Are you a “glass-half-empty” or a “glass-half-full” type of person? A study showed that optimists (乐观主义者) are more likely to live longer than those who have a(n)     1     (愁眉苦脸) in life. The theory goes that optimists may find it easier to control their emotions. Here are some people’s opinions about how to stay positive.

Vicki Siska has been through some stressful times but has managed to remain optimistic. “Music    2     (使我高兴起来), a sense of humour keeps me seeing the bright side of things, and I have good friends who love and care for me,” she said.

Humour also helped Pippa Kennedy stay positive. She watched a TV show named Dad’s Army to help her get through a bad     3     (心情). “I also think being grateful for what you have and lots of chocolate help,” she added.

Sue Oakley Dunn says she remains positive and healthy because she does “what makes my soul sing”. She has plenty of hobbies to do for     4     (娱乐). “It works for me,” says Sue.

As well as the benefits of friendship and laughter, Robyn Black, who does yoga and has better access to    5     (医疗保健), recommends that staying fit and healthy is quite     6     (必不可少的).

Dyson has become a byword (代名词) for high-performing products, technology, design, and invention. James Dyson, the inventor and entrepreneur who made it all happen, tells his remarkable and inspirational story in Invention: A Life.

Over a four-year period, James Dyson made 5,127 prototypes of the dual cyclonic vacuum cleaner (双气旋真空吸尘器) that would transform the way houses are cleaned around the world. In d    1     all his resources to developing the technology, he risked it all, but out of many failures and       2     (巨大的) efforts came success. His products — including vacuum cleaners, hairdryers and fans — are not only revolutionary technologies, but design classics.

This was an outcome of his time studying at the Royal College of Art in the 1960s, when he was inspired by some of the most famous and     3     (influence) artists, designers, and inventors of the era.

In Invention: A Life, Dyson reveals how he came to set up his own company and led it to become one of the most     4     (杰出的) technology companies in the world. Dyson has always looked to the future, even setting up his own university to help provide the next generation of engineers and designers, for, as he says, “Everything changes all the time, so experience is of little use.”

Whether you are someone who has an idea for a better product or a(n)     5    (ambition) entrepreneur, whether you appreciate great design or just need a page-turning read, Invention: A Life offers you inspiration, hope, and much more.

Arianna Huffington has been very vocal (直言的) about the importance of sleep since accidentally overworking herself to the point of exhaustion (筋疲力尽) in 2007.

Critics might point out that she managed to establish a(n)     1     (公认的) successful media company, the Huffington Post, after years of losing sleep. But Huffington said that was not the case.

Contrary to popular belief, she told CNBC Make It that she truly became successful when she quit working round-the-clock.

“Huffington Post was only a two-year-old baby when I       2     (突然倒下),” said Huffington.

After coming to realise the importance of sleep, Huffington started to see a difference in her work       3     (方式) and that’s when her business began to grow.

“I can tell you with authority that when I’m exhausted, I’m the worst version of myself,” said the entrepreneur (企业家). “I’m more reactive. I’m less creative. And all of us can testify to that.”

“I’m not c    4     you that people can’t succeed by burning out. But they can succeed much more effectively, and much more sustainably, and with much less damage to their health and their relationships,” said Huffington.

Books and movies are two different forms of media and therefore have different rules. With this in mind, perhaps we should j    1     a movie in its own right, and not against its     2     (原作的) source.

If you think i    1     is only for adults, well, you’re wrong — because kids can be just as innovative as adults are, even more sometimes.

Here are four ways to teach your kids to be more creative:

Function follows form.

This is the idea of working backward where you start with a solution first and then work back to the problem. An example of this is the Ruined Product Exercise where you have your kids take any product around the house. Then ask them to make one change to the product where they’re going to make it worse. So they’ve got to take this seemingly ruined product and figure out some way to make it     2     (benefit) to people.

Constraints (限制) are important.

Teach your kids to realize that constraints are a necessary condition for creativity to occur. For instance, ask them to come up with an idea for the car. Then p    3     to take them into the car and tell them that they have to come up with an invention that only applies to people sitting in the backseat. This way, the kids are forced into a smaller, more constrained environment where they’re more likely to come up with a more creative idea than their first one.

Division technique creates opportunities.

The division technique basically involves taking a component, cutting it, then rearranging it somehow. One very good example is time which can be divided and rearranged, not physically but mentally. At first, just divide a(n)     4     (随机的) thing out of their day, move it to a different part of the day, and see if there’s a benefit to it. The lesson here is to get them to realize that moving the schedule around creates opportunities they may not have thought of otherwise.

Getting patents (专利) is possible.

The idea of patents has always a    5     to kids. A patent is a l    6     protection in business or engineering. But kids think they’re difficult to get. So you should get your kids to see that it’s very possible to create something and have it patented. Search the Internet for inventions by kids and you’ll find lots of examples. And this could be something they will get very excited about.

When Mills Godwin High School’s 11th grader Laasya Konidala isn’t studying, you’ll usually find her baking in the kitchen or doing a puzzle with her mother. For her, family is everything. But recently, her family received terrible news.

This past year her grandmother was diagnosed (诊断) with breast cancer. But she didn’t sit back and worry, she     1     (祈祷) for her grandmother and went to work.

“As someone who has a lot of natural curiosity and as a researcher, one of the first things I did was to d    2     into reading articles and papers as much as I can,” Konidala said.

Teaching herself to code (编码), she entered the MEDARVA Science Fair, presenting research that bridges the gap between predicting breast cancer sub-types with good classification models. And she won! It’s research that could help to     3     (发现) and treat breast cancer. As you can imagine, her grandmother is very proud.

“She knew I was into     4     (science) research, but she never expected me to do something directly related to her. She was at a loss for words,” she said.

Her mother, Rekha Rasineni is not. She tells you what a hard worker Laasya can be.

“Some days we tell her ‘You don’t need to be     5     (produce) and working all day. Take it easy.’ But she doesn’t like that. She likes to study and do puzzles and bake and maybe even save lives with her research.”

A decade after America     1     (退出) from Vietnam, the seeds of the often heart-breaking history, A Piece of My Heart, were sown when writer and filmmaker Keith Walker met a woman who had been an emergency room nurse in Cu Chi and Da Nang. She and 25 others       2     (回想) the time they spent in Vietnam as part of the 15,000 American women who volunteered or served as nurses in the military. After working on too many mutilated (截肢的) young     3     (士兵), one nurse talked of wanting to ask her mother to “check around and see if she could find one whole eighteen-year-old”.

Many returned with post-traumatic stress disorder (创伤后精神紧张性障碍). They still felt     4     (惊恐) rising within them. “The one thing Vietnam did for me was that I felt like I could walk on water,” said a nurse.

    1    (我们学校的科学俱乐部) was established in 2020. It now has 55 members, including me. Our instructor is     2    (知识渊博，并且很负责). We often carry out     3    (各种各样的实验), which are     4    (很有趣、很有意义). We all want to be a scientist to help our country     5    (更快地发展).