When I was in Australia, I accompanied a friend on his driving test. I was     1     (amaze) to learn that in Australia, people hardly go to driving schools. Instead, many people practice on the road with a licensed driver sitting next     2     them. But this doesn’t mean that getting a driving license is a piece of cake. This was the third time that my friend     3     (apply) to take the driving test.

The first time, after confidently driving over an intersection (十字路口), the     4     (examine) asked him to pull over and said that he should have stopped     5     car and looked right first and then left to make sure there was no other car approaching.

The second time, a car rushing in front caught him by surprise and he hit the brakes too hard. The examiner got     6     (anger) and asked him to get out. In Australia, the test is not about driving skills,     7     about following every rules.

After finally passing the test, my friend drove very     8     (careful) because in the first year of having a driving license, running two red lights results in the license being suspended (暂停使用). But one day he     9     (pull) over by a policeman who warned him that he was driving too slow and blocking the traffic. Actually, he was driving at a speed of 40 km/h,     10     is a totally acceptable speed in China.

【推荐1】President Donald Trump's trade wars have reached Silicon Valley.

    1    Trump administration is considering taxes on networking equipment from China. That could spell trouble for companies that buy Chinese components for their     2    (globe) cloud computing operations, such as Google, Facebook and Amazon, analysts say.

And chip makers such as Intel could face taxes on computer chips. US companies often send mostly     3     (finish) chips to China for manufacture, testing and     4    (package).

Those companies could pay a fine when those chips     5     (ship) back into the country.   So far, US tech giants have     6     (large) stayed out of the trade fight. The threat of tariffs     7    tech products from China could force Silicon Valley leaders to be     8    (outspoken) about their concerns than before.   Modems and routers are on a list of Chinese     9     (good) worth $200 billion that could face 10% tariffs in the United States after August 30.A tariff on those products could also hurt the tech industry,     10     uses huge IT networks to deliver products and services around the globe.

What you spend rather than what you earn     1    (help) to determine how content you are with life, a new study says.

Research from the Office for National Statistics found spending on hotels, restaurants and household furnishings was associated with life satisfaction.     2     (Unsurprising), spending on insurance and mobile phones was not. But the ONS said that overall spending and income mattered less than personal circumstances when     3     (measure) life satisfaction. Good health, marital status (婚姻状况) and economic activity had the strongest associations with how positively life satisfaction is rated.

Its analysis found that age also mattered: the young have     4     (high) life satisfaction than those in their 40s but life satisfaction rises again in later years, before falling again for those in their 80s. Living     5     (condition) were also important. Those who own their homes think their life satisfaction is higher than     6     in poverty.

But while spending is more important than income, households with     7     income of between £24,000 and £44,000 would feel more     8    (satisfy) if their income increased, the ONS found. The ONS said: “There is no evidence of a significant association between household income     9     life satisfaction overall after accounting for other characteristics, such as age,     10     (marry) and so on”.