1 . In one of my classes today we discussed the question of how our lives would be without a mobile phone. I actually felt quite sad to hear how some kids cannot _______ without their phones these days. _______, I think nowadays we are _______ by our technology to keep up. So let’s see some of the points that _______ in the discussion and see if our generation really is addicted to electronic connections rather than true communication. 

It is true that everything works at a fast pace these days. For example, you can contact someone who lives on the other side of the world within _______. This is great if you think about how connected we can stay to the _______ who are far away from us. However, on the contrary, can we be too connected to the people who are _______ to us? An argument arose about the _______ that it is easier to message someone from your sofa than to meet them _______ and talk. Social skills are important to have and if you are not going to put effort into real-life __________, then you are not going to progress in this ability. 

Another point was that phones are very handy for __________ something that you are wondering about. For example, if you don’t know a word in another language, you can quickly and simply use an on-line translator to help you out. This can be very __________ in many situations, but it can also make a person dependent on the __________ to help with anything. 

All in all, this question is very interesting to __________ for oneself as we become day by day more dependent on technology. We should realize how much we really need to be connected by our phones while considering the __________ and damages it can cause us.

The Book of Songs is the     1    (early) collection of Chinese poetry. It consists of 305 poems dating     2     the early years of the Western Zhou Dynasty to the middle stage of the Spring and Autumn Period. Nowadays, Confucius is generally believed to be the     3     (edit) of the book.

The Book of Songs is rich in content,     4     (reflect) love and labor, war and slavery, custom and marriage, ancestor worship and special events. It is a mirror of social life.

All the poems included in The Book of Songs fall into three sections—poems     5     come from villages belong to Feng; the poems       6     (write) to persuade or praise the rulers belong to Ya; those used at religious ceremonies belong to Song. Ya and Song are flowery and serious in language，    7     Feng is relatively inspiring and full of passion.

The opening poem of The Book of Songs, Cooing and Wooing (《关雎》), is about love, which     8     (read) ：

By riverside are cooing

A pair of turtledoves;

A good young man is wooing

A fair maiden he loves.

Through these lines, the poet expresses the man’s longing for       9     girl and his hope that one day he can win the girl’s heart.

As the beginning of ancient Chinese poetry, The Book of Songs enables people to have a better understanding of Chinese civilization. Moreover, it is also       10     (frequent) quoted in other Chinese texts and has always been referred to as moral truths and lessons.

Yesterday we visited Central Park,     1    urban park in Manhattan, New York City, which is one of the     2    (splendid) city parks I have seen. As a famous park in the United States, millions of visitors     3    (pay) a visit to it up to now. And there is a     4    (tend) that more and more visitors will be attracted. It is     5    (probable) two and one-half miles long and over one-half mile in width. Therefore    6    (take) a carriage ride through the park would be a good choice. My mom enjoyed looking at all the     7    (appeal) sculptures in the park.    8    contrast, Dad liked the free traditional music concert in one of the small pavilions. In the afternoon, we took a ferry to see the famous Statue of Liberty,    9    stands in New York Harbor. Our guide said this 151-foot copper (铜) statue     10    (give) to the United States by France in 1884 to represent the friendship and freedom both countries share.