2 . I glanced at the magazine covers while paying for some goods. Then I _________ Taraji P. Henson confidently on the cover of a magazine. The caption(标题)_________ “All I can be is me.” Considering that I run a non-profit organization _________ positive perception(认识) of the body and helping people to accept their bodies, I’m _________ about the fact that it took me so long to know it.

I used to make _________ to my mom that she looked young for her age; her skin didn’t have lots of winkles(皱纹)and she had few age spots. But that day I suddenly realized with a _________ eye that I had been _________ forcing a young value system on my mom. So I apologized for telling her that, and she accepted with a smile.

I want my mom to grow old and enjoy everything during the process. It’s an honor to grow older. _________, we lose sight of this when we are _________ with countless perfect pictures of aging women and anti-aging fever. The phenomenon(现象)shows a larger cultural problem that the perfected and forever youthful appearance has become the norm(标准)—or __________ the popular norm.

Now I value the __________ older women have acquired through their life experiences. I believe we need to praise them for what they’ve __________ in life. I want to see older women __________ as themselves with loose skin, grey hair, and everything else that comes.

Wanting to be __________ to others isn’t a bad want, but our culture’s addiction to staying young has ruined an entire age group of women. To restate the magazine’s __________, let women actually be themselves.

3 . Do video games have a negative effect on our children? Today, our children spend more and more time online.

For many people, video games are fun and _________. They have funny cartoons and exciting stories. Everywhere you look, you can see children playing these games. They play on buses and trains, in restaurants and _________ at school. Video games also make you think in a creative way and use your _________. This can improve the way that a child’s brain works. Besides, video games are also a good way to teach children about _________. They can learn about computers and how they work.

However, a recent study suggests that video games can be _________ for children. Firstly, children can download many online games for free. They don’t need money, so they don’t need to _________ their parents. This _________ that their parents often don’t know what they are _________. Children could be playing games that are violent or scary. Furthermore, many children spend too much time playing games on the computer. This can lead to _________ problems—children who spend too much time on the computer can become overweight. However, if children spend too long on the computer __________ doing their homework, they can have problems at school and they can get bad grades. Video games can also __________ children’s social skills. Playing and working with friends is very __________ for children. It teaches them how to talk to other people. __________ children spend too much time playing by themselves online, they don’t learn how to play with their friends.

In conclusion, it seems clear that video games have some advantages and some disadvantages. On the one hand, they are fun and have many educational __________ for children. On the other hand, they can _________ problems with children’s health and social skills.

4 . Many cities around the world today are heavily polluted. Careless methods of production and ________ of consumer demands for environment friendly products have ________ the pollution problem. One ________ is that millions of tons of glass, paper, plastic, and metal containers are produced, and these are difficult to get rid of.

________, today, more and more consumers are choosing “green” and demanding that the products they buy should be safe for the environment. ________ they buy a product, they ask questions like these: “Will this shampoo damage the environment?” “Can this metal container be ________ or can it only be used once?”

A recent study showed that two ________ five adults now consider the environmental safety of a product before they buy it. This means that companies must now change the ________ they make and sell their products to make sure that they are “green,” that is, friendly to the environment.

Only a few years ago, it was impossible to find green products in supermarkets, but now there are hundreds. Some supermarket products ________ labels to show that the product is green. Some companies emphasize that their products are clean and safe in their advertising and have made it their main selling ________.

The ________ for a safer and cleaner environment is making companies rethink ________ they do business. No longer will the public accept the old ________ of “Buy it, use it, throw it away and forget it.” The public ________ is still here, and companies are ________ their act gradually.

6 . Eradajere Oleata thinks she may have a partial solution called the Chip Bag Project for two of her country’s persistent problems: garbage and poverty. The 26-year-old student from Detroit is asking a(n) ______ of local snack lovers: ______ throw your empty chip bags into the trash, ______ them so she can turn them into sleeping bags for the homeless.

Chip eaters ______ their empty bags at a print shop and a clothing store — two ______ where Oleita and her volunteer helpers collect them. After they are ______, it takes about four hours to sew a sleeping bag, each taking around 150 to 300 chip bags, ______ whether they’re single-serve or family size.

Since 2020, the Chip Bag Project has ______ over 800,000 chip bags and, as of last December, created 110 sleeping bags.

Sure, it would be simpler to raise the money to buy new sleeping bags. But that’s only half the ______ for Oleata and her fellow volunteers. “We are ______ to making an impact not only socially, but ______.” she says.

Of course, repurposing these bags is meaningful. ______ they would have ended in the trash. It’s a(n) ______ reminder that environmental injustice (不公平) and ______ often go hand in hand. As Oleata told hourdetroit.com: “I think it’s time to show ______ between all of these issues.”

8 . When my daughter was very young, she broke my favorite cup. She was moving it aside, and it slipped from her hand and broke on the floor. I loved that cup and was really_________, but of course I didn’t_________her. It was an accident. She didn't mean to drop it. Intentions matter. Or do they?

I can’t help but feel that our modern world doesn’t care for intentions. We are all so ready to find_________with another person and so concerned with our own_________that we don't consider the intentions of others.

There are endless opportunities to be_________these days in the celebrity news cycle, in politics and in our own interpersonal interactions. Every single day, someone is_________on social media for something they have said or done.

A friend of mine says, “It’s not how the message is intended; it’s how it’s received.” He means that we need to be careful when considering our words because they can_________be misinterpreted by the person we are_________.

We all at times express ourselves_________, make errors of__________or have a moment of carelessness when we say the wrong thing. All of us have__________someone at some point in our lives. The Internet is full of people seeking to make things worse. But there are also many decent people who occasionally get things__________or simply do not know better.

I get that there is much to be angry about. The world is full of__________. The actions and words of other people can cause harm; __________, the actions and words of other people matter.

But intention has to matter, too, for us to make sense of the world, and for us to effect change. Understanding intentions can help us to feel better about our fellow humans. When we appreciate intent(意图), it can help to lessen the__________of their message.

9 . Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? My friend Stella is such an example. Every time we went to a restaurant she would not take a bite until all the dishes we ________ were on the table. Then she would spend five minutes in ________ the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact ________ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the ________ and click in the filter app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no ________ to really enjoy it—it all went cold, actually Stella’s real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for days.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to ________ others. They find it hard to be ________ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their ________ life on social media. What they are trying to prove is ________ what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any ________ to reality, as they still ________ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more ________ into achieving it ________ fabricating it. Being more confident, ________ themselves and trying their best to be better are much more meaningful than ________ their life on social media.