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Year of the 2019
Climate Emergency became the word of 2019. The usage of this word increased by 10796% this year. People used to know nothing about climate, but now we are fully ………………(aware of / appeal to) its serious effect. Emergency means we must do something to reduce or stop the pollution.
Book Award
2019 American National Book Award was hosted on November 21st. Trust Exercise by Susan Choi won the best novel. The Yellow House by Sarah. M. Broom won the best non-fiction. Sir Wekheim’s Return by Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the best …………. (translation / description). 1919 The Year That Changed America by Martin Sandler won the best Youth. Best poem was won by Arthur Sze who wrote Sight Lines.
cigar
The president of Philippine announced that electronic cigarettes are ………..……(forbid) to use in the country. He expressed his concern that electronic cigarette is ……………..(poison) and ……………..(harm). On November 15th, a 16-year-old girl’s lungs were damaged after she used electronic cigarette.

Curry is the trouble
optimistic / pessimistic
“Food is not delicious without onions”, said local Indians, but the price of onion has doubled. It’s too expensive for locals to …………..(possess/afford). At the meantime, India stopped …………….(import/export) onions to neighbor countries. Nepal, Bengal and Sri Lanka are in lack of onions to make curry. They feel ………………….
Saturn
NASA published the first global map of Titan, the biggest moon of Saturn. The photo shows that there are prairie(草原), sand dune(沙丘) consists of cold organic, and lakes consists of liquid CH4. Its environment is ………….…(simple/diversified) in the solar system. Its geography is created by CH4 raindrops.
Tokyo
Japan announced that the ………….….(instruction/construction) of the “New National Stadium” was complete. The project costs 152,9 billion yen, and it can house 60,000 audiences to witness the opening ceremony and field & track sports, as well as the match of soccer ball.
Airport
A great number of airports will display lovely animals to cure people’s wounded heart, or reduce their stress before they board on the plane. From lovely dogs to cute pigs, they all help keep away people’s ……………..(ashamed / anxiety).
Recently, in the airport of San Francisco, Lilou, a pig becomes the new airline crew. She was wearing pilot hat, and she waves to passengers.