Do you know the UK government has     1     (successful) passed a law banning branding on packs of cigarettes? That means tobacco makers will be forced to pack     2    (they) cigarettes in plain packets.

The motivation behind this     3     (decide) is to make smoking less appealing to people, especially children.

A similar law     4     was passed in Australia in 2012 has resulted     5     a fall in smoking rates from 15.1% to 12.8% for people aged 14.

As of January 2015, 22% of adult men and 17% of adult women smoke in Great Britain. The possibility of smoking in the UK increases with age so that by 15 years of age 8% of school children     6    (be) regular smokers. Children, it is thought, will be less attracted to cigarettes     7     (sell) in unbranded boxes.

Smoking is one of     8     biggest causes of preventable deaths in England. Every year about 80,000 die and over 450,000 people     9     (send) to hospital due to smoking. This places a large stress on the health service and is also a factor in why the government would like to prevent people     10     (take) up smoking or help them quit.

A new bill has been     1    (official) passed in the Philippines that requires students to plant 10 trees each before graduation. According to the details outlined in the bill, the rule applies     2     all students who are to graduate from primary school, high school, and college. Trees can be planted in either forests, reserves, urban areas,     3    (abandon) mining sites, or in communities.

Over the past decades, the Philippines     4    (lose) more than 30% of its forest cover due to illegal logging (伐木), but the new bill means that the younger generation can help to address     5     problem. Under the new rule, 175 million new trees could be planted by students each year. If only 10% of them     6    (survival), that means that 525 billion trees can grow up over the course of one generation.

In fact, this isn’t the only positive rule     7    concerns the younger generation. One school in India made its students pay their school fees by collecting, bringing to school, and     8    (recycle) plastic waste that was lying across the town. This helped raise     9    (aware) of plastic waste in Asian     10    (country). It also allowed more students to seek education and even helped the students to earn some money so they wouldn’t have to rely on child labour for a living.