3 . Many poor children in Africa struggle on tuition for an education. However, a new school has been asking their pupils to pay for classes with _________.

Every week, students _________ the Akshar School are required to line up and “pay” for their classes using grocery bags _________ at least 25 pieces of plastic waste they _________ from around their homes and communities.

Parmita and Mazin, the couple _________ for the new school, were _________ to launch the campaign after witnessing their students being forced to _________ the acrid smell of burning plastic. That’s _________ before the school was opened in 2016, local families and communities _________ burned plastic waste as a means of keeping warm and fueling fires.

Now, the plastic is being collected and recycled at the school’s own recycling center. The school __________ the trash into Ecobricks by compressing (压缩) about 40 pieces of garbage into a(n) __________ plastic bottle.

Furthermore, the school’s older students can work part-time at the center as an additional source of __________.

Now the school owns over 100 students __________ the ages of 4 and 15. Since the school’s __________ curriculum has attracted more and more __________ to enroll, the couple plan on opening another 100 schools over the next five years.

4 . In 1906, Theodore Roosevelt (1858—1919), America’s 26th president, signed the American Antiquities Act. The law ______ him—and future presidents—to take immediate action to protect important cultural or natural ______. During his time ______ (1901-1909), he established five new national parks and 18 national monuments. He became ______ as “the conservationist (环境保护主义者) president”.

Roosevelt’s______ for the land and environment came from the time he spent in the Dakota Territory. In 1883, he came to Dakota in ______ of hunting huge animals called bison and had a great ______ in the Western frontier lifestyle.

Roosevelt soon developed an interest in ______ cattle. He entered the business and ______ $14, 000 to build the Maltese Cross Ranch (牧场). Roosevelt returned to New York while workers constructed the ranch. But, in 1884, he experienced two great ______ losses. His mother and wife ______ illnesses on the same day.

Roosevelt again ______ west and sought to ______ the reminders of his recent losses. Roosevelt ______ between New York and Dakota. In 1885, Roosevelt published his first book about his ______ as a rancher and hunter. In it, he predicted that the cattle industry was not sustainable (可持续性的). In other words, it would not ______.

Roosevelt was right. Severe weather ______ the area in 1886 and 1887. In the winter, a terrible ______ killed many cattle. The animals that survived the cold soon starved. The experience, however, influenced Roosevelt’s beliefs about the need for ______ in America. Those beliefs, in turn, helped ______ his policies as president.

6 . Good morning to the honorable Principal and teachers. First of all I am very ________ to my teacher, Mrs Chopra, who ________ me and offered me the chance to make a speech here. I have ________ “A Clean India Campaign” as a topic. It is a mass movement ________ by the government on October 2nd, 2014, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi, who always kept Indians’ ________ and India’s cleanliness in mind, and thought physical condition ________ the environment greatly, and continues to this day.

Cleanliness is not ________ to any person or place: it’s the combined responsibility of all citizens. The Prime Minister Narendra Modi, taking ________ of the campaign, said this drive is ________ politics and inspired by patriotism (爱国精神).

To make this movement ________ during the process, Indian Prime Minister ________ suggests nine role models to practice, and then asks them to ________ another nine people again to continue this ________, till the message of A Clean India Campaign ________ everyone in the country. He said the mission has to be ________ by October 2nd, 2019, the 150th birth anniversary of Gandhi.

7 . In many parts of the world, forest land has been changed into cities, farmland or even deserts, which affects the climate, forces animals to _________ or die, and causes deserts to become larger.

China needs to plant trees with many of its forests _________. So it has a great number of tree-planting _________. China plants more trees than the rest of the _________. Who are some of the people behind these huge _________? Let’s find out.

In Jiangxi Province, 83-year-old Zou Lianying has been planting trees for almost 20 years. She _________ that planting trees is good for the _________. Therefore, at 64, she _________ her cows and pigs and also borrowed money to open a forest farm, which has more than 8 million trees _________ about 4 km². Her trees are worth around 12 million RMB but she won’t __________ even one tree and still lives very __________. Why did she do so? She believes the __________ will be a gift to future __________.

