The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that over 50,000 people every year sustain some sort of winter-related back injury，and 5，800 of those are holiday decorating- ____. These aches and pains can   ____ bring trouble to people’s life. It is said that people’s back could sustain all sorts of strain from carrying heavy   ____，and from the increased stress of lugging suitcases, decorations and gifts. Dr. Alanna Levine spoke to Debbye Turner Bell on “The Early Show” about how to   ____ the back for the holiday season.

The first   ____ Dr. Levine gave was about carrying heavy shopping bags. Smaller bags, she said, are better. “You don’t want to load everything up into one bag and lug it around,” Dr. Levine explained. “You want to   ____ the weight on your body. ” She also   ____ putting heavier items towards the bottom in those bags and lighter items on top. Also, if you can, make frequent trips to the car to drop     ____ purchases.

____ can be another pain in the back—from carrying heavy luggage. Again, Dr. Levine ____ not to pack everything into one bag. Even though it may cost more, she said that packing two smaller bags is safer than packing a heavy one. Also, choose a lightweight bag, so that the only weight you’re carrying is the   ____ inside the suitcase.

When unloading bags from an airport baggage claim, Dr. Levine suggested standing   ____ to the carousel (圆盘传送带) and bending your knees to lift it up. “You want to avoid that reach-and-lift. It puts a(n)   ____ on your lower back,” she said.

When it   ____ holiday decorating, people take more   ____. Dr. Levine suggested decorating in pairs, so that one person can hand the lights and ornaments to the other person to hang, thus avoiding reaching or twisting to get what you need.

When I spent the summer with my Grandpa in Warwick, he sent me to Miss Bee’s store. _______ the counter was Miss Bee. A pair of glasses teetered(摇摇欲坠) on the _______ of her nose, gray hair was _______ on her head.

“Excuse me. I need to get these.” I said. “So?” She pushed her glasses _______ her nose. “There’s no one here except you and me and I’m not your _______. Go get them. If you’re lucky you’ll finish shopping by sundown.” Sundown was five hours _______. I wasn’t sure l would _______ it.

I visited Miss Bee several times a week. Sometimes she short-charged me. Other times she overcharged. _______ she sold me a/an _______ newspaper instead of one that was current. Going to the store was more like going into battle.

“That bread is only twenty-nine cents!” I corrected her one afternoon. I had watched the numbers change on the cash register(收款机) closely, and Miss Bee had added 35 cents. She didn’t seem ________ that I had caught her ________. She just looked at me and ________ the price.

All summer I learned the hard way to ________ my list. But she still found ways to ________. me into making mistakes. No sooner had I memorized the items’ location on the shelf than Miss Bee ________ the shelves and made me hunt for ________ all over again. The morning I was to ________ to Brooklyn, I stopped in to get a packet of gum.

“All right,” she said. “What did you learn this summer?” She was mean! I pressed my lips together. To my ________, Miss Bee laughed. “I know what you think of me,” she said. “ but when you get older you’ll be glad our paths ________!” Glad I met Miss Bee? The idea was ________.

Now I grow up and I finally understand I really learned a lot from Miss Bee.

Advances in farm animal protection are happening with scientists painting eyes on the buts(屁股) of cows. The experiment is based on the idea that farmers, who are protecting their animals from lions,____shoot and kill lions in an effort to protect their farm animals. ____ this makes a lot of sense, it____many lion deaths that otherwise would have been unnecessary. Researchers in Australia have been____a trick to make lions think they are being watched by the painted eyes on cow butts.

This idea is based on the____that predators such as lions are____less likely to attack when they feel they are being watched. As conservation areas become____, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are___ to the boundaries of these protected areas.

Efforts like painting eyes on cow butts may seem____at first, but they could make actual progress in the ____ for conservation. “If the method ____, it could provide farmers in Botswana ____ a low cost, sustainable (可持续的) tool to protect their farm animals, and a way to keep lions safe from being____.”

Lions are primarily ambush(埋伏) hunters, so when they feel their target has____them,they usually____the hunt Researchers are ____ testing their idea on cattle. They have painted ____ of the cows with eyes and left the other half as____. With satellite____both the cattle and the lions in the area, they will be able to ____ if their psychological trick will work to help keep farmers from shooting lions.