1 . Mobile phones are everywhere in big cities. It seems that _________ can survive without one. Mobile phones are a great _________ to stay connected with friends and family. _________, it is important to remember that there are certain times _________ you should not be using your phone, especially as a student, during school.

_________ you are in class, you should not be sending your friends text messages _________ taking phone calls. Your classmates and teachers should not have to deal with this _________ behavior(行为) . Aren’t you at school to learn?

In the United States, students would never be allowed to _________ their mobile phones during class. If you were to send or _________ a text message you would probably be kicked __________ class. It is very disturbing to hear a lot of tones and ringing during __________. There are many more rules for mobile phone use in America and it is to __________ respect for those around you.

As a teacher in China, I have to __________ students using mobile phones every day. I have told my class to __________ their phones, but many students do not listen. __________ to be connected all the time seems to be more __________ than the desire to learn.

It’s easy to understand __________ it is so tempting(诱惑人的) to have your phone on during class. It seems so easy just to send a short text message; it’s not hurting anyone, is it? But you may actually be hurting __________ when you do this. Your teacher knows when you use your phone and may give you a __________ grade. Sending a text message also takes your attention away from what’s going on in class, you may __________ something important.

2 . Have you seen people who take pictures of food for more than 10 minutes before eating? My friend Stella is such an example. Every time we went to a restaurant she would not take a bite until all the dishes we ________ were on the table. Then she would spend five minutes in ________ the dishes in a seemingly random but in fact ________ order. Then the most important part: taking pictures. After that, she would choose one of the ________ and click in the filter app. The food eventually looked 10 times more delicious than it really was, but we had no ________ to really enjoy it—it all went cold, actually Stella’s real life is much less elegant. For example, she hates to wash the dishes, so she leaves them in the sink for days.

Many people care too much about others’ opinions and try too hard to ________ others. They find it hard to be ________ and to accept themselves, and thus they are afraid to show their ________ life on social media. What they are trying to prove is ________ what they lack in reality. But this will not bring any ________ to reality, as they still ________ the same old pattern of life.

If they really want an elegant life, they should put more ________ into achieving it ________ fabricating it. Being more confident, ________ themselves and trying their best to be better are much more meaningful than ________ their life on social media.

3 . For me personally, I could write for days about many different situations where adversity(逆境) _______my life. Now let me tell you one experience where I almost let adversity_________

We had a glass studio, which was located 50 feet from our home. A couple of years ago we experienced an_______winter, we had a lot of snow and ice. The _______ of the ice and snow _______ the roof on our studio, taking with it one of our sources of income. _______it did fall down, we got on the roof and tried to remove the snow and ice, but when you have 5 feet of ice and temperatures of minus 20 Celsius, it was pretty _______ to do

We had a partner come in to help us try to _______ the roof by supporting. In the end, there was nothing that could be done. The roof came down.We had moved a lot of our goods and tools from the studio but we lost a lot also: glass, kilns, workbenches, to name only a few of the items. It was a disastrous experience.

Here we were in the middle of winter with our studio collapsed. We couldn’t work as we had almost _______ all the material in a building we were not using. We could have done one of two things: we could simply say that we can no longer   ________ our glass business. Let me tell you that this was certainly a thought that________ our mind. Or we could find a way to get our studio back up and running.

We picked the ________ option. We had a large ban that we were not using. So we renovated(翻新)the barn, ________ our working area and today we have a nicer studio than we ________ had. If the adversity we were ________ had not happened, we probably would still be working in the old studio-a studio that was less efficient.

4 . What would you do if you had $5, but were limited to two hours to make as much money as possible? Buy a lottery ticket (彩票). While this is the most _________ suggestions from people, it means a significant risk in return for a _________ chance.

Tina Selling, who invented the _________ for her students at Stanford University, has a _________ story to tell.

Selling gave each of the fourteen teams a sealed envelope that contains five dollars of “seed funding”. They were _________ to spend as much time planning, but once they had _________ the envelope they then had two hours to make as much money as possible. The next week, each team were to _________ their project in a three-minute presentation.

