I am glad to learn that you have been chosen to study in China. Your dream has come true!

I can well remember that you ______ China for the first time when you were nine. Ever since you returned, you have been interested in Chinese culture and have put a lot of ______ into learning Chinese. When you first started to learn Chinese, I ______ it was nothing but a passing fad (一时的狂热). However, you didn’t ______ halfway, but kept on learning and did a good job in the HSK (汉语水平考试). Now you finally got what you had ______ for a long time. You got the chance to ______ life in China for one year. You should have it, my son, for chances only come to those who are ______.

When you study there, you will have to face ______ in everyday life that you have never experienced before, but after a year abroad, you will return with a new ______ at life and at yourself.

Your mum and I are both ______ you. Keep it up, my son!

Love,

Dad

Nearly all students feel both nervous and excited when their big day comes. On the big day, there will be the graduation ceremony. Students will wear graduation costurnes and hats that day. Parents, relatives, and friends may also be invited to the ceremony.

When students enter the hall of the ceremony, they will see lots of schoolmates. They will see that all of them are wearing the same costurnes and hats. This makes them feel that it is a very important day. This kind of feeling is rather hard to describe. It will be better to understand if one personally experiences it.

As soon as the ceremony starts, the schoolmaster will give a speech. After the speech, the students will be called to go on the stage（舞台）to receive their certificates (证书). This should be the most important part of the whole ceremony. During this moment, most students feel nervous, since hundreds of people are watching them.   

However, this is also the most wonderful moment for them. This marks a very important moment in their lives, as they have finally finished their school years. Besides that, this moment also shows they are going to move on to a new stage of life.

I know that you get the idea from the Internet that you can be rich and successful without any hard work—your ticket to success is through singing, basketball or being a superstar.     31    

The truth is that being successful is hard. You will not love every subject that you study.       32       Not all homework will seem completely related to your life right at this minute. And you won’t necessarily succeed at everything the first time you try.

That is okay.     33     J.K. Rowling—who wrote Harry Potter—her first Harry Potter book was not accepted 12 times before it was finally published. Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team. He lost hundreds of games and missed thousands of shots during his career(职业生涯). But he once said，“I have failed over and over again in my life. And that’s why I succeed.”

These people succeeded because they understood the secret of success—you can not let your failures decide you.     34     You have to let them show you what to do differently the next time. So if you get into trouble, that doesn’t mean you are a troublemaker, it means you need to learn to act right.     35    

When you hear the word EPCOT, maybe you think of the building in the Disney park       46     (immediate)—even if you have never been there. But what does the word EPCOT actually mean?

Let’s study the history of the park     47     (see) how it got the name. It was Walt Disney himself that came up     48     EPCOT. So what does it stand for? Well, Walt thought it up in 1966, when his plans for a theme park in Florida were very     49     (difference) from what’s there today. Disneyland, in California, had been up and running for more than ten     50    (year). Walt’s idea was to build an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow(未来的实验原型社区). That’s what EPCOT really     51     (stand) for. And he originally(最初) planned for it to be, not a theme park, but     52     actual community.

After Walt Disney’s     53     (die) in 1966, other people of the Walt Disney Company     54     were not sure how to move forward with the city stuck to his ideas and themes for the park. They also built the park by     55     (take) his forward—thinking advice on creativity and technology. Of course, they kept its name!