【推荐1】Life is l0% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it. It isn't about what happens to us ________it's about how we handle what happens. We are __________ the control of our responses to life, but what effort are we putting to deal with our responses?

Our attitude towards life and our characters take on more importance. Living a good life can be easier if we develop our superior characters that can make our society __________ as well. Kindness, love, forgiveness, patience, sincerity, respect, care and __________ are some of the factors that can make life pretty easier._______our life with these crucial factors. Otherwise, our life will __________ difficulties and we will face more problems.

Positive characters can bring positive life attitude and great __________, No matter how or how small, an act of kindness shows that someone cares and even a __________ word of love can bring happiness. Care, respect and devotion can easily __________ dislike even hate. Patience and sincerity can prevent ________. Forgiveness can do wonders. We cannot get the qualities from any store or lecture. __________, it is nature's gift. These are the characters that everyone should __________, and we just need to use them.

If a(n) unexpected accident were to happen, what would we do? Sometimes we cannot even __________what life brings to us because something unexpected will happen. It becomes impossible for us to __________ that particular circumstance. But the thing that needs to be __________ every time is that who and what brought happiness to you. Pay your __________ to the one who has given you the pleasure. But if things make you sad, you can __________ to forget them, but you should remember "Never __________ your power and believe in yourself." We all got __________ to deal with the incidents that bring difficulties, Moreover, every incident gives us a __________, which we need to learn.

【推荐2】Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about 1500, but many of them are not considered very _______. English is considered one of the most important languages because many people _______ it, not only in England and America,_______ in other countries of the world. About 200,000,000 speak it _______ their own language, and another 230,000,000 use it as _______ language. It is difficult to say how many people are learning it._______ boys and girls in schools are trying to do so.

Many English children study French. French is also a very important language. _______children study German, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Which is the best _______ to learn a language? We know that we all learnt our mothers’ language well when we were _______. If we learn a second language in the ________ way, it may not seem so difficult. What does a small child do? It ________ what people say, and it tries to guess what it hears. When it wants something, it has to ________ it. It is using the language, thinking and talking in it all of the time. If people use a second language ________, they will learn it easily.

In school, you learn to read, to write, to hear and to ________. It is best to learn all new words through the ________. You can read them, spell them and speak them later.

【推荐3】A lot of travellers who are going to new cities are often told to begin their trips with a bus tour. This thinking is that they can then go to the places that _______ them. But that is wrong. What you see from the inside of a moving bus is _______ and removed from the real sights, sounds, and smells outside. So the best way to experience any place is on foot and with absolutely no travel plan. _______ go wherever your feet and your interests _______ you.

You will not only get to the _______ sites that are on the bus tour — the museums, the monuments, the city hall — but you will have seen much more. You will have _______ the present life of the city.

But there is a problem: What if I get lost? No one ever gets _______ lost in a major city. At first you can find your way back to a well-known place. If it frightens you to be “lost”, just find a taxi and go back to where you started. However, the _______ things can happen if you get lost. You can _______ at a sidewalk cafe to have a rest. You can ask the local people near you. And ________ they don’t speak your language, your trip becomes more memorable because of the ________. Here are a few more ways to get the most out of your travel.

First, know before you go. ________ a few hours before your trip learning about the history and culture of your destination.

Second, move around like a local. Use the subways and buses of the city you are ________. You will not only save money, but also learn how people really live.

Third, check the bulletin boards. Sometimes you can find advertisements for free concert, and ________ fun activities on bulletin boards around universities.

So the next time you see a travel poster wishing you to have a bus tour, just save your money. Instead, wander ________. I promise you a time you will remember with great pleasure.

【推荐1】Last month, I visited one of my old neighborhoods in New York. I had not been there for twenty years and as I walked along the street, my mind was __ by memories of the past. I saw the old __ building where I had lived and the playground where I had played. As I viewed these once __ surroundings, images of myself as a child there __. However, what I saw and what I remembered were not the same. I __ realized that the best memories were those kept __.

My old apartment building, as I remember, was bright and alive. It was more than just a place to live. It was a movie house, a space station, or whatever my young mind could __. I would steal away with my friends and play in the __. This was always exciting because it was so cool and dark, and there were so many things there to __ among. There was a small river in the back of the building, We would go there to lie in the shade of trees and enjoy ourselves.

