Everyone     1     (know) that fish is good     2     health. The fat in fish can help to protect our hearts. But many people don’t cook fish at home. Some people don’t know     3     to buy fresh fish, while others don’t know how to cook fish after     4     (buy) it. In fact, it just needs a little knowledge. This text is about how to buy and cook fish in     5     easy way.

When you buy fish, you should first smell     6    . Fresh fish should smell sweet. Strong smell means the fish isn’t fresh. Do not buy it. When you have bought a fish and arrive home, you should put it in the fridge     7     (keep) it fresh.

There     8     (be) many common ways to cook fish. The     9     (easy) way is to steam it. First, clean it and season (调味) it with your choice of spices (调料). Then put the whole fish on a plate and steam it in a steam pot for 8—10 minutes     10     it weighs about one pound. (A larger one will take more time.)

Last month we     1     (ask) our students     2     their free time activities. Our questions were about exercise, use of the Internet and watching TV. Here are the     3     (result).

   We     4     (find)   that only fifteen percent     5     our students exercise every day. Forty-five percent exercise four to six times a week. Twenty percent     6     (exercise) only one to three times a week. And twenty percent do not exercise at all. We all know that many students often go online, but we were     7     (surprise) that ninety percent of them use the Internet every day. The other ten percent     8     (use) it at     9     (less) three or four times a week. Most students use it     10     fun.

We can’t remember clearly when we started to take our mobiles to dinner table. This happens a lot, e    1    when we eat out. Once a dish comes,    2    (而不是) lifting our chopsticks, we take out our mobiles and click. Later, we post the photos onto Weibo or WeChat, waiting to be “liked”. Then we check our mobiles from time to time    3     the meal, to see whether we get “liked”     4     not. We just cannot leave our mobiles for simply a meal.

Does that sound familiar to you? Do you do that often? If     5    , how do you feel when others do that when having dinner with you?

A recent study suggests that what we     6    （习惯于）doing is not so good. Spending time     7    (拍照) of food makes the food less pleasant. To test this, some researchers did an experiment. Some people were a    8    to take photos before they could enjoy food.     9    （结果）, it showed that the m    10     photos they took, the less delicious the food seem to them. So, why not s    11     taking photos and just enjoy the food in front of you?

So, next time you go out to have d    12    with your family or friends,     13    （……怎么样）not taking photos of food? Let the food be delicious as it is and share your life     14     people around you. Trust me, it will be a     15    [ˈwʌndə(r)fl] time.

What is generation gap (代沟)? It’s the d    1     between parents and children in tastes, values and the way they deal with problems. It is common all over the world.

Teenagers have a s    2     wish for freedom. They want to wear cool clothes, have cool hairstyles and talk in a cool way. This d    3     their parents mad because they have no idea what their children are thinking about. They may even feel embarrassed when they go out with their children. However, if parents don’t try to understand their children, young people may feel awful and begin to hate their f    4    .

To solve these problems, parents and children should sit down and talk about it. As the children g    5     up, they will come to understand their parents, and they may feel ashamed of their strange behavior.

【推荐2】Confucius (孔子) was the greatest thinker and educator in Chinese history. He was     1     in 511 B.C. (公元前) in the Kingdom of Liu in today’s Shangdong Province. When he was young, he and his mother lived     2     hard life. At the age     3     fifteen, he began to learn music, and he did well in it.

Then he went on to learn other subjects. When he was thirty, he became a     4    . He started     5     own private school. He believed everyone should have a chance to get education whether they were rich     6     poor. He taught about 3,000     7     in his life and many of them became famous.

Chinese people see Confucius as the     8     thinker in history who had many wise ideas about human nature and behavior. And he is also regarded as the greatest teacher. His most important ideas are about kindness and good manners. He said young people should     9     care of the old. People should not always     10     of themselves, but work for others as well. His ideas are around in people’s everyday life. Today people can still hear his ideas, and they even go far into East and South Asia.

A middle school in Chengdu has stood out among other schools in students’ l    1     and care for their parents. The students are asked to spend at least one hour doing h    2     for their parents or giving some help in the neighborhood every Sunday, Mother’s Day and parents’ birthdays.

The school wants to turn the students into well-mannered children. The students, mostly from one-child families, were t    3     to be a good child under strict rules. For example, they are now used to saying good-bye to parents in the morning b    4     they go to school. And no one forgets to say hello to the parents when they return from school. The parents are p    5     to find their children can help them with many things, such as making beds, washing and cooking.