1 . After over a decade of faithful service, my old desktop computer finally died. With no computer repair places open, my daughter talked me into _________ a new laptop to replace it. What followed was two days of pure frustration. It was like going from driving an old car to _________ the space shuttle.

I looked for the old e-mail _________ I used to use only to find that it wasn’t on this model. When I tried to download the _________ version again it wouldn’t work. Then there were the difficulties of transferring all of my old stories that I had _________ on a USB drive. The laptop computer’s _________ new programs were an icon(图标) minefield that I had to find the way. Each time I accidentally _________ one of them, it changed everything on my screen and I had to work hard to figure out how to change them back. Finally after two days, I think we have _________ the new computer to do the few simple things I need it to do so I can _________ the thou-sand other functions that I have no use for.

What I did learn from all of this is that when it comes to computers and __________, I want to keep things simple. I don’t want to wake up in the morning and __________ to my devices. __________, I want to pet my dogs, take them outside, and watch the sun __________ rise over the mountains here. Life is simple. It is we who make things __________. I want to spend my time and my talents making this world better not __________.

Just like spoken language, body language    1    from culture to culture. The crucial thing is using body language in a way that is    2    to the culture you are in. For example, making eye contact—looking into someone’s eyes—in some countries is a way to    3    interest. In other countries, by contrast, eye contact is not always     4    of. For example, in many Middle Eastern countries, men and women are not socially permitted to make eye contact. In Japan, it may    5    respect to look down when talking to an older person.