Up until the 1980s, people in many countries     1    (regular)followed in their parents’ footsteps when choosing jobs. How times have changed! Most people now have no     2     (intend)of staying at one job for very long. In fact,     3    (plan)to work in the same field or industry for your entire working life just isn’t practical anymore. The skills you have now are unlikely to remain relevant and be enough       4    (help)you through your entire career.     5    (build)a career, you’d better keep looking for     6    (smart)ways to do your work. You’ll need to be a risk taker, an innovator, a problem solver, and a hard worker. Keep doing this,     7    you can become an expert or a specialist in something one day. Jobs and occupations come and go at     8     amazing pace these days. You may have to go back to the classroom and be retrained in order to qualify to work in another field. The truth is     9    you are the boss of your career, and it is up to you     10    (decide)what you can do and how well you can do it.

There are many factors     1    (contribute) to a person’s success in life. Whether he is at school or at work, a person is more likely to succeed if he is hard-working, honest, intelligent, responsible, and so on. But     2     all the possible characteristics that can affect one’s success, I believe self-confidence to be the most important for the following reasons.

The first reason is that when a person has self-confidence he believes in     3     (he). He believes that he can and will succeed, and this gives him the courage     4     (try) new things. In order to be successful we     5     be willing to take some risks, so having self-confidence is very important.     6     reason is that a confident person rarely gives up. When he fails he tries again and again     7     he wins. The final reason is     8     confident people are not afraid to show off their achievements. This is not to say that they should（吹嘘）, but that they should     9     (confidence) accept the compliments (赞扬) of others. When their achievements     10     (notice) more by others at school or at work, they are more likely to succeed.

A few weeks ago, I accidentally dropped a plate and it broke into a billion pieces! I’d had it for about 40 years. This morning, we had a parcel     1     (deliver) to my son. He opened it and     2     (proud) handed a new plate to me, which he had bought with his own savings, saying that he knew     3     upset I was and wanted to surprise me!

Marilla and Matthew were expecting the     1     (arrive) of a boy that they were going to adopt. But Marilla was frozen in amazement when she saw a girl was standing there.

“Where is the boy?” asked Marilla.

“There wasn’t any boy. There was only her.” said Matthew.

“There must have been a boy,” insisted Marilla. “We sent word to Mrs Spencer     2     (bring) a boy.”

    3     this dialogue the child had remained silent. Suddenly she seemed to grasp the full meaning of     4     had been said. She became very emotional and burst into tears. She sat down on a chair by the table and threw her arms on it,     5     (bury) her face in them.