“Leave a place better than you found it.” is a simple philosophy that I hold dear. I led 20 volunteers   to   help   clean   up   the   Great   Wall   in   April.   Tile   Great   Wall   is   one   of   the     1     (great)structures in the world. Everyone has a responsibility to protect it.

I first went to China to visit the Great Wall in 1986. Since 1990, I     2     (stay)in China with my family,     3     (spend)more than 2,700 days on the Great Wall. I have written several books on the subject, and also fronted documentaries.

I am credited with arousing China’s     4     (nation) consciousness to protect the Great Wall and its environment and I have held several exhibitions.     5     (protect) the Great Wall and assume the role     6     its international ambassador, I got permanent residency（居住权） in China. I live in a village below the Great Wall.

It’s a good thing that people are going out to enjoy     7     (they) and to discover tire great heritage and history, but     8     is also quite dangerous if they don’t understand     9     fragile the environment is. Every person can make a     10     (different). If we can get everybody to protect the environment, the world will be more green, beautiful and healthy.

Free to soar

One windy spring day, I observed young people having fun using the wind to fly their kites. Multicolored creations of varying shapes and sizes filled the skies like beautiful birds darting and dancing in the heady atmosphere above the earth. As the strong winds gusted against the kites, a string kept them in check.

    1     blowing away with the wind, the kites arose to achieve great heights. They shook and pulled, but the restraining string and the awkward tail kept dragging them,     2    (face)upward and against the wind. As the kites struggled and trembled against the string, they seemed to say, “Let me go! I want to be free!” The kites soared beautifully    3     they had to resist the imposed restriction of the string. Finally, one of them succeeded in     4    （break）loose. “Free at last.” it seemed to say. “Free to fly with the wind.” Yet freedom from restraint simply put     5     under the control of an unsympathetic breeze. “Free at last” fluttered ungracefully to the ground and    6    (land) in a mash of wells with its string against a bead bush. It was free to lie powerless in the dirt,     7    (blow) helplessly along the ground, and to stick lifeless against the first obstacle.

We may be reluctant to admit    8     we are like kites sometimes. Life gives us adversity, restrictions and rules     9     we can grow and gain strength from. Restraint is a necessary counterpart to the winds of opposition. Some of us tug at the rules so hard that we never soar to reach the heights we might have obtained. We keep part of the rules and never rise high enough to get our tails off the ground.

Let us each rise to the great heights life has in store for us. Recognizing that some of the restraints that we    10     be annoyed at are actually the steadying force that helps us ascend and achieve.

【推荐1】The first    1    (obviously) reason is the money.I am not one of those rich    2    (kid)whose parents could give them cars    3    birthday presents.My parents    4    (work) all their lives and saved every penny to pay my tuition and living expenses.Although they would be willing to give me some pocket money if I    5    (ask),I prefer to earn it    6     (me).I feel good that I can in a way lighten the burden of my parents.

The second reason is the experience my part-time job provides.Sooner or later,I'll have to enter the job market and sell myself.And if I am to sell myself for a good price,experience will make a difference.    7    working,I get to know people,employers as    8    (good) as workers.I learn how to deal with the bosses and how to get along    9    my fellow workers.All this experience    10    (gain) from my part-time job will be valuable to my future.

I     1    （normal）wake up before my alarm clock goes     2    . It takes me less than 15 minutes to wash, get     3    （change）, have breakfast, leave home and get on a bus，because I hate being late for work. I am always the first person     4    （get）to the office. Whenever a day's work starts，I always find that the mornings are always very busy and the afternoons are even     5    （busy）！Every minute of the day     6    （fill）with urgent matters. When I get home at about ten，I look at some documents     7     I bring back from the office. I seldom have time for fun and many other     8    （activity）with my family. My family complains about it. But I try to work hard so that I can make more money for     9    （they）. Besides，I like being busy. Someone even says I am totally     10    workaholic.But I still feel happy，as long as I am occupied with work.

After nearly three years of detention (拘留) in Canada, Huawei Technologies CFO (首席财务官) Meng Wanzhou returned to China on Saturday.

    1     (step) out of the charter flight arranged by the Chinese government, Meng expressed her gratitude to everyone who was    2     (concern) about her during a brief speech in front of a crowd at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport.

Meng was detained in December 2018 at Vancouver International Airport on a U.S. warrant (逮捕令)     3     (charge) her with bank fraud (欺诈罪) for allegedly misleading HSBC Holdings about Huawei’s business dealings in Iran (伊朗).

She was ruled (裁定) free    4     (leave) Canada without extradition (引渡) proceedings in Canada and further prosecution (起诉) in the United States after reaching a deferred (暂缓的) prosecution agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice (司法部) on Friday.

“Over the past three years, my life    5     (turn) upside down. It was a disruptive (扰乱性的) time for me    6     a mother, a wife, and a company executive (高管). But it was    7    invaluable experience in my life,” Meng said after leaving a courtroom (法庭) in Vancouver following the U.S. Department of Justice dropping its request for her extradition (引渡).

“I will never forget all the good wishes    8    I’ve received from people around the world. As the saying    9    (go), the greater the difficulty, the greater the    10    (grow).” She also expressed gratitude to China and the Chinese people for their help and support.

I was there on doctor’s orders. He had advised a sugar detox (排毒) for me     1    (lose) visceral (内脏的) fat, which Mark Hyman,     2     medical director of the Cleveland Clinic’s Center for Functional Medicine, said “affects a whole range of diseases from cancer to heart disease, diabetes and Alzheimer”.

As I started my detox, Hyman advised me to add “a lot of fat, because fat makes you     3     (feel) full and speeds your metabolism (新陈代谢),”     4     I didn’t know. Then came a second disclosure: “Fat     5     (actual) helps you burn fat,” he     6     (explain), destroying many of the myths I’d grown up with.

For the first several days, frankly, my detoxing was hell (痛苦). Making certain foods     7     (forbid) made me want them more. Ice cream. Pasta. Chocolate. Even wine, which contains a fair amount of sugar. My eagerness were intense and seemed never-ending, and if I cheated I felt like a loser. I was easily angry and moody.

But by day five the eagerness had died down. I started to lose weight. Before the detox I weighed 166 pounds. Twelve weeks later, I hit a new low adult weight: 155. My blood work looks much better. And as my belly fat has reduced, I do feel better and more     8     (energy).

I’m now in my fourth month of a modified detox — I don't want to live without wine or some     9     (sweet). I know I can’t avoid all added sugars, no matter     10     vigilant (警惕的) I may be.

The big question: How long will I stay on it?