2 . Choosing the Right Career

For many students, choosing a career is the most important life decision they must make at school. However, choosing the right career is not that easy.    1     If you take the following steps, you will have a good chance of finding a career that interests you for a long time.

Step One: Reflection

Before you decide upon a career, think about your interests and your talents. Ask yourself: What do I enjoy doing? What am I good at?     2    

Step Two: Planning

    3    Read books describing different kinds of work, the typical qualifications (资格) required, and the typical salaries for various jobs. Also, talk to people already doing the jobs that interest you. And try out careers by taking internships (实习) or part-time jobs

Step Three: Selection

Consider what kind of personality you have and what your value is: What is really important to you?     4     If so, a job as a computer programmer may not be the best option. If you like the security of getting a monthly salary, then starting a business probably is not for you. And remember that you can always change your mind. Most people change jobs several times during their working life.     5    Your first job right after college probably will not be your career 30 years from now. Be flexible and allow yourself to change if you are not satisfied with your chosen career.

I can't believe I'm senior high student now! How amazed the new school life is! All the students and teacher in my class are friendly and helpful, and they have become my friends. The campus is twice as larger as my junior high school. The classrooms are big enough to holding 50 students. I'm deep impressed with the modern equipment in my classroom, where helps us study conveniently.However. the subjects we are learning now were far more difficult than before. As a result of,I have to spend a lot of time studying by myself.But after class I still take part in the activities so that I can relax myself but improve my health. I love my new school life.

7 . Robin was 12 years old when his mother sent him to me for his first piano lesson. I preferred that students begin at an earlier _________. I explained it to Robin that he was too old, but he said it had always been his mother’s _________ to hear him play the piano. So I took him as a student.

Although Robin tried very hard, he didn’t seem to have the basic sense of music. However, he _________ and at the end of each lesson he never forgot to say, “My mom’s going to hear me play someday.” But it seemed impossible, and I was _________ by his slow progress. One day, he _________ me that his mother was sick and he couldn’t come to my class any longer. I was glad that he stopped coming, since he was really a bad _________ for my teaching!

Several months later when I was preparing my students for a music show, Robin came to my home and said he had to _________ the show. I don’t know what led me to _________ him to do that. Maybe it was the _________ in his eyes or maybe it was something inside of me saying that it would be all right.

I was even more __________ when Robin announced that he had chosen one of the most difficult pieces of Mozart. I was not prepared for what happened next.

However, on the show his fingers danced __________ on the keys. He played so well that everyone __________ excitedly when he was leaving the stage. In excitement, I __________ up to stage to congratulate him.

“How could you do it?” I could not help asking him a few days later.

“Well, I kept practicing at home. My mom had cancer and just passed away the day I went to your __________ to ask for your permission to take part in the show. It was always her dream that she could hear me play on the stage. I wanted to make it __________.”

In order to celebrated National Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we had an 8-day holiday. After it, my classmates and I were talking about how to do during the holiday excitedly. Then we decided to go to help the farmers instead of stay at home. As soon as we arrived at farm, we were attracted by the apples hanging on the branches. We couldn't wait to pick the apples, which were the most interesting work. Particular, we were allowed to choose what we liked best and taste them. We didn't feel boring at all even though the job was tiring. We worked for 5 hours happily unless the sun set.

9 . Learning to Accept

I learned how to accept life as it is from my father. _______, he did not teach me acceptance when he was strong and healthy, but rather when he was   _________ and ill.

My father was _______ a strong man who loved being active, but a terrible illness _______ all that away. Now he can no longer walk, and he must sit quietly in a chair all day. Even talking is   _______. One night, I went to visit him with my sisters. We started _______ about life, and I told them about one of my_______. I said that we must very often give things up _______ we grow --- our youth, our beauty, our friends --- but it always _______ that after we give something up, we gain something new in its place. Then suddenly my father ________ up. He said, “But, Peter, I gave up ________! What did I gain?” I thought and thought, but I couldn’t think of anything to say. ________, he answered his own question: “I ________ the love of my family,” I looked at my sisters and saw tears in their eyes, along with hope and thankfulness.

I was also ________ by his words. After that, when I began to feel irritated (愤怒的) at someone, I ________ remember his words and become ________. If he could replace his great pain with a feeling of love for others, then I should be ________ to give up my small irritations. In this ________, I learned the power of acceptance from my father.

Sometimes I ________ what other things I could have learned from him if I had listened more carefully when I was a boy. For now, though, I am grateful for this one ________

Monkeys do not like it when others get more food     1     they do, according to a new study.

Researchers from Yale and Harvard universities found Capuchin monkeys punish monkeys     2     get more food. "This sort of, 'If I can't have it, no one can' response is because     3     psychological spite (怨恨), and it was    4     (previous) thought unique to humans," said Kristin Leimgruber of Harvard University. She is a co-author of the research study. The researchers watched as some Capuchin monkeys     5     (give) more food than others. They found that monkeys getting the     6     (small) share pulled a rope to fold up a table holding the other monkey's bigger share.

Another lead researcher, Laurie Santas,     7     (explain) over email, "I think what we can conclude about humans is that some of our more embarrassing tendencies have relatively deep     8     (root)." Santos said the spiteful response was not present with another member of the ape species—chimpanzees(黑猩猩).

An earlier study, she said, showed chimpanzees would fold up the table of other chimpanzees     9     (steal) food from them. But they would not punish chimpanzees who just happened     10     (have) more food, Santos said. In other words, it was fine if another chimpanzee had more food as long as they did not steal it.