2 . I often imagined discussing school choices with my son. However, I didn’t expect to be having such a ________ with him at his thirteen years of age.

Earlier this year, he ________ his wish to go to one of the biggest public ________ in our small city, because several of his long time friends were ________ going.

I fought back the thought to ________ my eyes. I told him that if he went to this school, he would be going from a class in the ________ of 18 to being one of several hundred in the freshman class. He wouldn’t be able to receive the ________ attention of his teachers any more. He wouldn’t be happy at all. However, he didn’t ________ his mind. So I made a deal with him. He would need to ________ a list of reasons and then we would sit down and have a talk.

Later that night, as ________, we had a discussion. He gave his argument with a list of ________ reasons. First, he explained that he would have more ________ in courses and after-school activities. ________,attending this school would better prepare him for college because he would ________ what it was like on a big campus.

He added that he would learn to ________ his time. He also promised that he would make use of the drop-in tutoring (无需预约的导师) the school ________ if he ran into trouble.

I sat back and listened, ________ by the thought and research he had prepared. ________, I could have put my foot down and said “no”, or “just wait another year”, but I would have been doing that for me, not for him.

At last, we let our son have the ________ say on choosing a high school. I knew if my kid put the same ________ as he did in persuading us, he would be perfectly fine in high school.

3 . “Look how stupid he is!” A 7-year-old said to her dad Daniel Funke, pointing to a picture of a famous person on the Internet. The photo showed the man signing his name — with his pen turned upside down.

Of course, the photo was not the original one. It had been changed to look like him using the pen the wrong way. Funke quickly pointed out the mistake, and his daughter got an on-the -spot education in fake (假的) news. By then, however, many people had already shared it on social media.

“The pitfalls of sharing misinformation and fake news can be very serious,” says Laeeq Khan, who heads the Social Media Analytics Lab at Ohio University in Athens. Sharing something that's not true can cost people their lives, he notes. Last year, people in India used a messaging app, WhatsApp, to spread fake stories about a kidnapping ring (绑架团伙). The lies caused violent attacks in which people died.

Fake news stories hurt people in other ways, too. For example, fake reports lead some parents to refuse(疫苗)for their children. Yet without vaccines, children can get deadly diseases.

Fake news can even hurt people who aren't its target (目标). “About seven in ten Americans were telling us that fake news has a big influence on the confidence in our government,” says Jeffrey Gottfried. He's a journalism and media-research expert at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Researchers there did a survey in the United States about the influence of made-up news. About half the people in the survey said they had shared misinformation online. Most of them said they didn't realize it at the time.

Besides causing serious results, sharing a fake story makes it harder for people to tell what's real. And when people find out a story is not real, they may not trust other information from a person who spread it. Therefore, it's important to do fact-checking before sharing news stories.

4 . A friend of mine met with an accident driving in darkness. His legs were so hurt that he couldn’t move. What was the _______ was that he found himself unable to ask for help-his mobile phone went out of _______ as a result of exhausted battery（电池没电）. Nothing could be done but _______ in cold wilderness. It was 8 hours later that day broke, and then the _______ of the rescue（救援）.

It is almost _______ that he could stand the horror in the darkness for so long. Even more surprising was his _______ ：“First of all I checked up my _______ conditions and found myself not in fatal（致命的）danger. As there was no _______ to call for help, I leaned back in my seat trying my best to keep the wound from _______ . In this way I dozed（打盹）off.”

His story put an end to my regret for the ________ of an exploration adventure that happened last year. A group of young men ________ to explore a mountain cave and got lost. ________ to find a way out in the dark cave, they were frightened and ran anxiously without a sense of ________. Finally they fell dead in fear and exhaustion. According to the ________ people that found them, the place where they got lost was only about 10 meters away from the ________ of the cave. If they stayed on the spot when they lost their way and tried to ________ themselves, they would probably sense a faint light glimmering（闪烁）not far away.

Don’t you think that you can compare it with ________ itself? When you meet with obstacles in life, you are lost in darkness. Mind you（请你注意）when it’s ________ , you needn’t put up struggle ________. It seems to be a negative attitude, ________ a person who can afford to do so must have foresight（预见）as well as great courage in the first place.