t come. ________, one day as the students had gathered together, he ________ me,” Jim, I don’t think you wrote this poem.”

I stared at him in ________. “Why,” I started ________ flooding me. “of course I ________!” “Well, then,” he said, “you‘ve got to prove it by getting ________ and reading it from memory.”

By then the other students had settled at their desks. With knees shaking, I walked up to the ________. For a moment I stood there, ________. Then I began, and kept going. I recited my poem all the way through!

Afterwards, I discovered I did have a(n)________ and found my classmates actually looked forward to hearing me recite.