1 . Practice self-control by setting goals and sticking to them

Make your goals specific and long-term. Psychology studies have shown that abstract (抽象的), big-picture thinking leads to self-control. Instead of focusing on the moment, look toward bigger goals like success in school or sports.    1    

●Write down you goals and hang them up where you can see them regularly.    2    

●Make behavioral goals too. Commit to behaving yourself in public and not having any unintended outbursts.

●    3    Get straight A's, keep practicing guitar until you're comfortable enough to play a gig, or exercise four times a week. Stick to your goals seriously.

●When you are to break a promise or a goal, take a deep breath and think about why you set the goal in the first place. That long term commitment is more important than your momentary impulse (冲动).

●Make sure your goals are specific.    4    

●Try setting up a punishment and reward system for yourself.    5    Likewise, if you decide to skip a workout, make up for it by working out twice as long the next day. Practices like these will lead to control over your desires and actions.

●Make specific long-term goals with specific short-term ways to achieve them.

A．Keep your goals positive.

B．Remind yourself of your goals regularly.

C．General goals are much easier to forget about.

D．Focusing on the future will help you behave in the present.

E．Move up to harder goals like making the starting basketball team.

F．If you go a week sticking to a strict diet, give yourself a "cheat day."

G．Stick with your goals and soon you'll be in total control of your thoughts and actions.

2 . Traveling can be a fun way to gain life experiences, especially during Spring Break-a week-long school vacation in the United States. But what if you’re a student and don’t have enough money for a trip?     1    .

● Save: This probably is the most important preparation for traveling. Cut expenses to fatten your wallet so you’ll have more choices about where to go and how to get there.

●       2    : Don’t wait until the last minute to plan your trip. Tickets may cost more when bought on short notice. Giving yourself several months to get ready can mean security(安全) and saving.

● Plan sensibly: Write down how much you expect to spend for food and hotels. Stick to your plan or you may not have enough money to cover everything.

● Travel in groups:     3    . By traveling with others you can share costs and experiences.

● Pack necessary things: The most important things to take are not always clothes.     4    .

● Use the Internet: The net can help to save money. Some useful websites include www.Travelcity. com, www. bargainslowestfare.com and www. economic   travelcity. com.

By planning sensibly, even students can enjoy the travel.     5    .

A．Plan ahead

B．Take clothes along

C．Don’t worry. Here are some useful suggestions

D．Find someone who is interested in visiting the same place

E．Remember medicine in case you get sick and snacks in case you cannot find a cheap restaurant

F．Before the trip, the most important thing is to make the route(路线)

G．Your travel experiences will be remembered for a lifetime.

3 . How to Plan a Vacation?

A vacation is supposed to be a fun and relaxing break from your everyday life.    1     Be ready to enjoy your time off by planning your travel, accommodations, and activities ahead of time. Giving yourself plenty of time to plan can be a fun way to build up excitement for your vacation.

Decide why you want to travel.    2    Thinking of whether your goal is to relax and unwind, have new adventures, see famous or ancient sights, or provide your children with lifelong memories will determine what kind of destination you should choose.

    3     Instead of making this a chore, have it be a fun activity. Over the course of a few days, weeks or other long duration you wish, spend some time talking about each place and why it would make a good destination.

Research destination costs. While you may take more time after choosing a destination to find great deals on travel and hotel arrangements, doing a quick online search of approximate costs to travel to each destination may help you narrow your choices based on your budget.

Choose a destination.     4     If there is disagreement, find a way to compromise.

Choose when to travel. Depending on the season, a destination which is normally too hot or cold for you to consider might have a more enjoyable climate at a different time of the year.     5    

A．Consider everyone who will be traveling with you.

B．Discuss possible destinations with your fellow travelers.

C．Ideally, everyone who is traveling will agree on the same place.

D．However, a poorly planned vacation can end up being a major headache.

E．If you know why you want to leave home, choosing a destination will be easier.

F．This might also be reflected in a lower cost, if you decide to travel out of season.

G．Keep in mind expenses to travel, stay and eat while you are developing your estimates.

4 . You may already have a crystal clear idea of your passion．    1    More often than not, you face overwhelm because you're looking at new changes in one gulp．A good way to build trust in your own abilities is to take it 30 days at a time．Let me explain．

Pick a new habit that you think is necessary in designing your enthusiastic life．Look at it not as a permanent change but as something that you've got to do for the next 30 days only．    2    You're trying this new habit on for 30 days and you're free to give it up if you don't like what follows．

    3    You decide to run outdoors for 25 minutes every single day for next 30 days regardless of your schedule or the weather．You enter a pact（契约）．

Once you gain the motivation, you'll soon realize it's hard to stop after day 7．    4    And day 28, you're this close to your goal, why would you stop then?

