1 . Every Saturday morning Phoenix Young would take piano lessons with a family friend when he was a child. “At that time we would_______around and take all morning just to have a lesson,” Phoenix_______. “And I loved it.”

But when Phoenix was 12, his teacher proposed that he need better_______.So his mother took him to a music school in the Bronx, and signed him up for classes with a teacher named Bade Simon, experienced bit known for being _______. And she quickly lived up to that _______.Phoenix found the stressful life was_______like his lighthearted Saturday mornings with his former teacher, so it wasn’t long before he_______that he would quit.

One day, however, Bade_______him and said something surprising: “I have_______in you. Keep going. Then the reluctant (不情愿的) student did something surprising ________: he said, “Okay.”

“It was as if all I wanted was just a________from her that she cared about me,” Phoenix said.

That moment________their relationship. Within a few weeks, they were having________during lessons. And within a few months, she was teaching him things about music that he’d never known before. It was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship.

“I went into________and became a piano teacher, a career I have been doing for 50 years,” Phoenix said. “And I ________it all to that precious moment with my unsung hero, Bade Simon.”

2 . As anyone who has tried to lose weight knows, realistic goal setting generally produces the best results. That is partially _________ people who set realistic goals actually appear to work more efficiently, and make more effort, to achieve those goals.

What is far less understood by scientists, _________, are the potentially harmful effects of goal setting.

Newspapers relay (转发) reports of goal setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street, yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the practice of setting goals may have_________ to the current economic crisis, and unethical (不道德) behaviour in general.

“Goals are widely used and promoted as they have really_________ effects. And yet, the same motivation that can push people to make more effort in a constructive way could also motivate people to be more likely to_________ unethical activities,” says Maurice Schweitzer, professor at Penn’s Wharton School.

“It turns out there’s_________ economic benefit to just having a goal — you just get a psychological benefit,” Schweitzer says. “But in many cases, goals have economic_________ that make them more powerful.’

A typical example Schweitzer and his colleagues mention is the 2002_________ of energy-trading giant Enron, where managers used financial incentives (鼓励) to motivate salesmen to meet specific revenue goals. The problem, Schweitzer says, is the actual trades were not_________ .

Other studies have shown that__________ employees with unrealistic goals can force them to lie, cheat or steal. Such was the case in the early 1990s when Sears__________ specific sales quota (额度) for its auto repair staff. It__________ employees to complete repairs that were actually unnecessary just to meet the requirement.

Schweitzer admits his research runs counter to (违背) a very large body of literature that__________ the many benefits of goal setting. However, __________ of goal setting have argued with Schweitzer’s use of such evidence to support his conclusion that goal setting is widely__________ .

4 . Dressed in a pretty long robe (袍服), stylist Xiao Hang walks across the busy Beijing metro, attracting curious glances.

China has been _________ by Western fashion in recent decades, but many young people like Xiao are looking to the _________ for their choices of clothing and wearing traditional hanfu. These historic costumes of the Han ethnic group are _________ a renaissance (复兴) in part because the government is promoting traditional culture to boost patriotism (爱国主义) and national _________. Period dramas have also contributed to the _________ in interest in traditional Chinese clothing — The Story of Minglan, a TV series set in the Song Dynasty _________ more than 400 million viewers in three days.

There is no _________ definition of what counts as hanfu since each dynasty has its own style, but the clothes are _________ by loose, flowing robes, with sleeves that hang down to the knees. “When we were little, we would drape (披) sheets and blankets to _________ we were wearing beautiful clothes,” Xiao said.

“Two-thirds of my wardrobe is hanfu,” said Yang Jiaming, a high school student dressed in a Tang-style robe and black boots at a hanfu gathering. He wears hanfu under his uniform at school and his classmates and teachers have been ____________ of his style.

The support of the government for Chinese culture has given the hanfu community a(n) ____________. In April 2019, the Communist Youth League of China ____________ a two-day conference on traditional Chinese clothing, including hanfu.

Clothes are the “____________ of culture”, said Jiang Xue, a member of Beijing-based hanfu club Mowutianxia, which has received ____________ from the Communist Youth League of China. “If we do not even ____________ our traditional clothes or don’t wear them, how can we talk about other essential parts of our culture?” she said.

6 . After I graduated from the university, I got so pressured in finding a job. I did a lot of _________ both online and handing in person to a particular company. It occurred, one day I went to _________ my CV (履历) to a certain company and I wanted to meet the human resource manager in person because I believed it was a better _________ than leaving my CV at the reception.

Unfortunately, in this company the _________ did not allow me to see the human resource manager and _________ asked me to just leave the CV with her and that she would _________ it. I was really _________ since I knew she wouldn't do that and my CV will just be thrown in the trash can, I thought so because it usually _________ a lot in some other companies. So I just left with my head _________ and never thought about it again since I knew I would never get any __________ from the company.

Weeks passed and one day I received a call from a(an) __________ number and guess what...it was the human resource manager of that same company. I was really shocked since I did not __________ it at all. So he said he received my CV and that he would __________ it.

I was so happy and felt bad at the same time for __________ the receptionist the other day. This humbled me and it was a __________ to believe in people and not assume things just because of the norm.

7 . In January this year, a fire destroyed the building that housed Yossi Heiman’s Fish Market in Borough Park, Brooklyn: The _______ made Yossi Heiman have no place to operate his business and no ability to get _______ .