It _________ that most of the 14 teams didn’t use the five dollars _________. They realized that focusing on the __________ actually limited the problem too tightly. They understood that five dollars is __________ and decided to consider the problem more __________: what can be done if they are __________ with nothing?

The average __________ on the five-dollar investment was 4000 percent! So what did they __________ do?

One team started a stand on campus to check bike tire __________ for free and charged $1 to refill tires. Another team made __________ at busy restaurants and then sold each of them for up to twenty dollars to customers who didn’t want to __________ in line. The team who made the greatest __________ sold their presentation time to a company that wanted to employ them to advertise. They __________ a good business for that company in the three minutes’ presentation and brought in $650000.

7 . When I was a college student, I did a lot of traveling abroad. That was because a professor _________ me to do so. She said, “Now is the time for you to travel around the world, _________ your knowledge through actual experiences and have fun!” I _________ her.

Since I started to work for a _________ company, however, I have done most of my traveling through the Internet. By using the Internet, I have seen the _________ of many cities on my computer screen. And I have really made business _________, too. With the help of the Internet, I have also got _________ about food in different countries.

Therefore, I was beginning to feel that actual trips were _________ necessary when I happened to read a famous chef’s (厨师) comment on the Internet. He said, “It is very difficult to have real Italian food in a foreign country, because we enjoy food and the _________ around us at the same time. So why don’t you fly over to Italy and enjoy real Italian __________?” Those words reminded me of my __________ advice. As information technology __________, you might be able to do without making some real trips. But this also means that you will miss the various __________ you can get from traveling.

Today there are people who __________ direct communication with others and spend much of their time on the Internet. It is not surprising to see a group of people __________ not with each other but into their micro phones. It seems as if such people are __________ by an invisible wall. They seem to be losing out on a good chance to __________ and talk with other people. I do not think that they are taking good advantage of information technology. We should use information technology as a tool to make our daily __________ more fruitful. However, we should never let it __________ our time for face-to-face communication. Let’s make use of information technology more __________, and have great fun in experiencing the actual world.

8 . The Chinese are very generous(慷慨)when it comes to educating their children. Not _____   the money, parents often send their children to the _______schools or even abroad to England, the USA or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course ______where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the ________an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend a (an)_____amount of money on education. Even_____couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.

_______, what most parents _____to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap. Parents can see that their children’s skills vary, skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize ______, is that today’s children _________self-respect and self-confidence(自信).

The problem is that parents are only _____ their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be ________, happy and clever.

Parents can achieve this by teaching _______ skills like cooking, sewing, and doing other housework._______ a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking demands ______ and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult ________ . A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job_____ . His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.

Some old machines such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your children to play with will make him ______ and arouse his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to _____ them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These ____ are not merely teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.

9 . Mike has loved flying since he was small. When he was three years old, his father took him to an air show. Mike loved the sounds of the plane, he ________ of becoming an airplane pilot(飞行员) someday. As Mike grew up, he learned as ________ as he could about flying. He wanted to go to flying school ________ university. He kept on ________ his parents about it all the time. At that time, pilot training was very ________. Mike’s parents couldn’t afford it.

Later Mike became a salesman. He hoped to get lots of money for flying school. He traveled ________ America for his factory. He liked to travel, ________ by plane. To save money, he usually stayed in cheap hotels.

One morning, Mike ________ to Altanta. On the plane, after breakfast, he went to ________. Some time later, he woke up. The two men beside him were talking in a ________ voice. When Mike heard the word “hijack(劫持)”, he nearly ________ out of his seat, but he pretended (假装)he was still ________. He listened when the two men talked. Mike quickly learned what was________. They planned to hijack the plane to Cuba. This made Mike very ________. He knew he had to stop them before they began their________.

Mike pretended to use the washroom. On the way he met a hostess(空姐) and told her about the coming________. A moment later, the passengers were told that there was something wrong with the plane. Soon the plane landed at the ________ airport.

The two men received a ________ when they saw twenty police officers were________ them at the airport.

Later Mike was given free flying training as a reward(奖赏). ________ he became a pilot and flew happily ever since. Now his story is well known in the United States.