3 . This is a real story about an old man in China. Sixty-three-year-old Zhuang Guorong is a_______rural primary school art teacher, who has had a life of_______for more than 40 years.

Every year, the strong, younger-than-his-actual-age pensioner (领养老金者) goes to “the farmers’ home” of Chenyang Community to paint or_______other villagers how to paint.

“The farmers’ home”, a public building,_______the venue (聚集地点) for a_______ of the Sheyang Farmers Painting Institute. The institute is a government _______cultural organization in Sheyang County, in the north of Jiangsu Province, east China.

Zhuang works at the institute part time, and each year he_______up to ten paintings, which are then _______ by the local government. He_______ around 5,000 yuan — that’s about 740 US dollars — a year by doing this________ .

As well as earning himself some money, Zhuang says the job gives him an opportunity to ________his views of life to his fellow countrymen,________ the elderly.

“This painting is about a nursing home. We now live in a(n)________ society. We can no longer ________the traditional way of taking care of our elderly just with our children doing it.________, professional nursing homes are________ for elderly people’s ________.”

“In this painting, I________a scene of young people celebrating the birthday of a senior citizen. The ________I want to convey is that life in one’s later years can be happy. And all of my paintings are like this one — based on our ________lives.”

4 . In a fast-paced world driven by noise, excitement, and continuous connections due to technology, I think we've lost a(n)_________for something essential to the human experience: Quiet.

I’m not talking about the library style version of soft whispers, but about the soul-defining quiet of self-reflection of being alone and of being_________.

This past weekend, I found myself _________to my computer screen in a flurry(忙乱）of desperate work to build my career. I was_________social media and worrying about building my vision for tomorrow. Like so many evenings, the call of the Internet had_________me in ,and the beautiful July night in Pennsylvania was ignored-until my husband stepped in and reminded me that there's more to life than noises, likes and _________.

We got into our truck and drove ten minutes to a local state park, a place that has_________our different stages of life through the years. Phones and computers_________,we spent the evening in nature, enjoying simple scenes and _________in the quiet of the setting.

Gone were the rings of notifications(通知），the honking horns of cars flying by, and the__________of YouTube videos. In their place, a silence__________something we both know but sometimes lose__________of: Life’s quiet, simple moments are sometimes the most beautiful.

In these peaceful moments, I found a(n)__________with nature and with my husband. I found a reminder that there is a world __________the computer and the__________of our fast-paced life.

__________,I was reminded that in these quiet moments, we were able to hear the most important voice: our own.

Our world__________constant attention and engagement. We become so__________to constantly connecting and engaging with others that we fail to appreciate something__________to our happiness: our inner voice.

So take a moment, take a break and take some time to find the quiet in your life. Let the quiet moments in life remind you that your inner voice __________to be heard.

5 . Whenever Michael Carl, the fashion market director at Vanity Fair, goes out to dinner with friends, he plays something called the “phone stack” game: Everyone _______ their phones in the middle of the table; whoever looks at their device before the check arrives _______ the tab (账单).

Brandon Holley, the former editor of Lucky magazine, had trouble _______ her mobile phone when she got home from work. So about six months ago, she _______ putting her phone into a milk tin the moment she walked in. It remains there until after dinner. And Mare Jacobs, the fashion designer, didn’t _______ to sleep close to a buzzing gadget (小装置). So he _______ digital devices from his bedroom — a house rule he _______ with audiences during a recent screening of Disconnect, a film that shows how technology has alienated (使疏远) people from one another.

As smart phones _______ to make their way into our lives, and wearable devices like Google Glass _______ to destroy our personal space even further. Whether it’s a physical ____________ (no iPads at the dinner table) or a conceptual (精神上的) one (turn off devices by 11 p.m.), users say these disconnecting ____________ are improving their relationships.

“Disconnecting is a luxury that we all ____________,” said Lesley M. M. Blume, a New York writer who keeps her phone away from the dinner table at home. “The expectation that we must always be ____________ to employers, colleagues and family creates a real problem in trying to ____________ private time. But that private time is more important than ever.”

A popular method for disconnecting is to choose a box for your cellphone, like the milk tin that Ms. Holley uses. “____________ my phone is buzzing or lighting up, it’s still a distraction (分散注意力的事), so it ____________ in the box.” said Ms. Holley. Others choose new ____________. “No screens after 11 p.m.” said Ari. Melber, a TV host. “Now evenings are more ____________ and I am sleeping better.” he added.

Sleep is a big factor, which is why some ____________ to leave their phones out of their bedrooms. “I don’t want to sleep next to something full of photos and emails.” said Peter Som, a fashion designer, who keeps his phone plugged in in the living room overnight. “It ____________ is a head­clearer and distinguishes daytime and sleep time.”

6 . We live in a heavily edited world. People in pictures are no longer people-they are perfect human beings whom we can only try, and_______, to live up to. And food in pictures is no longer food. It's_______, something to make you desire a lifestyle while_______you that you're not part of it.

But people are getting _______ and tired of such perfection, leading to something Pamela Grossman, a director at Getty Images, calls “perfection fatigue(疲劳)”. This new attitude is now _______ people to value something different: _______.

The pizza company Domino's, for example, is_______the trend by encouraging its customers to_______ unedited pictures of their pizzas on social media, as part of the nofilter(未过滤的) movement that’s become so popular on Instagram. This may mean oily boxes, _______ cheese and less-than-delicious-looking meat, but these________show what we're actually ________.

"It's________what it looks like when you really get a pizza."Dennis Maloney, chief digital officer of Domino's, told the website Fastcodesign. "It feels much more honest and transparent when the images are imperfect.”

Things are also changing with perfect human images. For example, US clothing company Gap, __________a "Dress Normal" campaign in 2014, ________simple clothes instead of smart suits like those of runway models.

"We spend so much time trying to________our shortcomings owing to the fact that our________has set it up that we have to be________ if we're not perfect," US filmmaker Cynthia Wade told The New York Times. "I think people are tired of it. They're suddenly much more willing to________the ugly or sarcastic."

But while it's probably true that we won't see a(n) ________to "perfect" pictures any time soon, at least some people are starting to see that it can actually be________to be imperfect, or to use the name of one of American singer Grace VanderWaal's albums, Perfectly Imperfect.

7 . In our modern world, when something wears out, we throw it away and buy a new one. The _______ is that countries around the world have growing mountains of _______ because people are throwing out more rubbish than ever before.

How did we _______ a throwaway society? First of all, it is now easier to _______ an object than to spend time and money to repair it. _______ modern manufacturing (制造业)and technology, companies are able to produce products quickly and inexpensively. Products are plentiful and _______.

Another cause is our _______of disposable (一次性的) products. As _______ people, we are always looking for _______ to save time and make our lives easier. Companies ________ thousands of different kinds of disposable products: paper plates, plastic cups, and cameras, to name a few.

Our appetite for new products also ________ to the problem. We are ________ buying new things. Advertisements persuade us that ________ is better and that we will be happier with the latest products. The result is that we ________ useful possessions to make room for new ones.

All around the world, we can see the ________ of this throwaway lifestyle. Mountains of rubbish just keep getting bigger. To ________ the amount of rubbish and to protect the ________, more governments are requiring people to recycle materials. ________, this is not enough to solve (解决) our problem.

Maybe there is another way out. We need to repair our possessions ________ throwing them away. We also need to rethink our attitudes about ________. Repairing our possessions and changing our spending habits may be the best way to reduce the amount of rubbish and take care of our environment.