Now on day 30, you feel somewhat like this： “Wow, I never thought I'd be able to do this for 30 days straight! I wonder what happens if I continue to bet my own record．How amazing it'd be if I kept going on day 31,32 and so on?    5    You believe in yourself because you're living your passion．”

A．You just don't know how to live it．

B．Great goal often needs great efforts．

C．Try as hard as you can whenever possible．

D．And who in their right mind would stop after day 15?

E．After all, it no longer feels too hard to run for 25 minutes．

F．For example, you know one of your passions is to run a marathon．

G．It's like those free digital products that you can try before you buy．

5 . SMART Goal Setting

SMART goal setting is one of the most valuable methods used by high achievers today to actualize(实现）their life goals time after time. SMART is an acronym (首字母缩略词) that stands for-Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-bound.     1    

Every goal ought to be specific. Being clear about your goals and expectations is the first step to reaching them.     2     For example, “I will start planning toward retirement” is vague. Instead, you could say. “I will start planning toward retirement by building up a nest egg.” This is more specific. When you are specific on your goal, it’s easier for you to identify all its components and work accordingly toward achieving it.

    3     If you can’t measure something, you can’t tell if you’re performing well or if you’re off track. Setting measurable goals lets you evaluate your performance and stay on track.

Goals should be achievable and realistic.     4     It’s also important not to get too carried away and use far-fetched or unreachable goals as motivators, constantly chasing an impossibly high goal. Allow yourself to feel motivated by the satisfaction of achievement and real progress.

Each goal has to be time-bound.     5     Actually, it’s incredibly important to make your goals time-bound. The act of having deadlines set to your goals is a motivation that drives you into action. Without a deadline, it is not possible for you to know if you’re making headway with your goals.

A．Your goals must be measurable.

B．That is because your goals are not specific enough.

C．It is the final letter of SMART that is often ignored.

D．When goals are too wide or vague, they are easy to miss.

E．To make your SMART goals work, use the following tips.

F．You may wonder if this is achievable in the given time frame.

G．It’s important to plan out goals that are within realistic capabilities.

6 . When you’ve finished your studies at school and college, do you feel like a well-earned rest? If you’re about to take up a course at university, you’ll want to recharge your batteries and have some fun. But how long should you do that for?     1    

A year off—also called a gap year—is a period of time when a student takes a break before going to university.     2     But there’s now a focus on making the most of this break from academic life. Long gone are the days of just hanging out on a beach or traveling abroad.     3     Doing something productive is exactly what students are being encouraged to do because doing more purposeful things helps them acquire skills to use when competing for a place at university.

    4     A student, Tom, told the BBC “it would have been too expensive and it’s not something that I would have been able to rely on my parents or family members for.” But some experts say that it needn’t burn a hole in your pocket. You don’t need to travel far and you can even earn money by doing paid work.

For those who do have the funds, a combination of working, volunteering and travelling is undoubtedly an amazing opportunity.     5     It also gives you time to think whether university is right for you.

A．It’s not a new idea.

B．It is important to have fun.

C．Now the idea of taking a year off seems to be the thing to do.

D．There’s a common thought that gap years are only for rich students

E．A gap year is now more about gaining skills that will help you in later life.

F．It increases confidence and independence and gives you a chance to learn new skills.

G．While the benefits of taking a gap year are clear, some students worry they can’t afford it.

7 . A study plan is an effective way to help you get through your college education in an organized way. Each student will develop a different study plan.     1     When creating your personalized (个性化的) study plan, you will need to do some self-evaluation of your current schedule and time management. Follow the step-by-step instructions below will help you.

Create a time chart of your current activities.

Creating a time chart will allow you to see how you spend your time from day to day. For a one-week period, take notes about your daily activities. Record things like when you are at work, school, or home with family.     2    

Develop a schedule.

Now that you have determined available days and times for studying, make a mark in your calendar. Use detailed notes to block out (概略画出) times on your calendar so that you are reminded every time you look at it.     3     Seeing it written down can make it seem more important, like a doctor's appointment you can't miss.

Determine your study goals.

At the beginning of each week, determine why you need to study and what you plan to accomplish in each class. Do you want to raise your average in a particular class in order to maintain a certain GPA (平均分)?     4     For example, if you are studying for an important mid-term exam, change your study plan two weeks before the test to include reviews of old tests and notes in your sessions (课程).

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A study plan works best if it is followed on a consistent (一致的) basis. You should try to develop a study plan that you can follow for the length of each term of college. Since most students enroll in different classes each term, you will have to reevaluate your plan and fine- tune it each term.

