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Announcement: Volunteer Recruitment
Our school’s Community Service Club is looking for enthusiastic students to join the Spring Volunteer Program. Participants will help organize weekend activities such as tutoring younger children and cleaning public areas. All volunteers must attend the orientation meeting next Monday. During the event, we will also introduce new projects that aim to (9) ______ students’ awareness of environmental protection. Those who complete at least 20 service hours will receive certificates, which can be useful when applying for scholarships. If you are interested, please register before Friday so the organizers can (10) ______ the number of participants and prepare materials. For further information, please contact the volunteer coordinator at the school office. Thank you for your (11) ______.

Humans impact the water in different ways such as modifying rivers (through dams and stream channelization), urbanization, and deforestation. These impact lake levels, groundwater (12)_________, water pollution, thermal pollution, and marine pollution. Humans modify rivers by using direct channel manipulation. We build dams and reservoirs and manipulate the direction of the rivers and water path. Dams can usefully create reservoirs and hydroelectric power. (13)________, reservoirs and dams may negatively impact the environment and wildlife. Dams stop fish migration and the movement of organisms downstream. Urbanization (14) _________ the environment because of deforestation and changing lake levels, groundwater conditions, etc. Deforestation and urbanization go hand (15) ________ hand. Deforestation may cause flooding, declining stream flow, and changes in riverside vegetation. The changing vegetation occurs because (16)_________ trees cannot get adequate water they start to deteriorate, leading to a decreased food supply for the wildlife in an area.

Based on the original The Voice of Holland, The Voice of America, or sooner The Voice, officially aired on NBC on April 26, 2011 aiming to find new singing talent and soon became a big hit.
The Voice process includes Blinds Audition, Battles Rounds, Knockout Rounds, and the final live performance phase. Only those fifteen and over are eligible for the competition. There are four coaches, themselves well-known performing artists, who critique contestants' performances and form their own teams of contestants and give them guidance through the rest of the season. Coaches also have the power to decide on which contestants to advance in the next rounds. One celebrity key advisor gives assistance to the coaches and their teams during the preparation process.
The coaches and the television audience have equal power to decide who moves on to the final four phase. However, the winner is determined by votes from the television audience by online voting on the official website, SMS text and iTunes stores purchases of the contestants' performances. The declared winner receives US$ 100, 000 and a record contract with Universal Music Group.
As an incredible success in both Holland and the U.S., The Voice has been franchised out to many other countries in the world, and has been a big rival to the Idol franchise.