3 . Our life has been taken over by modern technology, for good of course. Young people celebrate the fast speed that technology can move at. But there is a group of people who cannot ______.

It is the group of people who are caught up between traditional and _______society, sort of like the middle child in technological advancement — not exactly old and resisting change, but trying very hard to become modernized, ending up being stuck in the middle. They are 40 to 60 years old and _____   the latest iPhone or Samsung phone or Huawei. They buy an iPad just ______ they can afford to, and play the same games on a larger screen.

They are almost like the teenagers five years ago，______ on their phones playing a game or using social media. They're everywhere. And I saw something today that made me extremely ______.

On a train, a mother was ______ playing a Candy Crush like game. Her daughter was sitting beside her. The little girl, about five years old, was talking to her mother about her day，______ the next stop's name cheerily—with obviously desperate attempts to get her mother's ______.

The mother? All she did was nod and say the occasional “mmhm”. With her eyes on the_______，she concentrated on completing the level. I watched the girl make a final attempt to get her mom to look at her, and when she failed, she sighed and fell silent and defeated.

It broke my heart, and got me ______：What kind of game can make you______ that you have the most beautiful thing in the world, a person you love with all your heart? What does it ______ when you won't even look into her eyes or listen to her?

The scene was so familiar years ago when parents ______ that their children were too interested in their mobile devices. Look at how the tables have turned now. I'm ______ whether to laugh or to cry. But all I can do now is hope that this storm will pass.

4 . Parents feel that it is difficult to live with teenagers. Then again, teenagers have _________ feelings about their parents, saying that it is not easy living with them. According to a recent research, the most common _________ between parents and teenagers is that regarding untidiness(凌乱) and daily routine tasks. On the one hand, parents feel annoyed over _________ rooms, clothes thrown on the floor and their children’s refusal to help with the _________. On the other hand, teenagers lose their patience continually when parents blame them for _________ the towel in the bathroom, not cleaning up their room or refusing to do the shopping at the supermarket.

The research, conducted by St. George University, shows that different parents have different _________ to these problems. However, some approaches(方法) are more _________ than others. For example, those parents who yell(大喊大叫) at their children for their untidiness, _________ later clean the room for them, have fewer chances of changing their children’s _________. On the contrary(相反), those who let teenagers experience the ____________ of their actions can do better. For example, when teenagers who don’t help their parents with the shopping don’t find their favorite drink in the refrigerator(冰箱), they are forced to ____________ their actions.

Psychologists(心理学家) say that ____________ is the most important thing in parent-child relationships. Parents should ____________to their children but at the same time they should lend an ear to what they have to say. Parents may ____________ their children when they are untidy but they should also understand that their room is their own private space. Communication is a two-way process. It is only by listening to and ____________ each other that problems between parents and children can be solved.

5 . In South Sudan, girls face many barriers (障碍) to education. Some girls cannot ________ to attend school because their parents cannot meet the costs, and there is also ________ housework for girls, which takes up their time. Therefore, their parents don’t ________ their daughters to go to school.

Another problem is that girls can be married off early, often ________ force. As girls in South Sudan, we don’t have the ______ to choose the person we wish to marry. Our parents ________ us to the one who pays the highest price in cows. Now more people are going hungry and marrying off girls to get cows to ________. This happened to me. My parents married me off when I was studying, and I had to ________school.

Luckily, my brother helped me come to ASEW, which ________ to help girls finish school.

The fact that the headteacher was a woman __________ me. ASEW was a school without punishment and schoolfees (学费). It was a day school, not boarding school (寄宿学校), that gave me __________ to help at home. The curriculum(课程) was __________ so we could complete our education more quickly. Protected from outsiders, the school was also __________. It is extremely dangerous for women and girls __________ there is fighting all around ASEW.

At ASEW, I studied hard and passed with a high score of 77 per cent. I wish other girls could have__________ like me to go back to school.

10.

A．worried

B．annoyed

C．saved

D．encouraged

6 . Angela a 28-year-old Canadian, was driving to visit friends in another city 800 kilometres away. Her kids, 5-year-old Lexi and 10-week-old Peter, were fed and the car was ______ with all the necessities for a road trip: toys, milk powder and snacks.

The long journey had begun to ______ Peter, who started to cry. Angela inserted a nursery rhyme CD into the stereo and hoped it would help ______ him down. The soft music had a ______ effect. In no time, both children became ______. Angela’s eyes ______ too, for just a few seconds.

When Lexi suddenly woke up, she found it was ______. Airbags obsured (遮挡) all the windows. Lexi’s neck hurt and Peter was crying loudly. She pulled the handle of the door, but the door was ______. Turning onto her side, Lexi kicked at the door ______ it flopped (猛地打开) open.

That’s when Lexi ______ her mother in the front seat. She tried to wake her up but Angela didn’t ______. At that time Lexi found their car was on a steep hill and it was kept from ______ by a large tree.

Her shoes had come off, but Lexi felt no ______ as she climbed over glass and rocks up the embankment (路堤) to the ______ her mother had driven off.

A driver was traveling on the highway ______ he saw a tiny child jumping up and down,______ her arms, crying for help. He pulled over, and the child told him her mother needed help. The driver looked around but saw ______. The barefoot child pointed to the destroyed car downhill. Without ______, he ran down the hill. Twenty minutes later, an ______ came. Angela was rushed to the hospital.

Later that year, the Royal Canadian Humane Association awarded Lexi a Bronze Medal for ______.