2 . 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 yards, _________ 1400 students and 140 staff to search 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 such as keepcups.

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

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

3 . We love letters. Just as John Donne, a poet, _________ it, “Letters, to me and my friends mean _________ greetings; they get souls together. Thanks to letters, friends who are _________ speak.” He wrote these words nearly 400 years ago. Today, in the age of instant text message, social media, and email, they _________ ring truer than ever, because writing or receiving a letter has become such a _________ event.

A UK-wide survey undertaken by Sunday Times suggests that one in four of us has not _________ a letter for at least 10 years. That’s ten years without the bitter-sweet _________ of pacing the floor waiting for the _________; ten years without recognizing the handwriting on the envelope and eagerly _________ the letter to read its content.

We ____________ not get them any more, but we still love handwritten letters. In the same survey, one third of ____________ people interviewed say that they ____________ the content of sentimental (充满情感的) letters. Shouldn’t we make ____________ to give our friends and families what they will treasure forever? Ann Bickley went online in 2013 and offered to handwrite a letter to anyone who ____________ her. Her website received 50,000 ____________ in its first three months. Five years later, she is still the main ____________ behind one-million-lovely-letter.com and has personally written 4,000 letters offering hope and ____________ to strangers.

The thought behind a letter ____________ as much as its contents. “I never tell anyone that ____________ is going to be OK,” Ann Bickley says, “I am letting someone know that there is someone in the world who ____________ them.”

Who wouldn’t love to receive a letter like that? Let’s get writing!

4 . If we redouble our efforts, our dreams will come true. Chen Zuobin had _________ for 13 years already. Finally, he decided to become a _________ again. Born in a mountain village in Anhui province, Chen Zuobin walked out of the _________ for study when he was 19. Thought he had a _________ life as a creative director of an international agency in Shanghai, he couldn’t _________ the anxiety reflected in his dreams.

“I dreamed about _________ branch roads several times a year. I didn’t know which one leads to _________ . It made me feel terrible.” One day, Chen Zuobin said to his wife, “I want to go home.” _________ being surprised, his wife said, “_________ your heart. Don’t worry about me.”

The young couple returned to their hometown and __________ the Real Food Farm just to lead a real and simple life. Chen Zuobin shook off the __________ and tiredness from too much __________ in the city. Only in the mountains can they enjoy the __________ air. There isn’t the smell of tail gas, but the smell of __________ when it shines over the woods. They live a life of “eating healthily and __________ well.

In a time when eating __________ becomes a luxury（奢侈）in the __________ life, it’s truly a right way to return to the __________ . “Life is a journey of __________ the proper way.” Said Chen Zuobin.

Those dreams about branch roads have __________ because he has found his own path.

5 . Four years ago in church, I saw a child of my age. His ________ was pinned on the bulletin board, his dirty clothes barely covering his small,________ body. He should not have had a ________ on his face but there he had, showing off his white teeth. I walked past his picture every day ________ him less and less. His pictures are also sent to us not to show what the child looks like but to ________ us that we are sponsoring him. We need to reflect because we are so ________ in our own misfortunes that we ________ that there are people worse off than us. Our desires are insatiable (无法满足的) and we take for granted every ________ that we are blessed with.

I looked at the child’s picture today for the first time in a ________ time His letter came every few months and I ________ them over never taking the time to ________ back. I was just too busy spending money going to movies with my friends. We can’t just help others ________ and they need our time and hands to help create a better world for everyone.

We are presented with ________ opportunities such as work and education. What we don’t realize is that the people without these ________ would pay every last cent to get the opportunities that ________ themselves to us every day. When they are ________ to us, we shouldn’t push them aside.

I honestly ________ if everyone had a chance to experience these, this world would open up a little more and provide more ________ and assistance to those who ________ it most. Anything can help those homeless in our own city but ________ with me.

6 . In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _______ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _______ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we _______ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _______ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _______ modern manufacturing (制造业)and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _______.

Another cause is our _______of disposable (一次性的) products. As _______ people, we are always looking for _______ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies ________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Our appetite for new products also ________ to the problem. We are ________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that ________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we ________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the ________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To ________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the ________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. ________, this is not enough to solve (解决) our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions ________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about ________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.