Children are spending an     1     (increase) amount of time indoors.     2     (compare) to their grandparents who would have spent most of their free time exploring the world outside their front doors, kids these days are more likely to     3     (find) at home. Computer games, television and tablets have replaced stick throwing, tree climbing and hole building as children spend more time indoors.

    4     (thank) to parental fear and a reduction in green spaces, the time     5     is spent outdoors tends to be parent-led nowadays. Parent-led play is very     6     (difference) from unstructured play and does not offer the same benefits.

Both     7     (be) important for children’s growth, but many families are finding less time for unstructured play. As homework, clubs and groups and screens are competing for our kids’ time, unstructured fun is left out in the cold.

Scientists have even created the term “Nature Deficit Disorder” due to the wealth of health problems that can develop from spending too much time indoors.

Unstructured play is just     8     important as outdoor play for child     9     (develop). It offers social, mental and physical benefits, as well as just being     10     fun way to kill time.

Living in a city can be stressful. But people in Bogota, Colombia have found a place to help ease stress and get a    1    (peace) break from busy life. The place is a     2    (protect) park for hummingbirds(蜂鸟).

The park is at the top of Montserrat Hill. The area    3     (contain) a forest which has turned into a quiet place for both people and birds. As the hummingbirds fly from flower to flower, some people take pictures with cameras or phones.

“Sometimes it doesn't seem real because we are close to    4     city with the population of 8 million,    5     create noise every day," said Camino Carter, a caretaker in the park. His job is    6    (mix) water and sugar that is put in bird feeders.

    7    (visitor) to the park can see between 25 to 35 different species of birds. But ten years ago, the hill was     8     (complete) destroyed, and no trees     9    (leave) on it.

Luckily, measures were taken by the government. Workers began to replant local trees and flowers to bring the forest back    10     life.

Presently, there are 115 species of birds, including 18 kinds of hummingbirds in the park.

I can still remember the afternoon when we climbed the mountain as if it were yesterday.

It was a sunny day. Eager to spend some time outside, I went up the mountain with my uncle. The mountain was hard       1    (climb) and had tough rocks and streams on it. In the end,     2     (exhaust) and hot, I couldn’t go any further. So we went back down the mountain in the end.

On the way back down, my uncle asked me a question,     3     left me speechless for a second: “What’s your dream, young lady?”

“I have no idea,” I answered     4    thinking about it for a while. Then he smiled and told me about his story. He didn’t perform well at school when he was a student. Although nobody thought he could succeed, he knew clearly       5    his dream was-----to be a businessman. “I knew I wasn’t gifted when it came to studying, so I tried to buy snacks from a market and sell them after class,” he told me. After he left school, he started selling different items to find out which one was most attractive to customers. Of course, he often had no money in his pocket, but     6     tough life was, he never gave up.

“There is no doubt that a person who puts in a great deal of effort to reach his or her goal will have good luck at some point. The meaning of life is to chase your dream,” he said gently.

That night I     7     hardly fall asleep. I lay in bed tossing and turning, asking myself, “What’s my motivation?”

I once wanted to be a top student, but the hard work needed meant       8     (put) everything into following my passion. If I find myself lacking willpower, what should I do? Leaving home early the next morning, I climbed the mountain again by       9    . It made me think: If we don’t experience the climb, how can we get to see the scenery on the top of the mountain? In the end, I reached the top and       10     (fascinate) by the warm breeze and sunshine. Nothing could be more pleasant than that.

With plenty of time at home during the     1    (extend) Spring Festival break, Leng Yang came up with an innovative idea involving the use of shells     2     popular Lunar New Year snacks.     3     30-year-old designer spent three days     4    (make) a figure of Mickey Mouse. A video of him putting the artwork together     5    (view) more than 100 million times online.

Leng said on the video: “Give     6    (shell) a new lease(新生) on life. Salute to the Year of the Rat,” adding that he decided to make the figure in an attempt to beat     7    (bored).

He was unable to meet friends over Spring Festival     8     the novel coronavirus pneumonia broke out,     9     chose to share his work with millions of netizens on social media platforms such as Sina Weibo and Douyin.

Inspired by his efforts, many kindergarten students have been asked by their teachers to use shells     10    (create) such figures.