My grandpa is 80 years old. He often makes mistakes in our modern life because of his old age. But we ________ well together.

In everyday life, we help each other. My grandpa can’t cook by ________, so we often prepare different foods for him. Grandpa is open-minded, and he is always happy to try new things. Grandpa is good at doing housework, ________ he isn’t able to cook.

Sometimes my grandpa feels ________ when he thinks of his hard life in the past. Then we tell him some funny jokes to make him happy. My grandpa knows a lot and he has a lot of experience. So when we meet some ________ in life, we often ask Grandpa for advice. It is great to live with my grandpa!

Laura was a primary school girl. She was unhappy because she had ________ friends at school. One day, the teacher, Mrs. Mills, walked up and put her arm around Laura, “Why don’t you play with ________ children? “She asked kindly.

Laura answered, “Everyone has a ________ except（除了） me. “Mrs. Mills smiled and said, “Laura, the way to get a friend is ________ a friend. Please look around the playground. Find someone who is alone（独自） and then go to ask them to play. “Laura said she would ________ it, but she was afraid that others would ________.

During one P. E. class, Laura was taking a walk by herself. To her surprise, she found there was a girl ________ alone on the swing. She walked to the girl. “Hi! My name is Laura. Do you want to play with me? “Okay.” The girl said ________. As they took turns pushing each other on the swing, Laura found out that the girl’s name was Ling ________ she also needed a friend.

Dad didn’t know how to show love. He went to work every day and blamed (责备) me for the mistakes I made when he came home.

At my birthday parties, dad always seemed out of place. He just kept himself busy blowing up balloons, setting up tables, and welcoming the guests. And mom carried the cake with the candles on it for me to blow out.

When I learned to ride a bike, I asked him not to leave me alone, but he said it was time. I fell and mom ran to pick me up, but he stopped her. I was so mad that I wanted to show him that I could ride it myself.

When I went to college, mom wrote letters to me. He just sent money and a little note about how great his garden looked now because I wasn’t playing football in it. Whenever I called home, he acted like he wanted to talk but always said, “Wait, Tim. I’ll get your mother. ”

All my life he said: “Where are you going? What time are you coming home? No, you cannot go. ” Dad just didn’t know how to show love, unless…was it possible he showed it and I didn’t realize it?

What will life in the future be like? What will we be able to do in 10, 20 or 30 years?

Genetic engineering (基因工程) may help us make the perfect human. Also, we may be able to bring the dead back to life. Maybe people will be able to meet and talk with their dead family members.

Over the next 20 to 50 years, it will become harder to tell the difference between humans and machines.

Perhaps we will be able to make copies (复制品) of ourselves, so we will appear to be alive long after we are dead. People may be able to find ways of putting the life of a person into a new body.

Nanobots (纳米机器人) will be important. We will use them when we are sick. For example, when we have a stomachache (胃痛), we will swallow (吞下) a nanobot and it will travel through our stomach, taking a video of what’s happening there. It will help the doctor heal (治愈) us.

In the future, computers may have feelings. They may be able to think better than us. We may be more and more interested in computers and the Internet, spending all our time in front of computers.

Elephants are the largest animals on land.     36     They carry big trees, take people from place to place, and are even used in wars.

    37     Because it seems too strong to get hurt. In fact, that’s wrong. Sometimes, a small thing can also be very dangerous for the elephant.

People say elephants are afraid of mice.     38     In fact, elephants have very poor eyesight, so they usually cannot see a mouse even if one comes very close to them.     39     Actually, no study shows that elephants have a better memory than any other animal.

People also believe that when it is time for elephants to die, they will stay in a so-called “elephant graveyard (墓地)”. Often, people try to find such places to get ivories.     40     Actually, when elephants are old or get sick, they will stay in deep and secret caves until they get better or die.

Nowadays we can see more and more electric (电动的) bikes in the street. Because electric bikes are easy     51     (ride). They can run fast and make no     52     (pollute). They become very popular.     53    , the electric bikes also cause more traffic accidents. So China     54     (decide) to make new rules for the electric bike riders. If     55     electric bike is heavier than 40 kilos and can go     56     (fast) than 20 kilometers an hour, its rider must get a license (驾照). It means riders have to pass driving tests before they ride     57     (them) electric bikes on the road.

People have different ideas when     58     (hear) the plan. Some welcome the plan. A bus driver says happily, “    59     a good plan! I think it will make the street much safer.” But some     60     (agree) with that at all. One rider says sadly, “I don’t want to get a license. It’s not easy for me to get one.” Some don’t care about it. A young rider says calmly, “I like to use shared bikes which are popular in many big cities of China now.”

61. 为了引导青少年关注心理健康，我校英语角将开展一次分享活动，鼓励大家积极面对焦虑，学会良好的缓解之法。假如你是李华，你根据以下要点提示，写一篇70词左右的英文发言稿。

Good morning, my dear teachers and friends. It’s my honor to speak here, and today my topic is how to solve our problems and worries. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

That’s all. Thanks for listening.