Where do you go when you want to learn something? A friend? A tutor（导师）? These are all ________ places of learning. But it may well be that the learning you really want ________ somewhere else instead. I had the chance of seeing this first hand on a weekend.

My daughter plays on a recreational（业余的）soccer team. They did very well this season and so ________ a tournament（锦标赛）, which normally was only for more skilled club teams. This led to some ________ experiences on Saturday as they played against teams ________ trained. Through the first two games, her ________ did not get one serious shot on goal. As a parent, I ________ seeing my daughter playing her best, but still defeated.

It seemed that something clicked with the ________ between Saturday and Sunday. When they ________ for their Sunday game, they were completely different. They had begun integrate（融合）the kinds of play and teamwork they had seen the day before into their ________. They played aggressively and even scored a goal.

It struck me that playing against the other team was a great ________ moment for all the girls on the team. I think it is a general principle. ________ is the best teacher. The lessons they learned from the games may not be different from what they would have got in school, but are certainly more personal and meaningful, because they had to work them out on their own.

Uh-oh, the new year’s just begun and already you’re finding it hard to keep those resolutions (决心) to junk the junk food, get off the couch or kick smoking. There’s a biological reason why a lot of our bad habits are so hard to break—they get connected with our brains.

That’s not an excuse to give up. Understanding how unhealthy behaviors become deeply rooted has scientists learning some tricks that may help good habits replace the bad.

“Why are bad habits stronger? You’re fighting against the power of an immediate reward,” says Dr. Nora Volkow, an authority on the brain’s pleasure pathway.

“We all as creatures are behaving that way, to give greater value to an immediate reward as opposed to something that’s delayed,” Volkow says.

Just how that bit of happiness turns into a habit involves a pleasure-sensing chemical named dopamine. It conditions the brain to want that reward again and again—strengthening the connection each time—especially when it gets the right clue (暗示) from your environment. People tend to think they have the ability to resist temptations (抵制诱惑) around them, thus weakening efforts to kick bad habits, says experimental psychologist Loran Nordgren.

A movement to pay people for behavior changes may use that connection, as some companies offer employees outright payments for starting better habits.

However paying for behavior plays out, researchers say there are still some steps that may help fight your brain’s hold on bad habits.

Repeat, repeat, repeat the new behavior—the same routine at the same time of day. Determined to exercise? Doing it at the same time of the morning, rather than fitting it once in a while, makes the brain recognize the habit finally, “If you don’t do it, you feel terrible,” says Volkow, the neuroscientist, who’s also a running lover.

Reward yourself with something you really desire, Volkow stresses. Stuck to your diet? Buy a book, a great pair of jeans, or try a fancy restaurant.

Knowing that Mrs. Mallard suffered from a heart trouble, great care was taken to tell her as gently as possible the news of her husband’s death.

It was her sister Josephine who told her, in broken sentences. Her husband’s friend Richards was there, too. He had been in the newspaper office when news of the railroad disaster was received, with Brently Mallard’s name leading the list of “killed”. He had only taken the time to make sure of its truth by a second telegram, and hurried to send the sad message.

She did not hear the story as many women have heard the same. She wept at once, with wild abandonment (抛弃), in her sister’s arms. When the storm of sadness had spent itself she went away to her room alone.

There stood, facing the open window, a comfortable armchair. Into this she sank, tired from a physical exhaustion that held her body and seemed to reach into her soul.

She could see in the open square before her house the tops of trees that were all aquiver (颤抖的, 兴奋的) with the new spring life. The delicious breath of rain was in the air. The notes of a distant song which someone was singing reached her, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves (屋檐).

There was something coming to her and she was waiting for it, fearfully. What was it? It was too hard to name. But she felt it, coming out of the sky, reaching toward her through the sounds, the smells, the color that filled the air.

Now her chest rose and fell violently. She was beginning to recognize this thing that was approaching to possess her, and she was trying very hard to beat it back with her will. When she gave up trying, a little whispered word escaped her lips. She said it over and over under the breath: “free, free, free!”

She did not stop to ask if it was extreme joy that held her. She knew that she would weep again when she saw the kind, gentle hands folded in death; the face that had never looked at her except with love, gray and dead. But she saw beyond that bitter moment many years to come that would belong to her absolutely. And she opened and spread her arms out to them in welcome.

There would be no one to live for during those coming years; she would live for herself. There would be no powerful will against hers.

And yet she had loved him—sometimes. What did it matter! What could love count for in the face of her new freedom.

“Free! Body and soul free!” she kept whispering.

Josephine was kneeling before the closed door with her lips to the keyhole. “Louise, open the door! I beg; open the door—you will make yourself ill.”

“Go away. I am not making myself ill.”

Her fancy (幻想) was running wild along those days ahead of her, all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shake that life might be long.

She stood up after a long time and opened the door to her sister’s begging. She carried herself unknowingly like a goddess of Victory. She held her sister’s waist, and together they walked down the stairs.

Someone was opening the front door with a key, It was Brently Mallard who entered, a little travel-stained (风尘仆仆的), calmly carrying his suitcase and umbrella. He had been far from the scene of the accident, and did not even know there had been one, He stood amazed at Josephine’s sharp cry; at Richards’ quick motion to screen him from the view of his wife.

When the doctors came, they said she had died of heart disease—of the joy that kills.

A question commonly asked during a job interview is “What are your goals for the future?” This question is a good way for employers（雇主）to determine if your career（事业）goals are a good fit for the company.     37     So you should be careful to answer the question. Here are some tips for you.

Avoid discussing salary. Don’t focus on goals related to earnings, raises or bonuses. You should focus on the work you hope to achieve, rather than the money you want to make. It’s fine to provide a salary range if asked. However, you should never volunteer your target salary unasked,

    38     Even though this question is about you, you should convey that you won’t abandon the employer anytime soon. Talk about how you’ll add value to the company through the achievement of your own goals. Also, convince the interviewer that working at this company will help you achieve your goals for a win-win situation.

Explain the action you’ll take. Listing goals is not going to make for a strong answer.     39     For example, if you want to take on a management role, describe the steps you will take to become a manager.

Take time to practice. Practice answering questions about your career goals out loud, so you can be more comfortable during your interview.     40    

It is said that claw machines（抓娃娃机）are always designed to keep players from catching a prize. But one Chinese man seems to have learned their secret. Over the past year, Chen Zhitong     41     (win) over 15, 000 toys from claw machines.

Chen,     42     IT worker, started playing the game to spend time at a shopping mall in Xiamen in 2016. He liked it, and whenever he     43     (visit) the mall, he would play a few rounds. In just a few     44     (month), he was good at it and even got all the toys in the machine.     45     then, he has made claw machine     46     (own) unhappy. Many of them have to ask him to stop playing on their machines.

Chen says that there are two types of claw machines. The first type requires skills, while the second makes it     47     (possible) for people to win. He only plays on the first type, and he knows how to win. “The first factor is the claw’s holding capacity（抓力）. It needs     48     (be) tight enough. The second is the angle of claw rotation（旋转的角度）. The third is how toys     49     (put) in the machine. They decide whether     50     not you are able to get a toy out.”