【推荐1】The Black Hills Wild Horse Sanctuary supported by charity is now open to the public by appointment only, where the wild horses live in freedom under long-lasting protection. I called ahead about stopping by to ________some 2022 calendars. After discovering that the Choctaw pony Imagine, was May’s calendar girl, along with her mother Tahiyah, I was ________, and wanted to share a few more calendars with my friends, I sponsor the pony Imagine annually, and have the ________ to name her.

“How many ________ do you want?” asked Susan, the president, and executive director of the Sanctuary. I thought for a moment, ________ in the sunshine through the transparent glass roof of the office, where Susan and 6 staff members were busy ________ the documents needed to operate the 11,000+ acres of ________ area for hundreds of horses. Through the bank of windows, I could see a herd of horses off in the ________ .

“Four. No. How about five?” I replied, trying to do the ________ in my head on how much that would be. “Do you take a check?” “Oh, I forgot my checkbook!” I laughed. “Credit card?”

Susan straightened the small pile of calendars and ________, “How about we give you these calendars? They are our perfect introduction to our mission of ________ the awareness of protection.” That’s something unexpected. ________, I took a deep breath and bargained, “How about if I ________ to the Hay and Cake Fund?”

We both smiled. Such a clever exchange of ________! It is in ________ that we receive. We gave for the sake of giving and any reward was ________.

We even went to ________ Imagine. With her distinctive markings, she was easy to ________. She’s ________ and is bigger than her mother now. She was happily grazing in the same herd I had ________ while in the office.

【推荐1】High school biology teacher Kelly Chavis knew smartphones were a problem in her class. For one class period, students used a whiteboard to count every Snapchat, Instagram, text, call or other notifications that appeared on their phones.   Chavis   told   students   not   to _________ these notifications.

Teachers around the country have done similar experiments, usually _________ dozens of markings on the whiteboard. Chavis, who teaches honours-level classes, was _________ by the results of her experiment.

Chavis is among a growing number of teachers, parents and health experts who believe that smartphones are now partly to blame for increasing the levels of student _________. The use of electronic devices is so _________ that the National Education Association newsletter said it was a “mental health tsunami (海啸)”.

Tests, after-school activities and problems at home can increase _________ for students. But research now _________ that smartphones and social media are some of the main reasons for the rising levels of uneasiness.

Last year, an editorial in the journal Paediatrics proposed that doctors ask young patients about their social media use as part of routine exams. Three researchers wrote that too much social media use might _________ the development of mental health disturbance in at-risk teenagers, such as feelings of _________, depression and anxiety.

Researchers are still not sure whether phones cause student depression or depression causes phone use. __________ 70 percent of teens see anxiety and depression as major problems among their peers, according to a Pew Research report. Nearly 60 percent of parents said they were __________ about the influence of social media on their children’s physical and mental health.

Schools are starting to take steps to deal with the problem. Many public schools pay outside companies to watch students’ social media activity for signs of __________. Others invite in yoga teachers and comfort dogs to help __________ students. Some schools have organized unplugged events — days in which people do not use their electronic devices. Less than 20 percent of students and school employees took part, __________ the control that technology has over their daily lives.

Some parents are not letting their children get smartphones until they grow up. Deirdre Birmingham of New Jersey __________ a campaign called “Wait Until Eighteenth” because she didn’t think her video game-loving 10-year-old son was ready for a smartphone. The campaign involves groups of parents who have children in the same class. These parents agree not to let their children get phones until they are teenagers.

【推荐2】I’ve had the good fortune of spending a lot of time working in London over the years. I’m a typical American, _________ to making eye contact and smiling when speaking to others. But until I spent time abroad, I was never quite _________ of what my facial expressions could convey.

In the UK, I _________ not everyone made as much eye contact on the street as I did. And it was _________ to hold eye contact during a business meeting. My _________ smile could be considered as flirtatious (轻浮的). But my British colleagues _________: I was American. This forward attitude was not _________, but it was just my culture. _________, being expressively cheerful among those who keep _________ closer to their vest (背心 ) was accepted in the UK.

____________, in other countries a cultural misunderstanding of smiling can have serious results. While it’s unlikely that a mistimed smile will ____________ you a contract (合同),____________ interactions can make it much more difficult to build effective business relationships.

Different cultures ____________ smiling in different ways. In Russia, people do not smile because it ____________ that you are at best foolish or at worst, sneaky (卑劣的). Even in family photos, adults ____________ with stony faces. In Japan, smiling is a way to ____________ your feeling that you don’t want others to know. Australians have smiling cultures. While they might not have the same ____________ for giant white smiles as Americans, they smile more than our peers in Russia, Japan, Switzerland, and the UK.

If Americans have to work abroad, my ____________ is to make sure you do some research. It is ____________ to be yourself, but you should also learn about the culture you are going to visit. This will help you communicate ____________ and effectively with your peers.

【推荐3】Colleges today often operate as machines for putting too many opportunities before already advantaged people. Our educational system focuses too much on helping students take the next step. But it does not give them adequate _______ in thinking about the substance of the lives toward which they are advancing. Many institutions today have _______ that it is an essential part of education to teach the young the art of choosing, and to train them to use _______ to decide which efforts deserve the investment of their lives.

We spent many years teaching on a college campus, trying to help students struggling with their confusion. Eventually, we sought to address this problem _______, by designing a course intended to introduce the young to the art of choosing. The course begins with Plato’s “Gorgias” — a messy dialogue that turns on a(n) _______ over whether the pursuit of virtue or of pleasure is the way to a good life. The dialogue ends _______; no one is satisfied. But with remarkable regularity, it _______ the kind of thinking that students need to better understand the choices that shape their lives.

Students’ first reaction to the “Gorgias” is disbelief, sometimes even horror. It is the dialogue’s _______ that alarms them: the idea that we can seriously argue about what represents the human good. Everything in their education has led them to believe that such arguments cannot bear fruit.

Most students are _______ to discover this art of choosing. Learning to reason about happiness is as delightful as discovering that one’s voice can be made to sing. Why, then, do institutions ________ teach it? In some cases, intelligence members are encouraged to ________ specialized research rather than thinking about the good life. In others, they share the belief that feeling is a more ________ guide to happiness than the mind.

Colleges should self-consciously prioritize initiating students into a culture of ________ reflection on how to live. Doing so will hold them ________ performing their proper work: helping young people learn to give reasons for the choices that shape their lives and to ________ about the ends they pursue.