Wonder why you can get angry so easily while your friend smiles all the time?     16     Personality is also about how people think, behave, and react (反应) to everything around them from day to day. So what makes people think and behave in certain ways?

    17     A baby gets its blood type, genes (基因) and other physical things when it’s still inside its mother. These things may help decide what the baby will be like.

    18     Family life, school learning and life experiences can also make you the person you are. This doesn’t mean it’s impossible to change your personality. You can always try to make yourself better. Don’t get too worried about your shortcomings (缺点). Just accept them. This is a good way to start making changes.

If you don’t know how to make friends, find out why.     19     Tell yourself to smile at people. Start talking to people using warm greetings.

Don’t give yourself a hard time about it all.     20     Keep working at it. One day you’ll see that you can turn over a new leaf and be new you.

One day, I heard an American boy say to a Chinese girl student, “You speak very good English.” But the girl said, “No, no. My English is very poor.” The American boy was quite ________ at the answer. Thinking he had not made ________ understood or the girl had not ________ him clearly, he said, “Yes, indeed, you speak very well.” ________ the girl still kept saying, “No, no.” This time the American boy could not understand and didn’t know ________ to say.

What’s wrong with the girl’s answer? She didn’t ________ a compliment (恭维) in the same way the American people do. She should say “Thank you”, instead of “No”. She ________ did understand what the American boy said, but she thought she should be modest. In the ________, people feel proud and ________ when they are praised. So if someone says the ________ you cooked are very delicious, you should say, “Thank you.”

In our country we think being modest is a virtue (美德) and being proud is a bad thing. But in my opinion, being confident does not ________ being proud, so sometimes you should be confident ________ being modest. ________ you are modest and say “No, I’m afraid I can’t do it” while working in a Western country, others may think that you really can’t do it. If you often say “No”, you will certainly be looked down on by ________. When asking for a job, if one says something like “Yes, I can certainly do it” instead of “Let me have a try”, he or she will ________. So in the West, you should be brave and show your self-confidence.

The new term brings new changes. New rules are coming out to reduce stress on China’s primary and middle school students. Schools offer an after-class service at least five days a week for two hours a day. It’s called the “5+2” service. Here are some new clubs for you to choose. Welcome to our clubs!

① You might have seen beautiful rainbows in the sky before. They form when sunlight falls on water drops in the air. But in fact, moonlight can also create rainbows in the same way. They are called “moonbows”. They are similar to rainbows, but they are created by moonlight instead of direct sunlight.

② Moonbows are rarer than rainbows. Different weather and astronomical (天文的) conditions have to be just right for moonbows to be created.

③ The moon has to be very low in the sky — only 42 degrees from the horizon (地平线). The moon period has to be a full moon or nearly full. The sky must be very dark for a moonbow to be watched clearly — any bright light can obscure it. Water drops must appear in the air in the opposite direction of the moon.

④ Moonbows appear on the opposite side of the moon and usually look white to the human eye. This is because their colors are not bright enough to be noticed by the human eye. It is possible, however, to view the colors in a moonbow using long exposure (长时间曝光) photography.

⑤ Moonbows more often appear in some locations around the world. Most of these locations usually have waterfalls which create thin fog in the air. Some of these locations are the Yosemite National Park in California and Cumberland Falls State Resort Park in Kentucky, the US, Victoria Falls on the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe, and Waimea in Hawaii, the US. Moonbows do really happen. So at a certain time and a certain place, when a moonbow happens to appear, you can’t miss it if you’re right there.

My aunt retired (退休) from her company three months ago. During the first two months, she felt bored and didn’t know what to do every day. She used to be kind to us before, but then she had a chip on her shoulder. She often quarreled (争吵) with her family members without any reason.

So, my aunt got into trouble and didn’t know how to deal with it. My cousin came up with a good idea to solve the problem. A new smart phone was bought and my cousin taught her how to use WeChat. My aunt’s life changed a lot from then on. No matter where she went and what she did, she always used it. She took photos with the smart phone and shared the photos in her friend circle. But the smart phone attracted her so much that she often forgot what she should do.

This morning, my aunt prepared to make dumplings for lunch. She took a lot of photos in order to post into her friend circle. After lunch, we took out our smart phones and waited for the photos of the dumplings. To our surprise, we didn’t find any photos in her friend circle. At last, my uncle couldn’t wait and asked her, “Why haven’t you shared your delicious dumplings in your friend circle today?” My aunt looked embarrassed (尴尬) and said, “________.”

“Oh, my God! I have to spend more money to buy a new one!” cried my cousin.

Making a film     61     (take) a long time and is very hard work. Writing the story for the film may take many weeks. Filming the story is also called shooting the film. It often takes at least six months.     62     (actor) and cameramen work from very early in the morning till late at night. Each scene has to be     63     (act) and reacted, filmed and refilmed, until it is just right. Sometimes the same scene may have to be acted twenty or thirty times.

The film studio is like a large factory, and the indoor stages are very big indeed. Scenery of all kinds is made in the studio: churches, houses, castles and forests are all     64     (make) of wood and cardboard. Several     65     (hundred) people work together     66     (make) one film. Some of these people are actors and actresses. The     67     (direct) of the film, however, is the     68     (important) person in a film studio. He decides how the scenes should be filmed and how the actors should act.

Most people go to see a film because they like the film stars in it. Sometimes the film may be very     69     (bore). It’s best to choose a film made by a good director. Some famous directors make their films very real. People feel they     70     (they) are among the people in the film.