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    When he was 16  Dutch engineering student Slat was on vacation in Greece, and he started to think about all the rubbish that is p{#blank#}3{#/blank#} onto beaches by water. The oceans around the world are all of plastic—millions of tons of plastic. Unfortunately, plastic doesn't just disappear. It takes c{#blank#}4{#/blank#} to break down (分解).

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    Slat started with an idea for an unusual m{#blank#}6{#/blank#} to "catch" the plastic floating (漂浮) in the water using the natural energy of the ocean. He left school in 2013 to begin work on his project The Ocean Cleanup. Soon, the project r{#blank#}7{#/blank#} a lot of attention.

    A year later, he was leading a team of 100 scientists and engineers working on the invention. Slat needed money for this, so he started asking people to d{#blank#}8{#/blank#} to his project online and raised over $ 2 million!

    Soon after, Slat was named a "Champion of the Earth" by the United Nations for his meaningful and v{#blank#}9{#/blank#} work. It's the most important title the UN gives to people helping the environment. The Ocean Cleanup also won several awards (奖项) for having one of the best inventions of 2015. But the d{#blank#}10{#/blank#} goes on for Slat. He hopes that the oceans will be free of plastic in about twenty or thirty years.

It's easy to tell someone good news, but what about bad news? Are there any good ways to give bad news without making people too upset? {#blank#}1{#/blank#}.

● Say something good

Try to start the conversation with something good so that what you say is not all bad. For example, "I know you play soccer very well, but we only need one teammate." Or you may end the conversation with a promise. "{#blank#}2{#/blank#}."

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Use words to introduce what you're going to say, like "I'm really sorry, but..." "I'm afraid I've got some bad news." This gives the listener time to prepare for what you will say.

● Try to give reason

{#blank#}4{#/blank#}. Try to explain the decision: if you have to cancel a trip with friends, can you explain why?

● Use a soft friendly voice

If you're giving someone bad news, try to use a soft friendly voice to make you sound kind. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}, like "I'm really sorry. I know this must be disappointing."

Mr Black works in an office. His memory is very poor and often 1 something. One day his son had a cold and he had to2 him to hospital. When they got there, he remembered that he left his3 at home. He ran to the telephone box4 and was going to ask his wife to take the money to him. But there was a woman in it. She was looking up something in the telephone book. He had to stand outside to 5 . About ten minutes passed, but she was still in it. His son began to cry on a chair in the waiting room. He was6 . Another ten minutes passed, but the woman didn't 7 . He was more worried. He thought for a while and knocked at the door. The door8 and he went in.

"May I help you to look up the telephone number, madam?" asked Mr Black.

"Thank you, sir," said the woman, "I don't9 anybody up. I had a baby last month and I'm only looking for a good 10 for her in the telephone book."

Hello, everyone. My name is Pingping, and the1 is my sister An' an. We2 twins(双胞胎). We have Chinese names, 3 we are not from China. We are from London. It is the capital 4 the UK. It is a very 5 city in Europe(欧洲). Our parents like China. 6 can speak Chinese.

 Now we are seven 7 old. Today is our 8 day to go to school. We are so happy. We can 9 many new friends! We like China and we want to have some 10 friends.

A husband and wife moved to a new apartment. The apartment had a beautiful view(景色) of the neighboring building. Every 1 , the wife would look out of the window to see what was happening in the neighborhood.

 One morning, as the wife was 2 the window, she saw a neighboring woman hanging out her clothes to dry. "Look at her 3 clothes," she said to her husband.

4 , he went on reading the newspaper and didn't pay any attention to her words. "Perhaps her soap is bad or she does not know how to 5 . I will go to teach her someday!" the wife said to herself, shaking 6 head. "I can't believe she is7 those clothes in public(在公开场合)."

A few mornings later, the8 was still not clear about the woman's washing habits. Every time the neighboring woman hung out her clothes, the wife would be 9 at how dirty they looked. She couldn't understand why she could 10 wash them clean. "Maybe she has no taste for being beautiful. That is 11 the colours of her clothes on the drying line hardly match(相配)," she said to her husband, with a12 in his hand again.

 Then, one day, after she looked out of the window as usual, she shouted13 . "Oh! Look, her clothes are clean today. The 14 woman has finally learned how to wash clothes!"

 To this, her husband answered quietly, "15 . Today I just woke up a little bit earlier and washed the window."