Yours,

Li Hua

2.可以适当增加细节，以使行文连贯

If I am a teacher

2. 只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。

Decades ago, I was a child. Hoped I could have an opportunity to attend college, my parents were pushed me to study hard. I experienced pressure at the first time. I did that my parents expected me to do because I didn’t want to let them off. I was born in a rich family, and I really knew life was not easy. All the things my parents did were for their hope that I would lead better life in the future.

Finally thanks to their push and the pressures, I had a chance to go to college and am able to meet my parents’ expectations. I made them.

You are only three years old, and at this point in your life you are not able to understand this letter. But some day when you_________, I hope you will find something_________in what I am going to share with you.

Life can be_________. There will be people in your life who won't be very nice. They’ll_________you because you are different, _________for no good reason. You will also face heartbreak and might be_________by those you love. I hope you don't have to face these too much, but such things_________.

Be open to life anyway. You'll find cruelty(残忍)and_________in your journey through life, but don't let that_________you from finding new things. I don't retreat(退却)from life, and don’t__________or wall yourself off. Be open to new things, new experiences, and new people. You will__________many times, but if you allow that to stop you from trying, you will__________ many chances. Do remember failure is a stepping stone to__________.

You will meet many people who will try to do__________than you, in school, in college, and at work. They'll try to have nicer cars, bigger houses, nicer clothes, and so on. To__________,life is a competition. However, I believe life is a__________. If you always try your best to__________others, you are wasting your life. Learn to enjoy your life__________and you will make it a journey of __________of learning and of love.

Finally, know that I love you and always will. You are__________a really wonderful journey, and I will always be there for you.

Love

Dad

10 . Malia Obama, the elder daughter of former US President Barack Obama, would postpone enrolling in Harvard. She would take a gap year.

Gap years are so popular in Britain that more than 200,000 students take them every year. However, they are virtually unknown to many students in the US. Only about 1 percent of graduating seniors, or about 30,000 Americans students, decide to take a year off between high school and college.

Gap years, as defined by most US colleges, are structured educational periods of travel, volunteering or other kinds of learning through experiences. They usually have to be approved by the colleges which students plan to attend, and more American students, like Malia Obama, have started to take gap years.

According to American Gap Association(AGA)surveys, there was a 22 percent increase in students taking gap years in 2015 over the previous year.

While many colleges and particularly public universities don’t allow students to postpone enrollment, Florida State Universality has begun encouraging its freshmen to take a year off from their studies in order to get some extra maturity and new experience.

“We know very clearly now that gap years can be an educational experience that changes you completely,” said Joe O’shea, the president of(AGA),“Gap years help increase students’ focus while their identities and future plans take shape.”

She believes gap years are good ways for young people to get away from their comfortable lives or pressures from society, and to see their lives from a new angle. “It helps you choose your path, instead of letting it choose you.

Karis Engle spent a year with a charitable organization in Haiti at age 18. The experience has made her realize that she wants to help others. Now Engle has become the president of the Glades Initiative, a non-profit organization that helps with food security in communities in southern Florida. She said the immersion in a very different culture completely changed her worldview. By the time she entered Bethel College in Kansas a year later, her life had changed. “I felt like I was different from most people there. I knew clearly what I wanted to study, which was international development with an emphasis on social work.”