I really love my job because I enjoy     1    (work) with small kids. I think my work is important. However, there was a time when I     2    (think) I would never have that sort of career.

I wasn’t     3     excellent student and in my final term, I found I wasn’t the type to have a career. I then found     4    (me) a job. Looking after two little girls wasn’t too bad at first. But the problems began when I agreed to live in. I was getting     5    (extreme) tired and fed up, because I had too many late nights and early mornings with the     6    (child).

One Sunday, I met Megan,     7     used to go to school with me. I told her about my situation. She suggested that I should do a course and get a qualification. I didn’t think I would be     8    (succeed). She persuaded me to phone the local college and finally I     9    (accept) by the local college. My experience helped me a lot. Now I’ve got a full-time job at a kindergarten. I shall always be thankful     10     Megan.

An c-payment system (系统) is a way of     1    (pay) for goods and services through an electronic medium (媒介), without the use of cash (现金). It’s also     2    (call) an online payment system or electronic payment system.

The electronic payment system has grown     3    (rapid) over the last 10 years because of the     4     (grow) spread of Internet-based banking and shopping. As the world progresses more with the help of technology, we can see the rise of electronic payment systems     5     leads to fewer check and cash transactions (交易). One of the most popular payment     6    (method) online is Alipay. Besides it, there are also other forms of payment, such     7     electronic wallets, smart cards and WeChat Pay.

E-payment systems allow people     8    (make) electronic payments for online transactions. With the great popularity of online shopping, c-payment systems have become a must     9     online customers, making shopping and banking much     10    (easy).

People in China have been paying cash for things for thousands of years, long     1     other civilizations. Now, increasingly, they’re paying with their cellphones. Chinese consumers are basically jumping across plastic, and going straight from cash to mobile payments. Chinese spent $5.5 trillion through mobile payment platforms last year, about 50 times     2     amount in the U. S. , according to reports. Nowhere     3     (be) the cashless trend more obvious than in the eastern Chinese city of Hangzhou, which is home to Alibaba, the world’s     4    (large) online shopping platform. Its mobile payment app, Alipay, and WeChat Pay, which belongs to the country’s leading social messaging platform, together hold a commanding 90 percent of the market, leaving Apple Pay struggling to make inroads. I recently spent a day in Hangzhou to see     5     easy it was to go cashless, and     6     (amaze) I found it somewhat ahead of other     7     (city), including Beijing. I rode buses and subways, which all accept Alipay. I even listened to the mournful tunes of a woman     8     (perform) music on the street for change-or for a scan of a QR code(二维码)    9    (place) beside the change box. Over a bowl of noodles, a restaurateur told me that about half of his customers pay for     10     (they) meals with cellphones, and that he uses his to pay most of the time too. “I don’t have to worry about getting counterfeit money, or having to make change, ” he explained.

Kilns (窑) had to burn day and night in Jingdezhen, a city in Jiangxi Province of southeastern China, to meet demand from around the globe.

Today, though demand is much     1     (low), people are making porcelain (瓷器)     2     same way they have for hundreds of years, with Jingdezhen’s old masters still     3     (offer) thanks to the kiln gods.

Meanwhile, across town, creative new craftspeople are bringing new ideas into the art and new life to the once       4     (factory) and villages. It’s fair to say that Jingdezhen people live and breathe porcelain, but they aren’t doing it alone.

“Jingdezhen is more than a historical town. The old and new are mixed     5     (perfect) here.” says Hu Chunxiao, a local artist     6     family has worked in the industry for generations. The     7     (tradition) and modern exist in harmony, which makes     8     one of the most interesting towns in China for travel.

Despite being a center of porcelain for 1,700 years, Jingdezhen is never short of great natural scenes. The surrounding area is famous for rich     9     (hide) scenery—mountains, streams, farms and forests. It     10       (draw) artists who desire a peaceful life here since the ancient times.

Do you want to start exercising? Congratulations! You are sure     1     (benefit) a lot from it. To start     2    , physical activity increases the efficiency of your heart and lungs. In addition, it has been proven that active people tend to have better immune systems and are at     3     (low) risk of diseases. Moreover,     4     (work) out can help you reduce stress, get over negative feelings, and improve certain brain functions. To help you exercise     5     (proper), there are several tips. First, make sure     6     you expect to improve: heart and lung efficiency, muscle strength or flexibility. Then stick with activities you enjoy. Second, eat right food     7     (meet) different needs of your body. When to eat is also of great     8     (important). Don’t forget to drink throughout exercise. Last     9     not least, wear proper clothes and equipment when exercising to prevent injury. Warming up before exercising and stretching at the end of your workout are good ways to avoid     10     (get) hurt.

Each time I take the underground I find myself     1     (surround) by dozens of passengers playing smartphones. They almost won’t even give a glance at the outside world. You may think it is normal to play smartphones     2     (kill) time. What’s worse, when I talk with some of my     3     (friend), they talk as playing, which is really an annoyance.

I really miss the old days when I chatted with some passengers on the train. Now things are     4     (difference). Everyone just concentrates     5     their smartphones. When talking with them, it seems that you are disturbing their playing smartphones. I could not just blame them for I am moving to be one like them. Sometimes I just feel we     6     (large) ignore our neighbors and want to keep in touch with distant strangers through the Internet. We care about the things far away     7     pay no attention to the needs nearby.     8     ridiculous the situation is! In a way we     9     (control) by smartphones. Are you     10     (experience) the same situation like me? Do you have any ways to avoid that?