After graduation from college, I started to sell. Soon I discovered that the     1    (worry) expression I had been wearing since childhood meant sure     2     (fail). I knew it wasn’t going to be easy to change that expression on my face left by the    3    (year) of hardship. It called for a complete change in my view on life.Here is the method I tried.

Each morning during a fifteen minute bath, I     4    (determine) to develop a big happy smile. I found     5    , however, that it couldn't be a forced smile developed just for the purpose of     6    (put) dollars in my pocket. It had to be an honest-to-goodness smile from down deep inside, an outward expression of happiness from within! Let's see    7    starting off with a good fifteen-minute workout of the smile muscles helped me during the day. Before entering     8    office I would think of the many things I had to be thankful for, work up a big smile and then enter.Seldom did it fail    9    (get) the same smile in return from the person I met. I also found that it     10     (great)pleased people when I passed them on the street to give them a cheerful smile.

My mother entered a nursing home (疗养院) as her Alzheimer’s disease got worse. I    1    (smile) as I tried to explain to a Chinese friend that many Americans really care about their aging parents.But parents often enjoy    2    (live) by themselves and may refuse help.Of course this is different from most Chinese parents who want to    3    (stay) with their adult children in the future.

After living    4    China for over 30 years, I came to appreciate (欣赏) the Chinese people’s care for their aging    5    (parent). Every morning when the sun would warm up the little park near my home, I saw a man-maybe the son-walk with his    6     (mother) who obviously had suffered a stroke (中风). He supported her weak body and walked    7    (slow) with her as she dragged one foot behind her. I couldn’t    8    (tell) if they were talking as I watched them through my window, but it was a picture of love between mother and son.

I don’t know what care is better for aging parents, but in    9    (me) opinion, I have lacked (缺乏) enough respect for the elderly. I have learned more from the Chinese about what    10    (true) love is.

An old woman had     1     cat. The cat was very old. She could not run     2    (quick), and she could not bite,     3    she was so old. One day, the old cat saw a mouse. She jumped and     4    (catch) the mouse. But she could not bite     5    , so the mouse got out     6    her mouth and ran away.

Then the old woman became very     7    (anger) because the cat did not kill the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said: “Do not hit your old servant (仆人). I     8    (work) for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I’m too old. Do not be     9    (kind) to the old, but remember     10     good work the old did when they were young.”

Scientists usually have to do thousands of     1    (experiment)in order to prove something new or true. They often fail,     2     they never give up.

My neighbour     3    (be)a scientist. He studies chemistry. He is always working alone in     4    (he)lab, trying to figure out all the mysteries that make him     5    (puzzle). One day, when I met him, he had just come back     6     work. Tired as he was, he     7    (sound)so excited. Then I noticed that he was wearing shoes     8     did not match. He must have been working too hard to notice that!

Now I have come to realize that it’s good for you     9    (do)a job that interests you. You will be absorbed in it, and push yourself hard with it     10    (happy).

Youth is a kind of    1     (wealthy). It will gradually disappear with time    2       (go) by. What can we do to fulfill our youth?

In my opinion, for one thing, to realize our value, it is our idea    3     matters a lot. No matter what our ideas are, we must try hard to achieve them. When we are young we are full of energy.We have the    4     (good) conditions in our lives. Good memories, good understandings and so on. We should make full use    5     these conditions to study more.

For another, we should do as many things as possible we want to do. Of course, they must enrich our lives,     6     can make it possible for    7     (we) to gather many different experiences that are worth    8     (remember) when we are old.

Then when we    9     (be) really old, we can be proud of our    10     (achieve) that we have ever experienced in happiness and we can say we have no regret in our lives.

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I can well remember that I was once asked to deliver a speech titled “A Real Test in My Life” before the whole class at the age of 9! You can imagine how     1     (terrible) shy I was with so many eyes       2       (fix) upon me. I had no     3     (choose) but to prepare for it, though. First of all, I was to draft the speech, which was just a piece of cake for me, a good writer. But the hardest part     4     (lie) in my oral presentation from my memory— for to read from the paper was not allowed. The real moment began     5         I stood on the platform with my legs trembling and my mind blank. But my listeners were waiting patiently without any signs of rushing me. Gradually I found myself back,     6     (deliver) my speech with difficulty. After what seemed to be a hundred years, I found my audience applauding— I made     7    ! From then on, my fear of talking before an audience disappeared. Actually with my     8     (confident) building up, I now turn out to be a great speaker. Looking back, I know the greatest difficulty on our way         9     success is our fear. Overcome it     10     we will be able to achieve our goals.

When I was in high school, our physics teacher gave us a challenge     1     involved making a paper airplane of any shape.

The only objective was     2     (get) it to fly as far as possible. I had some paper airplane making skills so I made the best plane I could and it     3     (fly) pretty far.

One guy made the greatest, yet     4     (simple) paper airplane of all time. He stood there at the starting line     5     a regular piece of paper. Some classmates scratched their head while silently     6     (stare) at him. Moments later he took     7     piece of paper, crumpled it up into a ball, and threw it down the way.

He beat the class with     8     (easy).

Some of the students got mad     9     said that he cheated.

The physics teacher said, “I said     10     could be any shape. A paper ball is indeed a shape.”

One Sept 17^th, Lang Ping, the head coach of China’s national women’s volleyball team, arrived at my high school. I could taste the excitement in the atmosphere on that quiet Saturday morning. At about 9 o'clock, all the Senior 3 students gathered in the school stadium,     1    (wait) for the arrival of Lang Ping and her team. The moment Lang     2    (step) into the stadium, we clapped     3    (excite). Lang shared her life with us in her speech. She said it was faith and courage that had led her, step by step,     4    success.

As a Senior 3 student, we are likely to come across many difficulties,     5    often makes us think we’ll never get through our hardships. However, sometimes it is not the success    6    the process that matters most. We should hold fewer negative thoughts and work harder     7    (pursue)our goals without hesitation.

I think it was not only a    8    (fortune) experience for me, but also a powerful one, as Lang’s words gave us         9    (strong). I will keep in mind what she told us: Trust     10    (you)and fight every step to win!