2 . Mariah Reading is an environmentalist, who grew up with an early appreciation for nature. While studying art at Bowdoin College, she saw the vast amounts of_______from her painting and sculpture classes. She began to seriously consider her footprint as a(n)_________“How can I paint landscapes if I’m _________them?” she thought. Then she started using the refuse as her canvas (画布).

After graduation, Mariah travelled throughout the country,_________ rubbish to bring to her studio. One day, a_________ hubcap (轮毂盖) she found by the side of the road gave her a new ___________ . She noticed the half hubcap had cracked off to_________the line of the mountain range that she was in. So she_________ the mountain landscape on it and held it up in front of the real _________ and took a photo. It became the first in her __________ series.

Over the years, she has painted more than 100 pieces of rubbish and photographed her transformations__________matching real-life landscapes. It’s like __________ new life into forgotten objects. Her practice__________the principle of “leaving no trace” by __________ painting with sculpture and photography.

Mariah hopes people see themselves and their own habits __________ into her works and make small changes in their everyday lives.

4 . My love for animals began through watching wildlife documentaries when I was a kid. I went on to ________ Environmental Science at university, and became ________ in marine biology when I did my PhD. at the University of Hong Kong. That’s when I ________ that there was a possibility to do more for Hong Kong.

I was very lucky to ________ Ms. Claire Nouvian when I graduated from my PhD. in 2009. At that time, Claire was ________ another non-profit organization, BLOOM Hong Kong, after founding the Bloom Association in France a few years before, and she hired me to work on ________ marine conservation. We do this mainly by being research focused, arousing public ________, and trying to fill knowledge ________. We then share our information with frontline officer, such as fishery managers and customs officers, to help them ________ how important their role is in implementing (贯彻执行) regulations to the wildlife trade, and ________ suggestions on how to make implementation work more ________.

We are sill a city in love with ________ and Hong Kong has the second highest annual seafood ________ in Asia — but consumers are ________ aware of where their seafood comes from and which species are ________.

With the marine ecosystem already ________, the greatest threat is continued ignorance and inaction. We humans have been a ________ part of the problem, but now it is time for us to show that we can also be a part of the ________. If each person around us ________ their part — even for just one meal a day Hong Kong would already be on its way to making considerable ________ towards sustainable seafood consumption.

7 . It’s 6:15 a.m. on a school day, and Jocelyn Murzycki has two kids and she needs to get out the door in an hour. As the sky begins to _________, Murzycki doesn’t manage a few more minutes of sleep. _________, she’s heading out in the freezing cold on her daily plog—a run to_________ litter.

First, the _________ are: a litter grabber and a reusable shopping bag, one side for landfill and the other for _________. Covering herself up, Murzycki jogs _________ down Main Street, stopping briefly to pick up a plastic cup. She usually needs to stop halfway through her 20-minute run to _________ her bag. Within a few hours the street will look littered again. But she isn’t_________—it just adds fuel to her plogging fire.

The word “plogging” comes from plogga, a _________ of two Swedish words that mean to pick up and to jog. The activity was ____________ by Erik Ahlstrom. When he moved to Stockholm, he felt ____________ at the amount of litter in the streets and began gathering friends to clean up the neighborhood while out for runs. Now Mr. Ahlstrom is traveling the world, publicizing the ____________ of plogging. In the U.S., social media and running groups are ____________ people to get out and plog: the “plogging” tag (标签) alone has more than 40,000 posts.

Murzycki has been doing this for a few years even before the trend hit the U.S. “It really is super ____________ if you go out every single day and just pick up litter,” she says. But she’s figured out how to make it fun by jogging with friends and adding the ____________ finding a tiny glass bottle adds one push-up (俯卧撑).

8 . My interest in wildlife and rainforests began at an early age, when my parents introduced me to nature books and magazines. I was _______ by the pictures of strange animals living in distant lands. As I got older, my mother and father _______ my learning by taking me on trips to other countries. Therefore, I could see wildlife firsthand. I grew to _______ appreciate places of natural beauty and _______ the environment around me.

Over the years I have seen many beautiful _______ and met many wonderful people. I have swum with sea lions in the Galapagos Islands, _______ lemurs (狐猴) sing and dance in Madagascar, and had many other amazing _______. I have also become increasingly aware of the changes _______ by human activities. Some of the special places I so _______ are no longer around today. My inspiration to protect rainforests comes from a particular ________ in the rainforest of Borneo when an area of ________ was destroyed by loggers (伐木工).

Today I ________ a great deal of time reading, writing, traveling to rainforests, and talking with scientists doing research on them. My ________ is to raise awareness, interest, and appreciation of wild-lands like rainforests. It is not too ________ to save these special places and I hope that my work will someday inspire people to make a ________ in the world around them.

9 . A young Mexican-born girl _________ for what was right and achieved the unexpected. Her name is Erica Fernandez. Erica was born and _________ in Michoacan. Mexico until the age of 12. At that time, her family _________ to an American agriculture city. Oxnand, California to make a fortune. One of the biggest _________ at the time was that neither her parents nor herself could speak English. Therefore, she worked hard at English for several years and _________ from Chicago University with good grades._________, a light life and racial prejudice (歧视) forced them to _________ Mexico, where she started her new career.

One day Erica was invited to attend a meeting as a translator. She _________ got news that the richest mining company in the world would build a chemical factory in her hometown. The reason why they chose Michoacan was that this _________ was refused in those developed areas. It would cause 280 tens of air __________ each year, not only affecting the __________ of Oxnard settlers, but also their harvests. Some local people were __________ to celebrate for more chances of making money because they didn’t know the truth. Seeing that her hometown was going to be __________, Erica decided to do something about it. Erica joined forces with __________ environmental protection organizations, and reached out to the media to report this unfairness to __________ this programme from going through. She also __________ more than 250 high school students marching on the street. All her efforts became __________ after her exciting speech. The project didn’t go through. It was Erica’s courage and determination that __________ their success.

Erica saved her hometown from a bad __________ at her young age, but most __________ she is teaching us how to live life in the right way: Care about our homeland and we can make a difference!

10 . Topher White visited a wildlife reserve in Indonesia. He was hiking through the rain forest when he came across a man ________ a huge tree.

The logger ran away while seeing White, but the ________ bothered White. He knew the wildlife reserve employed rangers（护林员）to watch out for illegal loggers. But the guards hadn’t known about the man White saw. How did they ________ him? White wondered.

White, a trained engineer, thought ________ could be part of the solution in the fight against deforestation. He then ________ a device he calls a Guardian. Guardian can ________ the sound of a chain saw from two-thirds of a mile away. They are ________ on the tree. When a Guardian detects a chain saw, it sends a ________ to rangers, indicating where the sound is coming from. The rangers then set off to stop the illegal activity. “If you really ________ the moment you get the warning, there’s a ________ that you can show up before much of the tree has been cut,” White says.

White installed the first Guardians at the wildlife reserve where he got the ________ for the project. Two days later, the devices helped rangers ________ a logger. That made him ________ others could use this too. Since then, White has created and installed Guardians in ten countries. White says he couldn’t have done any of this without local ________. “We are just tech for them,” he says, “The people who are really making a ________ and fighting deforestation are on the ground in the rain forest.”