One day, we were playing basketball after lunch. Abby was so distracted by her worries _______ she didn’t even notice the ball hurtling toward her.

“Ow!” She cried as the ball _______ her in the side of the face.

“I’m so sorry,” said Luke. “I thought you saw it coming!”

“It’s OK. My mouth is going to be hurting like crazy soon anyway.”

“How come?” Luke asked.

“I am going to get braces next week,” Abby said. “I’m so worried. I can’t think about _______ else.”

“My dad has this trick that helps with worrying,” I said. “He has me name the specific things I’m _______ about.”

I continued, “So if you write down the things you worry about, maybe you can _______ do something about them. I’ll help you make a list.”

That afternoon, we made a very clear list of Abby’s worries:

1 Braces will make me _______ strange.

2 Everyone will play _______ joke on me.

3 I will never be able to eat popcorn or sticky candies again.

4 Because of the braces, I’ll spend _______ life in pain.

_______ Abby’s worries list wasn’t exactly funny, we still decided to describe it with silly cartoon drawings, and we couldn’t stop laughing.

Abby had the world’s best idea. “How about _______ my worry list into a survey? We can ask kids with braces _______ they’ve experienced the things on my list.”

The next day we did the survey, and everyone seemed _______ to take part in it.

Then we discovered that everyone agreed it _______ a few days to get used to their new look. Not being able to eat stuff that gets stuck in braces, but ice cream or ice pops can still _______. Whatever, it’s really not that big of a deal.

So try writing down your worries and talking to other people _______ have braces. Doing those things help you to feel better.

I have lived beside the Loch Ness (尼斯湖)for many years. My house has a good, clear _______ of the lake. In fact, it's only about a hundred meters from the lake. I've never been _______ the Loch Ness- monster. Until last Tuesday, I thought it was just a good story to attract tourists. But I've had to change my _______ after last Tuesday's experience.

I got up as usual at about 7 and went into my garden. Something attracted my attention to the loch. There was almost no mist (薄雾)that morning, and I could see there was something _______ quite fast, going north, in the middle of the loch. It _______ like a giant snake, with its head and part of its body above water. It was about thirty meters long. I rushed into the house to get my camera, _______ when I was back, it had gone.

I waited and it _______ again, this time nearer the road and my house. I could see it very well. I took several photographs of it. Most of the photos haven't come out, unluckily. But one or two of them show the creature quite _______. At one point it swam straight towards me. It was a _______ that a truck passed at that moment. It perhaps heard the noise of the engine because it ________ again. The whole incident (事件) lasted for about fifteen minutes, because I looked at my watch the last time, and it said a quarter past seven. I've never seen anything so strange in my life.

Workout clothes? Check. Water bottle? Check. Breakfast? Um …It's something that has been hotly debated by early morning gym-goers for years. And now a study has finally found out whether to exercise before or after breakfast.

Researchers analyzed the energy spending of 12 healthy, active men aged 20 to 26. Each of them completed three different tests: eating a breakfast of oats（燕麦） and milk and then resting, eating the same breakfast 2 hours before cycling for 1 hour, and doing the same 1 hour of exercise without having breakfast. The study showed that when the men didn't have breakfast, they had a greater calorie deficit（不足） throughout the day of about 150 calories on average, showing that fast exercise is the best for weight loss.

“These results suggest that for healthy young men, a short-term energy deficit may be more easily achieved if they exercise without breakfast,” the study's authors said.

Here's how it works: When you do fast exercise, your body doesn't have ready energy from food, so it draws from other sources, like stored body fat, which makes your exercise more effective at burning fat and helping you lose weight. Also, exercising in a fast state keeps your insulin（胰岛素） level low, allowing your body to produce more growth hormone（荷尔蒙激素）, which also burns fat.

When insulin is increased - as is the case after you eat-your body will be in a state of wanting to store fat, not burn it. It doesn't matter whether you exercise like a mad man after a meal, because you won't be able to burn body fat until insulin levels drop.

Taking pictures of an empty plate is becoming popular in the canteens （食堂）at Shenzhen University （SZU）, a report by Shenzhen Economic Daily showed.

According to the Daily, Tencent is now working with SZU to introduce Al technology to a campaign on WeChat to encourage clear your plate". The campaign is to reduce food waste and encourage students to save food.