A．Stick to your schedule.

B．Even note when you eat and sleep.

C．Are you preparing for a big exam?

D．There is no correct study plan for everyone.

E．It is best to have a schedule written down so you won't forget.

F．So be sure to analyze what you plan to get out of each study session.

G．However, it is helpful to write down which subject you plan to study.

8 . If your parents will retire soon, to live comfortably in retirement, you need to persuade them to save until it hurts.     1    They may think they can't afford to save or fear losing money to had investments （投资）,but they have to overcome those fears, because a financially （财政上）secure future will be up to them.

They can start by saving as little as $10 a paycheck or putting away half their next rise. A small amount of money can produce massive amounts of wealth over time.     2    

People used not to worry about saving for their later years because many had pensions, and they didn't live as long as people do now. But they can no longer count on their employers, partly because the employers might not he able to afford their pensions, and most people don't stay with one employer.     3     Consequently, they should depend on themselves for retirement.

    4     You can advise them to start by contributing 1% of their pay. If the 1% contribution hurts, then they can slay at that level until it doesn't hurt any more. If it doesn't hurt, then increase their contribution（by another 1%.）Do that until it hurts.

    5    They just ask for a small cup of coffee instead of a large cup in the coffee house or they can try to skip drinking soda daily at lunch. In time they will benefit a lot from today's’ efforts when they retire.

A．They can start small.

B．The key is getting started.

C．But believe you can make it.

D．Many people change jobs every few years.

E．It's easy to cut a dollar a day from most budgets.

F．People give lots of excuses for not saving for retirement.

G．Some seniors are confident that they will be supported by their children.

9 . New Year’s resolutions you should be making about time management

You likely already have too many goals and too many disappointments from this past year. So as you look ahead to 2020, the idea of adding more seems kind of exciting but also a bit forbidding. That’s why as a time management coach, I recommend that you do the opposite:     1    

Know less

It’s okay not to be up-to-date on everything. To cut down on these distractions, you might turn off social media notifications on your phone.     2     Unsubscribe from notification emails or newsletters you don’t read regularly.

Resolution: I resolve to be less aware of “interesting” things so I can be interested in and present for the people around me.

Care less

This one may sound a bit unfeeling.You may want to be a kind and thoughtful person for your friends and family and to serve your clients well.     3     What that means is that you say “No” a lot.

Here is a way:

I am at the service of my customers Monday through Friday, during the day.     4     Being able to unplug from work in my personal time increases my ability to serve my clients well when I’m in the office.

Resolution:     5     Consequently, I can match my time with my highest priorities and take better care of the people closest to me.

Is it easy to do less? No. But will it lead you to the best outcomes in the end? Yes. You’ll thank yourself for it at the end of 2020.

A．Resolve to do less.

B．Contact people face to face.

C．I have to manage my time strategically.

D．But I don’t feel the need to be available 24/7.

E．Alternatively, you could offload the apps altogether.

F．I resolve to care less about what others want me to do.

G．But you can’t care about everyone who wants your attention professionally.

10 . Four Ways to Beat Summer Weight Gain

When we think of the summer holiday，most of us think of outdoor fun. So it seems like we should naturally lose weight over the summer holiday. In reality，the summer holiday isn’t all beach volleyball and water sports. Therefore，we can gain weight easily in the summer holiday.    1     Here are four ways to beat summer weight gain.

1.    2     When we don’t have a plan，it’s easy to spend the summer holiday moving from the couch to the computer，with regular stops before the fridge. Avoid this by aiming for a specific goal，like volunteering，mastering a new skill，or working at a job. Just be sure to plan for some free time so you can relax a little！

2. Stay busy. When we’re bored，it’s easy to fall into a trap of doing nothing and then feeling low on energy. In addition to helping you avoid the cookie jar， filling your days with stuff to do can give you a sense of accomplishment.    3    

3. Beat the heat. Don’t let summer heat put your exercise plans on hold.    4     If a gym isn’t your scene， try bowling or an indoor climbing wall. If you love being outdoors， move a regular run or soccer game to early morning or evening.

4.    5     With school out， we lose our daily routines. If you don’t have a specific job or an activity to get up for，it’s easy to sleep late， watch too much TV，and snack more than usual. Make sure your summer days have some structure—like getting up at the same time each day. Plan activities for specific times，like exercising before breakfast.

A．Stick to a schedule.

B．Get going with goals.

C．Relax by walking outside.

D．Move your workout indoors.

E．We usually stay at home in the summer holiday.

F．That’s especially true if a dream summer job falls through.

G．However，it’s easy to avoid this problem if we know what to look out for.