Day 17
Passage 1
First thing in the morning, I check the social networking website Facebook, only to see how I’ve already fallen behind. A workmate has written a new book. Two of my ___1____ (hero) have completed a big project. One of my old college friends posted a video for an online program she ___2____ (take)at the moment. She looks successful, shiny and___3____ (charm) while I’m still in bed, bleary-eyed.
Am I really falling behind? Did these people post any of these things ___4____ (make) me feel bad? Of course not. But if I'm not careful, it's___5____ (terribl) easy to see social media as ___6____reminder of all the things i'm not doing and dreams I'm not fulfilling.
But___7____isn't a social media problem. It's a comparison problem. it's all about how I think about it.
And I know it's not just me. Our culture is full of ____8___ (compare), and it's hard not to look around at what other people are doing with their short time, and ask, "What about me?"
But all these years I've learned one thing: don't compare your insides with someone else's outsides. You have no idea ___9____ it took for other people to get where they are. Don't act as if it was effortless or pure luck. it's much ___10____ (easy) to look at someone "up there" and be jealous of what they have than to be happy for them and make yours better.
Passage 2
Disposing(处理) of waste has been a problem since humans started producing it. As more and more people choose to live close together in cities, the waste disposal problem becomes ___1____ (increase) difficult.
During the eighteenth century, it was usual for several neighboring towns to get together to select a faraway spot ___2____a dump site(垃圾场). People __3_____ (transport) household rubbish, rotted wood, and old possessions to the site. Regularly some of the trash was burned and the rest was buried. The ___4____ (pleasant) sights and smells caused no problem because nobody lived close by. Factories mills (制造厂), and other industrial sites also had waste to be disposed of. Those located on rivers often just dumped the unwanted___5____ (remaining) into the water. Others built huge burners with chimneys to deal with the problem.
Several facts make these choices ___6____ (accept) to modern society. The first problem is space. Dumps, ____7___are now called landfills, are most needed in heavily populated areas. Such areas rarely have empty land suitable for this purpose. The land is either too expensive or too close to residential neighborhoods. A long distance dump has been a common practice, ___8____ once farm areas are refusing to accept rubbish from elsewhere, cheap land within trucking distance of major city areas is nonexistent. ____9___ (aware) of pollution dangers has resulted in more strict rules of waste disposal. Pollution of rivers, ground water, land and air is a price people can no longer pay to get rid of waste. The amount of waste, however, continues to grow.
___10____ (recycle) efforts have become commonplace, and many towns require their people to take part. Even the most efficient recycling programs, however, can hope to deal with only about 50 percent of a city’s reusable waste.
答案
Passage 1
1. heroes 2. is taking 3. charming 4. to make 5. terribly
6. a 7. it/this 8. comparisons 9. what 10. easier
Passage 2
1. increasingly 2. as 3. transported/would transported 4. unpleasant 5. remains
6. unacceptable 7. which 8. But 9. awareness 10. recycling
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