The merchant Shea Langsam owns a(n) _______ store, just few blocks away. One would have thought that sympathetic as he may be to his competitor’s bad luck, he would welcome this opportunity to _______ new customers and increase his business. _______ Shea did something truly excellent. When he learned of the fire, he _______ the phone and called Yossi Heiman. Not only did he _______ him but when he heard Yossi say he would need a facility and deliver _______ to his customers, he said, “Don’t worry! Why not _______ me in my store before your store could be rebuilt? As fellow community members we all should try to help each other. ” Shea did as he promised and Yossi ________ his losses.

The story is wonderful and it’s a(n) ________ of seeing fellow community members as part of one family, putting needs of others ________ their own needs. Businessmen usually want to make more money or grow their ________ but the story is ________ : It’s a truly sincere display of true faith and great kindness. Real faith means ________ others and having a heart of sympathy and mercy like Shea.

8 . Bad Dreams Are Good!

Most of us dream, whether we remember them or not. What are dreams for? A handful of _______ dominate. Sigmund Freud famously maintained that they reveal hidden truths and wishes. More recent research suggests that they may help us process intense emotions, or perhaps sort through and strengthen memories, or _______ random neuron（神经元） activity, or prepare responses to threatening situations. Others argue that dreams have no evolutionary function, but simply _______ personal concerns.

Despite being largely unsupported by _______, Freud’s view maintains a strong following around the world. Researchers found that students in the U.S., South Korea, and India were much more likely to say that dreams reveal hidden truths than to accept better _______ theories. In the same study, respondents said that dreaming about a plane crash would cause them more _______ than an official warning about a terrorist attack. Even if dreams can't foretell the future, they seem to _______ our shared fascinations. The majority of dreams occur during REM sleep （深度睡眠） cycles, of which the average person has four or five a night.

A study of Canadian university students found the most common dream topics include school, falling, being chased, and arriving too late for something. For all the commonalities dreams _______, they vary across time and culture — people who grew up watching black-and-white TV are more likely to dream in black and white. A 1958 study _______ that compared with Japanese people, Americans dreamed more about being locked up, losing a loved one, finding money, being ________ dressed or encountering a mad person. Japanese people were more likely to dream about school, trying repeatedly to do something, being paralyzed with fear, or “wild, violent beasts.” If human dreams sound ________, bear in mind that even negative ones can have positive effects.

In a study of students taking a French medical school entrance exam, 60 percent of the dreams they had beforehand ________ a problem with the exam, such as being late or leaving an answer blank. But those who reported ________ about the exam, even bad ones, did better on it than those who didn’t. So the next time you dream about an education related experience in which you are unable to answer the questions or solve a problem, don’t __________: It’s probably totally meaningless. Then again, your brain might be practicing so you'll be ________ if such an event ever comes to pass.

9 . Do Brain Training Games Work?

With an ageing population worried about cognitive (认知的) decline, brain training apps have soared in popularity. Search “brain training”, and you will find _________ apps and websites promising to make you mentally agile (敏捷的). In the same way that we might go to the gym to exercise, a daily mental _________ is said to produce physical changes in the brain. All you will have to do is to _________ a few minutes each day to complete puzzles, memory games and word quizzes.

At least that’s the idea. And there are a lot of people who are _________ into it. In 2018, consumers spent an estimated $1.9 billion on brain training apps—a fourfold increase from 2012. Of course, smartphones were not the original home for brain training games. _________, Nintendo recently released its fourth all-time best-selling game, Brain Age, and brought it to the Switch in Japan last month. The idea of improving mental fitness clearly has widespread appeal, but is it based on scientific evidence or _________ marketing promises?

In 2014, the Stanford Center on Longevity published an open letter _________ by 69 international neuroscientists (神经科学家) and cognitive psychologists. There is no convincing scientific evidence, the experts argued, that playing brain games improves cognitive abilities in everyday life.

Two years later, another team of psychologists reviewed every scientific study cited by major brain training companies _________ their products. They questioned not only how the evidence had been reported and interpreted, but the way many of the studies had been designed. The _________ included small sample sizes, inadequate control groups, and cherry-picking (挑选最有利的) research outcomes to __________.

If the science is so __________ flawed (错误的), why do people feel the need to train their brains with these apps and games?

That’s __________, according to Til Wykes, a professor at King’s College London. Nintendo’s Brain Age game, for instance, assigns players a score based on their gaming performance. They might start with a “brain age” score of 60 and after a few weeks of __________, will be told they have reduced it to 40. For some people, there is clearly some positive reward for seeing themselves improve over time. Wykes stresses, __________, that for people who are really worried about their cognition, learning a new language would be more beneficial, which has been shown to improve brain __________.

10 . In many countries, people eat rice every day. _______ they eat it two or three times a day, for breakfast, lunch and supper. They can _______ it, fry it or _______ it into rice noodles. They usually eat it _______ meat, fish and vegetables.

Some people do not eat some kind of _______ . Muslins for example, do not eat pork, and Hindus do not eat beef.

The Japanese eat a lot of fish. Japan is an island and its _______ go all over the Pacific looking for fish to _______.The Japanese sometimes eat uncooked fish and they also eat a lot of rice.

In _______ such as Britain, Australia and the United States, the most important food is _______ or potatoes People there usually make their bread from wheat flour. They ________ potatoes in different ways. They can boil them, fry them and roast them.

In Africa, maize（玉米） is the most important food. ________ rice and wheat, maize is a kind of cereal. African people make the maize ________ flour. From this flour they make ________   kinds of bread and cakes. Many Africans are very ________ and they can't afford to eat much ________ with their cereal.