When you are little, it’s not hard to believe you can change the world. I remember my ______ when, at the age of 12, I _______ delegates at the Rio Earth Summit. “I am only a child,” I told them .“Yet I know that if all the money spent on war was spent on ________ poverty and finding environment answers, ________ a wonderful place this would be. In school you teach us not to __________ others, to work things out, to respect others, to clean up our mess, not to hurt other creatures, to _______, not to be greedy. Then why do you go out and do the thing you tell us not to do? You grown-ups say you love us, but I _________ you, please, to make your __________reflect your words.”
I spoke for six minutes and received a standing ovation（长时间的喝彩）. Some of the delegates _______ cried. I thought that maybe I had ________ some of them, that my speech might actually spur(激励) action. Now, a decade from Rio, after I’ve sat through many more conferences, I’m not sure what has been accomplished. My confidence in the people in power and in the power of an individual’s voice to reach them has been deeply shaken.
When I was little, the world was simple. But as a young adult, I’m learning that as we have to make _________ — education, career, lifestyle — life gets more and more _________. We are beginning to feel __________ to produce and be successful. We are taught that economic growth is ________, but aren’t taught how to _________ a happy, healthy or sustainable(可持续的) way of living. And we are learning that what we wanted for the future when we were 12 was ideal and __________.
Today I’m no longer a child, but I’m worried about what kind of _________ my children will grow up in. I know change is _________, because I am changing, still figuring out what I think. I am still deciding how to live my life. The challenges are great, _________ if we accept individual responsibility and make sustainable choices, we will rise to the challenges, and we will become part of the ___________ tide of change.

A．feeling B．pleasure C．enthusiasm D．disappointment

A．addressed B．argued C．instructed D．informed

A．helping B．ending C．destroying D．changing

A．which B．that C．what D．how

A．fight with B．compete with C．compare with D．argue with

A．gain B．share C．save D．enjoy

A．challenge B．respond C．forgive D．force

A．emotion B．actions C．inspiration D．deeds

A．even B．ever C．still D．already

A．satisfied B．reached C．emphasized D．disturbed

A．money B．friends C．living D．choices

A．necessary B．comfortable C．interesting D．complicated

A．happiness B．pleased C．pressure D．depression

A．in relief B．in peace C．in progress D．in danger

A．lead B．ignore C．find D．pursue

A．romantic B．beautiful C．innocent D．puzzling

A．environment B．house C．land D．condition

A．hard B．possible C．flexible D．fragile

A．though B．however C．and D．but

A．positive B．passive C．important D．independent