Near Beijing, 20 km² of hills have turned __________, thanks to millions of trees planted by Wei Guiying in the past 20 years. It hasn’t been __________ for her. She has borrowed a lot of money to pay for young trees. However, she says proudly that she’s not a __________ but she has millions of trees.

A lot of __________ is still needed to prevent deserts from getting __________. But if more of us can be like these tree __________, it will certainly make __________ better for everyone.

8 . In February 1970, a group of activists gathered in Vancouver, Canada to discuss a planned nuclear test on the Alaskan island of Amchitka. They eventually agreed to sail to the test site and _________ against the explosion in person. At the end of the meeting, the chairman raised two fingers to the room and shouted “Peace!”. After a brief pause, one young attendee _________ with a monumental line: “Let’s make that a green peace”. The group were so _________ the phrase that they named their first boat the Green Peace.

Over the last 50 years, the _________ movement has become so closely associated with the colour green that it’s almost impossible to see a green poster, label or recycling bag without thinking about our planet’s future. But though that connection is the product of a very recent crisis, its _________ go back some way. We have _________ green with nature and its processes for thousands of years. Indeed, the very word “green” comes from the ancient Proto-Indo-European word ghre, meaning “grow”.

The human species, which emerged in the green forests and grasslands of Africa about 300, 000 years ago, has a special _________ link with green. Our eyes might even have _________ specifically to see the green in plants. Unlike most animals, who are red-green colour blind, we humans developed a third cone cell, an additional photoreceptor enabling our _________ to spot ripe red and yellow fruits against a backdrop of green leaf, and to distinguish different green leaves from each other. In daylight conditions, human eyes are more ____________ to green than any other colour.

With the rise of farming, we started to use green as a(n) ____________ for nature and its processes. Archaeologists have recently found an extraordinary store of green jewels in the Levant, ____________ some 10, 000 years. The researchers believe that these objects, many of which had come from hundreds of miles away at great cost, were chosen because they ____________ young leaves and might have been used by early farmers to pray for rainfall or fertilise crops.

The ancient Egyptians, who were farming the banks of the Nile from about 8000 B.C., ____________ use green as identification for their crops. Egyptian painters often represented their god of ____________, Osiris — who was responsible for flooding the Nile’s banks, filling the soil with nutrients and pushing the first green shoots up through the fields — as a bright green being.

10 . One of Switzerland’s most popular ski areas has been covering mountain areas with cloth material in an effort to reduce ice melt aver the summer.

Workers have ________ large blankets of material around Mount Titlis, a ski area near the Swiss mountain town of Engelberg. The area contains a glacier (冰川) that has been ________ large amounts of ice over the past 20 years. The ________ cloth, made of a chemical material, is designed to ________ the sun. “Putting the blankets ________ the glacier provides a natural protective shield,” Gian Darms, who oversees snow conditions and mountain security in the area, explained to Reuters. Decreasing snow cover ________ higher temperatures presents a huge ________ to ski areas across Europe. Having a glacier can provide some protection from ________ change. It can help ________ large snow supplies on the mountain year-round. This snow can later be moved to fill in areas where it is needed.

But the Swiss government has ________ that 90 percent of the country’s remaining 1,500 glaciers will ________ by the end of the century ________ nothing is done to cut man-made pollution emissions. Davms said he has had to ________ increase the size of the blankets over the glacier in recent years to save what is ________. A small group of ________ work over five-to-six weeks to cover parts of the glacier. ________ the summer, the workers spend weeks removing the ________.

Currently, the reflective material covers about 100,000 square meters, which is about the ________ of 14 football fields. The blankets help reflect the sun’s energy ________ into the atmosphere.

Collected ________ is used to fill openings in the glacier that could open up along the area’s ski runs. The snow also helps support lift structures that are fixed into the ice.