1 . Everyone wants to perform well at school. Add these tips to your life and you should be on your way to being a top student!

    1    I cannot stress how important it is to pay attention to what your teacher is teaching you. Take part in class discussions if you have something worth adding. Pay attention during class.

Taking notes is important. You don’t need to write down every single word your teacher says but write down what he or she writes on the blackboard, or any special fact you think you might need for a test.    2       In this way, it will help you learn more effectively by thinking about what you are writing.

Don’t skip school. You will be missing courses.    3    However, you will have more work and you have missed lectures. Also, try not to be late for class. It’s most likely that your teacher won’t appreciate it and you will get yourself behind.

Keep a good attitude (态度) towards things. If you have an “ I don’t care about school or this class” attitude, then teachers will be less willing to help you with problems. The same goes for lazy attitude. Have a respectful attitude to the teacher and other students.     4    

Always ask questions.     5     If you don’t understand, ask someone. Read your textbook and notes, and then if that fails, ask a teacher, friend, classmate, parent, etc.

3 . I don’t realize that I’ve been at college for nearly one and half year until now. Looking back into the last year, what shall I say? It was full of _______ and sadness. Life always goes like this, up and down. Now when I recall the past, no matter _______ I felt at that time, they are all treasures for me.

That was the moon festival last year, which was also the first time that we went out _______ we entered the college. It was said that the sea in San Diego was well-known and was also a wonderful place to watch the moon. After getting all the food and drinks ready, we four girls set off for the seaside. There were many people and we picked up a less _______ beach. At first, we enjoyed ourselves by drinking and eating. When the moon turned brighter, we played with the seawater. As a result, we were all _______ with water. Bathing in the moonlight, we ran and laughed. We seemed to land on another world, which was full of fresh air, _______ and love. The laughter is _______ echoing(回响)in my mind.

Life doesn’t stay the same, _______ having a particular taste. That is sadness. What _______ me deeply is a failure in a singing competition. It was the first time that I had given a ________ on such a large stage in front of so many people. I was so nervous that the whole song was performed out of ________. As you could imagine, I was greeted with boos(嘘，喝倒彩声)from the audience. I still remembered how gloomy I felt at that moment and I sat alone crying at the seaside. After that, I talked to mother about it. She told me that it was not a ________; at least, I was brave enough to show myself publicly.

Everything has passed. I’ve ________ them at the bottom of my heart. I am in the second grade already. Yet much needs me to ________. On the way, there’s both happiness and sadness. ________, I will go ahead just all the same.

5 . From childhood to adulthood, you go through a lot of changes — jobs, regrettable haircuts and relationships that come and go. But what about who you are? As you grow older, does your personality change?

Personality is the pattern(模式) of thoughts, feelings and behaviors unique to a person. People always think of personality as fixed(固定的). But according to psychologists, that’s not how it works. “Personality is developing. It’s not just something that you’re stuck with and can’t get over,” said Brent Roberts, a psychologist at the University of Illinois.

That’s not to say that you’re a different person each day you wake up. In the short term, change can be nearly impossible to see, Roberts told Live Science. Longitudinal studies, in which researchers survey(调查) the personalities of participants(参与者) regularly over many years, suggest that our personality is actually stable in the short term.

But those years add up, throughout which our personality is still changing, but slowly, Roberts said. “It’s something that’s unnoticeable,” he added. You don’t feel it on that five-to-10-year time period, but in the long term, it becomes obvious. In 1960, psychologists surveyed over 440,000 high school students — around 5% of all students in the country at that time. The students answered questions about everything from how they behaved in emotional(情绪的) situations to how well and effectively they got work done. Fifty years later, researchers tracked down(追踪到) 1,952 of these former students and gave them the same survey. The results found that in their 60s, participants scored much higher than they had as teenagers.

Some people might change less than others, but in general, the maturity principle(成熟原则) goes for everyone. That makes personality change even harder to realize in ourselves — how your personality compares with that of your peers doesn’t change as much as our overall change in personality, because everyone else is changing right along with you. “It has been proved that the self-control of a 30-year-old is higher than a 20-year-old,” Donnellan said. “At the same time, people who are more self-controlled at 18 are also possibly more self-controlled at age 30.”