【推荐1】If the law punished addiction, we would all be in prison because we are addicted to our phones.

We’re hopelessly ______ by them, helplessly devoted to them, Our hands and minds are ______: texting, tweeting, liking, emailing, sharing. We find ourselves ______ stimulated (刺激).

My iphone is the last thing I look at when I go to bed and the first thing I look at when I ______, When it’s not there I feel its ______ like an amputee (被截肢者) still feeling a(n)______ leg. It is my entry to culture and fun. I love it. You love yours.

But the comment on this enormous ______ in our behavior has been completely ______. The central claim is that technology makes us ______ what we already know about life, and it ______ us developing fully independent selves. And the quality of human relationships is said to have ______. Parents are distracted by work emails at the dinner table and in the playground; children cry for ______ until they finally get an iPad for Christmas. Gatherings of old friends can’t do a couple of hours ______ checking their Gmail every 10 minutes. Technology sucks the life out of us, and takes our souls in ______ for the convenience of not having to learn how to read maps properly.

I simply do not ______ the idea that we aren’t folly whole due to our phones, just because we can talk to our friends whenever we want, without any ______ for the limitations that space and ______ used to set on us. This helps us to get ______. It doesn’t set us apart.

____, we will film. We will photograph. We will edit. We will ______, like, love and envy. Finally, in our own strange way, we will control our heavily doctored lives.

【推荐2】“Working long hours poses an occupational health risk that kills hundreds of thousands of people each year,” the World Health Organization says.

People working 55 or more hours each week face a(n) _________ 35% higher risk of a stroke and a 17% higher risk of dying from heart disease, _________ to people following the widely accepted standard of working 35 to 40 hours in a week, the WHO says in a study that was published in the journal Environmental International.

“No job is _________ the risk of a stroke or heart disease,” WHO Director — General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, _________ governments, businesses and workers to find ways to protect workers’ health.

The global study, which the WHO calls the first of its kind, found that in 2016, 488 million people were _________ to the risks of working long hours. In all, more than 745,000 people died that year from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease, according to the WHO.

“Between 2000 and 2016, the number of deaths from heart disease _________ working long hours increased by 42%, and from stroke by 19%,” the WHO said as it announced the study, which it conducted with the International Labour Organization.

The study found the highest health _________ from overwork in men and in workers who are middle-aged or older. Regionally, people in Southeast Asia and the Western Pacific region had the _________ exposure to the risk. People in Europe had the lowest exposure. In the US, less than 5% of the population is exposed to long working hours, according to a map the WHO published with the study. That proportion is _________ to Brazil and Canada — and much lower than Mexico and in countries across most of Central and South America.

Several steps could help __________ the burden on the workers, the study states, including governments’ adopting and enforcing __________ standards on working time. The authors also say employers should be more flexible in scheduling, and to __________ their employees on a maximum number of working hours. In another step, the study __________ workers arrange to share hours, so no one is working 55 or more hours in a week.

To compile (编写) the report, researchers reviewed and __________ dozens of studies on heart disease and stroke. They then estimated workers’ health risks based on data drawn from a number of sources, __________ more than 2,300 surveys on working hours that were conducted in 154 countries from the 1970s through 2018.

【推荐3】When I re-entered the full-time workforce a few years ago after a decade of lonely self-employment, there was one thing I was looking forward to the most: the opportunity to have work friends once again. It wasn't until I entered the corporate world that I realized, for me at least, being friends with colleagues didn't emerge as a（n） ________ at all. This is surprising when you consider the prevailing emphasis by scholars and trainers and managers on the importance of cultivating close ________ relationships at work. So much research has explored the way in which collegial（同事的）ties can help overcome a range of workplace issues ________ productivity and the quality of work output such as team-based conflict, jealousy, undermining, anger, and more.

Perhaps my expectations of lunches, water-cooler gossip and caring, deep-and-meaningful conversations were a ________ of the last time I was in that kind of office environment. Whereas now, as I near the end of my fourth decade, I realize work can be fully functional and entirely fulfilling without ________ to be best mates with the people sitting next to you.

In an academic analysis just published in the profoundly-respected Journal of Management, researchers have looked at the concept of “indifferent relationships", a simple term that summarizes the fact that relationships at work can ________ be non-interpersonal, inconsequential, unimportant and even, dare I say it, disposable or substitutable.

Indifferent relationships are neither positive nor negative. The limited research conducted thus far indicates they're especially ________ among those who value independence over cooperation, and harmony over confrontation. Indifference is also the ________ option among those who are socially lazy. Maintaining relationships over the long term takes effort, which, for some of us, is much too________.

