3 . I was sorting through some boxes in the loft last week when I came across a teddy bear from my childhood. The moment that I saw my _________ old friend, powerful memories _________ from nearly 50 years before. In an instant I was _________ with where I lived, who was around-and how I felt-at an extremely happy time of my life.

Not all objects generate such _________ memories, however. I once had to throw a pair of running shorts because they _________ me too much of the day I _________ and ended up with a broken wrist! But maybe I was too _________ and should not blame my shorts.

According to a recent study, it’s possible to use thinking tricks to remove negative _________. And, in the process, you can learn a lot about how memory works-including how to get yours under _________.

__________ were effectively shown how to create connections between an item and a set of negative emotions. They did this using vivid mental imagery（意象）—linking a child’s trainer to images of playground accident, for example, so that the object became __________ to have.

Later, they were shown how to __________ forget those feelings by consciously（有意识地）pushing away any pictures that appeared. And this turned out to be more than just a __________ distraction（分心）. It gradually weakened the bad memories—in some cases, __________ them altogether.

It shows that recall relies on associations and images. And you can strengthen both of these __________ when you want to remember.

4 . History has not yet ________ what we will definitively call the post millennial cohort (2000年后出生的人) that now ________ more than 60 million people in the U.S. These kids and ________ with no concept of life ________ the Internet have so far been called the App Generation and Generation Z. They’ve been referred to as Homelanders, having grown up under the ghost of terrorism. They’ve also been ________ the Plurals for their historic diversity, as well as the Founders, at least by MTV.

Whatever we ________ naming them, marketer and academies are turning their attention to this group, which has billions in ________ and is already shaping the culture. This generation is growing up “totally and utterly connected” says California State University psychologist Larry Rosen. Experts like Rosen have concerns about these kids’ Google-inspired expectations that everything be ________ . They worry about their inability to ________ even five seconds of boredom. And they worry about the demands that come with ________ several identities online, from Facebook to Twitter to Snapchat. “There’s so much pressure on young people, who are still ________ their identities, to present this crystallized, idealized identity online,” says the University of Washington’s Katie Davis.

Historian Neil Howe sees ________ with the Silent Generation, the spoilt risk-avoiding “nice” generation of kids who grew up during the Great Depression and World-War II, although some marked differences are found. Today’s youths are also coming of age among geopolitical trouble and fears about the economy, he says, ________ schools emphasize an intense far-reaching sensitivity to other kids. He suspects this ______ will be known for being well behaved and perhaps boring the culture by playing it safe. “There are typical examples that occur repeatedly,” Howe says, "even if they go by different ________.”

5 . I believe that we get out of this world what we put into it. Usually, the rewards are indirect and sometimes hard to _________，but usually what you _________ comes back to you there and then!

A couple of days ago my step-son, Josh, was preparing for an event. Children from his primary school were going for their first trial day at the secondary school，so that they could know what they would meet after the summer holidays. A big _________ for a student!

I was in the middle of softie stuff when I noticed him _________ in a pot where we keep pens and pencils. In primary school they use pencils, _________ secondary kids get to write with pens. And Josh was looking for a pen. He came out with a(n) _________ pen that was missing a piece off the end. His _________ day deserved a pen better than that. So I _________ what I was doing and went to the drawer where my _________ pen lived. I would __________ that pen, but this was a special occasion.

“Josh,” I said in a deep，serious voice. “I __________ my pen which I like best to you, the next generation. Protect it well and cherish it. ” He smiled and said thanks. And I went back to go on __________. Coincidentally, that day was __________ my birthday, but we were just back from a weekend away and I wasn’t expecting any more gifts. Moments after the pen ceremony, Josh walked to me with a smile on his face and gave me a prettily packed box. __________, I opened it—and was even more surprised! Inside the box was a beautiful, brand new pen!

Almost like someone had planned it! It is so __________.Give and you will receive!

6 . Sumiel, a 71-year-old, was no stranger to the struggles of kidney (肾) disease. He was on the transplant list (移植名单), but no matches had yet _________. So he continued with his treatments at a medical center 30 miles from home.

One day, he took a taxi home after his _________ with the doctor. As they set out on the 40 minute _________ to Sumiel’s home in Salem, he and the driver, Letts, got to _________. Sumiel mentioned that he’d enjoyed _________ and helped others in his community before. But he was doing less these days because the treatments left him_________ tired. Then Sumiel revealed that he was _________ a kidney giver. Letts said, “I’d like to see if I could be a _________ to give you a kidney.” Sumiel agreed, though he didn’t _________ much of it as they kept driving.

Letts was __________ to his word. He got in touch with Sumiel just a few hours later, and by the next week, Letts had__________ the kidney transplant program. After a month’s long screening __________ — including an interview, sharing medical records, and testing the __________ were: Letts was an ideal donor, and he and Sumiel were a perfect match.

Fourteen months after they ended up in the same taxi by __________, Sumiel and Letts had their surgeries. It was a __________. They kept in touch and looked forward to the day they could reunite.

8 . Last year I ruined my summer vacation by bringing along a modern convenience: the iPad.

Instead of looking at nature, I _______ my e-mail. Instead of reading great novels, I stuck to reading _______newspapers each morning. And that was the problem: I was acting as if I were still in the office. My body was on vacation but my _______ wasn’t.

So this year I made up my mind to try something _______: getting away from the Internet. I knew it wouldn’t be easy, _______ I’m not good at self-control. But I was _______. I started by handing the iPad to my wife. Then, a stroke of luck: The mobile phone _______ at our cabin was worse than in the past. I was _______, forced to carry out my plan. Largely cut off from e-mail and my favourite newspaper websites, I had little way to _______ the world. I had no ________ but to do what I had planned to do all along: read books.

With determination and the strong support of my wife, I succeeded in my vacation struggle against the Internet. I finally ________ that it was me, of course, not the iPad, that was the ________.

I knew I had ________ when we passed a Starbucks and my wife asked if I wanted to stop to use the Wi-Fi. “Don’t need it,” I said. ________, as we return to work, a test begins: Can I survive when I’m back at work? I don’t plan to ________ my iPad completely. But I hope to resist the temptation (抵抗诱惑) to use it every five minutes.