Melbourne Girls’ College is getting rid of all dustbins and asking students to take their rubbish home to encourage them to move towards zero waste.

Starting next Monday, the college will gradually _________ all the rubbish bins in five weeks in classrooms and the yards, _________ 1400 students and 140 staff to search their own home for chip packets and juice boxes. Volunteer students will _________ daily non-compulsory food inspections in which children bringing “zero waste” lunch boxes will be _________. Students using only _________ packaging will receive a token (礼券) to win prizes such as keepcups.

The rubbish that students take home may _________ go to landfill (废物填埋场) via their home bins, but the new policy will help persuade people to buy fewer packaged _________ and reuse containers. Most issues around carrying rubbish home, such as smell and _________, can be solved. Take uneaten tuna (金枪鱼) in a tin for _________. It can go into the school’s compost (堆肥) bin and the tin can be washed before it’s ____________ home.

The college principal Karen Money acknowledges that some parents may not have the ____________ or means to avoid foods in single-use packaging, “but we’re ____________ to get as many people as we can to avoid it. We ____________ a lot, as educators, about the bad problems the world ____________, but if we don’t start taking ____________ behind that beautiful idea, then it’s just empty.”

Anyone could be in his or her unfavorable situations, whatever their ages and social status. Adults are often ______ asking for help. It’s an act that can make people feel ______. The moment you ask for directions, after all，you reveal that you may be lost. Seeking someone’s assistance can make you feel like you are broadcasting your ______. New research suggests young children don’t seek ______ in school, even when they need it, for the same reason.

To learn more about how children think about looking for help, we asked 576 children, aged four to nine, to predict the ______ of two kids in a story. One of the characters genuinely wanted to be smart, and the other merely wanted to seem smart to others.

Children thought that the kid who wanted to seem smart would be ______ to ask for assistance. They could still conceive of (想象) situations in which the kid who wanted to seem smart would seek help: when assistance could be sought ______ (on a computer rather than in person), children thought both characters were equally likely to ask for it.

We also found that they recognize several more behaviors that might make a child appear less clever in front of fellow kids, such as ______ failure or modestly downplaying successes. Children are therefore strongly aware of several ways in which a person's actions might make them appear less ______ in the eyes of others.

However, a number of ______ can be found to help children. Our first ______ may be to motivate seeking help by emphasizing its educational benefits. But ______ barriers likely require reputation-based solutions. For example, instructors could create activities in which each student becomes an “expert” on a different topic, and then children must ask one another for help to master all of the material. If seeking help is understood as a(n) ______ classroom activity, kids may be less likely to think of it as indicative (表明) of one’s ability.

Seeking help could even be framed as ______ desirable. After all, asking for help often benefits not just the help seeker but also others listening in who have ______ questions or struggles.

Fifteen years ago, apps were new and few truly understood their potentials. Retailers (零售商) barely knew that consumers could browse in stores while comparing _________ from other providers through apps before _________ making the purchase online. Ten years ago brick-mortar-and (实体店) retailers were threatened as Amazon released an “evil” promotion that encouraged consumers to use Price Check app while visiting _________ stores. Any purchase completed through the app was given rewarding _________, which significantly stimulated sales and _________ many shop owners to bankruptcy (破产).

“Media have reported these apps as a threat to physical stores,” says a retailer. “However, less _________ is the fact that it is also an opportunity for us.” Retailers need to accept any sensible buyer tends to _________ prices. You’d better offer in-store Internet access to _________ these consumers. With caring services combined with acceptable prices, the store might persuade consumers to make the deal _________.

A study indicates it’s ____________ to limit the item price to at most 5 dollars higher than what online stores charge. After all, for some consumers, getting the absolute lowest price is not their ____________. Many of them, instead, are willing to pay ____________ in exchange for favorable shopping experiences, such as the pleasant store atmosphere with a reasonable price ____________.

Besides, adopting a strategy of ____________ channels is also essential. With many sale channels under control, retailers surely have access to the lowest price. Therefore, when a customer pulls out a mobile device in store, retailers can be spared the ____________ that was unavoidable for them ten years ago.