As noted above, indifferent relationships may not always be the most ________ approach in resolving some of the issues that pop up at work. But there are nevertheless several apparently proven benefits. One of those is ________ . Less time chatting and socializing means more time working and churning（产出）.

The other is ________ . As human beings, we're programmed to compare ourselves to each other in what is an anxiety-causing phenomenon. Apparently, we look down on acquaintances（泛泛之交）more so than friends. Since the former is most common among those ________ to indifferent relationships, their predominance can promote individuals' sense of self-worth.

Ego aside, a third advantage is that the emotional ________of indifferent relationships has been found to enhance critical evaluation, to strengthen one's focus on task resolution, and to gain greater access to valuable information. None of that might be as ________ as after-work socializing but, hey, I'll take it anyway.

【推荐1】Monday morning always seems to come too soon. Just when you’re getting used to the _______, it’s already finished. For many of us, Monday is what we _______, but have no escape from.

So take a deep breath and get your spirits up, _______ you will find it hard. Here are four _______ to drive the Monday blues away.

Just get _______. The best thing to do on a Monday morning is to get some exercise or go for a _______ that makes you feel good. Just find a green spot to have a walk _______ even just sit there. Fresh air, sunshine and green plants can put you in a _______ mood.

Turn the music on. When you’re back from your work, nothing _______ better than listening to some music. Get your favorite, ________ your music system and let the music set the tone for the day.

________ your best. Make Monday your look-my-best ________. Wear the clothes you like most. Even if it means wearing that red shirt you were ________ for a special occasion. Instead of blacks and blacks, go for ________ colours. Some of that sunshine yellow or red will drive the ________ away.

Eat happily. For those ________ lovers, bring out your favorite chocolates and eat them all by yourself, right in the ________. Nothing is better than the guilty ________ of early morning chocolate. You say you are ________ a diet? Then make Monday your free day. Food is the best way to ________ the blues.

Remember, the next weekend’s only five days away!

【推荐2】My grandmother was always encouraging me to set goals and work hard to achieve them. She would tell me not to be a follower and not to set___________on what I could achieve. She_________ believed that there were not limits and that you could___________whatever you wanted.

I would never forget the following story that she once told me:

A farmer won first___________at the country fair for his huge radish(小萝卜)that was the exact shape and ___________ of a milk bottle.

Many were ___________ as to how the farmer was able to grow this radish that was the exact shape of a milk bottle.

___________one gentleman went up to the farmer and asked the question.The farmer replied, “It was___________.I got the seed growing and then I put it into the milk bottle.It had_________ else to go.”

You can use this story as an analogy(比喻)to life---our lives are____________by the kind of surroundings we place ourselves in, the people that we allow to______________us, and the goals we give ourselves.

If we only____________and take no action, then we get to no further.But if we______________,set a goal and take action, then our life takes a____________shape.

Goals and actions can help us accomplish more in a year than what some people will accomplish in a lifetime.To prove this______________, rad the biographies of______________people and you will see that goals and actions______________played a big role in their success.

Remember the____________of Mary Kay Ash, who said, “Don’t limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do.You can go____________your mind lets you.Whatever you believe, remember, you can achieve.”

In summary, don’t put yourself in a bottle, in other words, move out of what is____________and secure if you want to move forward.

【推荐3】A famous theorist(理论家) once said, “I don’t divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and the failures... I divide the world into the learners and the non-learners.”

What on earth would make someone a non-leaner? Everyone is born with an intense _________ to learn. Babies rise to the learning challenge daily. Not just for _________ tasks, but the most difficult ones of a lifetime, like learning to walk and talk. They never decide it’s too hard or not worth the _________. Babies are not concerned about making mistakes or _________ themselves. They walk, they fall, they _________.

What puts an end to this fearless learning? A fixed mindset. As soon as children become able to evaluate(评估) themselves, some of them become _________ of challenges. They are concerned about not being _________. My research team have studied thousands of people from preschoolers on, and it’s breathtaking how many _________ an opportunity to learn.

We offered four-year-olds a(n) _________: they could redo an easy jigsaw(拼图) or try a harder one. Even at this young age, children with a fixed mindset stuck with the __________ one. They believe smart kids don’t make __________.

Children with a growth mindset, however, thought it was a __________ choice. Why would anyone want to keep doing the same puzzle __________? They chose increasingly difficult ones instead.

Believing that success is about learning, children-with a growth mind took the opportunity. But those with a fixed mindset didn’t want to give away their __________. This is how a fixed mindset makes people into __________.