However, what I saw was __ different. The apartment building was now in bad __. What was once more than a place to live in looked hardly worth __ in. The windows were all __. The once clean walls were covered with dirty __ . The river was hardly recognizable. The water was polluted and the trees and flowers were all __. The once sweet-smelling river now smelled __. It was really heartbreaking to ___all this.

I do not __ having seen my old neighborhood. However, I do not think my __ childhood memories can ever be the same. I suppose it is __ when they say, “You can never go home again.”

【推荐2】On a dark grey morning, my mom said in a quiet voice. "Your dad and I have decided that we’re moving to Singapore.”

These words did not_______much in my five-year-old brain until the day we had to_______ and say goodbye to our close friends.

Normally，mom always booked our_______together. The_______of sitting next to a stranger was never something I had to worry about, until now. Booking it late, we weren’t given_______when buying the seats.

I was_________as I walked on the plane and down the aisle. What I saw was something _______to an alien to me. It was an Indian lady dressed in a traditional Sari and having a massive bindi( 额前的人工痣) between her eyebrows. But her_______wasn’t the only thing that_______me away. I made a__________ as if I had smelt something sour.

My mom__________walked me to the back of the plane, and__________she wasn’t any different from me and I should be respectful because it was her__________and religion.

As we got prepared to__________, the lady buckled(扣住 )her seatbelt and took out a book from her bag. At that point I am__________that the book was in English! After a short sleep, I__________to dinner time. I got spaghetti and so did the lady sitting next to me. She was eating the same thing as me!

Throughout the flight, I__________in my young little mind that she was just a human being like me though she looked and__________differently, which provided me with a__________of being a human being who__________all types of lifestyles.

【推荐3】I developed a crush on a cute woman I met in a pet store. She led a very___________lifestyle and we did not have much to talk about. But somehow none of this seemed to_________. I enjoyed being with her and I felt a sparkle in her presence. And it seemed to me that she enjoyed my_________as well. When I learned her birthday was coming up, I decided to ask her out. On the threshold of calling her, I sat and looked at the phone for about half an hour. Then I dialed and hung up_________it rang. I felt like a high school boy, bouncing between_________anticipation (期待) and fear of rejection. A voice from hell kept telling me that she would not like me and that I had a lot of_________asking her out this Saturday. But I felt too enthusiastic about being with her to let the_________stop me._________I got up the nerve to ask her. She thanked me for calling and told me she was not_________on that day. I felt shot down. The__________voice that told me not to call advised me to give up before I was____________embarrassed. __________there was more inside of me that wanted to come to__________. I had feelings for this woman, and I had to express them. So I bought her a pretty birthday card on which I wrote a__________note. I walked around the corner to her pet shop. As I approached the door, that same disturbing voice       ________me, “What if she doesn’t like you? What if she__________you?” Feeling vulnerable, I stuffed the__________under my shirt. I decided that if she showed me__________of affection, I would give it to her; if she was cool to me, I would leave the card__________. This way I would not be__________and would avoid rejection or embarrassment.

【推荐1】When you say that someone has a good memory, what exactly do you mean? Are you saying that the person has fast recall or that he or she ______ information quickly? Or maybe you just mean that the person remembers a lot about her or his childhood. The truth is that it is ______ to say exactly what memory is. Even scientists who have been studying memory for decades say they are still trying to ______ exactly what it is. But we do know that a particular memory is not just one thing stored somewhere in the brain. ______ , a memory is made up of bits and pieces of information stored all over the brain. Perhaps the best way to ______ memory is to say that it is a process-a process of recording, storing, and getting back information. Practice and repetition can help to ______ the pieces that make up our memory of that information.

Memory can be negatively affected by a number of things. ______   nutrition can affect a person’s ability to store information. Excessive alcohol use can also ______ memory and cause permanent ______ to the brain over the long term. A vision or hearing problem may affect a person’s ability to notice certain things, thus making it ______ to register information in the brain.

When people talk about memory, they often ______ both short-term memory and long-term memory. If you want to call a store or an office that you don’t call often, you look in the telephone book for the number. You dial the number, and then you forget it! You use your short-term memory to remember the number. Your short-term memory lasts about 30 seconds, or half a minute. ______ , you don’t need to look in the telephone book for your best friend’s number, because you already know it. This number is in your long-term memory, which ______ information about things you have learned and experienced through the years.

