Everyone wants to succeed in life. As a middle school student, you must be thirsty for success at school. However, it’s not _________ to learn all the lessons well. Here is some advice.

First, make up your mind _________ hard. It is smart of you to do your best in your studies. In that way, you _________ have a chance to enjoy your own success. After all, “Where there is a will, there is a way.”

Second, have good study _________. While studying, _________ that you pay attention to it. After you finish your study, don’t forget to find some time _______ fun to help you relax as well.

Third, try to learn every subject well. If you are not good at a subject, you need to try your best to do it well. You should often tell   _________   why you need to study.

Finally, take notes (笔记) in class because you cannot remember _________. These notes will be helpful for you to remember what you have learned. If you forget some _________   , you can go over them.

As a saying goes, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” If you __________ the advice above, your success will be just around the corner!

AI (人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.

One day a professor entered the classroom and told the students about a surprising test. He gave the test papers to all the students and said, “Begin.” The students were confused(困惑的) to see that there was not a question but just a black dot (点) in the center of the page. The professor noticed the students’ face expression and told them, “I want you to write about what you see there.”

The students were still confused but got started with the test. At the end of the class, the professor took all the answer sheets(纸) and started reading each answer from each sheet in front of the students. All of them described about the black dot, tried to explain its position and so on. After the professor finished reading, the whole class was silent.

The professor began to explain, “Don’t worry. I am not going to give you grades for this but I just want you to think about something. Here everyone focused on (关注) the black dot and wrote about it but no one wrote about the white paper. The same is with our life. The white paper represents (代表) our whole life and the black dot represents problems in our life.

Our lives are a gift given to us by God, with love and care, and we always have reasons to celebrate— our friends around us, the job that lets us live, the beautiful sights we see.

Still we just focus on day-to-day problems like health problems, problems in relationships etc., but we never see that these problems are very small compared with everything we have in our life.”

Is advertisement (广告) really necessary? Billions (十亿) of dollars are spent on it every year, so it must be important. After all, it’s a busy world. You have to advertise to get people’s attention to sell products!

Not every company (公司) thinks that way. However, the NO-AD company doesn’t advertise in traditional ways. It sells its products by word of mouth. In this way, they can save money and keep costs down, which makes the products cheaper for customers.

“Word-of-mouth advertising” happens when one person tells another about a good experience with a product or service. That next person then tells another friend or family member. And so a chain of information is created.

Usually, advertisers talk about how good their product is. Although they say things like “Everyone loves this product”, it can sound unconvincing. It’s much more believable to hear about a product from a family member or friend who has used it and liked it.

Word-of-mouth advertising has other advantages, too. It’s free and a company doesn’t have to create a complex (复杂的) business plan to do it. Here is some advice for small businesses about word-of-mouth advertising:

●Be prepared to talk about your company at any time. You never know who you will meet. Always carry business cards.

●Only say good things about your company. Don’t say bad things about your company.

●Help other companies by recommending (推荐) people to them. The more you help others, the more good luck will come back to you and that’s good business.

Now parents and their children spend less time together.     46     How to help parents and their children stay close. Below is a list of helpful ways for family life.

Sharing a meal together lets parents and their children have time to talk about each other’s lives.     47    

For parents, it is important to read to their children. Look for books that your children like reading.       48    

    49     Jump into the family car and go for a trip to the beach. Also, the visit to a zoo, a park or a museum will make you have a discussion.

A great way to spend more time children and light a fire of learning is to help children with their schoolwork.     50    

Most Americans eat breakfast and lunch quickly. And the favorite fast food in the United States is hamburgers. They eat 34 billion hamburgers every year. It is enough to make a line of hamburgers around the earth four times.

The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. In these restaurants, people stand at the counter (柜台), order their food, wait just a few minutes and carry the food to a table themselves. They can eat it in the restaurant, at home, at work or in a park.

Hamburgers are not the only kind of food that fast food restaurants serve. Fish, chicken, all kinds of sandwiches are also served. French fries, milk shakes, soft drinks and coffee can be found, too.

Fast food restaurants are very popular because they serve food fast. And the food is cheap. For many people, this is more important than the quality (质量) of the food.

80. 假如你是中学生王芳，曾在你们班学习的美国交换生John看了你发布的朋友圈，他对你们班上周举行的主题班会很感兴趣，请你根据以下信息给他写一封回信，向他介绍班会情况，并和他交流一下业余时间做运动对你有什么好处。

I’m writing to tell you something about the class meeting held last week.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Best wishes!

Yours,

Wang Fang