After finishing a meal, students can take photos of their plates and send them to the AI system. Once their photos are accepted, students can get a reward. Tencent's AI Lab provides technological support for the campaign. It takes only 40 milliseconds for the system to check a photo.

A total of 20,000 students at SZU took part in the second phase of the campaign on Monday and Tuesday. And the food waste has dropped greatly after the campaign was started.

“By using AI technology to encourage the "clear your plate" campaign, our university can have a better understanding of students, role in the campaign so as to carry out a rewarding system for keeping students interested in it," said Xu Xiaoling from SZU's student department.

The service has also been used in other universities in China, including Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Academy of Art in Zhejiang Province and Jishou University in Hunan Province, attracting over 100,000 students so far.

I want to share with you a story from 28 years ago. My dad was a used car salesman. Every Thursday night, he would head off to Shreveport, LA for an auction （拍卖会）. Most of the time, I drove a car over there for him so he could sell it at the auction.

One day I was riding with my dad when he noticed a hitch-hiker（搭便车的人）with a backpack. Without hesitation, he pulled the car over and offered him a ride. Dad asked him his name, and proceeded （继续） to talk to him about all sorts of things. Dad asked him where he was going. The hitch-hiker told him that he was heading for the west. I can't recall why but he told Dad a lot of things that had occurred （发生）to him and that persuaded him to make that decision. He talked about the tragic （悲惨的） events that occurred to him several years before. He was in low spirits, but I could see that the hitch-hiker,s attitude（态度）was changing as someone was really listening to him.

We drove 45 minutes before the hitch-hiker got off. We pulled over and Dad told him to keep his head up and things would start looking up for him soon. He reached into his pocket and handed the hitch-hiker a twenty-dollar bill. The guy smiled. He nearly lit up right there on the cold, dark highway.

We drove on and my dad did not say a single thing. I was still completely amazed by what I had just witnessed. I was always told by everyone never to pick up a hitch -hiker and yet my dad did it every single time he saw one. While reflecting upon （反思）that story I came to understand that just one single kind act could change someone's life, and I am sure that my father’s deed made that poor man’s day.

No one wakes up feeling happy every day. Very happy people are not different. They never stop trying to be happy. Here are some of the habits of happy people.

    57     Getting your body moving for as little as 10 minutes can make you happy. Happy people exercise regularly and follow through on it because they know it will help them get in good mood and stay in good mood.

They spend money on other people.     58     This is especially true of small things that show effort, such as going out of your way to buy your friend a book that you know he or she will like.

They get enough sleep.     59     Your energy, attention and memory all go down when you don't sleep well. Happy people make sleep a first thing of all.

They have deep conversations. Happy people know that happiness and depth go hand-in-hand. They avoid saying mean things about people.     60     They talk with others on a deeper level, because they know doing it

Jane Goodall’s love for animals started from her childhood.     61     she was a girl, she loved to watch birds and insects. She took notes about how they acted. She dreamed about going to Africa and doing     62     same thing there.

She got her chance when she was 23 years old. A childhood friend     63     (invite) her to a farm in Kenya. There, she met Louis Leakey     64     is well known as an anthropologist (人类学家). Goodall was good at     65     (work) alone. That made her perfect for one of Leakey's special     66     (project)—studying chimpanzees (大猩猩) in the wild.

Goodall began to study a group of chimpanzees in Tanzania. Her methods were not common. She lived with the chimpanzees so that she could make a     67     (care) study of their daily life. She even joined a group of chimpanzees. So she knew     68     (exact) how the chimpanzees live and hunt.

Because of Goodall’s work, people find out that chimpanzees are more intelligent than they thought before. Sadly,     69     (they) homes and lives are in danger. Goodall thinks that humans should protect them. She hopes that all animals will     70     (treat) with respect. Goodall wants people to remember that we are members of the animal world, too.

This is a story about me. I used to be a c    71     girl, but I got a lesson in an important exam. Before the exam, I went over all the lessons and did p    72     of exercises to prepare for it. During the exam, I was so confident that I wrote down my answers as quickly as I could. I thought all my answers were c    73    . But to my great surprise, I f    74     the exam! What’s worse was that I even got a “zero”! My English teacher told me I forgot the most important thing —to write my name and number on the exam paper. What a great p    75     it is!

From this experience, I realize that I should be more serious and patient. It’s very important to think twice before our action.

Healthy Diet

Good afternoon everyone. Today I am here to give you a talk about healthy diet. I have read a book named Healthy Diet.