—I agree with you.

How can we keep a feeling of balance（平衡）in our lives? How can we live with a positive attitude? To answer the two questions, let’s _____ the following points.       

Our life isn’t always _____ of pleasure, is it? Life doesn’t always give us a hand and doing our best doesn’t always bring good results.

Failure is necessary to life, almost as necessary as the _____ we breathe. Failure is part of trying. The only thing that we need to think about is _____ to deal with it. In fact, failure can be a great teacher that leads（引导）us to success.

It’s _____ for us to be with our family and friends for ever. Sometimes we have to be alone. Don’t be afraid when we feel lonely. Treasure（珍惜）the friendship, kindness and love we own now.

Growing up is not easy and paints part of our lives. Almost _____ gets hurt. Take a deep breath and give life a big smile when we suffer pain.

We each have a choice to be either a _____ or a loser. We should have responsibility for the choices we make. What we will have in the future depends on what we do _____.

We should believe we can do something well. Nothing in the world is difficult for the man who____ himself.

Life is like a long journey. _______, with a positive attitude and look at the bright side of things. There will always be sunshine and flowers in our eyes.

Chinese buyers used to prize foreign brands, thinking that products made by American or European companies are of higher quality(质量) than Chinese ones. Increasingly, that’s no longer the case.

Chinese people born before 1985 generally think that foreign brands are better than Chinese ones, billionaire William Li told Business Insider during a recent interview on CCTV 9. But for who were born after 1985, it is a different picture.

“When I first went to the United Kingdom in 1997, I thought that the difference between China and Europe was quite big,” Li said. “But for those born in the 1990s, when they visit Europe or the US, they do not think there is a big difference.”

The change in thinking among Chinese buyers is showing up in many markets in China where western companies used to control. A study by Credit Suisse published in March found that young Chinese buyers are increasingly showing a home brand bias.”

More than 90% of young Chinese buyers would prefer to buy home appliance brands, according to the study. Meanwhile, home companies producing food, drinks, or personal care products increased their share of the market by 3, 3% over the last ten years to nearly 70%.

“Chinese buyers, especially the younger ones, don’t just believe that foreign brands are better. Right now, Chinese buyers think China is good and ‘Made in China’ is not bad at all,” Charlie Chen, head of China buyer research at Credit Suisse, told South China Morning Post in March.

The Chinese smartphone market is controlled by home companies—Huawei, Oppo, Vivo, and Xiaomi. Apple is the only foreign brand in the top five, but it has lost large ground to the home brands in recent years. Its market share is believed to be down to 37% from a 2015 high of 54%.

Language students often think they have memory problems. They worry because they can’t remember words. In fact, the problem usually isn’t with their memory. The problem is with how they study.

To remember words better, you need to understand how memory works. There are two kinds of memory: short-term and long-term. When you see, hear, or read something, it goes first into short-term memory. But short-term memory lasts for only a few seconds. You will only remember something longer if it goes into long-term memory. Your long-term memory is like a very big library with many, many books. And like a library, it’s organized（有条理的）.When you put away a book-or memory-you can’t just leave it anywhere. You have to choose a place where you can find it again.

How can you do this with vocabulary? The answer is to work with the word and think about the word in new ways. You can do this by writing new sentences that include it. Even better, you can invent a little story about the word, with people or places that you know. Another way is to make a picture in your mind with the word. For example, if the word is height, you can think of the tallest person you know and try to guess his or her height. All of these activities are good ways to think about words. They make the meaning of words stronger in your long-term memory. And they give a way to find a word when you need it.

Couplets have been around for about 600 years. It     46     in Ming Dynasty. At first, people     47     red paper instead of peach wood charms（桃符）to     48     the Spring Festival couplets. After Qing        Dynasty, the couples were once     49     popular. Lots of famous couplets appeared. With the development（发展）of the international cultural exchange, the couplets were also     50     to Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Singapore and other     51    . The customs of sticking these couplets still     52     now.

Couplets are usually in different     53     and colors. Nice words and sentences are     54     on the couplets. Different couplets are put on doors, walls or windows as symbols of wishes for good     55    and a happy new year.