Life is     1     (compose) of many elements, such as family, friends, study, work, entertainment and so on. If one element     2     (dominate) your life and the others are ignored, you will lose balance and fail to take control of your life. Many people get into the cycle of coming home from work and watching TV or surfing the Internet. Relaxing     3     this may seem, it is     4     (appropriate) in the long term for personal growth. It is essential to be     5     (discipline) and make up your mind     6     (start) a change in your life. Set yourself goals which may serve as     7     (stimulate) to provide proper guidance. Once you resist allowing work to make you feel     8     (pessimism), you will get rid of the feeling of being worn     9     and be rewarded with     10     sense of accomplishment.

Winning is not everything

We all know what it is like to want to win and lose. Winning has victors walking on air or     1    (lose) in the glory of the moment, while losers     2     (leave) with a bitter taste and a feeling of failure. Almost nobody likes to come second and sometimes it is difficult to keep everything     3     perspective.     4     you come first or last, it is important to remember that at any sporting event, “win with humility, lose with grace, and do both with dignity.”

During the two-man bobsleigh final at the 1964 Winter Olympic Games, an Italian bobsleigh player named Eugenio Monti produced     5     excellent time for his downhill run. One of the British     6    (compete), Tony Nash, had broken a part of his bobsleigh and was unable to compete. Monti became aware of this, and without hesitation, he removed the same part of his own bobsleigh and     7    (lend) it to his opponent. Nash and his partner went on     8    (achieve) a record time and won the gold medal. Monti’s remarkable,     9    (selfish) decision to help his opponent in the final stage of an Olympic event, is an example to us all. He did not come first     10     he walked away a true hero.

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My mother insisted     1    everyone in her life treat her with respect.     2    she wasn’t wealthy     3     well educated, my mother not only understood and appreciated her value,     4     believed in it strongly.     5     she learned my father was cheating on her, she insisted that he move out of our home. Not the next day or the next week... To me, as a child,     6     she refused to take my father back seemed harsh, even cruel. As a woman, .    7    , I have come to understand it.   For my mother, putting Daddy out of the house     8     her life wasn’t about pride; it was about principle. The one had always lived by. The one     9     she believed in with all her heart: No one was going to love and respect you     10     you loved and respected yourself.

We went to Tibet to observe antelopes with Zhaxi, our guide.     1     (lucky), on the plain in front of us, we saw a herd of antelopes moving across. At the same time, I was reminded of the danger they were in. They were being hunted     2     (make) profits. Thinking about     3     Zhaxi told me, I realized that changing our way of life was saving the planet.

People are always fascinated by the night sky full of stars. American Dennis Tito isn’t different.     1     a boy, he began to dream that he     2     (travel) there one day. That was one of the reasons for his studies of engineering and his work for NASA. After only five years, however, he left his job in the laboratories and threw     3     (he) into the investment market.

He was so successful that he had $200 million in his account. He still kept his boyhood dream and now he had money     4     (realize) it.

At the time, the Russian space agency was facing financial problems, and that's why they made a deal with Tito. He     5     (pay) twenty million dollars for a one-week space vacation.

He underwent medical examinations     6     (follow) by training for 8 months. On April 28, 2001, Tito took off with two astronauts     7     became the first space tourist to the ISS. Tito didn’t like the name “space tourist”. He preferred the name “independent researcher” because he also per-formed some     8     (science) experiments in space.

Tito stayed in space for 7 days, during     9     he orbited the Earth 128 times. He then     10     (safe) landed in Kazakhstan.