Why do you forget things sometimes? The major reason for forgetting something is that you did not learn it well enough ______. For example, if you meet some new people and right away forget their names, it is because you did not ______ the names at the first few seconds when you heard them.

At present, almost everyone has a mobile phone, but have you ever thought that cell phones_______ be bad for your health? A study shows that heavy mobile phone use may cause hearing loss.

This study shows that people who use cell phones for about an hour a day have a _______time hearing some similar sounds, especially in their right ears. It is getting harder for _______to tell the difference between the sounds of “s” and “f”, and “t” and “z”.

Researchers studied 100 people who used cell phones and _______ them with 50 people who did not. The study lasted for 12 months. What the researchers found was that cell phone users had more hearing _______than those who did not use cell phones.

Besides this, our ears have many little_______inside them. Too much noise will cause these hairs to get weak and _______ die. When these hairs die, it affects our ability to listen.

However, cell phone users don’t care too much _______this study. One man said, “I’d be more worried about people who_______MP3 players. They put those earphones in their ears and listen to very __________ music. I think that is more likely to cause hearing loss than a cell phone.”

【推荐2】Sea turtles are considered a national treasure in Sri Lanka. However, in recent years, the sea turtles have faced great _______.

Growing up on the beach, Chamara Indika, 35, was _________ about it. In the beginning, he _______himself to the protection of sea turtles as a volunteer. He gave his spare time to raise _______of caring for sea turtles and carried out sea turtle protection and rescue missions.

Later, he decided that this was not a long-term _______. “One person’s abilities are very _______and I wanted to make real changes,” said Indika. _______, Jack Xiao, the founder of Chinese YIK International Volunteers (YIKIV), reached out to Indika and offered his help to protect sea turtles. With his assistance, Indika set up the Nil Manel Foundation in Sri Lanka.

The organization _______ professional training and guidance for the volunteers, spreads knowledge of turtle and caries out conservation activities. Volunteers can then work to spread their new knowledge to more people.

At first, the volunteers’ main job was to rescue and care for _______ turtles locally. Then they found people and animals eat turtle eggs on the beach. So volunteers started ________ eggs to a protection center with artificial cultivation. It ________ higher survival rates.

Thanks to their efforts, the survival rate of newborn turtles has reached new highs, and conservation awareness has also increased. Many volunteers now ________ to use straws and plastic bags which cause many turtles to die accidentally.

“It made me feel that all my work had ________.But it was not enough to rely on myself and the current volunteers. It would be important to ________ this knowledge down to future generations,” said Indika.

With persistence and hard work, Indika firmly believes they will make a(n)________   to the sea turtles.

【推荐3】Being an astronaut sounds cool, doesn’t it? In space, they get to do some pretty amazing things, like_________ in zero gravity. However, without_________, there are also plenty of things astronauts can’t do, and that’s very_________. What’s worse, they can’t even let their sadness show — because it’s impossible to _________ in zero gravity.

Of course, astronauts can still produce tears. But crying is much more difficult in space. Because of their _________ environment, tears don’t flow downward out of the eyes. This_________ that when you cry in space, your tears have nowhere to go — they just_________ there. In May 2011, astronaut Andrew J. Feustel_________ this during one of his spacewalks.

Besides making your _________ unclear, this can also cause physical pain. Back on Earth, tears are supposed to bring __________ to the eyes. But that’s not the case in space. “My right eye is painful like crazy,” Feustel told his teammate during the walk.

Since gravity doesn’t work in space, astronauts need some extra help to get rid of the tears. Feustel __________ to rub (擦) his eyes against his helmet to wipe the tears away. Another choice is to just wait. “When the tears get big enough they__________ break free of the eye and float around,” astronaut Ron Parise said.

In space, astronauts can’t eat or drink in __________ ways. Nor can they talk to each other directly. They can’t even burp (打嗝), because there is no gravity to hold the food__________ in their stomach. If they do burp, they just __________ throwing up everything in their stomach. Thus, perhaps it’s only space explorers who can honestly say, “Gravity, you’re the best.”