【推荐1】When I was in primary school, I had a big argument with a boy in my class. l can't remember what it was about, ____ I have never forgotten the ____ I learned that day.

I was ____ that I was right and he was wrong. However, he strongly believed that I was wrong and he was right. The ____ decided to teach us a lesson. She came up with a good idea. She____ both of us to the ____ of the class and ____ him on one side of her grey desk and me on ____, In the middle of the desk was a large, round object. I could ____ see that it was black. She asked the boy ____ color the object was. "White," he answered in a loud voice.

I couldn't believe that the object was whites ____ it was certainly black! One more ____ started between the boy and me, this time about the____ of the object.

The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed ____, and then she asked me what the color of the object was. I ____ answer, "White." It was then that I knew what was wrong. It was an object with two ____ colored sides, and from his side it was white. ____ from my side was it black.

My teacher taught me a very important 1esson that day: You must ____ in other person's position (位置) and look at the ____ through their eyes in order to____ understand their ideas.

【推荐3】Until a few years ago, I was a calm person. If you were going to offend me or verbally ______ me, I almost never lost temper ______; of course I felt hurt, but I didn’t show it.

Then, one day, I met my husband and I fell in love with him, a proud ______ who loudly discusses things even with himself when he’s not happy. Things, however, got worse for me when we started ______ on things. He seemed really angry while I seemed polite. Truth is that I was ______ too, but I was used to not showing it on the outside. Fight after fight, he always acted as if nothing had happened a few minutes after each quarrel, while my moments of ______ discontent started to expand until they became hours, sometimes even days.

I felt this had to change and the conversation went ______ like this:

Me: “Either you change your ______ when we fight or I will start avoiding any discussion, otherwise this will ______ our relationship.”

Him: “Did you ______ the Mpemba Effect? If you put two ______ containers filled with the same amount of the same water into the freezer except that one has boiling water in it while the other one has water at ambient (周围的) ______, the boiling water will ______ faster than the ambient water. Baby, you got to boil first, to cool down faster. That’s why the Italians live longer than Canadians.”

The connection he suggested is to be ______, but I have learned a fact I didn’t know, one that has inspired me to understand that if I’m angry about something or someone, for that anger to disappear, it has to be towards the outside or otherwise it is like hiding ______ under the carpet: your house might look clean, but it is not.

Mr. and Mrs. Moore were invited to a Christmas party at a hotel one year. They _____ their car outside and went in. Mr. Moore had never got drunk before, so he was _____ not to drink too much, _____ his friends asked him to drink more _____.

During the party, Mrs. Moore found that she had _____ to bring her bag, so she asked her husband to go out to the car and _____ it for her. He _____ so, but on his way back to the hotel gate, he heard a car horn(喇叭) blowing near his own car. He thought _____ might be in need of help and went over to the car with the _____. He found a small black bear sitting in the driving-seat and blowing the horn.

When Mr. Moore ______ the party, he told several people about the bear, but of course they did not believe him and thought he was drunk. When he took them out of the hotel to ______ that his story was ______, he found that the car with the ______ in it had gone. There were so many ______ about Mr. Moore’s black bear during the next week that he at last put an advertisement in the newspaper; “If anyone saw a black bear blowing the horn in a car outside the Century Hotel ______ the evening of Christmas Day, please tell…”

Two days later ______ Mrs. Richards called him and said that she and her husband had left their pet bear in their car outside the Century Hotel for a few minutes that evening, and that ______ he had blown the horn.

Mrs. Richards did not ______ to think there was anything ______about that. “Our bear likes blowing car horns,” she said, “and we don’t ______when we are not driving the car.”

【推荐1】Older citizens join China’s digital age

Digital technology has made life easier for most people. With a smart phone in hand, people can shop online, watch TV shows and _______a taxi.   

Zhu Yiwei, 17, from Anhui province, wanted his grandfather to have access to this _______, so he bought him a new phone as a gift. But his grandfather still uses the phone just for calling and _______. “He said other functions make him confused.” said Zhu.

This is a _______ problem faced by the elderly in the digital age.

Although China already has more than 900 million Internet users, among them, those aged 60 and above _______ just 6.7 percent, according to the Statistical Report on Internet Development.

Even though the elderly have access to the Internet, they _______do it for communication and information acquisition (获取), according to a survey by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Other services are still _______ to them. That’s why elderly people are sometimes called “digital refugees (难民)”.

“We have made a lifelong _______ to society, but now we feel _______ by it,” a 75-year-old Beijing resident surnamed Bai told the Global Times.

For the elderly, one way of __________ digital technology is to learn from younger family members. However, not all of these younger people have the ________or time to teach the elderly. In addition, aging   ________ many physical problems, such as ________eyesight and bad memory. This makes it ________ to use smart phones.

The government and other organizations in China are trying to help. See Young, a Beijing based NGO, ________to help China’s elderly use mobile services. Student volunteers have been providing free computer and smartphone training for elderly people in over 200 communities across the country.

【推荐2】Years ago, if a teenager had some problems in his life, he might go home and write in his diary; now, a teenager with _______  problems might go onto the Internet and write about them in a blog (博客). In many ways, a diary and a blog are very _______. But what makes blogging different from writing in a(n) _______ diary?

The biggest difference is that a blog is much more   _______ than a diary. Usually, a teenager treats his diary like a book full of _______ that he does not want to _______ with others.

It’s interesting that someone who writes in a blog _______ a diary will probably write nearly the same information.

I have a little sister, and sometimes I go online to read her _______. She writes about things like waking up early for swimming practice and not studying enough for her chemistry test. _______ I was her age, I wrote about the same thing, but ________ in my dairy. Then, after I had finished writing, I would hide my diary in a secret place because I was ________ that my sister might read it.

The biggest ________ with blogging is that anyone can read what you write. If I was angry with a friend during high school and wrote something ________ about him in my diary, he would never know. ________, if my sister ever wrote something bad about a friend, that friend might ________ her blog and get angry.

There are also ________ to blogging, of course. If I was feeling sad one day and wrote in my diary, “Nobody cares about me…” Because no one would ________ about it. However, if my sister wrote the same sentence in her blog, her best friend would quickly ________ and tell her how much they ________ her. Blog help people ________ in contact with their friend and know what the people around them are doing.

【推荐3】Thousands of people online are involved in efforts to help an 8-year-old, cancer-stricken (患癌症的) boy from the United States to realize his dream. Dorian Murray of Westerly, Rhode Island, has been receiving_________from around the world in recent days.，

Dorian has been_________cancer since he was 4._________the disease had been brought under control after a series of_________treatments, a medical checkup early this month found that cancer cells (细胞) had_________to the boy’s brain. The family decided to_________treatment.

Dorian then told his father that before going to heaven, he wanted to be_________in China because it had the Great Wall, which he called “a bridge for people to walk on”. The_________between the boy and his father was posted on Facebook, where it was_________and commented on by thousands of Internet users, including many from China.

Some responded with____________taken at the Great Wall in Beijing, in which they held signs with words of____________, reading “D-Strong” and “You are very famous in China.” Some left messages below the post, saying “I hope you will____________soon.” or “We are delighted to make your dream come true.”

Dorian’s mother wrote that she was____________and deeply moved by the responses to Dorian’s____________. “Dorian has brought so much inspiration to people around the world! I couldn’t be more____________my son,” she said.