When I first graduated from the university, I experienced the hardest days in my life. We had degrees, but it didn't make sure that we could find a job _____．

After spending a few weeks in my university town, I knew it couldn't offer me _____ chance. I packed up my car and _____ to Southern California to seek my fortune.

But what I thought it would take a week became two, and then four, and another 100 job applications(申请). Later, I found myself in the _____ situation as before. And the date to pay back my student loans(贷款) was becoming _____ closer. Days felt like weeks, weeks like months, and those months seemed_____. The most upset thing was no matter _____ hard I tried, I just couldn't seem to make any progress. Feeling very sad, I took up my pens and put my _____ into a child's book. It was a story of a little fish who simply refused to _____ his dream. And then one day, without any sort of writing degree or experience in the ______ world—just a lot of hard work and perseverance(毅力), my first book got a chance to come out.

After that, things slowly began to be ______ order. I was offered a second book deal. Then, a few months later, I got an interview with the Walt Disney Company and I was ______ a job to work in this company.

Never give up, even ______ things look hopeless. Give ______ time, and things will always get better. Often our ______ are just around the corner. All we need is the courage to take one more step.

Beauty sleep is a real thing, researches have shown that people who have enough sleep look more attractive (有魅力的) to others.

A few bad nights is enough to make a person look "especially" more ugly, their sleep   experiments show.

The researchers asked 25 university students to join in their sleep experiment. They were asked to get a good night's sleep for two nights.

A week later, they were asked to sleep for only four hours every night for two nights in a row.

The researchers took make-up free (素颜) photos of the volunteers after both the good and the bad sleep.

Next, they asked 122 strangers to have a look at the photos and judge (评价) them on attractiveness, health, and sleepiness, as well as asking them: "How much would you like to make friends with this person in the picture?"

The strangers were good at judging if the person they were looking at was tired, and, if they were sleepy, their attractiveness score was low.

The strangers also said they wouldn't want to socialize with the tired students. The researchers say this is natural for people. An unhealthy-looking face makes people run away. In other words, people don't want to hang around with people who might be ill.

Dr. Brewer, an expert at the University of Liverpool said "Judgement of attractiveness is often unconscious (无意识的), hut we all do it, and we are able to judge on even something small like whether someone looks tired or unhealthy. This study is a good reminder of how important sleep is to us."

   “Cool” is a word with many    41    . It can be used to express feelings of interest in almost everything. When we see a     42     car in the street, maybe we will say, “It's cool.” When we see a famous singer, we may say, “She's cool.” Today, we use the word “cool” to replace(替代) many words, such as “great” or “nice”. Here's an interesting story about the word “cool”. A teacher asked his students     43     write about a large hall. One of his students wrote just     44     sentence, “It's so cool.” Maybe he thought it was the best way to show what he saw and felt. But it also tells us     45     we should think of many other words to describe things we see and feel.

Mark is eight years old. He    46    to go to school two years ago. He    47    his school because he has many friends there and all the teachers are friendly. They study together and play games together.

It was Sunday yesterday. Mark didn't need to go to school. He wanted to visit his uncle. It    48    10 months since Mark saw his uncle last year. Mark's uncle lives in a small village far away. No bus can    49    there.

Mark got up very early in the morning. After breakfast, Mark's mother drove him to his uncle's home. Mark's uncle was very happy to see him. He    50    Mark how to feed the animals. They went camping in the mountains. Mark had a good day there.

    61     They are giant. Each pumpkin weighs more than 765 kilograms. Glen puts them in his yard. He wants it to look nice for fall. People drive by and stare.

Glen runs a club called Wisconsin Giant Pumpkin Growers. It started 20 years ago. There were 14 members. They all said they could grow the biggest pumpkin. Now the club has 120 members. The club has big pumpkin contests. They also teach people how to grow big pumpkins. They give them seeds. They answer their questions about growing pumpkins.

Giant pumpkins start with a seed(种子).    62     Regular pumpkin seeds will not work. Pumpkin growers like to trade seeds. They want seeds from the biggest pumpkins.

The growers plant the seeds in small pots. They start in April. The pumpkins will be ready in the fall. The plants stay indoors for two weeks. Then the plants can go in the ground.

    63     The vine(藤) can grow 15cm in one day. The pumpkin can grow about 1 kilogram in just one hour.

Wisconsin is in the northern part of the United States. It is a good place to grow pumpkins. It has many lakes. The weather is very wet.

Giant pumpkins are grown all over the world.    64    Switzerland is in Europe. The pumpkin weighed 944 kilograms.

Growing the biggest pumpkin can be a big deal. Some growers win prize money. Some sell their seeds.

    65     They just like to see the looks on people's faces.

Everyone thinks their giant pumpkins are amazing.