From Monday to Friday, most people are busy working or studying，but in the evenings and on weekends they are free and enjoy     1       . Some watch television     2     go to the movies，others take part in sports. There are many different ways     3     spend their spare time.

Almost everyone has some kind of hobbies. It may be anything from collecting stamps to     4    (make) model planes. Some hobbies are expensive,     5       others don’t cost anything at all. Some       6         (collect) are worth a lot of money, others are valuable only to their owners.

I know     7     man who has a coin collection worth 250 dollars. He was very happy about his collection and     8     (think) the price was all right. On the other hand, my youngest brother likes collecting matchboxes. He has almost 600 of them, but I doubt if they are worth any money. However, to my brother they are     9       (extreme) valuable. Nothing makes him     10     (happy) than to find a new matchbox for his collection.

This is what a hobby means, I think. It is something we like to do in our free time just for the fun of it. The value in dollars is not important,   we do it for   the pleasure it gives us.

I felt butterflies in my stomach when I started calligraphy class ten years ago. I wondered what I was doing there. At that moment, I couldn’t have known that I’d just made one of the best     1     (choose) of my life.

I sat down and listened to the teacher     2     (introduce) the tools of the craft. Then it was time for me to try my hand. I took up the brush, using the correct gesture,     3     (dip) it in the ink, and carefully wrote “one”     4     Chinese.

After nearly five years of practicing, I started to make versions of well-known poems. Calligraphy seemed like a bridge,     5     connected me to authors from centuries past. Stroke(笔画) by stroke, word by word，I could feel their emotions, cherished my own peace and learned     6     (appreciate) my daily life.

Now, calligraphy is not just     7     hobby, but     8     a way to remove myself from the worries of life. Rolling out the paper, I can write for a whole day. Calligraphy     9     (enable) me to balance my busy schedule and live    10     (peace).

“     1     you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” These words come from the book The Secret Garden, first     2    （publish）in 1911. At that time, only the very rich in Britain     3    （have）gardens. However, today, millions of Brits like to say that they have “ green fingers” ，    4     around half the population spending most of their free time gardening. Those without outside space can rent small pieces of land on which     5    （grow）things. Today, there are over 4,000 people in London     6    （wait）for such pieces of land. One recent idea     7    （be）to turn rooftops and walls into private gardens. These gardens have helped make the cities     8    （green）and improve air quality. As well as being good for the     9    （environmental），gardening is also good     10     the soul.

Did you grow up in one culture, your parents came from another, and you are now living in a     1     (total) different country? If so, then you are a third-culture kid.

The term “third-culture kid”     2     (use) in the 1960s for the first time by Dr. Ruth. She first came across this phenomenon while     3     (research) North American children living in India. In general, third-culture kids benefit     4     their intercultural experience and they often reach excellent academic results.

Yet many     5     (difficulty) may arise from this phenomenon. Third-culture kids may not be able to adapt     6     (they) completely to their new surroundings. Also, they often find it hard     7     (develop) new friendship. Additionally, for a third-culture kid, it is often     8     (easy) to move to a new country than to return to his homeland. For example, after living in Australia for many years, Louis finally returned to the country     9     she was born. She didn’t know anything about current TV shows     10     fashion trends. And she didn’t share the same values as other teens of her age.

【推荐2】Happiness means different things to different people. For Mary, who has     1     severe sleeping problem, happiness is as simple as having a good night’s sleep.

Bed was once a place     2     Mary went to rest after a long hard day.     3    , she has not had a full night’s sleep in almost six months. Her doctor said that     4     (count) sheep might help her fall asleep. She tried this, but soon got tired of it after it failed to work. She finds the nights without sleep almost     5     (bear) . She is always sleepy and lacks energy during the day.

Mary is not alone. Studies show that more than one in three people worldwide struggle with getting enough sleep. It often takes on different     6     (form): some people can get to sleep, but wake up much too early; some get a full night’s sleep, but are     7     (disappoint) to find that they still feel tired when they wake up; others, like Mary, find     8     difficult to fall asleep in the first place.

Specialists say that people should not worry too much about this problem. In most cases, a lack of sleep     9     (cause) by anxiety and pressure. It is important to keep yourself     10     good spirits and to be positive.

Currently，both women and men     1    (surround) by magazines and websites full of tips about dieting，exercise and fashion. Gone are the days     2     all men had to think about wearing a nice suit to be smart and handsome. Things have changed.

Now，a survey has suggested that 80% of men admit     3     (be) unhappy about their body. The biggest body issues for     4     (they) were beer bellies and lack of muscles. Some think it is because     5     the pressure of influence of role models we see on TV and in magazines. People end up with a perception of     6     the perfect body should look like. But not everybody wants to put in the effort to have perfect muscles like Arnold Schwarzenegger. An opportunistic designer has even invented a muscle­enhancing shirt     7    (make) the buyer look more of a strong man．

But Joe Warner，the former editor of Men’s Fitness magazine，thinks the muscle­enhancing shirt is just     8     trick. He thinks many people in the country are overweight and should accept they need to do more exercise     9    (regular)．Exercise is always good. But we mustn’t forget beauty is only skin deep. Character is     10     (important) than appearance.