In my primary school, I felt stupid because I was behind the others.     1    , my life is a lot easier at high school because my fellow students have accepted me. The few     2     cannot see the real person inside my body do not make me     3    (annoy), and I just ignore them. All in all I have a good life. I am happy to have found many things I can do,     4     writing and computer programming. My ambition is     5     (work) for a firm that develops computer software when I grow up. Last year I     6     (invent) a computer football game and a big company has decided to buy     7     from me. I have a very busy life with no time to sit around     8     (feel) sorry for myself. As well as going to the movies and football     9     (match) with my friends, I spend a lot of time with my pets. I have two rabbits, a parrot, a tank full of fish and a tortoise. To look after my pets     10     (proper) takes a lot of time but I find it worthwhile. I also have to do a lot of work, especially if I have been away for a while.

Last week our teacher     1     (ask) us to fill in a questionnaire (调查问卷). One of the questions     2     (be): Who will you go to in     3     (time) of trouble? Here are the results. Many students say they will talk to their friends or classmates     4     they’re of     5     same age and can understand each other. Some will turn to their parents or teachers     6     help. Only a few choose to deal with the problems on     7     (they) own,     8     shows that they dislike     9     (talk) to others. In my opinion, when in trouble, we should seek help from those we trust     10     (much).

Food is life; it gives us the nourishment(营养)    1    (need) to stay alive and be healthy. Usually, we eat because we are hungry or need energy. Brian Wansink, a professor at the University of Illinois,     2     (say) we also eat certain foods    3    they make us feel good, and remind us of happy memories. Wansink calls this kind of food comfort food. For some people, ice cream is a comfort food.     4    others, a bowl of noodles makes them feel good.

How does a food become comfort food?     5    is believed by Professor Wansink that we connect food with important times, feelings, and people in our lives. “When I was a child, my mother made a delicious soup; I loved it.” Now, I often have this soup when I am tired or     6     (worry). And it helps me feel better,” says one of Wansink’ s friends.

Do men and women choose different comfort foods? Wansink’s research (研究) at the University of Illinois says “yes”. In his study, the favorite comfort for both men and women was ice cream. After this, men usually preferred hot, delicious foods like soup or noodles,     7    women liked sweet things such as chocolate and candies. Men and women like to eat comfort foods when they are happy, but women eat these foods     8    ( much) when they are sad or worried.

    9     (general) speaking, not all comfort foods are junk foods. About 40 percent of the comfort foods in Wansink’s study were healthy dishes, soups and vegetables. It shows that a comfort food can be     10    (benefit) and good to you.

The Durable Satisfaction of Life

For educated men, what are the sources of the solid and durable satisfactions of life? I hope you are all aiming at the solid, durable satisfactions of life, not primarily the gratifications of this moment or of tomorrow, but the satisfactions that are going to last and grow.

    1       as I have seen, there is one indispensable foundation for the satisfactions of life--health. A young man    2     be clean, wholesome, vigorous animal.

That is the foundation for everything else, and I hope you will all be that, if you are nothing more. We have to build everything in this world of domestic joy and professional success, everything of a useful, honorable career,     3     bodily wholesomeness and vitality. To be a clean, wholesome, vigorous animal     4     (involve)a good deal. One must stay energetic and avoid drunkenness, gluttony(暴食)and getting into dirt of any kind. Nevertheless,     5     of you would be content with this achievement as the total outcome of your lives. It is indeed a happy thing to enjoy all through life sports and bodily exercise, but, if     6     (make)the main object of life, they tire and cease to be a source of durable satisfaction.

What is the next thing, then,     7    we want in order to make sure of durable satisfactions in life? We need a strong mental grip, a wholesome capacity for hard work. It is intellectual power and aims that we need. In all the professions---learned, scientific, or industrial----large mental enjoyments should come to educated men.     8     distinguishes the privileged class that has opportunity for prolonged education from the larger class that has not that opportunity is that the educated class lives mainly by the exercise of intellectual powers and gets therefore much     9     (great) enjoyment out of life than those who earn a livelihood chiefly by the exercise of bodily powers. You ought to obtain here, therefore, the trained capacity for mental labor, rapid intense and sustained. That is the great thing for you       10     (get) in college. Get it now. Get it in the years of college life. It is the main achievement of college to win this mental force, this capacity for keen observation and sustained thought, for everything that we mean by the reasoning power of man. That capacity will be the main source of intellectual joys and of happiness and content throughout a long and busy life.